My lips pulled into a huge grin. I had never felt so fucking happy in my life. Cronus held my hand as he signed us in at the front desk, and then a nurse called us back.
“How did you set this up?”
I could just imagine Cronus calling in an ultrasound appointment between saving the world.
“Theia helped.”
We had very good friends and family.
We were led to a small dimly-lit room with a padded table with stirrups.
#Whoa #AlreadyPregnant #TheBondageSceneIsUnnecessary
“So, we’re going to do a growth scan and check the sex of the baby,” the ultrasound tech said as she read her clipboard.
We nodded. We knew from Rhea’s special powers that it was a girl, but we’d feign surprise for the tech’s sake.
After squirting cold gel on my belly, she pressed the wand to it.
“Whoa,” the lady said as a high-pitched ringing sound burst from the speakers of the ultrasound. She turned the volume down, her face all screwed up and confused. “Sorry about that. The machine is being a little temperamental.”
Turning back to the screens, she stared at what looked like a blob of light, and now we had squinting to go with the confusion.
Uh oh. Titan superpower baby was messing with the ultrasound.
Chill out, baby girl, we just want a picture. It’s safe, I mentally told our little girl. The whining sound stopped immediately and athump-thump,thump-thumpfilled the room.
Sobbing laughter escaped at that beautiful sound.
“There your baby is. Hello, little one.” The ultrasound tech moved the wand over my belly and the perfect outline of a little face formed on the screen.
Cronus cleared his throat and I looked over to see his eyes were a tiny bit shiny. The technician walked us through all the body parts, checking everything was perfectly formed. Which it was.
“So, it’s a girl?” I asked to double check. I mean Rhea could have been fucking with us.
The tech nodded. “A healthy little girl with ten fingers and ten toes.”
Cronus reached over and squeezed my hand as the lady printed out our pictures. It felt so much more real to me now, seeing her tiny face with that button nose, chubby cheeks, and what looked like a mess of hair.
My God, she was so beautiful.
After getting some prenatal vitamins from the front desk, Cronus and I headed back to the ground floor. When we stepped out of the elevator, he pulled me in his arms. “I’m not going to let anything happen to either of you.” He rubbed my belly, a brief flash of red, like lava, appeared in his eyes. “Tomorrow I will win the sins, and then figure out a way to kill Zeus. Once and for all.”
I had no doubt he was right, but fear gnawed at my belly just the same.
“Now what?” I looked up at him.
He leaned down and kissed my forehead, pressing his lips there for a long moment, sending sparks of energy across my skin. I would never have enough of this feeling … of being loved by Cronus.
“Now I think you and the baby should get some rest,” he said when he pulled away. “I’ve organized for Koios to protect you at Bali. I need to run drills all night with the other Titans … Zeus will use every trick in the book to defeat us.”
I frowned, dreams of our night of sexcapades dashed. “I don’t want us to be separated.”
The thought of Cronus running drillsoff-worldmade me sick to my stomach.
His brow furrowed. “All right. I’ve got an idea.”
He grasped my arm and in a flash we were back on the world where their tournament was going to be held. Hyperion and Rhea were throwing huge logs and seeing how far they would go.
