I was on Ryder’s lap with my head buried into his chest. We were both on the floor and from the throbbing pain I feel in my shoulder I got to this position roughly but it’s pressed against Ryder’s peck and is being overwhelmed with the tingling sparks. “What happened?” His voice is quiet and hinted with the concern that I’m beginning to get used to hearing from him. “It-it…” The words are stuck in my throat and there’s no way I can force them out. Death, Bear, “It spoke to you.” Ryder’s fingers brush over his mark causing me to moan into his neck and allowing my tense body to relax into his arms. When I pull back out of Ryder’s hold he helps me back into the seat with a tight hold around me. My vision is blurred as I move and I stumble on my feet, Ryder’s grips tighter on my arms so I don’t tumble back down to the ground. “We don’t exactly know what it all means at the moment but there are obvious ones in there that I know you would have picked up.” Ryder’s holding me up as he smoothly talks to me. “What do you know?” Sighing Ryder looks over to Cole for a second before coming to look back at me. “The first three lines make sense and from what you’ve been showing so do the last three.” “From what I’ve been showing,” Ryder seems to enjoy confusing the crap out of me. “Leave us,” His hazel eyes never break from mine as he orders the men in the room to leave. My eyes watch worriedly as from the corner of my eye I see the room empty. Once the room is empty Ryder hooks one hand under my knee and the other around my waist to pull me up out of the seat and in closer to the warmth his chest gives as he walks over to sit me on the table so he can stand between my legs, his arms holding me around the hips. “I’m so sorry that I did this to you.” His lips brush against mine before he presses a longing kiss to them. My hands are locked around his neck to stop him from pulling too far away from me. He’s looking me in the eyes with his hands sliding to rest on the bare skin of my hips, looking down I watch as his thumbs run along the bone stopping at the waist of my jeans to move back up again. The tingles I get are coursing through to my stomach and he seems to be aware of the rapid warming there as he drops his hand over the naked spot of my navel. “Ryder?” “It’s going to hurt you. You’re human and it could possibly kill you.” “What will?” My chest heaves but still I hold myself to him. His eyes are watering. He would never cry though. “We call it heat.” Heat? “It is impossible for Royals to be barren.” His arms try to wrap me into himself, scared that I’ll run when I find out whatever it is that’s horrifying him so much. “Just like how my wolf feds you my strength and abilities through my claim, he would also and is feeding you a heat so strong that nothing else would matter. No form of contraceptive, ours or humans will be able to stop you from getting pregnant if I mate you in that time. It will be impossible for me not to.” Gulping down the lump in my throat, I attempt to shift my hips away from his but I only result in rubbing myself against him intensifying the warmth that I feel in my stomach, making me uncomfortable to be this close to him. He knows that I don’t want that with him, at least not yet but his tight hold on me is growing uncomfortable incredibly quick. “The prophecy suggests that you and I will have a pup stronger than even me.” Ryder’s forehead presses against mine and his pain filled eyes run the length of my face before he meets my scared ones. “My mum ended up in the hospital three times when she was pregnant with me. She’s a high ranked wolf and I broke three of her ribs with one kick. You’re human, I don’t want to see you in this fight it suggests nor do I want to see you pregnant with my heir because I don’t want to lose you.” Ryder’s arms flex around me alerting me to how tense my body has grown again. The fear that I have of having that type of relationship with him has just been increased tenfold by the new information he just gave me. “You started showing signs that heat was coming before I even marked you. Riley’s made a guess that it’ll come around your eighteenth birthday and that it will last till I mate you.” “There’s no way you will be able to stop me from getting pregnant.”