Page 16 of Omega Dragon Manny (Shifters For Hire #3)

CLARK

The more we discussed it, the more I realized that the marriage thing was all about me doing what I thought was right and not about what either one of us wanted.

In the end, we did go down to the town hall and file the paperwork, though.

Not because it made us somehow more connected than we were.

It didn’t. After some research, we realized it would make it easier with the triplets legally, giving him some rights a boyfriend wouldn’t have, and that was important to both of us.

But the mating was something we both really wanted.

We’d waited so long that we decided to make a special night of it. Not like a wedding that would take place in front of everybody, that was ridiculous. We did, however, want it to be when we weren’t worried one of the kids would wake up or I had to be to work soon. Those adulting kinds of things.

So when Louise offered to give us an overnight away, we took her up on it.

We didn’t go far, a B&B less than fifteen minutes down the road, but we deemed it our mating moon.

The place was adorable, abutting a river, fire pits in the back, rocking chairs on the wrap-around porch.

It was the epitome of everything you thought of when someone said B&B, and when we got there and checked in, I thought the night was going to be perfect.

That was until Beau’s stomach decided to mess with him, and instead of changing for dinner, he found himself hunched over the toilet and losing the remains of lunch.

I felt horrible for him. It was our first night away together ever, and he was sick.

When he was done and cleaned up, he said he felt good enough to go out. I had to admit, he looked fine. I agreed we could try to go somewhere, but not to the place the owner had arranged for us. It was a farm-to-table restaurant with many courses.

He might’ve been better, but that was a lot of food for someone who wasn’t 100%.

Beau swore he wasn’t sick and it was just something he ate. And he looked fine, so we went someplace close, just in case. The cafe we found online had outdoor seating that sounded like it might be just the ticket.

We walked downstairs to let the owner know he wasn’t feeling well and asked if she could cancel the reservations she made.

I was shocked when the first thing she did was congratulate us.

“What?” I responded to her, but her eyes were on Beau.

That wasn’t the normal response you got for losing your cookies.

He didn’t seem surprised by her at all. “Can you scent it?”

“Yeah, can’t you?” she replied.

“No, that’s why I thought I was wrong.”

“Oh, take a deep breath, you can scent it. There’s a hint of honey and a bit of smoke.”

They kept going back and forth as I stood there, clueless and completely left out of the conversation. Then Beau told her to keep the reservation and dragged me by the hand up to our room.

“Did you catch any of that?” he said in almost one word.

“I caught absolutely none of it, just that something smelled. Was it the candles?” I was no further in my understanding than I had been when the conversation started.

“No…it’s better.”

“Better how?”

“This morning, I woke up and I thought maybe I was pregnant, but usually you can smell pregnancy. And I couldn’t. So then I thought maybe it was the result of eating too much of that popcorn last night.”

He was talking a mile a minute, and I was trying to keep up. It wasn’t easy.

“I mean, I added far more cheesy powder than I meant to. I chalked it up to that, but she scented it, and now I think I can too.”

“Wait. Are you saying… Are we…?”

“Yeah, I think so.”

We’d talked about wanting kids and had definitely done our best to make a baby, but it still caught me off guard. A quick stop at the drugstore on the way to dinner confirmed we were having a baby, and we couldn’t have been happier.

We spent the entire night talking about how we were going to fix up the nursery and when the due date might be.

We were absorbed in all things baby. The waitress overheard us and brought out a special dessert with a sparkler on it to celebrate.

It wasn’t anything at all like the night we had planned, but it was so much better.

When we got back to the room, he pulled off my shirt and then his and immediately pressed himself to me, kissing me with his whole body.

I was still in shock, but it didn’t take me long to figure out what he wanted when his fingers slipped below my waistband and grazed the head of my growing cock. “Whoa, there.” I released my buttons and pushed down my boxers. “Let me help you.”

“I’m gonna need more help than that.” He licked the hollow of my neck and dropped his pants too. “I need you inside me, Clark.”

What a coincidence. I needed that too. Within seconds, he was splayed on the bed and ready for me to enter him. As I pushed my cock inside his tight channel, Beau pulled me closer, licking along my jaw and then back at my neck again.

I continued to thrust, quickly going from zero to a million in just seconds, and as I came inside him, filling him with my seed and my knot, Beau’s sharp teeth closed on my skin and left the mark I’d been waiting for.

There was pain, but it was quickly replaced with pleasure, a lot of pleasure, to the point where another round of convulsions flowed through me.

Clark didn’t release me immediately, and that was okay with me. When he did, he was almost shy about it. “I’m sorry. Once my dragon knew about the baby, he wasn’t willing to wait any longer.”

“Don’t apologize.” I kissed him softly and licked along his neck as well. “I’m honored, and that was perfect.”