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"No, of course not!" He frowned "Well, I just assue you at some point, but I swear he didn’t tell me or I would have talked to you, I swear Madison, you kno much I care about you He told me afterwards when he asked me to help take care of you and feed you blood while he went after-"

"You fed me blood?" she shrieked

"Er, yes?" Chris licked his lips nervously

"Ohworse and worse!"

"That’s what you eat now I assumed you knew that," Chris said

She threw socks at the boy

"Chris, perhaps now isn’t the time to help," Ephraim said

"Well, I don’t knohy she’s mad at me! You’re the one who did this to her!" he snapped

"I hate you, Ephraiot that" He sat on the edge of the bed and dropped his head into his hands

"You should have asked me!"

"Why didn’t you ask her? I one easier for everyone concerned if you’d asked," Eric pointed out

"I panicked I wasn’t thinking straight when I did it I was so scared…I…I…just couldn’t think pastsure she and the baby were okay"

"Whoa, what do you e me? Why did you assume that?"

Eric ran a hand over his hair and sat down in the chair by the door "You’re pregnant with his child"

"So?"

"So, if it’s a Pyte in your wo you off for an abortion, you no longer have a choice The baby is set in your womb and protected You can’t have an abortion now"

"I don’t want an abortion! This is my baby and I wouldn’t hurt it!"

"Ours," Ephraioing to reject it?" he asked with a casual tone when inside he felt his heart tith dread

"Of course I’ll love my baby I don’t care what it is"

"You would have if it had turned out to be a natural vampire Then you wouldn’t have a choice I’d have a hundred Sentinels here to hold you dohile we took it out of you," Eric said matter-of-factly

Madison’s hand went to her stomach "You’d take my baby? Ephraim wouldn’t let you"

"Yes, I would If it had been a monster I would have done it myself A natural vampire doesn’t have the same protection a Pyte has" He looked up at her "Don’t worry our son is a Pyte They’ll leave him"

"Okay," she said slowly "The baby is a Pyte, everyone is happy so why did you do this to me?"

"Besides the fact that Caroline and every va to attack you and take you?"

She sed hard

"You will never survive the birth I had to change you to save you"