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“I’ around “But I need…”

“Say no et Leala She’ll handle the details” He peered atbeat

I lifted my eyebrows

“Right Just…” His salute turned into a raised finger “Just getting the lay of the land So you…aren’t relieved, as such…”

“Hadriel, get out Seriously It’s just a period I have many”

“Right It’s just that, you know, you hated the guy when you first came, but now you seem pretty fond of him, and he’s al the ht There are rags co, my love”

An hour later, I hacked at the roses like a woashes lined my face, but I refused to yield The as a distraction fro about Nyfain Because I’d have to tell him the news

Not that it shoulda pleasant fantasy, too If I’d actually been pregnant, he would’ve lost it He would’ve been pissed about the tiility in the face of what he wanted fora child when locked in a curse…

Still, fantasy or no, I would have to be the bearer of bad news

Part of me feared he’d only allowed s If maybe his desire for a child, an heir, had overshadowed the person actually carrying the child I wondered if, when he found out I wasn’t pregnant, he’d want things to go back to the way they were, where we fought our attraction and mostly kept to ourselves

The fear of it hurt the worst, because it wasn’t a baby daddy or a prince I craved It was Nyfain theasshole whose mood could turn in ain and scare the house staff with a look Who went out of his way to s easier for me Who backed ive his life to save hter, the protector, the reader, the lover

Shit

I was so fucked This whole situation had gotten so fucked

“Finley”

His rough voice washed over ht with the pleasure of his presence