The Everwake's handsome face instantly turned as white as a sheet.
A Swarm gland. It was meant to ensure a female wouldn't mate with another male before she conceived a child.
He had indeed done it with that intention at the time, but he hadn't considered that Evangeline was in heat. For a Swarm gland to block her system, even for a single day, could have been extremely dangerous.
'She could have died.'
The thought flooded his mind, and The Everwake unconsciously clenched his fists.
Or perhaps, it wasn't that he hadn't thought of it, but that he had deliberately ignored the dangerous possibility.
Abandoned by the Swarm as a child, he had left the Triangle Abyss and ended up a stray in the Oasis Tribe. He'd never had a single good day, never had anything to call his own. When Evangeline chose him, he thought he could finally escape his miserable life. He never imagined his real suffering would begin with her heat. He had lost his life in that cave.
