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“I want to get as much of you as I can for now. We only have so long until we have to abstain for a while.” I whispered the words, but I knew that she still heard me.
“We don’t need to abstain, Vincent. We can always have each other.” Oh Goddess, that level of arousal in her words almost made me come then and there, but I held it off somehow.
“No, we do. In five months or so, maybe sooner, we will need to abstain for a little while, but I won’t mind. The reason is a good one.” I was being cryptic, letting her figure this out along with me.
“What are you talking about, Vincent?” she asked me as she pulled away from me. “Why would we need to-.” She stopped in mid question, her eyes going wide and a smile slowly spreading across her face. “Vincent?” My name was the question that she wanted to ask me.
“Yes, sweetheart?” I smirked at her, answering her in more than one way, but she wanted to be more sure.
“Am I-?” She left off there, not finishing the question. I had slowed the movement of my body into her’s as she spoke and asked me this, but I had not stopped.
“Yes, Heather, you are.” I knew that the grin on my face was as excited and stupid as it could get, but I was happy, and so was she.
“Oh, Vincent!” She threw her arms around me as I started to thrust a little harder again. “I am so happy.”
“I know, sweetheart, I know. And so am I.” In our joint happiness, her body was reaching its point of ecstasy, and so was mine. I rocked us together again and again until we both came gently. It wasn’t earth shattering, it wasn’t an explosion of passion, but it was everything that we needed at the moment.
We sighed in contentment with each other as I separated our bodies. Heather was still not letting go of me, her arms wrapped loosely around my neck as she smiled against my chest. We stayed like that for a while before we got out of the tub, rinsing once more in the shower to get the residue off of our skin.
We didn’t leave each other’s side all weekend. We cooked together, snuggled and watched movies together, read a book together, and made love again and again. We stocked up on everything that we had been missing with the intense situations that had been happening around us.
As we lay in bed on Sunday evening, we started to talk about what we needed to do from this point onward.
“We need to tell the kids. They need to know, of course.” Heather was already planning how we needed to share the news.
“I can tell Riviana tomorrow at work, if that is alright with you. I will try to keep it private though, so that the others don’t know yet.”
“Yes, I am sure that she needs to know. You are her Beta, and she is our Queen, not to mention a friend. I know that she will be happy for us. And think about it, the baby can almost grow up with Reeselynn, just like the twins grew up with Reagan and Rika.”
“Isn’t it funny?” I laughed as I asked her that. “We have kids when she has kids. Not every time, but a couple of them.”
“Ha ha ha, yeah, it’s funny but I like it. I also think that it’s her magic. You know with her being the Goddess and all, she radiates pheromones and all of those lovely things.”
“Yeah, I think that about sums it up. Anyway, I will tell Riviana tomorrow. And we can invite the kids to dinner this week so that we can tell them. I don’t think that they will have a problem with it. We’re still quite young after all. Well, at least in appearance.”
“Ha ha ha, yes, we are. Oh, this is so exciting. I can’t wait for the baby to be here! Do you think it’ll be a girl or a boy?”
“Hmm. Well, we have three girls and two boys, so maybe a boy to round it out. But I won’t care either way. I just want to have a baby with you, sweetheart.” I leaned in and kissed her cheek then, envisioning the future that was coming for the two of us. Oops, I mean the three of us.
That night, I had dreams of peaceful times with our family. Me, Heather, our soon to be six children, our daughter in-law, Renea’s boyfriend and mate that she had found, and our granddaughter Hope. It was all calming and peaceful. And when I woke up the next morning, I was still smiling and grinning widely. I didn’t think that there was anything that would take the smile off of my face.
For the next six months and more, I was going to be the happiest man alive. Who wouldn’t be when they were expecting another little bundle of joy? Especially when that made their mate so radiantly happy as well.
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Vincent
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I smiled like a loon while I got dressed that day. I smiled like a loon throughout the short drive from my home in the compound to the castle. And I was still smiling like a loon when I rode the elevator up to the tower.
