Flashback: Seize him

"Your Highness, the crown princess is with child; she fainted due to exhaustion," the imperial said. At the same time, Luciana woke up, catching bits and pieces of his words. 

'No way, she wasn't pregnant,' she told herself. All this time, after trying several times with David, she never got pregnant; how was she going to believe she was pregnant after he stopped being intimate with her for about a year now? 

Almost immediately, her mind went to her one night with Nicholas, but she refused to believe it. 'This can't be happening,' she thought, and then her eyes widened in alarm. Her period! 

She calculated the date and realized she had had her period a month prior; could it be she was pregnant and still had her period? Her heart began to thump wildly in her chest. Would David take her baby away from her?