Chapter Seventeen
We stayed in our suite for hours, exploring one another, reacquainting ourselves with the way the other person touched, kissed, caressed. I’d been so caught up in the heat of our reunion that I hadn’t even stopped to think that I hadn’t taken one of my birth-control pills for several days now. They’d been left behind, along with the rest of my belongings, at the Los Alamos house.
I told Jace, and added in halting tones, “But maybe it doesn’t matter — maybe djinn and humans can’t have children?”
At once he folded me into his arms and kissed the top of my head. “It is a very rare thing, but it has happened several times over the centuries. Also, among djinn, a conscious choice to have a child must be made. It is not something that happens by accident. So you need have no
