The Naga Shaman's Pregnant Mate: A Sci-Fi Monster Romance (Serpents of Serant Book 8) by Robin O'Connor ISBN B0F663BTSX instant download

The Naga Shaman's Pregnant Mate: A Sci-Fi Monster Romance (Serpents of Serant Book 8) by Robin O'Connor ISBN B0F663BTSX instant download

A niggle at the back of my mind also urged me to be honest with myself. This was as much about getting home to Zap—who’d recently had a nest of young—as it was about getting away from the noisiness of a camp full of humans and Naga. I simply couldn’t handle that much company for so long. The flesh beneath my scales felt raw, my scales might as well have been thin as paper, and my head still buzzed with all their voices.

Vera certainly couldn’t help it—heavily pregnant and constantly nauseous—but her weary complaints had gotten to me as well. I’d stayed as long as I could, but with Corin back, and a more than adequate healer himself, I couldn’t last any longer. I bared my fangs to the world as that thought filled me with a sense of failure. I pushed it away the next moment; it was a useless feeling, and not truthful either. I was a Shaman. I’d never been meant to live in a village or camp, and I shouldn’t want to twist myself into a shape that didn’t fit.

Zap was probably going to be mildly indifferent, at best, to my return, too busy with her younglings. But my home and experiments were waiting for me, calling to me. I’d bury myself in work and pretend that, even when desperate for a bit of peace and quiet, I was lonely. If I needed a conversation, I could call on any number of other Shamans around the world or speak with my teachers at the Sacred Training Grounds.