Pregnant And Rejected Mate
"Ada, please, just tell me—"
"It can be." Her voice had gone careful, measured, the tone she used with patients when she needed them calm enough to actually hear her. "The mark itself isn't harmful. But sometimes, under extreme stress — physical trauma, fear, exposure to something toxic — it can trigger what the old healers called a blood surge. The infant's body tries to process wolf instincts too early, before it's ready. It can cause exactly what we're seeing. Breathing distress. Unconsciousness."