“Losing you is the worst thing that I could think of happening, so I guess I am worried about you finding another woman, one that will know things that I don’t. I know that men like experience.”
“I want you, Cassandra, no one else. You will never have to worry about me being with someone else. It wouldn’t be possible.”
“Just because you say you won’t doesn’t mean it’s not possible.”
Antoine sighed. How was he supposed to just come out with it? She was going to freak out. How could she not? She was never going to be okay with this. The closer he got to telling her, the more Antoine started to sweat. He was worried, genuinely scared, because he didn’t want to lose her, either. He knew that he might, how could he not?
“Trust me, Cassandra, it’s physically not possible. I will only get hot and ready for you, forever.”
Cassandra smiled, telling him that he had said the sweetest things and that was certainly one thing that Antoine meant. He meant every word of it. His dragon had claimed her and that was that.
“That isn’t just a line.”
“You know that I don’t understand half of what you say, right?”
He chuckled. “I am not trying to be that way, I promise you. I just don’t know how to say it. Why don’t we go get a drink? Maybe that will help it all come out.”
“Is it that bad that you need to drink to tell me?”
“Yeah, I guess it is. I think you’re going to need one, too, but you probably shouldn’t.”
“Why not?”
“Well, because you are probably pregnant, Cassandra, and it’s not good for our baby.”
She had disbelief on her face. “Our baby?! What in the world are you talking about?”
Antoine touched her stomach. “It’s okay, Cassandra. It’s a good thing.”
Chapter 13
Cassandra
“It’s a good thing? I don’t know what you’re talking about Antoine, but that’s not really how it works.”
“We’ve been together, Cassandra.”
“Yeah, but that doesn’t mean that it is going to happen.”
“My family is very fertile.”
Cassandra paused and looked at Antoine. He said it in a weird way. She was missing something, a feeling that she had most of the time when it came to Antoine. It was one of the most frustrating feelings that she’d ever had. She just wanted to know what he was talking about.
“I don’t even know what to say to that, Antoine, but I’m pretty sure that it doesn’t matter how fertile your family is. You don’t get pregnant after having sex a couple of times.”
“Alright, I’m not going to fight you on it, but I’m just saying you might want to take it easy. You wouldn’t be able to get drunk anyway, we barely do. The healing starts kicking in and since it’s basically a poison, it gets flushed out, anyway.”
“Okay, Antoine, I don’t get half of what you’re saying. You’re making my head hurt.”
“Don’t you see?”
“No, I don’t.” Cassandra was trying hard not to let her frustration show, but it felt impossible. She was ready to explode and she just wanted him to stop talking in circles. It was doing her no good, and they might as well not even talk, if he was just going to come out with all of that gibberish.
“I am not like other men, Cassandra.”
That made her smile. “Well, that’s no secret, Antoine. I already knew that. It’s what I like about you most.”
Antoine sighed and Cassandra wished that he would just spit it out already. He was working it up, and there was no way that whatever he was going to say was as bad as he was making it out to be. Cassandra wanted to just tell him not to worry about it, it didn’t matter. It did to him, though. He wanted to tell her, so all Cassandra could do was sit down and wait it out.
