Eternal Dominion Book 23: Strife by Bern Dean

Author:Bern Dean [Dean, Bern]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

Morning December 25 to Evening December 31, 2268 & ED Year 8 Days 121- 140.

When Alex made his way downstairs on Christmas morning, it felt odd to him as it was the first time that they were actually celebrating it in his home since they had bought it. It was also the first one since Ava and Mia had given birth, making it another first Christmas for his kids and with Kate over 18 weeks along currently, Alex already knew that the streak would continue. Still, as Alex reached the living room, he was greeted by a sight that just didn’t seem real to him and it felt like there was a literal mountain of presents. It had been for this reason that Alex had set his logout to occur ten minutes early, as he took in the sight and confirmed with Gido that everything was set up for his own surprise gift to his wives. With that done, Alex just sat back and waited.

Around 15 minutes later Ava, Mia, Kate, Sam and Nicole all arrived with their six little ones, as the rest of the residents of the house showed up. This included Nicole’s sister, Alyssa, who had been dealing with balancing her schoolwork and taking turns helping out with all the little ones. Really, she had been mostly a ghost to Alex as Nicole assured him that she was behaving and it was more of a survival tactic that came from growing up with their parents. Even so, Alex knew that it was also her first Christmas away from home as she had elected to stay for the holiday and things had just not worked out for the Juns to visit, or Alex’s family to head out to California again. Still, there were video calls scheduled and Alex expected the day to be filled with all that and more.

After a bit of teasing that went back and forth at why Alex had gotten up early, it was time to start opening presents as they slowly worked their way closer to the tree. The gifts were mainly for the little ones as the whole house and seemingly every relative who came out for Thanksgiving and more, had sent in gifts. They had all even followed the rule of not worrying about the parents, but ensuring that each baby received a gift if any one of them did. Though due to that same rule, there was now a small mountain of toys and books that would end up shared between all eight little ones and the four more who were on the way.

Once the pile of gifts was out of the way it was time for breakfast, only Alex had his surprise as he all but forced his wives to put on a coat and slip on some snowproof slippers before stepping outside. There, just across their driveway was the same field that Alex had spent his first date with Ava and Mia in, only it currently had two inches of ice over it.

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