Cherishing Destiny (A Dangerous Destiny)

by Blakely, Noelle

  He wrapped his arms around her waist resting his hands on her swollen belly and nodded against the side of her face where she could feel the gesture.

  “That is the belt of Orion the Hunter. In the northern hemisphere, that is about the position he should be in around December. I am guessing that it is mid to late April, but I confess that I’ve lost track.”

  “You’re not wrong.” Alex said. “It is the third week in April, and you are due in three weeks.” He shrugged when she craned her head to look at him. “I’ve been keeping track for both of us.”

  Aurora looked back at the constellation and frowned. “The stars are moving in the sky, but much too slowly. I think our orbit has slowed. At this rate, it won’t be spring for a couple of years at least. That is assuming we are still on the same path but just moving slower.”

  Alex wasn’t as concerned about the weather as he was Aurora. “I’m worried about you. None of us has ever been through a birth before with a human much less a Vampire. I don’t know what I would do if anything happened to you.” Alex buried his face in her neck and squeezed her a little tighter.

  “Ryan went to the settlement to see if there was any way possible to get Lily here for the birth, but I’m afraid her own babies will prevent her from being able to make the trip. She said she might deliver early, because of the twins.” Aurora had asked Ryan not to press Lily too hard. She did not want Lily to risk her own health. In the end, she couldn’t keep him from going, though. He was still all about the baby. He listened to her heartbeat constantly, and Aurora had finally given up asking him to stop shifting all the time, even if he did smell like a creature in need of a bath, when he did it. He also put his hands on her belly as often as possible. They all still felt the need to be close, and they slept together most of the time, Ryan sleeping with a hand on the baby at all times when he was not at the settlement. She listened to him whisper odd sounding nonsense to the unborn infant. She swore that the baby responded to him, as well. She pushed and kicked at Aurora’s stretched muscles as if she was trying to get closer to his voice as he cooed and hummed to her.

  Alex, on the other hand, while not indifferent to the baby, was much more concerned about Aurora. If his hand were on her stomach it was to hold her and not to be touching the baby. He almost seemed nervous or uncomfortable with the thought of a tiny life, and he distanced himself a little from the process. But, he worried endlessly about Aurora, and he tried to make everything as comfortable and safe for her as possible. He also seemed not to want to burden Aurora with his concerns and often he turned to Sara to vent his frustrations or fears.

  Aurora was not thrilled that he withheld his concerns from her, but she was happy that he seemed to be developing emotional ties to Sara because she, herself, was half in love with the girl and wanted her to be with them as long as Sara might choose to stay. The three of them touched and kissed and explored each other whenever Ryan was away. They knew Ryan was uncomfortable with his sister’s sexual relationship with the Vampires, and they respected his feelings because he was as much a part of their family as any one of them and they wouldn’t purposely hurt him for the world. But, they never tried to hide anything from him either. He chose not to talk about it, and they didn’t rub his nose in it.

  Aurora warmed with the thoughts of Alex and Sara in her bed. She took Alex by the hand and led him to the huge bed that they had made in front of the main fireplace. They rarely spent time in the apartment and could almost always be found in the main room.

  Without a large choice of maternity clothes, Aurora had taken to wearing a wrap in the style of a toga to accommodate her growing middle. Now she stood by the fireplace and let the wrap drop to the floor. Even with her sizable baby bump, she was still slender everywhere else. Her breasts had not grown like a normal pregnant woman. Lily told her that her body did not appear to be capable of nursing. As a Vampire, she was not alive and apparently unable to produce milk. As a result, Aurora’s breasts were still firm and pert. Her body showed no scarring or stretch marks, partially because of her healing ability and partially due to Sara and the oils Lily had given her. Every night before bed, Sara brought the oils and rubbed them over Aurora’s baby filled belly.

