If I were brave enough I would have tossed it across the room.
Instead, I thrust it back onto my finger until it hit the wedding band.
With a heavy sigh, I closed my eyes and tried to sleep.
Chapter 31
Vadim
Her face twisted in disgust as she tried to push me off her. Then she covered her nose with her hand. I pulled back and sniffed my pits. Clean. Fresh. I had showered after training this morning.
She gagged and tried to roll onto her side.
I climbed off her and watched her yank the covers back and run for the bathroom.
I knelt on the bed and waited.
Then I heard it—violent retching, followed by gagging, followed by silence, followed by more retching.
A flurry of excitement hit the pit of my stomach.
I climbed off the bed and walked to the bathroom door.
I knew I didn’t stink.
She was kneeling in front of the toilet, pushing her hair back with a groan, cheeks flushed. She reached for some toilet paper and then registered me in the doorway.
“What did you do?” she said, pinching her fingers over her nose and waving me out.“Use a whole bottle of shower gel?”
Insolent little—
“I believe that’s my child causing the sickness,” I said.“Not my scent.”
And I waited.
Waited while she went very still. Waited while it moved through her—the arithmetic of it, the timeline, the particular quality of silence that follows the arrival of something irreversible.
She carried my seed.
“I’ll send for a pregnancy test. If it’s positive you’ll see a doctor.” I pulled the door shut behind me.
And grinned all the way to my bedroom.
I had nailed her good and proper.
An heir.
My legacy.
He would be strong.
??????
Me: Did you give it to her?
Radovan: Yes, Pakhan.
I stared at my phone. Nothing followed.
