~ SASHA ~
Sasha took a moment to meet eyes with every man in the room, then she threw her hail mary.
"You need me," she said to Nathan quietly. "You need me, and you need Zev. You need us healthy and productive. You need us not only physically close, but emotionally—you need that bond to do its work. You've already seen in the past three years that no amount of interference or planning is going to have the same affect as the Chimeran bond.
"I'm not pregnant," she said firmly. "But I'm under extreme stress, shock, and fear. I'm angry, and my whole body is running on adrenaline. As long as that's the case, it's going to mess up my cycle—and even if you gave me medications to force all that, you can't force me to get pregnant. I can't force my body to do that, either. That's only one part of this that you have no control over.
