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“But… but… how? I don’t understand…”

“I am a dragon shifter, Nic.”

“Dragon shifter,” I say in a strange voice. It feels as if I am having an out-of-body experience.

“Yes. Shifters have evolved alongside humans. Of course our numbers are greatly diminished, especially of us dragon shifters, but we very much exist.”

I feel like I’ve entered some alternate reality. It can’t be true! I almost wish that this was some kind of a sick joke, but I know Lex would never play such a mean trick on me. Besides, I did see it with my own two eyes.

“You are a dragon,” I say dully.

“A dragon shifter. Human most of the time, but my soul is melded to a dragon’s soul,” he says with a small smile.

So that means… Oh dear Lord, the baby! Our baby!

“Lex… the baby…”

“Will be a dragon shifter. The shifter gene is a dominant one.”

I am growing a dragon inside me. In nine months’ time, I am going to push a dragon out of my vagina. My breath starts coming in short gasps and the monitor alarm starts blaring crazily. A nurse rushes to my room.

“Sir, I must ask you to leave. The patient’s blood pressure is shooting up!”

Lex looks like he might protest, but after a few seconds, he shrugs, places a gentle kiss on my forehead, and turns to leave. Before leaving, he places my handbag on the chair he just vacated.

I deliberately force myself to look at my handbag and concentrate on it. So they found my handbag. It is my favorite one. I’m so glad they found it. See? It’s easy. I can spend the months to come concentrating on the trivial. Of course, I won’t be obsessing over growing a dragon in my womb. Holy fucking hell! I am growing a dragon!

“Deep breaths. Try to relax,” the nurse says, pushing a drug into the IV line to sedate me.

“Do you have something that will make me wake up nine months later?” I attempt to joke, before falling into a deep sleep.

I wake up sometime in the night to find Lex dozing in the chair next to my bed. The chair is too small and he looks terribly uncomfortable, but he chose to sleep in it so that he would be near me. He loves me! My heart feels so full of joy. But the joy is quickly replaced by anxiety. I have a dragon in my womb!

I wish I could talk to somebody about this. Obviously, it can’t be Mom or Penny, because I don’t want them freaking out. The answer comes to me in the early hours of morning. I slowly turn over and reach for my handbag.

Pulling out my phone, I shoot a fairly long text to a number I’ve never texted before. Surprisingly, I get a reply almost instantly. I know what I must do now.

Chapter 34 - Lex

We are back in Manhattan after spending two days in the hospital in LA. The good news is, Nic has made a full recovery and our baby is doing just fine. The bad news is she hasn’t yet said that she loves me. I’ve avoided talking about shifters and the baby and anything else that might cause her to panic. She has been through an ordeal. I don’t want to add to her stress. I’m confident that once she is ready, she will talk about it with me.

I asked her to move in with me. She didn’t say ‘no’ outright, which gladdens my heart. She said she’d consider it, but she also said she needs to be in her own apartment for the time being. I understand where she’s coming from and I totally respect her decision. But that doesn’t mean I have to like it.

I’m done with the work for the day. Before I head home, I’m going to see Nic. I never did give her the flowers.

A brief car ride later, I’m once again standing outside Nic’s apartment. I knock and once again, it is Penelope who answers the door. I have a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach.

“Lex…”

The expression on her face is enough to tell me that something is wrong.

“Where’s Nic?” I ask shortly, my worry making me sound abrupt.

“She asked me to give you this,” she says, handing me a note.

It just says—

Lex,

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