Cold Blood (The Godbearer Book 2) by L.C. Davis & Joel Abernathy

Author:L.C. Davis & Joel Abernathy [Davis, L.C. & Abernathy, Joel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-07-29T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter

Eleven

CHASE

The Red River pack territory wasn't that far from Winterhaven, but the drive felt long enough.

Sam was sitting in the backseat with Chase, rubbing his back and offering words of consolation every now and then. Chase put on a brave face for someone as prissy as he was, but I could tell he was in worse pain than he was letting on. Enough that it had altered his scent.

Usually, the tinge of pain and fear was something that made a person's blood even more alluring to a vampire. We were all sadists to one degree or another. There was still an instinctive part of me that found it appealing, but mostly, I was just concerned.

This was exactly what I had been afraid of happening ever since I had learned about the pregnancy, and for once, it wasn't an “I told you so” that I found enjoyable. Not with me knowing what was on the line.

Maybe now these other idiots would finally listen to reason. It was pretty clear Sam and Alex were both indulging some naïve little domestic fantasy about this thing that was growing inside Chase, but they were both too blind to see the truth. And the truth was that the most anomalous thing about this pregnancy wasn't that Chase was a cis male. It was the fact that he was human, more or less, and there was a reason why vampires and humans didn't breed.

Female vampires were all infertile, and the few humans who were impregnated by our kind rarely—if ever—lived to carry their offspring to term.

Dhampirs were, as nature herself had declared, an abomination.

Vampire-shifter hybrids were bad enough, but at least they were nearly as rare as dhampirs. Scarcity was the one good trait they possessed.

Chase being a human omega, more or less, might have made the pregnancy possible, but that didn't mean it was viable. The best possible outcome was that he miscarried before he was far enough along for it to do any real damage, but it was possibly already too late for that.

And considering the fact that Cyrus and the others had been running interference to keep me away from him for the last two months, I was holding them accountable.

When the time came, I already knew I would be the only one who had the balls to do what was necessary to save his life—and in turn, Ichor’s—and the sooner it happened, the easier it would be for everyone. Especially Chase.

If there was one silver lining to all this, it was the fact that it was my chance to finally get him to Matthew. It still remained to be seen whether my brother and the naïve idiots who followed him like the cult leader he was were going to see reason now that it was staring us all down.

I slowed to a stop in front of the gate surrounding the pack lands. I had already called ahead to let Matthew know we were coming, and he assured me that getting in wouldn't be a problem.

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