Blood Doll (The Vampire Agape Series Book #3) (The Vampire Agape Series #3) by Georgia Cates Page A

emotions yet.
    I’m not upset about the possibility of a baby. I’m not even uneasy about the prospect of having one so soon. In fact, I’m quite happy about it but I’m afraid Avery won’t be. She’s young–even by human standards–and I’m not sure a baby is something she wants at this point in her life.
    She takes my hand and pulls me into her room before shutting the door. “I want you to show me all the ways I’m yours.”
    I place my index finger to her lips. “Shh.” I point to my ears and then in the direction of the others since she sometimes forgets about them when we’re behind closed doors.
    She nods, understanding my meaning. I lower my mouth and whisper softly in her ear. “My office.”
    She mouths the word, “Now?”
    I nod and she follows me out of her bedroom toward the only soundproof quarters available to us. I know she had something more romantic in mind to celebrate our news but she and I have to discuss our relationship before we can explore the other ways we belong to each other.
    Her heart is pounding when I close the door. She’s terrified. “Something’s wrong.”
    I want to put her at ease. “Nothing’s wrong but we need to talk about something I don’t want the others to overhear.”
    “Okay.”
    There’s only one place to start. The beginning. “We unknowingly completed our agápe bond this morning.”
    She’s filled with confusion. “What does that mean?”
    I’ll try to explain it the way I understand it. “I’ll no longer need to drink your blood for us to maintain an unbreakable connection. We’ll feel it all the time but it’ll be at its strongest when we make love.”
    She beams and slinks close to me. “Perfect … because I think I feel the need for some strong bonding right now.”
    As good as that sounds, I only want to proceed after I have informed consent from her. “I need to explain some other things to you.” She steps back so she can see my face. “My DNA has been dead since the night I was turned into a vampire but because you’re my agápe, you make me more human. More alive.”
    “I’ve never thought of you as dead.”
    That’s good to know since I’m about to drop this bomb on her. “Only life can bring forth life and you revive my dead cells so they may live again.”
    “You’ve always been very much alive to me.”
    I’m able to see that she doesn’t understand where I’m going with this so I need to back up. “It’s all part of the agápe phenomenon. We don’t understand the process but we know that agápe mates cause changes in vampires. We become more human. More alive. Sebastian and Ella weren’t together long. The changes he underwent weren’t near as radical as the ones Curry has experienced. We suspect that his profound changes are how Chansey was able to conceive. We haven’t tested the waters to know the degree of the change in me yet but we must consider the possibility that you could become pregnant.”
    I almost think I can hear a click in her mind when she comprehends what I’m saying. “This morning …” She clears her throat but only a whisper escapes. “I could be pregnant because of this morning?”
    Her emotions are all over the place. What is she thinking? “I’m sorry. I didn’t know.”
    I’m not really sure it would have mattered if I had. I don’t think I would have been able to stop because it felt as though something else was in control of me when we completed our bond.
    “I’m not sorry.” She steps closer and slides her arms around my shoulders. “Not even a little. I love you and nothing would make me happier than having your baby.”
    We’ve never discussed such things. We had no reason to so I couldn’t guess where her head would be but I’m pleasantly surprised by her reaction. “I was scared you might be upset. Or angry. ”
    She comes up on her tiptoes and presses a kiss against the side of my neck. “Angry? Why would you think that?”
    She pushes her fingers through my