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Terrick squeezed my hand and I lay back down. He stood up and with his free hand pushed my shirt up just enough to show the important part of my stomach. Salta sank into his chair and he stayed there holding my hand.
“I almost wish I brought you a snack,” he teased. “I could’ve distracted you.”
“I have granola bars in the office, if you’re hungry,” Dara said, turning on the machine.
Terrick flinched and Salta covered her small, pointed ears as the whoosh-whoosh filled the room.
“The gel shouldn’t be cold,” Dara announced picking it and his wand up.
I let out a long breath and begged my wolf just to let this happen. He snapped inside his inner sanctum, but I didn’t copycat his movements. A growl rumbled low in my throat. Dara ignored it and focused on the task at hand. I wanted to look at his monitor to see what was going on inside me, but my wolf wasn’t having it. He shifted my eyes to his and the world grew more vibrant.
“What?” Terrick asked.
My wolf growled again, and the sound echoed up my throat.
“What? What?” I asked, still watching Dara’s hand now that the wand was against my stomach.
“Mate. Scott, look at the monitor please, because someone is playing a joke on us,” Terrick said.
“It’s not a joke. I told you. I told you four of them, but you didn’t understand,” his hound cut into my thoughts.
“What?” I said again.
This time I had to look at the screen. They were right. Four little jellybeans sat inside me.
“Four?” I blinked.
“No wonder your poor wolf is extra stressed out. You’re having a litter, friend,” Dara said. “A proper wolfen litter.”
It didn’t happen often, but it could happen. Twins and multiples ran in my family, but four?
“Still don’t want to come home?” Salta asked, her eyes sparkling at the screen.
My wolf growled again, at Dara not Salta, but the little girl fell quiet too. Four babies.
“You’re not allowed to go with Frost now no matter what. I can’t raise four kids on my own!” I said to Terrick over our mating link and squeezed his hand as if I jumped straight into the labor part of pregnancy.
“I’m not going anywhere. He’d have to fight me and the hound to take me,” Terick said.
“Damn skippy and I’ll do more than shit dinosaurs! Two of those are glowing. Those are my pups too! No dragon is taking me away from my pups!”
I closed my eyes and took a few deep breaths. Dara prattled on but I lost track of what he was saying as he turned off the machine and left the room. Something about how I’d need to come back later for a well omega and baby exam. Something about sonograms. Something about a lot of things, but I heard none of it. Four puppies. I always wanted a big family, but would I even be able to walk by the time they were ready to come?
Chapter Twenty-Six
Terrick
Scott and I were both still a bit in shock when the guard picked up Salta Sunday evening. She spent the rest of the weekend gushing about how she’d have four babies to play with and how she hoped they were all girls like her so she could buy them dresses and make them all cute.
When I shut and locked the door behind her my shoulders hung heavy. I was excited to start our family, but Scott’s anxieties weren’t wrong. Four babies was a lot of babies and even more responsibilities. I flopped down on the sofa next to him and he twisted to lay down with his head in my lap. I played with his hair and waited for him to speak. I’d done a lot of mind planning before Salta left making a rundown of the things we’d need to buy before our kids arrived in a few months. I’d even counted up how many bedrooms we might need to add on later for all the kids and Salta to have their own rooms.
“Still excited?” Scott asked hopefully.
“Yes,” I nodded. “I’m not saying it’s going to be easy, but even one baby wouldn’t have been easy.”
“I know,” Scott nodded.
“And I’ll be here the whole time,” I said. “You won’t have to worry about getting around or not being able to tie your shoes or whatever else you need help with.”
