Page 48 of Slow Birth
“Still hurt?” Jason asked, nudging the base of the plug.
Vale shook his head, eyes still rolled back, and a little drool at the corner of his mouth. He’d lost track of time, but he thought a good amount of time had passed while he writhed in ecstasy.
“I’m taking it out now,” Jason said. The sensation of the plug deflating was odd. Much faster than when Jason’s knot went down. The slide of the toy out of his passage left him feeling empty, but that only lasted a minute.
At some point, Jason had shoved his pants down around his hips, and he pushed inside quickly. Holding Vale’s legs beneath the knee, he was able to get in deep. Over the curve of his stomach, Vale watched Jason pump into him. He was so beautiful, with his blond hair on his brow and his blue eyes burning hot over flushed cheeks. Vale shattered several more times on the demanding rod of Jason’s cock, until Jason groaned, coming hard, and tossing his head back with the force of his orgasm.
“Yes,” Vale whispered. “Give it to me. I want it.”
Jason shook and trembled, his hips jerking several more times, pegging Vale’s glands, and they finally both eased down from the final climax. Pulling out, Jason collapsed beside Vale, taking his cheeks in hand, fingers stroking his beard tenderly, and kissed his mouth. “I love you,” he whispered.
“I love chocolate cake,” Vale replied, laughing. “And you. And him.” He put his hand on his stomach, where the baby was now calm. Fucking always seemed to rock him to sleep.
“I can’t wait to meet him,” Jason said fondly, his hand falling to Vale’s stomach. “He’s going to look just like you.”
“No, like you.”
“I insist that he look like you.”
Vale laughed and nuzzled Jason’s cheek. “Baby alpha, if you have that kind of power, then I won’t ever doubt another word you say.”
“Then don’t doubt this,” Jason said, leaning up on an elbow to look Vale in the eye. “You’re going to be fine. He’s going to be healthy. We’re going to be a healthy, happy family.”
“Yes,” Vale agreed. “I believe you.”
Jason sighed and then sat up, flushed and sweaty still. “Well, I have to clean this up,” he said, looking at the jar of lotion, the plug, the semen and slick everywhere, and the cake crumbs in the bed.
“Or we could eat more cake,” Vale suggested, nodding toward the box on the table. “I’ll even share this time.”
Jason laughed and climbed out of bed to fetch the cake and fork. “You always have the right priorities.”
“I do,” Vale agreed.
You and this baby and a happy life. Nothing more. Nothing less.
And that, he knew, was everything.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
Three weeks later
The house haddescended into madness.
Or that’s how it felt to Jason.
Xan’s cousin Janus had returned from his visit to the city and brought back the flu. He was isolated from the rest of the house, but, from what Jason heard, Janus was sick enough to be on death’s doorstep. AndnowXan had abandoned them for the city to visit his ailing pater, leaving Urho a sad-sack mess, and Caleb strangely anxious.
And, as if wolf-god hadn’t thought all that added quite enough spice to their placid seaside life, Jason was quite certain he was losing his mind. All afternoon he’d scented something delicious in the house. Something sensually delicious. And it was making his dick hard. If Vale, huge and restless, exhausted and cranky, saw him walking around with an inexplicable hard-on, he was going to be in a world of trouble.
At first, Jason thought it was simply something the chef was making for dinner.
And then he’d thought a Vironian omega had crept onto their property on the verge of going into heat. Probably looking for a wealthy alpha to seduce and catch a child with. And then it’d hit him…
Literally.
The scent wafting into his and Vale’s room as Caleb walked by the open door, where Vale had been trying to nap, was undeniable. That anxiety Caleb had been leaking since Xan had left? It’d coalesced into a very specific, arousing scent, and it meant only one thing—one very troublesome thing.
Vale let out a soft growl from his bed, peeling his eyes open. “Did you just get hard for another omega?”
