SERA

The test was positive.

I held it in both hands and watched the second line darken, sitting on the bathroom floor at two in the morning, and felt the world rearrange itself around a fact that changed everything.

I was pregnant. With Kael's child. Conceived during the cabin week, the chemically induced heat that Cora had engineered, the days of relentless, consuming sex that had stripped us both to our foundations and built something raw and real between us. A child made in the intersection ...