My Mate Chose Her. I Left With His Baby.
The day I found out I was pregnant, I stopped doing all the things Julian hated.
I stopped asking where he had been.
Even when he stayed out all night, I drank the tonic my healer had prescribed for the pregnancy, turned out the light, and went to bed.
When rogues attacked the market and a piece of silver-laced shrapnel grazed my wrist, the healer told me to contact my mate. I simply said, “There’s no need. I can manage.”
An apprentice standing nearby recognized me.
“You’re Mrs. Marchetti, aren’t you? Mr. Marchetti’s merchant caravan is right outside. Shall I get him?”
I lowered my eyes and shook my head.
Half an hour later, Julian pushed open the treatment room door anyway.
He carried the f