Page 39 of Blood Lust
“There is,” Zane as he sat up. “The water heater doesn’t heat that much water, so I think we might all want to rinse off fairly quickly before we turn into popsicles.”
The shower was a quick rotation of me, Cole, and finally Zane. The shower stall was narrow and it made me wonder how Zane and Cole could have even fit in there.
We were all in the process of drying off and getting dressed again when Zane suddenly sat down on the bed, his eyes totally blank and unresponsive.
“What’s going on?” I turned to Cole, and his eyes were distant too.
“Guys.” I snapped fingers in front of Zane’s blanked-out expression. “Zane!”
Zane shook his head and looked past me at Cole.
“Fucking witch knows we’re here,” they said in unison.
“Make it quick,” Zane said as he jumped up from the bed. “I’ll be out front in wolf form. Elle, you fast?”
“I’ve got the vamp speed,” I answered.
“Good, we’re going to need it,” he said.
“Will Shane catch on to us and beam us the fuck back to Lucas’s place once we’re out of here? How the hell is that witch already here, and Shane hasn’t…”
Cole’s speech was cut off when, the next thing we knew, we were all standing in a room filled with shifters, my other vamps and wolves, and Shane holding a stone bowl.
“Thank fucking God!” Braden boomed. “You might be worth a half a shit after all, Shane.”
“The witch found us at that hideout.”
“You three forged a bond that sent out a beacon to all the supernaturals. It’s how I managed to get you back before that witch got to you first.”
“Shit!” I said. “What the hell. She could have zapped us out of there too. It’s what she did the last time she found us.”
“She was there for other reasons,” Shane said with a dark look to Zane.
“What reasons?” Zane asked while I watched my other three vamps carry looks of death toward the guy.
“To kill you and to kill what you just created with Elle.”
“Just created?” I croaked out.
Shane inhaled. “The powers sent out by you three in your bonding was the conception of a shifter hybrid. As we speak, Zane’s offspring is rapidly growing in you.”
My jaw dropped. I couldn’t have spoken if I wanted to.
“Bottom line?” Logan grimaced, “We not only have you and your baby to protect, we just pissed the bitch witch off, and now we’re at war with her whether we’re all fucking bonded or not.”
I went to collapse, but Braden got me while Cole and Zane stood frozen like someone had paralyzed them.Fuck! Shit!Never a break, and fuck this bond that makes me feel like it’s right, when this time, it was so fucking wrong and pretty much cost us our lives.
And the life of my baby?
“Oh my God, I’m pregnant.”
“Least of our worries right now,” Braden said. “We’ve got to prep for the witch. Lucas, Roman, and their covens are busting their asses to get here to help us too. Shit happened so fast, but it’s no one’s fault. If Cole could’ve sensed you’d get pregnant, he would’ve told you. Our merge with the wolves has changed certain things we once had. We all just need to work together now. That baby is as much all of ours as it is Zane’s.”
Now, we had a whole new shit show to prepare for, and hopefully, we could do it quickly.
Chapter Twenty-One
My head snapped into the game and how shit was going to get real and fast. I had no idea what to expect next, and I couldn’t even focus on the fact that Zane just knocked my ass up. Goddamn if I thought about that. I loved my vampires, I felt closer to Zane now that the bond was sealed between him and me, but I couldn’t even try and think about some guy getting me pregnant that I only started to care about after a merge and now this bond.
