Chapter Eighty

~ Nox

Mabel looked at me with a straight face like she had just said the most reasonable thing in the world. For the fourth time, I looked Roman’s way and he looked just as baffled as I was. Maybe I didn’t hear her well.

“Come again?” I prompted.

Mabel chuckled. “I know how ridiculous it is and you both might be thinking I’ve lost my damn mind but I haven’t. I really want your Highness to father all my unborn children and since there’s no law against that, I feel there should be no problem.”

Leaning back in my chair, I studied her. Her cat green eyes were trained on me in hopeful curiosity. I listened for her heartbeat which ran at a normal pulse rate so that meant she wasn't under duress. So why in heaven’s name would she make such a daring request. “Why would you ask such of me?”

Mabel cleared her throat and sat more upright in her chair. I wondered if she had steel for a spine the way she sat up so straight. “My family, the Callisters, have prided ourselves for being purebreeds f