“Perhaps you could stay with Acadia.”
Kaj narrowed his eyes. “That’s not an option.”
“Oh.”
Before Blaz could launch into questions about Kaj’s personal life, he spun around and headed for the door.
“I’ll need you ready to go out with Mirakel,” he told Blaz. “I’m sending him to the Dungeon. I want cameras installed over there so we can keep an eye on Darko.”
Because of everything going on, Kaj had put off addressing the traitor, but he had every intention of making that fucker pay for his deceit. However, he knew it had to be handled in a diplomatic fashion, hence the reason he was going to get a look-see as to what the vampire was doing.
“I’m ready when he is,” Blaz called out as Kaj stepped out into the hall, then his voice lowered as he began barking orders at the poorheurospwho had been doomed to this task.
Kaj strolled down the hallway, past the various rooms, only four of which were occupied since they had yet to fortify the ranks of the Zenith. At some point, he hoped all the rooms would be filled. God knew there were enough of them. Not nearly as many as the angels had built in the mansion they’d moved to. When they’d lived here, he figured thefiestreighhad been sharing spaces, probably two or three to a room if he had to guess.
That thought led to another. When the day came that Acadia moved in with him, and they were mated appropriately, that small space wouldn’t be nearly enough. Especially not if his female was open to having a family. He knew the Fae had been rendered infertile because she’d told him as much, but if Michael expected Kaj to go along with the plan of resurrecting the original vampire, that was something that would have to be corrected. Kaj wanted babies with the female if she was open to the idea.
Spinning back around, Kaj strolled back to his private quarters, stuck his head in. “If you’re going to accommodate me for the future, I suggest you add a couple of rooms onto this space.”
“Rooms?”
“Yes. Adjoining. With bathrooms.”
Blaz’s eyebrows lowered in confusion.
“If you’re hell-bent on keeping me confined, you might want to account for the family I intend to have one day.”
When those nearly colorless eyes widened, Kaj smirked, then spun around and headed back down the hall. Let the male chew on that for a little while.
There was no sense going into a lengthy explanation, but the gist of it was, Kaj had every intention of mating the female who owned his heart. No matter how long it took, he would wait until she was ready.
One day, though.
She knew she was losing it asshe took in the unfamiliar surroundings, the strangers moving about the room, the weird machines connected to her via tubes in her arms, but she couldn’t help it. The panic continued to rise, making it difficult to breathe.
Where was she? Who were these people? What were they doing to her?
Oh, God.Someone help me, please!
Clutching her chest, she drew in big gulps of air, but they didn’t seem to make it past her throat.
“Honey, I need you to calm down.” A firm but gentle hand curled around her wrist. “Take a deep breath. Yes. Good. Another.”
The female looming over her sighed as though she was happy with the progress being made. She, however, felt no different. Her chest felt compressed, as though there was a great weight upon her.
“Where am I?” she asked, not sure what was going on.
“You’re in a hospital,” the female with the kind eyes and gentle touch said as she patted her hand. “I want you to focus on breathing. That’s all you need to worry about right now.”
A series of approvals continued from the female as she inhaled, exhaled, managed to get her heart to calm.
“Now, can you tell me your name?”
Her gaze swung back to the female. Name? She had no idea what her name was. She had no ideawhereshe was or how she’d gotten here, either. In fact, she was hoping they could fill her in on what happened.
“It’s okay,” the older female wearing a loose-fitting maroon top and matching pants said. “Take a deep breath. We don’t have to figure that out now.”
“Where am I?”
