“I’m going to be fine,” I say to him as his brow creases. “We’re both going to be fine.”
My big, bad vamp blows out a non-existent breath.
“I could not be without you, Lucy,” he says. “Eternity is a long time.”
“We have too much work to do.” I squeeze his hand. “We’ve got a baby to raise and monster rights to fight for. You can’t get rid of me that easily. You’ve just married me.”
“I will never leave you,galambom,” Dominik says, a muscle jumping in his jaw.
“You say that now, but wait until I get the next contraction because I’m going to yell the place down and tell you I hate all men.”
“That is good,” Dominik intones.
“Why?”
“Because I am not a man. I am your monster.”
“I couldn’t ask for a better monster by my side.” I smile at him.
“I love you, Lucy Király,” he growls. “Yell at me all you like.”
Epilogue
Lucy
A soft springwind blows the muslin into a balloon of white through the open windows, open to allow the sunshine in.
Dominik sits in shadow, cradling our son, Damek. The baby gurgles at him, a gummy smile on his face as Dominik tickles him gently on his stomach.
Not that I had any doubts but my big, bad vamp loves our boy as passionately as he loves me. And not just in a play with the baby way. He’s got stuck into every aspect, from changing and bathing to feeding and all the sleepless nights.
Well, when you have a vampire as a partner, why shouldn’t he do the nightshift?
It’s a good thing too, given how terrible I’ve been feeling recently.
“I’m just going to…” I roll out of bed and head to the bathroom where I throw up noisily.
“My dove?” Dominik says from the doorway.
“Must have been something I ate. My stomach is delicate at the moment.”
“You are not eating nearly enough.” Dominik crouches down next to me as I rest my forehead on the cool marble.
“It’s all brand new, being a mother. I guess I’m just caught up in the moment,” I say. “I haven’t felt like this since…”
I stare up at Dominik. He gazes down at me, Damek waving his pudgy arms around and laughing at the echoes in the bathroom.
“Since when?” Dominik asks.
“It can’t be possible.” I feel my eyes fill with tears. “Vampires are…dead.”
“We’re in a state of stasis more like. Or rather that’s what vampire scholars have postulated. Our mortal forms insulated from time. It’s sort of like being dead.”
“But you can’t…have children?”
“I don’t know. I’ve never tried,” Dominik says with a shrug which Damek finds hilarious.
“What do you mean you’venever tried.”
