what do

“I'm not going to cry,” she told him quietly, pulling together all her dignity. But she did lean against him, taking comfort in his presence. Had he sought her out? He clearly hadn't known that she was pregnant until he saw her, so if he had been looking for her - and not just coincidence that they met again - that meant he had been looking for her because he wanted to see her again. Right?


His questions confused her, though, and she pulled back to blink up at him in obvious puzzlement. Keep them? Of course she knew there were ways to rid a body of an unwanted pregnancy, healers sometimes had to make that sort of call when carrying a pregnancy to term would kill the patient and litter both - sometimes it was better in early pregnancy if they just quietly lost the litter. If it had not already been too late in the pregnancy, Harmony might have made the choice to do the same for her own litter because of the various risks associated with it. It had been a minor miracle that mother and litter had survived. So Peggy understood the implications of such a decision.


But for her, a healthy young female in the prime of childbearing years, in a pack that would take care of them and love them even if she herself by some twist of fate didn't survive the birth? It was unthinkable. “Of course I want to keep them,” she said blankly. “Don't… don't you?” she added tentatively. Her throat closed in dread st his answer. Surely he wouldn't want her to abort his pups…? It didn't fit with her image of the strong, kind warrior she thought, she knew, that he was. He was just thinking of her, not wanting her to go through it if she didn't really want pups.