My entire body ached when I woke up the following morning. Every part of me hurt as arms slipped beneath my body. I didn’t want to wake up yet. I was quite content in remaining in bed all day, but knew that wasn’t an option. Water rushes over me before I am submerged in the water, making me hiss at the sting.“We have the council meeting today. They’re part of the agreement babe. We can’t miss them, or I would have let you sleep,” Rhen tells me as he sits with me in the bath. “Where is Thane?” I mumble, wetting my face and trying to wake up. “Making you something to eat, Raidon is feeding Scarlet and Leon went in to get more formula and nappies,” Rhen tells me and I nod my head, leaning back against Rhen. I reach for the loofah.“My heat felt different this time,” I mumble, trying to wake up.“Yes, we know. Thane thinks it’s the serum enhancing it.” I figured as much because usually, the pain was excruciating. However, this felt different, more like a craving, and desire more than pa
It would throw people off. I was Omega initially giving me enough time to escape, hopefully, since Omegas can’t use an aura or command, that would make them waiver and second guess what I am as long as my pheromones didn’t get in the way.It reinforced the need to practice. Thane pulls me to the center of the room and Raidon drags the coffee table out of the way. “Okay, just like yesterday,” he tells me, rubbing my arms.Closing my eyes, I try to pull on my aura, searching for it. My heat the other day seemed to do the trick though because since then I have been more aware of the light buzzing of my skin, the essence behind it.“Good Lowe, now push on mine,” he tells me and I focus on projecting it, feeling it try to force over him, his aura making mine buzz as it fought to flicker out when it draws it out further.“Now, try to get me to submit,” he says, and I almost roll my eyes at him. That would not work. Maybe by some miracle, I could make him sit but submit. Not a chance. His al
Four Weeks Later.“You’re pregnant,” Raidon tells me as I heave my guts up, his hands tangling in my hair. “Scarlet is barely four months old,” I retort.“And you went into heat, we fucked you, and you’re knocked up,” Raidon chuckles. “That’s not a guarantee!”“Isn’t it?” he laughs.“We can’t have another right now. They’ll be the same age! Scar—” I heave, upturning my stomach again, my hands clutching the toilet bowl.“Only for a few months,” he tells me unfazed by my retching yet Rhen I threw up in front of him the other day and he in turn threw up in the bathtub, his heaving made mine worse and we were like a synchronized dance, both of us unable to stop until we had nothing left.Leon walked in on us both, laying on the cold tiles, feeling like death, then Thane got stuck cleaning up after the mess we made in the bathroom.“Please don’t be pregnant, please be a stomach bug,” I whine. I didn’t want to be sick every day. Scarlet didn’t make me this sick. Our pregnancies were only 16
Just over 1 year later.All our family stood in the backyard gathered around the table covered in food and presents. It was Scarlet's second birthday.“Happy Birthday, Scarlet. Hip hip hooray.” Everyone sang as Scarlet leaned forward, lips pursed as she tried to blow out the candles. Thane standing behind her, helps her. She claps her hands, he fixes her party hat on her head.“Who wants cake?” Thane sings out. He spent two days making that unicorn dinosaur cake for her that she insisted she wanted. It had a T-Rex body but a unicorn head and horn. The twins waddle over to Thane as he helps Scarlet cut the biggest chunk, her curly dark hair blowing in the breeze as he sets it in her bowl.The twins had just learned how to stand and we’re currently using Thane’s suit pants to pull themselves up. Scarlet, noticing them, grabs a piece of her freshly cut cake, leaning over and holding it out to Xavian which is Rhen’s middle name. Thane had picked his name while Leon demanded he got to pick