Zeph's POV
Everything is fishy, so damn fishy that my alpha instincts are screaming at me to pay attention. The moment my first mate is being used as a threat to whatever plans I have, I know something is seriously wrong. And now she's telling me she's pregnant with my child, dropping this bomb right when I'm about to officially choose Kestrel as my Luna. The timing is too perfect, too convenient, too calculated.
I glance at Kestrel and my heart clenches at the broken expression on her face. She's looking at me like I'm already reconsidering everything Liana just said, like I'm going to abandon her the second another woman claims to be carrying my heir. She looks devastated, shattered, like she's watching her entire world crumble right in front of her eyes. If only she knows that nothing
