Escaping the Alpha, Claimed in the End novel Chapter 66

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Chapter 66

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Chapter 66

Amelia’s POV

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I regained my consciousness in fragments. First, the scent of antiseptic hit me. Then, the feel of cool linen against my skin When I looked around, I realized that this was the infirmary.

I recalled I was in the training field searching for Ryder among the sweating warriors. Then a wave of dizziness hit me so strongly that I felt the gravity getting ten times stronger Like my head was getting heavier.

I blinked, my eyelids heavy. When I looked around the infirmary, I saw him.

Ryder sat in a chair pulled impossibly close to my cot, his large frame making it look smaller He wasn’t sleeping. His elbn were on his knees, his head bowed, his hands clasped so tightly his knuckles were turning white.

He was staring at the floor as if the answers to every question were there.

‘Ryder?” My voice was raspy, barely audible.

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His head snapped up. The look in his eyes was a storm of emotions, so intense it seemed unlike him. Gradually ins face y illed with relief as he regarded me.

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‘Amelia.” He said gently. In an instant, he was on his knees beside the bed, one of his hands coming up to my cheek, his humb stroking my skin with tenderness. “You’re awake.”

I moved my body to see him better.

‘Don’t try to move. Just breathe.” He said

What happened?” I whispered, leaning into his touch. “I just got dizzy… I don’t remember anything past that

The door opened softly the next second, and the pack’s healer entered. He gave Ryder a brief, almost impercepter d before turning to me.

‘You are awake, finally,” he sighed.

What happened?” I asked.

‘You fainted, Luna,” the healer replied gently. “A rather dramatic way to deliver news, but effective

News?” I looked from his eyes to Ryder’s Ryder’s hand slid from my cheek to and mine las inge

The healer smiled, which made me wonder what good news he possibly had The gas is a haseng busca Luna Amelia You’re pregnant”

The words froze the air Almost quite Interally

Pregnant

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The concept was confusing I thought about it for seconds yang girl who was branded property. The woman who thought she had cowell The woman who is the vests way Avitse

My free hand flew to my stomach pressing that aganist the soft tabic of the coronary goste Ture was to bury thank bust the familiar plane of my body Andyer Everything now to dancing

The slight nausea I’d blamed on stress the fatigue that had hung to

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Sanguih, ey weren’t signs of weakness. They were signature of pregnancy

“I’m pregnant,” I breathed, the word foreign on my tongue.

Ryder made a sound, a choked-off mixture of a laugh and a sob. He brought our juned hand to his lips pressing a kiss to my knuckles.

“We are pregnant,” he corrected. “Our heir. Its our miracle. His eyes held mine and in them I saw the future he was already painting: a child with his strength, perhaps with my… whatever I was. A file one to carry on our legacy

The joy in his face was so pure it was heartbreaking.

But then I saw a shadow pass over it.

Suddenly, terror resurfaced. My gaze flickered towards the healer then back to Ryder.

The healer cleared his throat, his demeanor shifting subtly.

‘Congratulations Amelia, the early signs are… typical,” he began. “However. Luna, your body has been under extraordinary stress. The trauma, the magical expenditures, the recent poisoning…”

He paused, drawing a long silence “Carrying a child to term will require immense strength. More than a usual pregnancy There are… risks.”

Ryder’s hand tightened around mine, as if he could feel the dark turn of my thoughts.

‘No,” he said, “There won’t be any risks. She will have the best care.” He looked back at me, and the Alpha was back in his yes.” Nothing will harm you. I will allow nothing to harm you.”

wanted to believe in his vow. I wanted to lose myself in the dream of a baby, of a family, of a love so deep it created ife.

But as I looked at him, I couldn’t help but think. What if I couldn’t do it? What if my body built from a childhood and scarred by betrayal, failed at this most fundamental task? What if I took this joy from han

opened my mouth to speak but a movement at the small, high window of the infirmary caught my eve

I was just a flicker, a shift in the light. A dark shape passing by the glass, too fast to be a bird. My boighrosesse

A silhouette of a slender female.

Did you. “I murmured, my voice slurring with sudden exhaustion Dul anyone sex at die window

Ryder and the healer both turned The window was empty just the pale sky beyond

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