by Alex DuBois
From there, everything moved very quickly. Keith and Malachai cleared off a stone couch for him, getting rid of everything soft on it. Johnny would like to know why, but the pains were coming closer and closer together and it was hard for him to do anything but make noises of pain that he tried to keep soft.
It would have been nice to rest on a couch that was more comfortable, though. Less made of stone. Johnny might have voiced that, but he wasn’t sure. Everything was sort of hazy as his body tried to deal with the pain.
“Blankets,” Malachai told Keith, and Keith went to get them. Malachai caught Johnny’s eyes and held them, and the pain seemed to recede a little.
“Please,” Johnny pleaded, because he wasn’t sure how much he could take. Whatever needed to happen to get these babies out of his body, he wanted it to happen immediately.
“It’s time,” Malachai agreed, and then he opened his mouth and pursed his lips and breathed fire which washed over Johnny’s body, especially his stomach. As he breathed, he shifted, becoming the huge red dragon once more.
It was hard for Johnny to really comprehend what happened next. As Malachai breathed on him, the dragon reached out with his front legs and somehow, he was able to reach right into Johnny. Gently, very gently, bathed in flames, the first baby was brought out, not crying but rather looking in fascination at the orange fire all around him.
Keith was there, and he took the first baby and wrapped it in a blanket. Meanwhile, Malachai took the second baby from Johnny’s swollen belly, and once he was out, the flames died down.
The whole thing had been utterly painless. It didn’t seem possible, but it had, and Johnny immediately felt better. Back to normal, almost, except for some lingering exhaustion. When he looked down at his stomach, which had been so big and round, it was completely flat once more. Like none of this had ever happened.
Then Keith handed him his son, and he looked down into the newborn’s sleepy face and he smiled. It had happened. He had the proof of that in his arms, while Malachai held the other one.
“Are you holding Luke or James?” Malachai was back in his human form, and his arms cradled the baby like he was meant to do it.
Johnny considered, gazing into his baby’s face, taking the question very seriously.
“James,” he decided, and Malachai grinned and nodded.
“Then this is Luke.”
Keith had been staying mostly back, letting whatever happened happen, but he stepped forward now.
“Welcome to the world, little ones,” he said, looking at the babies faces in that same considering, thoughtful way he seemed to look at anything. “If you two don’t need anything, I’m going to see if there’s a bed somewhere close.”
Johnny beamed up at him. Keith had come all the way here, even happily getting up in the middle of the night. Malachai had been right to bring them here, Johnny suddenly realized. He never would have met Keith, or Levi, or Noah, or even Jason. Even Malachai’s mother had come around somewhat.
“No, go ahead. Thank you, Keith,” Malachai said, and he curled up on the huge stone couch, each of them holding a sleepy, newborn baby.
At the moment, it didn’t matter to Johnny that he was a long ways from home. He and Malachai would go back to California as soon as they could, and Johnny would pick up his life where he’d left off.
Almost. Because he had these two now, and that would change things for him forever. He had his twin sons, and he had his mate, and those people would be the most important to him in the world.
The fact was, back in California, before he’d met Malachai, he’d been stagnant. He went to work, he partied, he surfed.
That was something he was never going to have to worry about again, and Johnny, lying on the couch with his new little family, couldn’t be happier about that.
He’d finally found where he belonged.
The End
About the Author
Alex DuBois is an old-fashioned girl who believes in soulmates and loves to write about contemporary, handsome men finding their happily ever afters. She writes gay stories that have plenty of heat, but also touch the heart.
On the rare occasions that she’s not writing, she can be found playing with animals of all sorts, hiking, or exploring every corner of the world that she can get to. She lives with her partner and three cats on the West Coast.
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