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"Constable Dubrovsky Is he the father?"

Channary’s face turned haughty Reaching out, she grabbed ahold of the half-stitched panel of Levana’s dress and ripped it down, revealing the scar tissue over Levana’s ribs before she could think to gla, Levana dreay, scraainst her "I have no idea who the father is," Channary snapped, turning away again "Don’t you see, Levana? That’s the point"

She did not becoh she went to Evret’s bedchaht He and Winter had beenof the palace, but only a ent by before Levana decided it would be safer to retire to her own rooht happen if he awoke before her one la hiht

It was not quite the et better It would take time

She did not come to love Princess Winter, who cried every time Levana held her

Evret refused to let anyone call hiuard, though Levana told him over and over that it wasn’t necessary He was royalty now; he never had to work again This only seeh, so eventually Levana stopped pressing the issue Let hirew larger and they learned that the child was not a boy By that tilowed in a way that Levana knew pregnant woined her sister would be the same way She would let anyone touch her exposed belly, even the servants Encouraged it, even Would yell if a person didn’t coo and a and tell her what a beautiful row up to be just like her, by all the lucky stars

As the months passed, Levana caainst her Ru about any nu babies The whole city see When Levana went to see Dr Eliot for a private appoint, she even learned that a pair of wedded royal scientists were pregnant--Dr Darnel and his wife, both specialists on the genetic engineering teae

Dr Eliot was largely unhelpful She went on and on about how it could take tiot a bit older, if they still had not had any success The woman even had the nerve to tell Levana to relax, to not worry about it so much It would happen when it waswoman jab a scalpel into her own eye

Her sister The old doctor Solstice

There could be nothing wrong with Evret

So rong with her?