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“Hopefully, this is the start of our lives being less dramatic,” Ripley said. “Professor Krauss said something big is coming for Ravyn, so I know I’ll get pulled into that. If I have to get rid of a stupid cheating wolf, Iwillfigure out where to hide a body. I hope from here, all we have left to do is eat, fuck, and be happy.”
I wanted that too. And any one of us would be happy to help her dispose of a corpse if it made her happy.
“I can see all possibilities, my witch. That shipment your twin sister is getting at the museum will cause trouble, but she’ll be given help. She’ll need you for support, but it’s going to be her battle, just like this one was yours. As for us, I see nothing but happiness and little demigods.”
“I’mnotsquirting anything out my vagina any time soon.”
She also said she wouldn’t marry him, but I was certain that would happen. If Reyson dropped a little bomb with his possibilities, something big always happened.
If he said happiness and babies were on the way, then he was probably right. We were all going to make amazing dads.
Epilogue
Ripley
The delivery room was chaos. Why did I bother even fighting Reyson when he said something was going to happen? I was pretty sure I wouldn’t marry him when he crawled out of that casket covered in rags. Two years ago, we had a lovely handfasting ceremony, and now I was married to all five of them.
He said he saw babies in my future when we were celebrating being back at the library. I didn’t think that would happen any time soon either, but I was here giving birth a second time… to twins, no less.
My first child was Gabriel’s son. My midwife was a witch, and after so many months, there was a magical test to find out which parent the baby would take after in mixed couples. It couldn’t be determined with my son Michael, so Reyson and Bram were excited because there was the possibility he was theirs since the midwife wasn’t used to testing for gods or Hellhounds.
My son ended up being born with bony protrusions from his back. We had no idea what was going on until Lilith showed up and informed us Lucifer’s angel genes were poking through, and those were his little baby wings. They’d eventually fill out with feathers, and he could hide them when he was out.
Lucifer was over the moon. He video called with Gabriel all the time and kept sending presents. When Michael was old enough, we brought him to visit all the time.
It wasn’t a huge inconvenience. We were already in Hell a lot. Bram was able to find out who his mother was. We ate dinner with Talvath and his mom in Hell every Sunday, then stopped by to visit with Lucifer and Lilith.
Things were really shaping up in Hell for the Hellhounds. We got updates every time we visited. Talvath’s school wasn’t the only new business set up for them. Some of them were running their own now.
I fell pregnant with twins a year after Michael was born. Girls this time, and they would be Gemini twins like Ravyn and me. But, once again, the midwife’s test was inconclusive, and Reyson and Bram were all over me.
Bram had been sending all my pregnancy symptoms to his mother and told me everything sounded textbook Hellhound. Reyson kept insisting he was getting vibes I was carrying his child. The midwife said it was unusual but possible for twins to have two different fathers, so they just latched onto that and went with it rather than fighting about it. The nursery was getting a little insane.
I just went with it because, honestly, who knew at this point? There weren’t classes at the Academy of the Profane on giving birth to supernatural creatures when their daddies were the only representations of their kind on Earth. I wasn’t even an expert on giving birth. I delivered a healthy son and didn’t permanently damage my husbands for putting me in that position the first time. It fucking hurt, and here I was doing it again.
Reyson and Bram were both holding my hands as the midwife told me to push. All five of them had been totally amazing the first time I found out I was pregnant. They were at every appointment, went to classes, and read every book on the subject. They were amazing with Michael, even if we all knew Gabriel was his father.
I squeezed their hands and shrieked. I didn’t understand why the various gods that made us had to make sex feel so good and childbirth feel likethis.That was some fucked up trickery right there. These men puttwobabies in me. Why was I the only one in pain right now? I would like to speak to a manager.
“I can see the head. She’s got a lot of dark hair. One more big push,” the midwife called.
This was not just one more push. There was still another baby in there, and I just wanted to pass out. How long had I been doing this already? So I gave one more big push, and she was out.
The midwife took her to the basin to clean her.
“She’s a Hellhound like her daddy.”
“Ha!” Bram yelled.
He wanted to name her Matilda after his mother, and I was totally fine with that. I adored his mom. We were all just going with the fact that the other twin was Reyson’s, and we all knew how he was with names. He refused to even entertain the notion of picking a name until he met his daughter.
Reyson jumped up and got all up in the midwife’s personal space peering over her shoulder.
“Do notpoint your phone at my vagina, Reyson!”
“I have to record this epic occasion. I may need to show it to boys when she’s old enough to date before I threaten to kill them.”
“If you show my gaping vagina to anyone she brings home, we’re both going to murder you.”
