Chapter 7
“No.”
The word was out of my mouth before I even thought about it, and it must have been loud because Sol jumped. Then he slid away from me, and it was all I could do not to drag him back.
“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to yell. But, no. Why would you leave?” I was already thinking of and discarding ideas and plans, needing him to stay with me.
“I cannot do my job while carrying offspring,” he said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. Then he shot me a look. “And you did not agree to this when you agreed to help me. I did not even inform you it was a possibility. I did not think it was. But the oversight on my part—”
“Please stop,” I interrupted as gently as possible. Sol snapped his mouth shut and his whiskers twitched. I slowly inhaled, then let it out in a control
