Primal Desires by Susan Sizemore

Author:Susan Sizemore [Sizemore, Susan]
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fantasy, Vampires, Contemporary, Fiction, Love stories, General, Romance - Contemporary, Romance - Fantasy, Fiction - Romance, Romance - Paranormal, Paranormal, American Light Romantic Fiction, Occult fiction, Romance & Sagas, Romance: Gothic, Magicians
ISBN: 9781416513360
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2007-08-27T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-three

S id tried to think of something to say, but thankfully the office door opened and her mother came bustling in with Toni in her arms.

“Mommy!” Toni called. The toddler held her arms out to Eden.

“You do know she can walk?” Eden asked as she came to take her daughter. Her actions did nothing to prove this as she balanced the girl on her hip.

“I know you’re very busy, Eden,” Antonia said. “But I thought you could use a Mommy break.”

“You are so right,” Eden said, hugging Toni close. She began to stroke her daughter’s cheek.

Sid noticed the fond look David gave the women and child, which she thought was sweet. But she didn’t appreciate it when he put his hand on her shoulder.

She slipped away from his touch and approached her mother. She barely managed not to growl when David followed close behind her. Maybe she had been hanging out with werewolves too much.

“What’s Danny doing?” Toni asked, staring hard at the man seated behind Cathy’s desk. Oh, he’s time walking, the little girl added telepathically.

When Antonia winced, David put a hand comfortingly on her shoulder and said to Toni, “Use your out-loud voice, honey. You have quite a gifted child,” he said to Eden.

Antonia brightened with pride and grinned with anticipation. “You don’t know the half of it. Show Mommy, Toni.”

Toni obediently turned her head and bit her mother’s thumb.

Sid caught the sweet scent of blood as Eden shouted in pain and almost dropped her daughter.

But she held on, and so did Toni, suckling like any proper baby vampire. Eden started to pull her thumb out of Toni’s mouth, but after a moment she gave a contented sigh and let the girl draw small sips from the bite.

“Nothing as good as mother’s blood,” Antonia said.

Sid was totally confounded. “But Toni’s not—one of us.”

“She’s a daughter of the Clan,” Antonia stated firmly. “Lady Juanita and I have suspected she’d make the change, and when her baby teeth popped out this morning we were sure.”

“But how?” Sid asked. “Children born to mortals and Primes are always mortal themselves.”

“Not always,” Antonia said. “Why don’t you explain, Eden? Hunters understand the process, don’t they?”

“Yeah. But I never expected my own kid would be—”

“Explain!” Sid demanded.

“Most children born from any kind of vampire matings are male,” Eden said. “Vampire genetics are inherited strictly from the female side. So, a son born to a Prime and a mortal woman is going to be mortal.”

“There have been exceptions,” David said.

“Granted,” Eden said. “Maybe five or six sons of mortal matings have gone Prime in the history of the world, and they all had really funky powers, but the odds are astronomical for a male to turn vampire. Daughters of mortals and vampires can make the change, but only if the girl’s mother has a vampire somewhere in her own ancestry.”

“I’ve heard of mortal women who made the change when they were bonded to a Prime,” Sid said.

“But they still have to be descended from a vampire.

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