After Clara left, Vincent went to Maddy, took the rag from her hand, and pulled her up to sit on his lap. "Why do you suddenly look so sad, my dear? Is it what Clara said?"
Maddy kept her head down. "You are going to be married in a few months, and crowned in a year..." She raised her eyes to him. "You will no longer be mine."
Vincent lovingly cupped her cheeks, tracing them with his thumbs as he said, "I will always love you." He kissed her, a kiss that led to something else and it was then that she conceived the twins, both of them carrying love in their hearts for one another.
Maddy, who never went back to the sea and avoided water at all costs, soon realized she was pregnant just a few weeks before Vincent's mating ceremony, and she didn't keep it to herself, she told him right away.
Vincent looked shocked at first, and then he took her hand and dragged her to his room, grabbed his trunk, and began packing his things and placing them inside.
