The Bridal Hunt (21 page)

I
quickly put my hand over his mouth.

"Don't even finish that sentence or
all
you'll be doing is watching next time," I warned him.

Kirch just purred and licked my hand, smiling against my palm when I tried to keep a straight face and ruined it with a girlish giggle.

Eyes half lidded, filled with renewed lust, he licked my palm again, slowly, tongue running across it roughly, purring loud enough to vibrate my entire back when I shivered in delight.

Oh, my…

****

Kirch and Bia got frisky with me again, but we had to cut it short since we were all already late for our duties that morning.

Everyone cut me a break when they saw the love bites strewn about all over my neck, a well fucked look about me. They decided to go with teasing me about it instead.

A few bawdy taunts and one permanent, pink cheeked tint later, here I am,
four hours later, weaving yet another basket, picking up where I'd left off the last time I'd worked on one.

"I'll be right back," Daisy, the tiny blonde I'd met briefly before, called out, "It's t
hat time of the month." She sighed heavily as she headed off.

I froze at her statement.

Time of the...

My mind raced.

Period...

A period... shouldn't I have had another one by now?

My eyes widened and I bit my lip.

My period...

As I realized I hadn't had my period this month, that thought sinking in as I started to feel a little lightheaded.

Shit!

I counted back in my head and sure enough, I'd missed my menses. I started to have a mini panic attack, my heart beating ninety to nothing in my chest.

Pregnant!

I could be pregnant!

Oh! Oh! Oh!

Oh, my god!

I don't know anything about babies!

If you didn't want babies, then why were you having marathon sex with your mate... erm... now mates?
I chastised myself.
Where did you think babies came from, missy!

I wasn't exactly contemplating contraceptives when Veck had me shrieking like a banshee, crying out his name, writhing around in mindless pleasure, repeatedly, many, many times... but how the frick do you forget something like that?! Something so simple, yet important.

...contraception...

Shows how responsible I am...

I mean... do they even have anything like that here?

I jumped up and stumbled as a wa
ve of dizziness washed over me.

I… but the… and then…

Dorothy rushed over as black spots danced in my vision.

A baby...

I'm pregnant...

I could see Bia's mother, but I couldn't hear anything she was saying as
I stumbled around on unsteady legs, a ringing taking up in my ears as the room started to spin.

Fuck panicking! I’m freakin’ the fuck out!

"A baby," I whispered dazedly and slumped down, my eyes rolling back in my head as everything went black.

Chapter 16

"Meanie?"

I knew that voice, but my fuzzy brain didn't want to cooperate.

"Meanie?"

"Mina, baby, please wake up."

Hey, I know that one too...

It's Bia... my Bia...

"She'll come around. Just give her a minute."

Dorothy...

I opened my eyes slowly, blinking, groggy. Once they focused properly, I found three concerned faces staring down at me.

A cool cloth bathed my face and I closed my eyes again and sighed.

"You all just remember what I told you," Dorothy warned them. "Feel better, baby girl," Dorothy said softly as she kissed my forehead.

A moment later I heard the door open and close, letting me know that she had left.

"What happened?" I asked groggily.

Kirch and Bia looked at me worriedly, each one holding one of my hands in theirs.

"You passed out," Bia told me.

"That's right," I remembered after a moment, "I felt dizzy and then everything went black."

The front door slammed open and Veck rushed in. He hurried over to the bed and scooped me up, burying his face in my neck.

"Meanie," he rumbled,
running his hand over me, pulling me back to make sure that I was okay. "Meanie okay?" he asked hurriedly, his hands shaking a little as he tried to find any apparent injuries on my body.

"I'm okay," I assured him.

He frowned at me and pulled me into his chest, "Meanie fell. Not wake up. Detret find Veck to tell."

"I'm fine, really. I just panicked and freaked myself out. I didn't mean to scare you."

"Meanie scared?" Kirch growled a little, picking up my hand to nuzzle it against his face.

"No."

"But you freaked out..." Bia said slowly, his hand rubbing soothingly against my ankle.

"It was stupid," I said on a sniffle.

They all looked at me concerned and I broke at that, bursting into tears, trying to control myself and failing miserably.

"Is this about what we did ear
lier?" This from Bia.

"What did Meanie do earlier?" Veck growled out, glaring at Bia accusingly.

Kirch looked contrite suddenly.

"NO!" I shouted, startling them all.

"What's wrong, Meanie?" Kirch prodded.

"Nothing's wrong," I wailed, "
I just… and you guys… and I… I'm pregnant! Okay!"

They all three stilled simultaneously.

It was Bia who spoke up first.

"You're pregnant?" His face broke out into a grin. "A baby!"

"Baby?" Veck whispered, placing his hand gently over my tummy.

I nodded my h
ead 'yes', wiping at my eyes.

H
e whooped happily.

Kirch was looking at me stunned, his jaw hanging open as he eyed my stomach.

"Kirch?" I asked tentatively.

He didn’t even blink.

"Hello? Earth to Kirch? Woo hoo!"

I waved my arm in front of his face and he snapped out of it.

"Meanie has a baby," he whispered finally, dumbstruck, awe in his voice.

