Criseda's POV
“This doesn't change anything, Criseda. I already have an heir and I don't want another one.”
Alpha Luther said in response, and his words struck me like a blow to the chest. I felt a lump form in my throat as I stood there, trying to understand what he had just said.
He didn’t want another heir?
“How can you say that?” I asked, my voice barely above a whisper. “This child is yours, our child. You can’t just… dismiss it.”
Alpha Luther turned to me, his dark eyes filled with frustration and something colder, something I had hoped never to see directed at me.
“I’m not dismissing it,” he said flatly. “I’m stating a fact. I already have an heir. And this wasn’t part of the plan, Criseda. Our focus was to make this plan work, and not complicate it with…this.” He gestured irr
