ERIK
For an endless minute, everything just … stopped. I stopped breathing, my heart stopped beating, and the world stopped spinning.
She’s pregnant.
The words kept repeating themselves over and over again in my head, thundering and constant, like a hammer.
She’s pregnant, she’s pregnant, she’s pregnant.
“What?” I asked, my voice barely a whisper.
Fjorr gulped. “It’s your father who found out. He went on the crime scene in the Council Hall again to see if he could understand more from the scents and all, and … he said that, now that the stench of blood had dissipated a little, Amelia’s trace was clearer. She’s definitely pregnant – extremely early, of course, but pregnant nonetheless”.
“How?” I breathed. “I mean, we …”
“You guys did it, didn’t you?” he asked. I appreciated h
