“I’ll answer that in a few minutes.” Daniel glanced around the room, then looked back at Sloan. “When you sent Kent and me to check out the medical center where Becky had her procedure, I confronted a demon named Nix. I took him back to the Demon Realm to get some answers.”
“And?” Sloan snapped, his patience gone.
Daniel’s eyes went to Pam’s and held. “And it looks like they’re still trying to recreate me.”
“You?” Becky said, glancing first at Pam, then back to Daniel.
“Yes.” He nodded, finally looking away from his mom. “They’re trying to repeat a prophecy, but on their terms. They want to create something like me to defeat me. The demons are relentless when they’re afraid, and right now, I terrify them.”
“And this Nix told you all this?” Charger frowned, not looking confident in that. “I’ve never known a demon to spill his guts unless someone uses a knife.”
“There are certain things I can do in the Demon Realm that I can’t do up here with demons,” Daniel replied. “One of them is see everything they’ve ever done or will ever do. As the prophecy states, I know all when I judge them. That’s not the exact words, but you get my meaning.”
The room went quiet, but it wasn’t a good quiet. It was the kind that settled heavily on everyone standing there.
“There are corrupt doctors out there who will sell their souls for what’s promised to them,” Daniel continued, his voice hardening. “And demons aren’t stupid. They’re using human technology against humans. Everyone’s medical records are online now, thanks to the government. There are people, as Jinx and Lacey can tell you, who can break into those systems and find out everything there is to know about someone’s medical history.” Daniel turned his attention to Becky, and she hated how much she wanted to look away.
“So since using Amara’s Golden Blood didn’t work out too well for them, they are trying something else?” Jax asked, his eyes narrowed with the news they were hearing.
“They won’t stop.” Daniel said in a way of answering Jax. Then looked at Becky. “You’re not the only one this has happened to, Becky. Unfortunately, when this doctor found out who you were and who your husband was, you became a high priority. So will any of the human mates who go to the doctor, especially for women’s issues.”
“That is sick,” Katrina spat, Raven and Jill agreeing with their own curses.
“It’s demons,” Daniel said as if that explained everything. “They have no moral code.”
“Neither do the doctors who are doing this,” Pam said, stepping forward. “When Daniel came to me about this, he knew I would do everything I could to stop it. I’m going to work with Jinx and Lacey to start identifying the doctors who are betraying their patients.” Her eyes softened when they landed on Becky. “I’m so sorry this happened to you.”
Becky nodded, then frowned. “Thank you, but honestly, I still don’t know what happened to me.” She was more confused now than she had been before, and that was saying something.
“They did do the implantation, Becky,” Daniel answered gently. “But it failed.”
“But it didn’t fail.” Her frustration broke through because none of this made sense. “I’m pregnant.”
“It failed because you were already pregnant.”
Daniel’s response shook her to the core.
“That’s impossible,” Becky whispered, then heard a gasp and knew it came from Jill. “I haven’t been with anyone other than Sloan.” There. She said it out loud. She said the thing she knew others had to be thinking. She knew that wasn’t fair to them, but how could they not think it? How could anyone standing in this room not think it when the impossible, which was her pregnant, was sitting right in front of them?
“Daniel, they wouldn’t do the procedure if she were pregnant,” Slade said, shaking his head. “When Sloan told me about her freezing her eggs, I did the timeline, and it adds up. Plus, the danger of doing something like that isn’t something a doctor would take lightly. It could cause a miscarriage or even superfetation.”
“It’s something you wouldn’t do,” Daniel replied, narrowing his eyes. “But it is definitely something a doctor who sold his soul would do.”
Slade’s jaw tightened, but he didn’t argue.
Daniel walked toward Becky, stopping in front of her. He looked first at her face, then at her stomach as he lifted his hand. “Do you mind?”
Becky frowned, her heart pounding so hard she could feel it in her throat. “I don’t mind.”
Daniel then looked at Sloan, waiting.
Sloan’s hand tightened around hers. For a few seconds, he didn’t move, didn’t speak, and Becky could feel the hesitation radiating off him. Finally, he gave a single nod.
Daniel laid his hand gently on her stomach, then closed his eyes. A slight tingling moved low in her stomach, and she wanted to push Daniel’s hand away, but she didn’t. Instead, she trusted him.
Suddenly, Daniel’s head tilted back, his eyes snapping open, solid white and glowing. The room fell into a silence so deep Becky could hear her own uneven breathing.
Then Daniel shut his eyes and stepped back.
