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“Holy shit.” I stare up at my mate in awe.

She’s confused as she meets my eyes. “What? Am I dying or something?”

“Most definitely not.” I clamber to my feet, dipping her back before kissing her.

“What the hell is going on?” Brenden asks, sounding both annoyed and worried.

I settle Audrey back on her feet before reaching up to cup her face. “You’re pregnant.”

“I’m what?!” she practically screams. “Did you just say pregnant? But how?”

“Well, Audrey, I didn’t think we needed to have the birds and bees conversation, but I’m happy to explain it to you,” Cassian’s mom says with a grin.

“We’re going to be grandmas!!!” The Fates yell together, and I shake my head.

Audrey is still blinking up at me. “I’m going to have a baby?”

“Two, actually,” Cassian corrects as he and the others crowd around our mate. “I don’t know where that came from.”

Athelina chuckles. “It seems you might have gotten a few more powers from your mom than you thought. It’s not uncommon for them to reveal themselves when it involves someone you love.”

Audrey takes a deep breath. “I’m pregnant and having twins. Of course I am. One baby wouldn’t be enough chaos for me, so why not have two?”

“It could be worse,” Nex says, trying to hide his laughter. “It could be three or four. Hellhounds are often born in multiples.”

“You didn’t tell me that!” Audrey whacks my chest, her eyes wide. “How many are we talking about?”

I wrinkle my nose, eyes flashing to Nex and promising him retribution when he’s least expecting it. “I was a single baby, but I’m the oddball out. I think the biggest litter I’ve seen is eight.”

All color leaves Audrey’s face before her eyes roll back into her head. She becomes dead weight in my arms, and I wince.

My mate just passed out. Fabulous.

She’s never going to let me stick my cock inside her again.

Cassian swoops in, pulling her away from me and into his arms. “It’s better if we’re not all surrounding her. She’s fine—it was just a shock. I can’t blame her for it since she just found out she was pregnant and one of her mates could put up to eight babies into her belly at once.”

“I never thought to tell her. It’s not like we were trying to get her pregnant.”

“Okay, yeah. We don’t want to hear about that.” Claudia laughs as she and her sisters push to their feet. “We’ll get out of your hair. We just wanted to be here when you found out.”

Cassian brings Audrey to the couch, sitting down with her in his lap. It takes all my willpower to not hurry over there and crowd her like I want to. My instincts are going haywire. My mate is pregnant.

“We’re going to have babies,” I say softly, a smile lighting up my face. “We’re going to be dads.”

“These poor children,” Audrey says drily.

The three of us rush over to the couch but make sure not to crowd her.

Wraith reaches over to run his hand down her face. “How are you? You’re not usually prone to passing out.”

“It was just a lot all at once.” Her eyes narrow when they land on me. “You’re fucking lucky I really like that monster cock of yours, or I wouldn’t be letting you put it near me after these babies are born. Eight fucking babies at once? How did the mother survive?”

I shrug. “She’s a dragon shifter. I think they’re used to having multiples at once.”

Thank goodness she’s not banning me from her bed. I’d never survive.

Audrey scoffs, shaking her head. Her hands drop to her stomach, a smile forming on her lips. “We’re having twins.”