Liora paced around her room like a restless shadow. Three days had passed since that treacherous dinner with the man she had slept with that night.

Ashvin Grey.

His name kept winding its way through her thoughts. She remembered his gaze, the sharp line of his jaw, the subtle twist of his lips. After what Nadia had told her the previous night, fear had settled deep in her chest.

She couldn’t be pregnant. She simply could not.

Pregnancy was impossible. They hadn’t used protection, but she had tak