The words hung in the air between us, each one a blow to my heart. If she gets pregnant. I won't need you anymore.
I struggled to breathe as the full implication of Selene's plan crashed over me. She wanted to replace me—to replace us—with her own child, a "proper" heir with two shifter parents. The pain was immediate and visceral, like someone had reached inside my chest and squeezed.
"Pregnant?" I finally managed, my voice barely audible. "She was trying to get pregnant with your child?"
Kaelen nodded grimly, his hands still holding mine. "That was her plan. Though it didn't work."
But the seed of doubt was already planted in my mind, taking root and spreading like poison ivy. What if it had worked? What if, right now, Selene was carrying Kaelen's baby? A true wolf heir. A legitimate successor. Everything my human-born child could never fully be.
"You don't know that," I whispered, unable to meet his eyes. "You were drugged. You said yourself you don't remember everything."
