Nightfall

Chapters 26🌙

Ares' pov:

What is that?

Why is she holding a pregnancy test box...

Wait.

What...

Is she...

No, it couldn't be.

Could it?

I stare at her and her eyes widen in shock. I can hear her heart pounding, and she looks like she isn't breathing.

Pregnant.

She is pregnant.

But the emotions and hormones...

I would've known...

"Okay, I finished up in the bathroo–" Sophie walks in and freezes when she spots us. Not knowing what to do, it's silent for a while.

The test is in her hand and she snaps back to reality frantically backs away from Elias. Why is she so afraid, I thought they've discussed this before.

Tears pour down her face as she moves back but he moves towards her. He catches her as she slides down the wall and crouches down next to her.

He holds her in his arms and softly speaks to her." Sophie calm down, you're okay." He rocks her slowly and she calms down from the swaying. Elias looks down at the test in her hands and looks up at her face.

"What does it say?" He asks, curiously glancing between her and the test. It seems they've forgotten that Scarlett and I are still here. Scatlett walks over to me and watches Sophie and Elias.

Sophie looks back looks at Elias for a while and then sighs. She picks up the test and reads out the results, nerves clearly taken over her calm state.

"It's negative." She says and watches for his reaction.

Scarlett takes hold of my arm and gently tugs me out of the room. When we walk put she closes the door softly behind her, and turns to me.
"Did you have to pound on the door?" She asks me, clearly annoyed.

I could sense her emotions and could tell something was wrong. The bond wanted me to comfort her so I went looking, and when I saw Elias pounding on the door, I panicked and thought something was wrong.

"I'm sorry, I thought you were in trouble. You were so nervous, it set off emergency mode and I bolted upstairs." I tell her, trying to eliminate her anger, but she looks back at me with a smile.

I thought she was angry. I can feel her gratitude and joy through the bond, and she pulls keeps into a hug.

"Thank you, Ares." She pulls back and places a quick kiss on my cheek. She steps back and leads me to her room and closes the door. She sits on the bed and I move to sit next to her. I sit down and pull her into my arms and rest her head on my shoulder.

"Do you think they're okay? It was kinda tense when we left." Scarlett speaks after a while. I think back to when Elias and I were still in school and we were talking about the future.

"Both Sophie and Elias have had a rough past. Years ago they had a huge argument about the future and children, and stopped talking to each other for a month." I tell her, remembering Elias being angry because he was apart from Sophie.

"They've gone through a lot to be together." I say, and then remember my reaction to Scarlett when I walked in. "You were holding the box, I thought you were..." I trail off, waiting for her to realize where this conversation is going to go.

"But you would've been able to tell...I'm surprised Elias couldn't tell." She says thoughtfully, remembering his reaction and questions." Sophie was shielding her emotions from him, and the pregnancy hormones only kick in after a while." I tell her.

"We can shield our emotions? I've never heard of that. How do you do it?" She asks, and now realize that was probably a mistake. I don't want her keeping her emotions from me, we will face everything together. I like feeling connected to her.

"I'm not telling you...I don't want you to keep your emotions away from me." I tell her and she backs up to look at me. I don't want her to be alone in anything  so if that means me feeling everything she does then I'm completely okay with it.

"But why? I have mood swings and anger issues, you will feel everything, are you really up for that?" she picks the fluff from my pants.

"Of course, you will never be alone again." I reassure her and she lays back down. It's quiet for a while, both of us lost in our thoughts.

"She was so scared, I understand the circumstances, but she was abnormally scared. I didn't know she was so afraid to have children. I know it's early, but she was immensely worried."

"Are you?" I ask, wanting to get her view on the future she pictures.

"I don't really know, I never thought about it before. I pictured me finding my mate and living a happy life, having kids later on when I was ready. What about you?"

I never really cared, just wanted to find my mate and be happy with her. There would have to be another Alpha after me so I thought I'd have kids one day, but I don't want to rush life. Life is about the small moments, they are the make up of memories.

"I don't want to waste the present regretting the past, or worried about the future. I thought I'd find my mate and have kids one day, but live life first."

I'm lost in my thoughts of the what the future holds. I would actually love starting a family with Scarlett, she is amazing. Picturing her being the mother of my children sounds like a dream.

"We will take on the world." She says.

"Together."

Together...

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