While Jared sat in the hospital room, contemplating how to get Serenity to finish the mating ritual, Mary stared at the two lines on the third pregnancy test she drew up for Serena.
This should be ecstatic news. In fact, Mary should feel the urge to go wrap her arms around Serena and celebrate. But she couldn't. This positive pregnancy test only made Mary's guilt weigh heavily on her.
She couldn't find the joy in this because she was worried about the implications of this child. What if this child was a runt like his or her mother? Not only that, but what would be Serenity's reaction?
Mary could only let out a sigh as she collected herself silently before she slipped into the room to tell Jorah and Serena.
"You should lie back," Jorah fussed over Serena, who slapped his hands away in a
