Secret Daddy

by Liam Kingsley

  Heat rushed to my cheeks. I nodded and felt my wolf pushing hard to get closer to Gavin. I’m sure if I could shift my wolf would have tried to force me to do so. I let go of the banister and let Gavin hold me up with his big, strong hands. It felt so good to allow him to bear some of my weight, physically and metaphorically. I really needed his strength even if I didn’t always want to admit it. To try and raise our two children on my own would have been hard, but I didn’t have to make it hard if I could accept that Gavin really did what any father would do; protect his child.

  “I—”

  “I don’t want to argue. I need you to come home,” he said.

  I flinched and frowned reflexively as my stubbornness flared.

  “It’s not a question,” Gavin said gruffly. “I need you and Brock to come home. We’re meant to be together. We can work out whatever problems we have later, together. But you’re coming home. I’m not taking no for an answer.”

  I could see he meant it. His alpha nature was certainly coming to the fore, and once again I felt my submissive wolf capitulate. I shook my head, and Gavin drew his brows together.

  “Kyle—”

  “No. Let me say something… I understand what you did that night was because you thought it was the right thing to do under the circumstances, and it was, so for that I apologize for not listening to your explanation. But you should have told me about dragon shifters in the first place. You should have told me Kyle really was being bullied and you were teaching him to stand up for himself. You need to talk to me, you need to let go of your crazy control. You need to understand that being a dad isn’t easy and you’re going to make mistakes, and I need to learn that you’re still learning.”

  “Yes.”

  “That’s it? Yes?”

  “Yes I know I’m still learning, and yes I need to be less anxious about what may happen with Brock and our baby girl. And yes you were right to apologize for not listening to me.”

  A smile crept across my lips as I gazed up at him. My doubt and hesitation evaporated. It was obvious what I should do.

  “Then…yes,” I said, before he planted a firm kiss on my lips.

  We pulled up outside Brock’s school in Gavin’s car before the end of the school day to get a spot at the front of the pick-up line, and then spent the next half an hour making out. I was so hungry for his mouth I literally only stopped kissing him to pull back and rub my still itchy belly.

  “I missed you so fucking much,” I groaned as he gently scratched my bump.

  “I missed you.” Gavin leaned in for another soft kiss, and then cradled my cheek in his hand.

  We glanced at the school doors as they flew open, then looked back at each other with a grin. We climbed out of the car then leaned against the hood while we waited for Brock.

  “Dads!” Brock screamed when he glimpsed us. He bolted down the stairs and sprinted across the yard so fast I was almost surprised when he slammed into us. He wrapping his arms around both of us and brought us into a tight group hug.

  “Hey, Brocky.” Gavin laughed and squeezed us all tightly. “It’s good to see you.”

  “Dads!” Brock laughed so happily he sounded almost manic. “Are we going home?” he asked as he looked up at us.

  “Yes, we are.” I smiled down at him and felt tears stinging my eyes when I saw how happy he was.

  “Yes!” he cried.

  A car honked and we realized we were holding up the line, so we dashed into Gavin’s ride and got the hell out of there.

  “Need to pick up anything from Britt and Kennedy’s?” Gavin asked as we approached the intersection of Pack Lane.

  “Not me. Brocky?” I looked over to the backseat where Brock was swinging his legs and beaming.

  “Nah, I have everything I need right here,” he said with a cheesy grin. Gavin hit the indicator and took us straight up Pack Lane, driving north toward the homestead. Toward our home.

  “Brocky, Cole said he’s been missing you,” Gavin said, looking at Brock in the rearview mirror.

  Brock sighed. “Yeah. We hardly get to see each other at school.”

  “I was talking to his dads earlier… Do you want to go for a sleepover at Cole’s house tonight? It sounds like Liam will be there too.”

  Brock gasped and practically jumped out of his seat. “Yes! Can I?”

  Brock asked me, but I just motioned to Gavin. Frankly, I was impressed he was putting in so much effort and thought to organize something like that for Brock.

  “Of course you can,” I said. “It sounds like Dad has it all organized.”

  Gavin glanced at me, barely able to contain his smile.

  “Yes!” Brock fist pumped the air and quickly got on the phone to Cole to tell him the good news. Gavin reached across the console to take my hand and squeeze it gently.

  “You better tell Britt you won’t be home,” he said.

  “Oh shit, you’re right.”

  Guess what? You were right. Feeling very relaxed… Now we’re back on the homestead. Will catch up tomorrow xo K

  As we drove through the gates of the community, my wolf settled down and let out a happy sigh. I settled down as well, and felt the rest of my tension dissolve from my shoulders. We dropped Brock off at Linc’s beautiful wooden home, and then headed straight back to Gavin’s house. To our home.

