“We can do this,” he rumbled in her ear, and Kate nodded. With him, she could do just about anything. “Let’s go home,” he said.
* * *
Titus watched her as they sat in the darkness of the deck. Never in his life had he been so nervous, and it was all so silly. There was no need to be nervous. She had already conceded that them having a child wouldn’t be near as bad as she initially thought.
“You know you’re wrong,” he said, breaking the silence.
Kate turned to look at him.
“That doesn’t happen often.” She smirked. “What am I wrong about?”
“That I would feel forced to marry you,” he said quietly.
Kate sighed. “I just want to make sure you’re getting into marriage for the right reasons. Knocking me up shouldn’t be one.”
Titus swallowed the lump in his throat and got down on his knees in front of her. He reached in his pocket and pulled out the case.
“Well, how about because I already picked out the ring and wanted to marry you anyways?” he asked.
Kate stared at him, an expression of amazement on her face.
“How did you… When did you get this?”
He face flamed, and he looked away. “When you moved in.”
“But that was right after we came back,” she said with awe.
Titus turned and stared deep into her eyes.
“You are the only one for me,” he said quietly. “Not because of any pheromone but because the very idea of life without you doesn’t even cross my mind.”
He opened the box in her hand and watched as she put out her left hand. Titus pulled out the ring and slipped it onto her finger.
“Do you like it?” he asked softly.
Tears slipped down her face as she nodded and pulled him into a hug.
“I love it,” she whispered. “I love you.”
He squeezed her to him and sighed.
“I love you,” he said.
* * *
Once again Kate sat nervously in Rachel’s clinic, but this time in a different room. She stared at the different tools.
“Now,” Rachel said. “I’m just going to squeeze this on your tummy, and then we’ll be able to hear little Titus Jr.’s heart. If we’re lucky, we might be able to get a good picture of the baby.”
“Can we really see it so early?” Kate stared at the machine.
“Even earlier than this actually,” Rachel said. “Now relax.”
Titus came to stand beside her and held her hand. She smiled as he played with her ring. So many big changes.
Rachel squirted the gel on, and Kate watched on the screen as the image showed the inside of her stomach. A fast thumping came on, and she knew that was her baby. Tears pooled in her eyes.
“Oh my god,” she whispered. “Is that a foot?”
Her hand squeezed Titus’s.
“Look,” she whispered. “It’s a foot. Oh, it’s two feet.”
She gripped a little harder when a second set of feet came into view.
“Twins,” Titus said proudly.
Rachel cleared her throat. “Actually,” she said and scanned over just a little more. Another set of feet came into view. “It’s triplets.”
Kate turned to Titus, who seemed just as stunned as she was.
“You jinxed me.” She turned to him. “You and your super sperm.”
“My what?” he sputtered.
“It’s because I teased Erica.” Kate felt like throwing up. What they hell was she going to do with three babies?
Kate sat up and stared at Titus.
“Look at me,” he said sternly. “This is amazing news. And it will be fine.”
He brought her in for a hard hug.
“I’ve got everything I never dreamed I could have.” He sat back and smiled at her. “You have made me happier than I thought possible.”
Kate stared at him for a moment and then smiled.
He was right. This was amazing news, and they could handle this. If someone like Romulus couldn’t stop their love, then nothing else certainly would.
“It will all be fine,” he coaxed. “Now let’s look at our babies.”
Kate lay back down and sighed when the babies came back on the screen.
“Maybe they will all be girls.” She smiled, thinking of all the pink dresses and ribbons she would buy.
“Yeah, about that,” Rachel said and gave Kate a funny look.
“Oh, you’ve got to be kidding me.” She glared at Titus. “You and your damn super sperm.”
A Note from Madison
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The next book in the series, Lucius, is scheduled to be out in the next couple months.
Author Bio
Madison currently lives with her husband and two children in the Valley of the Sun in Arizona. After leaving the frozen tundra of the north, she was more surprised than anyone with how much she has enjoyed living in the desert. Seeing as she stated on more than one occasion before moving to Arizona how much she hated heat, it was an odd move, but it seems her hatred for sub-zero temperatures and ice has won out in the end.
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