Page 33 of The Dragon's Flamebound Mate

He set the feather on top of one of the pillows. A sense of calm washed over me. “Perfect,” I said. “It’s perfect.”

That’s what our nest needed—a piece of me.

He chuckled. “Just one little feather.”

“That’s all it needed.” I turned in his embrace and kissed him.

A knock sounded at the door, and then it clicked open. “Anyone home?”

I chuckled. I had to love how inviting everyone was, just walking into our home. Since many people had come over to gift us the nest, more of our friends and neighbors had visited. Many of them stated that it was their first time seeing Zayne’s home. My hermit crab of a dragon was getting used to having so many people around.

“In here,” Zayne called.

Vexis was a broad-shouldered dragon that stood tall. He looked more like one of the strength trainers than a doctor. The rumor was that he had been a Flight Leader in his youth but had gone into medicine because his alpha father had a rare condition that hadn’t been researched at that time. His smile was warm and friendly.

“Congratulations,” he said as he shook my hand. “It’s great to see you again.”

“You as well,” I said.

“Normally, we would have met a dozen times before now, but it seems that everyone on your team is staying completely healthy, so I haven’t had to see much of you.”

“Trust me, I much prefer meeting like this.” Zayne said. “Last time I needed Vexis for the team, it was to deal with a broken wing that had happened during a collision.”

“Yikes,” I said.

“Agreed. Shall we get started? I’m sure you’re anxious to know what you are having.”

“Yes, please.”

I sat down on the couch. The doctor pulled up a chair and prepared the ultrasound.

My experience with ultrasounds had all been via television shows, and human ones at that. I wasn’t really sure what to expect from one designed for an egg-hunting mission, but it wasn’t this.

There was no huge machine and television on the wall, no darkened area, and no medical bed. Nope, it was just us at home, my couch, and a suitcase-looking medical device. It wasn’t long until he had it opened up, plugged in, and me lying down so he could begin the imaging.

It was a small wand, one coated in cold cream of some sort, and he slowly rolled it over my belly, back and forth, and up and down, his face unreadable. How I wished for the huge television screens from the TV shows. At least then I could watch what was happening.

On second thought, maybe that wasn’t the best idea. It wasn’t like I’d know what I was looking at.

He picked the wand up. “You want to know how many eggs, right?”

My mate and I both nodded, and he put the ultrasound down on my belly again and began to trace the eggs, one at a time. “This is the first one and here is the second.” And up went the wand.

“Two? There are two?” I was having two eggs.

“You are. This machine isn’t the most modern, so I can’t tell you how many are in each, but they are both the size I would expect for singletons at this stage.”

Two babies. We were having two babies. I couldn’t wait to meet them.

Chapter 17

Zayne

“It’snicethatwedon’t have to travel for these meetings now,” I said as Ash and I settled into the conference room. Soon, we’d have a call with all the other Flight Leaders who would be at the initial district competition. At our level, the dragon flight games season consisted of three core competitions—though other teams could chose to attend as well.

“Yeah, I can’t imagine what this was like back in the day when technology wasn’t as advanced as it is now.” My mate stuck out his tongue playfully.

I shot my mate a side glare. “Easy with that ‘back in the day’ talk.”

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