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Cullen came to him, burrowing into his arms after he checked the oven. “I love you.”

“I love you too, baby.” He hugged Cullen tight, so grateful to be here, to be with his family. His dads were so…remote sometimes as much as he loved them. This family was immediate. Messy.

And perfect.

He could just stay with them for?—

He grunted, looking down at his feet, his eyes widening. “Cullen, I think your water just broke.”

“No!” Cullen looked down at his belly. “I need mini socks! And lasagna!”

“Well, you can still have lasagna after we clean up the kitchen floor.” Cosmo was not helping.

“Absolutely,” Hawk said. “And I’ll go across to the dragons and get you socks. The baby shower was going to be this weekend anyway, right? You two were planning what, four showers? Twelve? Something like that?”

“Hawk, that’s not helping.” Cosmo grinned at his mate, Hawk grinned back, and Cullen started sobbing, which had Tisi flying over to see him and bashing Orion right in the head.

Boom.

“Ouch.” He grabbed his son and rubbed his noggin.

“Sorry, he just yanked out of my arms. He’s a strong little bugger.” Corbin’s eyes were wide from where he had landed on the floor.

“At least he didn’t slide through the baby goo on the floor and then have a dirty coat.”

Orion glared at his brother-in-law. “Cosmo!”

“Sorry, I’m just glad it’s someone else.” Cosmo looked at Cullen. “That would be you. You’re the someone else.”

Cullen was still just standing there. He’d stopped crying, which Orion thought really was Cosmo and Hawk’s purpose, but he looked a little gobsmacked.

“Let’s take you upstairs. We’ll get you cleaned up. And then we come back and have lasagna and then have a baby. Hell, you could have lasagna before and after delivery.”

Cullen glared at him. “I love you, but I really need you to shut up right now and help me get cleaned up. Also, someone needs to watch the baby while we go do that.”

Oh, it always sucked when Cullen was in logical mode. Cullen was the least logical of all of them.

No shit on that,Corbin muttered.

Suddenly, shocking him, his Cullen was a dragon—a relatively small, bright purple, really pissed off dragon, who snapped at him with huge teeth, and said,Now, now would be good.

“Dude, can you give birth as a dragon?” Cosmo’s eyes were huge, and Hawk shook his head.

“I don’t think so.”

Corbin shrugged as Cullen roared. “I don’t think Cullen cares what we think.”

“Fair enough. Cullen can do whatever the hell he wants to. I’m going to get the mop.” Hawk was a good brother.

Orion handed Tisi to Corbin, and then he went to the front door. He couldn’t go out there, but he went to the door and hollered. “Yo, buddy! Yarrow! Could you come help?”

Yarrow popped up like a daisy through the snow burying the front walk. “Totally. I live for this shi—oh my gosh. Hello, dragon, you’re very purple and?—”

Orion nodded. “Hi. Right, so. Cullen’s water just broke. Don’t go in the kitchen. I mean, you can after the mopping, but—” He sort of stood there, feeling like a giant lump. “I don’t suppose that you could be an extra set of hands.”

Yarrow nodded, so happy. “Like I said, I live for this. You take your dragon, who looks very hungry, and I’ll take the flying horse. Who is way smaller as a baby. Can you tell him to become a baby?”

“If you can figure out how to communicate with my son, you’ll be doing better than I have.”