Cured By Blood: A Vampire Pregnancy Romance by Samantha Snow Page A

been getting a headache. His emotions were all over the place. He had gone from no longer feeling anything to feeling more than he knew what to deal with. He had found someone that he loved more than he understood. He dealt with the emotions of falling in love with her as she was dying, unsure if she would make the decision in time to save her.
    Then he did and was able to finish it in time and had the moment of pure joy only to have the confusion of the pregnancy, a mix of fear and unbelievable surprise. He had never had children, had never thought about having children, and now he was going to have two. Although he wanted to be happy, his fear of what would happen was growing.
    Having Tara be an illegal vampire was going to come with some difficulties, but keeping the birth of two vampire children was going to be near impossible to keep from them. One wrong person, wrong call or email, anything, would put them on the radar and risk the authorities coming after Tara.
    “Did you make your calls?”
    Looking up at Tara, he felt himself pause in momentary bafflement. She was out of bed, dressed, and looking healthier than he had ever seen. Her skin was a solid tone, no shadows in her face, no sense of frailty remaining. Her eyes still surprised him as well. He kept expecting to see the dark blue and was stunned at the vivid pale blue that met his own.
    “Yes, we will have company in about two days. There will be workers here tonight, turning a section of the basement into a medical room.”
    “O... kay…”
    “He will need a place to do the ultrasounds, checkups and eventually the birth that isn’t easily accessible to other people. Even a vampire run center has leaks and government eyes.”
    “Oh, I see. Okay. So now what?”
    “Well, we can go into the gardens. You will be amazed what you can see and smell now.”
    Dru was relieved to see the excited smile on her face. It had just occurred to him that she was actually carrying his children. He would need to keep an eye on her, make sure she stayed healthy and keep her from worrying too much. He wasn’t sure how it would affect a vampire pregnancy, but this was something that he wanted to be as careful about as possible. He just got her back from the brink of death, he didn’t want to lose her again, or the babies.
    “I feel like a cat or squirrel or something. I want to stop and smell and look at everything. The details, the little things you never pay attention to or see. I want to inspect everything.”
    “Yes, I could imagine it is very different. Your strengths and sensitivities will make everything very different, almost new. But wait until the gardens. You can finally experience them the way I do.”
    They headed down the hall and around to the garden entrance. She could still remember that first night, and had a hard time believing it was only a little over a month ago. The weeks she spent getting to know Dru, and yet growing weaker and sicker.
    Looking back, though, the sickness seemed to only exist in a very small fragment of the memories, whereas the time with Dru overshadowed everything else. Learning about him, telling him about her, feeling this need for each other grow, that seemed to have occurred during months instead of only a few weeks.
    Tara smiled at Dru as they walked through the glass hall to the atrium. Her nose was already being assaulted with the fragrances. What she had thought of as light floral scents were now almost overpowering. Flowers that seemed to have no smell now had distinct scents attributed to them.
    The smell was almost overpowering, until she focused on a purple passion flower. The swirls of dark purple in on the blue petals and the whimsical yellow pollen covered stalks fascinated her. She began looking at each flower she came across. Subtle yellows and reds, little colorful patterns she had never noticed before.
    Dru returned her smile when she looked to him, grinning. She was happy for the distraction and could imagine he