*speaking very slowly* I. Do. Not. Own. Mutant. X. Got it now? Good.
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For a lack of a better idea, they brought Lorna back to Sanctuary. It was a stony silence because Shalimar currently wasn't speaking to Brennan and she was DEFINATLY not speaking to Lorna, and Lorna was also silent, not talking to either member of Mutant X. Brennan was blatantly ignoring Lorna and had given up trying to get Shalimar to talk to him. This wasn't the comfortable silence he had had with Shalimar in the car only this morning. God, had it only been that long? It felt like an eternity ago. This morning he had been happy and carefree, in love with a woman who loved him right back, who had just had a great night and had woken up with the said woman beside him. Now he was a man whose love was currently ignoring him, and a former- well, ok, she wasn't EXACTLY a former girlfriend, since he didn't have any say in the relationship, but that wasn't the point, had shown up. And to top it all off, she had shown up pregnant and claiming that it was his child. How quickly our lives can turn to crap, huh?
'CLAIMING is the keyword here Brennan. She CLAIMS it's mine, but can she PROVE it? I mean, she seduces men for a living; there are probably more than one that could possibly be the father. Hell, she had been living with two guys when I met her.' Brennan thought, trying to calm himself down. But then his heart sank as he remembered that she never took those men into the bedroom, just kept them around for conveniences sake.
He had already called into Adam that they had the feral, and had told him who it was. Brennan was staying as far from her as it was possible to get, not wanting to get close enough for her to spray him, as he didn't want a repeat performance of a few months ago. Lorna's hands were tied tightly, but in her state, they didn't think she was about to run away. She wasn't going to be very fast with that belly of hers.
Adam was busily making more antidote to Lorna's pheromone mist, making sure that himself, Brennan and Jesse were protected and making more antidote to her poison stinger. When Lorna, Brennan and Shalimar arrived, he had yet to finish and ordered that only the girls were allowed to guard the dangerous feral. And seeing as he figured that if it was left up to Shalimar, Lorna would be dead within five minutes, because Shalimar was NOT a happy little feral, that left the guard duty all up to Emma.
Emma was not exactly happy with this situation. She had been the one to save Brennan's life after this woman had poisoned him, and she was not about to go through it again. She wasn't going to let this woman hurt another one of her friends, but she wasn't about to do anything rash like Shalimar would be liable to do either. Since she wasn't about to hurt the innocent life inside Lorna, she settled for shooting her nasty looks, or as much of a nasty look as a gentle person like Emma could muster. It would seem that she was failing miserably, because Lorna was paying her absolutely no attention whatsoever, simply sitting on the medical chair, twisting her hands this way and that, trying to get out of her bonds. She was wasting her time of course. It had been Brennan who tied that knot, and Brennan's knots were all but impossible to untie, unless you were Brennan. But Emma was willing to allow Lorna to try, not caring that it was giving the other woman rope burns on her wrists. If she wanted to struggle and make it worse that was fine by Emma, it wasn't like she had to struggle or anything, Lorna was just being stubborn.
However the silence was unbearable and Lorna wasn't paying any attention to her, so guard duty quickly became boring. There was nothing to do but sit and watch Lorna futilely try to figure out how to untie the knots, making her wrist rawer and rawer. Finally she gave up in disgust and glared at her bonds. "Where did he learn to tie knots like this? The Boy Scouts?" she exclaimed angrily. Emma rolled her eyes. She would bet money that Brennan had never gone anywhere NEAR a Boy Scout troop. Maybe if he HAD he wouldn't have grown up to be a career criminal.
However, even Lorna's angry exclamations were better than silence, so she decided to take a shot and actually talk to her. It was a fairly disgusting thought, kind of like how she would react if she thought about sitting down for tea and a chat with Eckhart, but she couldn't take much more of this silence. It was getting on her nerves. "So, um, how far along are you?" Emma asked, picking a subject that she figured might get an answer.
Lorna looked at her like she had just sprouted another head. Emma fidgeted. It wasn't that hard of a question after all. And if this WAS Brennan's baby, she wanted to know. Adam was trying to figure out if it WAS Brennan, through a blood test or something like that, but Emma thought that it must be Brennan's. This woman was deceit, through and through, Emma could tell, but she wasn't lying when she said that it was Brennan's. Emma could tell when people were lying, and about this, well, Lorna wasn't lying. Unless Lorna had made a mistake and only believed it to be Brennan's baby, then it was true. Emma hoped feverishly that it was the former, because Brennan and Shalimar REALLY did not need this kind of complication at this stage in their relationship.
