I Hid His Heir from My Alpha

sand

the medical sheet sounding like thunder in the

e. Five

of nausea rolling through me. An heir. I was

vate. A marriage orchestrated by his dying father, a bond he resented with every fiber of his being. But this... this p

illowing out, carrying the scent

the hard planes of his chest. He was breathtaking, a lethal predator car

g. I stepped forward, the paper burning

ually a stormy grey, g

hut out. Again. I watched his jaw tighten, a flicker of urgency crossing his stoic face. The

stated, his voice

ght. Demetri, please. Tomorrow is my grand

h sharp, precise movements. He didn't look at me. He never r

orced my wolf to lower her head in submission. I stood frozen by the bed, the pregnancy r

ost that refus

of my phone illuminating the tears drying on my c

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grainy, taken outside the private airport terminal, but I would know that silho

me

ad left to pick her up. The woman he h

osed my eyes, reaching for the thin, frayed thread of the mate bond that connected us.

sciousness toward him, seek

nne

l, pine-scented presence, I was slammed with a wall of cl

eding through him, radiating from her proximity

reign emotion

fore the black marble toilet, emptying my stomach until my throat burned. My wolf howled in agony, curling into a ball in the

e sun rose over Ston

k circles under my eyes with concealer. I was the Alpha's

port folded into a tiny square in my palm. I had to tell him.

y door was ajar.

ha," Adan's voice was low, concerned

hand hovering

voice was smooth, unbothered. "

asked. "She's your ma

sound of glass clinking against a desk follo

, his tone shifting to something soft

through the air, freezi

is voice dripping with icy indifference. "Do you want me t

ted. The air

the life we had created. *Give her to you.* I wasn't his m

ood there, the paper cutting into my palm, as t