Page 55 of Secret Twins for the Alien Dad

I stare in awe down at the baby in my arms, his big blue eyes looking around him to take everything in. He looks utterly helpless, and I experience a sudden wave of terror at the responsibility of raising a child. But it passes quickly, overwhelmed by the love I feel pouring from my heart.

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MYRA

“Are you comfortable? Do I have a good hold on you?” Zair wraps his arms around me, ready to lift me up and out of the hover chair on loan from the medical clinic. I said I felt strong enough to walk to the bedroom, but he voted that idea down.

“Yes, yes, you’re good, Zair.”

Zair lifts me easily up from the hover chair. I always forget how light I feel when he picks me up. Zair is shockingly strong. Especially now that I’m no longer pregnant, it’s like I’m a feather in the wind.

“There you go,” Zair slowly lowers me down on the bed, then wraps me up in the blankets.

“Give me a baby. I want to hold one of our sons.”

Zair walks over to the crib in the corner of the room. “Raxnor’s sleeping,” he whispers. He gently takes out our other son, who looks so tiny in his giant arms. Zair slowly hands me Staxin and then crawls into the bed next to me.

The two of us sit quietly next to each other, simply looking down at our child, peacefully sleeping in my arms. I don’t need anything else.

Staxin and Raxnor are everything. I couldn’t have imagined a more perfect child if I tried, and somehow it was duplicated. Every time I look at their faces, I’m reminded that everything I’ve been through has been worth it, because it brought me to them.

Leaving Armstrong. Working at the Nova Casino. Fleeing for my life to Mairg. Without all that, I wouldn’t have Staxin, and that’s a life I can no longer bear to imagine.

“He’s perfect, isn’t he?” Zair whispers, but it’s still enough noise to wake Raxnor up. But he doesn’t cry. He simply looks up at the two of us and smiles with his adorable toothless baby smile when his dad goes to pick him up.

Everything I’ve been through has also been worth it because it’s brought Zair to me. It led me to have him by my side for all of this. A life without him is also one I can’t bear to imagine anymore.

Zair has been absolutely perfect. I thought I was just having a one-night fling with some meathead mercenary all those months ago. I’ve never been so happy to be so wrong.

All those muscles. All that strength. And yet I’ve never seen anyone act so kind and so gently as he has with me and the babies.

Watching him cradle our sons for the first time in the medical clinic made me absolutely sure. I made the right choice. Zair is the perfect one to raise these children with, to spend the rest of my days with.

“Yes… he really is,” I respond softly. “They both are.” Staxin looks up at us and giggles.

How the fuck did I get so lucky? Two perfect babies. Perfect mate. I am well on my way to a perfect life.

I’ve never had this much luck in my life. The few times I decided to gamble at the Nova Casino only saw me losing money. I’m not used to all of this. Has the universe just been holding on to all my unused luck and is now hitting me with it all at the same time?

Though, I’m not complaining. This is a life I’m happy to have. I don’t need any more luck.

After a few days of rest, with Zair waiting on my every need and the boys proving to be even more perfect than at first thought, we start to welcome guests. Even though I’ve only been in town for a few months, it seems like everyone wants to come congratulate us. But honestly, that might be all Eva’s doing.

“Where are my nephews?” I hear Eva say from the other room, moments after Zair went to answer the door. A second later, she charges into the bedroom, followed by Zair.

“Sorry.” Zair looks at me. “You know I couldn’t keep her out if I tried.”

“And why would you want to keep them away from me? Oh, isn’t he precious!” A huge smile erupts on Eva’s face as she spots Staxin in my arms.

“Have we agreed on you being called Auntie, Eva?” I give her a teasing smirk.

“Oh, you better. I plan on spoiling them like no aunt before. May I?” Eva holds her hands out.

“Of course.” I carefully pass Staxin into her arms. She very gently starts rocking him in her arms.

“Aren’t you the most perfect little boy? Yes, you are…” she says to Staxin. She carries him toward the bassinet to peer at Raxnor. “Except for maybe you. You’re perfect too.”

I look past Eva to Zair and smile. It’s good to know that, if nothing else, their lives are going to be filled with love.

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