"I'm due any day." Lorna said quietly and Emma jerked. She had almost forgotten that she had even asked the question; Lorna had taken so long to answer. Lorna's hands were now resting on her bulging belly, looking at it softly. "It's a girl." She added as almost an afterthought.
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"You can't be serious! She nearly killed Brennan!" exploded Shalimar, absolutely furious, glaring at Adam. If looks could kill, Adam knew that he would be one dead cookie right now, because Shalimar's look was blazing. He had never seen her this angry.
"Be that as it may, she is also carrying his child Shalimar! Look, I've tested and re-tested, but it's true. What are we supposed to do Shalimar? I've tried, but I can't think of anything else to do but keep her here. We can't send her to Genomex pregnant, that's for sure. So what are we supposed to do? Because right about now I would love to hear some suggestions!" Adam was quickly losing his temper. He was tired, for Shalimar had been correct in their assumption that their leader had been up all night, and he was extremely pissed off. He had just discovered that Lorna had not been lying, that the child was most definitely the offspring of his team's elemental.
This apparently wasn't enough for Shalimar, who continued to rant. "She can't stay HERE! Send her to a hospital or something. Let her have her baby and then ship her off to Genomex!" Shalimar shouted. This Lorna woman had nearly killed Brennan and there was no way in Hell that Shalimar was even going to give her the opportunity to try it again. She didn't care if the woman WAS controlled, tied up or whatever, she was a total psycho. If anyone deserved Genomex and the stasis pods, it was definitely her.
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Eckhart stood looking out over the stasis pods. His agents had failed, once again, to follow simple orders. Was it truly all that difficult to bring in ONE new mutant? A new mutant who was in no condition to do much resisting at that. He had always been on the lookout for the feral, she was invaluable. He had not known that her type had even existed. A temptress, who no man could resist, would be a valuable asset to the team, although he suspected that she was slightly unstable. Most likely she would be just another specimen for the pods. He sighed, for it would be a regrettable loss if that is what the turn out would be, however it would be extremely unwise for him to allow this particular new mutant to run around unchecked. Once again he sighed. Such a waste. However, now that the woman was pregnant it left many more options to him. It was imperative that the woman be caught. It was a stroke of luck, really that she had returned to town and had been spotted by one of his agents.
He no longer concerned himself with the woman; she was of no use o him. But the child; the child was invaluable. As it was the offspring of two new mutants, the child's powers might be twice as strong. There was also the possibility of the child being a hybrid- having multiple powers. Even if the child turned out to be nothing but an ordinary new mutant it was still imperative that it be brought in. To have a new mutant at birth, to be able to manipulate a mutant into the perfect agent- well, it was almost too good to be true. And to top it all off, it was the offspring of the one and only Brennan Mulwray. It was almost too perfect. Something to hold over Adam's elemental. A rare smile quirked across the man's lips. Oh, yes. He WOULD have that child. His agents would not fail again. He looked over the stasis pods again. They would not fail again, or they would pay.
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Brennan walked into the lab where Shalimar was glaring at Adam and looked ready to throw something at her leader's head. As soon as Brennan walked into the room she switched her glare from Adam to him. She then whipped around and marched out, probably to find something to break to make herself feel better. "I still don't get why she's mad at ME!" Brennan sighed. Adam gave him a sympathetic smile, but continued making the antidote. Brennan flopped down unceremoniously into one of the chairs and ran his hands carelessly through his hair. He twisted his comm. Link nervously. "What am I going to do Adam? I mean, what would you do?" the ex-con said tiredly.
"Well, the first thing that I would do is apologize and then maybe take her out for a night on the town and try to smooth things out-" Adam, who had FINALLY figured out what was going on between the two, started to say before being cut off by Brennan.
"I MEANT the fact that we have a homicidal maniac who I was never in love with in the first place in our med lab VERY pregnant with my son or daughter Adam, not what I'm going to do about Shalimar!" He paused for a moment, pondering, then amended, "Though I don't know what to do about her either."
"Well-"
"I mean, we can't leave the baby with Lorna OBVIOUSLY, I mean, think about it!"
