Father's Price
It happened during breakfast. Alexander had been hiding it well - the internal bleeding from Katherine's programmed attack, the way her precise strike had done more damage than anyone realized. But as he reached for his coffee, he collapsed. Aria cried out daddy in alarm as tears filled her eyes.
The scent of hidden blood suddenly flooded the room. Everyone jumped up in alarm.
"Dad!" Aria tried to rise, her eight-month pregnant form making it difficult, but Viktor was already moving.
"Internal hemorrhaging," he growled, catching Alexander before he hit the floor. "He's been masking the scent somehow. Katherine's attack did more damage than—" He broke off as Katherine's anguished cry filled the room. Guilt filled her as her mate was so hurt he hid it from everyone,
"No,
