Chapter 19: The Spare

Layla choked on her spit and started coughing. "What did you say?" She asked between coughs. Alistar began to pat her back to help clear the nothing stuck in her throat. She glared at him and moved away from him in the bed. "No, seriously what did you say?"

Alistar began to rub her back again, "I said that it is time for another child," he said as sweetly as he could.

Layla jumped out of the bed and began to pace next to the bed. "Are you out of your mind? There is no way in hell."

"Layla, don't be like that," he pleaded half-heartedly. "Come back to bed, it's very late."

"I'm going to be like that. I don't want another child. I don't want to be pregnant again." Layla was floored. There wasn't a moment during her pregnancy with Cassias that was pleasant for her. She was sick and bed ridden. She lost an alarming amount of blood during her labor. It would be a cold day in hell before she would agree to do it again.

"Come on," his voice was gratingly saccharine. She wanted to vomit