chapter 12

Everly Avoiding Valen's watchful eyes in the past 24 hours has been near impossible. It doesn't help that morning sickness decided to rear its ugly head. Now I know I'm pregnant, every pregnancy symptom has suddenly decided to spring forward with an ugly vengeance, trying to screw me out of hiding it. Zoe and Macey have been at me all day about it. I've been hiding in my makeshift office in the event building—thanks to Alpha Nixon, it used to be a storage room for tables and chairs that's been repurposed to be my new office—but now, just when I thought I finally escaped them, it's nearly time to clock out and head home. Valen knows something is up because I have no doubt he can feel it. Apparently having confused my fear of him finding out with nervousness about the upcoming challenge, he said he would pick me up tonight, worried I would run myself off the road. But Macey and Zoe aren't giving up so easily. They burst into my office, blocking the door as I switch my desk lamp off—I hav