Caleb by Sarah McCarty

Author:Sarah McCarty
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-12-09T21:53:27+00:00

SHE wasn’t a fool. Her family thought her dead. Her vampirism made her into something she didn’t recognize, she might be pregnant, and all she had to cling to was Caleb, but she wasn’t a fool. She was a fish temporarily out of water, but even flopping around as she was, searching for her place, she could see the pluses and minuses of Caleb’s logic. The major plus being the baby’s father. There was nothing more solid than Caleb. No more cohesive a group than the Johnsons. However, a baby was going to change everything. Raise the stakes in whatever game the vampires and weres were playing. Raise them beyond petty back and forth or hostilities. Allie lifted her head from Caleb’s chest, ignored the stares of the men around her, and looked up at Caleb. “You are not going to be enough.”

“You’ve got my family, too.”

She shook her head. “Who have just declared they’re as big a threat as anything else.”

“That’s not true,” said Jared.

“What’s changed?” she asked.

“The possibility you might be pregnant.”

“According to Derek, that will just make things uglier.”

“Where we come from, family sticks together.”

“You’re talking pre-vampire days.”

Jared folded his hands across his chest. “Vampire or not, kin is kin.”

And that apparently was that as far as the Johnson brothers were concerned. She was beginning to appreciate their black-and-white view on some things. Her attempt to slide free of Caleb’s embrace got her nowhere. She glanced pointedly at his arm around her waist. “Do you mind?”

He shook his head. “Your hunger is returning.”

Like she didn’t know that. “That’s why I came back down here, to let you know.”

“And instead you ended up hearing what you shouldn’t have.”

“I’d say I came back just in time to hear what I needed to.” She pinched his arm, letting him know with her eyes that she could pinch harder if he didn’t see reason. “Let me go.”

“I’m feeling a bit protective right now, so you probably want to be humoring me.”

“This millennium protective, or eighteen sixties protective?”

His hand dropped to her stomach, cupping the flat surface. As light as his touch was, it didn’t diminish the depth of the emotion behind it.

“Definitely eighteen sixties.”

“Well, hell.” She let go of his arm. A pinch wasn’t going to get her around that. A glance around showed all the brothers looking at her with the same protect-with-their-lives intensity. “You realize I’m the same woman you were lusting after fifteen minutes ago, right? Nothing’s changed.”

The only satisfaction she got was an infinitesimal flick of their gazes from hers. A reflection of shame for the emotions they hadn’t been able to avoid feeling. From everyone except Derek. He was still arrogant and still amused.

“Sweet thing, if you don’t know that, for the brothers, everything’s changed, then you don’t know your men.”

“Nothing’s definite.”

“Sometimes potential means as much as reality.”

Again that subtle tension entered Caleb’s muscles as he asked, “But not for you?”

Derek shrugged. “I don’t have your upbringing. To me, her pregnancy just makes her more attractive.”

Caleb set her aside.

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