Chapter 58 CONVENIENT LIES
Celestia's POV
The pack house was a buzz with activity, everywhere and anywhere I went everyone kept talking about Medea's pregnancy. It was a topic passed from 1 mile to another but I couldn't get over what I had overheard between her and Eclipse a while back.
I decided to do some personal digging, the servants' King at the park house now cared more about their salary than loyalty, all I had to do was moisten a few of their fingers with cash, and they instantly began to spill out the truth I carefully soaped with about 5 to 7 maids to make sure that I wasn't being deceived.
And when I collected everything that I was told they seemed to mostly prefer rather than contradict.
Altogether what they told me was that over the last 5 years Raphael and medea had become of herbs that we meant to improve a woman's fertility surprisingly enough or rather not so Raphael didn't get tested to see if the fault was coming from him it was the same when we were trying for a child as well he would stomp around and insist that if the issue wasn't with me then there wasn't an issue at all.
Clearly there was an issue now but as far as anyone knows madea happens to be pregnant and who could have imagined that it's just had to be in the most convenient time possible when she was supposed to answer for being disrespectful to me she just had to collapse then and find out she was pregnant now that's was either one of the most convenience coincidence known to man or with what I had gathered from how conversation with her sister she was possibly lying.
I brought this new piece of information to Lucian and we spent most of the night talking about it and how to deal with it.
"Instead of beating around the bush, why don't we just force her to take a pregnancy test?" Lucian suggested along the line of the conversation but I had to shake my head at that.
"In that case, it would be our word against hers, and there is no way we can actually force her to take a pregnancy test. It would manage to cast some doubts on her but if there is even the slimmest chance that she is pregnant then it would be seen as an attack not on her alone but the entire Brazen because if she really is pregnant then that child is a potential heir to the alpha title, "
I spoke with ease but my mind was another thing it spiraled with a million and one thoughts.
When my baby boy was the only child and his son as well his position was secured in the park whether Medea liked it or not but now that she could be carrying a child of her own what would that mean for Asher my son?
No longer would he become a soul air but the biggest threat to her and an unborn child with alpha blood.
I could see her and her sister eclipse doing something crude and evil even to a child but for now, I wanted to believe I had the time even though it was scanty, it would be all too convenient if something happened to my son now while she was supposedly pregnant too many fingers would point in her direction.
We kept talking for a long while until we could no longer resist nature anymore, the urge to slumber coming in stronger and stronger waves until it was flooding our bodies and whisking us away.
As it had been for every other night that we arrived at Brazen Park he had his hand securely wrapped around my waist my heart skipped a bit the first time he placed it there it's hard because almost casual between us but we knew there was nothing there it was just a precautionary deed done to make sure that in case we were ever and ambushed in our sleep we wouldn't be found looking less like a couple.
Though as time passed and his hold got tighter I began to feel like that was just a flimsy excuse we made for ourselves.
I was still awake in his arms when he suddenly got up from the bed. His phone was ringing, he had been unusually close to it these days.
His eyes swerved towards me but I remained perfectly still as if I was truly asleep. I heard his footsteps leading towards the balcony. He spoke in a host voice that made it hard to make out anything that he was saying but I was able to capture some of the words.
"No...no... I'm not telling her anything about this she can't find out..."
"She doesn't need to know..."
"Maybe I might tell her but I probably won't..."
My curiosity was getting the better of me, I wanted to listen better but I restrained myself from doing so in order not to be exposed however when he came back I noticed that he was looking at me a little longer than necessary finally his muscles seemed to relax he lay next to me, his arm propped over my waist again.
In the best of my ability I tried to control my racing heart so he wouldn't notice it and later draw of the conclusion that I was actually listening in on his conversation but it was hard to keep everything back and bottle it inside I wanted to set up at that very moment and ask him about his conversation I wanted to know what secret was being kept away from me.
There were no specifics and it was probably a misunderstanding but I remember the last time I allowed a man to get so entangled in my life and when the red flags came I waved them all up as misunderstandings.
But not this time whatever the secret is I was going to get to the bottom of it.