Page 77 of Treasure and Tarot

“Do you want to go snuggle on the couch while we wait for Abby?”

Sebastian yawned. “Oh my God, I am so tired. I would absolutely doze with you on the couch.”

“Don’t throw that away.” He jerked his chin at the pregnancy test.

“I won’t. I promise.” Sebastian set it carefully on the shelf by the sink, where it wouldn’t get wet. “Come on, big guy. Let’s go have a nice after-lunch siesta.”

They grabbed each other’s hands, and they walked out to the front room, both of them grinning like idiots.

First Halloween and Thanksgiving. Now he was going to get Christmas. And then all the other things, plus a baby.

His life? Was amazing.

Chapter

Twenty-Five

Xavi shook his head as he looked around the room, which had exploded with Christmas prep. “Look at all of this shit. It’s crazy.”

“Colton went a little overboard.” Sebastian grinned and shook his head. The third floor was filled with boxes and wrapping paper and tape, along with the furniture that Colton had been bringing up, a piece at a time. “But what was I supposed to say? No? This is his first Christmas with his daughter. Hell, it’s his first Christmas with me. I’m surprised that everyone isn’t leaving to go home to their, you know, families.”

Xavi and Xander both still had their parents here in town, but none of the guys seemed in a big hurry to leave, not even Gent, really, who had family not too terribly far away. Rumor was Gent’s family was coming to them.

“I think everybody’s feeling the love.” Xavi winked at him and started sorting presents.

“I don’t know.” Sebastian shook his head and settled on the low couch. Scissors, labels, and tape were on the low table. “I do know that it’s fun, though. We have parties planned and lights up, and that part’s fun. Are you guys not having fun?”

Should he worry about his friends feeling left out?

“Oh, stop it. This is so much nicer than when you were pregnant before. You’re almost done being sick. I mean, I even made bacon and you didn’t barf.”

“Still, let’s not talk about barfing.” Sebastian was feeling way better this time, and it felt normal, easy-ish. Not like a huge trauma, but something fun. He’d been down to Secret Springs to chat with Devon and Raven at the birthing center, and all was going well. The baby was due in late August, early September. So that would be great. A little Virgo baby to go with his little Scorpio baby. That was a match.

Colton was over the moon. In fact, right now, he and Abby were out making snowmen together, so that they could at least start to get a handle on wrapping some of this stuff that Colton had brought in for Abby. “He really did kind of go overboard, didn’t he?”

Xander snorted. “You think? Still, she is the daughter of a rich man. Let him spoil her a little bit.”

They were laughing and wrapping and labeling and laughing more. He wished he could have a beer or a glass of wine with his buds, but he did have an amazing strawberry shake that Xavi had brought him.

Nothing was tasting as good to him right now as strawberries were. He could just devour them.

Xavi glanced up from where he was trying to figure out how to wrap a ball. “What did you get Colton?”

Sebastian shrugged, a little embarrassed. “I got him…well, it’s silly…but I got him a big picture of him and Abby together to hang up on the wall. You know the wall that I have with all the family pictures? I found as many as I could of Colton when he was a kid, and I’m getting them framed, but I got a big one of him and Abby together. I mean, I got him other little stuff, but that’s his big present. Is it ridiculous?”

Xavi shook his head. “Are you kidding? That’s adorable. He’s gonna love it, and if he doesn’t, I’ll kick him in the balls.”

“You are my best friend.”

Xander glared.

“What? Okay, he’s my best omega friend. You could be my best alpha friend.”

That seemed to satisfy Xander, who winked.

“So who’re going to be the godparents of the new baby? And we’re the godparents of Abby, so I’m assuming that you’re going to go with Colton’s people.” Xavi didn’t seem as worried.

“I don’t think we have to pick just one or two. But yes, I think that Colton will absolutely ask Gent, just like I’ll ask the two of you. It may be, though, that he asks his entire crew, and that this baby has all the godparents.” It didn’t really matter. Love wasn’t pie. They didn’t have to just pick two.

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