Chapter 61 You Are Pregnant

• Anastasia
• It began the same way it always did—quietly. A pinch in my stomach. The now-familiar coil of nausea twisting low in my gut like a question waiting for an answer I didn’t want to find. I woke before the others. Not because I needed to, but because sleep had long since become a stranger I didn’t trust.
• The palace was silent at this hour. The corridors are empty. But inside me, a storm was growing—quiet but relentless.