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Chapter 160
I nodded. “Leila asked Elias to help her develop the cure in exchange for giving his father partial credit. She’s planning on asking you to help her, too.” I took a deep breath, not quite sure how to ask. “Amy, if Leila can’t do it, if she can’t work to find the cure, can you?”
Amy’s eyebrows pulled together. “Why do you ask?”
I said nothing.
“You want to take the cure. Why?”
I nodded. “Amy, it’s the only way that I can protect my family …”
“Protect your family?” Amy asked in disbelief. “By being human?”
I took a deep breath. “Amy, I don’t want this life for them! For Leila! For my family.” I stood and walked to a corner of the room, placing my hands on my hips to calm myself, and then turned back to her. “I don’t want this kind of life for them. The only way to protect them is for us to disap
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Amy knelt down on the floor beside her chair and held her hands. “Leila, as you know, preeclampsia is an elevation of the expectant mother’s blood pressure and an excessive amount of protein in the urine … and you have both.” Leila nodded, taking a deep breath. “It’s a hypertensive disorder, but can be quite serious if left untreated.” Leila nodded again, regaining her composure. Amy rose and opened a hidden refrigerator, threw two blood bags into the microwave, and then clipped the straw that came from one and handed it to Leila. She immediately started drinking it down. “Leila, I’m going to start you on magnesium sulfate, which will help prevent you from going into seizures. It’s good that you’ve been taking prenatal vitamins, but you are to start taking them twice a day: one in the morning and one at night. As you know, prenatal vitamins are very strong, but because this is a dhampir pregnancy, taking them twice a
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“Let’s go get something to eat before we go home,” Leila said. Beside me in the limo, she reached over and squeezed my hand.I turned my attention from the window, absently watching the scenery go by, and looked at Leila. “No.”Leila sighed. “Lance, you can’t treat me like I’m glass.”“Leila, you heard what Amy said,” I said, returning the hand squeeze. “You need to rest.” I turned my attention back out the window.Leila sighed. “Charles, take us to Maggiano’s Little Italy.”I sighed as I shook my head. It was a wonderful Italian restaurant, and I hadn’t been there in a while. Any other time, I would have been delighted. But now …“Yes, ma’am,” Charles said, and then looked at me in the rearview mirror for approval. I gave him a slight nod.Leila shook my hand, forcing me to look at her. “I haven’t
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We were both quiet during our meal, and I really didn’t taste it, although I knew the food was exquisite. It was a lovely afternoon, but it was time to start heading back.“Shall we?” I asked, having already paid the bill.Leila nodded, dabbing at her lips with her napkin.“Man, you were hungry!” I said, reaching out to help her up. “I am definitely going to have to start feeding you more often.”Leila laughed. “It was delicious.”I smiled. “Then, I’ll have to order take out from here more often.”“That would be lovely.” She swayed a bit as she got to her feet, but I steadied her.Actually, I had planned to have all of our meals catered for a while … at least until after the baby was born, if not indefinitely. “Shall we?”I kept my arm around her waist, helping to steady her, as we headed out the front door where the limo was
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“Well, little man,” I said, walking down the hallway and into the penthouse, “it looks like it’s just you and me.”I set Jase down onto the floor, threw three blood bags into the microwave, and made us both a glass of iced tea. A moment later, there was a knock on the door. When I answered it, Kellen was on the other side, wearing his signature blue jeans, white T-shirt, and jacket and sneakers.“Hey, guy,” I said, stepping aside. “Thanks for coming.”“Addie said that you wanted to see me,” Kellen said. “What’s up?”I walked over to the microwave and pulled out the blood bags. Kellen sat down on one of the club chairs, and Jase crawled up in his lap. I poured a blood bag into a sippy cup for Jase, and the other two into long-stemmed glasses for Kellen and me. Carrying the two glasses, I crossed the room and handed Kellen one of the glasses as I sat down on the couch adjace
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I ran quickly through the penthouse, leaving Leila and Jase sleeping, as I flung the front door of the penthouse open. “Stay here with Leila and Jase! Let no one enter but me!” I yelled to Channing and Blake, standing outside the door.“I’ll go with you!” Channing yelled.“No! Do not leave Leila and Jase!” I said over my shoulder. “Stay with them! Protect them at all cost!”They both nodded, on full alert. Unwilling to wait for the elevator, I ran down the hallway to the stairwell and down them as quickly as I could. I pushed the door open, and Gregory saw me running through the back of the castle. He nodded to Cal, another vampire bodyguard, and they both followed me quickly out the door. Guests stepped back, startled, as I rushed into the courtyard, but moved along. I looked around, but my ghost was gone.Seeing nothing out of the ordinary, Gregory asked. “Mr. Steel, what’s wrong?”
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I smiled, glad to see that she was in such good spirits, especially after the day we had, and headed into the bathroom. Soon, I emerged from the shower, refreshed, with just a towel wrapped around my waist.“Hum,” Leila said, sitting in a club chair in the living room, adjacent from the bathroom, “you look good enough to eat.”I laughed. “Now, don’t you dare get that started.”She laughed as she finished the last of the blood in her glass and I headed toward the bedroom. I came out a few minutes later, wearing a dark gray suit, black Versace shoes, with my dark brown hair combed back, still wet from the shower.Leila gave a low whistle, smiling.“Don’t start,” I said, grinning as she laughed.“No, I don’t want you to be late for your meeting,” she said, smiling seductively, “but maybe later.”I shook my head. “Leila, you need to rest.&rdquo
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I walked over to her and gave her air kisses over both cheeks. “You didn’t tell me you were coming, but thanks for being here.”She looked at me seriously. “What happened last night affects us all, but I also came for a reason that I will divulge later.” Then, she gave my arm a gentle squeeze. “But when it comes to yours and your family’s safety, I will always be here.”I pulled her in for a slight hug, and she gave me air kisses over both cheeks, careful not to smudge her red lipstick. “Thank you, Raven.” I then walked to the head of the table and addressed everyone in the room. “Thank you all for coming tonight. You may be seated.” They all complied, but I remained standing. “As you know, we were attacked last night. I asked you to come here tonight so we could exchange information. If you know anything at all about anything that I am about to tell you, please let me know. In exchange, I wi
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Then, I turned to everyone in the room. “There are horsd'oeuvres and wine. Please help yourselves. Thank you all for coming. I will keep you apprised of any developments. Please, do the same if anything happens in your covens, or if you discover any leads.”Then, I walked over to Drake. “May I speak with you privately?”Drake nodded and followed me into a small conference room. I pulled out my checkbook and laid it down on the table. “Drake, I apologize that I haven’t to the hospital lately, but Leila isn’t well. I appreciate you keeping the deliveries coming, though.” I started writing and added a few more zeros than usual, since I hadn’t been to the hospital for a while, then tore it off and handed it to him.“Thanks, Lance,” Drake said, slipping the check into his pocket. “I’ll make sure that the hospital gets this.”I nodded. “Thanks, Drake. I sincerely app
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