  I waddled up the steps of the porch, straining with every step.

  “God, you got so big.” he commented, putting a hand on my belly. He moaned in what was decidedly a sexual nature and rubbed my stomach gently before helping me up the steps. As soon as he threw open the front door I could smell something sweet. Rose petals. I gasped when I saw a trail leading from the door through the living room. I looked up at Gavin and he just gave me a big grin as he put a hand on my back and urged me forward. I followed the trail, getting more and more excited as it led me through the living area, past the kitchen, down the hallway…

  A genuine apology… An explanation… And now a romantic gesture. This was what I had been looking for, without even knowing it. To feel special to Gavin… To feel like he heard me and wanted to show me he understood what I was saying.

  I almost fell over when I reached the end of the trail. It didn’t lead to the bedroom like I thought it would. Instead, it turned down the hall and led right into the family room where a birthing tub was sitting in the middle of the room with an oversized bow on its side, amid a huge display of bouquets.

  I covered my mouth with my hand.

  “I want you to know I’m listening to you,” Gavin said as he appeared behind me and put a hand on my shoulder. “I respect you, and I respect your choices. And I always want to compromise. I’ve been stubborn because I’ve been scared. But I trust you, and most importantly, I trust myself now. I’m a good dad to Brock, and I’m going to be a good dad to our baby girl. I want her to come into this world in a fear-free environment where I’m confident, and you are too.”

  Tears trickled down my cheeks as I looked from him to the birthing bath and back again.

  “I can have a home birth?” I ask in a quiet, squeaky voice.

  “Yes. We can have Maddie here the whole time to make sure everything is safe. But you better bet that if anything goes wrong, I’m taking you straight to the hospital,” he warned.

  I laughed and nodded as I wiped tears off my face.

  “Thank you,” I whispered. I pressed myself against his broad chest and let out a relieved sob. “It’s so good to be home.”

  Gavin simply held me for a little while, and then he took my hand and gently led me to the bedroom. I crawled onto the bed, sinking into its perfect softness. I moaned happily and watched as Gavin stripped off in front of me. He slowly peeled his t-shirt up, revealing his abdomen and then his sexy chest with its pert, dark nipples. He shook off the shirt then started plucking at his belt buckle as he gave me a cheeky grin.

  “Take it off,” I ordered. I wet my lips as he threaded the leather through the buckle, clicked the steel, an
d then whipped his belt off in one smooth move before dropping it onto the floor. I giggled, and then bit my bottom lip as he slid his hands over his hips and down to his crotch. He covered the outline of his cock with his palm and made a show of slowly grinding into it.

  It was too much. I greedily grabbed for him, urging him to join me. He obliged, kneeling on the bed before me and leaning down to press a soft kiss against my mouth. I ran my hands over his back and shoulders, moaning at how good he felt. God I missed this. I missed him. He slipped his fingers under the hem of my t-shirt and rubbed his palm over the taut skin of my big pregnant tummy. I lifted my arms as he tugged the shirt off over my head, and he immediately planted kisses all over my belly. I was about to relax into the tickly sensation when I felt a kick. I looked down and saw a little lump forming.

  “Gavin, look,” I said, pointing to it.

  “Oh my god.” He fixated on the lump as it moved across my belly and then disappeared.

  “That’s…incredible,” he said before leaning forward and kissing me all over my face. I laughed and ran my fingers through his hair. Eventually, he pulled back and looked at me with deep affection.

  “I love you,” he said softly.

  “I love you too.”

  Gavin kissed me softly and with such gentleness I felt like I might float away from the thrill of it. I slid my hands down his back and grabbed his ass, pulling him closer to me. He moaned into the kiss, which sent a vibration straight down into my cock. It hardened almost immediately, and I was reminded it had been so long since Gavin had made love to me.

  He tugged off my pants then sat back on his heels, looking me over, seemingly admiring my body. I felt a little self-conscious about how big my belly was, but the look on his face made me feel wanted and sexy. He slowly ran a finger from my belly button down over the curve of my tummy. When he reached my cock he grinned. The head of my cock pressed up against the underside of my gut, dribbling precum, and he started smearing the fluid across my belly.

  “Mmm, I love your cock. You are so fucking sexy.”

  I bit back a moan as I felt my cock and ass twitch. I couldn’t believe how much he made me want him with such wanton need.

  “Fuck me,” I whispered, and then I rolled over to my side.

  Gavin helped position my leg, gripping my thigh tightly to keep it lifted. I arched my back and pushed my ass against his stiff dick, and the way he growled with desire made me need him more. My slick came in thick and wet, and Gavin sniffed at the air then issued an animalistic grunt. I braced myself for the hard fucking he usually gave me. Instead, he pressed the tip of his cock against my tight, wet hole then leaned over and gently kissed my neck. A shiver ran straight down my spine, and I whimpered.

