Page 57 of Our Haunted Omegas
“I can wake up Teal, if you prefer that he does it,” I offered.
“No. I’m… I think I saw an egg,” Ambry whispered.
“And you’re upset because there wasn’t two of them?” I arched a brow and tugged his pajama pants down low on his hips.
“No. I…. Is it too soon? Can eggs form that quickly?” Ambry asked and I nodded.
“If you were in a fertile spot, they can. The true-mate response magic does a lot of the work. Let’s see what’s going on here.”
“What if it’s not an egg? Or an embryo?” Ambry asked.
“Do you feel sick? I know bad stuff doesn’t always make you feel sick but if it doesn’t look like an egg we’ll have Teal look. Even if ---” I stopped when Teal padded in, eyes barely seeing, through our cracked bedroom door. He dropped to his knees beside Ambry and turned my mate to face him. My brother pressed his ear against Ambry’s belly and pressed in close. Mymate blinked and reached for my hand as if Teal’s ear grew a spike.
“Thingy,” he said, groping around for the ultrasound-mini.
I handed it off to him and he sank onto his heels.
“I could lay down or---” Ambry offered but Teal shook his head and made a sleepy grunt. “We could wait until you had coffee.”
“’sfine.” He mumbled barely making sense. “Don’t tense.”
“I’m trying not to,” Ambry said and bit his lip.
“It’s okay,” I said to him and gave his hand a reassuring squeeze. I ran my thumb in circles over his soft palm as my brother blinked his eyes open wide enough to look at the machine’s screen. A sleepy grin pulled at the corners of his lips. It was an egg.
“Egg. No shaking. No stirring. No making my nibling into an omelet.”
“Nibling?” Ambry looked to me.
“It’s the gender-neutral term for someone who is your sibling’s kid.”
“Easier as a plural noun too,” Teal yawned and stretched out on the floor with his head on his arms. “Will make print outs later. Sleep for now. Lots of sleep.”
“You have about half an hour before we have to get moving if we’re going to the feast,” I yawned.
“Sleep. Shush. You shush. You too,” Teal mumbled. “Doctored. Now sleep.”
“When he’s like this I sort of want to lay on him,” Ambry blinked at me.
“It’s from Co and me but go ahead. I think I’m going to get a shower and make some calls.”
“Calls?” he arched a brow.
“I need to tell Clarence so he can up security and tell everyone to back off. My dragon—”
“Not around anyone except us. Maybe dad. Maybe Medwin. Not alone with anyone who didn’t come out of an egg sack. No one. Trust no one. Get the murder dog!”My dragon rambled loud enough to pour over our mating link and Ambry nodded his understanding. Whenever my dragon stopped speaking in proper sentences he was on the verge of burning someone alive or at least making a decent go at it. I didn’t want to deal with that if I could help it. Everyone at the party should be family or security but that didn’t mean much to my dragon. Ambry was a fleshy wolf that any of my draconic relatives could step on and squish.
I lingered in the bedroom until Ambry made up his mind about what he was going to do. In the end, he did lay down, trying not to giggle, on top of Teal.
“Safe there,”my dragon whispered into my thoughts and then and only then was I allowed to go wash my ass and get the day started.
After I was cleaned and dressed, I texted my carrier the good news first. While my parents would’ve been supportive no matter who we told first, I knew he’d feel a bit left out if he didn’t know before my grandparents and I couldn’t do that to him. Besides, I wanted both of my dads to know they were about to be grandpas. Then I sent Clarence the code word text. He put so many security protocols in place that he had a code word for everything. After that, I switched my phone to silent and tiptoed down the hall to Co and Odie’s room. I pressed my ear against the door. Co was awake and watching Odie sleep. I poked him gently on our link careful not to wake up the others.
“Congratulations,”he thought back at me.“Are we calling off the trip?”
“I considered it, but I want them to meet our family. They’re family to each other now too. It only seems right that everyone get to meet them. My dragon isn’t pleased with the timing.”
“That’s why I asked,”Cobalt said, saving me from stating the obvious.“I don’t know if I could do it.”
