[Apple]
The faint echo of her words shakes the branches of my mind as my feet, rooted in place, level me frozen, unmoving, and staring at the witch before me unblinkingly as my heart and lungs fight to settle.
With just a handful of words, everything I knew to be true about me changed.
“Two months,” I repeat, placing a hand over my belly. Concentrating on my core energy, I send a tendril of my warmth and light into my abdomen, hoping to find nothing.
A faint spark flickers beneath my palm. She's been with me this entire time, from the first time Sly and I mated, back when my life was in danger and he claimed me as his because a life tied to him was better than death.
And he didn't want me to die.
Her flicker life hums with another energy and I know at once it is her wolf. She must b
