The Dragon's Unwanted Triplets
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I changed back into a dragon and flew back home to my penthouse. I needed to tell Rachel what had happened.
Luckily, she was still awake when I landed on my balcony. “What took you so long?” she asked as I came in through the patio.
“I had a hard time remembering where the cave was,” I snapped. I really didn’t mean to take her head off like that.
“OK, tell me what happened,” she said as she sat down next to me. She was clothed in a white silk robe that accented her expanding pregnancy stomach in a very sexy way.
“Well, Miko was awake, and insane. She wasn’t herself…” I said as I tried to choke back the emotions.
Rachel didn’t say anything. She just hugged me as I let my grief flow. “She hated me you know, she only wanted to marry me for my status, nothing more.” She was the only person I thought of as my friend for the entirety of my life up until that point, and the betrayal hurt worse than her death. I was angry and if I could kill her again, I would.
“Well, let’s have some tea and go to bed.” Rachel was so grounding, I loved that about her. “You had a long day and you need to sleep.”
I nodded and accepted the tea she offered me. I sipped it and the fresh taste of the green tea filled my mouth and calmed me down. “Thank you,” I said as I kissed her head. “How are you feeling?”
“Fat,” she said with a smile. “But not bad.”
I drew her in for a long hug. “I’m glad.”
*
It was seven months since Kintaro ended Miko’s life. I was sleeping peacefully and was woken up by a long cramping pain in my abdomen. Holy shit, what the hell was that? I thought. I decided to go out to the living room and let Kintaro sleep while I stayed awake to see if I was in labor. I was a week past my due date and the doctors wanted to induce me the next day. I hoped the baby heard the evacuation notice.
I stared at the clock after the pain passed and counted the minutes. It was the most nerve wracking five minutes of my life, as another contraction hit. Yup, definitely labor. I counted the seconds that this one lasted while breathing through it. About thirty seconds long. Jeez, there was absolutely no build up to this, like they said there would be in the prenatal classes.
I waddled back to the bedroom and shook Kintaro’s shoulder. “Hey wake up. It’s time.”
He sat bolt upright. “Really?”
“I wouldn’t have woken you up if I wasn’t serious…” I doubled over as an intense wave of pain washed over me and took my breath away. I felt a gush of fluid splash from between my legs as my water broke. “Holy shit, this is…faster than expected. I really don’t think we can make it to the hospital….” I gasped as I felt pressure build in my pelvis.
“What do you mean?” he said with panic in his eyes.
“Well, what I’m saying is...hhhggnnnnnggg” was all I could manage to get out as I squatted down on the tile floor next to the bed. The pressure in my pelvis was just too much, I had to do something. I felt like I had to go to the bathroom. The pain wasn’t pain anymore, just pressure. I looked at the mess on the floor next to our bed and was glad that Kintaro was so loaded he could get a cleaner up in here.
“Let’s get you to the bathroom,” he said as he got out of bed and helped me struggle to the bathroom. I felt fluid running between my legs as I waddled down the hall to the bathroom. “Oh, God, this is gonna be a bitch to clean up.”
“Are you sure you can’t make it to the hospital? I can call an ambulance and get you there…”
As we reached the bathroom, I squatted on the floor and felt the biggest urge to bear down. “Nope! Baby is definitely on its way.” I reached down between my legs.
Kintaro set his jaw and moved my hands way. “I’ll catch, you steady yourself on the bar in the shower, and you’re obviously more comfortable this way.” Smart man.
I grabbed onto the bar in the shower stall and squatted down and pushed with all of my might. I felt the burning ring of fire as the baby’s head crowned. I heard Kintaro on the phone with emergency letting them know I was in labor and birthing the baby right then and to get an ambulance here as soon as possible. I felt his hand on my bottom, supporting me so I wouldn’t tear as the baby slithered out of me.
I felt relief as the baby emerged from my womb. Kintaro whisked the baby from between my legs so I could sit on the shower stall without compressing the umbilical cord. I sat panting as Kintaro tied the umbilical cord with some dental floss and cut it with a sharp knife he had nearby.
“Why isn’t the baby crying?” I asked worriedly.
“Don’t worry, he’s breathing,” Kintaro said with amazement on his face as the baby stared at him with a serious expression on his wizened face.
“It’s a boy?”
“Of course!” he said as he handed me the squirming infant. “The ambulance will be here soon. The operator said that you should start nursing him right away to help move the afterbirth,” Kintaro said as he sat and looked at me with love and awe in his eyes.
I felt nothing but overwhelming love for both Kintaro and the baby I held nestled to my breast. I grabbed one of my full breasts and teased the little baby’s mouth open and was rewarded with a satisfying latch. “Well, at least he’s a natural at that,” I said with a grin.
Kintaro climbed into the shower stall with me and put his arm around me as I sat in my mess waiting for the emergency services to arrive. “That was nothing like the videos at the prenatal class.”
“Yeah, labor taking almost twenty four hours, my ass,” I said as the baby nursed.
“Fine by me,” Kintaro replied as he held me. I felt another cramp grip me as the baby nursed hungrily at my full breast. There was a buzz at the door and Kintaro grabbed his phone and activated the app that allowed emergency services into the penthouse access elevator. “Ambulance is here,” he said. “I have to go let them in, will you be okay?”
“I’ll be fine for the three minutes it’ll take you to get to the door and bring them in here,” I said. I was just completely in awe with this baby. He looked like a perfect mixture of Kintaro and myself. He had a fine down of straight dark red hair, a mixture of my fire red, and Kintaro’s jet black. I didn’t know how much he weighed but I was guessing about seven pounds or so. He was just so perfect.
The emergency crews helped me up onto the stretcher and took me down the elevator and to the hospital to be evaluated. They were kind enough to let Kintaro ride with me in the back of the ambulance on the way. He just looked so happy. I couldn’t have asked for a better husband. Sure, we might have married under less than ideal circumstances, and he was a crime lord, but in Japan, even violent crime was such a rarity that being with a high ranking member of the Yakuza wasn’t looked upon with revulsion or fear like it would be in the States. It was more like a deeper level of respect.
When we got to the hospital, the obstetrician on duty evaluated me, waited for me to expel the after birth and while he did that, they weighed, measured and did all the standard neonatal procedures on the baby. They were really efficient about it and handed him back to me in very little time.
“You are very lucky,” the obstetrician said to me. “First time mothers having babies outside of the hospital tend not to end as well as this, especially when there is no midwife present.”
“Well, doctor, you know, babies come when they want to. Next time, I think we’ll go with the midwife route.”
He smiled and nodded. “Good plan. Well, it’s on your chart for next time. You’re a fast one,” he said as he left the room.
“So what are you going to name him?” I asked Kintaro, knowing in Japan the father named the son.
He looked at me with confusion. “Seriously? I didn’t even think of a name yet.” He puzzled for a while. “How about Goichi?”
“That’s a great name,” I said as I stroked Goichi’s brow. He was dressed in a white sleeper and a matching cotton cap to help him stay warm while he nursed. “Shinno Goichi sounds really nice.”
Kint
aro kissed me on the forehead as he marveled at the little person we had both created. “I guess it turned out pretty well after all.”
“I’ll say,” I said dreamily as I yawned. As Goichi nursed, I closed my eyes and fell asleep, content in knowing that I was safe, loved and wouldn’t have to peddle another stupid piece of tech to a monolithic company ever again.
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