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“Vraxyour treatments,” I rumbled, holding her eyes. “You want a child? Let’s go back to our bed right now and I’ll guarantee you’ll be pregnant by the night’s end.”

She laughed though her cheeks were tinted pink in her disbelief. “Be serious, Droxan.”

“I. Am,” I growled. “I have more credits that I’ll ever know what to do with.Ican take care of you. I can take care of us. You don’t ever have to worry about that.”

Her breath hitched and she held my eyes. I could almost hear the thudding of her own heart and there was a sinking feeling in my gut. I was pushing her too hard. I shouldn’t have brought up the future. I didn’t want to overwhelm her but we’d gone from having sex to talking about a baby and her moving to Ullima, giving up everything she knew.

“Vrax,” I murmured, rocking back on my heels. “I’m sorry, Lyra. I should not have…I should not have unloaded this on you. It’s a new feeling for me.”

“And what’s that?” she whispered.

I met her eyes. “To realize that your fate is connected to another. To realize that you would do anything for them to make them happy. To realize that they are suddenly the center ofeverything.”

Her swallow was audible.

“I…” she began softly. She took a deep breath. “I’m really your fated mate?”

I inclined my head, rubbing a hand over my horn. “Tev. I felt it awaken the moment you came roaring out at me from the life pod in that tiny red bikini.”

She couldn’t help but softly laugh in disbelief. “Gods,” she whispered. “That must’ve been a shock for you on all fronts.”

Quite the shock, I couldn’t help but agree silently.

“We don’t have to talk about this now,” I told her. “You were honest with me about your treatments. So I wanted to be honest with you about this. No secrets between us now.”

“I just need to think,” she told me. “I’m not saying no. I just…this is a lot, Droxan. You’re right. It’s a lot to take in. And for you too. To make sure you want this too.”

I know what I want, I thought immediately but didn’t voice.

“Of course,” I said, rubbing a hand down my jaw. I looked down at her naked body. “You want to clean up now?”

“Yes,” she whispered, nibbling on her lip. “I think that’s for the best.”

But she couldn’t quite meet my eyes and it only made my Instinct prowl with restlessness, thinking I’d fucked everything up.

Chapter

Fifteen

LYRA

Truthfully, I didn’t needthatmuch time to think about what Droxan had confessed to me at the waterfall.

I’d made my decision between the moment we’d left to climb back up the stairs and when we stepped foot on his wraparound terrace.

So…no time at all, looking back on it.

It should scare me right?I couldn’t help but wonder, sighing out loud as I watched Droxan out on the terrace, fiddling with the water catch system again. I was spying, nestled in The Pleasure Pit which still smelled of him. Of us. I could see him through the far, curved windows. His brow was furrowed but every now and again, he’d pause in his work, stand, pace. Like he was debating coming to me.

But then he always sat back down along the ledge, resumed his work, his expression growing darker and darker every moment he spent outside.

He was giving me time.

Even though it clearly grated on him to be away from me. Especially after we’d had sex, especially after everything that had come spilling out before and afterwards.

He wasn’t scared about the fertility treatments.

He wanted me to live on Ullima. With him.

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