Park to you and Mr. Bas.”“I know, right? It’s crazy, isn’t it? A vampire’s child with a vampire’s child. My life is so nuts right now.”“I think it is wonderful. You will both be superb parents.”“If we can survive my wicked father. Did she make it clear to you how dangerous this might get? I don’t want anything to happen to you.”“I would defend you with my life.”“Ah, now don’t say that. I couldn’t handle it if anything bad happened to you.”“I may not be immortal, but I am loyal.”“Well, so am I, and I want you there to help me take care of this child. So I can’t let anything happen to you.”“It will be okay, Ms. Park. Now you go get some of this before those pigs eat it all. Manger. Your body has two to feed now. I believe the vampire baby will want very much.”When she got back out, Bas smiled at her. They’d been doing a lot of that this morning. They had shared the shower and Bas had dropped on his knees with the waterfall jets pounding his head as he hugged her belly. She knew he was still shocked, because she was too. And yet she seemed to want to leave her hands on her belly, gently caressing the precious life so unexpectedly within. Was mothering such an anthropological imperative that even someone so ill equipped to be one took to it naturally? And if that were the case, what the hell happened to her own mother? No, stop it, she told herself. There is no time for bitterness now. That time in your life is past. Bas and this little life growing inside her body…they were the future. A future they would have to fight for…but what in her life hadn’t been?Park had a plate half full of healthy food and half full of sweets. She planned to eat the sweets first. Today was not a day for diets. Bernie shoved in next to her with a vampire platter-plate. It was already heaping. She felt a twinge of envy because she would be facing a body that she’d need to get back after the baby. While Bernie ate more food in one meal than she could in three days.“Hey, sister,”
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