Page 11 of Battle of Witches
Ravyn let out this massive shriek and body-tackled me. The air flew out of my lungs as I hit the floor with her on top of me, but I didn’t regret it. I just held her tight and squeezed her. I’d been in a dreamless sleep for two months, but she had been awake the entire time, trying to figure out how to wake me up. We hadn’t been apart since the day I showed up as her familiar.
“It might get my mind off the pain, but it would besuperweird if you fucked on the floor,” Ripley groaned.
“It’s also unsanitary, and I’ll kick you out. So, get up,” the nurse growled.
“Do you do anything fun, Doris?” Loki asked.
“Get my mind off it and answer a question I think weallhave. How did a male god give birth to an eight-legged horse shifter?” Ripley asked.
I think Ravyn and I were both curious about that, too, but we never asked him. We found out he was Loki right when we found out Sleipnir was really a shifter, and I guess we just didn’t want to make shit weird. Loki stretched out in his chair and looked like he was up to something.
“Do you have any MPREG fiction in the smut section of your library?”
“Shut up!” Ripley yelled.
“I invented that genre. I sometimes write under the pen name I.M Free. I started writing some fanfiction, and then I rewrote it and published. it”
“Shut up!” Ripley, Ravyn, Reyson, and I yelled.
We’dallpartaken in I.M Free’s particular brand of book smut. It was delicious, and I read it over Ravyn’s shoulder for her dirty book club. Reyson did a deep dive into the werewolf porn at the Library of the Profane. He’d been recruited into book club.
“Anyway, it’s all fiction. So many gods with shapeshifting abilities don’t fully explore what they can do with it. The shapeshifting got all wibbly wobbly where the outside was Loki, but I had a uterus. When it was time to give birth. the top was the same, but the bottom gave birth just like you are. Trust me, it hurts like a bitch, but when they hand that beautiful, little baby to you, it’s worth it. Yours is probably not a massive chonk like Sleipnir was.”
“Hey!” Sleipnir said.
“Story time is over,” the midwife said. “It’s time to push and meet this beautiful, mystery baby.”
Everyone crowded around Ripley to give her support. None of us knew what she was about to give birth to, but I had a feeling I was about to witness something extraordinary.
Chapter9
Ravyn
Whatever this baby was, it seemed to want to get here in a hurry. Everything seemed to be going smoothly, despite the quickness of the entire thing, until the midwife said there was a problem. Excuse me, but this was my twin sister, and whatever the problem was, someone needed to fix it. Ijustgot Killian back. So, I wasn’t losing my twin and my nephew, too.
“I’m not a midwife, but maybe I can help,” Reyson said.
That was probably the most logical thing I’d ever heard him say when my sister might be in trouble, but I was grateful for it.
“What’s wrong?” Gabriel demanded.
“There seems to be something protruding from the shoulder. I might have to make a cut, but you can heal that, right?”
I already knew he could, but Ripley let out this loud shriek and pushed at the same time. The baby was out. The midwife snipped the umbilical cord and went to clean it off. Reyson snapped to attention and was healing her. I didn’t hear the baby crying, and I was panicking.
Before I could even get deep in my panic, the baby let out a loud cry, and the midwife already had it wrapped up.
“It’s a boy, but I still don’t knowwhathe is.”
She handed that beautiful, fat baby to my sister. He was perfect in every way, except he had two bony protrusions growing from his shoulder blades. Those beautiful blue eyes stared up at her, and he cooed. I didn’t know what he was or what was growing from his back, but he was perfect.
I saw the outline of a door open, which meant Lilith was coming. When it opened, Lilith stepped through with Lucifer and Bram’s mom. DNA tests were underway in Hell, and Hellhounds were being reunited with their family. Doris shrieked and threw up her hands. Loki just fell out laughing.
“Look, Doris! A god used a door!”
Doris shot him a death glare. I buried my face in Killian’s chest and started giggling. Lucifer rushed over with this big, goofy grin on his face.
“Sorry, I couldn’t keep him away when he felt it,” Lilith said. She realized we were all confused and looked right at Gabriel. “I see. Congratulations, Daddy. You made an angel.”
