“You’ll have to trust me for a few minutes.”
Her fingers picked at her nails. She said, “Christy…I can’t leave her alone.”
He shot a look at her friend, who was arguing something with Blake and looking quite happy to be arguing whatever it was. Blake had probably asked her to have a child or something. He said, “I don’t think she will mind. Also, Blake never shuts up, so she probably won’t even notice you’re gone.”
Heather chewed on her bottom lip and then said, “Hold on. Let me just tell her I’m…” She darted toward Christy, leaned in and whispered something into Christy’s ear. Christy gave her a long and level look then nodded slowly. Heather straightened and then said, “Okay, but I’m really tired and…and I’m not agreeing to have dragon babies or whatever so don’t get any ideas.”
Oh, he had ideas already. Lots of them. He gave her what he hoped was an innocent smile. “I don’t need humans to bear my children.”
She walked toward him, the gown rippling and swaying around her body. “All right then.”
This was a bad idea. The worst idea, in fact, and he should say he had changed his mind or something like that. Instead, he just jerked his head toward the stairs and said, “Come on then.”
