Chapter 145

Talon’s POV

The doctor hesitated, but finally he said, “Unless… you are not the father.”

At his statement, the blood in my body dried up immediately. It felt as though a bucket of cold water had been dumped over my head. His words were absurd… they made no sense at all, but then… that was the only explanation for the fact that I couldn’t feel the pup growing in my mate’s stomach.

If I’m not the father, then… it’s my father?!

A cold dread washed over me at the thought that my father might be the owner of that pup. He was the only one Zevara had been with aside from me.

A bitter laugh bubbled up my throat at the cruel twist of fate the Goddess was playing between the three of us.

First, I was her mate, yet my father seemed to be the one in her heart—and now, they had something that would always bind them together. A child. A fucking child.

“Fuck…” I cursed through gritted teeth, my chest rising and falling with rage, my fists clenched s