Swallowing His Pride by Serena Pettus

Author:Serena Pettus [Pettus, Serena]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Paranormal Erotic Romance, Shapeshifter
Publisher: Resplendence Publishing, LLC
Published: 2014-10-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Samantha had been all for a nice little nap, unfortunately her stomach was growling loud enough to wake the dead—or her anyway. Any other day, she would have ignored her grumbling belly in favor of a catnap, but with the baby to consider now, Sam figured she’d grab a light snack then crawl back into bed.

Peeking out the window, she’d seen the bed of the truck and Liam loading up some shovels and empty pots. She hadn’t slept that long, maybe thirty minutes at the most, so surely they hadn’t gotten around to cutting the limbs yet.

Trudging down the hallway, she’d picked up bits and pieces of the conversation between Lynn and Dylan in the kitchen. It was obvious they were talking about her, with the word “pregnancy” being tossed in with her name, but what was being said made no sense to her.

Dylan was insisting her pregnancy wouldn’t be normal because of a shift or something like that. He also wanted her to see another doctor, besides Lynn, so she would have a safe pregnancy and delivery.

Um, hello! Best friend with a medical degree, right here.

Just when she’d been about to waltz in and point that out to him, his next words had brought her to a jarring halt.

“Sorry. You need to keep in mind that, first off, our genes are dominant, and second, we are also feline. That means all children Samantha and I have will be shifters like me. With my genetics, they’ll also develop at the same rate that we do during pregnancy. Therefore, her term will last only twenty weeks instead of forty.”

Twenty weeks? And what the hell did he mean when he referred to himself as feline and a shifter? Did they know she was here and were just playing a joke on her?

Lynn caught sight of her, a look of fright crossing her face, and Sam felt her discomfort rise.

“How much did you hear?” That was Lynn, direct as ever, and oddly enough, she sounded nervous.

“Enough to know I need to hang around.” Turning her attention to Dylan, she asked, “Is there something—or a few things—you’d like to tell me?”

Looking rather sheepish, Dylan gestured to the table. “I guess we all need to sit down. I had hoped to wait until you were feeling better, since what I have to tell you may be a little hard to take in.”

“Well, you can start by explaining this whole ‘twenty weeks’ thing. The last time I checked, a pregnancy lasted forty.”

“For full-humans forty weeks is normal, but for my kind the term is significantly shorter.”

“So what? You expect me to believe you’re some kind of alien now?”

Lynn snickered behind her hand and made a show of trying to cover it with a cough. “Sorry,” she managed.

Dylan sighed. “No, I’m not an alien. Liam and I are shape-shifters.”

Samantha simply sat there. What the hell was she supposed to say to that? The father of her unborn child was claiming to be some mythical creature, and

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