How..

"I um... I don't go into heat.. where I'm from, females usually can try anytime to conceive... except for a few days each full moon cycle."

She tried to explain, honestly she did, but her mates would probably just see her as a holy grail of baby making if they realized she could have multiple pregnancies in a year.

And wait.. she was pregnant? What?

"How? We only mated last night... Ibris.. how can you tell if I am pregnant with your cubs?"

She felt queasy just thinking about it. Motherhood at the age of eighteen did not sound like a walk in the park. Aki didn't even notice the small marking below her navel until Naja traced it with his cold fingertip. Her blue eyes stared down at the mark questioning its existnece wholely.