Her heart is pounding when I close the door. She’s terrified. “Something’s wrong.”
I want to put her at ease. “Nothing’s wrong but we need to talk about something I don’t want the others to overhear.”
“Okay.”
There’s only one place to start. The beginning. “We unknowingly completed our agápe bond this morning.”
She’s filled with confusion. “What does that mean?”
I’ll try to explain it the way I understand it. “I’ll no longer need to drink your blood for us to maintain an unbreakable connection. We’ll feel it all the time but it’ll be at its strongest when we make love.”
She beams and slinks close to me. “Perfect … because I think I feel the need for some strong bonding right now.”
As good as that sounds, I only want to proceed after I have informed consent from her. “I need to explain some other things to you.” She steps back so she can see my face. “My DNA has been dead since the night I was turned into a vampire but because you’re my agápe, you make me more human. More alive.”
“I’ve never thought of you as dead.”
That’s good to know since I’m about to drop this bomb on her. “Only life can bring forth life and you revive my dead cells so they may live again.”
“You’ve always been very much alive to me.”
I’m able to see that she doesn’t understand where I’m going with this so I need to back up. “It’s all part of the agápe phenomenon. We don’t understand the process but we know that agápe mates cause changes in vampires. We become more human. More alive. Sebastian and Ella weren’t together long. The changes he underwent weren’t near as radical as the ones Curry has experienced. We suspect that his profound changes are how Chansey was able to conceive. We haven’t tested the waters to know the degree of the change in me yet but we must consider the possibility that you could become pregnant.”
I almost think I can hear a click in her mind when she comprehends what I’m saying. “This morning …” She clears her throat but only a whisper escapes. “I could be pregnant because of this morning?”
Her emotions are all over the place. What is she thinking? “I’m sorry. I didn’t know.”
I’m not really sure it would have mattered if I had. I don’t think I would have been able to stop because it felt as though something else was in control of me when we completed our bond.
“I’m not sorry.” She steps closer and slides her arms around my shoulders. “Not even a little. I love you and nothing would make me happier than having your baby.”
We’ve never discussed such things. We had no reason to so I couldn’t guess where her head would be but I’m pleasantly surprised by her reaction. “I was scared you might be upset. Or angry. ”
She comes up on her tiptoes and presses a kiss against the side of my neck. “Angry? Why would you think that?”
She pushes her fingers through my hair and I almost forget what we’re discussing. “Doesn’t matter–not if you’re happy about it.”
She lowers herself from her tiptoes and presses a second kiss against my collarbone. “I am. But you know what would also make me very happy?”
All she has to do is tell me and I’ll get it for her. “You only have to ask.”
A mischievous grins spreads across her face. “I want us to have a place we are free to do what we want without the fear of being overheard. I think we need a soundproof bedroom. Because I have a lot of naughty things I want to do to you.”
I like the way this girl thinks. “Done. I’ll have someone here in the morning and we’ll put a plan into action immediately.”
“We are in desperate need of privacy.” She’s rubbing her hands over my chest. “How long will it be before we know?”
Longer than I want. “I don’t know. I think they can have it ready in about a month. Maybe six weeks if he uses his entire crew.” I’m willing to pay for an army of construction workers to get this done as soon as possible.
“Four to six weeks sounds great on the bedroom but I meant how long will it be until we know if I’m pregnant?”
Oh. “I think Chansey was a little bit over two months when she saw Dr. Knight the first time.”
“But she was in the middle of following Jenn’s transition. I’m sure she didn’t pick up on her missed period because she was preoccupied but I’ll know if I’m a day late. I’m very regular.”
She’d been very regular since I’d known her. “You should start your menstrual cycle in thirteen days.”
I don’t have to see her blush to know I’ve embarrassed her. “How do you know that?”
If I couldn’t smell a drop of blood, I’d have known by her irritable mood. “I’ve been living with you for months. You’re a fertile human woman that bleeds every month. I’m a vampire that can smell a single drop of blood from a hundred yards. I think you can put it together.”
Her cheeks redden more. “That’s just humiliating. And gross.”
“I know your body inside and out–even better than you know it yourself.” Now I’m gonna rock her world with the information I tell her next. “I’m even able to sense your ovulation cycle by the way you smell.”
She steps back and assesses me, the blush still present on her face. Or maybe it’s a flush. “Pray tell, Mister Alexander. How do I smell when I’m ovulating?”
“Sexy. And horny.” Now it’s me pressing my lips against the side of her neck. “A lot like you smell right now.”
Her mouth is next to my ear. “And did I smell fertile this morning?”
Oh, did she ever. “You smelled especially fertile this morning–much more so than usual.”
“Ohh,” she whispers as I move my mouth down her neck.
“When we’re like this, your agápe scent is the only smell I can detect. It’s a pheromone that overpowers everything else.” I lift her to sit on my desk and I step between her legs.
Her hands are allover me at once. “And it makes you want me?”
Want is an understatement. “Like crazy. You can’t possibly imagine how bad.”
She’s grinning as she nips my bottom lip. “I bet I can.”