The Alpha's Heir

The magnitude of that single sentence hung in the silence. Valera exhaled a fractured, breathless sound.

“A child?”

Profound disbelief threaded through her voice. She remained entirely frozen, staring at the witch as if the oxygen had been siphoned from the study.

Instinctively, her hand drifted downward. Her fingers spread out, mapping the firm, flat contours of her abdomen. There was no physi