Year Two: Rebels - Cara Wylde Page 0,60
wasn’t annoyed at the fact that there was no way the baby could’ve been his. Maybe he was relieved, and he didn’t want to say it? What did I know? And to think he’d gotten angry with Davien when he’d used his powers on both of us, so he could be the first to enter me…
I didn’t know anything, apparently. Corri brought me pregnancy test after pregnancy test, and they all turned out positive. I was living a nightmare! This was the last thing I needed right now.
“How, Corri? How did this happen?”
“Well, I do have a theory…” She bit her lip, which meant that she’d had it for a while, but she hadn’t dared to say anything.
“Spill it out!”
“Remember when you were in Heaven and you broke your arm?”
“What does this have to do with anything?”
“Lucien gave you painkillers, right? And he put your arm in a cast.”
“Yes. So?”
“You said you had a wire inside to keep the bone aligned, and that the wire was supposed to get absorbed into the bone in time.”
“That’s what he said, yes,”
She was starting to count on her fingers now. “Painkillers made in Heaven, a wire inside your arm, and he also stitched your skin back together, if I remember well. With thread…”
“... made in Heaven, yes.”
She shrugged. “Don’t you see? All the medicine he gave you helped you heal really, really fast. It also restored your ability to teleport and dream travel. Because everything that is made in Heaven is simply… good. And it promotes everything that is good in a human body. Or any body, for that matter. You took the morning after pill right before going on the field trip to Heaven, so I think… I think all that stuff Lucien gave you canceled its effect.”
“What? No. No, no, no. Does this mean it could be Davien’s baby?”
“I don’t know about that. You had the wire and the thread in when you and Adrian… erm… did things. Your arm was still in the cast.”
“No.”
“Yes, Mistress. It makes sense. There’s no other explanation. The medicine canceled the effect of the morning after pills because avoiding pregnancy is just not something that is accepted in Heaven. So, what Lucien gave you identified the substances in the pills as harmful and attacked them. Ta-da! Pregnant.”
“Oh my God! It was supposed to be my choice!”
“Well, if you had told Lucien…”
“Told him what? Corri, in my world, the morning after pill works! Contraception in general works!”
“Yeah. Not in Heaven. And they have ways to prevent them from working. Actually, it’s not even intentional… it’s just that their drugs are made to respect the values they use as guidance in Heaven. You just happened to be… in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Or not.” She rubbed her chin. “Maybe none of this is a coincidence. You were supposed to meet Lucien, because he told you about the descendants and the day the stars will be aligned just right. Maybe you were also supposed to get pregnant now.”
“Corri, knock it off. You don’t know what you’re talking about.”
I felt lost. Confused. I couldn’t handle this. At the same time, if I was pregnant… that was that. Yes, there were ways to stop the pregnancy, and with the help of a skilled mage, it would’ve been easy and much less bloody than the classical way humans did it. I refused to think about it as an option. If I was pregnant… and I was… then that was that. I’d have to get used to the idea and prepare myself for what was to come.
“When do you think it happened?” Corri asked. “In November, right?”
I went to look at myself in the mirror. I lifted my blouse and studied my belly, but it was as flat as ever. I wasn’t showing. Not yet.
“I’m probably one month and a half along,” I whispered, running my hand over my stomach. I sighed. “This is insane. What am I going to do?”
“Look forward to August, what else?” Corri smiled encouragingly. “Your baby is going to be a Leo. Just like Mila.”
I shook my head. “I can’t. This complicates things so much! Corri, I’m on a dangerous mission here!” I buried my face in my palms. “By the way, go find Mila and ask her to give you a little blood. Store it in a vial or something. I want to know that we have at least one ingredient of the five the mages asked for.”
“On it!”
She teleported away, and I