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With that, the boys quickly stripped and dashed upstairs. Annabel lingered and sighed. "I don't want to share with them."
Samira gestured down the hall. "There's another shower down there, second door on the right."
Annabel undressed and streaked down the hallway. Once the door shut, Samira looked at Kaylee. "Come. You look like you could use a cup of tea."
When Kaylee had first arrived in the UK from the US, she'd hated tea. However, over time, it'd grown on her. It'd never replace coffee, but given how she was trying to limit caffeine because of her surprise pregnancy, it was the next best thing.
However, the second she reached the kitchen, a mixture of spices hit her nose and her stomach revolted. She barely made it to the sink before she threw up her breakfast.
By the time Kaylee finished, she was super embarrassed and a little lightheaded. After rinsing her mouth, she tried to stand up and toddled. Mentally, she cursed. She didn't know how much longer she could do this. Thanks to watching her sister's multiple pregnancies, Kaylee knew that shots of dragon's blood strengthened human women who carried and birthed a dragon-shifter's child. However, revealing that meant sharing her secret. And spilling that would not only make her sister Gina concerned, worried, and maybe even disappointed in her, but Kaylee's brothers-in-law would probably go on a manhunt of some sort to find the masked dragoman and do who the hell knew what with him.
The MacKenzies were a little crazy at times. Normally she loved them, but maybe not in this case.
Samira helped her to sit down and searched her gaze. After a beat, she asked softly, "Are you pregnant?"
Kaylee had done an amazing job of keeping herself together. But that one question broke down her walls and as soon as she said, "Yes," she started crying.
She was vaguely aware of Samira rubbing her back and then pulling her into a hug. She had only met the woman during the clan-wide dinner the night before, and yet she was being so nice to her.
Eventually, Kaylee got herself under control and stopped crying. Once she was mostly composed, Samira asked, "Does anyone else know?"
She bit her lip and shook her head. "I don't even know who the father is."
Samira studied her intensely. "Were you assaulted?"
She blinked. "No, no nothing like that. It was, well, a party where everyone wore masks. All I know is that he's a dragon-shifter."
She heard Samira suck in a breath, and she couldn't blame her. Having sex with a masked stranger wasn't exactly an everyday occurrence, especially when it was with a dragonman.
Samira's tone was kind but firm. "You need to go to the surgery straightaway."
Trying not to cry again, she met Samira's gaze again. "I can't."
"You can and you will. I don't want you to go through the same difficulties and worries I did when I carried Rhys. Things are so much better now for humans. You need to let Dr. Sid and the others help you, Kaylee, especially if you plan to keep the child."
Samira was also a human who had come to Stonefire years ago, before even Melanie Hall-MacLeod, and she had mated a dragonman named Liam. Back then, there had been less medical treatments for humans having dragon babies, and the risks had been high. Like, really high—as in nearly half of the pregnancies had ended up fatal for the mother.
Given that Kaylee hadn't had any treatments to date, and she was nearly three months along, she really should see a doctor.
And yet, if she did that, she'd have to tell not only her sister and in-laws, but Lochguard's clan leader as well. Disappointing Finn was the last thing she wanted to do, given how he'd worked so hard to allow her to stay with her sister despite not being mated to a dragon-shifter.
And yet, facing the music was better than ending up dead. Maybe. By just a little. Well, more than that since she did want to keep her baby. Part of the reason she'd gone to the party in the first place was because she'd been a little jealous of all the happy couples and families on Lochguard, and she'd thought that maybe she'd be lucky and find someone to mate. Because more than her sister, Kaylee had always wanted to be a wife and a mom.
She hadn't planned on it happening this way, though.
Placing a hand on her lower belly, she knew she needed to step up. The longer she put it off, the more she put both of them at risk.
Taking a deep breath, Kaylee finally met Samira's gaze again. "Okay, I'll go."
"Come, then. Let me just tell my mate I'll be back soon so he can keep an eye on the children." Samira went to the back door and let her mate know she was going out. And then they were soon bundled up and outside, walking toward Stonefire's little clinic.
The Brits called it a surgery, but that just sounded weird to Kaylee.
Once inside, Samira guided her to the front desk and was just about to ask the dragonman there about a visit when Kaylee heard a voice she knew well—that of Dr. Layla McFarland. "Kaylee. Are you all right, lass?"
She met Layla's eyes and did her best to look healthy. However, she must've failed because Layla murmured, "Come with me. You look far too pale for my liking."
Samira smiled at her and gave her hand a reassuring squeeze as she said, "It'll be fine, Kaylee, I believe that. If you ever need to talk to someone, find me anytime."
