Chapter 315: Magical Consequences, Part 1

Silence hung heavy in the air, and with each passing second, my dread intensified. Why wouldn't she just tell me what the consequences were? Were they that bad?

"The child is being conceived between a human and a vampire, but you're no regular human, Chloe," Ivy finally spoke. "You're a descendant of the Zoya, and that means you have witch blood in your veins. Trent has been living under the curse of some extremely dark magic for decades - that's affected him in ways none of us can imagine." Her accusatory gaze sliced to Isach.

I swallowed hard. "Okay, so. . . what? That means the baby will be half vampire?"

Ivy chuckled. "No. A vampire can't be born. It must be created from the blood of another vampire. The child will have Trent's DNA, but it will not have his blood." She shook her head, tsking as if I should already know all that.