That actually was a possibility. Maybe that’s why she had to marry Enzo. It certainly wasn’t because he was an asset to their group.
But still. No.
She couldn’t.
She wouldn’t.
Her breaths came too quickly. She put her hand to her chest. What if he was right? A baby made sense.
She waved an alarmed hand in his direction. “What other options can you think of?”
His jaw went slack, and his eyebrows knit together. “Wait a minute. Do you not know what you’re going to do with me? You all just dropped me off here for two weeks without any sort of plan?”
Okay, perhaps telling him about the vision was warranted. After all, Enzo already knew that psychics had them. She didn’t have to mention her father’s abilities centered on protection.
She wrapped her arms around her stomach, trying to ease the dread there. “My father had a vision that you and I would marry and come here. That’s why he forced you to take vows. We have to do what the visions say, or something bad will happen.”
“Uh, huh,” Enzo said, humoring her. One would’ve thought she’d just told him they had to follow her fortune cookie’s instructions.
“You know about visions. Haven’t you dealt with psychics before?”
“Yes, actually I have.”
“Then you ought to understand why we had to come here. Unfortunately, the vision never said what do with you once we arrived.”
“In that case, I’m definitely voting for the baby.”
She paced back and forth in front of the chair. A baby was only one possibility. Maybe Enzo’s other guess was the right one. “Do you have information we could use?”
He chuckled and shook his head. “Not such an eager bride after all.”
“You probably have some sort of information we could use. Something good has to come from this. It always does.”
“Sorry, sweetheart. You wouldn’t know valuable information if I gave it to you in a box markedvaluable information. Besides, you don’t have it in you to torture people.”
True, but it irked her to be told that. “I might make an exception in your case. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, and all of that.”
He had the nerve to smile at her. “Who says I scorned you? I told you that I’m voting for the baby option.”
“Fine. You didn’t scorn me. You betrayed me. Trust me, Hell has plenty of fury for that too.”
He let his head loll backward. “I wanted you to be innocent. I really did.”
She stopped pacing to put her hands on her hips. “Iaminnocent.”
“Right.” He tugged at the duct tape again.
“If I untie you, you’re just going to run away.”
“Why would that matter?” A smirk played on his lips. “Unless you really are considering the baby option.” His eyes drifted over her, slow and lingering. “You might be able to convince me to stay. You should at least try.”
She started pacing again, this time rubbing her forehead while she walked. When her mother had told her to turn Enzo into an ally, she hadn’t meant through seduction, had she? Certainly, she’d meant through persuasive conversation.
“You want to make the world a better place,” Charity said. “So do we. That’s all we’re trying to do. You don’t have to keep working for the government and keep hurting people. You could join us.”
“Join you and do what?”
Now he was fishing. She wasn’t about to give him more information about New Salem. “Join us, and you’ll find out.”