All Chapters of The Dual Claim: Chapter 181 - Chapter 188

James radioed Stig, the guard on the platform with Gabriel with a code pink, then gripped the steering wheel until his knuckles turned white.“Are you okay, Luna?” he asked, his eyes darting between me and the road.“I’m fine.”I really was, but I also knew this was the calm before the storm. Once labor fully kicked in, this nice, blissful state would be a thing of the past.“Any contractions yet?” Amyra asked from the back seat, her fingers still holding my shoulder.“Just the one when my water broke,” I said just as one rolled through my midsection.I held my breath, but Maw tapped me. “Breathe.”I exhaled and inhaled deeply as the pain subsided.We were close enough now to the platform that I

A whole-body tremor pulled me out of a sound sleep. I couldn’t catch my breath, my fingers and toes ached with the pins-and-needles feeling.Bina’s head popped off the pillow. “What’s wrong?”I couldn’t even catch my breath long enough to answer her. As it was, I could barely shake my head. Shrugging my shoulders was not in the cards at present.“Do I need to call a doctor? Linsus?”As if those symptoms weren’t bad enough, I broke out into a cold sweat.“Lucien, what the fuck?” Bina cried, jumping out of bed. “You’re soaking the bed!”My heartbeat started coming back down to a manageable level, but Auron paced inside. I could feel his growls.“I don&r

I cracked my eyes open and saw the earliest glimpse of daylight around the edge of the curtains. Up until the last couple of weeks, it had been my favorite time of the day…waking the sleepy witch next to me little by little until she was putty in my hands and beyond ready to take me in.Something changed. I reach for her now, and she conveniently has something else to do, or sidesteps me completely.Every time I try to bring it up, she counters with my raging male hormones making sex more than it needs to be.My raging hormones weren’t an issue before. If anything, there were days when I needed all the stamina I could muster to keep up with her wants.Something else was going on, but she denied that as well.I could try and place blame on her coven, but there were always witches hanging out around the villa on a daily basis. I felt no ill will from any of them. They appeared to be genuine with their conversations and smiles toward me.I turn

“Lucien, please try to understand,” Bina pleaded for the umpteenth time in the last couple of days.I glared at her as I closed the refrigerator and stomped past her on my way out to the balcony. After the scene in the shower, I hadn’t said more than two words to her, or listened to her excuses as to why she didn’t tell me about her vision.Her bags were packed and waiting near the front door since yesterday when I told her to get the fuck out. Yet, she was still here.I wasn’t ready and she didn’t deserve my attention. Like a pup wanting attention, she followed on my heels.I whirled on her. Her eyes held a tinge of fear, and this time I didn’t care. If anything, that’s what I wanted to see. “Don’t you get it? I don’t care what you have to say. You had a life changing vision about me. Me! And you decided to keep it to yourself for weeks. Not a fucking day or two. Weeks, dammit.”