#Chapter 69: The Threat

Elara The test wasn’t here. I had searched the dresser, the bedside table, the floor beneath the bed, and even the laundry basket, but the pregnancy test was nowhere to be found. I pressed a hand against my stomach, trying to calm the anxious knot that was starting to twist there. It was fine. It had to be here somewhere—I had probably just dropped it in the hallway or something. But as I poked my head out of the room and peered both ways up and down the hallway, only to find that it wasn’t sitting in any of the pale shafts of moonlight spilling through the windows, my heart began to pound a little. The last thing I needed was for Alaric to stumble across it. Or worse—one of the girls. I didn’t want Ella or Zoe finding it and asking questions that I wasn’t ready to answer yet. It was supposed to be a private moment. Alaric was supposed to hear it from me and then we were supposed to tell the girls about their new sibling. That was before I had found