Force of Knight Magic (7 page)

He pulled her to his mouth and kissed her.
“Never.
And I was thinking the same thing.
At least this time with your family you don’t have to have me prove what we are.
I’m pretty sure you get it.”
He laughed again.
“I’m so in love with you
,
Holly.”

“I guess I love you too.”
This time when she flushed he squeezed her tighter.
“What were you going to ask me?”

He let her change the subject.
He wasn’t happy about the
“
guessing
”
she loved him part
,
but he could understand her hesitancy too. He did have to think a bit about what he’d been about to ask her and decided that how she got paid really wasn’t any of his business other than he was worried about her.
So he asked.

“They send me a check for some of it. It’s under the heading of this fake store front in Ohio that my family thinks I work for.
The rest goes into a safety deposit box that I go to when I feel like.”
That bothered him too. The fact that anyone who knew where the account was could get to her by simply watching the bank made him think that she was going to be hurt if at any
time they decided that she was no longer an asset to them.

Her belly growled and he laughed at her. She told him she was hungry and that
,
unlike him, she needed to eat more just to keep her body in tiptop shape.
That stopped him in his move to get up.
Rolling her back to the bed
,
he covered her with his body and rocked his cock hard between her legs.
Watching her face
,
he slowly entered her, sliding his cock deep.

“If your body got any better I’d be a dead man.”
His balls tightened up close to his body as he felt his climax coming fast.
“Holly, drink from me.
I want to feel your every thought, every need.
Please, drink from me.”

She took his wrist to her mouth and licked him.
He knew that she couldn’t bite him without hurting him so he took his wrist back and bit deep for her as he moved his cock in an
d
out of her.
As soon as he put her mouth to his wound
,
she wrapped her legs around his thighs and surged up with every one of his downward strokes.
When she suckled, drank from him, he came.
Then as she came around him
,
he felt his cock fill again and he jettisoned into her
,
filled her with his seed.

Christ, they were going to kill each other if they kept this up.
He pulled her body over his again and he heard her soft snore.
So much for breakfast
,
he thought with a grin.
Looking over at this watch
,
he saw that it was just after ten in the morning.
Thinking that they’d sleep for a little while
,
he closed his eyes.
Later, later they’d talk about the woman and what she was doing to the humans in the world.

Austin looked over at his mate.
The way she was moving made him think that she should have stayed at home.
She was miserable and he was terrified for her.
Being near her term
,
everything made him think she was going to deliver at any second.
He was sure they were going to have their pups in the airport waiting for his sister and her mate.
He
tried
to smile when CJ glared at him.

“I swear to you the next time you want to have a baby you’re the one who is going to carry it.
I’m so sick of having you look at me like I’m going to break that I want to get a knife and cut your dick off.”
She didn’t even grin when she said it
,
so he knew that he had to tread lightly here or she’d follow through on her threat.

“I was just thinking about how beautiful you looked.
Even in this heat you look as fresh as a daisy.”
He knew he’d gone too far when she crossed her arms over her ample belly and tapped her foot.
“What? A man can’t tell his mate that she looks lovely carrying his child?”

“Not when he says it with a frown marring his forehead.
Nor when you know damn good and well that you think I look like a side of a house and waddle like a large
,
overstuffed penguin.”

He snapped his mouth closed knowing that no matter what he said now would not only get him hurt
, but
maybe killed too.
He was beginning to think that his brother was right when Dallas told him that he thought pregnancy wasn’t for everyone.
CJ was definitely not the picture he’d had in mind of someone carrying his child.

“Have nothing to say
,
big boy?
Well, that’s probably the smartest thing you’ve ever done.”
She glared at the woman making noises about the beauty of pregnant women.
“When is his stupid plane supposed to land anyway?
I need a nap.”

Phil had called him not ten minutes ago and said they were on the tarmac
,
but he didn’t tell her that he’d already told her
. He
simply said he thought he was already here.
Austin was going to do what his mother had told him to do, tread lightly and keep agreeing with everything she said and never ever mention the labor and delivery part of this baby.
That had nearly cost him his nuts and his ear.
He thought at first it had been something the two of them had worked up
,
but now he could see the wisdom of the advice.

When he saw his sister coming toward them from the gate he could tell something was different.
He knew that she and Phil had become mates, not fully yet
,
but they had started the process.
He wasn’t sure he liked the idea of his baby sister having sex
,
but knew that if he even mentioned that
,
someone
,
if not all of them
,
might do something to him.
For an alpha he was having a hard time staying in one piece and not by anyone but his own family.

