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“Yeah, me either.” Orion sat on the end of the bed while Cullen took the one wing-backed chair. “Okay, so if it’s not an herb, if we can’t mush up mugwort or something and pour it up his nose and fix him, What if it’s magical?”

He tilted his head. “Some sort of weird-assed magic?” That he did know about. “Well, I could try to blast him with all of my drippy hearts.”

“Not helpful,” Corbin snapped, while Orion followed up with?—

“Don’t get close enough to him to blast him with anything. Last thing we need is a vampire-dragon-fae and a vampire-dragon-fae-unicorn baby?—”

“Aren’t babies kind of vampires by definition?” he asked.

“Shut up, Cull!”

Cullen was developing one hell of a Corbin-sized headache.

Really, all he wanted to do was go see the new baby and hold him, ask him his name. He wanted to enjoy being pregnant. Enjoy being freshly mated. He did not want to have to deal with this shit, and he wasn’t sure why this was happening right now.

Cullen was starting to feel a little cursed, and he was beginning to feel a wee bit grumpy about it.

“You’re pouting, your bottom lip is sticking out. It’s really cute.” Orion tried to smile for him.

He scowled. “I will kill you.”

“Right, not cute. You are the least cute omega ever.”

Corbin threw a glass of water against the wall, shattering it. “If you two do not stop being funny and adorable, I’m going to murder you both.”

That would be adorbs as hell if it wasn’t terrifying.

“You can just go away,” Corbin snapped.

Orion shook his head. “We’re not leaving you here with the bloodsucker.”

“You don’t have a choice. This ismyhouse!”

Was Corbin yelling at them? For being decent?

He blinked at Corbin and then screamed, “Your house? This is our house, and it always will be! There is no you without me and vice versa!”

Don’t forget to add Cosmo in.Orion stood, staring at Corbin.His feelings will get hurt.

“And the only reason Cosmo is not in here yelling is because he is with the children!”

“Oh, I’m here.”

I thought you were watching the babies.

Hawk is watching the babies. You needed my support, Cull.

All right, that works.“So Cosmo is here too. You want to yell at him? You could yell at both of us, and let’s see what happens!”

“Stop screaming at me!” Corbin did round on them now, pointing at Cullen. “I’m doing the best I can.”

“I know. I do.” He held out a hand to his brother, but that was when his eyes widened in horror. The vines holding the fae man to the bed had shriveled to dried husks, and the fae rose up, grabbing Orion and yanking him up against him to bite deep into Orion’s neck.

“No!” He leaped forward to rip the guy away, Corbin and Cosmo both shouting and moving to help.

But it was too late. Even as they pulled the fae man free, he could see the great, bloody wound on Orion’s neck.

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