*Rose* I sit at the small table in my room and look at the words in the book in front of me without fully comprehending the text. All I see are letters and words splayed throughout the page. Stabbing pain on the left side of my lower abdomen makes me wince. I can’t help but make a faint moaning sou

*Rose* I watch as all four of the Alphas continue to pace up and down in the doctor’s room. I feel dizzy and restless as I watch them. Won’t they just sit down or just stand still? They all look worried, and they are acting a bit like mother hens. I love their attention and care, but they’re being

*Rose* I find myself walking around with one hand over my abdomen because I know that there’s a tiny person inside of me. I know that this is the reality I am experiencing now, that I have fulfilled my duty and become pregnant. Yet, I’m still having trouble wrapping my mind around it. There is a

*Rose* The butler is in a hurry. Either he has lots of more important things to do than to walk a pregnant nobody in to see the king, or he just doesn’t realize his legs are a foot longer than mine. I feel like I am running to keep up with him, but then, as I start to tire about halfway to the kin

*Eli*The soft moonlight is causing her silver night dress to glow in the dark. She looks like an angel, and I have missed her. The king has told us there is no need to keep seeing ‘the Breeder.’ His words. That and how he refers to her as a Breeder seems like just a tactic to remind all of us why w