“You’re lying! You just don’t want to help me! You can’t stand to see me happy! I don’t need your help. I’ll find another way! You think you can beat me to it? You’ll never give birth before I do!”
She flung open the door and.stormed out.
1 hould only shake my head.
Everything I said was true. Pregnancy between species simply couldn’t be forced.
In my past life, the only reason I succeeded was because of the mermaid blood that flowed through my veins.
Back when war broke out, the merfolk refused to ally with humans and retreated into the ocean depths, cutting ties with the outside
world.
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My mother, still young and reckless at the time, had shapeshifted into human form and ventured onto land, where she fell in love with my father at first sight.
To stay with him, she severed her tall and transformed permanently into a human. It cost her dearly–she only had five years left to live. Before she died, she gave birth to me and sealed away my beastly nature.
Merfolk are naturally fertile. In my past life, I broke the seal on my beast blood to bear Jacob a child. It was a slow form of suicide.
Though I eventually succeeded in conceiving, my mermaid essence drained day by day… until my life ran out.
This time, I would never sacrifice myself so foolishly again.
I thought I’d made peace with the idea of never becoming pregnant in this life, until something unexpected happened.
Two months later, one night, Draco placed a hand on my belly and suddenly froze.
“Clarice,” he asked, “when was the last time you had your period?”
I stopped and thought carefully. It had indeed been almost two months.
My belly had only slightly rounded, so I just assumed I’d gained a little weight.
I stared at him, sidnned. “That can’t be. Can it?”
