The Fallen Alpha’s Pregnancy
No protector to stand between me and the machine that wants to consume my soul.
I raise my trembling, blood-stained hand and press it slowly against the fabric of my shirt, resting my palm flat over my lower stomach.
Beneath my fingertips, beneath the scarred synthetic flesh and the human skin, I feel it.
A tiny, faint, undeniable pulse.
It is a steady, rhythmic thrum, completely independent of my own failing heart rate, beating with a pure, unadulterated life that refuses to surrender to the dark.