He kneeled down and pul
led my dress up high, planting his face in my belly, inhaling deeply as he wrapped his arms tightly around my middle to hug me to him.

He inhaled deeply again and purred.

"Meanie has two babies," he chuckled happily against my skin, nuzzling my belly with his nose.

"Two!" I squeaked.

"Mmmm, two. One Kirch’s baby, one Veck's," he said decisively.

"How can you... No, they’re both Veck's... they couldn't possibly be... It's too soon... I mean... we just barely..." I glanced around at them and reminded myself that they weren't human.

"Could they?" I asked out loud.

"Yes," they all answered, nodding their heads at me.

"Kirch wants a girl," he decided as he thought about it.

"What's the matter," I smirked, "Can't sniff that out yet?"

"Too soon," Veck said simply.

I let that information set in, trying to get my thoughts in order as we all sat down to eat.

****

Stomach full and feeling a hundred percent
better, I let my curiosity pique.

"So
… it's too soon to tell what the baby is, but not too soon to tell I'm pregnant with you two's babies?" I asked incredulously, waving my hand around to encompass them both.

"Yes," Veck answered.

"How far along am I, then? I can't see how you could sniff a pregnancy out so soon... I mean, Kirch and I haven't been going at it... uh... I mean...
mated
that long."

Kirch looked thoughtful.

"Very new, Meanie be careful. Keep babies in," he said after a moment.

I blinked at him and a niggling suspicion tickled the back of my brain, so I went ahead and asked.

"You're going to withhold sex from me, aren't you?"

Kirch didn't look happy about it, but nodded.

"Babies stay in Meanie."

"It's not like you're going to jar them loose!" I hollered in disbelief.

Kirch's face set firmly and I pouted at him, crossing my arms over my chest.

So not fair!

"You aren't
all
going to withhold the pickle are you?" I glanced around at my mates.

Veck looked like he agreed with Kirch, but wasn't thrilled with the idea and Bia was unusually quiet.

I know
my Bia
and quiet
does not
mean acquiescence.

"Fine." I glowere
d, pretending to be completely offended, "I was getting tired of all the cream filling anyways."

****

"This is fucking bullshit," I burst out, stomping my foot, standing in the middle of the cottage three days later.

Kirch and Veck gaped at me as I got up and stomped, marching to the door.

"You won't have sex with me, you won't let me work… you won’t let me do
anything!
I'm going crazy! I refuse to wallow around in bed all day! No more!"

"Babies stay in Meanie," Kirch insisted.

I growled at him angrily, turning my plea towards Veck.

He shrugged apologetically.

"You're all being completely unreasonable!"

I tugged my boots on and gripped the door.

Through the corner of my eye, I gave Bia a meaningful look.

"I'm feeling much better now and I think a walk would help calm my nerves." I glared at Veck and Kirch
condemningly. "Bia? Would you go with me? You know, just in case..."

"Of course, my sweet," Bia said quickly, grabbing one of my mating furs and hurrying out the door.

He paused as he was leaving and told Kirch and Veck solemnly, "You might not want to follow us. She'll need a minute to calm down, I think."

Bia closed the door and caught up to me, snagging my hand up in his.

"Think they bought it?" He grinned at me, tossing my fur over my shoulders.

"Dunno, don't care," I said shrugging, giving him a shit eating grin.

We laughed as we hurried to his little hut.

****

"Right there... mmmm... harder... ah... mmm..."

The door to Bia's hut slammed open and we both jerked our heads up.

"Meanie!" Kirch clipped as he put his hands on his hips and glared at me. "Get down. Now!" He growled ominously, pointing for me to come here.

"No," I said adamantly, a little growl in my voice.

I leaned down and licked Bia's cock again, thrilled that he hadn't paused in his ministrations when Kirch barged in with Veck trailing after him.

"Meanie," Veck said on a laugh, "Meanie being careful?"

"Very," I purred as I ran my hands over Bia's sac and cupped it, giving a little squeeze.

Bia paused, pulling his mouth away from my sex as he groaned his pleasure and his hands gripped my ass tighter.

"No, Meanie! Get off!" Kirch glared at me, his hackles raised.

"Okay," I said eagerly.

Bia whimpered when I pulled away.

I scooted down so I was now straddling his groin.

I gripped his shaft and impaled myself on him, inch by luscious inch, facing him backwards, gripping his thighs for leverage.

Veck was watching us keenly, fixedly. He locked the door and started stroking himself as I rode Bia slowly
, eyes locked on me, purring loudly.

Kirch looked like he was going to explode, a vein throbbing in his forehead as he marched to the bed.

"Don't you dare!" I snarled at him, taking him aback.

Some of the fight left him when I reached a hand forward and pet his chest gently, gripping his fur to tug him closer.

He purred and cupped my face, bending down to kiss me possessively, passionately.

My hand wandered down and cupped him, stroking him eagerly as he moaned and thrust back into my hand, his lips never leaving mine as I rode Bia and jacked him off at the same time.

Kirch reached a hand forward and pinched my nipple, the pain/pleasure of it intensifying my orgasm as it hit me suddenly.