Stronger by Ang Chris

Chapter 57

I remember fragments of my heat but not a lot. I slept all day once it was over, and when I woke up I felt it. When you get the certainty in you that comes from your soul, I knew I was going to have a baby.

I made him promise that no one would know, I had this horrible sensation now that the walls had eyes. The ground was listening to my steps and the moment I fell asleep would carry the news of our baby to this enemy of ours.

We waited a week and went about our business, the pack knew I’d had my heat and they looked at me with hope glimmering in their eyes and whispered prayers in my direction. I didn’t flinch when I saw them analyzing me to see if I had changed, if I was more tired, if I was more energetic, if I was nauseous, if I was hungry, If I looked run down, if I was glowing.

“I don’t want them to know,” I had told him last night and I felt him tense a bit.

“Annette this baby will very well be the next Alpha,” He almost scolded me..

“And it’s my job to protect him!” I didn’t mean to sound so harsh, but I felt this overwhelming desperate desire to keep my pregnancy a secret for as long as I could.

“You think there’s a mole? Amongst my people,” He took his arms away from me.

“Your people,” I shot back him incrediously.

“Our people, our people. But I don’t doubt anyone’s allegiance,” His nostrils flared as he crossed his arms.

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I shook my head only once “It’s in my bones Grayson, they’ve been watching us for some time now, they knew the weakest pack in our alliance, they knew where I’d be while you were away, they knew the portion of our wall to climb over that night,” I sat up and stared him in the eyes. “Even if there is no mole they are beyond our walls and they’re waiting to strike. It’s my job to keep this baby safe and in my belly as long as I can,”

He set his jaw. “Not one of our people would ever betray us,”

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“It’s a nice thought but I am not going to take the chance. If I am pregnant I want to wait until my second trimester to tell the pack that way it will be harder to kill the babe in me,” I wasn’t going to back down on this. My mindset has changed, I had changed.

I would throw myself off of a cliff if they took this from me.

“I have looked forward to this house being full of children, and the celebrations this pack would raise when we announced our first pup for years…..but we are at war,” He closed his eyes and nodded.

We went to sleep, even he didn’t toss and turn as he did I knew the idea of someone of our pack turning on us. It was

his nightmare.

The sun came up and he had found himself asleep. I got out of bed and walked into our bathroom. I took the test and left it on the counter and anak down to the floor.

“First we have to overcome each other, and now this foul enemy of ours has threatened the dream I’ve held onto my

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life. I make no apologies for wanting to be a mocher1to raise children, to build a home and a family. Is this my punishment? Am I going to lose my baby before leven nettben? Will we get to see her first steps or will they take us from her? What does

know how we’re supposed to enjoy

and questions our first baby when we are being attacked by a cowardice

of alpha

do is carry my baby to full term and then ifther commod tommy pup my family,

them.

afraid of someone who plays in the shadowsandastbeccared of my

will kill anyone

myself in stone refusing to be tainted with fears, I pushed myself off

Pregnant

word stared back at me confirming what we

He called to me

smile on my face and I jumped ofisians,We’re gonna have a

He set me down on the

the test form my hands. “You’re

our bedroom and he was k*ssingmycheekssyfforehead, my arms and my

www

of it hisskinerned face.” He

best not to look as ecstatic as we were. The dark cloud we’d been hating thr so long seemed mon existent at this moment. It was blind optimism

it all, even when the world is crumbling rocks fant to be

to me as we watched the new warriors train. “Are you

She had judged me almost us harshly as he had when I first arned err here out of her respect to him and da to

guilt at all 1 had something that only fed

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head to the side. “….understood

She knows…

acknowledgement allowed

meats. I harvested the food. I oversought the training warriors. I ran laps

minimal exercises.

news. She had

of vegetables but it doesn’t taste like shit,” she’d

tomatoes.

squats, and planks will keep you strong and help your condition,” She instructed me in

have to take the vitamins and have them shipped here,” She whispered to me before heading to

me and k*ssed my cheek.

overwhelmed with excitement and joy, but I sensed the anxiety waiting underneath, of his abilities as a

“Thank you,”