Page 67 of Mountain Orc Daddy

We pull into the Morgan driveway. Mara, Phineas, Remus, and beloved Jade are sitting in deck chairs on the front porch.

I am excited to drop our big news. These people are so beautiful. I love being a part of their family. I love them all so much it sometimes scares me.

Blair and I sit. Remus fills our hands with our respective drink choices. Without being too suspicious, Blair insists she get spring water.

“All is well on the mountain?” Phineas asks.

“The integration has been better than we expected,” Blair answers.

“I can honestly say the tribe has never been happier,” I add. “Home is more home than ever now that we have integrated. I kid you not, the Broken Maws have not been more self-actualized than they are today.”

“Interesting!” Jade chimes in. “You look different, sis,” Jade tells Blair. Jade has a mischievous smile on her face when she says this.

Blair, of course, looks like she swallowed a canary.

“Really?” I ask. I am bursting here and hope my poker-face is holding up. “What kind of different?”

“Happy,” Jade answers. “A pure happy.”

“Blair is always happy,” I tell the group. I know I sound guilty as hell when I say this.

“Now that you mention it,” Remus inserts. “You do look like a different happy, Blair. Yesterday I pulled a Tarot card just to get a read on you two. Sheesh, I pulled the Queen of Pentacles, and the Star card. You two have any good news you want to share?”

I can see Mara stiffen at what Remus says, like any word now and Mara will jump from her seat and start dancing.

They know. Of course, they know. They have crystal balls and scrying mirrors and Tarot cards. There are no secrets.

“Your divination skills are spot on,” I tell Remus. “We have a new arrival on the way.”

“I knew it!” Mara belts out, standing and prancing out a quick jig. “She’ll be a daddy’s girl, wanna bet?”

“Mother, please,” Blair pleads. “Let us have our gender reveal when we get our twelfth-week checkup, like every other normal orc-witch couple does.”

Remus laughs at this last comment.

“We are going to throw a shower,” Phineas adds. “A shower open to tribes and covens. Come one, come all! You watch how big this shower is going to be.”

Tears are streaming right now. This is not something I normally let others see.

I do not care.

I love change, and I love these people.

The tears are rolling because I could not ask for a better life. There is not one thing I can think of that could be added to make my life better than it is right now. I love this Universe that I am in. This Universe clearly loves me right back and is on my side. I could not ask for a better life.

“A daddy’s girl,” I mumble to the group.

I am over my threshold, overjoyed. So be it. I wonder if she will grow her hair long and have pigtails or braids. My daddy’s girl. I love the look of pigtails or braids on females. I have Blair to thank for this.

“You are the light in me and you that never dies,” I tell Blair.

Blair doesn’t answer. She looks at me and smiles. I wonder if she is as thrilled as I am – though I doubt anyone can be as excited as me.

A daddy’s girl. Wow.

“She’ll be the first female Chieftain,” I tell the group. I say it proudly. “I will show her how to be merciless with her enemies!”

“Excuse me?” Blair asks.

Her family just laughs, and I am filled with a joy I didn’t know I could have.

The End