04-08-2009, 12:50 PM
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His words stopped her cold. She hadn't known Garnet had been pregnant. She'd known he'd gone ahead with the mateship, over her and Lucifer's protests. But the news that her sopn had lost a child, that she'd lost a grandchild, was a blow to the pale mother. That was the hurt her son was carrying. She nuzzled him again, a soft whine in her throat. "Oh, Jazz, I'm so sorry...I'm sorry." She didn't know how to ease his hurt, how to make the pain less. She knew both hurts were deep ones, and was thankful she'd never had to bear both at once.
He looked into her etyes and she looked back, her eyes wet as well. She hadn't approved of garnet, but her boy was hurting now. She wanted to ease his hurt, to take it away.