Vampires Prefer Blondes (Psy-Vamp Book 3) by Lawson Cassandra

Author:Lawson, Cassandra [Lawson, Cassandra]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2014-07-14T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Lydia found it impossible to follow all of Sofia’s endless chatter. The woman was a hoot! Nice person? Nope, Sofia was a royal bitch. Still, Lydia liked her. On their walk Lydia noticed that the rose bushes needed some attention. Sofia didn’t seem surprised at all when Lydia set down her basket of gardening tools and started trimming and cooing at one of the rose bushes. Well, the fact that they’d brought a basket of gardening tools was probably a warning of what was coming.

“Most of the mothers were real bitches,” Sofia continued her rant. “Stupid girls thought they were going to gain some position in the house because they were able to give my husband a child. How could they not realize that the baby would be passed off as mine? Every time one of them got far enough along to show, we were both sent out of the area. There were some advantages for me. Ursula cared for the babies with a wet nurse after the birth and I was free for at least a year. Well, mostly free. My husband visited me. Who knows if he did it because it was the thing to do or if he just enjoyed taunting me? Likely it was the latter.”

“Were any of them your children?” Lydia looked up at Sofia when she asked the question.

Sofia shook her head. “The first baby is the one I carried the longest. I’m pretty sure I was close to full‑term when I had him. He never took a breath.” She let out a sad sigh but seemed to quickly recover from that moment of sadness. “I was eleven for that first pregnancy.”

“That man should be stabbed in the balls,” Lydia muttered.

“Roman killed him,” Sofia said, and Lydia heard the smile in the other woman’s voice. “Put a knife in his throat.”

“Balls would have been better,” Lydia said.

“I agree. Actually, I wish I’d been the one to kill my husband. The first pregnancy was when my hair grew this long. There are many days when I’m a little jealous of women with short hair.”

Lydia nodded, knowing an attempt to change the subject. “I cut it short right before I shower. Roman keeps warning me that I’ll end up needing more energy if I keep doing it. So far, I’m just eating more food.”

“I’d never thought about cutting it before showers,” Sofia said. “It feels like it takes hours to get it clean and dried.” A somber expression came onto Sofia’s lovely face. “Ursula got pregnant shortly after my baby died. My emotions were torn between jealousy and hope that my husband would replace me. Instead of replacing me, my husband expected me to be a mother to Ursula’s son. I hated Roman at first. Actually, I hated him for many years. None of it was his fault, but he was a reminder of the child I had lost. He was a reminder of the child I mourned alone.”

“Don’t stress. Most people would struggle with that situation.

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