Sapphire sat up with a start and slapped at him. “Do not do that again!”
“Do you feel rested my love?” the light in his eyes danced with merriment.
“No, I feel positively enraged.” She glowered at him. “How dare you drop me like a child in front of all our family?”
“You were ready to annihilate an entire floor of a hotel,” he shrugged with no regret. “I had no choice.”
She stared at him angrily and then with a dramatic sigh, flopped backwards onto the sofa, covering her eyes with her hands. “Drake, what do we do?”
“As your grandfather said moments after you succumbed to sleep,” he tormented her, “there is nothing to be done in this time. Only when our child is born will we be able to assess the situation more clearly. For now, we wait.”
“We wait a hundred years.” Sapphire wrinkled he
