Protecting Nova

by Belle Harper

  “I’m okay, Adam. Don’t worry. I just feel a bit weak is all. I haven’t really eaten anything.” Kento handed her some berries on a plate with a cold tea for her to drink, since they had not had time to go get more hot water. She then glanced around and noticed us all here.

  “Oh, what are you all doing home?” she asked, and then a look of awareness crossed her face before she smiled.

  “What?” I asked her almost out of my seat. Everyone watched her, and as she laughed, shook her head and then stood up.

  “You know how Olivia came earlier to see how I was? Well, I told her what my symptoms were, and she knew what was wrong with me.” We were all silent. What was wrong with Nova? Then she placed her hand on her belly, and tears glistened in her eyes.

  Ryker was the first to react. “Holy shit, are you serious, princess?” He jumped out of his seat, Colt right on his heels. She nodded and they picked her up and spun her around.

  “Put me down or I will be sick again, silly boys,” she warned but with that hint of tease in her voice. They turned with their arms outstretched to the rest of us, we all just stood there in shock. Well, I was in shock. What is going on? Nova realized I didn’t have a clue when she called out to us.

  “I’m pregnant. We are having a baby!”

  The whole room erupted in whoops and laughter. As we all hugged one another, I was so happy. Even Kento hugged me. I almost didn’t know what to do. I loved the guy. I honesty did. And he was going to be an awesome dad. Dad. Oh, my God, I’m going to be a dad!

  That night we all had a special meal to celebrate with the whole community. What I felt that night was pure happiness. I had everything I wanted and needed with me. I was going to become a father. I was ready. We all were. We all spent the night in bed, talking names and what we thought it was going to be. Most had said boy, but I said girl. I wanted a daughter.

  32

  Ezra

  Seven months later

  “She is in so much pain. What can I do?” I asked anyone who would listen. Olivia and Poppy were with Nova. She had been in labor for a while and they said she had gone into labor early and we had to be prepared for a preterm baby. I was so scared. I had never seen Ryker or Colton mirror my expression before, which scared me more. I heard her scream again. The doctor was with her. Dr. Mal had been great and visited us every few weeks to make sure everything was fine. He didn’t have a lot of equipment, but he delivered a lot of babies here in Eden.

  “Fuck, Ezra, shut up.” Ryker grabbed my shoulder to stop me from going inside the room to help. Kento came into the cabin with Adam, and they both carried hot water in jugs. I swiftly grabbed the one Adam carried. The guy struggled to hold it. He did surprisingly well for someone with no hand. Then we heard it. The sound of a baby crying, and the whole room relaxed with a sigh of relief. I charged up to the door and knocked. I grabbed the handle when Colton pushed me aside.

  “Just wait a moment, buddy. She wanted us to wait out here.”

  I heard her call out for us to come in. And at those words, the six of us were in the room so fast. Olivia held a tiny baby wrapped in a blanket in her arms as Dr. Mal worked on the area it just came out of. Nova groaned and screamed in pain. I felt so helpless in this moment. I didn’t know what to do. Why is she still in pain?

  “Twins,” the doctor shouted. “She is having twins. How did I not pick this up?”

  We all stood around in shock. Twins? We were going to have twins.

  “Oh, my God, this is wonderful,” Poppy shouted. Olivia held the tiny baby out for Nova to see. The smile beamed across her face and the tears of happiness fell. They fell from everyone. Then she started to grunt, and the doctor told her to push. Ryker watched as the doctor helped the baby come into the world. When the baby was here, Colton shouted, “It’s a boy” as the doctor cleared its throat to help it cry. And cry it did. Our son had a set of lungs on him.

  “We have a son, and…?” Noah asked Nova. We didn’t even think to ask when we came in, we were just excited to have our baby.

  She smiled at all of us. “We have two sons.” And the room erupted into claps on the back and cheers. Nova held her two boys in her arms, and we did everything to clean up and take care of her.

  “Well that is it for me. You all did a wonderful job. Nova, you were a superstar. I will come check up on you tomorrow. If there is any excessive bleeding or anything that worries you, don’t hesitate to call on me,” Dr. Mal said.

