Seb was right. I really was hungry. I hadn’t eaten in hours. I’d been too focused on getting Seb and the twins to the palace safely.
“Let’s bathe first, and then I’ll order us a dinner fit for a royal consort,” he beamed at me, before throwing over his shoulder at Adrian, “Adrian, please arrange for the crib to be delivered to my chambers as soon as possible.”
“Of course, Your Majesty! Right away!”
“What exactly is the plan for tomorrow, my love?” I mumbled around a piece of tender mustard-and-honey-glazed chicken. I licked excess juice off my fingers, and Seb moaned next to me, then winced.
“Ugh!” he groaned as he threw a half-finished drumstick on his plate. “I hate that I can’t even get horny without my body reminding me I just gave birth.” His gaze dipped to the front of his shirt, where two dark stains appeared on his chest. I swallowed, almost choking on my own tongue. Gods, this was next-level erotic, Seb’s clear arousal causing him to lactate at the dinner table. My dick stirred in my clean pants, which I fearedwouldn’t be clean for much longer if Seb kept this up. Luckily, we were alone, since Briar and Hal had finished their dinner quickly, then excused themselves.
“Four weeks,” I croaked as my dick wept with clear distress. “Remember the doctor’s words, my love. Four weeks’ rest before we can be…” I swallowed, “intimate again.”
“Might as well be four damn years,” Seb pouted like a petulant child as he played with his napkin. The doctor had given Seb a post-natal check after we’d bathed, and declared that the birth had left my mate as healthy and strong as ever, but that his body, of course, needed time to heal. At the time, I hadn’t really minded. Seb’s well-being was more important to me than anything else. He needed to focus on our babies, and he needed to be healthy to do so. But now, as Seb sat there across from me, leaking milk from his nipples, his cheeks rosy and his eyes swimming with tiredness, it seemed like an almost inhuman task not to make love to him for the next four weeks. But I couldn’t let Seb know that. I needed to be strong for him.
Reaching out, I squeezed his hand. “It will pass in no time,” I assured him as he continued to pout, only making me want him even more. “Now, tell me what I can expect tomorrow. I want to be prepared.”
Seb sighed, then nodded. “You’re right. It’ll pass. As for tomorrow, we will appear before our people at noon. I will address the betrayal of my former advisors and reveal the truth about the magic. Then,” he paused, biting his bottom lip, as his eyes locked on to mine, “I’ll present you as my mate, my royal consort, and the father of my babies, the future heirs.” The blush on Seb’s cheeks increased, now a deep scarlet. “And I’ll announce that from this day forward, all omegas and alphas are equal, that families who have been torn apart by lies and deceit will no longer have to be separated. They can live as families,truefamilies.” Seb’s voice vibrated with indignation and clearemotion. “Like you and me, my love. My love for you, Gus, my beautiful alpha, my precious mate, has not just changed me, but the entire world, for the better, for everyone.”
I nodded as Seb’s words settled inside me. My king had changed me, too. All my life, I’d accepted my fate as an alpha without questioning it. I’d thought of myself as less, as wrong. But no more. My heart swelled at the thought of all other alphas learning the truth. Of their being as happy as I was. Images of my omega father and my omega brothers floated through my mind. It was impossible to hold back any longer, and I let the tears fall freely.
Seb rose from his chair and rushed to my side, clasping my cheeks in his hands. “What is it, my love?” he whispered as he straddled me, settling himself in my lap, his body so warm and vibrant against mine. “What is it?”
“I can see my family now?” I sniffled as I wrapped my arms around Seb, gazing into his worried eyes. “Finally?”
“Of course, you can!” His eyes glowed at me as he leaned in and rested his forehead against mine. “They’re my family now, too.” He chuckled happily. “Our children have a grandfather. And uncles. How many?” Eagerness grew in his voice.
“Three,” I spoke against his lips. “Lio is the eldest, then there’s Bram, and then…” My voice broke. I hadn’t told Seb, but there were twins in my family too. “Then there’s Corin. My omega twin.”
Seb gasped, his eyes filling with anger. “You have a twin?! You were separated from your twin?!”
I nodded. “When we were teens.”
“Ember and Lumi will never be separated! Not ever!” My fierce little omega shook as he balled his fists against my chest. “I’ll fight anyone and everything! I’ll—”
I shut Seb up with a hard kiss. I knew he would. And I would too. We were a unity now. We had been from the day we met. No one and nothing would ever come between us.
Chapter 27
Sebastian
I groaned, already low on sleep, as the morning sun shone directly into my face. Today was the day our world changed for the better, and I had maybe gotten around three hours’ rest.Yay for newborns!
Speaking of the little cuties, where were they?!
“Gus!” I whisper-shouted, rousing him awake as I continued to look around our bedroom, no sleeping babies to be found.
“What is it?” he groused, his hair all mussed and sexy looking.
“The babies!”
“Oh, Hal has them.” Gus yawned, grabbing me around my waist and pulling me against him, his hard length poking into my left ass cheek, a promise of what could’ve been a great morning, if my ass had been ready for it.
“Why?” All sorts of images of Hal doing crazy things with my heirs surged through my brain, and not even my mate’s delicious cock could distract me.
“You needed your rest, and he couldn’t sleep anyway, with their cries loud enough to keep him awake too.” I hadn’t realized that Hal would be able to hear the babies from the adjoining bedroom where he was staying.
“Oh. We need to remember that for when the four weeks are up. There’s no need to traumatize him every night.”
Gus smirked knowingly. “Every night?”
