ARIA POV “Alpha, unless you want to deliver this baby yourself, let us move.” That shut him up. For half a second. Then the OB stepped out of an exam room, hair slightly disheveled, coat half-buttoned, expression calm in the irritating way doctors were calm when your body was staging a revolution. “Luna Aria,” he said. “In here.” Alaric grabbed the back of the wheelchair. “Alpha, carefully—” He pushed. Not carefully. We shot down the hallway like a damn hockey puck. “Alaric!” “I am being careful.” “You are pushing me like a Zamboni!” “I do not know what that is.” “Too fast!” He slowed by approximately one percent. The nurse jogged beside us, muttering what sounded suspiciously like a prayer. The doctor stepped out of the way just in time as Alaric swung the chair into the

