Page 62 of His Fate

I instantly scowl and nod.

Posey giggles. "I'm on birth control but between how super out of whack my cycle is and the fact that we've had sex at least four times a day for the last few days, not to mention your fire semen is probably more potent than my tiny little pills can handle, I have a feeling it's only going to be a matter of time before you knock me up."

"Would that be problematic?" Fuck. What if she doesn't want any young? What if Posey has no desire to start a family? Ultimately it would not change things because she is my mate, my love, and I only truly need her to feel complete but I've always seen myself becoming a father.

Between being one of seven children and helping raise my sisters, father is a role I've longed to add alongside mate and king. Our parents were desperate for grandchildren just as Hank, wanted so badly to be surrounded by dozens of our young and all seven of us had a strong desire to provide that, not just for them but ourselves. I will be disappointed if Posey does not want children but not destroyed. Not to mention we have potentially thousands of years together so there is time to change her mind.

Posey begins to laugh as she shakes her head. "You are adorable, you know that?"

I blink at her and frown.

"I can hear you, Kasimir." She lifts a finger and taps my temple. "And rest assured, I want lots of big beautiful, Slovakian dragon babies."

My heart practically swells to triple its size. "Yes? You want to bear my young?"

She nods. "Very much. But I also want to enjoy a little time with my mate first, before we start pumping out Kai mini-mes. And since I really love all the sex we've been having and have absolutely no intention of changing one thing about it, I'm just asking if I should maybe change my birth control or something?"

"I will be able to scent when you are fertile."

Posey's brows lift and her eyes widen slightly.

I smile and nod. She is so adorable. "Since you possess human traits you will be fertile more frequently than female dragons, but thankfully my heightened senses coupled with how in tune to you and your body I am, I will know when you are at your peak for conception."

"Ah." She nods as if this is completely normal. "So I won't need to track my ovulation or anything when we decide to try for babies?"

I shake my head.

"You wouldn't happen to know when I'm going to get my period, would you? Because that bitch shows up at random, whenever the hell she feels like it."

"What do you mean?"

"I've never been regular. That's why I went on birth control at fourteen." She makes a face then asks, "Do you really want to hear this?"

"It does not bother me, if that's what you're asking. This is all natural, not only in a physiological way but for mates to discuss such things."

She smiles and shrugs. "I guess you're right. I went on the pill at fourteen because I developed young. I had boobs at ten, bigger than the tiny little mosquito bites my friends had, went from a little gangly and flat to curvy around the same time, and had my first period by eleven. It was horrible though, and I wound up in the hospital because the pain was so bad I'd black out. At first the doctors thought I just had a low threshold but they did some tests and saw my cramps were reading higher than active labor contractions and on such a small girl they were just brutal."

Posey leans back into the seat as she unbuckles. "Then I didn't get my period for another three years. It was so weird. Just before I turned fourteen I was watching a Giants’ game with dad, totally normal night at home when this ridiculous pain started in my lower half. I mean not just my lady bits but from the ribs down. I dropped to the floor, my vision blurred, I threw up and blacked out. When I came to, we were at the hospital, dad had called Will and Harold to come get us. They started running a bunch of tests and the only thing they could figure was that it was my period but I..." She blushes a bit and bites the corner of her lip. "I wasn't bleeding, just cramping violently. At first they thought maybe it was endometriosis or something, but the lack of blood was weird so they put me on birth control to try to help regulate things but nothing happened for another three years and when it did, it was the same. Intense pain, no bleeding, black out. So they ran a bunch more tests because they thought maybe I couldn't have children, that there was something about my system that wasn't working right but when they did they found my egg count was super high and all my parts were just fine."

Posey maintains her crimson skin but shrugs. "So now, every three years I have to pretty much take a week off from life because I go through the same shit. It's a little more tolerable since I'm used to it and I don't black out anymore but I haven't really had a normal period, ever." She looks at me and smirks. "So if you get a read on that shit, let me know, ok? It's fucking brutal when it happens at random."

I nod and force a small smile as I build yet another wall in my mind. The need to have the many conversations piling up is growing more and more intense because everything my mate described is an indication that she was not starting her cycle, Posey was going into heat.

Yes, it was happening much more frequently than female dragons and that's probably from the combination of her shifter and human genetics but there is no doubt in my mind what she experiences is heat. Female dragons do not have a menstrual cycle, they just enter heat every hundred years and produce multiple young in a short period of time because of it. When a female is unmated during her time of need, during her heat, the pain is excruciating. Only one's mate can ease the pain by claiming her and filling her with his seed, which is why dragons generally have so many young. Based on what Posey said, it seems as though her heat hits every three years and lasts a week which is a definite modification of the one hundred to five years female dragons experience but it is the same otherwise. Which simultaneously makes me joyous, a little disappointed, and curious.

Joyous because we will know for sure when she will be able to conceive and her sex drive will increase greatly, which would be nothing short of amazing because my Josephine already has an insatiable sex drive as it is. It also means there is a relatively high chance for a multiple birth, twins or even triplets since it will be seven days of trying to ease her constant pain and she does not experience it the same as dragons.

A tad disappointing because if we do not have multiples, our young will not get to experience the same closeness my brothers and I or my sisters got to experience by having ready-made playmates so close in age. That isn't a terrible thing or anything life altering, but I've always been grateful for the relationships I have with my brothers and wanted that for my young.

Curiosity wins out in my array of emotion though because that just proves my mate favors her dragon genetics even more, and I'm not sure what to do with that knowledge. It feels as though she should have shifted at some point in her life, much younger than even I did, but something prevented her from doing so. If one is meant to shift, they do it despite human genes. There are so many curiosities that make up my beloved Josephine and I desperately need to speak with Henrich about them as well as any information he has attained.

"Kai? Sugar, what's wrong?"

I blink and look at her for a second before shaking my head. "Nothing, my love. I was just lost in thought."

"Mmhmm." One brow lifts. "Thoughts about me that I can't hear. Lots of them, judging by the huge fucking wall you have up."

"Nothing bad, Josephine, I can assure you of that."

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