Bonded || SHW

Prologue

It could happen.

It was rare, but not impossible, as long as it was exactly the right time - which, evidently, it was.

As his female beamed up at him, the conflicting feelings of horror and wonder rushed through him. She was so, so happy that her joy began to drown out the fear that gripped his heart in an ice cold fist.

"You're... pregnant?" He whispered, repeating what she had already told him three times. He just had trouble wrapping his head around the implications.

"Yes!" She cried, tightening her grip around his waist.

He pulled back, eyes wide as he slowly sank to his knees.

Gently, he placed his large hand on her still flat stomach, trying to imagine her swelling with his young, the one that he had put inside of her.

Trying not to vision the danger that he had put her in. Females of their kind did not do well with childbirth. He would rather have no children for the rest of his centuries than lose her.

She was so excited as he carefully wrapped his arms around her and rested his cheek on her tummy that she didn't see the stark terror and fear in his eyes and the hard clench of his jaw.

He did not want this.