Elowen Did It

Alaric loosened his shirt collar, glaring at Vespera as he tried to hold back his anger. “Have you completely lost your mind? You went behind my back to get an abortion?!”

Vespera glanced at him blankly. “I didn’t. I wasn’t even pregnant.”

Alaric just stared at her. “…”

He was so frustrated he could practically feel the blood boiling inside him. Was that really the point? She’d gone to have an abortion, even if it hadn’t happened. And then there was the fact she wasn’t pregnant at all—and that she thought she had been but hadn’t told him!

Alaric’s mind was spinning. He couldn’t even decide what mattered most anymore. His brain felt like it had been hit by a bomb. First, learning she was supposedly pregnant, then thinking back to their night together, then hearing she’d gone to abort the baby, and finally finding out she hadn’t been pregnant at all. It was like four bombs had exploded in his head in one day.

He sat down on the couch, taking a few deep breaths to calm himself before loo