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Thirty-Six weeks

Author: I.O PIETRO
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-05-24 05:40:03

"She could come any day now," Nadia says.

She says it with the same clinical calm she says everything, but there is something underneath it today that is not clinical. Something that is more like readiness. The specific energy of a person who has been preparing for a thing and knows the thing is close.

Thirty-six weeks today.

Four weeks ahead of a standard due date. One week into the window Nadia identified the likely range. Lyra has been in position for four weeks now and she has been making h
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  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    The anchor holds

    Soren's voice comes through the door before he does. "The building is locked. Every exit is covered. Nadia is not inside."Bastien does not relax. "Not inside yet.""Marta," I say. "Where is she now?"A pause, keys somewhere on her end. "Her last registered location was a clinic two towns north, forty minutes ago. I am pulling current transit records.""Forty minutes is nothing," Bastien says."Forty minutes is enough for us to be ready instead of surprised," I say, and I hear how steady my own voice sounds, which surprises me more than it should. River is warm against my chest, gold eyes open, watching the ceiling the way she always watches things no one else can see.Wolfe's voice comes through the phone, quieter than before. "If I can help, I want to. Whatever this costs me with my own people.""Then tell us what she would need to do it," Bastien says. "If Nadia's plan requires separating Lena from River convincingly enough for the field to register it as loss, what would that look

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    Eleven months

    "Marta," Bastien says. "Identify the fourth request. Now. Whatever resources you need, use them.""I am already working on it," Marta says. "Eleven months places the request before River's birth, before her existence was public, which narrows the field of who could have known to ask. I need time I do not currently have.""We do not have time either," I say.Bastien's hand is still around mine, tight enough that I can feel his pulse through it, faster than I have felt it in a long while."Wolfe," he says. "You have read further into this than any of us. If someone wanted to remove an anchor, deliberately, without triggering an immediate response from the pack around her, how would they do it."Wolfe is quiet for a moment. "The account I found does not detail methods. But logically, an anchor removal would not need to be violent to be effective. It would only need to be permanent, or perceived as permanent by the child's field. Distance. Estrangement. A convincing severing of the bond,

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    The mechanism

    Nobody answers Bastien's question. It sits in the room the way certain things sit, too heavy to pick up right away."We need Wolfe," I say. "Not Marta's guesses about Wolfe. Wolfe himself, in front of us, answering directly.""He signed an agreement to stay away," Soren says."Then we invite him," Bastien says. "The agreement does not prohibit that."Marta clears her throat on the line. "I would advise caution. If my reading on his motives is wrong, bringing him into direct contact with River again is a risk we cannot undo.""If your reading is right," I say, "then he is the only person alive who knows what we need to know. We cannot protect her from a mechanism none of us understand."Bastien is already moving toward the desk, already reaching for his phone. "I will call him myself. Not through an intermediary. He answers to me directly or he does not answer at all.""Bastien," I say.He looks at me."If he says yes," I say, "we do this on our terms. Neutral ground. Ivy and Soren pre

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    What the agreement does not says

    River does not cry.She goes still, and the stillness is worse than crying. Her gold eyes are fixed on the ceiling and her small body has gone rigid in the bassinet, and for three full seconds nobody in the library moves either."Lena," Bastien says.I am already crossing the room. I lift her out of the bassinet and she is warm and stiff in my arms, not seizing, not distressed in any way I recognize, just utterly still, and her field is doing something I have never felt it do before. It is not reaching outward the way it always reaches. It is pulled in tight, close to her body, like a hand closing around something it does not want to drop."What is she doing," Soren says."I do not know," I say."Marta," Bastien says into the phone. "Say the name again.""Wolfe," Marta says. "Cassian Wolfe."River's field pulls tighter. I feel it against my own, a pressure that is almost physical, and I understand with a certainty that has no evidence behind it and does not need any that she recognize

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    What Gregor knew

    "Eight years ago," Bastien says.He says it the way he says things that are restructuring something significant, quietly, with the specific stillness of a man who is recalculating a position he thought he understood.Marta is still on the line."The request was denied," she says. "The archivist at the time did not grant access to founding-period documents for individuals without direct lineage connection to the relevant pack. Your father has no Iron Fang lineage. His request was refused on those grounds." A pause. "But the request itself tells us he was looking. Eight years ago he was searching specifically for information about gold-eyed children in the Iron Fang founding period.""How did he know to look," I say."That is the question I have been sitting with since I identified the request two months ago," Marta says. "The Founder's Mark is not widely documented. The Iron Fang founding texts are not public documents. The council parallel record is restricted. For your father to have

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    Marta speaks

    "I have been waiting for you to work it out," Marta says.She says it before I have said a word, which tells me she knew the call was coming and has been sitting with her phone in her hand for some amount of time, which is consistent with everything I know about how Marta operates, thirty years of watching and waiting and being precisely where she needs to be when the moment requires it."You submitted the archive request," I say."Six months ago," she says. "When Nadia's quarterly report to the inter-pack medical registry noted an active Volana wolf in her second pregnancy with an Iron Fang Alpha. The report was anonymized but the field signature is distinctive and I have known your field since your emergence." A pause. "I submitted the request the same week.""You read the council parallel record," I say."I read Sorel's account," she says. "The full version, which the council archivist was able to provide because my credentials as the Crest Pack's heritage representative are suffic

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    What he is doing there

    "The ritual requires a location," Bastien says.He says it in the hallway at midnight and his voice is doing the flat operational thing, which means he is already three steps ahead and is catching up to me.The binding location,I say. Nadia mentioned it. A place of established pack power where the

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    Twenty weeks

    It's a girl, Nadia says.She says it the same way she says everything, plainly and without ceremony, but the particular quality of her stillness after she says it tells me she has been holding that information for the last thirty seconds while she made sure the reading was clear.I'm on the examina

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    Wolfe's border

    "He signed a six-month lease," Bastien says.He is looking at Dara's message on my phone and his voice is doing the careful flat thing that means he has already identified what this is and is buying himself three seconds to decide how to say it.He's not going home, I say.No, Bastien says. He has

  • PREGNANT WITH THE ALPHA'S UNWANTED HEIR    Co- respondents

    "He's claiming the charter complaint was politically motivated," Bastien says.He is reading from Holt's summary on his phone, standing in the kitchen at seven in the morning, and his voice has the specific flatness of someone who expected a move and is not surprised it arrived but is still catalog

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