Truth be told, Raellyn had been terrified to share the news. The reason she had refused to take any medication the night before was that she had already begun to suspect something unusual about her body, an unfamiliar heaviness, the sudden exhaustion, the heightened sensitivity to smells and sounds. The morning nausea and relentless vomiting had only deepened her intuition, whispering to her that something had shifted within her. But what she hadn’t expected. What never even crossed her mind was how Arnav would react. She had no idea he would become this attentive, this alert, and unwavering in his concern. He had done so many things in the past twenty-four hours that were far from his usual self. Things that showed just how much he cared, even if he didn’t say it outright, and perhaps

