Selene's POV
I couldn't tear my eyes away from the two red lines.
They weren’t even bright yet. They were faint at first, like a trick of the light. Like maybe if I blinked, they would disappear and I would wake up from this nightmare. But they only got darker the longer I looked.
I felt my knees buckle before I even realized I was falling. My back hit the cabinet, and I slid down to the cold tile, the test clutched in my shaking hand.
“It’s real,” my wolf suddenly whispered. “You feel it too.”
And I did. Under the fear, under the numbness, I felt something tiny and new flickering low in my stomach. A life that hadn’t asked to be created. A life I wasn’t ready for.
“Dear goddess,” I rasped. “What have I done?”
This couldn’t be happening now. Not when I was this close to freedom. No
