Second Chance for the Discarded Luna
I repeated, the words feeling strange in my mouth.
"Twins run in your father's bloodline," she said, moving to wash her hands in the basin by the window. "I'd want to confirm with a longer examination in a few weeks once I can feel movement more clearly, but everything I'm sensing right now tells me two heartbeats, not one."
I sat there on the edge of the table, hands pressed flat against a stomach that hadn't even begun to show yet, and felt something crack open inside my chest that I hadn't expected. Not grief, exactly. Not quite joy either. Something tangled between both, too complicated to name cleanly.