Page 46 of Pursued By the Orc
CHAPTER 30
Krusk
Igrinned over at where Gabbi was leaning her head against my mate’s arm, giggling over the video she was showing her on her phone. When she looked up and narrowed her eyes at me, I pressed my lips together, trying to hide the fact that my heart was all in for this female. There was no salvaging it. I was so far gone for her that there was no way I was coming back.
“Aunty Pen is having a baby,” Gabbi said to Emma, tapping at the screen, doing things with her phone that I hadnoidea how to do, but she did—at four.
“That’s great,” Emma said to her, peering down at my niece with open affection in her eyes.
In that moment, I pictured her this way, sitting with this little girl who’d stolen all of our hearts, but pregnant withmyyoungling. The loss of blood to my brain almost took me out. I would have fainted right away but I was able to keep myselfupright by leaning back against the sofa I was sitting on.
Oh yeah, I want that.
Every single part of me was flooded with endorphins and need. My cock was so swollen in my pants that I was almost certain it was going to stay that way for the next decade.
“Did she go into labor tonight?” Emma asked me, her brow furrowed.
I nodded, even as Gabbi did the same. “Abu said that I could hold the baby, but I’m not allowed to drop him,” she said in a serious voice before peering up at Emma. “Areyoupregnant?”
Emma’s eyes went huge in her face and she shook her head. “N-no! No, I’m not.” She almost choked getting the words out.
Gabbi’s response was a drawn out sigh. “Mommy isn’t pregnant either. I keep telling her that she and Abu are going to have another baby,” she explained, rolling her eyes before turning and pressing her hand to my mate’s stomach. She looked up into her eyes, serious and stoic. “You too. You and Uncle Krusk are going to have a baby.”
Emma’s gaze popped up to meet mine and IknewI shouldn’t have a huge grin on my face, but there wasn’t any other way I was able to respond.
“Well, that...” Emma trailed off before clearing her throat. “That’s umm...” She looked away, shaking her head.
“She’s a seer,” Enka called from where he was sitting on the sofa next to me, amused. “In case you were wondering.”
“A seer?” Emma asked, brow furrowed. Enka nodded, sending a mischievous smirk my way.
“She’s a witchling. Half witch, half human,” he explained, before a scowl appeared across his face. “Although we try to pretend that the half human doesn’t exist.”
“Agreed,” I gruffed, and the others nodded as well.
“We’ll leave you two to visit,” Rudgar said, standing and tilting his head toward the door before glaring at Enka, who looked likehe’d gotten pretty comfortable, and Savla, who just blinked back in confusion as it was his apartment.
“But we’re watching a video!” Gabbi cried, looking over with a wobbling lower lip at Rudgar. He faltered, and I saw his will wavering when Enka stepped in, lifting his daughter into his arms.
“We can watch all the videos you want on the big TV,” he bribed, skillfully.
“We can?” she gasped, before narrowing her eyes suspiciously. “With all the volume?”
His nod was all the response she needed for a loud squeal to leave her and Enka’s sensitive ears to twitch backwards. Grinning, I shook my head as my brothers and niece sauntered out. Rudgar sent an obvious wink my way while Enka grinned and Savla gave us a curious look.
“Sorry about them,” I told her, staying where I was so she wouldn’t be afraid of being around me. “We’re supposed to be distracting Gabbi and staying out of the way while our chief’s mate is having her baby.”
She smothered a laugh with her hand, her eyes twinkling with mirth and I’d never seen anything so beautiful in my life. “That’s quite an assignment,” she laughed.
I nodded with a shrug. “We don’t have much experience with babies and Dristan—our chief—will kill us if we do anything to stress out Pen. The midwife is worried because of how big the baby is.” I fidgeted with my fingers pressing against the sofa edge. “Interspecies babies are common on this plane, but there’s always a risk when there’s a size difference.”
I rubbed my palms up and down my thighs, not sure if I was making myself or Emma more uncomfortable with my constant blathering. “And the youngling’s a boy, so they tend to be bigger in size.” I clear my throat, not sure how to get myself to shut up. “The midwife just wants to make sure she has acontrolled environment without worrying about any orcs other than Dristan possibly fainting during the delivery.”
I watched as she bit her lip, her shoulders shaking. I leaned forward, my stomach knotting with worry. “Are you okay?”
It wasn’t long before she was laughing, her head thrown back on the sofa. “That was... a lot, Krusk,” she said on a gasp of breath and I sagged into the seat.
“Yeah, sorry about that. I just wasn’t sure what to say to you, so I just... talked,” I explained, scrubbing my palm over the back of my neck as it heated. “I... You’re always welcome here,” I told her, looking away from where she was making my cock hard with her mere presence. “But I’m not surewhyyou’re here.”
