Page 84 of Fated Mates of Breeder Prison

The threat was obvious. Do as the Supervisor says or they would open fire.

My gut churned like a cement mixer. What had the Supervisor said to me before he injected me earlier?

That he would learn what Kren was going to tell him and then dispose of him.

Why?

My breath caught in my throat…

Oh God, no.

But yes. It had to be right. Didn’t it?

He no longer needed Kren because he was no longer the last of his species.

The baby growing in my belly was.

I had sown Kren’s demise because of my own stupid carelessness.

The tears sprung in my eyes as I watched Kren climb into the chair and get comfortable. He lay there as the Supervisor leaned over him with the diagnosis tool he used to check if I was pregnant.

Each moment that passed, each second that I let slip through my fingers, was another moment that could be Kren’s last.

There had to be something I could do to help him, warn him somehow. There had to be something I could do to make him get out of that chair and keep himself alive.

But how?

The controls to my cell were on the other side of the wall. There were none on my side. I had already checked every inch of the room for a computer, a wire, something I could use, but there were none.

I ran my hands over the wall. If I could somehow disable it… If I could turn it off so he could see me… Even just for a second…

Thump.

I blinked as my hand had automatically moved to my stomach.

Did I feel a kick?

Impossible. I’d only been pregnant a day!

Then what had I felt? A twinge? A pulled muscle? My stomach kicking up a tantrum? Or was it something in my imagination?

Thump.

Nope. Definitely real.

There it was again. Not a kick. More of a throb, like the gentle pulse of a bass drum.

But that bright golden glow was not new. I associated it with Kren. I saw it when we made love. It was always there in the pit of my stomach.

It was weaker, or perhaps it was only distant. I didn’t know what it was, but it was telling me to do something. I had no ideas of my own, so I ran with it.

It told me to place my hands on the invisible wall before me. I did. Then it said to close my eyes.

Focus.

Okay, that was weird.

Did I say that to myself or had something else?

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