The Alpha Demon's Surprise Baby by MInerva Hwe & Kiernan Kelly

Author:MInerva Hwe & Kiernan Kelly [Hwe, MInerva & Kelly, Kiernan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Turtlehat Creatives
Published: 2024-01-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Twenty-Four

Joe sat down in the middle of the living room—awkwardly, since lowering his bulk to the floor was barely in the realm of possibility anymore now that he looked as if he was smuggling a beach ball under his shirt. He was surrounded by squares of cloth in a wide variety of colors. It looked as if someone had fed a rainbow quilt through a wood chipper.

Granny Gallo sat perched on the edge of an overstuffed chair nearby, eyeing the colorful snowfall of material nearly burying her pregnant grandson. “You know, you only get to pick one color for the wedding. Maybe two. Three at the outside. Not seventy-two thousand five hundred and eighty-three.”

“Granny, stop exaggerating and tell me how I’m supposed to decide between peacock blue, turquoise, and aquamarine?”

She sighed, kicked off one of her shoes, and rubbed her foot. “What’s to decide? They all look like blue to me.”

Joe scowled at her. “Are you actively trying to channel Bael, here?” He held up the three swatches in question. “Look at these. Peacock blue obviously has much more blue in it compared to aquamarine, which has much more green in it than turquoise.”

“So… which do you like better?”

“I don’t know!” Joe threw the swatches up into the air in a dramatic fling. At least it was dramatic in his head. In real life, the swatches just sort fluttered to the ground. “I need this to be perfect, Granny. I’m only getting married once.”

“And you better be damn sure, because demons don’t do divorce,” she retorted. She cocked an eyebrow. “You are sure, aren’t you?”

He sighed, long and hard, this time striking the dramatic effect perfectly. “Yes, for the eleventy-thousandth time. I love Bael. He’s my soulmate.”

“Then pick whichever blue you think he would like. Problem solved.”

“Granny, this is Bael we’re talking about. If the choice doesn’t involve black or blood red, he won’t care.”

A knock at the door interrupted their disagreement. At Joe’s invitation, Connie stepped into the room. She’d refrained from instantly appearing and disappearing when Joe asked her to stop the last time she did it. Joe had told her it scared the bejebus out of him every time she popped in and out, and if she did it once more and the baby burst out of him and got new baby goo all over the carpeting, it would be her fault. She now took the much more pedestrian route of using the door.

“Good afternoon, Mr. Gallo. Mrs. Gallo.” Connie stepped around a pile of autumn-colored swatches and then picked her way through the white-off-white-ivory-antique-white-cream section. The breeze caused by her passing sent a colorful tornado twisting across the floor. “Have you decided on your colors?”

Joe hemmed and hawed a bit, then finally selected two swatches. “Yes. Peacock blue, and black for the contrast trim.”

“Excellent.” Connie smiled. “I’ve brought the rings.”

She held out her hand to Joe. Nestled on her palm were two matching black titanium rings set with ultra-rare, natural black jade.

Joe quirked his lips. “I should never have let Bael pick out the rings.

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