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“I’m not going to sit here and do nothing. I’m not afraid of flying. I’ll ride you and --- Shit, ignore how horny that sounds,” Ciro said.
“What’s –” Morvan started and then his face fell as the realization of how naive he’d been hit him all at once. He’d only been half right about what was unfolding. No one in our little ragtag group wanted Morvan dead. They’d do everything within their power to avoid hurting him. He was one of us. They waited for him to leave.
“Is he okay?” Ciro asked Morvan. “You’d feel if he wasn’t, right?”
“Of course I fuck--- Yeah, I would. He’s still at home as far as I know,” Morvan nodded.
“Can’t believe we’re going to save the balls of the guy who blew up Moonglow!” Ciro muttered under his breath as he laced up his own boots. “This is ridiculous, but let’s get moving. The only thing I hate more than the idea of a fool’s errand is failing at a fool’s errand.”
“With both of us out of the loop who do you think they’ll send?” Morvan asked.
“Patrica,” I grunted out her name. She was a little bity woman with an average size lynx inside of her. She was an omega true-mated to a mostly oblivious Argali mountain sheep alpha. He indulged her every whim and even brought live rabbits and rodents into the house for her to hunt in her beast form. Racket seemed to get his kicks from watching his little bitty mate tearing into her prey.
“Shit,” Morvan swore.
“She’s the best at killing,” I nodded.
“She was good before she joined us,” Morvan said, his mouth morphing into something resembling a grimmer version of a smile. “Think we’ll have to fight her?”
“Not a chance of winning. She’ll be armed and she’ll do it from afar in case you show up. We’ll have to get him out before she gets there and if we’re going to do that we better get moving.”
Chapter Twenty
Odie
While Teal ate three times his weight every day trying to regain his dragon’s composure and Ciro ran around trying to stop him from eating the bakeware, the rest of us went about setting up an actual nursery at the house. Sure, Baby Robin was small enough to sleep in a bassinet in Ambry and Indigo’s room for now but soon Baby Steel would be here soon and the babies deserved a space all their own. Plus, I didn’t trust fate to deliver the nursery stuff from Moonglow before my baby was born. Fate had only been nice to me the day I met Cobalt. So, its track record was cruel, and I’d build a thousand nurseries if that’s what I needed to do for Baby Steel and Baby Robin.
Slowly, Ambry and I were falling in love with the Heartville house. It didn’t have the same privacy or remoteness of Moonglow and it didn’t have a nesting tower but there was something cozy about how every room smelled like our mates already. It was also nice to have so much family close by in case something were to happen. While Cobalt and Indigo worked on building a new nest, I rocked Baby Robin and Ambry talked on the phone to his dad who once again was assuring him it was okay for children to grow up and move away. He also promised to come and visit a weekend every month after we were settled in. We both breathed a sigh of relief as it became more and more apparent that he wasn’t upset with us for leaving.
“Has it occurred to you two that he has a life outside of you all?” Indigo asked when Ambry got off the phone. “I’m not being an ass. I meant it literally and not just the store. He probably hasfriends and maybe dates. He does stuff. I don’t know what the stuff is, but he probably has hobbies too. He wasn’t as young as you two were during the war and he had to find a way to make things work because he had to take care of you two and not lose his mind. So, yeah, he misses you, but he has stuff too.”
“Probably,” I said but bit my lip.
“Don’t worry,” Cobalt kissed my cheek. “It’s not that you don’t see him as a whole person. You do. He’s just mostly a dad. Also, Indigo isn’t that insightful. He stole that speech from our sire. He gave it to us when we moved into the guesthouse at Moonscale Manor and felt bad about leaving them.”
“We succeeded in raising you if you feel like you can make it on your own,” Indigo said, deepening his voice to sound more like Cade. “We’ll find out if we really did, if you don’t burn down the guesthouse.”
Both of the brothers laughed, and Ambry and I joined in. The world was so much bigger than it had been before we met them. It grew a little more every day. I slipped my fingers through Ambry’s and told him over our link that we’d be okay. The kids too. London was preparing for another possible turbulent period, and it was best for us to be stateside for that. I was too pregnant to fight or run. Hell, I was too pregnant to get my ass up off the sofa by myself most of the time. That’s where having Indigo around in addition to Cobalt came in handy. There was always a muscular dragon man who I trusted around to lift me up and get me moving.
Déjà vu.
That’s what happened next.
One second, I was reassuring Ambry that we’d be okay. That Heartville could be the fresh start we probably needed years ago and the next the sofa was flooding. For a moment, I thought I wet myself. The warm gush turning cold on my pants legs definitely felt like I’d wet myself. It was only when Cobalt’s heartskipped a beat in time that I realized Baby Steel hadn’t bounced extra hard on my bladder. Instead, he was preparing for his big debut into the world.
“Oh, my Juda and all his little babies,” I swore to myself.
“Fucking hell!” Indigo swore, dropping the blanket he was weaving into the nest.
“I’m going to bloody kill him, Indi. When he gets back, I’m going to take him limb from—” Cobalt growled.
“Who?!” I whimpered.
“Stop it! Whatever it is – stop it!” Ambry said, standing up, holding Baby Robin to his chest. “You’re scaring Odie. So unless whoever this is needs to be parted from their limbs this very second for safety one of you better tell Teal to---”
That’s when it hit both of us at the same time. Teal was back in London with Morvan. He hadn’t told either of his brothers that he was ready to go.
“Fucking hell!” Ambry swore under his breath before turning to me. “It’s going to be alright. We’ll get you into the birth pool and go from there. We got this and if we don’t there are so many healers and midwives and older omegas here that someone has this even if Teal is ---” He didn’t say what Teal was because Cade used his key on our front door and made his way down the hall. I smelled him even before he showed up in the doorway of the nursery but pregnancy must’ve given me super smelling because Indigo shot off a long string of fire as Cobalt lifted me up off the sofa. Cade had to block Indigo’s stream of fire with his forearm, causing big, shiny dragon scales to pop up across his skin.
