Page 42 of Surviving Enchantment: Part One
Demuel and Solor looked at each other.“Yeah.”
Jennel blinked.“Wait.Both of you?”
Solor shrugged.“There was a satyr rising and alotof sex magic in the air.We burned out the magic, and then we left.”
“You left.You and Demuel left.”
“Correct.”
Jennel nodded, and her chimera began to flicker a little.“Well, that explains why she didn’t tell you.Either of you.”
Demuel frowned.“Tell us what?”
Solor leaned back.“She’s pregnant.It can’t be ours.She isn’t showing.”
Jennel wrinkled her nose.“To quote Akkas, she’s carrying deep.She’s also wearing a binder to flatten her out.So, she’s six months along.”
Demuel staggered and leaned on the back of a couch.“You aren’t kidding.”
“Nope.She had to talk to Matthias, and he spotted the double heartbeat, hers and the baby’s.Leo is planning a baby shower.”
Solor scrubbed his face with his hand.“Shit.I have been trying to ask her out again, but she’s been dodging me.”
Jennel cocked her head.“She calls you Stomp?”
“I was half shifted when we...”
Demuel nodded.“Me, too.”He snorted softly.“She calls me Bonehead.”
Reymark said softly, “Have you actually exchanged names?”
The guys both paled.
Day-ek sighed.“And there it is.So, paternity is unknown.”
Solor murmured, “I am the father.”
Demuel nodded.“He’s the father.”
Reymark chuckled.“On a first encounter?Ballsy.”
Demuel snorted.“I was not going to insist; I was happy where I was.”
Solor frowned.“Do any of you have her number?”
Jennel shrugged.“Sure, but she’s heading to work today.You might have a better chance of finding her on shift.”
Solor sighed.“That is why I moved to nights when she did, but her rig is fast, and they are good at what they do.She doesn’t even get out of her rig at Dem-rah’s anymore.”
Jennor snorted.“I would bet Jennel’s engagement ring that it is because of heartburn or nausea.Ambin was miserable when she was pregnant.”
A female voice said, “Pregnant?Solor?Are you going to tell Mom that you aren’t a virgin anymore?”
Jennel looked past Day-ek and saw a young woman who was so graceful that it looked like she was fluid.She had dark brown skin and dark hair with thick waves of metallic gold.Her eyes were astonishingly green.
Solor muttered, “Myor, this is Jennel, you know Jennor, and that is Day-ek and Reymark.”
“Hello.So, who has my brother gotten pregnant?It isn’t Jennel.”
