Disclaimer: I'm definitely not as old as Tamora Pierce. I'm not her! Don't sue me I won't like you anymore. (But who says I liked you in the first place?)
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Chapter 4
Kel and Ella entered the mess and got their food. When Ella went to eat with Tobe, Kel sat with her friends.
"Tell me, tell me, tell me," Neal whispered to her.
"Get away from me, or you're gonna be in the Black God's realms before long," she grumpily told him.
"What did Meathead do to deserve a killing this time?" Dom questioned.
"It's what he's going to do that will get him killed," Kel replied.
They finished the meal with the usual chatter, about the camp and so on. Then Kel told them that she was going to arrange for sleeping chambers for her new servant, then go to sleep. She was very tired.
When Ella had been settled in a small chamber across the hall Kel went back to her rooms and got ready for bed.
She was half asleep when he came.
"Kel, sweet, are you awake?" he questioned.
"Yes, but we have to talk," was the answer.
He came over to her bed only to notice the tears silently sliding down her face. "Kel what's wrong?" he asked as he brushed away her tears.
"Dom, um, I don't know how to say this, but, umm, I'm pregnant."
"You're…You're what!" he incredulously asked.
"Pregnant," he was told in a small voice.
"Kel, that's wonderful!"
"For you maybe, I'm the one who has to carry the kid. And Neal knows I'm pregnant. I didn't tell him you were the father, but I can imagine his face if I had," Kel said with a small laugh.
"Well, milord Raoul will be here in a two days to check up on the squad, so we should probably tell him."
"You're right," she answered.
"He might kill you when we tell him that we've been engaged for 5 months."
"He wouldn't kill me dearest Keladry, because he wouldn't want our child to be fatherless," Dom tells her.
"I guess you're right. Will you just hold me tonight?" Kel whispers.
"That can be done milady."
Neal looks away from the fire very surprised.
"Dom? My idiot cousin Dom?" he whispers in disbelief.
'Maybe I shouldn't have scryed on her' he thinks to himself as he gets ready for bed. In the morning when he wakes up, he thinks that it was just a bad dream.