VALERIA

My body was exhausted, not just physically but mentally as well.

Ever since I was tricked into fighting Aldric on that cliff, up until the moment everything around me fell apart, I had been tense and stressed, overthinking my options, fearing the future, not knowing how to survive in the present.

I don’t know where I am or what has happened.

My confused mind reconnects with reality, but something immediately comes to mind—I’m pregnant.

Scared, I shift my senses, checking my belly where