Song: Hold On (Chord Overstreet)
Asher
The world around me collapsed, and all I could hear was the pounding in my chest. Avery’s words echoed, the room shrinking, suffocating. Ivy… was pregnant. My mate, the woman I loved beyond reason, was carrying our pup. And I didn’t even know. Maybe she didn’t either. A part of me, a part of us, was growing inside her, and now... I was about to lose both.
I felt like I couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t speak. The pack doctor’s voice continued, but her words were lost in the fog of my mind. I watched as her lips moved, her mouth forming words I didn’t want to hear, couldn’t process.
“...just a few days... she may have only just started to feel the symptoms.”
Pregnant.
She was pregnant.
We were going to be parents.
I was going to be a father.
Or I w
