Changer's Blood (Balancer's Soul cycle) (84 page)

Did she just say what I thought she said?
Connor
thought to
him
self without realizing she was
reading
his mind. He
was still looking into her green eyes just as her tears spilled over her cheeks.

She said in a quiet and reluctant voice “Yes… I did say it.
I’m with child.
”

Without anot
her word
he
dropped to
his
knees.

Sarah said “Connor, what are you…
!
” She tried taking a step back, but
his
arms were still securely wrapped around her lower back.
He
summoned power to
his
eyes and allowed instinct to
guide and
complete the task. Using sonar
,
in a way that only Sarah and
he
ha
s
mastered
,
he
looked into her body
to the microscopic level
.

With the rapid pulses emanating from within
, he
felt Sarah go completely rigid
and gasped as she looked into his
glowing eyes.
Connor
could
suddenly
see
everything
that is around
himself
, but
this time
he
focused
his
mind to read only
inside
Sarah’s body.
He
could see each beat of her racing heart, her lungs expand with a much needed breath, all of her blood circulating thr
ough her circulatory system
and internal organs.
Even her muscles were rigid and restrained.
He
leaned in closer to her
clothed
abdomen and finally found where the womb was.

He
had to focus to
the cellular level. It was difficult
searching for something so small
.

Since
his
mom is the head nurse at the hospital
,
she wanted
her children
to learn all about the human body and how it work
ed
because something might happen and its always best to be prepared
. She would always quiz
Connor
when
he
was a toddler and
did so
all the way up to his
accident
;
where he received the
black brand
on his breast
.

He
made
his
mind focus even more while
he
used sonar to catch a glimpse.
He
finally
found what
he
searched
for. It was a
large egg that was
larger than any
other
cell in her entire body. The egg
had
cells that were already dividing
inside the
spherical
membrane
and
he
knew it was true.

Connor
scared Sarah as
he
shot to
his
feet and swept her off her
s
.
He
sp
un her in the air as he
laughed.
His
heart began beating with joy.

He
stopped spinning
after a few twirls
and pulled her close
to his
chest
and laughed again.
This day has been a fantastic ride
.
He
sat her back on her feet and said with joy “Sarah, it’s true. We’re going to have a new member of our family.
”

H
ot
tears
ended from her
because she was
caught unprepared for
his
happiness for some reason
. When Sarah spoke again she
still
sounded
in shock. “I thought you might have been angry.”

“Angry?
Sarah this is glorious news.” Connor
grabbed her shaking hands with
his
.
Her hands felt somewhat cold and clammy.
“Sarah, we are going to have a child. That is the greatest gift in the world. It’s the gift of
a
new life.” Her green eyes started
twinkling
again
after hearing these comforting words
. He
entered her mind.
“Have you seen our unborn child yet?”

“No, I haven’t because I cannot see inside myself.
I’ve tried
. Oh how I’ve tried
, but I couldn’t achieve any results.
I don’t see how I could
see our child until birth
.”
Her co
nfused expression came back as he
smiled.

“Have you forgotten how you can look through
my
eyes?”

Suddenly
recognition
flashed through her features
. Her mind
and emotions
w
ere
getting excited.
“Come on, I would like to see my baby for the first time.”
At the word
s
‘my
baby
’
she raised her hand to her lips after pulling her hands
away from his
.

“That’s right, Princess. You’re going to become a mother and I’m going to become a father.”
She giggled
.

A minute later
they
pushed i
nto each other’s minds. When the opposite
mental currents became a whirlpool
,
Connor
kneeled in front of Sarah’s belly. Wit
h their
minds perfectly linked
they
could feel every sensation that the other felt.
He
could see that her
gaze
focused on
his
now glowing eyes.
In her mind he
felt how both cold and hot she felt at the same time
, slightly queasy too
.
He
pulled
his
thoughts
back to the task
and
concentrated on the exact spot where
he first
saw
their
developing child
only
moments before
.
Connor
felt her lips
pull into a
full
smile
as
the
salty
tears in her eyes begin flowing again.

