Silver entered and paused at the sight of me, her expression exactly the same as Kayla's had been when she first saw anew after I woke up. Her eyes wide and her skin pale for the first time, she raised her hand to her mouth."I had to see for myself," she whispered.Her eyes nearly bulged out of her head."You are alive...?" It came out as a gasp. "You are awake." Without letting go of Kayla I turned to her. "Was I not supposed to survive transformation?"She turned her gaze to Kayla then back to me. "It's too soon," there was fear in her voice. She took a step forward, almost stumbled then with firmer steps made her way toward me. She stopped even before getting within 6 feet, her eyes riveted on mine."Your eyes..."She looked her Kayla, grey eyes filled with questions. "Is this natural? Is it possible?"Kayla gave a helpless shrug. "Has he fed?""I am not hungry," I told her firmly."But how is that possible?" Silver wondered again. This is the first time I have ever seen her spe

It sounded like a great idea so we did just that. There was no way to shake the shoppers who stopped in their tracks to stare so we ignored them. As best as we could, of course.There were several clothes stores available and only two catered to men. We went to one of them, pushing open the glass door to open it. Several shoppers perused clothes, taking clothes in and out of racks.I hadn't brought much clothes from WhiSare and what few I had I left at the guest house. The only other cloth I had was extremely dirty now I'm actually amazed I was able to keep wearing it while I was Octavius' prisoner. Phoenix had supplied the cloth I wore to the mall.We walked to a section where a female attendant worked with a tall good-looking guy. She seemed to be having a hard dealing with him. Maybe he was an arrogant prat or maybe she was just tired. But that didn't seem to be the case when she turned around to see me and Kayla walking toward her.Her smile widened. "Hello. Good morning, how can

We didn't need to sleep but we closed our eyes - at least we tried before attacking each other again. I don't know how long we stayed in the bed shifting positions and creating new styles; me above her, she above me, me behind her, she spooned up against me...I lost track of all the styles but one thing is certain, the other occupants of the hotel knew what we were up to and steered clear of my room. Also if we had a crew filming us an award for Creativity in Bed would be created and we would win.Eventually, unbelievably exhausted in a way I never knew vampires could be, Kayla and I fell on our backs breathing heavily. Kayla's head lay on my chest, her hand rested on my chest with her fingers touching the scar over where my heart used to be. Her right leg lay against my groin. I ran my hand up and down her leg wondering how I ever got so lucky.With life.And love.Neither of us said anything, just perfectly content to enjoy the moment as we were. And then I fell asleep. I don't k

To say that everyone's jaw dropped is an understatement. One thing I'll say for sure is that the same look of disbelief was etched into every facial feature. That is, until Kayla stood up, pushed her chair back and revealed the bump.Silver nearly fell out of her chair. Same with Miles. Neither of them could believe what they were hearing. And seeing.And so I too because in an hour Kayla's belly seemed to have grown a little more. She noticed this too and turned worried eyes to me. I took her hand in mine to let her know that I was there with her every step of the way. The only people who didn't seem too shocked were Octavius - well, in his case as you have gathered, few things surprise him and he barely shows his feelings in his expressions. He's also a man of few words. And Phoenix. But it looked more like she was angry than unsurprised which in itself was surprising. "H-how?" Silver muttered. She could barely even get the words out. It's the second time since I've known her that

Her voice was hoarse, very throaty with pain. Her face was a grimace, a mask of pain but every time anyone tried to go close to her, Kayla would shrink back, worried that we would try to hold her down to tear the lump in her belly away from her even though it was obviously killing her. In just a few hours her skin had taken on a gray tone, looking dried and shrunken to her skin.Silver was more forceful with trying to get Kayla to see reasons with why we had to get rid of the child but I stood in her way. The last thing I wanted was for her to hurt Kayla in the process of trying to save her."Take it easy, Silver," I told her, pushing her back from Kayla.Her eyes sparked anger at me. "That thing is killing her!" She screamed."I'm fine!" Kayla argued but her voice was weaker. Cleopoda had run to the room with Silver but she withdrew to get something. Maybe to call the others.Silver's gaze softened. She clutched desperately to my shirt, "Shawn you have to do something," she whispere