Father: A Dark Romance by Loki Renard

Author:Loki Renard [Renard, Loki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-06-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Bryn

Twenty-one years ago…

“Bryn! Open up! Please!” Ivy’s panicked voice draws me from my irrelevant pastime.

I go to my front door and wrench it open to greet my guest. I’d know her voice anywhere, of course, even muffled through several walls while I immerse myself in old tomes of liturgy.

Ivy is on my doorstep with tears in her eyes and a prominent bump beneath her sweater. Her hair is all fluffy and puffed up in the latest style, which is to look like a lion’s mane, I think. I’m not good at fashion, but I always notice absolutely everything about her. It is just after midnight and she must have driven three hours to come see me in one of the worst storms we’ve seen in years. I don’t bother to ask her if she is okay. It’s obvious that she isn’t.

“I’m pregnant, Bryn.”

“Yes,” I agree. “You are.”

This is not news. The announcement went out at least a month ago. We have all known that Ivy and Craig were going to produce some spawn since that time. It’s been the talk of the Brotherhood, mostly talk about all the angel blood, whether we can harvest it or not, and how we'll have to distill it because the outcross to Craig is going to dilute it.

I am little more than an apprentice in the Brotherhood. The youngest member and the hardest working. I am desperate to prove myself and move up the ranks. If I'd managed to do that earlier, I might not have been forced to watch the most beautiful woman in the world run into the arms of another.

Ivy is sensitive and sweet and carries a vulnerability about her that makes me worry for her. Her angel nature is not far from the surface. It needs to be protected. I know that my urge to protect her is just as strong as some other entities’ desire to harm her. Trapped in human flesh, she is one of the few direct manifestations of the divine that can be hurt.

“No. I mean, I’m pregnant again.”

“Can you be pregnant twice at the same time?”

I usher her inside, out of the rain. She’s shivering. Her eyes are shining with more than tears. I am concerned she has caught a fever. She certainly seems to be delirious.

“He’s going to kill me when he finds out. And he’s going to kill the babies too. He can't stand the idea of anything being inside me that's not his. He’s told me before, if I ever cheated, he’d kill us all.”

“What did you mate with, Ivy?”

“An angel,” she whispers. “At least, I think it was an angel. It might have been the opposite. He came to me in a revelation in the fog and I lay with him. I do not know his name. I do not know his mission. I submitted to him because it felt right, and then, when it was done…” She lets out a little sob. “It didn’t feel right anymore.”

“How do you

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