Valeria looked at them, soaking their reactions. Nathan had a confused expression on his face, while Leonard's face was full of fear as if someone announced his death.
For humans, the idea of a man getting pregnant was something out of a fever dream—an absurd impossibility that defied everything they were taught in the schools. Human biology was simple enough. Sex led to a woman conceiving, carrying life, and giving birth. That was the order of things, the natural law ingrained in every science book and every classroom discussion. But vampires had no such rules.
Among them, everything was reversed like a mirror world. A female vampire—pureblood or half-blood—held within her the strange, potent ability to impregnate a male, despite men lacking the organs to get pregnant.
It was not a metaphor, not some twisted myth whispered in the dark. No, it was real, as real as their thirst for... blood... and need for sex.