  We all thanked him as he left. Olivia followed out behind him, leaving just Poppy to say her goodbyes and waddle out the room to where Luke had waited for her. That’s right, she was pregnant with her third. And she looked so happy. I could see why. Nothing was better than this feeling right now.

  “Come in closer, everyone. We have two new little people who want to meet their daddies.” We never thought of two boy names. We only decided on one of each sex. We gently sat on our bed, and Nova smiled down at the babies. They were covered in blankets, but I could see dark hair.

  “Just one thing—you are all the fathers. No matter who they look like, they are yours.” We all looked around at each other confused. We had all discussed this many times before. But we still all nodded and agreed. We already knew this. Only one of us was going to be the biological father. But that didn’t make any difference to me. No matter what, these babies were mine. The love I felt already for them was so strong.

  “Colton would you take twin one?” She moved the baby into his arms, and she looked down at twin two. She pulled the blanket down and presented him to us. We all looked at the tiniest baby we had ever seen. Dark hair, so dark it was black. With a light olive complexion. Then, Colt did the same with twin one. The baby opened his eyes and squinted at the light in the room. They looked almost identical. Just he was slightly bigger. No one said anything because it was very clear, without a doubt who the biological father was.

  Ryker laughed and reached over to grab Kento’s shoulder. “You little horn dog, you.” Everyone laughed as Kento became shy. But the grin he had was blinding. My boys. My sons. Holy shit I have two sons. Seriously this is the best feeling in the world.

  Even Colton laughed and teased him as he asked, “So, this is what you two get up to during the day?”

  Nova laughed and then told us it hurt to laugh and not to tease Kento for his strong swimmers. But she giggled and winked at him. She was sweaty and exhausted, but she looked so happy and beautiful there in that moment. She passed twin one around to all of us. We all got to hold them both and helped her to breastfeed them both.

  We’d made a cot that would work until they got bigger. Luckily, we had some clothes that Poppy had given us. They shared the clothes around the community, as babies grew so fast. So, by the time these two will be grown out of them, Poppy will be ready to have them back for her new addition.

  33

  Nova

  My baby boys were a week old today. We had fallen into a routine at last and we had names. They were the most special names to us. It was hard to choose for me. And it all came down to votes. But twin one was now known as Jacob Hototo Kevin Flores, after my father Jacob Hototo Flores and his best friend and work partner, Kevin.

  And twin two was now known as Mathew Kento Flores, after Noah’s father, who passed away after a fight with Red Raiders and Kento’s father, who past away from NEX. These boys will grow up strong and carry their grandfathers’ names with pride. We went with my last name of Flores. Since I was head of the family and all.

  “How is Jake this morning, my love?” Noah placed a kiss on my forehead and a gentle one on Jake’s head. He had started calling me that since they had been born. He’d said, “I need a special name to call you, and love is what you are to me.” He was in my good books, that was for sure. My heart—you would think it wouldn’t have room for all of my husbands. But there was room for them all. And plenty more left in there. For my children.

  “He is my little piggy. He is trying to catch up with his brother, no doubt.
”

  He smiled and lay gently down beside me while I breastfed Jake. He stroked his head with his index finger. Jake was so tiny when he was born, but he had a lot of weight to put on, so I didn’t mind him being a pig. I heard Mathew cry from the other room.

  “I’m on it,” Kento said as he ran past and into the boys’ room. I could hear him try to stop him from the screams he emitted, and I laughed. When Kento appeared at the bedroom door, he had an apologetic look. I passed little piggy over to Noah and passed him the burp cloth.

  “Give my poor baby to me. What’s Daddy Kento doing to you, my little angel?” I cooed to him when I held him in my arms. He rubbed his face and grunted, looking for a nipple. So I moved him around so he could take from my other breast. They were so full of milk. If anyone wanted some, I would be happy to share. I smiled when I remembered Kento ask if he could taste it yesterday. He said it didn’t taste nice at all, and then that he was sorry he had said that. I just laughed. Because I’d tasted it too. I was curious. I agreed. I would stick to water and tea any day. Noah took a now sleepy Jake out to Adam.

