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The pain in Asteria’s abdomen was intensifying. The fact that her home base was about to be infiltrated weighed heavily on her mind, but she felt like this might be it, that her baby might come bursting into the world at any second, and while she had no reason to doubt Hines’s medical skills, the fact that the doctor with the crazy hair might be the one to deliver her child terrified her. She’d almost just as soon do it herself.
As if she’d somehow summoned him just by thinking about him, despite not having used her telepathy to do so, the doctor appeared in her doorway, an ancient book in his hand. “Your Majesty, I think we might’ve found something.”
Another vicelike contraction squeezed her midsection, and Asteria fought the urge to scream every curse word she’d learned in the last millennia at him. “Shut up, you idiot!” she screeched. “Can’t you see I’m busy right now?”
His mo
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