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was nice to finally meet Demon’s family,” she said.  With a parting
nod to Demon, another first, and a few last words from her daughter and
assurances from Clytie that she would have a ride home, she turned and left. 
Mac nodded at Demon, kissed Cassie’s hair, and then disappeared behind Sara.
Clytie knew he would see her out and Sara would never realize she had company.
    “Now,” Cassie said
slapping her hands together and rubbing them, a decidedly greedy sparkle in her
eyes, and a playful twist to her lips, “Let’s plan this bitch.”

CHAPTER SEVEN
     
    It was after breakfast
and sometime later that Miley asked Clytie to take a walk with her.   They
headed out to the back and around the stone path to the garden that Clytie and
Cassandra had started last spring.  Cut back and ready for winter now.  The wind
that whipped through the pine trees had a bite to it that stung the nose, and
made her eyes water.  She loved fall, the crunch of the leaves beneath her
boots and the way the wind whipped about and chilled her after the long summer
heat.
    “I’m not sure how to put
this, other than to just say it,” Miley started, her voice tentative as they
walked the path towards the wild woods.  “You know I’m a healer?” she asked and
stopped so that Clytie had to stop and face her as well.
    “I do,” Clytie smiled at
her.  “I think of all the amazing things I’ve seen and heard since I met Demon,
that is the coolest.”  She smiled at Miley trying to put her at ease.  They had
an ease of friendship since Lucas brought Miley home the first time.  So, this
lack of comfort on her part was making Clytie a little worried.
    “Thank you,” Miley took a
deep breath.  “As a healer I can sense things about others.”
    Clytie tipped her head
and studied the careful look on the other woman’s face.  “Are you going to tell
me I am sick and have only a few days to live fully and marry the love of my
life before I die?”
    “What?  No!”  Miley
looked appalled.
    “Good,” Clytie laughed.  “For
a second it felt like we were transported to a Lifetime movie.”  She shook her
head smiling at Miley.  “Just say it.  Whatever it is you are trying so hard
not to say.”
    “Do you know you’re pregnant?”
    Well, she had not
expected that.  Clytie immediately felt every muscle in her body lock up and
she was suddenly needing a great deal more air.  “Come again?”
    “So, that would be a no,
you didn’t know then?”  Miley gave her big eyes and then smiled.  “You are most
definitely with child.”
    “Whhhah?”  She tried to
form a word, any word, but it took her a moment to get her tongue off the roof
of her mouth and then she just settled for what she could give.  “Huh?”
    Miley laughed and hugged
her, and Clytie was not ashamed to admit she clung to the poor woman like a
barnacle.  She may have even whimpered a few times, but then it hit her, what
it meant, the words she had been speaking.  She felt her eyes fill with tears
for what felt like the umpteenth time that day.  “I’m going to have Demon’s
baby.”
    It wasn’t a question, but
Miley caught the joy shining in her wet eyes and her own started to fill.  She
smiled, and then laughed a little shakily, wiping the tears that fell from
Clytie’s cheeks.  “Yes.  You are going to have Demon’s baby.”
    Then the enormity of the
situation hit her.  “I think I’m going to throw up.”
    Miley laughed again.  “It
might be a little early for morning sickness.”
    Clytie looked up at that
and narrowed her eyes, momentarily distracted from her worries.  “How early? 
Can you tell how far along I am.”
    Miley looked her over
carefully, her eyes going somewhere Clytie could not see.  Then she came back,
blinking away whatever she had seen and met Clytie’s eyes.  “A week maybe . . .” 
She squeezed Clytie’s hand.  “I don’t know enough about pregnancy tests to know
if you would test positive yet or