“Will Evie be there?”I asked.
“I’m not sure. I’ll text her. If she’s not at the farm Philip will be. He’s okay too. He won’t make up answers to the questions he doesn’t know about at least,”Eran told me.
“I’ll wait here. Can we get something to eat on the way?”I asked.
“Yeah. We need to fill you up with liquid anyway so that the pictures show up better,”he said.
“I am not a water balloon!”I said and spun in a circle.
A man came out of the bank’s back door to smoke a cigarette. I crinkled my nose and before I knew what was happening, I threw up in his general direction.
“Should I call a healer?” he asked, smarter than some people since he didn’t assume we were just strays.
“Thanks, Marlawe, but we’re okay,” Eran said, shifting back from his cat form. “We’re going to head out to the farm.”
Eran could say we were okay all day long, but I was most certainly not okay. My dog threw up again to prove it. Marlawe’s scent twisted all concerned and he disappeared back inside the bank after stamping out his barely smoked smelly stick. I almost ran away but Eran flashed me a concerned look. Maybe I hadn’t had morning sickness because we didn’t allow stinky things into our apartment.
Eran scooped me up and carried me in through the back door of another building. I crossed my ears that we weren’t breaking and entering.
“It’s the back office of Jade’s place,”Eran said, picking up my thoughts over our mating link.
“Eran?” a woman’s voice called out. “Is that you? Jade isn’t here today but we’re up to our ears in phone calls. I swear, no one wants kids to be happy.”
“What’s up, Zevna?” Eran shouted back as a woman with big black wings ducked through the doorway into the small office.
“Never mind. Is he okay?” she asked, nodding at me.
“He needs some morning sickness gummies,” Eran said. “What’s up with the calls?”
“People who don’t even live in our territory are complaining. Like what are dragon and harpy kids supposed to do? Never fucking fly while they play?” she asked, pulling a key ring out of her pocket and crossing the room to unlock a filing cabinet. “I think Jade still keeps some on hand. Never know which parent is going to have their ‘pregnancy awakening’ here.” Zevna laughed at her own joke. “Do you want me to call my carrier?”
“No, I think we’re going to drive out to the farm and see Evie when his stomach settles down,” Eran said.
“Well, maybe if you put him down that would happen faster. I imagine being carried around like that feels a lot like being a water bottle except the water is the contents of his stomach,” Zevna said, setting the bottle of gummies down on the desk.
A second later, Eran kissed me on the top of the head and set me down on my own four paws. I sniffed the air. The room smelled nice – like the little snacks kids were always eating. I was still hungry.
“What happened?” Zevna asked as Eran unscrewed the cap off the gummy vitamins.
Eran explained the cigarette smoke while I ate the gummies from his hand. Then spotting a cot in the corner, I walked over and stretched out.
“You sure you don’t want Evie to come out? Shit! She’s not even at the farm today! She’s out doing an ultrasound on one of the horses at the lake or something like that. Doing something to a horse. My carrier’s off today but he’ll come out,” Zevna said and Eran bit his lip.
“Do you not like my dad?” Zevna’s dark brows shot high on her forehead and her wings tensed like she might flog Eran any second now.
“I’m not sure how my cat is going to react when a healer touches him,” Eran whispered, but I heard him anyway.
“And Evie is big enough to sit on you while she does her job,” Zevna nodded. “I could sit on you. I got paid for it at my last job.” she offered and I growled. “Oh, he doesn’t know, does he? I used to work at the Cuddle Club.”
“Oh. Bear squashed. Though, she’s not a bear. Is she a really big wolf?”I asked, over our mating link.
“Big wolf, big wings,”he said.
“Zevna?!” a familiar voice called from the other room.
“Looks like Philip is here. Maybe he can sit on you!” Zevna said and disappeared.
Eran crossed the room and sat down in front of me. He ran his hands up and down my sides, soothing me.
