Page 131 of Sinful Mates

“Sick?”

“Yes, he won’t stop spewing and he feels hot.”

“Is he teething?”

I run my fingers along his bottom gums feeling nothing before running my fingers across the top gums and I gasp as I feel the edges of razor-sharp fangs as they cut through the pad of my thumb. I pull my finger back before lifting his top lip to reveal three fangs on either side of his two middle teeth.

“What babe, say something,” Tobias says alarmed through the phone.

“He… He has fangs.”

“Fangs? Did you say fangs?”

“Yes Tobias, fucking fangs” I yell annoyed from repeating myself.

“We are on our way. I will call Astral and see what she says” Tobias says before hanging up. Thaddeus wriggles around trying to get up and I pick him up before striding to the bathroom deciding a nice cool shower might bring his temp down. Stripping myself and him off, I turn the shower on so it is only lukewarm before holding his hand and letting him step into the shower.

He stands under the water, and I hop in with him before grabbing the loofa and soap, washing him. Thaddeus seems to feel better while the cool water runs over him as he plays with his truck on the shower floor while I wash the spew from my hair. Once I am done, I turn the shower off only to hear the front door open. It’s too early for them to be back yet. I just got off the phone to Tobias a few minutes ago. Grabbing a towel, I wrap it around myself and grab Thaddeus from the shower floor where he is playing.

“Who’s that?” I sing out when suddenly Theo appears, and I let out the breath I was holding. “Geez, you scared me. Did you run here?”

Theo nods before walking over and taking Thaddeus from me. “How’s daddy’s little man?” he says, kissing his wet little head.

“He is quite warm,” he states before laying him on the bed and drying him with the towel.

Twenty minutes later we have Thaddeus dressed, and I’m making him a bottle when he starts screaming. Theo tries to calm him, but nothing either of us do will make him settle. Tobias walks in and immediately runs to his side, Thaddeus's face bright red from holding his breath screaming.

“What’s wrong with him, he is never like this?” Tobias says worriedly. Thaddeus quiets down and Tobias seems to have calmed him as he rests his head down on his father’s shoulder.

“He is so warm,” Tobias mutters, taking the damp cloth from Theo and draping it on Thaddeus's head trying to cool him down. Thaddeus turns his face and at first I think he is trying to get away from the cold wet cloth when Tobias suddenly grunts and his eyes glaze over slightly before he shakes his head.

“What?”

“Ouch, geez, Thaddeus don’t bite,” he says, pulling Thaddeus away from him. Fang marks are in his neck. Theo and I look at each other and I come over taking him from Tobias and he immediately starts screaming.

“I wonder?" Theo says before running from the room.

“Did you speak to Astral?” I ask.

“I couldn’t get a hold of her,” Tobias says.

“Well, what do we do, we can’t take him to a hospital?”

Theo suddenly reappears, and I can instantly smell blood as it wafts to me. My fangs protrude from the smell. Theo passes Thaddeus a bottle full of blood.

“What are you doing, he is part human? He can’t drink that.” But I’m wrong as Thaddeus snatches the bottle from him drinking so fast he is choking himself. Theo pulls the bottle from him.

“Settle little man, calm down.” Thaddeus mouth opens trying to get his lips around the bottle again as Theo holds it, forcing him to drink slower. I touch his head, and his temperature is going down.

“Problem solved,” Theo says, and Tobias runs his hand across his neck. So Thaddeus wasn’t biting Tobias, he was trying to feed on him.

“He gotcha good,” Theo says, examining the bite on Tobias’s neck.

Thaddeus drank the bottle in its entirety and his temperature went back to normal.

"Should he be drinking blood at his age?" I ask.

"Well he settled, didn't he, and I have never met a Tribrid baby, so I am just going to assume it is normal,'' Theo says and Tobias nods in agreement.