I'd managed to calm myself down, but I hadn't been able to get any rest. Probably due to whatever Mrs. Greene had given me to induce sleep earlier. I sighed and got up making my way into Rafe's office.

I went around the desk and sat in his chair. I saw a pair of glasses folded up and sitting neatly next to the desk light. I smiled at them slightly, remembering the first time I'd gone into the room and seen him wearing them.

I turned away from the glasses though and started looking through the desk for the papers I wanted to see. I searched drawer after drawer until I turned to the cabinet behind me, searching through them as well. I finally found what I was looking for in only one I hadn't opened yet. Go figure.

I pulled the papers out, turned around and flipped the switch on the desk light, looking down at what I had.

They were the papers to remove someone from the pack.

Aphrodite's words, both real and the product of my over-active mind, had been wearing down on me. There was only one I knew would ensure her never being able to take anything from me. Her being revoked any pack status.

She had been right though, I couldn't do it on my own. These papers required signatures by both the Luna and the Alpha unless the pack is void of one. We weren't lacking an Alpha, he was just away at the moment.

I also knew why he hadn't kicked Aphrodite out of the pack earlier, and why he hadn't let me do it either. He cared for his pack. He didn't care for her necessarily, in fact every time he saw her he looked disgusted, I knew it was with himself as much as it was with her.

Rafe didn't abandon his people though, not unless they did something unspeakable. They were under his protection and he would do what he could to keep them safe.

I'd argued with him for quite a while over Aphrodite's membership in the pack after I'd come back. I'd even accused him of liking her, but I knew that wasn't true. I may not have had the bond anymore to test what he was feeling, but his feelings about here were as clear as if he were wearing them on his sleeve.

I groaned as I looked them over. What had happened today made me want to do this right then and there. I wanted to put her name down on those papers, I wanted to sign my own and I wanted her as far away from this territory as she could possibly be. It just wouldn't be legal unless Rafe signed them too, and I knew there was no way she would go anywhere unless it was legal and there was no chance of her getting back in.

I felt the instinctive need to protect though. My hand rubbed my belly again and the image of Aphrodite holding my baby burned in my mind. I wouldn't let her near my child, there was no way that would happen.

In the moment, I grabbed a pen and started filling out the papers, finally signing my name when I was finished. I didn't care, I was going to do this. It was something that needed to be done. I would just tell Rafe to sign them when he got back.

He's going to think I'm a complete nut job, I thought to myself. He would want to know where this had come from. While the tipping point had been her talking to me, my real fears stemmed from the dream I'd had, and I couldn't very well tell him that. I was going to have to come up with more damning evidence and reason why.

I looked down at my stomach-I could have sworn it was slightly bigger than it had been earlier. I found myself frowning because it seemed like I was racing against a clock. I was afraid that what I'd seen could have been a possible future for me and the life I'd built up, and if that were true, I didn't have much time to figure out what to do.

"Please slow down, little one. Just give mommy some more time, I really need it."

My words nearly stunned me. It was the first time I'd used them. I'd just called myself mommy. The feeling that spread through me with the words warmed me all over. I was going to be a mom, and for the first time I wasn't scared about it.

I thought I felt a slight movement inside, but I knew that couldn't happen. There was no way I would have felt anything yet.

"Mrs. Greene!" I hollered as I stood up and walked out of the office.

"Yes hear?" I heard her worried call back. I could hear her light clacking on the floors as she ran in my direction.

"Is it possible to get an ultrasound done?" I asked with a slight worried edge in my voice.

"Is something wrong? Is there something wrong with the baby?"

"I don't think so. I just thought I felt something move, but I-" I shook my head.

"That shouldn't be happening, you shouldn't be feeling anything like that." Her tone sounded even more worried than mine had before. Was it a bad sign that I felt something?

"Should I go into the room?"

"No, no. We don't have everything we need here for something like that. I need to take you to the office."

She pulled me after her, her hand rubbing my arm trying to soothe me. It only served to make me even more nervous.

"Please try to calm down. I can smell the worry coming off you."

"I don't think that's possible. You act as if emotions are something you can just turn on and off."

Mrs. Greene shot me an apologetic look. They'd all been telling me constantly to stop worrying and to stop stressing out, and I'd kept stressing the fact that those weren't really things I could control.

