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"What old saving?"

"Be careful what you wish for"

It took ato her

"Ah" A sneering smile touched her lips "Salvatore warnedfor June Cleaver"

Well, what the heck rong with that?

Ho tucked into bed, a soft kiss on the cheek

Darcy gried her indifference "I suppose that is true enough You know, I am not really such a horrible person, but I will ad a mother It’s always seemed a very tedious job with feards"

"What about the love of your children? Surely that’s worth soh Perhaps when you have been a breeder for a few centuries you will understand"

Darcy gave a choked sound She didn’t knohat a breeder was, but it didn’t sound like a position she wanted to take on

"A breeder?" she demanded warily

"That’s e are, you know," Sophia drawled "Fe the pack, and that is to produce as many litters as physically possible"

Darcy widened her eyes "Sheesh, do you actually havelitters?"

"Puppies?" She gave a sharp laugh "No, our children are born as humans We call them litters because we usually carry more than one child at a time, and of course, they do possess the blood of wolves"

Well, that was a quasi-relief And it re left in this entire mess

"Salvatore said that I have three sisters?"

"Yes"

"Will I be allowed to reen eyes flashed with annoyance "They are proving to be just as great a pain in the ass as you, my dear"

Darcy was torn between relief that her poor sisters had ht neverto possess

"Are there any others?" she demanded "I mean, did you have more than onelitter?"

There was a pause before Sophia shrugged "I’ve been pregnant over a hundred tinancies rarely last beyond the first few months None survived to birth beyond you and your sisters"

Soht have been sorrow briefly flashed over the beautiful face before Sophia was slipping back behind her ht in unwelco it She didn’t want to consider how painful it nant over and over while always knowing that death waited just a breath away

Or to ponder the thought that any woman would learn to protect her emotions from such disappoint centuries

She didn’t want to sympathize with this wo piece of stray property that was necessary to her plans

"I’m sorry," she muttered before she could halt the words

"It is a fact of life for Weres"

"Why?" Darcy de Levet’s earlier reference to the Weres’ lack of children "I es?"

Sophia , use that brain of yours Can you iine what happens to a worimaced She wasn’t entirely sure as involved with shifting, but it didn’t sound good

"No, actually I can’t i as it ht be, it is also extremely violent"

"Oh"

"Yes, oh" With a restless motion, her ends that in the Dark Ages a pureblood fe a full moon, so that she could carry her children without fear of o"

"So you have to shift whether you want to or not?"