  “Take a seat, man,” I heard Noah call over to him. He had come around and was no longer mean to Adam. Well, he wasn’t when I was around. He wasn’t exactly his friend either, but they tolerated each other, and they did it well enough that there was no tension between them anymore. Adam didn’t like holding the babies unless he was seated. He was worried he wouldn’t be able to stop them if they fell. But he loved to rock them to sleep, and when you had so many willing arms to rock them to sleep, well these babies had no idea what the bed really felt like.

  That night, Ryker came home from his shift. “Princess, I brought over some friends. I hope that’s okay?”

  I did not look good enough for visitors, but I didn’t care. What do you expect from someone who had twins a week ago? Then I heard the voice of a woman as she screamed out “Kento” from the living room. Oh, my God. It had to be Harlow. Ryker came in and helped me get dressed so I could go out and meet her. I walked out into the living room and she held Mathew in her arms.

  “No way. Nova, you look fantastic! And you had twins. Holy shit, girl, come here.” She hugged me one handed as she cradled Mathew in the other. “We have a lot of catching up to do, like for starters, your husbands are freaking awesome. This cabin is brilliant. Plus, I got my own group of ‘husbands,’ I will introduce you to tomorrow I just had to come by and say hi to you all, and thank you all for giving us the help to escape. And come to Eden. I am truly thankful.” She had tears in her eyes, but she blinked a few times and they were gone. She was one of the strongest women I knew. And when she saw Jake, she did a double take and laughed.

  “Holy crap, they are identical.” She looked over to Kento, who had the biggest smile. He looked so proud to show his sons to his longtime friend.

  “No, I don’t think they are. You can tell them apart as Jake is smaller. But I guess only time will tell.” I shrugged and smiled.

  “Is Joseph here?” Kento hesitantly asked her. She shook her head no.

  Oh no. She didn’t find him. I started to cry and she looked over to me. I could see the tears in her eyes. My hormones were a little out of whack still, and I cried at a lot of things.

  “Don’t cry, Nova. He is safe. I believe he is safe… No, I know he is. He is with Lucas. We were separated. We waited a week at Jeremy’s apartment for them to come, but it got harder to hide me, so we came here. Jeremy has already left to go back, just in case Lucas and Joseph are waiting for us there.”

  I nodded but I still couldn’t help myself. I cried for them all and gave Harlow another hug.

  “It’s been six weeks since the boys were born, and I feel ready for something. Or a whole lot of somethings inside me.” I winked at the guys all sitting around the dining table in our cabin. I’d never seen them move so fast to put the boys into their own cot in their room.

  Kento laughed. “I will watch the boys,” he said.

  But I wasn’t down with that. I needed all my guys tonight. Even if he was only in the room. I grabbed his hand and pulled him to our bedroom, and by the time I got there and turned around, Noah was naked.

  I laughed. “A little eager are we, Noah?” His grin was ear to ear. I chuckled at his goofy look. Ryker slapped him on the back in a friendly gesture as he entered the room, slowly taking his clothes off and giving me a show. His tattoos were so sexy. I haven’t had a chance to lick them all. When he got close enough, our mouths crashed together in violent passion. He stripped me down bare as I ran my hands down his chest. I pulled away and traced the tip of my tongue over his neck piece. He moaned and grabbed my ass, pulling me closer.

  “You are going to be so sore tomorrow, princess. I want you so bad.” Ryker flipped me over to the bed on my hands and knees, spread my legs, and licked me from clit to ass. Ezra was already there and waiting on his back, he pulled his shirt over his head then came in for a kiss.

  Colton took my hand and placed it on his hard cock, he kept his hand wrapped around mine as we stroked it together. He ran his fingers down my back and probed at my ass, wanting entrance. I pushed myself back on his finger, and the groan from Colton and Ryker spurred me on. Ryker reached beneath, cupping my breasts, they were leaking crap. He murmured from behind me.

  “Sit on Ezra’s cock. I’m going to take your ass while he fucks your sweet little pussy, princess.”

  I climbed over Ezra’s hard and sexy body and straddled his waist. He gave me a sexy smile as he reached up to stroke my face and neck. I lowered myself down, it felt tight as his warm hard cock filled my body until he was fully seated within me. My body clenching around him had him cursing.