"I know dear. I'm sorry for everything you're going through, this is all incredibly difficult. You've gone through more than most. Alpha Granger and I just want what's best for you. He cares deeply about what happens to you, as do I, you are our Luna after all and we want to make sure you're healthy and safe."

"What about him though. Shouldn't you be making sure that he's healthy as well?" The words came out like a whisper. I could tell by the way she talked when she'd said his name that she was worried about him as well. She didn't just handle medical needs for me, but him as well. She knew as well as I did that things had started to change in Rafe, and that any moment it could start to get worse.

"Making sure you are healthy as well as that baby of yours will go a long ways in ensuring Rafe's health as well."

She sounded so sure of herself. I wondered if she truly believed that, or if she was forcing herself to.

We finally got to her office and she had me sit back. She got to work prepping for the ultrasound, and I started to feel the nerves wind up in me. I hoped that we wouldn't find anything wrong. I hoped that whatever it was I thought I'd felt was in my head.

Mrs. Greene started to smear the gel on my stomach and then moved the wand around.

Soon we saw something, it was barely visible, but it didn't quite look like a baby. It was more like a tiny blob inside me.

"There we are. Everything seems to look fine," Mrs. Greene said.

"So I shouldn't be feeling anything yet? Nothing's wrong with the baby and it shouldn't be moving?"

"From the looks of it, it's entirely possible," she said in an interested tone.

"How far along does it look like I am?"

"From this here, I'd say about somewhere between twenty and twenty-two weeks. You're five, almost six months along"

I rested my head back, looking at the ceiling. Almost six months, and it hadn't even been two full months yet.

"What's odd is that the baby doesn't seem to be growing at a consistent pace."

"What do you mean?" I asked, slightly worried.

"I mean he isn't growing at two times or three times the pace. It seems to change, probably by the day."

"So what does that mean for me and when this baby is going to come?"

"I honestly have no idea anymore. At this rate, he could come any time."

I opened my mouth to talk and then shut it as I registered everything she said. She'd said 'he' twice now.

"He?"

"Oh yes," she turned the monitor so I could see more clearly. "He's far enough along that we can tell he's a boy, pretty clearly too. There's no denying it," she said pointing to an area on the screen that most definitely, clearly showed that the baby was indeed a boy.

My hand covered my mouth and I felt tears at the corners of my eyes. I wished Rafe was there to see it, to see our baby. To see our son up there on that monitor.

"Are you okay, honey?" She asked sounding worried.

"I'm okay," I nodded. I cleared my throat to push the shaky sound of crying away.

"Oh dear. Rafe really should be here with you right now. Especially when we don't know when he's going to be ready to come out of there," she scolded.

It was the second time she'd referred to him as Rafe. I assumed she felt more confident in doing so when he wasn't around. Very few people dared to refer to him by his first name.

"He's on important business right now," I said sounding much stronger than I had before.

"Nonsense. There is nothing more important than your child."

I could have argued that. I thought that the fate of our entire pack was pretty important, what with all the families that lived here, especially when we were about to bring our own baby into it. Nolan and the other rogues were still out there, and I was fairly certain they had no intentions of backing down. They may scramble, but if anyone thought they were going to run away and give up for good, they were fools. They would no doubt come together again.

"I'm going to figure out how to get ahold of him and make sure he knows what's going on before I tell him to get his butt back here. You are free to go, Katarina, darling. Make sure you get rest like I told you."

She was already out the door so I didn't bother saying anything back. I just stared at the monitor screen which was now dark with a smile on my face. It quickly washed away though when I remembered the dream.

"No, I'm not going to let that get to me. It was a dream and nothing more," I said as I stood up and pulled my shirt back down.

There was no way I was going to let a dream rule my life and cause more anxiety for me. It wasn't going to happen.

I made my way back to the house, my hands never leaving my stomach. I started talking quietly as I rubbed it.

"I told you to slow down and give me more time, little one. This isn't slowing down. I think it's quite the opposite.

The path took me near the small play area where there were little kids running around, swinging on swings, going down slides. I watched them all giggle and play around.

"That's going to be you real soon at this rate," I said, watching for a little longer before I kept on my path back to the house. Now, after everything that had happened, I was exhausted.