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Charlie smothered his mouth with his hand. “Periods usually mean there aren’t children.”
“No children,” I repeated.
“Yet,” Clawdia added.
“Is anyone really fucking hot all of a sudden?” Charlie announced and stormed to the kitchenette to throw open a window.
“We may have children?” I asked. My heart fluttered with the thought.Children … We could have children …
“One day.” She squeezed my hand, her eyes lit with joy. “I saw them.”
“What?” Charlie choked and spun around. “Them? Saw them how?”
She shook her head, but the happy smile remained. “It was so strange. I looked at them and knew exactly who they were. I can’t describe the feelings, but I love them so much.”
“Children.” Charlie braced himself on the cabinet.
“Yes, Charlie. Are you all right? You’re green.” Clawdia let go of my hands to reach for him. She stroked his hair while he took gulping breaths and attempted to compose himself.
“I just didn’t think,” he replied, and she patted him sympathetically as she smiled over at me. “How did you see them?”
“It was like a flash. A vision. I was thinking about what my courses mean, and then suddenly I saw them.” Her smile was full of longing. “I wish I could see them again.”
“What did they look like?” I asked, gravitating toward her.
“There were four,” she began.
“Four?” Charlie squeaked. While he seemed terrified, I was giddy with excitement, listening for every small detail, eager for more of the future she painted for us.
She laughed but continued. “Three boys and a girl. A boy who looks like you but with blue eyes,” she told me. “Another who looks like Baelen with dark hair and red eyes.” I followed her eyes as she looked over at the cage and saw Baelen’s eyes were wide and glassy, his mouth open. She swallowed and added with a stutter, “Another who had scales and yellow eyes.”
“Scales?” Charlie yelled. She covered his mouth with a hand, and through it, he mumbled, “He’ll be a dragon?”
“I don’t know.”
It did not matter to be if he was born with a tail. I would love them all the same.
“And the girl?” I asked as I came behind her to wrap my arms around her waist.
She leaned back against me and replied, “The girl was a baby with a little bow on her head. She didn’t look like any of you, but she was still beautiful.”
“If she is ours, there is no doubt about that,” I whispered, and Clawdia smiled brightly.
Charlie asked, “You think it’s the actual future? It’s definitely going to happen?”
“I don’t know. But I want it to happen.” She squeezed his hand.
“You do?”
“Don’t you?” She raised her brow. She didn’t look concerned about his reaction but instead seemed amused.
He clenched his jaw. “The dragon kid means Elizabeth is right and boys turn into evil dragons.”
“Unless another is to join us? And the girl is yours?” I suggested. Although I couldn’t foresee another soul bond joining our family.
“Another man?” Charlie gasped.
She squeezed his hand again to stop his imminent panic. “I don’t know what it all means, Charlie, but I can’t pretend I’m not happy to see a possible future with so much love and potential,” she said quietly but with so much passion it was hard not to feel excited. I pulled her closer and pressed a kiss to her shoulder.
