Page 45 of Mating Fever

“Sarah?” I asked.

“Thank God. Now I can message my brother and tell him you’re alive and kicking.” Her smile was huge, and friendly, and I knew we would be friends. “He’s been driving me nuts, sending me messages every day.”

“Seth?”

“Who else. He’s halfway across the galaxy and still a pain in my ass.”

Hell yeah, Sarah and I were going to get along just fine and one final worry lifted from me. I could be happy here, outside the walls of this house. I would have a job, and a life, and friends.

I was still laughing at Sarah as I heard and felt Nyko come up behind me. “Warlord Dax. It is good to see you.”

I stepped back and let the couple in. Dax looked wary, but Sarah appeared eager.

“We aren’t interrupting?” Dax asked.

“It’s been two weeks,” Sarah countered. “They can visit with us and then get back to whatever they were doing.”

“You remember doing whatever they were doing yourself. That’s how Lily was made.”

Sarah flushed and I felt my cheeks heat as well, knowing we’d made a baby, too. I hadn’t told Nyko yet because I doubted he’d let me out of bed until the baby was born. Not because he wanted to fuck me all the time, although he probably did, but because he was going to coddle me and pleasure me to death.

“Come in, please.”

I stepped back, forcing Nyko to step back as well. His hand settled on my shoulder as we followed them into the living room. I loved this space, where the windows showed off the beautiful view of the trees and stream. I felt at home here with Nyko. It would be nothing, empty, without him. Our guests sat on a couch across from us, Sarah settled right against her mate’s side. His arm was around her shoulders as if sheltering her.

Berina hurried in, a bright smile on her face, pleased that we had visitors at last. “Welcome! What may I bring you?”

I was quite sure she was tired of bringing food trays up to the bedroom. Then again, judging by the bright, happy look on her face each time Nyko grumbled at her from bed when I insisted on answering the door, she was well pleased with her new Warlord. But then, Nyko was hard to resist, and even harder not to love.

Warlord Dax shook his head. “Nothing, thank you. We won’t be staying long.”

Berina hurried away as I grinned at the chubby, grinning, adorable baby.

“She’s beautiful,” I said, eyeing little Lily.

Sarah’s hand stroked over her daughter’s back.

“Isn’t she? I know all mothers think their baby the prettiest, but—”

“She looks like you, so she is perfect,” Dax said, looking down at his wife.

They looked at each other in a way that made their love obvious. They didn’t need a baby to prove their affection.

“We will have a girl that looks like Megan,” Nyko said to them. He sounded so adamant, so sure of himself.

I couldn’t help but look up at him.

Sarah handed the baby to Dax and stood, came over to me, leaned in and hugged me. “Oh my gosh, are you pregnant with a little girl?” Her voice was loud and full of excitement.

I wasn’t used to such affection. Yes, girlfriends on Earth used to hug me like this, but the Coalition fighters didn’t. Obviously. And Nyko wasn’t a squealer, nor did he act like a high school girl. His affection was different. Different enough that he was the one who got me into this spot.

I glanced at Nyko, saw something there. It wasn’t surprise. It wasn’t humor. No. It was something else, something different.

“You know,” I said, ignoring Sarah. I vaguely heard Dax calling for her to sit back down, but I didn’t turn away from Nyko. He sat beside me on the second couch, but I was able to bend my knee and face him.

“What? That you’re having my baby?”

I nodded, then frowned.

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