  Sometimes, if he could not be deterred from touching the baby, Ryan would rub the oils onto her taut skin. Once, while Alex was watching Ryan touching Aurora and rubbing her with the silky liquid, he wondered what it might be like to invite Ryan into bed with them. He was beautiful, and the way he was touching Aurora seemed so intimate and sensuous to Alex that his loins grew warm, and his manhood began to stir. It was a fleeting thought that he dismissed as a momentary attraction. He was only mildly interested in Ryan’s body, and Ryan was unlikely to be interested at all. He didn’t even seem to be aroused by the intimate contact with Aurora. He was much more obsessed with the baby.

  Tonight Ryan was gone and Sara brought the oils, leading Aurora to the bed and smoothing them over her satiny skin. This time, with Sara doing the touching, Alex was much more than mildly interested. Sara set the jars aside, but her palms were still slick with the oils.

  Alex was hard after watching the touching women, and now that they were all together, naked, in the glow of the fire, he drew Sara’s arm over Aurora, to him, and pulled her small, slippery hand to his huge, straining member. She let the oil slide over his velvety skin and his steely hardness made the soft v between her legs warm and moist. She was leaning across Aurora’s body where he had pulled her, and now, her nipples were hardening and pressing into Aurora’s side. Aurora reached up and stroked Sara’s breast when she felt the hard little bullets, demanding attention. She rolled to her side and took one in her mouth, sucking and playing with the pebble between her lips. She let her tongue dance over it and took the other one in her fingers, pinching lightly and pulling gently.

  Alex, watching this play, felt his rod jump in Sara’s moist fingers. He watched her stroking the entire length of him even as she moaned at Aurora, who was pleasuring her tits with practiced ease. His cock was less than an inch from Aurora’s smooth bottom as she faced toward Sara. He disengaged Sara’s grasping fingers and pressed his length against the warm crevice between the soft mounds of Aurora’s ass. He stroked against her and reached around for her breast to fill his hand. Aurora’s nipples were hard and erect, craving the same kind of attention that Sara’s nipples were receiving from her mouth. So, Alex rolled them between his thumb and finger, first one and then the other until Aurora was moaning with Sara. Her moans still muffled by the breast in her face.

  Alex rolled Aurora onto her back, dislodging Sara’s nipple from her mouth with an audible pop. He reached across her to grasp the wet mound of Sara’s sex in his hand, and he drew Aurora’s nipple into his mouth and bit her softly. She gasped and pushed her breasts forward for more. He nipped and nuzzled her rock hard nubs until she was panting.

  With his hand in between Sara’s thighs, he sought her slick little bud with his thumb and when he found it easily, hard and aching for notice, he stroked back and forth across it until Sara was pushing herself against his hand. He slid two fingers into her wet ready depths and stroked her rhythmically, never taking his thumb from her pulsing clitoris.

  Sara’s orgasm was coming fast, and she could feel Aurora arching and knew that she was close too. She didn’t want to come alone, and she took Alex’s cue and slid her fingers into Aurora, who was wet and ready, as well. Alex still had her nipple in his teeth, teasing and biting, so Sara took the other one in her mouth, sucking and flicking her tongue over the hard button. Sara and Aurora both let their climax’s build to an explosion and then rode them, wave after wave while they cried out and gasped.

  Alex released both women as they were coming down, still breathing hard. The women opened their beautiful eyes to gaze at him in their languid state. Then they both pushed him onto his back, Sara climbing over to get on the other side of him. Aurora was toying with his nipples and Sara was teasing the head of his swollen cock with her
tongue. She slipped it into her mouth and sucked him gently. He was so huge she could barely take him in. She grasped the base of his engorged rod and Aurora could see her struggle to take more of him. She urged Sara away and traded places with her.

  Alex drew Sara up to his face with one huge, strong hand grasping her bottom. He plundered her mouth with his tongue, and she gave herself over to this pleasure that she was better suited for.

  Aurora took over where Sara left off. She didn’t need to breath and was able to take Alex deep into her throat. She stroked his tight package and grasped the base of his thick shaft with her hand while she moved up and down on the end, with her wet lips and open mouth.

