Defender's Blood Alex's Destiny (An Urban Fantasy) (22 page)

Chapter 20

The next morning Alex got up and heard Zach in the kitchen making breakfast. His acute hearing meant that he knew she was up and he shouted “You stay in that bed Alexina. I’ll be through shortly. I have pancakes here for you and then afterwards your going to find out ... honey is not just for putting on pancakes!”

The meaning was clear and she thought, how on earth does he come up with these things?

“I have a very vivid imagination!” he shouted through in reply to her thought.

Zach walked in and Alex was sitting on the bed, he thought she looked a bit pale? Maybe he was tiring her out too much?

“No Zach it’s not that, I just feel a bit off,” she answered his thought.

Zach wondered what could be wrong. She was having some of his blood each week and it was only the most serious of illnesses that it couldn’t cure. He placed the tray down in front of her and she shot to her feet. She got to the bathroom just in time as she fell to her knees and threw up.

She was violently sick, over and over again. “What’s wrong with me?” she whimpered.

“
I don’t know, I’m taking you to the clinic.” Zach only had his jeans on, so he threw on a t-shirt and shoes and picked Alex up. He got her bathrobe and put it on her.

He carried her outside and as they were halfway to the jeep she asked to be put down, she was going to be sick again. Zach didn’t release her fully, he went down onto his knees and she half-knelt on the ground. She was sick again, violently. He was getting increasingly worried and picked her up when she had finished and placed her in the jeep. He moved off, driving a little too fast, towards the clinic.

The clinic was actually more like a mini-hospital, there were doctors and nurses and due to the nature of some of the work carried out by Zach and the like, dealt with quite a few injuries, some of them serious.

Zach was trying to use his powers to see if he could find out what was wrong and was surprised when he felt something different in Alex. Shit, it better not be cancer. I’ll die if anything happens to her.

He had blocked his mind from her, she didn’t need to know what he was trying to do and his panic would only upset her more. They had to stop twice as Alex heaved out of the window. She was feeling awful and the one thing she couldn’t stand was being sick. Pain she could cope with but vomiting always made her feel like a child again, and she just wanted to be hugged and made better.

The clinic came into view and Zach screeched to a halt outside, not bothering to even park properly. He picked her up and carried her inside.

The nurse at reception was the mate of a Wolf that Zach knew and was quite friendly with. He had met her a few times only but it was nice to see a face he knew. “Kate, we need some help here. Alexina’s ill, I don’t know what’s wrong!” He sounded desperate, and he was.

Kate’s voice was calm as she got up and motioned Zach to follow her. “Okay Zach, bring her on through, I’ll page David, he’s on his way in and he won’t be long.”

Kate took them through to a small one-bed cubicle and got Alex safely situated on it while getting her something to throw up in. She took her blood pressure and temperature and generally tried to keep them both calm.

Alex’s blood pressure was a bit on the high side but her temperature was fine. She continued to vomit and every time she did Zach’s fear shot up a notch.

“Where the bloody hell is David!” Zach growled and Kate could obviously tell he was close to exploding.

“
Zach, please try to stay calm, he’s on his way,” she said quietly. Zach growled low in his throat, he was scared and was getting angrier by the second.

*****

David, one of the doctors at the clinic, rushed in a couple of minutes later, directing queries immediately to Kate. “Blood pressure? Temp?”

He moved over to Alex and Zach just about snarled at him. “Where the fuck have you been?”

David was a human, he had worked and lived on the compound for more than ten years but seeing Zach snarling frightened him more than a little. David’s tone was placatory as he spoke to Zach. “I’m sorry, I was on my way in. Please let me see to Alex and try and sort out what’s going on.”

David was aware that these two were mates and Alex would therefore be taking some of Zach’s blood to stop her from ageing. It should also have protected her from just about any of the normal illnesses that humans got. However, it was plain to see she was pretty ill.

With what or how he didn’t know but he thought he had better hurry up and diagnose it. Before the Vampire ripped his throat out.

“
Okay, Alexina is it? Right I’m going to have to examine you, is that okay?” He directed this to both Alex and Zach.

Alex nodded but the Vampire was not so quick to answer. “If you must, just be careful what you do though, I’m watching you.”

He lay Alex down flat and started to examine her, he felt all over and palpated several places. He felt something but knew that it couldn’t be what he was thinking. So if not that, then it may be some kind of growth.

