“I’m not sure. I haven’t been feeling great since I woke up.”
“Why didn’t you tell me? I won’t take your blood if you’re feeling drained already.”
“I thought I was feeling better.”
“You used a lot of magic in the last twenty-four hours, sis,” Rikkon says. “Will using only my blood be enough?”
“We shall see,” Lucca replies, but his gaze remains on my face.
“Do you have any tea in the house?” Miranda asks Mauricio.
“Yes, of course.”
She pulls me away from Lucca and hooks her arm with mine. “Go to King Raphael. I’ll make some tea for us.”
Lucca doesn’t protest, but I feel his eyes follow me out of the room. Miranda doesn’t need to ask where the kitchen is. She seems to know where she’s going.
“Have you been here before?” I ask.
“Yes, once with my mother. I was ten. It was my formal presentation to the king.”
“What was your first impression of him?”
“Intense and scary.”
“Yeah, he had that effect on me too. But so did Lucca. It must be a family trait.”
Once in the kitchen, I pull up a chair at the table and watch Miranda do the work. She knows her way around here too. “Did you raid the king’s kitchen when you visited?”
Her eyes widen. “What? No. Why do you ask?”
“You look right at home.”
“Oh, it’s just my witchy instincts. You said you were lightheaded earlier, right?”
“Yeah.”
“Any other strange symptoms?”
“I felt really sick as soon as I woke up. I had to throw up.”
Miranda freezes and stares at me without saying a word. “You had morning sickness?”
My spine becomes taut. “Yes. Why are you looking at me like that?”
She pulls up a chair next to mine. “Is it possible that you’re pregnant?”
I stop breathing for a second. Lucca and I never took any precautions because we never thought it’d be possible. “I don’t know. But vampires haven’t been able to procreate in so long.”
“True, but new vampires couldn’t be made either, yet Lucca sired Vaughn.”
I think about what happened when Lucca and I made love while in Ellnesari and his body glowed from within. I cover my mouth with my hands, suppressing a gasp. “I think Iampregnant, Mir. What should I do?”
“Would a human pregnancy test work on you?”
“I don’t know.”
“We can try that. Are you going to tell Lucca before you know for sure?”
