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a's

aught my arm hard enough to slow the

and the world went white for a moment

iating out from somew

the steps and

e sounded very far awa

d down

was

step beneath me, and for one long second

d exactly what I

my voice came out strange

e on my shoulders now, his eyes wid

n, and this time I scr

this. Not the kind of fear that stripped everything el

low stood froze

d her eyes were wide, and everyone ar

on, something underneath the shock, somethi

me to think abou

e, and the world tilted, and then the

as the blood on the stone step

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ed in a

agments of memo

ssed agains

days ago saying, 'Thi

voice announcing another woman

decided not

vived this, I would tell him everything. I would stop hiding it. I

t worse than the

and I recognized Dr. A

was nothi

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was in the medical wing, and Tr

ce was

s voice cracked on my n

mouth was dry and my body fel

had to. I didn't understand what wa

I felt something in

sked. "Sera, why would you kee

Tristan. I stood in that hallway and I found out I was carrying your ch

ed, and he s

rgaining chip. I didn't want you to stay with me because of an heir instead

uld h

e done," I said. "Neither do I. Th

s face in

then, and I saw it in her face

aid quietly.

aby,"

aby is

went ve

right away, because some part of me had known

eard him make before, something low and broken, a

y I was on those ste

round it, and Tristan telling me to calm down while I

t reach

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ur later, after Tristan had st

s omega, Mira, came by earlier. She was shaking. She would

very

was pregnant?" I asked.

itional tests. There are certain herbs, certain substances, that can weaken a pregnancy already

the night before with a cup of tea already p

ments, sharp and precis

standing behind her

I said. "Whatever

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inutes later, and I could tell immediate

ic attack," he said. "

ked a

leaving?"

ard about the fall and she thin

I am lying in this bed and our child is gone, a

back," he sai

istan, please. Stay

esit

of them, and I understood in that silence someth

and walked ou

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, staring at the ceili

s not so r

ved in a way I could not, and I let her, because I

ut then suddenly, I heard a groan, low and pa

nt s

he pack, so hearing wolf sounds wasn't rea

me a second

it, something bitter and sharp that

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