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Talon
“Pregnant?” My jaw unhinged.
Eden’s gold-tipped eyelashes rested on her cheeks. Her creamy skin was bleached of color, her heart beating double-time.
My rattled gaze went to her abdomen, concealed beneath her thigh-length suede jacket. My sources hadn’t said anything about her being pregnant.
I glanced back at Eden’s self-appointed guardian. “With a baby?”
The pink-haired kid actually rolled his eyes. “Of course with a baby.”
“Fuck.” My stomach dropped. “We have to get her to a doctor.”
“She should be okay,” Rio muttered, his brow furrowed. “It’s not the first time she’s passed out.”
My back teeth ground together. “She’s passed out before?”
The teenager moved his head solemnly up and down. “She said it happens to some pregnant ladies. Something to do with hormones and blood pressure.”
“Yeah?” I still didn’t like it. What if she’d collapsed on the way up the stairs? Or worse, outside? “When is she due?”
“February.”
“February. That’s…soon.”
Then it sank in. This was November third. Eden had been pregnant when she’d left Lilith Island.
“I need to feed her, ASAP.” Rio tried to shake off Adrian and Nathan, but they hung on, waiting for my okay.
“Let him go,” I said, and they released him so suddenly, he staggered. He caught himself and stalked into the kitchenette.
I gathered Eden closer. She was a little heavier, maybe five pounds or so, although you couldn’t tell by looking at her face, which was too damn thin in my opinion.
Pregnant.
A shaft of awe worked its way through my shock.
My arms tightened around her limp body. The baby was mine. It had to be.
This past year, she’d been my exclusive thrall. She’d been on birth control like all the female thralls, but birth control could fail.
Eden was carrying my spawn—and she’d left without telling me. Maybe that was even why she’d left.
The awe darkened, took on a bitter taint.
Because I was pretty sure that if the Krals hadn’t tipped us off that she was in New York City, I’d never have known.
Adrian moved up alongside us. “We should take her to a physician. We probably shouldn’t put her on a jet until we know she’s all right.”
That right there was why I’d brought Adrian. He wasn’t just tech-smart, he was practical, with street smarts from growing up off-island with a single mother.
“Do it,” I told him as I laid Eden on the couch.
He nodded and took his phone out, moving to the other side of the room.
I crouched next to Eden. Her blond hair had been cut short and dyed black at the tips, a surprisingly effective disguise. Finding her had been harder than I’d expected. She was a twenty-three-year-old human who’d never lived anywhere but Lilith Island. We should’ve located her in a day or two, but until tonight, she’d managed to stay a step ahead of us.
