Chapter 286

I don’t even know if this would make him happy, given we avoided the possibility because of the brewing war and the state of our lives under the shadow of vampires. I don’t even know if I’m happy. I don’t know how to feel. Our world is a mess, our lives aren’t simple, and my mate currently wants to kill me. This is so wrong, yet on some level, a tiny piece of me shines bright, and a warmth settles in my heart that twists it in a good way. “Turning makes us miscarry,” Carmen whispers the words, seemingly more to herself than needing to have a question answered, and it tears my attention back to her swirling chaos of dark emotions. I can feel the deep and heavy grief of her mother’s death all over again, yet this seems different somehow, and a harsher, piercing kind of sorrow fills my senses and makes me stiffen in reaction. Carmen lowers her eyes and begins to cry softly, staring at her own body, much like I was. “Right, of course… hybrids, not pure. Makes sense.” I don’t get why she