Chapter 36: Avani

This was definitely NOT the conversation I wanted to be having right after Mere found out that she is my mate and having to convince her that I didn’t want to be mated to a dragon. I’m not sure how to explain to her that she’s my entire life and no one will ever take her place. I can’t exactly describe the other dragons like sisters since I’m having a child with one.

I see her body tense up, and she looks back at her food. That food must be so fucking interesting because she’s focused more on it than me during this entire conversation.

“I have, or will have, a child with Zephyr. In a few weeks.”

She frowns, staring into her bowl of food. “So, you’re going to go have sex with her and have a child with her?”

“No! No, that’s not what I mean.” I sigh, rubbing my hands over my face. “I’ve already impregnated her. It was before I met you.”

“So you have a child?” She asks slowly, as if she’s trying hard to figure out a very difficult problem in her head.

“We will, when he or she hatches