Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“Good.”
The moment was tense, but I knew the reason why. He just wanted to make sure that everyone was cared for and safe. As I thought about that, I finally took the first bite of my sorbet. It was so good. I couldn’t help it when I moaned with delight.
“Mhmmmm.”
“That was obscene.” He chuckled. “But expected.”
“Good. I’m glad you expected it. If you didn’t, then you clearly don’t know me at all.
“I know you just fine.” He winked at me then and I almost choked on my dessert.
“Hey, Joaquin, can I ask you something?” I had a sudden thought, something that had been bothering me for the last couple of days.
“About what?”
“The middle names you chose for the babies. They all have the same first initial and two of them have the same middle initial. Why did you make one of them different?” This had been confusing me for days. I just didn’t know why he had done it.
“Oh, that. Ha ha ha.” I was starting to get worried now. What was so funny about it?
“Well, you see, one of them has to zag while the others zig.”
“Huh?” I was lost. He wasn’t making any sense.
“You know, Zander Ian gray and Zayden Issac Gray are zig and Zachary Aaron Gray is zag.”
“Oh my fucking goddess. Are you kidding me? You chose their middle names so that they would be zig and zag with their initials. Really! That is just insane.” Despite my words I was laughing. He had pulled a fast one on me. And now I was set in stone naming them those specific names since I had announced them to the public already.
“Yeah. Isn’t it cute? Zig, zig, zag. It’s perfect.”
“You’re an idiot.” I was still laughing so my insult wasn’t as powerful as it could be. “I really can’t believe you. I mean, you put so much thought into the names for the other kids, that I didn’t think you would do this to our boys.”
“Yeah, but I only had to choose the middle names. But it’s not bad. I mean Zachary Aaron will basically mean God remembers the exalted and strong. Zander Ian would mean the defender of men is gracious. And Zayden Issac would mean laughter and fire.”
“That makes it sound like Zayden is going to be a pyromaniac.” I glared at him. “Did you look these up in advance?” I asked him if he planned it or if it was just a coincidence.
“No. I looked them up after I told you the middle names. But they work out. And the fire and laughter doesn’t mean he will be a pyro. He could be passionate and full of laughter.” He was trying to convince me that he didn’t just doom my son to the setting of fires.
“Yeah, let’s hope so.” I shook my head at him.
“It’s fine. No one will notice the zig zags unless we tell them.” He clearly thought that it was funny.
The two of us sat there for a while, sharing my sorbet and talking like we used to a long time ago. After about an hour or so, Trevor came out of the room that he and Aunt Glory had been in.
“Hey!” He was grinning from ear to ear. “We have our twins. One boy named Owen and one little girl named Calissa. They are perfect and beautiful. You can come in and see them soon. Lana is just cleaning them up.”
Just after Trevor finished saying this, Athair m貌r walked out of the other room.
“It’s a boy. We have a son named Calix.” I knew that Daciana had suspected that it was a boy, but they didn’t want anyone to tell them what it was until he was born. It looks to me like she was right.
“Congratulations. To the both of you. And the mothers as well.” I was so happy. After they told me the babies’ names, I went in to see them. And that was what I did for the rest of the evening pretty much. Even Reagan, Rika and Talia came in to see the babies.
“Mommy, babies are so small.” Talia commented with a cute little smile. “I can’t wait until our babies are here.”
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Joaquin
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For the last two weeks, I have been working on the nursery in between work and being with my wife. Yesterday, Gloriana and Daciana had their babies. It made me realize how little time we had left until Riviana was going to be delivering our three boys. That meant that I needed to make sure that this room was ready.
Ever since Talia graduated to having a big girl bedroom of her own, there was no need for the nursery to be used. Now though, we needed to have it ready for three babies at once. This time we needed three cribs, three chests of drawers, three dressers, three wardrobes, three toy boxes, three of everything.
I was almost done with the entire room. The paint jobs had been touched up so that it all looked like new. Even the glow in the dark paint that I used for the constellations was redone so that they would shine brightly again.
I touched up the trees in the forest mural and put in all the new furniture. I bought lots of little baby boy clothes, blankets and toys. I got everything ready as quickly as I could. I wanted this room to be perfect for us and for my babies.
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While I was finalizing most of the stuff, I had a visitor come to see me. They just walked right in like they owned the place. Then again, I was used to them doing that by now.
“Hey there, thunder from peanut butter.” Juniper said in her joking tone.
“I don’t even know how to respond to that one.” I shook my head at her while I continued to put the clothes in their proper places.
