Sold as the Alpha King’s Breeder

Chapter 58 : Fated Babe

Maeve

Cleo felt over my belly, finding a spot just below my navel where my stomach went suddenly limp, as though the muscles I had there just up and disappeared. I looked down, slightly concerned.

“It’s just your ligaments loosening up,” she said with a smile, unrolling a length of measuring tape and laying it vertically over my skin. “You’re going to start feeling

something like… being snapped with a rubber band, every once in a while, around your waist.”

“Yeah, I’ve felt that a few times,” I said, watching as she measured my stomach. I definitely wasn’t showing yet, but I did feel a little softer, looser. I had tried to explain it to Troy, trying to find a word for the way my body felt. What had he called it? Limp noodle?

Ah, yes. My bones felt like overcooked pasta. I was suddenly clumsy, dizzy, and extremely fatigued. I felt so out of sorts, like my mind and body were no longer connecting. And when I brought it up to Cleo, she had simply nodded, telling me it was all totally and completely normal.

“You’re measuring ahead, but I expected that, carrying twins and all,” Cleo said, rolling the tape around her finger and putting it back into the bag Una had given her, which was full of practically everything needed to tend to a pregnancy and deliver a baby. She pulled out a stethoscope next, placing it on my skin to listen to whatever lay beneath.

“Can you hear them yet?” | asked. She put the stethoscope away and gently prodded my stomach. It was amazing to watch her work. She had delivered so many children during the course of her career. There was no one else I trusted with my pregnancy more than Cleo.

She was also the only person even remotely qualified to deliver the babies, especially given the fact that we were traveling into the unknown.

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“Not very well, but I guarantee you, they’re there. Both of them. You’re probably txo

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months along, I’d say.”

“When will she start getting round?” Myla was standing in the corner of the room! shared with Troy, watching us with her arms crossed over her chest. She looked a little uncomfortable.

“I already feel round,” I said as I pulled my shirt down. I struggled suddenly to sit upright, needing Cleo’s assistance as a wave of dizziness washed over me.

“You’re likely a little anemic, Maeve. I’ll let Olly know. You’ll need more iron in your diet.”

“Your boobs are huge,” Myla said curtly, and both Cleo and I turned to her.

“Are you okay,” I said, but Myla was already out the door, slamming it shut behind her. “What’s her problem?”

put her tools back in the bag, running her fingers along the smooth leather. “Her biological mother died in childbirth,

I replied, feeling incredibly insensitive. I blushed, drawing my knees into my chest. “I’m sorry, I wasn’t

you,

be fine,

I wouldn’t let anything happen to you. I wouldn’t

what she’s

over at me with a look that told me whatever was said between us

may not have known her mother, but she was orphaned moments after she was born. That would make anyone

ten children

but for now…”

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“She’s not ready. And I

I asked, genuinely curious. I hadn’t ever even considered it given that I was in a situation where I was supposed to get pregnant

have sex, for one. But that’s not plausible after meeting your mate, is it?” Cleo laughed,

our moment alone to ask her something I had never known. “Did

eyes shimmering

sorry. I didn’t mean

Cleo’s expression underwent a series of expressions as she got lost in her memories. After a moment she looked up at me, the corner of her mouth twitching

old were you

I believe. So young,” She laughed gently, looking down at her hands. “She was beautiful, truly. I know everyone thinks their mates are beautiful but Liv was just… I was enraptured by her. She was

in, wanting

We thought we’d have a chance if we

“Arrested?” I was shocked.

that.” Cleo rolled

“What happened then?”

years. Twenty years… the

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I had trained to be a midwife. I ended up setting up a practice in Mirage. That’s when-“She exhaled deeply, her eyes misting with tears. She met my eyes, shaking

“Told her what?”

looking suddenly so young. Cleo was a beautiful woman already, but at

away from me, settling her gaze on a random spot on the far wall. “I hadn’t seen her in so

believed she shamed their family, so he sold her. And she spent twenty years…. I didn’t know. Oh, Goddess, 1 regret not knowing every day. And

“You raised Myla-”

was mine the second she came into the world,” Cleo said firmly, nodding her head as though she were answering an unsaid question. “She was meant to be ours. When Olivia died, the man never came back. I never saw or heard from him again. I don’t know if Liv had other children. I don’t know anything about how she spent the last twenty years of her life. I blamed myself for her death for a long, long time. But I

told her the truth?” I asked, my heart shattering into

Cleo