Lena’s POV
The cramping began past midnight, and it yanked me up from fitful sleep, blinking into the darkness as I struggled to understand what was coursing through my body. For a beat, I tried to talk myself out of it — that it was nothing, just the normal aches and pains from pregnancy, the kind every mother has.
Then I felt the dampness between my thighs, and for what seemed like a bone-deep certainty something was terribly wrong.
"No, no, no," I murmured, my hand pressing against my stomach as fear coursed through me. "Please, not my baby. Please."
Lucien was at the territorial negotiations, he wouldn’t be back before tomorrow night. And Selena had withdrawn to her bedroom hours ago, citing being tired from dealing with a sick omega pup.
I was there alone with whatever was happen