“Wow,” Holly said when she stepped back after hugging CJ.
“You’re lovely.
I think having babies suits you very well.”

Austin waited for the fireworks, a gun to be pulled
,
or a she-bitch fight to begin
,
but all CJ did was blush and tell her she’d never felt better.
He nearly said
, “
what the fuck
?”
but wisely kept his mouth shut.
He did look over at Phil
,
who looked horrified.

“She’s due soon.
Well, yesterday as a matter of fact.
We should be getting back.”
He was babbling because he was afraid that Phil
,
for all his age and friendship toward CJ
,
was going to say something that would get him killed too.
“We have to stop by the pack house then to the doctor’s office to sign some papers.”

“Do you know what you’re having
?
” Phil asked suddenly.
“I mean
,
have you had any sort of idea what the sex of the baby is yet?”

He looked at Austin when CJ shook her head.
Before he could tell him that they’d decided to wait even though he and CJ had thought it was a girl, CJ spoke up.

“I don’t want to have someone tell me then they
end up
be
ing
wrong.
I want a boy, really badly.
A son for Austin.”
She looked up at him and he could see the tears in her eyes.
“I know I’ve been a real bitch
,
but I really do want a son for you.”

Phil nodded and then took her hand.
CJ hugged him to her and Phil winked at him over her shoulder.
“Would you like to know for sure?
I can tell you both right now if you want to know.”

Austin didn’t move.
They were standing in a busy airport with people moving all around him and all he could think about was a son.
He looked at CJ when he realized she hadn’t answered him either.
He was so not making this decision without her input first.

“Can you tell one hundred percent what we’re having and not just a guess like the doctor?
I know he had one of those internal monitors
,
but the baby wasn’t cooperating with him so he couldn’t tell and now I’m just a bit too far along for them to do another one.”
CJ looked at him before she continued.
“Do you want to know?
I do if you do.”

He nodded. It was about all he could manage right now.
Phil put his hands on CJ’s belly and closed his eyes.
His smile told them nothing and when he stepped back, Austin decided that the next time he had the opportunity he was going to pound his friend into the dirt.

“You’re having one of each.
The boy is head down and the girl is in the right position.
Would you like to know what they think of you?”
CJ nodded.
“They think they are the luckiest babies in the entire world to have people like you as their parents.
And the girl, she’s nearly all wolf, the boy is full
-
blooded.”

Austin grabbed the back of the chair he was standing next to.
He realized that his sister was speaking to him
,
but for the life of him he couldn’t tell what she was saying. Twins, twins that already loved them.
Austin was suddenly sitting down and he could see the floor from his new position.
His head between his knees
,
he started to rise when he was pushed back down again.

“I’m fine. What the hell did you shove me here for
,
you moronic dick?
Let me up I said.”
He knew that Phil held him down
;
he could see his shoes in his line of site.
“Phil, so help me
,
when I get up from here
,
I’m going to shift and tear you apart.”

Austin was suddenly free.
He didn’t stand, not sure his knees would hold him just yet.
For all his brav
ad
o he was still a little stunned about twins.
He reached for CJ
,
pulled her to him
,
and rested his head on her belly.
The first kick he got in the cheek made him laugh
,
the second made him kiss her belly.

“Okay
,
big boy.
If you stop on your way home to get me a glass of tea I’ll let you in on a little secret.”
CJ wiggled her brows at him.
“And if you’re really nice and get me one that isn’t sweetened, I’ll give you two.”

Austin looked over at Phil who was frowning again.
He wasn’t sure what the man had to be upset about, he wasn’t the one living with the moodiest woman in the world.
He looked back at CJ
,
ready to give her whatever she wanted when he noticed she was sweating.
Profusely.

“How long have you been in labor
,
love
?
” Phil asked her.
“I would say you’re what…having them about three minutes apart?”

Austin didn’t know what he was talking about until Holly spoke.
“Oh Christ, you’re in labor? Now?”

CJ nodded and grabbed for the chair next to her.
“I didn’t think it was real. They told me at the doctor’s office to expect to have a few dry runs
,
but these pains
,
t
hey hurt like hell.”

Austin stared at her.
He had to
have
missed something.
He looked at Phil when he put his arm around CJ and started moving her toward the door.
Quickly.
It wasn’t until Holly hit him in the head with her purse that he realized something was going on.

“Wake up you fuck-tard and get going.
You want her to deliver those babies without you?”
He stood and stared after Phil and CJ.
They were nearly to the door already.
Holly hit him again and that’s when it sank in.