"Right-"
"But, I mean, come on Adam! I can't be a father, I don't know HOW, and can you just imagine raising a child around here?" Brennan exclaimed waving his arms around the room to emphasize his point.
"Well-"
"I mean, to NOT raise the kid around here I would have to leave Mutant X, and get an actual JOB. Adam, I'm a thief, I'm a con, I can't raise a kid!" Brennan was up and pacing around now, a slight note of panic edging into his voice as the reality of his situation was hitting him.
"BRENNAN!" Adam shouted, snapping his team member out of his panic.
"What?" Brennan asked, looking startled.
"Whatever you decide to do, we'll back you up on it. As for what I would do, as it isn't me, that doesn't apply. This is a big decision, and I'm sorry to say that it's one that only you can decide."
Brennan groaned. "Yeah, I figured you'd say that."
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Lorna and Emma were having an old-fashioned stare-down. They were looking straight into each other's eyes, neither one blinking. Emma might have been a statue, and Lorna might have been dead [1] for all the two moved. Stonily, Emma said carefully, "Why did you try to kill Brennan?" This was a question that had been bothering her for a long time. Shalimar and Adam had said that Lorna had been crying after she had made her attempt on Brennan's life. CRYING! If had upset her so much, why would she have done it in the first place? Emma just didn't get it.
However, if Emma was expecting some big philosophical answer she wasn't going to get it. Because the reason that Lorna had done what she had done was very simple. "He didn't love me." Lorna said with a simple shrug and Emma could tell that she wasn't lying. The woman had actually tried to kill one of her best friends because he simply did not love her. Emma glared at her, she rarely felt ill will towards anyone, but she was quickly coming to hate this woman, and had an overwhelming desire to blast her a good one with her psi-blaster. 'Brennan's baby, think of Brennan's baby, you don't know what kind of effect it'll have on her.' She forced herself to calm down, and it was a good thing too, because if she had remained at that level of anger, the amount of indifference in Lorna's next comment might have sent her over the edge. "I don't know what you're complaining about anyways. It's not like he actually died, now is it?"
"He almost did." Emma shot back, glaring at the pregnant woman. Didn't she care? Didn't she know how close she had been to taking Emma's best friend away from her? Didn't she realize that she and Jesse and Adam and Shalimar, Christ ESPECIALLY Shalimar would have been absolutely DEVESTATED if anything had happened to Brennan? 'No, she doesn't.' realized Emma. 'She has not a clue how close she came to bringing our worlds crashing down, nor does she even care.'
"But he didn't." Lorna said it slowly and calmly, as if explaining something to a very small child who doesn't understand.
Before Emma could reply, Shalimar stormed in. Her eyes were set on the other feral. When Lorna returned her gaze, Shalimar's blood started to boil and her eyes glowed feral. She leaned in, about an inch from Lorna's face, invading the other woman's personal space. "I don't like you." Shalimar said simply, as if stating a well known fact, like one plus one is two. "I don't want you near me, or any of the people that I love, ESPECAILLY Brennan. But I am going to tolerate you. For now." Shalimar said in a deadly whisper.
Lorna simply smirked. She knew exactly what had the other feral's panties all in a twist. It was quite obvious that she and Brennan had a thing for each other. They were probably in a sexual relationship. Oh, yes, she knew what it was that was bothering the blonde. It wasn't just that she had tried to kill Brennan. Oh, no, it was more than that. "It bothers you, doesn't it?" Lorna sneered nastily, laughing breathlessly. "That I got to him first?" Neither one of them was a question and Lorna already knew the answers.
Shalimar's eyes flashed feral again and it was all she could do to keep herself from throttling Lorna right then and there. Because she was right. Shalimar did hate it that Lorna had had Brennan first, had gotten to her lover before she had. That she was carrying his child, a bond that Shalimar didn't have. But she stopped herself. Because she knew that it didn't matter. It didn't matter if Lorna was the one to bear Brennan's child, because she sure as Hell was NOT going to be the one that raised it. No matter what bonds this maniac THOUGHT she had with Brennan, it was nothing compared to the bond that Shalimar had with him. Because Lorna wasn't the one that Brennan was in love with, could see himself MARRYING. Not Lorna. No, it was her. Shalimar. And there was nothing that Lorna could do about it.
Rockergurl; chapter three is done! Yes!
