“Well then, how in the hell did she link to them? She shouldn’t be able to link to them…Ahhhhh…” Keifer said, looking from Declan’s eyes to me, and then moving his eyes down until his gaze settled on my belly. “Fuck me.”
“What? What is it?” I asked in growing concern.
I could feel a tingle in my brain that I usually felt when Declan and Keifer were mind speaking without me, and I looked in between the both of them before finally Keifer spoke.
“Everybody,” Keifer ordered crisply. “Give us a moment.”
I watched in surprise as every single one of them listened.
Not one of them complained that they’d just been ordered inside. Not even Ian or Farrow the Thundercloud.
“Keifer, what the ever loving…Eeek! What’re you doing?” I asked when his hands suddenly went under my shirt to settle on my lower belly.
“You’re pregnant,” he stated suddenly, moving as close as the dragons at my side would allow him to.
I opened and closed my mouth several times, finally settling on, “I most certainly am not!”
The outrage was even evident to the dragons, who looked up at me with stars in their eyes.
“Declan smelled it on you…you are,” he explained.
“Well, his sniffer is wrong,” I crossed my arms accusingly. “You’re wrong!” I snapped to the big beast lying on his side, sunning his belly.
Am not, slithered through my brain.
Lying dragon.
If you don’t believe me, go pee on a rabbit.
I blinked quickly.
“Why would I pee on a rabbit?” I asked Keifer in confusion.
Keifer snorted.
“That’s how they used to tell if you were pregnant before pregnancy tests. Injecting a rabbit with a female’s urine. If she were pregnant, the rabbit would die,” Keifer explained, his hands going to my flat belly with the utmost care.
I slapped his hands, but he stayed where he was, closing his eyes like he was concentrating.
“What are you doing?” I asked frantically.
He smiled. “Looking for an energy trace.”
I blinked, startled.
“You can do that?” I asked.
He nodded. “Sometimes. I’ve got to borrow energy from my brother to do it, though.”
I tilted my head. “You can do that?”
He grinned.
“Yeah. Did I forget to tell you that?” He teased.
I shook my head.
The man had been toying with me, I could tell.
As if he wasn’t already strong enough, now I find out that, if he is in need of more power, all he has to do is call on his brothers and poof!
More power!
The sex we’d shared on the floor of his office had been wonderful, don’t get me wrong, but it was also a bone of contention with us.
I wasn’t really fond of feeling powerless, and I’d asked him to help me not be powerless.
Which was when he’d started teaching me all that he knew.
Except I’d found that Keifer wasn’t the best of teachers, and I wasn’t the best of students.
We were more like the popular kid and the nerd in high school.
One really wanted to learn, and the other was there to have fun.
Keifer proved to be more of the latter part.
Which was why he’d pulled Juno up from the Alabama sanctuary and designated him with the task of teaching me.
“Keifer, I’m on birth control, and have been for six years now. I’ve even been getting my period! I got it two weeks ago!” I told him. “That’s not possible to know yet—even if I were to admit that there might be a possibility.”
His eyes found mine and he grinned.
Then I felt power wash through me.
Keifer’s power.
But also a little bit of Nikolai as well.
How I knew it was some of Nikolai’s, I didn’t know.
It smelled like him mostly.
Or maybe felt like him.
I’d come to know Nikolai really well over the last month.
He’d joined in in teaching me the ropes, much less enthusiastically than Keifer, but he’d done it nonetheless.
“There it is,” Keifer breathed, eyes going wide in wonder.
And that feeling, the one telling me I was wrong and my argument no longer held ground, started to course through me.
There’s not a worse feeling than to know you’ve lost the argument while still having the argument.
And the moment I saw Keifer’s eyes, I knew.
I was pregnant.
Despite the fact that I’d been on the pill.
Despite the fact that I took it so religiously.
Despite the fact that I’d just had my period.
I was one hundred percent pregnant, and I had no one to blame but myself and my horniness.
Fuck.Chapter 13
Fuck the extra bedroom for people to stay in when they visit. I want a moat with water dragons that keeps those fuckers away.-Text from Blythe to BrooklynKeifer
She’s fine.
I turned my scowl to Declan.
“How do you know?” I snapped snottily.
I was well aware that I was acting like a child.
Hell, I knew she’d be mad if she knew I was out here.
I was mad at myself.
It was just that it hurt if I wasn’t near her.
My fingers ached to hold her.