WHAT I CARRY
526 Words
The forest suddenly felt colder.
Like the truth he had just revealed had changed everything around us.
“You’re not just carrying a child.”
His words echoed in my head, over and over again.
I took a slow step back, my hand instinctively resting on my stomach.
“No…” I whispered. “That’s not possible.”
But even as I said it—
I didn’t believe it.
Because I had felt it.
That heat.
That power.
The way those creatures reacted to me.
That wasn’t normal.
Nothing about this was.
“You’re lying,” I said, my voice shaking slightly.
Kael didn’t respond immediately.
And that silence told me everything.
“You knew,” I said again, this time more firmly. “You knew this whole time.”
His jaw tightened.
“I had my suspicions.”
My chest tightened painfully.
“And you didn’t tell me?”
“It wasn’t safe,” he said.
“For who?” I shot back. “Me or you?”
“That’s not fair.”
A bitter laugh escaped me.
“Fair?” I repeated. “You rejected me in front of everyone, and now you’re talking about fairness?”
His expression darkened.
“I did what I had to do.”
“No,” I said. “You did what was easier.”
Silence.
Heavy.
Sharp.
“If you had told me,” I continued, my voice quieter now but filled with emotion, “maybe I wouldn’t have walked into this blind.”
“You wouldn’t have believed me,” he replied.
“Try me.”
Another pause.
Then—
“There are forces outside this pack,” he said slowly. “Older. Stronger. They’ve been searching for something for years.”
My heart started racing again.
“And that ‘something’ is… me?” I asked.
His gaze dropped briefly to my stomach.
“Not you,” he said.
My breath caught.
“The child.”
The words felt unreal.
Too heavy.
Too much.
“What kind of child makes monsters back away?” I whispered.
Kael didn’t answer directly.
Instead, he said:
“The kind that was never supposed to exist.”
A chill ran through me.
I shook my head slowly.
“This doesn’t make sense…”
“It will,” he said. “But not here.”
My eyes snapped back to his.
“What does that mean?”
His expression turned serious again, his gaze scanning the dark forest.
“It means they know now,” he said.
A pause.
“They felt it.”
My heart pounded.
“Felt what?”
He looked back at me, his voice dropping lower.
“You.”
The word sent a shiver down my spine.
“Then we need to move,” he added.
“Where?”
His eyes darkened slightly.
“Somewhere even they can’t reach you.”
I hesitated.
Everything in me still wanted to resist him.
To push him away.
But right now…
This wasn’t just about pride anymore.
It was about survival.
And for the first time—
I realized I might not be able to do this alone. 😈🔥
- Writer
