Ivan's breath faltered, his face twisting with pain, his eyes wide and shattered.
Axel's words echoed in his mind, fresh as thought they were being said again, right then.
"It doesn't matter if we're mates," Axel said, "I already have someone else. I choose who I want to be with and who not. I can reject the bond if I want, I wouldn't be the first one."
"I already told you on the phone. I have someone else. And what I feel right now with you… how I react to you… it's exactly the same way I do with him, because we forged the bond through a powerful witch. So there's nothing special about this. Nothing I haven't felt before. Right now…Right now I'm pregnant with his pup. I'm not seventeen years old as I told you."
"If you think I'm lying about being pregnant, why don't we go to the hospital right now and test me? You'll see for yourself."
