“Same!” Somehow just knowing that he wasn’t in this alone -- and he didn’t mean Hamish. Of course, Hamish was going to be there for him -- but knowing that he and Starry were going to be experiencing this together made everything easier. It made the worries about his father ease right off all of a sudden. Reid thought he could do this now. And that was worth ten planning meetings where he had to try to read Des’s handwriting.
“Didyou get this stuff for the charity party to Reed?” Des asked Hamish, scribbling something in his day planner. He really was an analog dragon.
Hamish nodded. “Yeah, I did. The seating chart was really helpful.” He had to grin across the desk at Des, because Des hated doing charity auctions and formal dinners and all of theattendant things that happened with this particular yearly event, but he knew that it was important, so he had thrown himself into it wholeheartedly.
“Good. Good.” Des closed the planner on his desk and sat back in his fancy chair. “So is there anything else we need to talk about today? Any security issues?”
Hamish was Des’s head of security, and it was a heck of a job, as big and prosperous as their dragon clan was getting.
“Nothing like that, no. I did have some news for you, though.” Hamish took a deep breath because he still couldn’t believe what Reed had told him. They were going to have a baby, and he was over the moon.
“Hmmm? What’s that?” Des was smiling, in a great mood, and this was the perfect time to tell him about Reed being pregnant.
“Reed and I are going to have a baby. He’s pregnant. I just found out yesterday.”
Des’s eyebrows rose to his hairline almost. “Hamish that’s fantastic! Congratulations.”
He beamed at Des. “It is, isn’t it?”
“It so is, my friend. I’m so happy for you.” Des crossed his arms and frowned a little bit. “But it’s going complicate things, I fear. I have a feeling that his father is not going to be happy.”
Hamish figured Reed’s family was never happy about anything, but he didn’t really care. They’d been awful to Reed, and he didn’t want his omega to ever have to deal with them again. “We’ll mess with that when it comes down to it, I suppose,” Hamish said. “I mean I’ll have contingencies in place in case they show up, but...”
“That’s what I like about you, my friend. You always have a contingency plan.”
Hamish bared his teeth in a feral grin. “I always do all right. And that’s why I’m your head of security.”
“True enough.” Des leaned back in his chair, hands behind his head, studying him. “Do you need bigger quarters?”
He blinked. “I don’t know. I never thought about that. I do sort of have a one-bedroom open concept, don’t I?”
“You do, and that doesn’t work very well for babies. Now, you could keep what you have, and we could just modify it and tear down some of the walls. That will make you more bedrooms.”
“You would do that?” They lived in a serious hardcore high rise, and Des wasn’t particularly invested in tearing things apart. He believed in the value of real estate as it was created, but maybe…
“Absolutely. You know that I love the idea of families living together. I don’t want you to have to squeeze yourself into tiny spaces. I want you to be able to have a nursery and a bedroom for your kids. I’m sure you’re going to have more than one.”
Hamish laughed. “Let me get through this one first.”
Des just hooted, tapping his fingers on this desk. “You’re going to be amazed at what happens during pregnancy. Of course, it didn’t help that my mate was kidnapped while he was pregnant.” Des’s wry expression made him laugh again.
“Yeah we’re going to keep that to a little dull roar with my guy.”
“How about we keep it to no kidnappings at all?”
“I think that sounds like a great plan.” As the head of security, anytime something went wrong with anybody in the clan, Hamish had to deal with it. And he liked peaceful times.
Des give him a searching kind of look. “I have a little news myself.”
“Yeah? Is that going to be bad?” They’d had their business meeting already, and nothing awful had cropped up.
“I think that Alistair is pregnant again.”
That statement plopped on the desk between them like some sort of weird curiosity that Des had pulled out to show him andmade him sit there with his eyes wide and his mouth dropped open. “Do you mean Starry and Reed are going to be pregnant at the same time?”
“I’m pretty sure. Starry hasn’t told me yet, but he smells different, and he’s kind of horny all the time.”
“TMI, Boss.” Except he had a lot of questions. Like a lot, and Des had already been through this once. With twins. “Um, so when do we get to the-- I mean, he hasn’t reached that stage yet.”
