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“Well,” he picked up a book and flipped through it “According to this it h the whole first trimester”

“Ugh,” I groaned and then swished so up in ?”

Color flooded his pale cheeks “Well, I wanted to know I may be nearly seven hundred years old but that doesn’t ”

“Does that book even apply to vanancies?” I asked

“Well,” he put the book down, “they are pretty sio very differently”

“You know,” I started, sitting down on the bed, “you never have told erous?”

He sighed “It’s different because the baby is half vampire”

“Thank you captain obvious for enlightening me to that fact,” I said sarcastically

“It’s just that the child, even now, is strong Very strong By the tier than you Its skin will be hard like th that’s the problem Many times the child will rip itself out of the woht Danny and Mason’s birth was particularly brutal because there o of them I wasn’t there but Patrick has toldto have to see you go through that”

“But you’ll changewill be okay”

“Yes, I’ll change you… And then you’ll have to deal with that pain I don’t want to hurt you,” he hung his head, his shoulders slumped

“You could never hurt ainst his side He put his ar me even closer”

“I hope you’re right,” he breathed, his breath tickling my skin

“I’ht,” I scoffed

He laughed but the worried lines didn’t disappear from the corners of his eyes