stick… it had three lines.
Shit. Oh, shit. It had just been one pill!
How was this possible?
“Skye?” Charity called and tapped on the door. “You okay?”
I unlocked the door and peered out at her. “No, can you come in here?”
She bustled in, her hips filling up half the bathroom as I clutched her arm. She stared at the pregnancy test. “Yep,” she said. “That’s pregnant.”
“How?” I asked weakly.
“Well, sugar, when a man loves a woman…”
“Stop it, Charity, you know I have PCOS.”
She waved me off and patted my hand. “You know that not every case is the same.”
That wasn’t really what I’d meant, though she couldn’t have known that. I was wondering how in the hell I was pregnant with a dragon’s baby.
Charity went out to get a second test. I sat in a spare room and chugged a bottle of water. The thirty minutes that I played a game on my phone and waited until I thought I could pee again were the longest of my entire life. When I thought I could get enough urine out, I took it again and sure enough, three lines popped up within seconds. I didn’t even need the full three minutes.
I cleaned up and washed my hands and shuffled out to the reception desk to make a real appointment. But shit, could I even use a regular doctor? Or was there some clan doctor I could go to?
The rest of my day passed in a fog. All my nurses asked what was wrong, but I kept blaming my behavior on not feeling well. Finally, it was time to go home where at least I could be alone and try to wrap my mind around the fact that I was pregnant…with a dragon baby.
When I parked, I didn’t notice anyone on my porch. I was all the way on my front stoop before I saw Tessa sitting in the rocking chair beside my front door.
“What do you want?” I asked flatly.
She held up her hands. “I come in peace.”
Yeah, right. My protective instincts ricocheted up to a hundred. This bitch was a danger and now I had more than myself to protect.
“You’ve got to come with me,” she said. “Anthony’s been hurt, and he needs your blood.”
Fear pounded through me instantly. “What? How? Why didn’t his parents come for me?”
She rolled her eyes. “Because they’re going to him, idiot. God, you’re stupid.”
Well, that settled my suspicions a little. She wasn’t trying to fool me by sweet-talking me. “My blood?” I asked.
“Mate blood has healing properties. If you’re ever hurt, you need to get a transfusion of Anthony’s blood and vice versa.”
“Even though I’m human?” I asked.
Tessa stopped and looked confused. “Actually, I’m not sure. I assume so. We have to try, and we need to hurry.”
“Fine,” I said. “Where’s your car?” I asked.
She rolled her eyes again. “I flew here, genius. We’ll take your car. To Anthony’s house.”
I nodded and turned to go back to my car, but out of the blue, a cloud of dust surrounded my face. I turned back to Tessa in time to see her blowing the last of it off of her palm. “Sorry, not sorry,” she said in a sing-song voice. “But I can’t let you have him.”
Damn it. “Baby,” I managed to whisper before my body turned to jelly and the darkness overtook me.
22
Anthony
“Never thought I’d be so excited to see little Bluewater,” Jace said as we entered the county.
I chuckled. “Me too. What a trip.” We were almost home, and I was so excited to tell Skye what I’d found. It was all going to be okay.
After I’d gone to Sammy and pleaded my case to her, she’d relented. “I did some research, same as you did, same as your dad did, all those years ago when you found your mate,” she’d said. “At the time, your father, the alpha, made me keep my research to myself. But he’s not alpha anymore.” She’d given us specific instructions on where to go and who to talk to and exactly what to tell them. It had taken some effort at the first location. They didn’t want to give up their secrets, but once I explained the entire situation between Skye and me, they’d relaxed and given me the information I needed. They had a mated pair in their clan, a human woman, and a dragon man.
My energy buzzed higher the closer to home we came. I couldn’t wait to see Skye. I was tempted to have Jace drop