Claimed by my Sister's Fiancé
My stomach dropped through the floor.
"I don't know," I whispered.
She didn't need to say it. I already knew.
I sat in that hut for a long time after she left, one hand pressed flat against my stomach, and something strange happened. Under all the fear, under the shame that wasn't even mine to carry, there was a small fierce heat starting to burn.
A child. Mine. Not Priya's, not Marisol's, not anybody's to slap or shame or throw scraps at.
That night I heard the news from two omegas gossiping outside my curtain wall. The engagement announcement had been moved up. Kian and Priya, official within the month.