Impossible Love

ELIA

Elia's mouth dropped open. "Wait, WHAT?"

"Do you truly have no sense of it?"

"What are you talking about?"

Reth lifted her hand and put it to his nose, closing his eyes and inhaling like he would the scent of a flower, and smiling. "You are… you are making a miracle, Elia."

"You can't be serious?"

"Deadly. It is the greatest of miracles among the Anima and I am… I am overjoyed." Then he opened his eyes and his gaze was fierce—furious, if she was honest. "But you can't allow anything to stand between you and your health. Our pregnancies are always… precarious. You have to promise me that you'll do nothing that would harm you, or our cub."

"Reth, when…? How?"

He blinked. "Just now. Today. When… when we were so close… it… something was… didn't you feel it?"

She blinked. Then blinked again. "That was… connection. Emotional. We were… I mean, yes, something happened but—"