Nn POV


    I wasn''t sure what to think of Ellie''s behavior.


    She was so angry when she caught me in her room, maybe angrier than I''d ever seen her. But the very next day, it was like nothing had happened.


    She was so hot and coldtely, it was confusing unless I allowed myself to believe what was starting to seem like the only exnation for everything that had been happening:


    Ellie had to be pregnant.


    But thest couple of days, she had seemed... normal. Not quite her old self again, but less hostile at least. I wouldn''t say she was happy to see me at any point, but I no longer got the feeling that she wanted to vomit just from the sight of me.


    And it didn''t make sense. Unless she was having mood swings or something like that.


    Then there were the multivitamins. I knew those were something that could be rted to pregnancy. And the bottle of iron pills I''d found only seemed to drive the idea home.


    "Nn," Felicity said, sighing dramatically, "you''re spaced out again.


    "Yes," I muttered. "I was thinking."


    "Thinking about what?” she asked, moving closer to me on the couch.


    There was work that I could be doing at the moment, but I had promised Felicity that


    I would take some time off. There was some ridiculous romance movie she''d been talking my ear off about.


    So we were spending a few hours this afternoon curled up on the couch in the living room, while she watched her movie and I let my mind spiral about all of the problems that I should be addressing while I was sitting here wasting time. "Do you know any reason why someone would need to take iron pills?"


    “Iron pills? No... I mean, unless they''re anemic or something?"


    "Could it have anything to do with a pregnancy?" I asked.


    Felicity looked at me, wide-eyed for a moment. Then sheughed and shook her head.


    "No. I don''t know what an iron pill could possibly have to do with pregnancy."


    I hummed in response-a nomittal noise-as I turned my attention back toward the screen.


    Maybe Ellie was just regretting the n to divorce me. Maybe she was trying to win me over before the contract


    ran out.


    If she was pregnant, that would be a good reason for her to want to back out of the divorce.


    But if that was the case... why wouldn''t she just tell me?


    She had to know that a pregnancy would change everything


    Was this an ego thing for her? Did she want to win me over on her own merits instead of epting that the only reason I would keep her around was for my heir?


    There was a knock at the front door of the pack house. A momentter, my Beta appeared, apanied by a tall,


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    slim man in a blue suit.


    The man wore round sses, which he adjusted nervously as he looked at me. "Sir," the Beta said, looking a bit uncertain, "a guest here to see Alpha ric." Third person POV


    Nn was thinking about Ellie again-that much was obvious to Felicity. He was constantly distractedtely, and the only exnation was that it had to do with her.


    The drama Ellie was constantly stirring up, her behavior, it was all designed to lure him back in, and Felicity just didn''t understand why he couldn''t see that.


    Why was he falling for her games?


    Nn was supposed to be smarter than this.


    They finally had an end in sight for the ridiculous game they''d been ying thesest few years, and it felt like she was the only one who was happy about it.


    Nn should be thrilled to finally get rid of Ellie-to no longer be tied to that horrible, pathetic little rogue. But


    he wasn''t.


    He was sitting here with Felicity in his arms, and his mind was a million miles away.


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