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“No,” Cobalt shook his head. “But yeah. Use the lift. Don’t tire yourself out. I don’t expect trouble but then I didn’t expect Reve to try to turn us into a porno for the news either.”
“Tell the shadow dog he’s still welcome to blow up bad guys.”
“He doesn’t ask permission. So don’t worry about that,” Cobalt chuckled. “Do you need me to walk you to the house?
“You do know I’m a guard, right?” I arched a brow.
He looked so much like Teal. He smelled like him a little bit too. Only he smelled like Odie more than he smelled like my mate and for that I’d be eternally grateful.
“I’m not asking because I’m a cave-dragon. I’m asking because my mate would want me to,” Cobalt shrugged. “One day you’ll understand.”
“Okay, Clarence,” I said, deepening my voice and rolling my eyes.
We both laughed and I headed to the lift. I would’ve turned down the chance to get dressed but that would’ve meant saying no to an opportunity to touch up my pheromone blocker spray and I couldn’t do that. It was me and pheromone blocker spray against the world.
Chapter Three
Cobalt
“He’s going to get dressed,” I whispered to Odie as I slid back into the nest next to him.
He lay curled on his side facing Indi, Ambry, and their baby. Robin was out cold, his face buried against Ambry’s bare chest. A line of milk dribbled down Ambry’s peck and stomach. The urge to clean and care for him was there but I wasn’t about to wake him up. Indigo could clean him and the nest up later once everyone got some rest.
“Thank you,” Odie whispered back. “I know you didn’t want to talk to him.”
“I have nothing against the guy. He’s here to do a job that we may or may not need. I didn’t want to leave you and our baby. Okay or them, if I’m being honest.”
“I can’t leave them right now,” Odie whispered. “Seriously. Someone would have to drag me out of here kicking and snarling. I have to watch them. Robin is so little. So fragile. He smells so new and part of me is worried that someone outside will smell all of his innocent newness and want to hurt him.”
“No one can smell him from outside. When I was outside the door I couldn’t smell him. I couldn’t smell that I had been in here and that Indigo still was. A bit of wolf. Not even enough to identify you two if I didn’t know you. Mostly it was Indigo. Right now, if someone even startled that man he’d roast them,” I said, stroking his hair and trying to remind him that anywhere me or my brothers were safe.
“Guardie will blow their nether regions off,” I whispered and that made him smile.
At our feet, the shadow dog’s tail thumped against the bed like a heartbeat.
“Diaper,” Ambry grunted and patted around.
“They’re on the changing table,” Odie said, starting to push himself upright.
“I got it,” I was on my feet before he was sat up.
“It’s okay,” Indigo said, blinking his eyes. “I’ll do it. You rest.” He spoke to Ambry like he was the only other adult in the room. He glance at me and blinked again as if remembering I was here.
“You gonna be okay?” I asked as he stood up and took the tiny baby in one of his arms.
“I was sleeping hard,” Indigo yawned. “Coffee me?”
“Coffee you,” I nodded.
“Coffee me?” Odie asked hopefully.
“Yeah but just one, sweetheart.”
“One for now,” Odie laughed.
While I got the coffee, Indigo cleaned up his son and then his mate’s chest before settling the baby back onto it.
“I want a cherry cola,” Ambry announced. “Not one that’s cherry flavored. I want a cola with cherries in it.”