  Ryker pushed me forward and came up over Ezra’s legs, he fingered and stretched my ass a few times before he slowly pushed his cock in. We had only done this a dozen or so times, and I still couldn’t stop myself from flinching at the initial burn of pain. But then it settled into pleasure. I felt so full, so needy.

  “Fuck me,” I urged them on. At first, we were all out of sync, but as a rhythm began I got closer and closer to orgasm.

  “This is the hottest thing,” Adam hissed out, I turned to see him stroking himself. We’d had plenty of sex before, but he was a little like Ryker. Loved to watch too. He really loved to watch when I would take two of them at once.

  After I found out I was pregnant. The boys were gentler with me. Like way to gentle, whereas now, now we could finally play hard. And I knew Ryker loved it rough. And dirty. And I loved that too. More than I thought I would.

  “Hoy shit, Ryker, I can feel you,” Ezra called over my shoulder. Right as I was on the edge of orgasm, Ryker pulled out and groaned as he came on my back.

  “Fuck, princess.” He rasped out.

  I turned to watch him as he stroked out the last of his orgasm as his body shuddered, then sank down next to me. Ezra picked up speed and I was back on edge again, I could feel the surge of pleasure building, so fucking close…he pulled out before I got a chance to orgasm as he came on his chest and belly.

  “Fuck me someone now,” I demanded. This was pure torture. Being so close and then being denied. Noah came up behind me and I laughed, rolled onto my back, and spread my legs wide for him. “You’re too big for back there,” I teased but it wasn’t true, we had done anal a few times. Ryker had just fucked my ass so I didn’t need to prepare for Noah’s huge cock. But I wanted him where my body now clenched around nothing. He looked down at me and chuckled.

  Noah kissed me as he entered me in one smooth push. He fucked me until I saw stars. I came over and over. He thrust so hard and deep, reaching every part of me. Everyone in the room spurred him on, dirty words flying from every mouth. Even from Kento.

  He pulled out and came on my belly. I laughed as he quickly cleaned me up. Then Colton surprised me when he flipped me over and Adam lay beside me. “Ride him, sweetheart, while I take your ass.” I was a little surprised because Colton didn’t usually do this with anyone but Noah normall
y. So this was even more of a turn on.

  I kissed Adam as he massaged my breasts gently, the milk dribbling lightly. He surprised me when he leant over and licked it. Fuck I was turned on by that. His smile was sly as he did it again.

  “Okay no more, that isn’t for you.” Noah grumbled.

  I gave Noah a look, and he looked so bashful when he looked away. I don’t need a fight now. I need sex, and a lot of it. I straddled Adam as I positioned myself as I angled his cock and lowered on it. He let out a hiss as I bottomed out. Colton licked his fingers and stretched my ass, making sure I was ready before he pushed himself deep, so deep within me. I could see Adam’s face as he felt Colton between the thin walls.

  It didn’t take long for Adam to call out to get off. Colton grabbed my hips and pulled me away just as Adam came all over his belly. I laughed. Noah grumbled that he better not have come in me. We had discussed not to try for another baby yet. To give me time to recover from the birth of the twins. I just wanted a bit of time before I was pregnant again. They had agreed that we are going to use the pullout method, and be careful not to cum anywhere near my pussy.

  Colton moved me as he stood on the ground. My body pushed into the bed as he pounded my ass over and over in an almost brutal way. But the pleasure I got for that orgasm… I thought I blacked out. It was so unbelievable I wanted to feel like that forever. My whole body tingled. Colton pulled out and came into a towel they had used to clean me.

  Kento was the only one I hadn’t been with, and he hesitated at the doorway. I wanted all my guys, but I would take them however I could, and if he didn’t want to make love in front of the others, I was fine with that. He had never been with me with anyone else. It was always just us alone. He walked over to me and raised the covers on the bed before slipping under. He was fully clothed, he never got naked in front of anyone. Except for me. I rolled over and slipped under with him. It was hard to move under the blankets as everyone was seated or lying down on them. But he pulled the blanket over our heads and kissed me.