Page 112 of Eclipse Sector
I went into heat. That much is clear.
I just had no ideahowI went into heat.
Nine days ago, I marveled, sifting through various snippets of sex while trying to pinpoint the origin of my estrus.Were there hints I missed? Some sort of…My thought trailed off as I recalled sinking my teeth into Cillian’s lip.Oh, no…
I’d claimed him.
I’d… I’d made himmine.
Except it wasn’t complete.
He didn’t bite me back, I realized in the next beat.This can still be undone.
Cillian shifted behind me, his mouth leaving my ear as he pulled away slightly. I nearly rolled with him, my body naturally drawn to his, but I couldn’t move.
Because our mating wasn’t complete.
He hadn’t claimed me as his.
If another Alpha knots me,I started thinking, only to squash the thought before I could finish it. Just the notion of taking another Alpha’s knot had me sick to my stomach.
Cillian was the only Alpha I desired, the only Alpha I could ever mate.
But he didn’t claim me… our mating isn’t permanent.
A wave of nausea hit me in the gut, some of it inspired by the realization pelting my mind and some of it caused by…
My eyes flew open. “I’m pregnant,” I breathed, my throat raspy with the words.Oh, stars…
I’d bitten Cillian.
He’d fucked me through my heat.
Didn’t claim me back.
Yet left a… achildin my womb.
“There wasn’t time for birth control,” he told me, a hint of remorse in his voice.
That remorse nearly undid me—because it suggested regret.
Which made sense.
What was it he’d said to me? About his father?
“I made a vow to myself over a thousand years ago to never take a mate. To never be my father. To ensure his line ended… with me.”
I swallowed, his words clear as day in my head.
He’d vowed to never have children, to never take amate.
Yet I’d bitten him.
I’d forced myself upon him.
Why?I wondered now, my head spinning.Why did…?The question trailed off in my mind as I recalled some of what Cillian had said about not being able to control his animal if we fucked, how he would bite me.But he… he didn’t. Why didn’t he…?
Cillian sighed behind me, the sound hurting my heart. “I’m sorry, Ivana.”
