Incipient A Dark Paranormal Romance - Bianca Scardoni Page 0,34
less person to keep all my lies straight with. Not to mention, she was Nikki’s best friend. If anyone had the ability to get close enough to talk some sense into her, it was her best friend. “I’m already aware of Nikki’s status.”
“So, it’s true?!” Her eyes rounded out as though this was brand-new info, like I was the one who had just made the big reveal. “I didn’t want to believe it, but I kept seeing the same thing over and over again,” she said, shaking her head and looking positively distraught about it.
I guessed I would be too if I just found out my best-friend was in the middle of a teenage pregnancy crisis. “Oh, it’s definitely true, but that’s not even the best part.”
Morgan’s eyebrows puckered with apprehension. “What’s the best part?”
“She’s somehow managed to convince her crazy self that it’s Trace’s baby.”
Morgan thought about it for a moment and then asked, “How do you know it’s not?”
“Well, the timeline doesn’t match for one,” I said, but decided to leave out the part about the Four Horseman. The less people that knew another apocalypse was upon us, the better. “Not to mention, Lucifer was in total control of Trace’s body when she slept with him. Trace had nothing to do with any of it.”
It was no different than when a possessing demon mated with a human. The resulting offspring was a demonborn child—half human, half demon. It didn’t matter one bit that the demon was possessing a human at the time.
Morgan nodded knowingly. “How far along is she?”
“How should I know?” I said and made a face at her. “She hasn’t exactly invited me to her checkups. My guess is she’s a few months along since it had to have happened right before the summer break.”
Her expression turned sad. “Does he know she’s pregnant?”
“Trace?” I shook my head as a heaviness pressed in over my heart. “I don’t think so.” I mean, if he did, he sure as heck hadn’t shared it with me.
“Oh, shit. Not again,” she said suddenly, her voice laced with panic.
“Huh?”
She didn’t respond. Instead, her head veered toward the forest, her gaze distant and forlorn as a whiteish-gray film settled over her eyes, removing all traces of color and making them look almost corpse-like and hollow. I shoved away from her, unsure of what was going on before realizing she was having some kind of vision.
I stared in disbelief, half expecting her to start convulsing and speaking in some foreign language, but it seemed to end just as quickly as it had started.
Blinking several times, she turned to meet my gaze, her own eyes back to their usual emerald green. “She’s going to tell him it’s his. And he’s going to believe her.”
Still leaning away from her as though frozen in that position, I narrowed my eyes at her and asked, “Did you just see that? Like in a vision?”
“Yes.” She nodded regretfully. “They’ve been happening a lot more often lately.”
I relaxed in my seat and studied her for a moment. “Maybe it’s not too late.”
“For what?”
“To stop Nikki from telling him.”
The fact of the matter was, Trace had no idea that Lucifer had ever been inside his body let alone that he died because of it, so how exactly was I going to convince him that this wasn’t his child without triggering the time bomb in his head? This whole thing had the potential to go wrong in so many ways that it was making my head spin. My only hope was that Nikki would come to her senses and shut her damn trap.
Though I really wasn’t counting on that.
“Nikki doesn’t listen to anyone, and especially not me,” she said matter-of-factly.
But that wasn’t good enough. “Then you need to make her listen.”
“And how do I do that? This is Nikki we’re talking about.”
“I don’t know, but you better think of something and quick,” I warned, weary of not letting too much slip out. “She can’t have Lucifer’s child, Morgan. They won’t let her,” I said, looking over my shoulder, half expecting the Senior Magister to come waltzing in and drag me away for insubordination.
Her eyes narrowed into slits. “Are you saying they’ll try to kill her if she keeps the baby?”
“Keep it?” I half laughed, though there was nothing funny about this. “At this point, I don’t think they’re even going to let her have it. As far as they’re concerned, this isn’t a baby. It’s not human. It’s evil incarnate.”