line

heavy blanket. I tried to read something, anything, in his s

go to the medical center with Martha, Da

le on his face. "Joseline, my love. I heard

angelo," I said coldl

ave a baby anyway, why not have our baby? We can pass it off as Hayward's. Once I'm i

over me. His greed and d

st him. I was afraid if I stayed another second,

wed me down the hall,

r, my stomach churning with humiliation and disgust. I

f the territory, its security tighter than any hospital I'd ever see

named Ross greeted me. She was professio

ch's orders, we need to conduct a full physical examination be

instruments probed and scanned me. I felt less like

ultrasound, Dr. Ross'

forth over my stomach, her br

my throat. "What is i

moved her mask, her face serious. "Lun

he stress, my cycle had been irregu

er expression gre

," she said, immediately drawing a vial

of the examination table, my hands and feet cold. An

intout, closing the door be

're pregnant. Based on the hormone l

nt? Six weeks? That was be

mbushed and fallen into his healing sleep. Everyone said he would never wake. I had drunk too much champagne and was led to a quiet room to rest. I remembered

, the black wolf with the silver moon mark, its ice-blue eyes, the bur

tting here with the doctor's words echoing in

m was no

lpha scent-it was all real. And the black wolf from my dream las

yw

Ross in shock.

I don't want to know. What I do know is that this fetus is... special. The

ch stress, and you're malnourished. This baby is in a very precarious position.

ews was immediately crushed

d's child. The dream, the gala, the black wolf-all of it led back to him. Without eithe

ice would claim it. Dangelo would use it against me. Hayward would see i

the doctor. "Can we keep this a secret for

y confidentiality. But you must understand the risks of concealing this. I will inform t

over me. "Than

arrying a secret that could save my life, or end it. It