Igrinned. “That’s great! Do it!” If my blood wasn’t fertile to the vampiresanymore than I wouldn’t have to worry about them and RAIDOS wouldn’t be afterme anymore either. Kai and I could live in peace.
Gretchenlooked sadly at Kai and then back to me. “It would make you infertile. Forever.You wouldn’t ever be able to have children with Kai.”
Iheard the breath go out of Kai from across the room. My stomach sank.
“No!”he roared.
“Kai,maybe this is the sacrifice we have to make. To stop all of this killing. Toend the war. We can still take care of Layla, but then we can rest assured noone else will be coming for me.”
Kai’seyes were yellow. He stalked toward me like I was prey. Patches of fur weredancing on his arms. “If you don’t want children with me, that’s one thing. Butif you do, than no one will take that joy from me. No one!” Dominance came offof him in waves. I could see it like magical mist. For the first time ever, Ilowered my head in submission. The witches nervously began gathering theirthings.
‘Doyou want to have a child with me? I know you were hesitant when you first foundout about all of this, but do you now?’Kai asked. He had closed the bond. I couldn’t feel his thoughts. When I hadfirst met Kai and he had told me that werewolves were all about reproducing, itscared me off. I wasn’t sure I wanted a kid that would be the next Matefinderand be hunted down. But when I had found out that I was infertile unless wemated, it awoke something in me. I did want a baby with him, I wanted to becalled mommy. I wanted it all.
Inodded.‘Yes.’
Themate bond burst open and I felt his feelings. He wanted children so badly, buthe didn’t want his desires to cloud my judgment. He wanted me to make my ownchoices.
‘Onekid, in a few years and then we do the infertility spell,’I told him.
‘Threekids,’he countered and I smiled.
“Two,”I said out loud and the witches looked at me.
Kaigrinned. “Deal.”
Alexaburst into the room. She was panting and barely clothed. Kai stepped forward.
“What’swrong,” he asked her.
“Thevampires have completely retreated, but RAIDOS is coming full throttle. Theyhave a dozen helicopters, weaponized drones, the works. They’re going to wipeout the mountain.”
Kainodded and looked at Alexa. “Do you think you can handle this?”
Alexa’sblack cropped bob was slicked back into a small pony tail, her mouth was setinto a stubborn line. She nodded.
“AmI missing something?” Sylvia asked.
Alexaput her hands six inches from each other and took a deep breath. A blue cracklefire ball arose in her palm.
Thewitches stared at her hands in shock.
Shesmirked. “Time to make it rain helicopters and drones.”
Icould hear helicopter blades in the distance.
Kaigrabbed my hand and drug me outside. The witches filed out onto the lawn behindus.
Kai’scellphone rang. He glanced at it and was about to put it back in his pocketwhen a small vision of the White House flickered in my head. What the?
“Answerit,” I told him.
“Now?”He gestured to the helicopters in the distance. The militia and our wolves wereall retreating from the edges of the mountain and coming home.
Iurged him with my hands. He picked it up.
“Hello,this is Kai.” I leaned close so I could pick up the call with my werewolfhearing.
“You’vemade quite the civil unrest with your announcement, son.”
