The IVF Mistake That Fated Me to an Alpha

you the right to decide wh

mained unreadable. "I

ic offer me five

or what they did to you. It h

er feel as though he had already separated her life into neat columns: what the clinic owed

are you propos

into a secure residence and receive private medical care for the rest of the pregnancy. Every expense will b

li

es

dn't spend months carrying and

his eyebrows. "You said you didn

to me isn't the same as fee

fell s

on table, needing to stand on her own

to move out. I would have to carry this child, hear its heartbeat, and feel it moving insi

d be comp

"Men like you always think they're talking abo

gainst the sterile smell of disinfectant. Serena sti

u want from

shed s

her phone began vibrati

lie

ightened as she

blurred together. "Coel woke up ten minutes ago. The doctors

faded a

in the shower, or in the middle of another night spent beside

on my

he call, Logan w

?" he

ardly think past the pounding of her h

cé when you agreed to carry his child.

ipped her phone into her pocket and gathered her medical

across his face, gon

s no office number or company logo, only

ore you make

eed your p

ttled briefly on her stomach. "I'm askin

into her coat witho

ough to walk it without thinking, past the vending machine that never gave enough change and th

r. "He's made incredible progress, M

piece of the knot

plainly. The clinic had used the wrong sample, the child was not his, and she had not yet decided what

stood par

g to tell her?" a

aised toward the door. She k

nd the nightmare

ice into the breathy sweet

changed things

nce, but unmistakably his. Isla pressed

st kind," Hi

ikes ki

wed, then the quie

hed open

l gown, her lipstick smudged across his mouth. She drew back, startle

nnoyed rather

id. "You're h

him about every ordinary part of her day because someone had once said familiar voices might lead a p

ng?" sh

at Coel. "Do

her attention on

st. "A few months

thing inside her, leaving a

r arm. She had come here prepared to confess something that had never been her fau

t beside your

r wanted

ew I wa

What exactly did you e

and put your hand

blouse. Her eyes dropped to the folder in Isla

doing at Blackt

behind her hip. "That'

e but showed little inter

wh

over his face. "I survived a rogue attack. I woke up after months in a

e months wait

ou to make your

ed more cleanl

ring from her finger. "Were

me. Your wolf is weak, you're uncomfortable with everything an Alpha needs, and

smile

nued. "With her, I don't have to

very night beside his bed. Then she placed it

because I

s your d

a fragile thing because they had never completed the marking, but breaking it would still hurt. For

stood that she had be

t you, Coel Reese, as m

hed bond tore loose. Coel flinched against his pillows,

n't rej

ust

when you've finish

ing the fertility folder tuc

e said.

ore either of them

at in a women's clinic, st

r threaded through her brown hair and a coffee stain on on

you want?" she asked. "Or do y

blank signature lin

tomorrow wishing someo

nt it

ork shows significant anemia, and you're underweigh

dn't always h

rs had never lacked food; they had simply fou

and your body is already recovering from hormone treatment and egg retrieval. I'

n't do i

ay." The doctor folded her h

s about

ed his permission, but you shouldn't make this

ce with the unsign

el's ring was gone from her finger. Logan's card remained in her pocket, and the

fluttered low

a f

tiny tail beneath water. A human pregnancy might not have moved this ear

her wolf

lm over her abdome

sed beneat

yes s

asked to become part of this disaster. It w

anything wrong,

d we, Sere

cy had seemed like the quickest way to cut al

om her pocket and dialed

before the

sl

ld do anything to

in re

not to end t

, followed by the quiet

re you?"

she had felt the pup move. "I won't hide your child from you, bu

your t

one

and when she looked up,

rry