[1] Wishful thinking. Hehe
For a lack of a better idea, they brought Lorna back to Sanctuary. It was a stony silence because Shalimar currently wasn't speaking to Brennan and she was DEFINATLY not speaking to Lorna, and Lorna was also silent, not talking to either member of Mutant X. Brennan was blatantly ignoring Lorna and had given up trying to get Shalimar to talk to him. This wasn't the comfortable silence he had had with Shalimar in the car only this morning. God, had it only been that long? It felt like an eternity ago. This morning he had been happy and carefree, in love with a woman who loved him right back, who had just had a great night and had woken up with the said woman beside him. Now he was a man whose love was currently ignoring him, and a former- well, ok, she wasn't EXACTLY a former girlfriend, since he didn't have any say in the relationship, but that wasn't the point, had shown up. And to top it all off, she had shown up pregnant and claiming that it was his child. How quickly our lives can turn to crap, huh?
'CLAIMING is the keyword here Brennan. She CLAIMS it's mine, but can she PROVE it? I mean, she seduces men for a living; there are probably more than one that could possibly be the father. Hell, she had been living with two guys when I met her.' Brennan thought, trying to calm himself down. But then his heart sank as he remembered that she never took those men into the bedroom, just kept them around for conveniences sake.
He had already called into Adam that they had the feral, and had told him who it was. Brennan was staying as far from her as it was possible to get, not wanting to get close enough for her to spray him, as he didn't want a repeat performance of a few months ago. Lorna's hands were tied tightly, but in her state, they didn't think she was about to run away. She wasn't going to be very fast with that belly of hers.
Adam was busily making more antidote to Lorna's pheromone mist, making sure that himself, Brennan and Jesse were protected and making more antidote to her poison stinger. When Lorna, Brennan and Shalimar arrived, he had yet to finish and ordered that only the girls were allowed to guard the dangerous feral. And seeing as he figured that if it was left up to Shalimar, Lorna would be dead within five minutes, because Shalimar was NOT a happy little feral, that left the guard duty all up to Emma.
Emma was not exactly happy with this situation. She had been the one to save Brennan's life after this woman had poisoned him, and she was not about to go through it again. She wasn't going to let this woman hurt another one of her friends, but she wasn't about to do anything rash like Shalimar would be liable to do either. Since she wasn't about to hurt the innocent life inside Lorna, she settled for shooting her nasty looks, or as much of a nasty look as a gentle person like Emma could muster. It would seem that she was failing miserably, because Lorna was paying her absolutely no attention whatsoever, simply sitting on the medical chair, twisting her hands this way and that, trying to get out of her bonds. She was wasting her time of course. It had been Brennan who tied that knot, and Brennan's knots were all but impossible to untie, unless you were Brennan. But Emma was willing to allow Lorna to try, not caring that it was giving the other woman rope burns on her wrists. If she wanted to struggle and make it worse that was fine by Emma, it wasn't like she had to struggle or anything, Lorna was just being stubborn.
However the silence was unbearable and Lorna wasn't paying any attention to her, so guard duty quickly became boring. There was nothing to do but sit and watch Lorna futilely try to figure out how to untie the knots, making her wrist rawer and rawer. Finally she gave up in disgust and glared at her bonds. "Where did he learn to tie knots like this? The Boy Scouts?" she exclaimed angrily. Emma rolled her eyes. She would bet money that Brennan had never gone anywhere NEAR a Boy Scout troop. Maybe if he HAD he wouldn't have grown up to be a career criminal.
However, even Lorna's angry exclamations were better than silence, so she decided to take a shot and actually talk to her. It was a fairly disgusting thought, kind of like how she would react if she thought about sitting down for tea and a chat with Eckhart, but she couldn't take much more of this silence. It was getting on her nerves. "So, um, how far along are you?" Emma asked, picking a subject that she figured might get an answer.
Lorna looked at her like she had just sprouted another head. Emma fidgeted. It wasn't that hard of a question after all. And if this WAS Brennan's baby, she wanted to know. Adam was trying to figure out if it WAS Brennan, through a blood test or something like that, but Emma thought that it must be Brennan's. This woman was deceit, through and through, Emma could tell, but she wasn't lying when she said that it was Brennan's. Emma could tell when people were lying, and about this, well, Lorna wasn't lying. Unless Lorna had made a mistake and only believed it to be Brennan's baby, then it was true. Emma hoped feverishly that it was the former, because Brennan and Shalimar REALLY did not need this kind of complication at this stage in their relationship.
