Page 76 of Anarchy
“Okay, fine. But this is my first child, my witch. So I want to capture the moment.”
Just then, pain ripped through my body, and the lights flickered in the hospital. A massive clap of thunder shook the walls, and a flash of lightning lit the sky. It had been sunny with no thunderstorms predicted when I came to the hospital, but a massive storm started as soon as that pain started.
“Get ready to meet your second daughter, Ripley,” the midwife said.
“Look at that storm! My daughter is making her entrance.”
If there was any doubt my twins had different fathers, that raging storm outside got rid of them. Matilda started shrieking as the lights in the hospital continued to flicker. Bram had her in his arms, trying to soothe her, but I already knew that wouldn’t happen until she was back with her twin.
“Big push!”
Felix and Balthazar rushed to my side to grab my hand. I gave one big push, and she was out. I could see her glowing golden aura from here. Yeah, she was definitely like Reyson. Reyson trailed after the midwife as she cleaned off our child and swaddled her.
“Want to hold her, dad?”
Reyson had probably seen so much in his long life, but he looked down at our daughter in pure awe. Then, he looked up at me with this goofy look on his face.
“We made a baby, Ripley!”
“That tends to happen when you have as much sex as we all do,” Felix said.
“What are you going to name her?” I asked with a small smile.
“Well, she decided to enter this world by causing a thunderstorm, so she can only be called Tempest.”
Tempest started crying too, and the thunder outside roared.
“You’d better get the twins back together. Can I see them?”
“You need to do more than that,” the midwife said. “You need to try feeding them.”
Bram and Reyson brought my babies over, and I finally got a look at them. They looked very similar, like Ravyn and I’s baby photos, but they got minor differences from their dads. Matilda had baby blue eyes that might change when she got older, but Tempest’s eyes were silver like Reyson and Lilith’s. I was thinking all gods had eyes that color.
Lilith scared the shit out of me when she opened a magical door and stepped through with a basket and Bram’s mother. It shouldn’t have shocked me because she did the same thing when Michael was born, but I just pushed two kids out of my vagina, and I was a little jumpy.
“Mom! Come meet my baby. We named her after you.”
Something made a noise in the basket Lilith was holding. When a god crashes your delivery with a crying basket, you should askallthe questions.
“What is that?”
She pulled a fat little Dolrun puppy out of the basket and set it between the twins on my belly. The puppy yawned and snuggled in, and the twins let out contented coos. Why was Lilith gifting Hell puppies to my twins?
“Iknowthey aren’t witches, but they are still going to be powerful twins. One will be one of the only two Hellhounds on Earth, and the other is the daughter of a god. Naturally, people are going to feel threatened by that. It hasn’t happened in a long time, but some gods haven’t reacted well to us having offspring with mortals in the past.
“I pulled some strings, and Mags is their familiar. She was a witch waiting in the Aether to be reborn, and when I asked her, she was honored to be their familiar. She was a fierce warrior back in her day and is perfect for them. I also know how Reyson feels about giving my familiars their bodies back and how the two witches in that situation look at theirs. Mags is female to keep Reyson from getting a little murdery if he gifts her body back.”
Balthazar snorted.
“You do know being the same gender wouldn’t have stoppedeitherof the twin’s daddies, right?”
I started giggling because Balthazar was totally right. Neither of them cared what was between your legs. It was all about the person. And I knew they would raise their daughters to be open-minded. If they happened to be bisexual, too, Bram and Reyson would deal with it.
“Just try not to kill my familiar if feelings develop, okay? She agreed to do this rather than be reborn as a witch.”
“Wait, are my daughters going to be in danger?” I demanded. “We’re already worried about Michael and the other angels.”
Lilith pulled a necklace out of the basket and handed it to me. It appeared to be some sort of crystal, but I couldn’t identify it. I aced that class in high school. I knew every crystal and its magical properties. This one hadn’t been taught here on Earth.
