Eclipsed Joy

Sloane rose, puzzled by the terror etched across Killian's features—so far from the happiness she had imagined.

"Yes, I am. Eight weeks already. Aren't you happy?"

Killian held his silence.

Earlier—before that meeting with his father, before the old man's cold warnings—he would have been over the moon. He would have marveled at the tighter bond between them and dreamed of the child who carried bot