"I'm due any day." Lorna said quietly and Emma jerked. She had almost forgotten that she had even asked the question; Lorna had taken so long to answer. Lorna's hands were now resting on her bulging belly, looking at it softly. "It's a girl." She added as almost an afterthought.
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"You can't be serious! She nearly killed Brennan!" exploded Shalimar, absolutely furious, glaring at Adam. If looks could kill, Adam knew that he would be one dead cookie right now, because Shalimar's look was blazing. He had never seen her this angry.
"Be that as it may, she is also carrying his child Shalimar! Look, I've tested and re-tested, but it's true. What are we supposed to do Shalimar? I've tried, but I can't think of anything else to do but keep her here. We can't send her to Genomex pregnant, that's for sure. So what are we supposed to do? Because right about now I would love to hear some suggestions!" Adam was quickly losing his temper. He was tired, for Shalimar had been correct in their assumption that their leader had been up all night, and he was extremely pissed off. He had just discovered that Lorna had not been lying, that the child was most definitely the offspring of his team's elemental.
This apparently wasn't enough for Shalimar, who continued to rant. "She can't stay HERE! Send her to a hospital or something. Let her have her baby and then ship her off to Genomex!" Shalimar shouted. This Lorna woman had nearly killed Brennan and there was no way in Hell that Shalimar was even going to give her the opportunity to try it again. She didn't care if the woman WAS controlled, tied up or whatever, she was a total psycho. If anyone deserved Genomex and the stasis pods, it was definitely her.
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Eckhart stood looking out over the stasis pods. His agents had failed, once again, to follow simple orders. Was it truly all that difficult to bring in ONE new mutant? A new mutant who was in no condition to do much resisting at that. He had always been on the lookout for the feral, she was invaluable. He had not known that her type had even existed. A temptress, who no man could resist, would be a valuable asset to the team, although he suspected that she was slightly unstable. Most likely she would be just another specimen for the pods. He sighed, for it would be a regrettable loss if that is what the turn out would be, however it would be extremely unwise for him to allow this particular new mutant to run around unchecked. Once again he sighed. Such a waste. However, now that the woman was pregnant it left many more options to him. It was imperative that the woman be caught. It was a stroke of luck, really that she had returned to town and had been spotted by one of his agents.
He no longer concerned himself with the woman; she was of no use o him. But the child; the child was invaluable. As it was the offspring of two new mutants, the child's powers might be twice as strong. There was also the possibility of the child being a hybrid- having multiple powers. Even if the child turned out to be nothing but an ordinary new mutant it was still imperative that it be brought in. To have a new mutant at birth, to be able to manipulate a mutant into the perfect agent- well, it was almost too good to be true. And to top it all off, it was the offspring of the one and only Brennan Mulwray. It was almost too perfect. Something to hold over Adam's elemental. A rare smile quirked across the man's lips. Oh, yes. He WOULD have that child. His agents would not fail again. He looked over the stasis pods again. They would not fail again, or they would pay.
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Brennan walked into the lab where Shalimar was glaring at Adam and looked ready to throw something at her leader's head. As soon as Brennan walked into the room she switched her glare from Adam to him. She then whipped around and marched out, probably to find something to break to make herself feel better. "I still don't get why she's mad at ME!" Brennan sighed. Adam gave him a sympathetic smile, but continued making the antidote. Brennan flopped down unceremoniously into one of the chairs and ran his hands carelessly through his hair. He twisted his comm. Link nervously. "What am I going to do Adam? I mean, what would you do?" the ex-con said tiredly.
"Well, the first thing that I would do is apologize and then maybe take her out for a night on the town and try to smooth things out-" Adam, who had FINALLY figured out what was going on between the two, started to say before being cut off by Brennan.
"I MEANT the fact that we have a homicidal maniac who I was never in love with in the first place in our med lab VERY pregnant with my son or daughter Adam, not what I'm going to do about Shalimar!" He paused for a moment, pondering, then amended, "Though I don't know what to do about her either."
"Well-"
"I mean, we can't leave the baby with Lorna OBVIOUSLY, I mean, think about it!"
