Chapter 93

I wake sometime around midday. I’ve spent another day just sleeping. During my time with Crystal Rose, I’ve seen a lot of pregnant women, and their pregnancies never affected them this way. I try to keep Kane’s warnings in mind, try to remind myself that a werewolf pregnancy is different, but surely it’s not supposed to be this bad.

The whole day I cycled between freezing cold and boiling hot. Covered in old and new sweat, I feel disgusting, sticky, and dirty, and all I want to do is take a shower but getting from the bedroom to the bathroom feels like an impossible task.

It takes me several minutes just to drag myself into an upright position, and even the slightest bit of movement hurts.

Carl finds me sitting on the edge of the bed, breathing heavily, somewhere between crying and laughing. “Queen?” he asks from the doorway. “Are you okay?”

“No.”

“Can I help?”

I shake m