Heir of Night by Emily Goodwin

Author:Emily Goodwin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Emily Goodwin

Chapter 25

A nurse who’s not Cassandra comes into the room, looking at the machine with a bit of confusion on her face. Oh, right. I cast a silence spell on this room. She could see the alert from the nurses’ station but couldn’t hear the alarm until she crossed the barrier and came into the room with us. She silences the alarm and looks at the screen for a moment.

“Is my daughter all right?” Lucas asks, brows furrowed. The young nurse looks from the screen to him, visibly taken aback by everything that Lucas is: attractive, intimidating, and giving off ancient dark energy nons wouldn’t be able to place but are both scared of and drawn to at the same time.

“Ummmm,” she starts and squirts hand sanitizer onto her hands, quickly rubbing it in before coming over to me. “Let me adjust this first.” She moves one of the monitors strapped around my stomach and helps me move more onto my side. Her face relaxes when she looks back at the monitor. “Baby’s heart rate is back to normal. The monitors slip out of place rather easily.”

“Thank you,” I tell her.

“Of course.” She watches the screen for a moment, making sure things are still good, and then goes back to whatever she was on her way to do.

“Fuck,” I say under my breath and put a hand on the side of my stomach, careful not to move the monitors. My skin feels so fucking tight, like it’s super dry and sunburned at the same time.

“You need to seriously consider bedrest when we get home.” Lucas paces from my side to the monitor, looking at it as if he knows what any of it means. “You might not have ended up here tonight if you went on bedrest when Maryellen first suggested it.”

“You’re blaming me for this?”

“Of course not.”

“But you said it,” I snap. “You said it so you must be thinking it. It’s my fault I’ve been feeling weird pains and now have high blood pressure.”

“Weird pains? You said you were fine.”

“I’m not feeling any pain now. And fine, Lucas. Lock me up in a tall tower, away from everything bad, and you will be the one to explain to our daughter why she was born into an apocalypse. You will be the one to tell her you kept the only person who could have stopped the Horsemen—”

“It doesn’t have to be you!” Lucas throws his hands out in frustration. “The weight of the world doesn’t fall only on your shoulders.”

“I wish that wasn’t true.” I say each word slowly, fighting to quell the anger inside me so I don’t blow up the monitor. “But we both know it has to be me. I’m the only who stands a fighting chance against them, and I’m the only one who can open and close the gates to get them back in.”

“No, you’re not!” He picks up the chair and throws it against the wall, shattering it into a dozen little pieces and denting the wall.

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