"Right-"
"But, I mean, come on Adam! I can't be a father, I don't know HOW, and can you just imagine raising a child around here?" Brennan exclaimed waving his arms around the room to emphasize his point.
"Well-"
"I mean, to NOT raise the kid around here I would have to leave Mutant X, and get an actual JOB. Adam, I'm a thief, I'm a con, I can't raise a kid!" Brennan was up and pacing around now, a slight note of panic edging into his voice as the reality of his situation was hitting him.
"BRENNAN!" Adam shouted, snapping his team member out of his panic.
"What?" Brennan asked, looking startled.
"Whatever you decide to do, we'll back you up on it. As for what I would do, as it isn't me, that doesn't apply. This is a big decision, and I'm sorry to say that it's one that only you can decide."
Brennan groaned. "Yeah, I figured you'd say that."
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Lorna and Emma were having an old-fashioned stare-down. They were looking straight into each other's eyes, neither one blinking. Emma might have been a statue, and Lorna might have been dead [1] for all the two moved. Stonily, Emma said carefully, "Why did you try to kill Brennan?" This was a question that had been bothering her for a long time. Shalimar and Adam had said that Lorna had been crying after she had made her attempt on Brennan's life. CRYING! If had upset her so much, why would she have done it in the first place? Emma just didn't get it.
However, if Emma was expecting some big philosophical answer she wasn't going to get it. Because the reason that Lorna had done what she had done was very simple. "He didn't love me." Lorna said with a simple shrug and Emma could tell that she wasn't lying. The woman had actually tried to kill one of her best friends because he simply did not love her. Emma glared at her, she rarely felt ill will towards anyone, but she was quickly coming to hate this woman, and had an overwhelming desire to blast her a good one with her psi-blaster. 'Brennan's baby, think of Brennan's baby, you don't know what kind of effect it'll have on her.' She forced herself to calm down, and it was a good thing too, because if she had remained at that level of anger, the amount of indifference in Lorna's next comment might have sent her over the edge. "I don't know what you're complaining about anyways. It's not like he actually died, now is it?"
"He almost did." Emma shot back, glaring at the pregnant woman. Didn't she care? Didn't she know how close she had been to taking Emma's best friend away from her? Didn't she realize that she and Jesse and Adam and Shalimar, Christ ESPECIALLY Shalimar would have been absolutely DEVESTATED if anything had happened to Brennan? 'No, she doesn't.' realized Emma. 'She has not a clue how close she came to bringing our worlds crashing down, nor does she even care.'
"But he didn't." Lorna said it slowly and calmly, as if explaining something to a very small child who doesn't understand.
Before Emma could reply, Shalimar stormed in. Her eyes were set on the other feral. When Lorna returned her gaze, Shalimar's blood started to boil and her eyes glowed feral. She leaned in, about an inch from Lorna's face, invading the other woman's personal space. "I don't like you." Shalimar said simply, as if stating a well known fact, like one plus one is two. "I don't want you near me, or any of the people that I love, ESPECAILLY Brennan. But I am going to tolerate you. For now." Shalimar said in a deadly whisper.
Lorna simply smirked. She knew exactly what had the other feral's panties all in a twist. It was quite obvious that she and Brennan had a thing for each other. They were probably in a sexual relationship. Oh, yes, she knew what it was that was bothering the blonde. It wasn't just that she had tried to kill Brennan. Oh, no, it was more than that. "It bothers you, doesn't it?" Lorna sneered nastily, laughing breathlessly. "That I got to him first?" Neither one of them was a question and Lorna already knew the answers.
Shalimar's eyes flashed feral again and it was all she could do to keep herself from throttling Lorna right then and there. Because she was right. Shalimar did hate it that Lorna had had Brennan first, had gotten to her lover before she had. That she was carrying his child, a bond that Shalimar didn't have. But she stopped herself. Because she knew that it didn't matter. It didn't matter if Lorna was the one to bear Brennan's child, because she sure as Hell was NOT going to be the one that raised it. No matter what bonds this maniac THOUGHT she had with Brennan, it was nothing compared to the bond that Shalimar had with him. Because Lorna wasn't the one that Brennan was in love with, could see himself MARRYING. Not Lorna. No, it was her. Shalimar. And there was nothing that Lorna could do about it.
Rockergurl; chapter three is done! Yes!
[1] Wishful thinking. Hehe