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For the next week it wasn’t the enraged, astral projecting shebear that took over our lives but Alvis’s heat. Every now and then my thoughts would stray back to her, but I didn’t have too much time to dwell on that particular situation. Alvis smelled too good for me to think about anything or anyone else for long.We romped in every room of the guesthouse and soon I almost considered it home even if it wasn’t our forever home. Wherever Alvis was at any given moment was home enough for me.
When we weren’t romping, we lay awake for long hours talking our pasts and futures in circles. He wanted to keep traveling and I didn’t see why we couldn’t. Even with a baby in tow. Lion cubs were hardy little creatures and if our kid was going to grow up on Earthside they’d need to learn how to interact with the others here.
Alvis sometimes fell asleep mid-conversation with the last syllable of his words leaking off his tongue. I’d take the time to shower, clean up the house, and plan our next few meals and snacks. Beal and Pierce were both good about leaving baskets and Pierce even brought the perishable blood items into the house, so they didn’t go to rot if it took us a while to realize they were left outside the door. Sometimes we were so caught up in ourselves that we didn’t even hear him creep in and out.
We might’ve stayed like that forever if Mori hadn’t rang our doorbell a week into Alvis’s heat. I almost didn’t answer it but Alvis was awake and in the middle of eating a bowl of noodles. Before I could tell him to ignore it, he wrapped up in a sheet and went to see who was there. Sure, his heat was receding, but this was still our matingmoon and I wasn’t ready to share him with the world yet. Any time he mentioned leaving the guesthouse my lion got rumbly. With all the mating, romping, and lovemaking Alvis was surely pregnant by now and in my lion’s world that meant it was time to den down and wait out nature. Only, Alvis was a modern Earthside vampire and wanted to do silly things like go to the grocery store or take me to the natural history museum. That all sounded fun to me, but my inner beast had other ideas.
“It’s just Mori!” Alvis called back to me as if he’d expected Mori to stop by all along.
“What’s he want?” I called back, wishing he’d come back and finish his food before it got cold. Heat had taken a lot out of him and Mori was old enough to know better than to come ringing bells while people were in the middle of their mating moons.
“I’ll find out in a minute. Maybe you should put some pants on, though.”
“Why do I have to put pants on?” I grunted and joined him in the entryway. “You’re not wearing pants.”
“I’m an omega,” he shrugged. “Mori’s an omega.”
“Are you afraid my dick will scare him off?” I smirked.
Alvis grinned and his gaze drifted down to my crotch. Sometime during the week, I missed my potion dose and my barbs were proudly on display. Alvis licked his lips and for a second I thought Mori had run out of luck and would have to come back and try again another day. Then my mate shook his head and narrowed his eyes on me.
“I love your dick,” he stepped closer, holding up the sheet with one hand. “I love your barbs. You’re forbidden from hiding them from me.” He teased. “But Mori doesn’t need to see your dick. He’s here. So that means either he’s having another break down, it’s magic related, or both.”
“But it’s our matingmoon,” I said, leaning in for a kiss.
Alvis kissed me long and slow and Mori rang the bell again. I flipped him off like I’d seen Nic do to his friends when they were annoying.
“Stop that,” Alvis whispered, his lips barely away from mine. “He needs help.”
“And it has to come from you?” I asked, fighting off the urge to pull him close and kiss him all over until he remembered what being on our matingmoon meant.
“No, but if I’m the one he’s coming to, I should help,” Alvis shrugged. “That’s the problem with kids who grow up with important parents, they think they can do everything bythemselves. So, I need to help him. He’ll probably go on to help lots of people. Plus, once we get Mori settled and I sell Sharon’s heart to Annila we can travel.”
“And you have our baby,” I said, placing a hand on his stomach.
Goosebumps rose all over his flesh and he stepped away from me.
“Nope. I need to do this and if you start rubbing all over me, I’ll get distracted,” he laughed. “I love you and you can rub all over me when I’m done.”
“I’ll miss you,” I said.
“I’m not going anywhere,” he laughed.
“I’m going upstairs to give you two some privacy. I don’t know if I have the energy for---” I started to say any more Mori drama, but Alvis put his hand over my mouth.
“Okay. Thank you.”
“Eat while you’re talking to him, please,” I reminded him.
“I will.”
“And there’s more in the pot if the wolf is hungry.”
“You’re a bigger softy than you want people to know.”
“Bigger when it’s hard too,” I said and went upstairs.
Chapter Seventeen
