Page 44 of Bound to Two Bears

Royce looked down into Carson’s face. “There’s a lot you don’t know about bear shifters. One of us can come in your ass at a time. But only one.”

Carson frowned. “Will I turn into a gremlin if you both come in me? No showering after midnight? What?”

“No, but you could get pregnant,” Royce answered.

Carson laughed out loud. “Pregnant? Yeah right. I don’t have that kind of plumbing.”

“Bear shifters don’t need human femaleplumbing, as you call it.” Royce shifted under Carson. “Hopefully I got you off him in time.”

Carson looked between the two. “You’re kidding, right? This is some kind of joke. Welcome to Bear Mountain; be careful we don’t impregnate you. Funny stuff.”

Royce looked at him squarely. “No joke. There’s room in there to grow a shifter,” he said, pointing at Carson’s abdomen. “We can have a child with either sex, as long as both bears of the triad inseminate you at the same time.”

Carson looked to Jared, who’d been quiet through the conversation. “It’s a joke, right?”

Jared shook his head. “I’m sorry, but it’s not. I should’ve pulled out. I got carried away. You felt too good.”

As he stared at how serious both men were Carson realized it wasn’t a joke. He looked down to his abdomen, panic filling him. He’d never really had serious thoughts of family and children before. He’d always assumed he’d become a father at some point, but not that a child would come from his own body. An image of him fat and round with their baby came to him and he had to chuckle.

They had to be messing with him... but even if they weren’t, did it really matter where a baby grew?

One thoughtdidterrify him. “So where’s it come out?”

Royce chuckled. “Basically the equivalent of a C-section.”

“I’ll be cut into?”

“And healed very quickly,” Jared answered.

“And you didn’t think to tell me this beforehand? What other secrets are out there waiting for me to find them?”

“They aren’t secrets in our world,” Royce said. “We don’t really keep a checklist to what we need to share.”

Here was yet one more thing he’d have to come to accept about being a bear’s mate. How many more would come?

Something inside him told him it wouldn’t be so bad to be the one to carry their shifter babies. Not that they were ready yet, at least. He needed time to get to know the two men he was bound to. Why shouldn’t they have a family if they chose to one day?

“What comes, comes, I guess,” he said, staring at Jared. “If I’m in, I’m in, right?”

Jared leaned down and kissed Carson’s lips. “One day. We’ll have a family one day, when we’re ready. Once we’ve had our time together and we’re all on the same page.”

“Although I wouldn’t be sad to see you swollen with our offspring sooner than later,” Royce added, laying a hand on Carson’s stomach.

Carson stared down at that hand, wondering if he’d get his wish. Hopefully he had time to come to terms with that decision and not have it dropped in his lap like their bond. “I suppose we’ll find out soon enough.”

Royce glared at Jared. “And next time, you pull out if it’s your turn.”

Jared put his hands up. “Promise.”

The two bears moved Carson into their arms and wrapped their bodies around him. He let thoughts of children go from his mind. There was no reason to worry about it now. He’d freak out later if and when he learned the news.

And his bears would be there to make things right, he knew it.

Carson closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep, surrounded by his mates, safe and warm in their arms.

EPILOGUE

Six months later…

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