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"I knohat you’re thinking, Sol, but get it out of your head Vincent has no idea where Avery is She’s safe fro for trouble" Curry knowslooking for trouble" I won’t be the one with a proble to introduce that bastard to his true death"

"Stop and think about this before acting out irrationally," Curry says I’ of my safety but he above anyone else should understand ive it the same amount of consideration he did when he h Marsala’s chest "There’s nothing irrational about wanting to protect ápe Didn’t you do the saer to my wife and children"

I’e card and make my relationship with Avery seem less important because he has chosen to observe a mundane tradition "So Avery deserves less protection because we aren’t joined inhis hands up defensively "I would never suggest that Avery deserves less I’ to stop until she killed Chansey so she could have me and the babies My only choice was to kill her"

He only had to think about this for one second to understand my predicament "So please understand that I have no choice but to kill Vincent because he won’t stop looking for Avery until he has her back in his clutches You have no idea the torture she suffered by his hand I know everything she endured and trust me The world would be a better place without hiree that he needs to die but I tend to side with Curry on the issue She is safe from Vincent for now so you have to leave it alone It’s too risky He and a large number of vaine what o well" I’m a little hurt to hear Sebastian adápe to consider You can’t protect her if Vincent kills you"

I’ when I consider Avery’s fate if things didn’t end well forof protection I’ when you coht of birth control couldn’t have been further fro proof of as possible between a va we talked about or planned so the thought never crossed our"I have two little results of what happens when it doesn’t cross your mind and now you could as well"

Our circumstances were different "There wasn’t an eclipse"

Curry shrugs "Who says there has to be? We don’t know that for certain That was only a guess"

I’ out there I can come up with "Chansey conceived because you became more human than vampire"

"And you think you aren’t? What about your days and nights beingfor a while Have you tried to walk in the sun?"

Curry’s out of his mind if he thinks I’d be so foolish to atteain "No way I haven’t had a reason to try that again I alotten" I still can’t believe I was foolish enough to think Chansey’s friend Shelby could be ápe

"You didn’t have Avery in your life then," Curry argues

His arguápe "But you were able to walk in sunlight froestures for Sebastian to take the floor "I wasn’t able to tolerate the sun until Ella became a presence in my life I think we each have our own circuápe didn’t beco when she died It’s very possible she could have been expecting when she fell froht that has plagued Sebastian’s nancy was a possibility

Now I’m anxious and want to know this second–which is i will it be before Avery and I will know if she’s pregnant?"

"Chansey was a couple of nancy but I’ured it out sooner had we known it was a possibility You at least have that luxury"

Okay So ait and see if her cycle is late If it is, she takes a pregnancy test and we’ll know

Chapter Eight

I’ the hall toward Avery’s bedrooap between us Her scent becoer Her presence within me is more pronounced She’s anxious–so –but I don’t have to guess why She’s dying to know the verdict–if she’s ápe or not

Before I’m able to knock, she opens her bedroole word but she knows the truth siápe and I am her intended

She steps closer and places one of her hands against my face I close my eyes and lean into her palm I crave her warm touch–because it soothes me–and she strokes her thumb over ainst h of relief with my confirmation I know that’s what it is because I feel her rapid decline of anxiety But it’s not coone Can she sense the fear I have about a potential pregnancy? I’ of these shared emotions yet