Succubus Lips
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He swallowed visibly and my heart sunk. Was something wrong again—after everything going so right for months now?
“I was actually looking for you,” he said. He nodded over my head at Nash behind me. “And you, too. Wade needs to talk to you.”
“Okay…?” I said, but he didn’t offer anything more, just stepped back and slid his hand through mine.
He led me down the hall to Wade’s lab and I exchanged a grin with Roulette and Darien as we passed them in the guys’ dorm room, so entwined with one another, it was hard to tell where one ended and the other began. She giggled and shut the door so I couldn’t keep waggling my eyebrows at her as we passed.
Wade was typing furiously on his computer as we entered the lab and Jayden directed me to the seat beside our resident scientist. “Sit,” he commanded.
I did as asked and exchanged a look with Nash, but he shrugged, crossing his arms over his chest as he took position behind me.
“Aurora,” said Wade seriously, removing his glasses and placing them next to his computer keyboard. He clasped his hands together and put them between his knees, leaning forward as if he were my physician about to deliver devastating news.
My heart jumped out of my throat. In effect, he was my physician, and this, for all intents and purposes, looked like he was about to deliver bad news. I’d just had my first full-body scan this morning since… Since, well, before this mess had all started.
“I’m sorry I told Jayden first, I just… It tumbled out of my mouth when I was looking at your scans and he was in the room with me.”
Jayden squeezed my shoulder and I looked up at him, my body trembling. Nash must have noticed the mood of the room, too, because he came closer, putting a hand on my other shoulder.
“Well, out with it, doc,” he said. “Don’t keep us in suspense.”
Wade took a deep breath. “You’re pregnant.”
My eyes started blinking a mile a minute. “What?”
“You’re pregnant. With twins.”
“What?”
Wade shifted his computer monitor so I could see what he was looking at—it sort of resembled those ultrasound pics the Typicals relied on when looking at embryos, but it was more detailed, the images of two tiny, tiny fetuses entwined with one other as clear as day.
“What?” I shrieked, jumping to my feet. I stumbled, and both my men currently present swooped in to support me on either side.
“I’d say about two months in,” Wade continued.
“How?” I demanded, my jaw agape, looking rapidly from Wade to Jayden to Nash and back, demanding an answer.
“I don’t know,” said Wade. “We’ll have to run more tests. And keep a closer eye on your condition, obviously.” He looked to me. “That is… if you want to have them.”
My legs weak, I sat back down, slowly, my mind racing. “I… I… Are they safe?” I asked, my fingers racing to trace my abdomen. My period was late—okay, way late, but too much had been going on for me to worry about it. “What about my power?” I asked. “I know it still works… Has it been hurting them?”
“It doesn’t appear to have,” said Wade, studying the screen again. “But we should run more tests.”
My face flushed as my mind went fuzzy, my brain a scrambled pile of goo. I’d never really thought I could get pregnant. Dammit, I hadn’t ever gotten that Plan B pill, now that I thought about it, but I’d had my powers most of the time since. It hadn’t seemed likely that even if an egg—or two—had taken that day that it’d hold on through everything, through everything that had happened since.
“I need to think,” I said, swallowing.
Nash massaged my shoulder. “It could be… they could be anyone’s,” he said, looking at Jayden.
So he didn’t think it was that first time, that time I was supposed to get the Plan B?
Jayden cleared his throat. “They’d be ours. All of ours. That is, if Alanna wants…” His voice went quiet.
“I do,” I said, my voice choking. I hadn’t even known it myself, really, hadn’t bothered thinking about it. “Nash, Jayden…” I looked up at each of them, squeezing both their hands. “I do.”
And now to have a mind-blowing conversation with my other two lovers as soon as their business took them back home to me.
“You’re fucking what?” shouted Zander over our bond.
Oh, yeah. There was that way of telling them. I thought hard about Zander—felt his anxiety, his excitement—as he imparted a conversation he was having with Alarik then.
“He says he can’t wait to meet his little Nelian prince or princess,” relayed Zander. “I told him he was taking our baby to Nelia over my dead body. That child has four fathers.”
Yeah, about that, I thought. There are two.
“Two fathers?”
Two babies. I sent an image of the biggest smile I possibly could straight into Zander’s mind.
Look for Book Two in the Succubus Sirens Series Soon!
Succubus Hearts, a standalone sequel to Succubus Lips
Her nearness takes powers away. Ally or foe, no Natch or Nelian elf can rely on their supernatural strengths in the proximity of the Nelian princess. Battles fought in her honor crumble to ashes when she sets foot into the fray.
Growing up the only known elf in her planet’s history to have nullification powers, Alanna felt an outcast in her own village. Her parents shunned her, and few would befriend her—but she knew she could always rely on her brother, heir to the Nelian throne, and Xerxes, his best friend, to make her smile. Certain she would wed Xerxes and celebrate their love at last, her heart was shattered when Xerxes led a coup against her brother, determined to take over the strange human-populated planet called Earth in his own way.
Now with her brother back in power and Xerxes banished from their Nelian home, Alanna wanders Earth, lost and alone—until she comes across a band of underground Natch rebels wary about her brother’s hold over the Earth governments. Now she has four Natch human men lusting after her, despite the fact that they lose all hope of winning in their crusade whenever she’s near. Yet even in the soft grip of their passionate embrace, she can’t fully forget the would-be elf king pretender she left behind.
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