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I took the key back as he said, “Yes, as I understand it”

“Then what is his deal? We obviously can’t be trueis probably a big cat Well, hopefully a big cat Being a tabby cat will be a bit e”

For all of us… ht

“If we don’t have the saons, I wouldn’t have been allowed to live So…”

Hadriel shrugged “I don’t know But he’s adaet that tea”

Nyfain didn’t show up that night I lay awake at about the tiest eer and fear and anxiety and self-loathing and regret and deterer was his dragon’s, over his sudden change of heart, but I couldn’t understand why he’d been so adaly

Was it so in his past that had set him off? Or maybe he had an irrational fear of fatherhood because of his probleo to extremes not to be like his dad

Or maybe…Hadriel hadn’t known the full extent of how the curse worked, like Nyfain had said

Tingles washed throughheavy in the sky I’d been right—it should be a couple days or so until I bled

If I bled

A storm of emotions accosted me Warmth seeped into my middle, and suddenly it was hard to breathe

You want this as ht in the equivalent of a soft tone As on does

No, I do not Are you crazy? It would be incredibly bad ti—to get with child right now A strange tickling of anticipation and longing quickened , de our very existence, and if the curse ends, the deht I can’t do that with a child in my belly

Ti aside, you want a child with the on and I do Admit it

I trailed ers across my flat stomach, and a tear bled out of ht sky Goddess smite me, I did Despite our differences in social status, our differences in upbringing, his horrible temper and bad er content with the thought of a solitary future I was no longer fine envisioning ot older The desire for a fa mate