“Why not have her on call?” Victor replies, leaning down and giving me a kiss on the forehead. “You spent your last pregnancy at free clinics and eating from the day-old selections available at the gas station. We’re doing this one right.”

I laugh a little, taking his hand. “Actually, one of those gas station egg salad sandwiches sounds good right now…maybe that was less poverty and more a pregnancy craving…”

“Um,” the doctor says, laughing a little, “I’m going to suggest that you…avoid food poisoning, Evelyn, for the next eight months.” I laugh with her and she heads out of the room, assuring me that she’ll be back in a couple of weeks for my next check-up.

Then, once she’s closed the door behind her, Victor nearly leaps on me, wrapping me tight in his arms and rolling me around on the bed, laughing with his happiness. I shriek, laughing as well, enjoying the nearness of his body, the press of his weight against mine.

“Crap,” he murmurs when he realizes that his weight is almost fully pressed on me, “I’m going to squish the babies –“ Quickly, he shifts his body, eager to lighten the load, but I stop him, wanting to feel him there.

“No, stay,” I murmur, smiling up at him, sliding a hand down the length of his flank. “It feels nice. The babies are too small to smush.”

We stay like that, then, breathing softly, for a long moment. I close my eyes, resting, entwining my legs with his and thinking about all of the next steps ahead of us. But I open my eyes again when I hear him speak.

“Thank you, Evelyn,” he says quietly, looking down at me. “This is…the most amazing gift. I couldn’t imagine anything better.”

“You don’t want boys?” I ask, curious. “Two more magical little Alpha babies who look just like you?”

He thinks about it for a moment and then shakes his head. “No, I want two of you this time,” he murmurs. “But we can name them after me, so they know which parent is their favorite. Victoria and…Vikki.”

“That’s the same name!”

“Fine, Viclinda –“

not even

at me. “Well, whatever, it’s my choice,

I spit out, appalled.

got to name the other two,” he says, gesturing towards the door, to where Alvin and Ian are somewhere in the

I will run away again – go have the babies in private and come back once their birth certificates are written out

in a vice,

when you bring them back,” he muses. “That’s just paperwork. Say helloooooo to

dare –“ I hiss, pushing against him, unable to stop the giggles that bubble out of

he whispers, wicked, “whichever one is prettier,

a kiss, his lips warm and laughing, and I kiss him back, knowing that despite his big words

am his Luna, and I know in my heart that all he really wants in this world is for me, and our family,

little Viclinda Helga Kensington-Ortega is going to

have to spend a couple of months thinking

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indulge in these sorts of things when I have the time. So, when I come downstairs, still toweling my

ask Victor, moving over

at his house, and the media is having a

I ask, looking up at

packs are taking it as

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