My Fears

I see Alaric walk in. His eyes come to me, and he stops walking. Why is he confused that I'm here in his bed?

"You should be asleep. It's been an hour."

An hour?

It didn't feel long at all. I watch him strip and climb into bed with me. "What's wrong?" He pulls my body against his.

"I didn't do this on purpose, Alaric." He looks at me, confused. "Possibly getting pregnant. I swear it wasn't done to trap you." I know everyone will think I have.

He smiles and kisses me. "For this to be your way of trapping me means you went to where ever they make the pills and tampered with shit. Did you, Ruby? I have to say there are far easier ways to do it." He looks at me, amused.

"No, but that's how it looks." If I'm pregnant everyone is going to think it.

"You're wasting energy on ridiculous thoughts that make no difference."

If only it were easy to stop overthinking everything. I'm not ready to be a mum. I still have to finish studying, and I still live with Bex and Ivy. My savings have almost bo