Page 27 of Unforgivable Fate

“You’re going to have a son.”

“No. I heard you.” Leo was shaking his head. “I just think maybe that vision finally made your brain malfunction.”

“Hey!” She yelped.

“I just mean, you do realize that we’re both male, right? We may be fated mates but we can’t actually procreate.” Leo looked bewildered as he turned to his husband. “We had the birds and the bees talk with her didn’t we? I would have sworn we did.”

“Leo.” Darius spoke softly, his voice cracking, and Leo stopped his teasing laughter instantly. “Do you think she means…?”

“We only just submitted the paperwork. She can’t mean…” Leo trailed off, seeming to realize what his husband was getting at. “Adoption. We’re going to adopt. They’re going to approve our application?”

They both turned to look at Nova and she nodded.

Leo put a hand to his mouth. Darius looked like he might cry. The two embraced one another in a tight hug and Griffin looked away.

He had been right. This was an important moment for them. Intimate. And they’d let him be a part of it because he too would be part of this family soon.

He glanced at Nova, “You’re amazing.”

She shrugged, “It’s a gift.”

Darius pulled back from the embrace with his husband and wiped at his cheeks, “I can’t believe it. You really saw us with a son?”

“I really did and not only that but, it wasn’t a distant future. He’s going to come into your life really soon.”

Leo wiped at his cheeks, “We didn’t tell anyone we were looking into adoption because we were worried it wouldn’t go through. We thought there was a possibility you’d have a vision of our plans but then your gift went all wonky and… I just can’t believe it. We’re going to be parents.”

Nova smiled softly, “You’re already parents, at least to me. You helped raise me and you did a damn fine job if I do say so myself.”

That earned a watery laugh and then Griffin watched as the three of them hugged and cried together. It was an incredible moment to be part of. Especially when Nova opened her arms and grinned at him.

“Come on. Get in here with us. You’re in on another DeLuca family secret now.”

Griffin chuckled and moved towards her. He slid an arm around her waist and his other around Darius. The four of them stood there like that for a long moment and it felt so nice to be included, to be part of a family, that Griffin thought he too might tear up.

Nova caught his eye and her smile lit up everything inside of him, “Come on. Let’s give these two some time to celebrate their big news. We can try scrying some other time.”

As they said their goodbyes and left Leo and Darius to enjoy their happy news together, Nova felt like she was floating. She hadn’t felt this good in months. Her visions were back and she felt more like her old self, like life had meaning and she had purpose. She had reached for the future and this time there hadn’t been any cloudy, half-formed images or dark spots. There had only been the future, big and bright and beautiful, just waiting for her brothers to walk into it.

And it was all thanks to Griffin.

He was no longer a blindspot hindering her from seeing the future. He wasn’t the thing that fate was trying to hide from her. He was part of the visions now. He’d been there, beside her, when she had been in that vision. She’d felt him with her and she had known that he was sharing his strength with her, helping her to power the vision, sending his support through the bond to help her which was just too incredible to comprehend considering they weren’t even mated yet.

She wasn’t so far gone that she missed the significance of her subconscious using that word. Yet. Because after everything that they’d shared today, that kiss, the vision, those precious moments after she’d been knocked back into reality and he’d held her and looked at her as if she was the only thing in his world that mattered, she knew that her brother had been right.

It was only a matter of time before she gave in to what fate, her body and maybe even her heart wanted.

Even with her brain still chiming in to remind her that she needed to be cautious, that she couldn’t trust him just because he’d been there for her today, she was flying high on the success of her attempt to see the future and the connection she felt to her mate. Her heart was racing and her blood was hot. The mating heat was pulsating in every cell of her body and she didn’t feel like fighting it at the moment.

So instead of heading for the front door, where she knew Bear would be lounging on the porch waiting, she grabbed Griffin’s hand and pulled him out the back. He went with her willingly. He laced his fingers with hers and let her tug him around the side of the house. She was fairly certain her brothers had been too wrapped up in one another to know anything except that they were gone and from this side of their house they were blocked from the town square by a gated fence.

“That was a pretty amazing thing you did back there.” Griffin smiled at her as she pushed him back against the house and she smiled back at him, marveling at the easy way he trusted her and went along with what she wanted.

“It was, wasn’t it?”

“Mmmhmm.” He slid a hand around to the small of her back.

“That was partly you. You know that right?”

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