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"Are you sure he wasn’t referring to two babies?"

"I" Yelena sed "I thought he meant me and the baby Can you see?"

"I can try"

She lay back down, and Valek slid his hand under her shirt, resting it on her warht the babyor babies But his poas taken froreater the drain He stopped "Sorry, love Guess we’ll have to find out the old-fashioned way"

"Easy for you to say," she th as well as size You’re even more protected froic?"

He chased the logic Excited, he turned to her "Do you think you could wake those under Bruns’s influence with a touch? The Cartel uses ic aouldn’t they wake up?"

Yelena gaped at him "I’m But Loris was able to control me"

"That was three o And even then, you said you were able to shake off his ic after a few hours"

"What about Cahil?"

"What about him? Did you touch hiht work"

And if it did, that ht just be the break they needed Valek snaked his hand up her stomach "This calls for a celebration" Desire purred in his voice

She grabbed his wrist and plucked his hand from her body "No You are to rest, recuperate and recover"

Right "If I follow your orders, will I get a reward?"

"Yes"

The future had just brightened even more

Five days later, Valek was finally declared healthy enough for travel He received his reward the night before they left

Breathless, and with their heartbeats in sync, they lay together Valek wondered aloud if their bedrooered the baby

"No Medic Mommy said we can have relations--those are her words, by the way, not e by then and probably reses I doubt that you’d even want to have relations"

He cupped her cheek "You are more beautiful to me today than yesterday Each day, when I think I can’t possibly love you anySo I’s, I will love and desire you"

She turned and kissed him on the palm "I love you, too"

He nuzzled her neck, then nibbled on her ear "Besides, turnips are etable"

"Am I supposed to melt in your arms after that comment?"

He pretended to be confused "Turnips don’t melt" Which earned him a hard smack on his arm "Ow" He rubbed his bicep