Moonlight Lovers_A Reverse Harem Shifter Romance by K. R. Alexander

Author:K. R. Alexander [Alexander, K. R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Six Wolves Press
Published: 2018-12-30T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Isaac and the stone house by the beck with the flower beds and honey bees. Zar on the beach with the picnic. The sun shining through a blissful summer day, the kids running and laughing, the sounds of water blending in, meditative.

It could be real. We’d already beaten the odds. One of them. Surely it had to be Isaac or Zar. I shouldn’t be feeling like this less than a month in, right?

Yet … I didn’t know. I knew a lot about kids. About elementary school age kids. About child development, teaching structures, and learning theory from small children to teens and adults, even to apes, birds, rats, and dogs—all mentioned in my own education. Learning theory and how kids grow. Teaching and how kids connect and understand.

There would be time to self-educate on pregnancy and babies and actually raising a human being from scratch later on. Maybe when I was thirty. At some point once I’d settled down with someone and knew this was the guy who I wanted to raise kids with and we were a forever family. Then educate, then make the choice. A choice. A plan.

If there was ever something to have a plan about, being responsible for someone else’s life…

What had come over me, anyway? A few guys are like, Nah, that’s not going to happen. Almost impossible. And that was suddenly good as gold? No need to take any precautions?

But would I have wanted to anyway?

Yes. Right this moment, just for this summer, while we were all risking our lives and working some kind of magical underworld vigilante justice that could get us all killed, now was simply not the time to: A; be running around pregnant, or, B; risk an eighth life in what we were doing.

Goddess. Eight.

Daniel, the shaman, and his asking weren’t there eight of us? Eight was such a magical number, powerful number of infinity. Eight.

Here we were.

Yes. I’d always wanted a family. I’d wanted kids since I’d been one. Definitely the sort of little girl who watched out that her dolls didn’t get sunburn or go too long without a nap.

So I did want this. Like breath, vision, imagination, freedom, like my own life. The ultimate gift, the ultimate miracle. And the fathers? No going wrong. Half of us could die, including me, and this baby would still have a family, still be loved and protected no matter what. Andrew had been right about that. They weren’t going to care. Show them a new “pup” and I’d be lucky if I ever got to hold the little bundle myself. Even Jed would curl himself around such a little life and rip anyone’s arm off who reached for it. We may have to talk about that.

Beat the odds. Miracle. Eight. Yes, yes, yes. And no. And fear that made my eyes sting and heart hammer, pressure like a couch on my chest. Not now. Not right this minute.

Besides, what about lying to them? I couldn’t really do that, could I? They had to know.

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