by Tamsin Baker
They’d bought a beautiful old home and renovated it, gotten married on their property, and welcomed their first set of Perfect Pair twins three years ago. That’s when they’d bought an even bigger block of land and built their dream home at the foot of the Rocky Mountains.
She stared up at the clouds circling that very mountain, her beautiful lions racing around in the sunshine. Another cramp flickered through her abdomen, and she breathed through the pain. Tonight, or tomorrow at the latest, she’d deliver their second set of twins, and their family would be complete.
A groan ripped through her throat that she couldn’t contain, and Ashleigh jogged over to her. “You’re really in labor, aren’t you?”
Sam nodded and rubbed her belly in hard, slow circles, breathing through the pain still tugging at her abdominal muscles. She wasn’t in early labor. That had fled as fast as it had arrived.
“Yeah. I don’t think I’m going to wait for the men to come home. Can you send Renee for them?”
“Definitely.”
Ashleigh rushed off to call Tyler and Brandon’s sister. She’d know where to find them, and she was one of the only shifting family members that weren’t already off running already.
Another belly cramp rippled through her uterus, and Sam’s breath caught. She’d forgotten how painful this could be.
Her heart began to pound faster. What would happen if her men didn’t get back in time? She couldn’t do this alone.
She forced herself to her feet and stretched out her back. Jarvis and Taj were inside with Laura eating, so she began walking around her backyard, letting her eyes wander to the hills. Cool air brushed her heated cheeks, and the tugging at her belly wasn’t as unbearable as it had been only moment before.
She could do this. She’d done it before, and she would do it again.
“Sam! Renee’s heading out now. They won’t be long.”
Relief washed over her even as the babies shifted and kicked her in the ribs.
“Argh. Don’t take too long, Renee…”
The hairs on her neck rose, and she turned to the woods. Two mountain lions emerged through the trees, and her heart jumped in her chest.
The eyes stared hard at her, and she let her breath out. Even after all these years she was still struck with the magnificence of her men in shifter form. A small trickle of adrenaline pumped through her veins even now.
They slowed their pace and began to transform, fur shedding and falling away. Masculine arms and legs of her men appeared, and she staggered towards them.
“Thank goodness you got the message.”
Reid grabbed her about the waist, pulling her close and sliding his hand over her huge belly. “What message?”
Their twins kicked hard into Reid’s hand as her belly became a solid ball of muscle.
“I—ah…” Her words stopped working as her brain shifted gear, breathing the only thing she cared about as Kane’s hands came to her, pulling her towards the house once again.
When the wave of pain descended and swept away, her mind cleared once again. Kane directed her into the chair, but she waved him off. She didn’t want to sit again. “Didn’t Renee find you?”
Kane shook his head. “No. Reid and I just turned tail halfway and headed back. We both had a feeling you needed us and came straight home.”
A rush of love stuck her, her chest tightening as it often did when her Perfect Pair did something that reminded her that they were designed for her. That fate had made her just for them. It was beautiful.
Another cramp hit her, and she grabbed onto Kane and Reid’s hands, squeezing tightly until the wave disappeared again. “Ah, um. Thank you. The babies are coming, and they won’t wait much longer I don’t think.”
Reid swept her up into his arms, his growl sounded in her ear as he carried her inside. The hospital was too far away, and she wasn’t waiting for that. Or her sons wouldn’t wait for the hospital. She was sure of it.
“Reid, can you take me to our bedroom? And, Kane, ask my cousins to take care of the boys, ok?”
Reid stopped short in the hallway, his eyes going wide. “You don’t want to go to the hospital?”
She shook her head. “No. I won’t make it. I think I’ll be having these babies here.”
Kane groaned. “No, no, no. I’ll call an ambulance. This isn’t safe, Sam.”
She panted, arching and wriggling in Reid’s arms until the spasms of pain moved away. “Ah … ok. They can come help. But I’m not getting in the car.”
Reid twisted and began walking her into their room. Her feet hit the floor, and she began pulling at her clothes. Her skin was tight, hot.
“Ah, Sam…”
“I need to get in the shower… My back is killing me.”
She staggered to their huge bathroom, stripping off all her clothes and turning on the steaming water as her back screamed in pain.
The cramps hit her one after another after another, until she was on her knees on the tiles, the urge to push gripping her insides.
“Kane … get a … towel.”
She began to push, bearing down against the pain inside her belly, the slide and slither of her baby inside her shifting as she groaned.
Then relief as he slid away and Kane grabbed for their baby.
“The ambulance is here.” Reid’s voice sounded somewhere in the distance, and she slumped down onto all fours, taking rest when she could.
Kane knelt beside her, holding her new son in his arms. He was mewling and gasping, his pink face screwed up and angry after his ordeal.
The ambulance men moved in, and Sam closed her eyes as they dealt with the umbilical cord and her husband held her son close.
The cramps began to build again, and she pushed up on her tired arms, finding solace inside her own mind.
Her breathing became her focus until the pain and power in her belly tightened to the point she could use it for one last push. She bore down, the intense pressure opening her body and her son being born into the world only minutes after his brother.
She collapsed onto the hot tiles, and someone turned the water off. Her second son’s umbilical cord was cut, and a man’s voice urged her to push a few more times. She delivered the placentas quickly, and Reid’s voice spoke into her ear.
“Come on, beautiful.” He lifted her from the floor, and Kane wrapped towels around her.
They placed her in bed and stepped close, a twin in either arm.
“Can I have my babies?”
She reached out for her sons, and her husbands brought them to her. Kane and Reid lay on either side of her and positioned their boys so that each could take a nipple in their mouth.
“They’re finally here.” Her heart filled with love as her boys snuffled and licked at her breasts, their perfect faces, once part of her dreams, now her reality.
The End
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