“By how much?”
“Certainly more than three, if not four,” she says, pulling off her gloves and moving the screens to one side, pulling in the ultrasound machine to the side of the bed.
“Four?” My voice is hoarse.
“We’ll see,” she says.
“I’m hardly showing.” I look up at Dominik.
There is a hungry look on his face, a look which sends another type of heat through my body.
“The point at which any woman starts to show is different for everyone,” Éva points out as she rolls up my top and applies the conductive jelly.
As she moves the probe over me, a grainy picture appears.
“There you go, there’s baby,” Éva says.
I can hardly bear to look, but I do, and I see something which looks like a bean, then something which looks like a lizard.
Then I see the baby.
My baby.
And Dominik squeezes my hand again.
Éva peers at the screen, moving the probe slightly against my skin.
“Yes, four months,” she says, with a slight note of triumph.
“Four,” I whisper, hardly daring to look at Dominik.
“Four,” he growls, his heated gaze raking over me. “Not what you were expecting, little dove?”
“I knew I wasexpecting,” I say as Éva clears off the jelly and turns off the machine. “I didn’t realize how far along I was.”
I’ve clearly been kidding myself in the vain hope it would all go away…
“You need to take care of yourself,” Eva says. “Good food, plenty of rest, plenty of water.”
She turns her attention to Dominik.
“I wish to do some blood work, which means taking her blood. Have you fed from her?” she asks.
Dominik bares his fangs with a slow hiss.
“Yes, I have,” he says. “With her full consent. It will not have harmed the infant inside her.”
“It won’t, but the venom you inject will show on the tests, and I need to be aware,” she says.
Dominik growls low under his breath. “If you wish to take some of Lucy’s blood, I will not stop you.”
“Er, don’t I get a say in this?” I point out.
He turns his megawatt fangs on me.
“Of course,” he says. “If you do not wish to provide your blood, I won’t stop you either.”
I roll my eyes at Éva. “Ignore him. Please take the blood.” I turn my attention to Dominik. “And if you think I’m saying that to you again, you’ll need to behave better.”
