Chapter 331
I know I shouldn’t be yelling especially not at him, but I couldn’t help it. I was feeling helpless, couldn’t even describe what I was really feeling
In a hospital? A human hospital where there are cameras everywhere, staff coming in and out constantly, records being kept of everything? Orion
shook his head. “It’s too risky.”
‘I don’t care about the risk…”
“Well, I do!” His voice rose too, matching my intensity. “Do you have any idea what would happen if someone saw? If they documented you heating him with powers that shouldn’t exist?”
I knew. Of course I knew. We’d grown up being careful, hiding what we were, making sure humans never suspected. Because humans feared what they didn’t understand, and fear made people dangerous.
‘We’d be exposed,” I said quietly. “They’d want to study us, experiment on us…”
‘We’d become lab rats,” Orion finished. “At best. At worst, they’d see us as a threat and try to eliminate us. And it wouldn’t just be you and me, Athena.
It would be Sarah. Derek. Every other person like us trying to live quietly among humans.”
He was right. I hated it, but he was right.
“So what am I supposed to do?” My voice cracked. “Just sit out there and wait? Watch him suffer when I could fix him in minutes?”
“You wait and let him heal naturally. He’s Alpha, Athena. His body is already working to repair itself…”
‘Not fast enough! You saw him, Orion. You saw how much blood there was, how his leg was bent…” I pressed my hands to my face, trying to hold back the tears that were threatening. “I can’t just do nothing.”
“You’re not doing nothing. You’re being smart. You’re protecting yourself and those babies you’re carrying.”
My hands dropped. “What do the babies have to do with this?”
“Everything.” He stepped closer, his voice gentler now. “You’re seven weeks pregnant with twins. Do you know what using your powers does to your
body? The energy it takes?”
I did know. Using my life–giving powers might drain me, and leave me exhausted and weak for hours which wouldn’t be healthy for the kids.
and
But this was different. This was Tristan.
“I can handle it,” I said.
‘Maybe. Or maybe it puts too much strain on your body and you lose the babies. Or maybe it triggers complications we can’t predict because you’ve never used your powers while pregnant before.”
The thought made my blood run cold, lose the babies. God, I hadn’t even considered that possibility.
Had been so focused on saving Tristan that I hadn’t thought about the risk to the tiny lives growing inside me.
“Tristan wouldn’t want you to take that chance,” Orion said, reading my face. “You know he wouldn’t. If he were conscious right now and you told him
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you were thinking about using your powers while pregnant, he’d tell you absolutely not.
“But he’s not conscious,” I whispered. “He’s in there broken and bleeding and I’m out here doing nothing…”
‘You’re keeping yourself and his children safe. That’s hot nothing.”
The tears came then, hot and angry and helpless. I hated crying, hated feeling weak, but I couldn’t hold them back anymore.
Orion pulled me into a hug and I let him, pressing my face against his shoulder and sobbing like I was a kid again.
“I can’t lose him,” I said against his shirt. ‘I can’t, Orion. Not now. Not when we just found out about the babies, when we’re finally building something
real together.”
“You won’t lose him. He’s strong. He’s fought through worse.”
“Has he? Have any of us been hit by a bike going forty miles an hour? Had our heads cracked open on concrete?” I pulled back, wiping at my face angrily. “And even if he survives, what kind of damage are we talking about? Brain injury? Permanent disability?”
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Sara Lili is a daring romance writer who turns icy landscapes into scenes of fiery passion. She loves crafting hot love stories while embracing the chill of Iceland’s breathtaking cold.
