Issahil

He was carrying everything we had bought, including the dresses and when I offered to help carry some, he refused.

We moved to a stretch of brick-moulded chairs by the roadside and sat down, and then I dug into the fishcakes, consuming it hungrily. 

My appetite seemed to have returned since eating the broth Alpha Matthias had brought for me the previous day. I had eaten a hearty breakfast that morning before we left and it wasn't even noon yet I was famished. I knew it was the baby's doing. 

Alpha Matthias just sat down quietly beside me but I could feel his gaze on me, watching me. Slightly...