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"You are," she finally whispered "This baby is yours"

This baby is yours

Jesus Luc fell back, nearly tue of the pallet Son of a bitch! He’d been so careful in his life, had always chosen bedmates that weren’t even close to their season And if his partner was of a species that didn’t have "seasons," he could still sense fertility, could tell when any fe But for some reason he hadn’t known Kar had been fertile when they’d fked like animals for that half hour

"How?" he asked, his voice shot all to hell "I would have sensed your fertility"

"My periods stopped when I was turned I thought I was infertile It wasn’t until after I becanancy are randoreat"

"Fuck you" Kar scra the blanket to wrap around herself "It’s not like I did this on purpose" No, she probably hadn’t And he kneas being an ass, but she’d blindsided hi but an ass He stood, and she shrank away fro to strike her, and he realized how insanely furious he must appear He carefully schooled his expression and concentrated on keeping his voice level

"The baby is why you’re really here, isn’t it? It has nothing to do with the epidemic" "No, I’m here because of SF I’m afraid for my child, and you do work at Underworld General" She took a ragged breath, and he realized she looked paler than she should "And after The Aegis found out about me, I needed help, and you were my best hope"

He narrowed his eyes at her "Is that why you didn’t attack ht her behavior was odd, but noas nant females don’t usually try to rip apart their cubs’ father"

Father Turning away, he jah his hair, over and over "Fuck," he breathed "Just… fk" "That’s what got htened the blanket around her evencould protect her "Look, I didn’t mean to cause you trouble If you’ll let hts of the newaround or I’ll kill wargs"

Leave? Man, he , but it was, and no as she taking off with his kid

Yeah, because he was great father rabbed his jeans off the floor where he’d left them when he’d stripped down He’d known she’d wake up with postshift lust, and truth be told, her desire had affected him, too In the basement’s cramped space, he’d been overpowered by the scent of a fe his services

"You’re not going anywhere," he said, stepping into his pants

"Excuse me?"

"Just what I said" He threw on his flannel shirt "Were you planning on telling is hadn’t discovered your secret, would you have hunted ht in her eyes was answer enough

"You weren’t going to tell rowled

"Oh, please," she scoffed "Don’t play the injured party here You black you, and afterward, you walked aithout looking back You didn’t even ask me my name" That was because he’d heard another Guardian say her name, so he knew it… but yeah, he had been a little on the silent side "What, did you want o out on a date? Because you didn’t ask ive one before I even found my underwear You certainly didn’t bother to turn around and say sonant, I’d like to know’ "

"Well, now I know"

"And? You going to marry me?" Venomous sarcasm laced every word "Move e? A nursery? What he was going to do was break out in hives He hadn’t let hi like that until Ula, and when she was killed, so was his desire for a family He’d turned vicious that day, had never clawed his way up froer

"Yeah," she said bitterly "That’s what I thought I told you because I need help But I don’t expect anything else fro it anywhere" "See," she spat "This is exactly what I didn’t want to happen A child is not property Just because it’s yours doesn’t make you a parent My father treatedbut a successor for hiis, and I will never allow my child to be raised like that It’s better to have no father than a bad one"

She’d spoken of her father earlier, but not with the same resentfulness, and suspicion bloois found out about you"