Pregnant And Rejected Mate
“Instead of arguing your case in the council, as everyone else in this room seems to be doing, you decided that a woman’s life was an acceptable price to pay for your argument.”
“You were never meant to play a part,” Torvin said, his voice now almost pleading, desperately trying to justify something no explanation could fully account for. “A rejected mate, quietly vanished, forgotten within a season. That was the plan. Simple. Neat. No one was supposed to know about the child.”