Page 71 of Demon Unleashed

She allowed herself to be guided to the medical suite, where she sat down on a bench and took a few deep breaths.

Maya took a seat next to her and put her hand over Enya’s.

“I’m sorry, I don’t know why I cried just now. It’s really nothing,” Enya lied. “Just stress, I guess.”

Maya looked at her with the expression of a woman who had all the answers. “Don’t worry. I was a bit of a watering pot myself when I was pregnant.”

Enya shot up. “What?”

Maya slowly rose. “Yes, in the first few months, I was very emotional. I’m sure that’s all it is. But just to make sure, why don’t I quickly check you out?”

Enya stood there, frozen. “Check me out? But I’m fine. And I can’t be pregnant. I’m not bonded.” Stealth Guardians were only fertile when bonded.

Maya raised an eyebrow. “Honey, I sense two heartbeats coming from you. So unless you have a heart condition, which I doubt, or a second heart, which I also doubt, then the heartbeat belongs to another being.”

“But… It’s not possible…” Enya stopped herself, remembering the queasy feeling she had every time she traveled in a portal. Or the time she’d puked after finding out that Zoltan was a demon.

She felt Maya’s hand on her arm. “Do you mind if I lay my hands on your stomach?” Maya asked.

“Don’t you use a stethoscope for that?”

“Vampire senses, you know.” She smiled.

Enya nodded, and Maya put one hand on her stomach, moving it up and down, then side to side, then resting it again. A warm smile appeared on her lips. “I can feel your baby’s heartbeat. It’s strong. You’re definitely pregnant. And if you’re not bonded, then I’m not sure how it happened, but trust me, it happened. Who’s the father?”

Enya stared at Maya. There was only one man who could be the father, even though she couldn’t explain how it had happened. Well, they’d had sex, of course, and without protection. But no Stealth Guardian female had ever gotten pregnant unless she was bonded to a man.

“Enya?” Maya’s voice called Enya back to reality. “You looked like you were going to faint.”

And why not? Wasn’t the fact that she’d gotten knocked up by a demon enough reason for anybody to faint?

“I need to tell him.”

To tell Zoltan, the ruler of the Underworld, that she was carrying his child.

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Less than half an hour after leaving San Francisco via the portal located in a BART tunnel in the Mission neighborhood, Enya was back in her private quarters in the Baltimore compound. She’d made sure that nobody had seen her return, because she wasn’t in the mood for twenty questions. She had too many questions herself. How it was possible at all. How Zoltan would react. But most of all, one question loomed over all others. Would the child be a demon?

After pacing for a good hour, she finally decided that there was no use in delaying any longer. Zoltan had a right to know. She called his burner phone and let it ring. Once, twice, then a click in the line.

“Hey, Enya.”

Her heart stopped. The voice wasn’t Zoltan’s.

“Logan? What the fuck?” she said. “Why do you have his phone? Where is he?”

“Come to the command center, and we’ll talk.”

She disconnected and shoved the phone into her pants pocket, already charging out of the room and heading for the compound’s command center. If her brethren had hurt Zoltan, they would pay for it.

Enya stormed into the room without bothering to open the door. Apparently, Logan hadn’t expected her so quickly, because he was talking to Hamish, whose arm was in a sling. Pearce and Ryder were sitting in front of the computers, and Aiden was hovering over a desk.

“Fucking bastard!” She charged at Logan and catapulted him against the wall. “What did you do with him?”

When she lunged after Logan, who was already getting up and dusting himself off, Pearce and Aiden pounced and held her, pulling her back. She struggled against their grip and glared at them.

“Don’t worry, you two will get a beating too when I’m done with him.” She tipped her chin at Logan.