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She asks Magda a question and Magda nods. Then the young woman disappears. Magda looks at me.
“Sigrid is going to draw some blood. I’m fairly sure that it’s just a really bad case of food poisoning, but I want to rule out a few major things just to be on the safe side. There is no real reason to worry but it’s better safe than sorry with pregnant women.”
“Test for everything. Spare no expense. Penny’s carrying my baby and I want to be assured that absolutely nothing bad happens to either of them.”
The last part leaves my lips, blurted without even thinking about it. Magda blinks, processing the information. She looks at me for a long beat, her eyes narrowing on my face.
“I’ll do everything that I can.” She pauses for a second. “We’ll get her comfortable. And then ye can tell me just what we’re doing way up here, Hades.”
My stomach drops down to my feet. My first instinct is to be angry and defensive.
“Let me be clear as crystal. My priority is Penny. Without her, we wouldn’t be in this clinic. And we definitely did not come to this part of the world and walk into this clinic, hoping that we would find you. We are not here to talk about the past or find any kind of closure. Is that understood?”
Magda pales at my tone, her expression growing hard. “And here was me thinking that ye had finally come to see me. Ye sound just like yer father, ye know.”
My face contorts. Her well-aimed arrow finds its soft target, right in the center of what passes for my heart.
“Make sure that Persephone is well cared for,” I hiss. “If she doesn’t get better, and soon, ye will see just how much like my father I can be.”
To my complete surprise, Magda flinches and turns away. She practically races out of the room, leaving me feeling rather tense.
Persephone murmurs and I step close to her, taking her hand once more. But my eyes remain fixed on the doorway that Magda just vacated.
