Page 34 of Dimitri

“You should stay here and enjoy yourself,” I told him. “Go flying to where you don’t have to worry about me either getting sick or having to worry about my legs not working when we are finished.” Pregnancy sickness had set in. It was a good thing I liked tea because the sickness tea from Master Edison had been a lifesaver.

Dimitri’s hand gently touched my lower stomach. It was still very flat. But we were both ecstatic that I was pregnant. I had been so concerned about it when he had mentioned that my scent had started to change five days ago, but three days after, I’d felt the baby. Dimitri had been so damn adorable when I’d told him he would be getting his own little dragon baby.

“You will reach out if you need anything?”

I nodded. I would. He was going to talk to Benjamin if he needed to come to me, but I had no doubt that everything would be fine. If Dimitri needed me, I had already decided I would be making a quick trip to the nearest bathroom and then popping back here to my One.

Dimitri kissed me and then sighed as he took a step back. “You should go to work. I want nothing more than to slowly peel you out of that suit. It is…very much you, yet I know a different side of you.”

I grinned. He certainly did. “I’ll be back in a few hours,” I told him. It was already just after two in the afternoon in Madrid, and although it was only just after six in the morning here, despite the fact that it was still dark out, there were quite a few that were already up and around on the mountaintop.

“You will, and when you return, I have plans to remove that suit from you, slowly.”

Something to look forward to. I could hardly wait. I moved in, gave Dimitri another kiss, and then took a step back. He nodded to me once, and with a thought of my condo in Madrid, I suddenly found myself standing in the middle of my living room there.

I looked around, noticing that a few things had been moved, and there were definitely signs that someone had been here boxing things up. There was a stack of boxes in the corner by the bookshelf, and I noticed it was now empty. I didn’t know if it had been Lorenzo or Papa. I smiled either way because it meant a lot to me that they would take time out of their day to help me out. Especially since they both knew I could have the entire place packed with a simple thought.

I heard keys in the door, and when I turned toward it, I expected Lorenzo since he had the spare key. He lived in the same building but on a different floor, and we’d given each other our spare keys just in case one of us ever needed the other. When Papa entered, I realized just how much I’d missed him over the past several weeks.

I’d only been in Montana for three weeks, but I’d been so busy with work that I’d actually not had a whole lot of time to spend with my fathers. Well, outside of being at work. Papa seemed to have scented me because his head suddenly flew upward, and he inhaled deeply. When he spotted me in the corner by the bookshelf, he squeaked. The stack of boxes he was carrying fell to the floor, and he was suddenly rushing over toward me.

“¡Mijo!”

I braced myself for Papa’s embrace. He quickly wrapped his arms around me and held on tightly.

“Hi, Papa,” I said.

“Hi? Hi?” he said as he stepped back from me.

I grinned. “Dimitri doesn’t speak Spanish, and I don’t speak Russian or Mandarin, so we’ve resorted to speaking English since we’re both fluent in it.”

“Russian? Mandarin?” Papa took another step away before he held my arms and looked me over. “And where is this Dimitri? Why is it that you are here and he isn’t? Did your mate not come with you?”

I shook my head. “No. Since I was going to be at work for a few hours, we decided it would be best he stayed at the council. He was maybe going to go for a flight or possibly go visit his grandparents.” I was both excited and terrified about meeting his grandparents. It wasn’t every day that you simply joined the created dragon’s family. Well, it apparently was a thing for me, but that wasn’t something most paranormals did.

“Tell me about him. I’ve asked your brother more times than I can count, and he won’t say more than the fact that Dimitri is an amazing guy and he’s a dragon shifter.”

I snorted. I didn’t know how well Sebastian actually knew Dimitri. I’d asked my One how well he knew my brother and had been told that they were on different teams, and although he knew who my brother was, he hadn’t spent a whole lot of time with him. They saw each other frequently but hadn’t been on any assignments together yet.

“You aren’t listening,” Papa said. “You must be quite taken with your One.”

I shook my head. “Such nonsense. Why wouldn’t I be?”

“And your One. Is he with child?”

My eyes widened.

“Oh, come tell,” Papa said. “I wish to have more grandbabies to spoil. I believe Lorenzo will never find his mate because he’s too busy chasing barely legal humans.”

I pointed to the sofa and started in that direction. Once Papa was sitting beside me, I turned toward him a bit and reached for his hands. “Did Sebastian not tell you anything about Dimitri?”

“No. Just his name, and he’s a dragon.”

I tilted my head. “Papa, Dimitri is an enforcer,” I told him and waited. I waited some more, and when it didn’t seem to click, I shook my head. “Papa, Dimitri is an enforcer. He’s a dragon alpha.”

Papa blinked at me, and I saw the moment it clicked. Papa’s eyes widened as his mouth dropped open. He looked down at my stomach, which caused me to laugh.

“Yes, Papa, I’m with child,” I told him. I knew that in another few weeks, Papa would be able to scent the baby, but for now, it was still too early. “Dimitri and I will be having a little dragon shifter sometime in May, we guess.”

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