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all the science behind it, but what you are suggesting isn’t just wrong, it’s near impossible. They are men. Not animals.”
    “What about the children?” he countered. “What will they be?”
    She didn’t respond immediately. Titus wasn’t sure she was going to answer.
    “Blessings,” she said softly. “What all children are, blessings.”
    She said it so tenderly that he something softened in him. He rubbed the inside of her wrist and felt her pulse quicken.
    “Bastards,” the man said loudly. “Bastards in the eyes of the Lord.”
    Anger surged through him.
    Titus jumped when Kate slammed her free hand on the podium. “How dare you call yourself a man of God!” She shook as she spoke. “All children are a blessing, and if you can’t see that, then you missed the true message of the Bible.” She waved her hand. “No more questions,” she said to the crowd.
    She turned and pulled Titus by the hand away from the shocked reporters. He could hear the clicks of their camera and shouts for more information as she led him around the corner.
    Still holding his hand, she slipped into the waiting car. Carter climbed in the front next to one of his men.
    “Move out,” Major Carter ordered.
    Kate sat silently next to him, gripping his hand like it was the only thing keeping her together.
    They drove like this for several minutes before Titus dared to even speak.
    “Kate,” he said quietly.
    She looked up at him, tears in her eyes.
    “I’m sorry,” she whispered.
    Titus unlocked their hand and wrapped an arm around her. She sighed against him when she pressed her to his chest.
    “You have nothing to be sorry for,” he said forcefully. “That guy was a dick.”
    She chuckled against him. Her tears wet the side of his shirt.
    “It wasn’t him. It was me.” She leaned back to look at him. “I ever knew that question was coming, but there was nothing that could have prepared me for the shock of it.”
    “You knew?” Titus frowned.
    She nodded against him. “Joseph Miller,” she said. “He’s got a blog filled with hateful things. I knew he was going to be here, and yet I still fell into his evil trap.”
    Titus pulled back to look at her tear-stained face. “I think you did great. Much better than what I wanted, which was to rip his head off.”
    “You meet him in a back alley, have at it,” she grumbled.
    Titus grinned. “Got a blood-thirsty streak I see.”
    “Only against asshats,” she said and laid her head back on his chest.
    When he bent his head down to rest on hers, he could still smell the faintest hint of the feared enemy he had smelled in the building, the Pale Man. It burned his nose.
    “Are you smelling me?” she whispered.
    Titus froze. He had been, not just a little but full-on nose to skin smelling.
    He sighed and leaned back.
    “Yes,” he said bluntly.
    “Do I smell good?” she asked shyly.
    “Normally,” he said.
    Kate frowned at him. “But I don’t today?”
    Titus shook his head, uncertain on how much to tell her.
    “Something has changed your scent,” he said and wrinkled his nose.
    He looked at Carter who was watching them from the front.
    “I don’t understand,” she said. “How is that possible?”
    He shrugged. “I don’t know.” He looked at Carter. “But I have a feeling we’re going to find out.”

Chapter Six
     
     
    Kate sat with Hannah and Rachel, watching the news. Over and over, they played her epic scene.
    “I can’t believe you lost it like that,” Rachel said to her after watching it for the millionth time.
    “I can’t believe you were holding his hand,” Hannah said and sighed.
    Kate buried her head in her hands. She had been holding his hand. At first to calm him down but then to calm herself down. She could still feel his thumb on her wrist.
    “What’s the plan now?” Rachel asked.
    She sighed. “Same as before. Calendar and field day.”
    “But what about this?” Rachel waved to the TV.
    She shrugged. “Nothing I can