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“Do you have a story about Eric and Dad?” I ask, loving all of this. They’d been telling me so many things about Mom and Dad over the last few weeks, but hearing how my grandpas fucked up is going a long way to make me feel better.
“Ha! Probably a hundred, but the one I remember the best is when Eric was teaching your father to control his abilities. Your dad was probably only five at the time. His telekinesis was one of the first things that showed itself. Anyway, they were in the living area, and Eric was trying to show him how to levitate things gently. Marcus had a habit of pitching things at us at a hundred miles an hour, and that shit hurt, but anyway, Liliana had her painting supplies in one corner—an easel with her tubes of paint and brushes. Instead of lifting up his soft toys and making them float around, he lifted all of Lili’s paints and then proceeded to explode them all over Eric and the living room. John and I heard Lili’s scream of outrage and came running to find Eric, Marcus, and the lounge room covered in multicolored paint. Your grandmother was furious because it was all oil paint and wouldn’t come out. Eric spent the next week replacing everything in the room and learned to take Marcus outside to practice.”
I’m laughing so hard I have to hold my belly for support. I can just picture it in my mind.
“So please stop stressing. Everyone makes mistakes, and Marcus turned out pretty good in the end, if I do say so myself.”
My laughter dies off, and I sigh. “I wish I could remember them.”
He squeezes my arm. “I know, sweet girl. As soon as we heal John, we will take you to Westalin. You and Xavier both deserve to have Xylene and Cronus return your memories and bond. He must love you very much, because he’s been so patient.”
“Yeah, he really has. They are all amazing. I can’t imagine what I’d be like if I was in a bond group where I wasn’t the central person. I would be evil if I had to share one of my guys with another woman.”
“Some women share well, just like some men. Bonds don’t happen that go against one’s nature. I think it’s reflected in how many different races have joined your bond that you are an amazing woman. We are so very proud of you.” He leans in and presses a kiss to my temple, and I flush with pride. I do love my grandpas so much.
Suddenly, a wash of need flows over me. This time it’s not for one of my mates, it’s for the ocean. My body shifts without warning.
“Oh!” I gasp as William stumbles back, shocked at my transformation. The cats come over and start sniffing at my tentacles. Echo bats at one playfully, but Maxsim lifts his head and sends up an almighty roar. He and I haven’t really talked, but it seems like we may have come to a bit of an understanding, and I’m happy with that for now.
“Is everything okay?” William asks, and I shake my head, my body moving involuntarily toward the frigid ocean as I peel off my shirt and cover my breasts from my grandpa’s eyes. Neither of us needs that.
“No. I think it’s time. Can you go get Cas?” I call back, but Caspian is already running down the beach.
“I heard Maxsim’s roar. Is it go time?” he asks, his breath blowing steam into the cold air.
“I think so. This happened automatically,” I tell him, gesturing to my shift. The ocean now laps against my tentacles as I move farther out into the water. I was braced for the cold, but my body temperature remains the same the deeper I go. That’s a relief. I thought I was going to freeze my nipples off.
He starts to strip off his own clothes before shifting. I watch as Echo picks them up in his mouth as Maxsim does the same to my shirt. The pants I’d been wearing were completely destroyed by the shift, but William gathers up the remaining tatters.
“Good luck,” he calls. “We can’t wait to meet the new members of our family.”
“We will take turns guarding the eggs, so we will come and go for the first week, but once they hatch, we will both spend two weeks in the ocean looking after them until they make their own first shift,” Cas reminds him, and Will waves a hand.
“I’ll make sure there’s plenty of food. You’re both going to need it. It won’t be easy to regulate your temperatures in that freezing water.”
“No, next time we do this, it has to be summer, because this is ridiculous.” The cold has finally started to penetrate my skin, and my teeth begin to chatter.
“Come, mate, let’s swim. It will be better beneath the water.” Caspian grabs my hand and tugs me deeper until we both sink below the ocean.
We previously swam together a few times so we could look for a place for my eggs, but I hadn’t found a spot that satisfied my kraken.
Come. I went for a swim yesterday, and I think I found the perfect spot,Cas says to me inside my head.
He leads the way, and I swim after him, not wanting him out of my sight. We swim out quite a distance and then down. The reef drops off and opens into deep ocean, but at the drop off, Cas leads me into a little overhang. It is like a cave, with a wide opening, a roof, and walls. He swims farther back until we get to the back wall. A feeling of satisfaction flows through me, and my kraken is thrilled with the spot our mate picked. I have a feeling it was more that the mate picked it, and not the actual spot. She has an intense need for him to be involved.
Suddenly, my stomach cramps, and I wrap my arms around it, groaning.Cas, what’s happening?I ask him. My whole stomach undulates, and I get an intense urge to push. I feel my sexual opening start to dilate, and I bear down, screaming into the water. With a rush, one of the eggs comes out. It’s probably the size of a human baby, but it’s opaque, and all I can see within is a large kraken eye.
Cas catches the egg and swims it over to the wall. He squirts something from one of his tentacles, and it hits the wall, he then presses the egg against it. The egg sticks, and I watch it wobble freely in the current, but it doesn’t go anywhere.
That was baby number one. You did so well, my beautiful mate, Cas croons and comes back over to me, caressing me with his tentacles and rubbing his hands over my belly.Come on, only two more to go.
The cramping sensation has eased off slightly, and I sigh with relief as his hands move to my back.
Do you need any help?he asks me, and I arch a disbelieving eyebrow.
What are you going to do?I ask grumpily.It’s not like you can lay them.
No, but my father told me if I suck on your nipples, I can speed up labor for you.
