Dragon's Fire by Abby Blake

Author:Abby Blake [Blake, Abby]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781619267077
Amazon: B00885S1U0
Publisher: Siren Publishing
Published: 2012-05-30T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Ava grabbed the biggest coffee mug she could find and headed for the delicious-smelling caffeine hit, but just like the past three days, her stomach rebelled. She stepped back, trying to control the nausea that threatened to empty her already empty stomach.

“Still feeling off?” Brody asked with obvious concern.

“Probably just a stomach bug.” She knew she was possibly lying, but she wasn’t quite ready to voice her suspicion out loud—not even to herself.

Yet Nathan had no such restraint. “Maybe you’re pregnant. My sister went off coffee every baby.” He actually seemed more excited than freaked out, but Ava couldn’t quite convince herself that now was good timing. Love took time to grow, time to develop into something permanent, something stable, something more solid than the “getting to know you” part of a relationship. Despite how close she felt to both these men, and even as appealing as it was to have a family with these guys sometime in the far off future, she found herself looking for reasons on why she couldn’t possibly be pregnant.

“We’ve been using condoms,” she said reasonably. Well Brody hadn’t been, but since he wasn’t compatible in a reproductive sense, that didn’t really count.

“Condoms fail,” Brody said with a grin as broad as the one Nathan was wearing. Hell. Apparently she was the only one who could see the problems they would face by becoming pregnant this early in their relationship.

“That’s right,” Nathan said excitedly. “It says so right on the box. And there was that first time. We didn’t use a condom then.”

Ava rolled her eyes. She clearly remembered that night, and even though Nathan had been inside her, he hadn’t actually come inside her. Of course, it took only one sperm to make a baby and there were usually of few of them in the pre-cum—more than a few of them if she remembered high school sex ed. She almost laughed out loud when she recalled that particular warning in the same pitch and tone of the teacher who’d taught the class. He’d droned on and on in a hypnotic, monotone voice that surely meant his students slept through most of his class. But still even she’d been awake for that warning.

Could she be that…lucky?

A small bubble of excitement curled through her, the thought not fully formed, the worry set aside for another day. What if she were pregnant? Nathan and Brody seemed more than happy for them to start a family now.

Brody pulled her into his embrace, kissed her soundly and then said one word—drugstore. He walked into the backyard, opened a jump vortex, and stepped through.

Nathan took her in his arms, squeezing her tight, almost bouncing with excitement. It was very premature to be this enthusiastic, but that “knowing” skill that she seemed to have developed kicked in again, and she suddenly knew without a doubt that she was pregnant.

She was about to share what she “knew” when the truth of her baby’s parentage slammed her, and she wobbled at the knees.

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