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Elara's POVI sent ten mindlinks to my mate. He ignored every single one.Our pup was gone.I never even got the chance to tell my Alpha mate, Kiran, that he had existed.Then, a familiar scent drifted past—pine and leather.I lifted my eyes in shock. "Ki—"The word died in my throat.The door to the VIP ward stood slightly ajar. My gaze fell to the narrow gap.My Alpha husband—my mate—sat on the edge of the hospital bed, another woman gathered in his arms.His hand covered hers, his thumb stroking gently over her knuckles, soothing her as though she were something fragile and precious.The woman on the bed shifted, turning her head toward the door. I saw her face, and my heart withered.Celeste. Kiran's first love.The afternoon light poured through the window, falling across her abdomen. There was a curve there—faint, but unmistakable.No... it couldn't be.My breath hitched. I gripped the armrests of the wheelchair until my knuckles went white."Get every specialist here. Now." Kiran's voice carried through the crack in the door—deep and controlled, yet threaded with a frantic edge I had never once heard him use with me. "I want her and the baby completely safe."The baby.The words landed like a death sentence.Just hours ago, in this same hospital, I had been the one on that cold table, listening to a doctor tell me with clinical pity, "I'm sorry, Luna. After three hours, we couldn't stabilize the heartbeat."And the ten mindlinks I'd sent him, begging him to come—every single one coldly blocked.Now I understood why. He hadn't missed them. He had simply been too busy comforting another pregnant woman."Move along." A guard posted at the VIP door stepped in front of me without warning. "This is the Alpha's private ward, reserved for his mate. Please leave."Reserved for his mate.I turned the words over in my head, the irony bitter as bile on my tongue. As the Luna of the Blackwood Pack, as Kiran Blackwood's wife of two years, I was the one left standing outside that door—turned away
