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how, but, how? Whose is it? Where is she? Is that the ‘woman thing’ you were talking about? How long have you known? How far along is she?”
    “Whoa, slow down,” she said. “I can explain.”
    “It’s Jamie’s, isn’t it?” asked Ryker, calmly.
    “Yes.”
    “What?” Landon jumped up again.
    “There’s something else. She’s having twins.”
    The creaking doors at the entrance to the church suddenly stopped, mid-closure, as Alessandro began walking back in.
    “Twins?” asked the Italian.
    “Yes.”
    Landon paced back and forth, continuously, almost at break-neck speed, in front of the altar.
    “I know this is the first time a werewolf has been pregnant with twins, but—“
    “Who told you that?” asked Alessandro.
    “Jacinda did.”
    “Oh, my God,” said Landon. “Jamie’s gonna be a father.”
    “You really need to calm down, Landon,” said Ryker. “She cares a lot about your son, be thankful for that, and she spent a lot of time with him in Savannah and Scotland. Plus, twins do run in your family, apparently. Besides, it’s not just that he’s going to be a father—you’re going to be a grandfather.”
    “Oh, my God!” Landon paced faster.
    “Jacinda is mistaken,” Alessandro said, reaching the group. Everyone turned in his direction.
    “What do you mean?” LillyAnna asked. “She said the pregnancy would move in twice the time as a normal one, because Bianca’s a werewolf. Then she said that, because it’s twins, it’ll take even less time, but that that was just a theory because no werewolf has ever been pregnant with twins before.”
    “And she was telling you the truth—as she knew it.”
    “So what’s the truth, Alessandro?” asked Ryker. “Who’s had twins before?”
    “The Dark One,” said Alessandro.
    “Nicholas?” asked Landon. “That’s not possible. He can’t give birth.”
    “I don’t think that’s what he means,” Ryker said.
    “The woman of Nicholas, many years ago, when he ravaged the refugees of our Eternal Empire, had twins. They did not survive, no they didn’t.”
    “What happened?” asked LillyAnna.
    “He killed them. Then killed her for having the children.”
    “I can’t listen to this,” she said. “I’m going to check on Bianca.”
    Leaving the three men behind, and without looking back, LillyAnna walked down the nave and out the door.
     
    A short time later, LillyAnna, sitting beside a sleeping Bianca, looked up to see Landon slip quietly into the room.
    “I’m sorry,” he said.
    “It’s okay. It was going to be a terrible story and I couldn’t take it. Ryker and Alessandro leave Venice, yet?”
    “Yeah, they’re gone. There really wasn’t anymore story to tell. But, that’s not what I’m sorry for.” He took her hand in his. “I’m sorry about the baby—our baby. I’m sorry about what happened in Kentucky when you shifted.”
    She didn’t even try to hold back the tears, and didn’t bother to wipe them away.
    “I know,” she said. “I just didn’t know I was pregnant. If I had known, I wouldn’t have changed. I catch myself mourning the loss, at times. I don’t know if I should, or not. I wonder though…” She trailed off to another place and time in her mind.
    “If you want to mourn, go ahead and do it. I do. Sometimes, I think maybe I could have gotten that one right. I never really had a chance with Jamie. And I have that with the twins, they’re still so young, but they’ve just been thrown at me. I feel so lost. But, with a new baby, I could have learned my way more naturally, from the very beginning. So, react the way you feel. And, what do you wonder?”
    “What would have been. What could have been. Boy, or girl? What we would have named them. What they would have looked like. Would they look like me? Or you? Would they look at all like their brothers or sister? I wonder those kinds of things.”
    Landon kept quiet, listening.
    “I could have been a mother if it hadn’t been for