Chapter 42.

Rune.

I couldn’t tell if the moon goddess was on my side or against me or if it was my body fighting against or for me.

I had woken up to slight pain passing through my body in waves for the second day in a row. Of course, by now, I knew what it meant, but I couldn’t believe it was happening because it hadn’t happened since the first time it did and nearly killed me. I was on heat.

Without thinking, I decided to go about my morning as usual, hoping that because Kane was still in park territory, I’d be fine. I wasn’t.

Kimi, Marian, and I skipped the morning debrief—mainly because Soph was absent—and focused on breakfast, after which Kimi began whispering about another handbook she had found to help me further my plans to conceive.

“We need to pause it for now, at least until investigations are done,” I told her and then explained that I felt horrible that we were focusing on the wrong thing at the wrong time. Minutes passed, and the pain came in stronger waves, crashing against my b