Bella's POV
I pace my room restlessly. Is this it? Is this how everything I have worked hard for and to be will go down the drain? The instant Greg, Lucian's beta, opened his mouth to speak the nonsense he just spat, news reached me. Now this will raise suspicion. Bran will investigate, I know him too well. He won't rest easy.
Everyone will want to know who is carrying the f*******n child. It won't be long before Bran finds out the truth about my child. He's their blood. The rogues' blood. My child is.
Bran suspects me already.
Or at least, he will soon know, if those fools have not given him my identity already. I don't think he has, because my informant didn't report that.
I clutch my stomach instinctively, pressing my hands against the bump beneath my dress. My child. A child I hav
