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“Get your stuff,” Nyfain barked “We need to move We’ve wasted too much time”

I could hear the seething anger writhing beneath his words

“What was I supposed to do, lose control of her and let her shift?” I de ood Looked like I’d be going commando

He didn’t corabdown at s His release h I hated the cleanup Woot the short end of the stick when it came to this stuff

I traest leaves available They’d have to do It would’ve been nice if he had sootten here in his dragon for the skin suit

“Are you drinking the tea to ward off pregnancy?” he asked gruffly, having noticed what I was doing

“I haven’t slept with anyone in a while So no It doesn’t h, does it? When I was first at the castle, Hadriel said you can only knock up your true mate, and true mates have to be the saood”

“The curse has many hidden features, and no one understands them all My father didn’t even understand them all He slipped into a brain fever shortly afterpreyed upon his Or so I was told I was not here at that tireat confusion after ret “It’s hard to knohat is fact and what is fiction Regardless, after the curse was laid, the exact details of whatever rave I was not strong enough by ” The de them with those who did not It literally stopped the if they attempted to speak of it “There could be hidden facets to the curse thatwith my child—”

A shock of eh the bond, cut off so quickly that I didn’t get a chance to figure out what it on was suddenly roiling and tearing within the bond, possibly trying to take the skin back

Strange tingles worked throughsoft heat unfurled withinsoftly and aching down deep She was responding to his adet me with child

Holy fuck, why the fuck was I feeling longing, too? Was I insane? Before hioing to fly solo This new change of pace was not welcome Not with him, at any rate Not with our setup and the obvious fact that we could never be together! I had enough proble me up

I shoved away the thought and let logic reign He was clearly just playing it safe, or possibly freaking out a little because he’d just banged after a long streak of celibacy Unlike the rest of the (very promiscuous) castle, he clearly hadn’t adjusted to the idea of his co to babies

It just didn’t stand to reason that he could knock up any old person He was part of the ic that affected the castle, and I knew fronant The women didn’t have their periods and the men’s swimmers didn’t work It would stand to reason that he would need a fated paring to beat the curse Soic

“When we get back to the castle,” he said, “I’ll have Hadriel give you the tea Take it all month, just in case I don’t intend to take any chances with you”

His hard stare said he wasn’t just talking about pregnancy anyet hi tea, but it had to be better than this rotten mood

His words before all that struck ret

The breath went out of me for what he must have suffered He’d lost his mother, someone he’d been close to, and then watched his father die, unable to help him I knew exactly the kind of stain that left on the soul We shared that bitter agony within our pasts