  Alex was groaning into Sara’s mouth. He squeezed her bottom hard enough to leave marks that would be visible tomorrow, but it only made Sara wet all over again and she plunged her tongue deeper into his mouth. He pushed out his fangs and bit her, filling both their mouths with blood. Before Sara could start gagging, he drank the warm gush of her essence and grew ferocious in his passion. He clutched at Sara and thrust at Aurora until he could no longer contain himself. His seed, which he knew was no longer dead, gushed forth, and Aurora was ready to receive it.

  Aurora agreed that he did taste like blood as Sara once thought. Aurora swallowed his seed as he swallowed Sara’s blood and they all soon collapsed in spent passion. They lay in each other’s arms touching gently again.

  Sara stroked Alex’s still semi-hard rod with her fingertips, longingly. He meant what he said in the cellar at the farm and had never made love to her, but he was wrong about one thing. It did matter to her. She loved Aurora and Alex both, but Alex told her back then that he only loved Aurora. So, Sara kept a careful wall between herself and Alex and let herself indulge in Aurora’s affections instead. But, she couldn’t help longing for him to fill her with his manhood and she never stopped thinking about the future when they might have time to explore his darkness again. It scared and excited her at the same time.

  She knew Alex wasn’t making love to Aurora either. Aurora said it was too uncomfortable with the baby and his size. Sara wished she could fill that void for him, but she would never ask that of them. She didn’t know that Aurora had been encouraging Alex to give in to the desire to make love to Sara.

  “I love her and I know that you love her too,” she said. “You always told me that you didn’t make love to other women because it is an expression of your love, so why won’t you express your love for Sara? Are you trying to deny it?”

  “I am not ready to face loving anyone but you,” he answered. “Please, give me time and I promise to think about it.”

  So, Sara longed for Alex quietly, but was pretty happy otherwise, so she didn’t rock the boat. Besides, Ryan wasn’t gone all that often, so they didn’t get the chance to truly be like that together too frequently. Her thoughts stayed with Ryan for a moment, and she hoped that he was able to convince Lily to help Aurora deliver.

  Thirty-one

  Lily, who was still excited by the prospect of delivering a Vampire baby, joined Ryan in beseeching the Alpha to allow Aurora to deliver in the settlement.

  Ryan reasoned, “If I get her now, she is still strong enough to make it. She has at least three weeks left if she doesn’t deliver early.” He looked to Lily for back up.

  “I can’t deny that part of me just wants to be the first one to ever see a Vampire baby,” she said, looking directly at Elvis. But before he could answer, she turned and pulled Kate into her gaze. “No Vampire has ever had a baby before and she will be scared and alone out there. None of them has any experience.”

  Kate was looking at Elvis now, and he could feel her caving to the pleas of the favored youths. He grumbled and stood, pacing in his kitchen, “Can’t you all be quiet for one minute and let a man think?” They all remained silent, but he could feel the three of them staring anxiously at him.

  He met Alex and Aurora and liked them. He was treated with the utmost respect by the elder Vampires, and he had sympathy and understanding for their situation. It didn’t hurt that McPherson had said pretty respectful things about Alex before he had been arrested by Gates. And, Alex’s first concern upon meeting Elvis and the L.T. was the condition of Mac if they knew it. Unfortunately, they did not. As far as they knew he had not been executed yet, but he had not been heard from since being taken prisoner nearly half a year ago.

  Elvis looked over the trio of Weres in his kitchen and saw that Kate was starting to get that –shit or get off the pot—look on her face. “Alright. You can bring her here to have the baby, but Lily, she is your responsibility, and she stays with you. No wandering around.” He coughed in his fist as they all smiled and Lily and Kate hugged him.

  “What about Alex and Sara?” Ryan asked.

  “Oh, no. Sara, maybe, only because she’s your step-sister. But, I don’t want Lake walking around here for three weeks making everybody nervous.”

  “They are both feeding on her,” Ryan said quietly with a flush. “I don’t think either of them could go three weeks without feeding.”

  “I never thought of that.” Elvis was pacing again and rubbing his forehead that was wrinkled from the stress.

  “I have human blood,” Lily said.

  They all stopped and looked at the pregnant Were, question marks obvious in their expressions.

