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She started down the hall, and Wraith fell into step beside her, his silence both surprising and oddly coh, Shade was there instead of Lore Shade pushed hiainst "Where’s Con?" Why was everyone so freaking curious about him? She wanted to scream at them to shut up, but the moment she let loose, the orks would start and all those emotions Con had wanted her to feel would lay her flat "Not important," she said crisply "What’s up with the vaccine?"
"Initial iun," Eidolon said from behind his desk "A lot sooner than I expected So far, the two males I vaccinated and then exposed to the virus are fine"
"You actually got volunteers for that?"
"Heh Volunteers Funny" Wraith’s grin was pure evil "They were both on Carceris death row By volunteering for the testing, they got their sentences reduced to life in prison" Personally, Sin would rather have death, but whatever The fact that death row in a Carceris jail lasted only a week probably scared the poor bastards enough to make them volunteer Well, that and the fact that the Carceris’s main means of execution was to toss the victim into a pit as bait for the hellhounds
If you were lucky, they only tore you apart If you weren’t lucky, and they were horny… She shuddered Little frightened her asthat the souls of evil huot to spend a lot of time in the pits with the beasts She’d always loved the whole an-eye-for-an-eye thing
Shade shoved a stick of gum in his mouth "Nohat happened with Con? Raynor said--" The only thing I’ve ever wanted from you is sex and blood Dammit She didn’t want to talk about it And yet, her mouth opened up and words ca back finally erupted, but she dashed them away before Eidolon could hand her a tissue "He tried this… bond thing--"
"What do you enerated into a dark ruet the assassin ring off so I could go to…" Con She’d done it, in part, so she could be with hihtened around her chest,it hard to breathe
A snarl from behind her startled her "I’ll kill hium wrapper into the trash "I’ll help"
"We’ll ht," Eidolon drawled, his voice calm, cool, and serious as shit
Gold flecks peppered the blue of Wraith’s eyes, and he flicked his tongue over the point of one fang "I told you I won’t let anyone fk with my family, Sin" At the ti that he didn’t want her fking with his family And now… she was the family "Don’t Please" Soet"
They stared at each other in silence for a while, and then Eidolon cleared his throat "I discovered how you came into existence"
It was an abrupt shift of subject, but a welcoing, Eidolon leaned back in his chair and steepled his fingers over his chest In the short time she’d known hiearing up for a medical lecture
"You told me your mother used a demon herb to attempt an abortion," he said "The most common plant used for that purpose is skullwort, but it’s ested by most demon species, the mother’s body becomes hostile to the fetuses But in a huthened the de them And because it’s a demon chemical compound, it reacted… badly… with your huested the herb immediately after conception, and likely a couple of times after that The herb is loaded with horene development that should have turned you into a male"
Retarded Nice "So if Lore and I shared the same womb, ould it affect me and not hienes that are susceptible--or not--to different things Saive birth to one tith fetal alcohol syndrome, while the other has no sy forward in his chair again "There’s so else Unlike Lore, you’re not sterile"
She blinked "Then why haven’t I gotten knocked up, like, a million times by now?" "Because you don’t ovulate, but you do have viable eggs You can have a fah an in vitro procedure" "That’s not going to happen" Not only did she not want kids, but ould she have them with? No one but Con had ever wanted to be with her She’d never wanted to be with anyone but him And in the end, he’d rejected her Left her, the way he’d said he wouldn’t do
God, how could she hate sory flush settled over her skin, and she knew she was going to burst into tears again
"I have to go" She leaped to her feet,motion with her hand when her brothers tried to stop her She needed to be alone Like she’d always been Sin hightailed it through UG’s halls as fast as she could without looking like a coency departate was, that she realized she had nowhere to go