✨When the Body Knows.✨ Flora Pov Flora didn’t understand it the first night it happened. Nasir came through the door the way he always did—solid, familiar, his presence usually enough to settle her nerves before she even realized they were frayed. The sound of his boots against the floor normally meant safety. Relief. Home. This time, her stomach turned so sharply it stole her breath. The smell hit her all at once—thick and overwhelming, wrapping around her before she could prepare for it. It wasn’t foul. It wasn’t wrong. It was Nasir. And yet her body rebelled as if it were poison. Her hand flew to her mouth. “Flora?” Nasir said, already moving toward her, concern threading his voice. She didn’t answer. She couldn’t. The nausea surged hard and fast, and she barely made it down th

