Lycan - The Human Mate (fr/eng)

Josh bonus POV 4

"JOSH! THE CAR!" screams my sister.

Shadow immediatley take the control of our body and step on the accelerator to avoid the car we were crashing into. We are at a crossing point and the sudden truth paralyzed me. By some luck, only the back of the car get hits. We spin a few times before gaining immobility. My head hit the car's inside walls, but I really don't give a shit. It could've broken the window and send me flying with broken bones that I wouldn't have cared. It's not only the car that's spinning : the entire world, our entire being does. My mind spins more than the car at the moment. My entire conscious stays focus on one. simple. word :

Enceinte.

What does she means, enceinte? As in pregnant? Does it have another unknown meaning in French? It can't be true. It can not be. I would have known, if she was pregnant!

How? You were gone before she even knew, says a mischievous voice in my head other than Shadow.

B-But is it even physically possible? Like, Lycans and humans aren't—

I can't even form coherent thoughts. I'm not even sure Shadow's still there. I don't feel a thing. Maybe I'm dead. Or dreaming. Yes, dreaming would be the most possible reason for all of this. Otherwise... what?

Stuff happens around me. I think the other driver got out of his car and is having an argument with Sabrina, but I'm not sure. I don't care.

I'm so tense I rip the steering wheel off the dashboard. From the corner off my eye, I see the edge of a book coming out from under the passenger seat. It's Nat's book. I jump on the book that slipped in all this heckling.

Out of luck the bookmark kept the page where my sister stopped and I'm obsessively looking for the e word. After all, if all of this truly isn't a dream, I might I've heard wrong. Not that it ever happened before, but there's a first for anything right?

But not this! I jump when I spot the damn e word.

I found it quickly, way too quickly and way too many times. No, far too many times more. I turn the pages faster and faster, even more tense each time the word jumps in my sight.

I end up at the conlusion of the book. On the last page, there are two pictures. The first is of an unknown woman who's smiling at the camera with kids on her knees. The other picture is of Nathalie. She's looking down and smiling, sitting in an hospital bed.

There's a baby in her arms.

What. In. The. Goddess.

I am not sure whether it is me or Shadow nor if it's out of anger or joy, but I'm on the edge of exploding.

How in the Goddess's goodness could this be possible? I'm not an expert like Goodson of course, but what the hell??? Lycans have problem conceiving to start with, so how!? There are no records of babies between Humans and Lycans as far as know! Isn't it the exact reason why some go have fun with humans? Because they know no child could come out of it? Isn't it partly the reason of the ban to meet up with humans in general? The reason I didn't bother put a—

But goodness what if it's true? Chills freeze me. What if Nat—

I stuck the book in my shoulder bag and get out of the car, quivering. Nat. I have to get to Nat.

NOW, Shadow howls, all heart out.

"Josh—" Sab calls me out.

"You shut the hell up!" I shout, my eyes glowing.

Right now and in general! She nods. Sabrina understands perfectly what I mean: no one must know about that book nor about Nat. Not until I figure this out.