I was doing my best to reign in my emotions, but I just couldn’t. My weekend had been pure perfection, and I wasn’t able to stop that from showing. I knew though, that the others would see it, and that they were likely to ask me questions about my long weekend off. That was why I was trying to school my features into something that was a little less conspicuous.
I was one of the last ones to arrive that day, even though I lived so close. When I walked off of the elevator, Joaquin, Shane, David, Shawn, and Dietrich were all there. The only ones missing were Gabriel and Riviana, and I knew that they were working on some of the logistics of that college course that Amadeus was going to teach this fall.
It happened almost the moment that Joaquin saw me. He looked up and gave me a once over, something that said he knew that something was off. Before he could say anything though, Riviana came walking through one of her magical doors from her office.
“Oh, good morning, Vincent.” Her face was calm and didn’t sense anything off at all. Joaquin on the other hand, wasn’t holding back at all.
“I know that look.” He grinned at me.
“What look?” I asked him, confident that I hadn’t given anything other than happiness away.
“We all know that look.” Shane laughed as he walked up next to me and clapped me on the back.
“What are you two on about?” Riviana asked as she went to pick up the baby from her bassinet. She had woken just a moment before and was starting to fuss.
“That look on Vincent’s face.” David said as he joined in with the others.
“He looks normal to me.” Riviana commented as she cradled the baby in her arms. Seeing the baby made me think of my baby on the way and I grinned a little more.
“That look is definitely not normal.” Joaquin said. “And I know that look well.” He was coming over toward me as he spoke.
“I don’t get it.” Riviana shook her head at him. “What is so special about that look? He just looks happy. He had a long weekend off, anyone would be happy after that time to rest and relax.”
“Ha ha ha.” Shane laughed at her words. “I don’t think that he rested all that much, judging by that smirk.”
“Yeah, I agree.” Joaquin told her confidently. “I know that look on his face, I have had it myself several times before.”
“You’re often happy, Joaquin, so there is no need to say that.” I could tell that Riviana was not getting it, although the others had obviously understood the moment that they saw me. Knowing that, I smiled and blushed some more. I couldn’t help it.
“This is a certain kind of happiness though. And I have had it several times. Let me see, hmm, I would say that it’s happened to me five times in the past. Yup, that sounds about right.”
“Five times? What has happened five times that would-.” She stopped then and actually started to think about it. “Oh.” She grinned about as wide as I had when she looked at me then. “Well, I guess that a congratulations are in order.” She looked extremely happy when she said that.
“I was going to tell you right away, but it seems that they all noticed it before I could.” I laughed serenely. “It’s true. Heather and I are expecting a baby. He or she will be due in November.” I beamed proudly as I looked at them all. “It’s been a long time for us. Almost twenty years, so I am very excited about this.”
“As you should be, man.” Joaquin pulled me in for a hug. “Riviana and I will be here for you whenever you need us. And we can’t wait to meet the new little one.”
“Congrats, Vincent, this is wonderful news.” David shook my hand and pulled me into a hug next.
“We are so happy for you.” Dietrich said as he and Shawn came in for the next hug together.
“This is truly good news. More little ones are always a good thing. Give Heather our love as well.”
“I will.” I said as I hugged them back.
“Ha ha ha, this is great man. You go away for a weekend and come back expecting a baby. Who would have thought that would happen?” He laughed as he too hugged me.
For the rest of the morning, everyone was in a good mood. Even among the men in the pack, babies were always a happy topic. Well, at least for the mated men in the pack. We were settled and knew the value of adding to our families.
At lunchtime that day, Heather called me and said that the kids would all be there that evening. There wasn’t much else for them to be doing, and they were all free at the moment. I guess that this family discussion was going to happen sooner rather than later.
I did my best to wrap up everything with Riviana early that day. I wanted to make sure that I was off work by five so that I could help Heather prep the meal. The kids would be there around seven that night, and I wanted the dinner to be perfect.
