Pregnant And Rejected Mate
Ada's eyes moved to me, then to Kael, then back to Lena's small, sleeping form, and when she finally answered, her voice had dropped to something almost too quiet to hear.
"This mark is anchored differently," she said. "Hidden beneath a birthmark that formed naturally, at birth, tied to her own body rather than to the bond between the two of you. Which means, if I'm reading this correctly, the price this time won't come from either of you."
"Then who," I said, though some cold, terrible part of me had already begun to understand.
Ada didn't answer right away. She looked at Lena, sleeping so peacefully, so completely unaware of the danger still hidden inside her own small body, and I watched