  “O-neg is a universal donor, even works for Weres.” I have a cellar under the house for cold storage. Works pretty well especially in this weather, so I keep a supply on hand for emergencies. Tyler brings it to me when he can find it to keep my stock rotated.” She looked at all of their faces as they remained silent. “What?!” she demanded. “The stuff used to sit in plain sight in the glass front refrigerator that was in my exam room before we lost power.”

  Elvis shook his head as if clearing cobwebs. “Fine,” he said. “That means we are back to the original plan. Aurora comes here to Lily’s place, and Alex and Sara will have to stay at the lodge until Aurora is ready to deliver. We will send someone to fetch them when it’s time, and they can come for a day or so. Will that suit everyone?” He didn’t wait for an answer before he said, “Good. That’s settled. Now, I have things to do.” He left the room, and they heard the front door close behind him.

  Ryan looked at Kate. “Drinks with the L.T.?” he guessed. She laughed and nodded.

  Thirty-two

  “Nobody laugh or I might just have to rip somebody’s head off,” Ryan growled. He stood naked in the snow just outside of Lily’s back porch and prepared to shift so that he could pull the sled that he rigged up. He made it like a dog sled, but the harness was such that he could just duck his head through, and it would pull across his chest, and he could just as easily disengage himself from it if need be.

  Lily, Tyler, Elvis, Kate and Stephan were standing around covering their mouths and shaking with silent laughter. “Ryan the sled dog,” Tyler quipped and barely ducked in time to avoid the big hand that swiped across the space his head had just occupied.

  Ryan grumbled and threw his pack on the sled. “I’ll be back tomorrow,” he said. He changed to wolf and ducked his head into the harness, running off immediately before he had to endure any more teasing.

  Tyler watched the black shape shrink in the distance, squinting against the brightness of the snow even though the day was overcast.

  Kate was holding Elvis’s arm, and she observed, “These are such strange times we are living in.” Elvis patted her hand, and they headed back toward home.

  Stephan was talking to Lily in a quiet voice, and she smiled shyly and blushed as he leaned over to listen to her twins. His hands were on either side of her enormous belly, and his cheek was pressed to the curve at the top.

  He was right in front of her face, and she breathed in the scent of his hair, closing her eyes and daydreaming that he could be hers. When he lifted his head to look at her, his broad smile sent an electric shock through her body warming her loins. She wanted him so badly, and she needed to get a
way from him right now before she made a fool of herself. She made excuses and headed to her greenhouse.

  Stephan frowned a little at her back, but watched her until she closed the door behind her. He sighed and walked over to Tyler, patting him on the back and urging him back to the settlement to make use of himself.

  Ryan made good time, even pulling the sled. He was back at the lodge by mid-afternoon, and he only had to stop twice to right the sled when the lack of weight on it left it flying over bumps and overturning.

  When he explained the sled and the situation to them, they were reluctant. “Look, this was the best I could do. I think it’s a reasonable compromise, considering that it is just not going to be possible to bring Lily here. She could deliver at any time, as well. She says it’s not unusual for twins to come early.” He was talking to all of them, but he was kneeling in front of Aurora, who was sitting on the hearth. As usual his hands were protectively covering her swollen belly. He leaned close and murmured something to the baby.

  Aurora didn’t know if it was nonsense or if he was speaking a different language to her. She spoke several languages, but they were mostly European, and what he was muttering could have been a Native American tongue from the sound. Because, Sara went by the name of Walker, having been adopted by Ryan’s father, Aurora always forgot that Ryan’s real last name was Four Walker. She contemplated his possible heritage. She was tired of talking about her pregnancy and like most women in their last month, she was ready for it to be over. So, she let her mind wander, thinking about Ryan and his father until Alex’s angry voice brought her back to the present.

  “That is not acceptable,” Alex was saying. “I need to be with her, what if something happens to her? Who will protect her?”

  “I will protect her.” Ryan answered looking up from her stomach. “She is at much greater risk if we stay here and try to deliver this baby ourselves. What if the birthing goes badly?”