I got home, kissed Heather on the lips, rubbed her belly, and cleaned up. We were making shrimp scampi, garlic butter and thyme steaks, homemade scalloped potatoes, bacon wrapped asparagus, baked zucchini and squash, fresh Caesar salad, apple treacle tarts with vanilla ice cream, and some homemade rolls that Heather had already prepped earlier in the day.
Now that I was home to help her, we were getting the bulk of the menu prepared. We needed to make sure that we had everything ready and perfect for the kids, not that they would mind if it wasn’t. This was just something that we wanted to do for our own benefit. We liked to have special and near formal family dinners on a regular basis with the kids.
This allowed us to stay consistent in their lives, even though they were all grown and out of the house now.
The food was prepared, the table was set with the best cloth, dishes, and flatware, drinks were prepared for them all, nonalcoholic of course, and dessert was chilling in the kitchen. They all arrived within minutes of each other, hurrying inside to give hugs like they hadn’t seen us in a long time. That was what I loved about our family so much.
We were so open and affectionate with each other that even as adults, our kids didn’t hesitate with hugs for us, or kisses to the cheek. We were a close family. We always had been and we always would be.
The meal started soon after the kids arrived. The food was a hit, as I knew that it would be. And we enjoyed a lot of great talk about what the kids were up to in their lives. Tyler and Charlotte, the youngest at the moment, had just recently come back from their first year away at college. They told us all about the classes they had taken and what they planned to do the next semester.
Conner talked about his work with Joaquin’s company and how happy he was to be somewhere that he didn’t need to worry about what he was.
Renea was starting out as a teacher in the school in the fall. She had just finished her internships and she was a full-fledged teacher now. She loved kids and would be working with the kindergarten class in the fall. Faith, who was entering her senior year of college, was telling us how she wanted to move onto medical school and pursue a career in medicine to help the humans of the world.
She was passionate about caring for other people.
They were all doing so great in their lives, but it was bittersweet for Heather and I. They were moving on, moving away, and becoming their own people. I loved that, but I was also happy that we had another that would be here with us soon.
“So, Mom, Dad, what was it that you wanted to tell us?” Faith, the most observant of them all, asked with a knowing look in her eyes.
“Well, sweetheart, there is some special and wonderful news that we have to share.” Heather took my hand and looked into my eyes before continuing. “We found out this weekend that we are-.”
“PREGNANT!” They all said at the same time. It was comical, but also heartwarming. And they all said it with such warmth and happiness.
“This is wonderful.” Conner beamed. “It might seem a little weird later on, but for now I am happy for you two. And I can’t wait to meet my little brother or sister.” He was currently holding Hope in his arms, beaming proudly at us. The rest had similar reactions to the news and that just made it all that much better.
Our happy little family was not so little anymore. It was also so full of love that we couldn’t help but smile as it carried us along on the path to the future.
We found out later that it was another little girl that we were having. She would be a year younger than her niece, but she would still grow up able to play with her. We decided that we were going to name her Grace.
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Shawn
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It had been an emotional week for us. Luther and Fauna had graduated this month, alongside Talia. The three of them would be joining the others at the university in the fall. For the time being though, we were getting ready to go on a family trip. One that was long overdue.
We had traveled a lot with the kids, all eight of them, but we hadn’t taken most of the kids to the castle in Germany. Luka, Levi, Alyssa, and Alexa had all gone when they were younger, but somehow, it just hadn’t come up with the others as time moved on. And they had not been there to see the place that Dietrich had lived for so long.
The place where Dietrich and I had spent the majority of our pregnancies all those years ago.
I was a little sad that the older ones weren’t coming with us, but they had a lot of work that they wanted to get done.
“We’re going to be training with Reagan and Rika.” Luka had told us when we planned the trip.
“Besides, I think that it will be a lot more special for the younger kids if they are the only ones to be with you.” Levi added with a smile.
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