I thought about something. "The pregnancy," I said. "Does it affect how he perceives me? Physically — scent, anything like that?"
Something shifted in her expression — not surprise, more like recognition that I'd gotten to the right question.
"Yes," she said. "An Alpha's wolf reads a pregnancy in his mate very specifically. The scent changes. Not in a way a human would notice, but his wolf will have been registering it since early on. It's one of the reasons the recognition may be moving faster than you'd expect — the pregnancy is biological confirmation of the bond in a way that accelerates everything his wolf already knows." She held my gaze. "Has he been — closer? More attuned to where you are?"
I thought about Dax appearing in doorways before I'd made a sound. About him knowing, som