Shit, he didn’t want to give this Vampire any bad news. David was pretty sure if he told Zach what he was thinking that the Vampire would probably lose it. If Zach lost it he was pretty sure his anger would be directed at him.

He tried to sound calm as he spoke. “Right, I’m going to take some blood and do some tests and then I want Kate to give you an ultrasound. On your stomach, just to make sure nothing’s going on there that shouldn’t be. Are you okay with that?” Again Alex nodded and Zach just growled.

David took a deep breath to calm himself. An upset Vampire was not a good start to his day.

*****

David took some blood and disappeared. Kate then got a wheelchair and took Alex through to a room that had the ultrasound machine in it. Zach stayed close at her side the entire time, reaching down and holding her hand.

Alex was scared, she felt terrible, she couldn’t remember ever being this sick.

Zach wasn’t just scared. He was absolutely terrified. She had to be okay, she just had to be.

Kate got her comfy on the bed in the room and lifted her nightie up to get access to her stomach. Kate spoke calmly to Alex trying to keep not only the patient but her very agitated Vampire calm. “Okay Alex, have you had one of these before?”

Alex shook her head, trying not to be sick again. Kate continued on. “That’s okay, there’s nothing to it, I’ll put some of this rather cold gel on your stomach and then all I do is place this piece here onto your stomach to get a look inside.”

Kate was holding a piece of the ultrasound machine in her hands and then got the gel and squirted some onto Alex. She used the scanner in her hand to rub the gel all over and then got down to doing the scan.

Kate moved it all over from just under Alex’s breasts and down to just above her low-hung panties. She stayed at the lower end and went over the same area time and again looking at the monitor while doing so. She couldn’t keep the frown from her face and Zach’s terror shot up even more.

“What’s wrong Kate? I can see in your face you see something? What the hell’s wrong?” Zach couldn’t keep the panic from his voice.

Kate’s expression was shocked as she spoke. “I’ll just be a minute. I need David to have a look. Don’t worry and try to stay calm.” She just about ran from the room.

Alex could feel Zach’s pure unadulterated fear pulsing through him and she squeezed his hand. “Zach you need to calm down, honey, please, you’re going to explode if you don’t.” She barely got the words out, trying not to be sick again.

Zach was once more amazed at this female, his mate. She was ill, feeling scared, but she was trying to calm him. He should be the one trying to ease her fears.

He tried to talk and it took a couple of tries to get his voice working. “I know, I’m sorry. I can deal with anything Alexina, anything at all, except this. You’ve got to be okay!” He was totally bereft, this can’t be happening.

The centuries he had been on his own and he finds his soulmate, his one true love and he was possibly going to lose her. The look that had crossed Kate’s face was not hard to read, something was wrong with Alexina.

Kate came back with David right behind her. She sat down and once again placed the ultrasound on Alex’s stomach. David looked intently at the monitor, he lost all colour in his face.

Shit! Shit! Shit! Zach felt as if his insides were being ripped out. “WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG!” he roared.

David looked from Zach to Alex and back again. “Well I don’t know how to say ...” and that was all he got out before Zach grabbed him by the throat and pushed him against the wall.

“
ZACH NO, STOP IT!” Alex screamed. Kate was trying to pry his hand from David’s throat.

Zach finally managed to get some control back and released the doctor. “Fuck I’m sorry Doc, I didn’t mean to hurt you. Please tell us what’s going on?” Zach whispered.

David tried once more to speak. “As I began to tell you, I’ve never seen this before. I don’t think anyone has, Zach, Alex ... well Alex, she’s, well she’s pregnant!”

Alex gasped and Zach staggered back. Zach’s voice was incredulous. “No Doc, you must’ve got it wrong. She can’t be pregnant! You do realise I’m a Vampire? We can’t sire children.”

He moved to Alex’s side, leant down and put his arm around her. Shit this was bad, real bad. They must have mistaken a tumour inside of her, fuck, he can’t lose her.

David’s voice was clear and all business as he spoke. “Zach, there’s no mistake. She is definitely pregnant. The heartbeats are very clear.”

Alex squealed. “What did you just say? Did you say heartbeats? As in plural?”

David nodded. “Yes, there’s more than one – you’re having twins.”

Continued in Book 2: The Birth and The Battle

Author's Note

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The next book is available – Defender's Blood, The Birth and The Battle, Book 2, and I hope you continue to read about Alex and Zach – there is so much happening in this second book and I hope you continue to read the series. Watch out for what also happens with Irina in this one!

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