Supreme Leader of Anstractor: A Sci-Fantasy Space Adventure (The New Phase Book 3) (25 page)

“What makes you think that they did anything to me, babe? Who was this visitor? Was it one of them?”

“No, not one of the Sentients. Someone much smaller than that,” she said, giggling.

“Stop playing with me, Rhee. No one came by here this morning. We’re on a remote island off the shore of an empty country, on a planet with a sparse population. Is it some animal? Maybe a monkey or jungle cat. Come on, what was it? I give up.”

“I’m pregnant,” she said suddenly. She studied his face, which became a mask of wonder at what she just said.

“P-pregnant? How?” he said quietly, touching her stomach. She placed a slender hand over his and arched her back slightly.

“Somehow, Rafy, you got me pregnant. I’m definitely carrying your child.” She waited for their eyes to meet and then she nodded affirmatively. She gave him a smile and laughed. “Look at your face,” she said and touched his cheek, then rose up on an elbow to kiss him.

“But I’m supposed to be sterile. This makes no sense,” he said.

“None of that means anything anymore, my love. I am pregnant. I can feel her growing. I thought it was a mistake until I woke up sick this morning.”

“You feel her growing? How do you know that she’s a she?”

“It’s a Tyheran thing. We always know what our babies are going to be.”

Rafian seemed speechless and he turned around to look up at the sun, wondering if this was an elaborate dream. “I love you more than life itself, Marian. How lucky is our daughter to be born into a time of such tremendous rebirth? She will know nothing but happiness and love, and she will be born on a planet, not a floating fortress like every other human I know.”

“Our miracle baby. We should give her a name,” Marian said.

“Let’s name her Calypso,” Rafian said, his eyes staring up into the sky. “After the seeker woman who was my mother.”

GREG DRAGON brings a fresh perspective to fiction by telling human stories of life, love and relationships in a science fiction setting. This unconventional author spins his celestial scenes from an imagination nurtured from being an avid reader himself. His exposure to multiple cultures, multiple religions, martial arts, and travel lends a unique dynamic to his stories.

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