"What?" Violet blurted out in her head, alerting Asher and Alaric immediately. They stirred through the bond.
"Violet? What is going on in there? Should we come in?" Alaric asked, urgency clear in his voice.
Asher snarled in her head. "If that thing that returned as your mother lays a hand on you, I'm going to murder her."
Violet didn't answer, dumbfounded.
She said to her mother, "How did you know that?"
Seraphira gave her a long-suffering look. "Have you forgotten I see auras? And right now…" Her purple eyes glowed faintly, focused on Violet's stomach. "There's a tiny blotch of aura in your belly that wasn't there before. If that isn't pregnancy, then tell me, did you swallow a soul?" she finished sarcastically.
"But how?" The words fell from Violet's lips as if she didn't know how a baby was made. Unfortunately, Violet Purple was in a state of massive shock.
