Bab 99: The Wolf's happiness is short lived

Xiao Zai couldn't make sense of the physician's words.  It was as if he could hear the sounds, and see the shapes the man's thin lips were making, but couldn't put it together into a coherent whole.

"I'm sorry, could you please say that again?"

The physician ran his thumb and forefinger over the thin moustache on his upper lip, clearly distressed. "I understand that this sounds unbelievable, but I can assure his Highness, with some degree of certainty, that his Grace is pregnant."

Xiao Zai's heart wrenched violently inside his chest, threatening to jump out of his throat. How could this be? He looked at Chu Yun's pale face, at the unnatural pallor of his features. Could it really be the result of pregnancy?

"He's an alpha...how is this possible."