Page 50 of Under the Dragon's Spell
"Why them?" I realized she was bating me, but I had to ask anyway. Jealousy wasn't a beast that could easily be tamed, even when I'd already tamed my dragon.
"The type." She waved a hand. "Tyrel tends to go for pretty boys. Not that you're not pretty, mind, but you're not… what is that word they use? You're not a twink. I think that's it."
"No, I suppose I'm not." But according to Tyrel, not being a complete light weight would help me during this pregnancy.
"So, what do you think attracted my son to you so quickly and completely?"
Like I was going to tell her when Tyrel didn't want her to know.
"I'm not sure," I lied. "The attraction was just there. Isn't that how it is sometimes?"
She narrowed her eyes at me, and then they began to glow. I suppressed a sigh, knowing what was about to come.
Tell her the truth.
She tried to disguise the command as my own thought, but it was much too sharp for that. Still, I had to come up with something now. Something that would satisfy her.
Problem was, I was drawing a blank, and the more I hesitated, the more her eyes narrowed.
Tell her.
I heard in my head again, the pull a little stronger than before now.
"I uh… We like the same movies."
She raised an eye brow at me. "Pitch Perfect?"
I swallowed. "It's his guilty pleasure."
Sorry, Tyrel.
It didn't look like she was buying it, anyway. But that moment, the waitress brought our teas and she backed off a bit, relaxing in her chair.
"It's your ability to resist magic, isn't it?"
Oh shit.
I felt my mouth open in shock, but pressed it tightly shut again because I didn't want her to know I was busted.
"What are you talking about?" Feigning confusion would work, right?
"I could try getting the truth out of you, but there's no point, is there?" She raised her tea cup to her lips and drank as if she was having a pleasant, every day conversation rather than unraveling my secrets in a vaguely threatening manner.
You're going to have a great family, little one, I told the child in my belly.
She rested her eyes on me. "Didn't you say you had plans? I wouldn't want to keep you from them."
I suppose that meant I was dismissed, and I didn't waste a second in excusing myself and getting out of there.
I made the walk to Luca's place in record time. At first it seemed like she was going to tell me off for arriving so much later than we'd agreed on, but then she must have noticed the expression on my face, because she stopped.
"Is everything alright?"
I looked behind me as if to check that I wasn't being followed. I wasn't, of course.
"I just… in-laws, you know?" I tried to joke.
She raised an eye brow at me, apparently not convinced.
