Page 36 of Our Haunted Omegas (Moonscale Heirs Duet #1)

Indigo

My carrier crashed into Dad as soon as he stepped out of the limo.

He counted us over Dad’s shoulder as he was picked up and squeezed tight.

Manny nearly knocked both of them over to get to Uncle Nicky.

None of us moved until our grandcarrier waved us out.

The feast was put on hold of course and Medwin led us all down to what Dad called the dungeon.

It was the safest place on the grounds of Moonscale Manor and built to be a bomb shelter.

It was where we’d all meet up if danger broke loose of its cage again.

Somehow, Medwin already had a doctor waiting.

I thought it might be one of Teal’s medical school friends but it was an old she-bear wearing halfmoon spectacles who introduced herself as Dolores.

She had salt and pepper hair and even a few wrinkles.

She was really old because shifters only greyed out at the far reaches of their life cycles.

None of us argued as she looked us up and down and then announced she’d see the pregnant men one at a time. Before she disappeared behind the curtain with Uncle Nicky, she ordered our sire to sit down and have as much food as he could manage. Food sometimes calmed an enraged dragon.

“Your grandfather will be here as soon as he can,” Medwin announced. “Nem and Cedar are out with him. They’ll be fine. There is every reason to believe this was an isolated incident. While we are yet to ascertain why the journalist wanted to blow up the petrol station…”

“Dad,” my dad said. “It’s okay. We’re okay. No one was hurt. He was crazy. That’s why he wanted to blow the place up.”

“He might’ve too,” Grandpa said.

“No,” Odie shook his head. “Guardie was there. He knows how all that works. He was born from war.”

Medwin looked down at the dog and let out a long, slow breath.

He wasn’t the biggest fan of pets but working animals had long been a part of shifter culture.

He squatted down and patted Guardie on the head awkwardly and thanked him for his service.

Then handed him off a ham and cheese sandwich, which Guardie promptly gulped down.

I was ready for Dolores to object to Ambry and Odie going behind the curtain together, but she put up no resistance against all four of us following her. She put her glasses up on the top of her head and looked both of the pregnant omegas up and down as if she had x-ray vision.

“You’re more nervous,” she nodded to Odie. “So you go first. You don’t smell injured, but we’ll swing a sonogram just to ensure baby isn’t stressed out about this. Up onto the table you go. Which one of you fine, upstanding young men are his mate?”

“Me,” Cobalt said.

“I am not afraid of you. If you bite me, I’ll bite you back. I understand that you’re undergoing a tremendously stressful time, but I will not tolerate you making it more stressful for any of the omegas here. I will see to their wellbeing and then they will eat. Do you all understand me?”

We nodded and a second later Odie pulled off his shirt over his head and Cobalt helped him climb up onto the exam table.

All the equipment had been moved down here in case someone needed emergency medical care during a battle or siege.

My thoughts chased their own tails through my brain.

Who would want to attack us? It wasn’t like Odie or Ambry had enemies.

“Is my dad here?” Ambry asked, standing up as if he snapped out of a deep sleep.

“He’s due to arrive at six,” Medwin announced from the other side of the curtain. “I have checked in on him. He won’t be coming alone. I told Clarence to send a car for him. We’ll take no chances today. None at all.”

Ambry moved to stand beside my brother as Odie’s bare belly was scanned.

Cobalt’s hands trembled as the little screen lit up showing the tiniest jellybean.

A wolf pup. My brother had sired a wolf pup.

That meant, unlike Ambry and me, they had a timeline to plan for.

We just had to hope everything settled down before it was time for Ambry to lay our egg.

The nest was built. The cabin was secure.

Guardie’s shadowy nose appeared under the curtain and sniffed before disappearing again. The curtained off section was barely big enough to hold us all as it was. So, I was relieved when the murder dog decided to go back and try to bug everyone for another sandwich.

Under different circumstances, we’d have taken the guys to our guest house but there was no way our grandcarrier was going to let us out of the ‘dungeon’ until we got the all clear.

So, we had a long afternoon of playing board games and snacking.

We all did our best not to speculate on who might have wanted to blow us up.

Our sire was quick to shut down any conversations headed in that direction.

We’d know when we knew and not a second sooner.

Though, with all the anxiety flying around the room speculation was in the very air we breathed.

Under calmer circumstances, I’d have tried to get Ambry to take a nap.

He’d been through a lot and his body was fueling an egg.

That took a lot of energy but I wasn’t going to be the guy who nagged his mate to get some rest in an impossible situation.

After all, he was part of almost getting blown up too.

Guardie sat in front of the door watching it as if it might grow hands and open itself. Hell, for all he knew it could. After all, he could be a hand, a tentacle thing, and a murder dog. Why couldn’t a door be more than a door?

“I think we’ll have to stay at the cabin with him,” Odell yawned when the board game playing had dwindled down.

“Who?” Medwin asked and then yawned because he caught it.

“Guardie,” Odell said. “I don’t know if we can have him around people.”

“He didn’t do anything wrong,” Medwin shook his head.

“I’m not sure what he is but he didn’t do anything wrong.

Believe it or not, grenades aren’t allowed in London.

People aren’t allowed to plan to blow up my family despite how often they do it.

He did what needed to be done. How he did it is a whole other question and maybe one day we’ll---” he stopped speaking and cocked his head to the side.

“Clarence is back. It was a business thing.”

“Blowing people up was a business thing?” Odell asked and Guardie let out a low growl.

“No, don’t eat Clarence,” Odell said, patting his thigh for the murder dog to come over to him.

Guardie trotted over and rested his furry, shadow chin on Odell’s leg. A second later, Grandpa opened the door. Uncle Cedar, Nem, and my father-in-law were with him. Ambry crashed into his dad as I realized my little aunt and uncle were nowhere to be seen.

“Where are---”

“In Heartville,” Medwin said. “I sent them through the gateway to Cord as soon as everything started. If you all hadn’t been at the scene I’d have shoved all you through too.

“What’s going on?” Our sire asked. “Something to do with business?”

“I approved the sale of a piece of land to a startup. They demolished the building that was there. It was one of those ugly corporate things. Anyway, because I approved the sale that meant the business that wanted it, couldn’t buy it.”

“Because it had already been sold,” Teal rolled his eyes.

“Obviously. Anyway, it was the second or third time this happened apparently. I approved the sale because there was no reason not to. Knocking down a building isn’t the end of the world.

Apparently, someone thought it was, regardless,” Clarence rubbed the bridge of his nose and for a moment I almost got up to hug him but his mate beat me to it.

“Are we okay now?” Cobalt asked.

“We’re okay. They’ve been arrested and the guy who they hired to do the deed didn’t make it. The press are reporting that we had some sort of security system in the limo that was capable of what happened. I’m letting them run with it. No one needs to know we merely got lucky.”

I shot a look at Teal. If he knew what this was about his expression didn’t give it away.

Cobalt nudged my calf with his big toe, a silent signal to knock it off.

I’d get answers later because if his choices were going to get us all blown up we had a right to know about them.

It wasn’t just us anymore. Ambry and Odie were pregnant.

If that meant Teal had to scale back for safety, I’d lock him in a closet until he agreed to.