Captured(Devil's Blaze MC 1)(87)

“I think I might be able to surprise you, querida,” he tells her.

And with that one word, it feels as if he’s destroyed me. I think, for a moment, my heart actually stops. The pain is so bad, I can’t breathe. I feel it everywhere. Tears fill my eyes. I just hold my stomach and try to sort through this, trying to bear the pain.

“Bethie?” Katie looks worried. She should be. I think I’m dying. There’s so much pain.

“He called her querida,” I tell her. He called me several things, true. But, most of the time, he called me querida. Dear one, he told me. It sounds like something an elderly grandmother would say, but not when Skull said it. When he called me dear one, I felt like I was dear and precious to him. “That’s what he called me…” I whisper.

I might have underestimated my sister because she gets such a look of anger on her when she looks at me. “Right. I got this, Bethie. Don’t worry,” she tells me. “I’m going to tear his balls off. We can put them on a chain and hang them in the baby’s room as a mobile,” she growls.

I want to yell at her—to either tell her to quit or to cheer her on—but right then, another pain hits my back and squeezes around my stomach. It’s so strong it nearly brings me to my knees. Then, I feel it. Warmth spreads from my legs and, in an instant, Skull isn’t on my mind.

“Katie!” I cry, my dress soaked. “My water just broke!”



The End.