Not knowing why she was feeling this way,
he
cut the power to
hi
s
eyes and unlatched the hold
on Sarah’s
mind. He
sat up straight while still on
his
knees.
He
looked at her as
they
were now eye to eye. “Princess, what’s the matter?”

She wrapped her arms around
his
neck and
laid her head on his
shoulder. T
hrough the tears she said “It’s a new life growing inside of me. Or should I say
our new life.
I still can
’
t believe I’m pregnant!
” S
uddenly she reared her
head back up and looked over his
shoulder
with a lusty twinkle
. “Good thing you brought home some apples. I’m starving!”

H
e
started laughing and used
his
hands to turn her head back to
him. Connor
met
his
lips with hers and she didn’t fight it. In fact she returned
the
kiss with ferocity
and passion
. She then pulled away from
him
and picked up the bowl of apples
moments later
.

Kara
began
snickering and
he
saw that she was now watching
them
from the sofa with her feet kicked up on the armrest.
He
asked “What’s so funny?”

Kara
crossed her arms while still grinning.
“Looks like the cravings have
already
started!”

Sarah walked past
him
with one hand under the glass bowl while the other hand had a green apple with a big bite already in it. Her jaw
continued
chewing and Kara snicker
ed
again. Sarah tried sitting next to th
e fire on the floor again, but he
moved quickly and sat her
down
on his
lap. She almost choked with a mouthful of apple when
he
moved too quickly, but she finally sat down comfortably and took another large bite. She leaned against
his
chest and
,
through
thei
r bond
, he
felt her emotions finally relax.
Connor
sat with
his
back to the fire so that
they
wouldn’t leave Kara out of the conversation.

On her fifth apple she swallowed and said “I’ve been feeling strange for a while.”

He
corrected by
his
mate
,
saying “You’ve been feeling off for
at least four and a half weeks, Princess.”

She tilted her head back and peered at
him
with those
intelligent and
gentle green eyes. In her velvety voice she asked “You could tell from that long ago?” She tilted her head back down to shake
it in defeat. “Who am I kidding?
” She sighed slowly. “Nothing gets past your field of observation.”

Kara finally spoke up. “You should know by now that Brother rarely misses anything.”
His
sister sat up and pivoted on her bottom to look at
them
directly. What she asked next caught
them both
off guard. “So, when are you going to tell Mom that she’s going to become a grandmother
?
Or how about telling Grandma and Granddaddy how they are going to become great grandparents.
”

Sarah quickly twisted and sat on
his
left knee so that
she could look at the two of them
. She looked at
him
and said “Speaking of… Mother is going to find out what her first grandchild is going to look like sooner than she expected.” Sarah actually giggled. She tossed the apple
core under
his
arm and
fed it
into the fireplace. She leaned forward and picked up another apple from the bowl that sat before
his
right knee.

Connor
rubbed
his
mate
’
s back with
his
left hand as she took another
audible
,
crunching
bite. “She sure
is.” He
said
, kissing her temple. He turned back to answer his
sister’s question. “Kara, Mom cannot know about Sarah’s pregnancy for at least
another
five or six months.”

Kara said simultaneously as her brow furrowed “By then Sarah’s belly will be the size of a beach ball!”

A
t the same time both Sarah and Connor
shook
their
heads.
He
looked directly into
Kara’s silver eyes. “The gestation for a Balancer’s child is about seventeen months, instead of a humans nine month gestation.” Kara’s jaw dropped and her eyes widened as she looked over at Sarah who only nodded because her mouth was filled again. “That’s not
all, Sis.” She looked back at him
with her jaw still hanging. “
Just now I looked and saw Sarah has only two remaining eggs left. We’ll only be able to have three daughter’s in total
, because somehow one has gone missing, probably shed some time ago…
Balancer women usually have only two to four eggs from what I’m told. Once those eggs become babies we won’t be able to have any more children.