  “I love you,” he growled as he thrust an inch of his cock into my hole. I clenched around him and he moaned, reflexively pushing in a little deeper until, inch by inch he was all the way inside, and then he began to move back and forth with slow, smooth thrusts as he kissed my neck, my jaw, my mouth. I breathed between kisses and reached back to hold his hip, guiding him to fuck me deeper. We moved together, not pushing for orgasm, simply happy to just enjoy a slow, warm arousal and a deep, sweet love… Until I felt his cock start to expand at the base and a frisson of cold, electric pleasure raced through my body. Gavin grunted and pushed in deeper. The swelling grew slower than it usually did, allowing Gavin to move a little, but instead of him gaining speed to quickly bring us both to that cascading edge, he continued his slow momentum, and every tiny movement felt like an injection of pleasure, deep inside. If it hadn’t felt so fucking good, I wouldn’t have been able to bear it.

  I moaned when the knot eventually expanded to its full size and Gavin was no longer able to move.

  We lay panting, completely knotted but not yet coming. I writhed desperately as my orgasm sat just out of reach, right on the edge. Gavin dug his fingers deeply into my leg that shook from the intensity of my upcoming orgasm.

  “Gavin… Gavin I can’t…”

  Suddenly, he pressed his lips against mine, and the sweetness of his kiss sent me soaring. My ass clenched down hard around the knot. Gavin moaned into my mouth as my ass milked his orgasm out of him, and I shuddered as he spilled his cum into me. My cock shot off a load, smearing the underside of my belly, and my whole body spasmed with the force of my release.

  I saw stars.

  I felt nothing but bliss.

  Slowly I came down, back into the room, back into my body and into the arms of the man I loved and would love forever. I finally felt at home.

  19

  Gavin

  “What’s the hold up?” I grunted as I tapped the steering wheel and watched as Brock helped Kyle to the car… Except Kyle kept stopping and squinting up at the sky, looking around at the garden, and generally taking his sweet time. It was the middle of August and Kyle, being due any day now, had been complaining about how hot and uncomfortable it was, so I was confused about why he was dawdling in the morning sun.

  By the time he made it to the car, Brock was already late for school and we’d be late for our appointment with Dr. Reed if we didn’t hurry up. Brock jumped in the backseat but Kyle bent down and looked at me through the open window.

  “I don’t want to go,” he said.

  “Why?”

  “My feet are swollen, I’m sweating buckets, I’m in a horrible mood, I’m a balloon…”

  I nodded and listened to his complaints, then offered a counter argument. “I’ll rub your feet when we get home, there’s great air conditioning at Dr. Reed’s office, you can be as grumpy as you want to be, and you look gorgeous.”

  Kyle let out a pouty huff and frowned, looking downright pathetic.

  “Come on. Get in. You’ve gotten this far. May as well come with me to drop Brock off at school.”

  “Yeah! C’mon, Dad, let’s go,” Brock said in encouragement from the backseat.

  Kyle kept grumbling, but he did get in the car. I helped him buckle up over his gigantic belly then gave him a kiss on the cheek before we drove into town. Kyle stayed in a bad mood for the entire trip to the school, but after we dropped off Brock I simply navigated us toward Dr. Reed’s office without any further discussion.

  “I feel like I’m just going to pop,” he grumbled to me, and then again to Maddie when we got into her office.

  “Well, that’s good. That’s what’s meant to happen,” she said as she gave him a kind smile, and he just pouted in response. “Alright, let’s have a look at you.”

  I helped Kyle up onto the examination table while Maddie collected her equipment then snapped on her latex gloves. He held my hand tightly as I stood by his side. I gave his grip a supportive squeeze and watched over him during all of the checkups.

  “Well, alright,” Maddie said as she stood back and looked at us.

  “Alright?” I asked. “What does alright mean?”

  “What’s alright?” Kyle sounded very annoyed.

  “Your symptoms are a sign of early labor.”

  “What?” we asked together, and Maddie chuckled.

  “You’re already three centimeters dilated.”

  “Oh my god,” I said, squeezing Kyle’s hand firmly to brace myself against falling over.

  “Well, that explains this awful mood.”

  I did a double-take. He seemed so calm. “Oh my god,” I said again.

  Maddie laughed and gave me a pat on the back. “Nothing to panic about, Gavin. Just get that birthing tub set up and call me when you need me.”

  “Uh, wow. Okay.” I felt like I’d dropped into the twilight zone. My mate was in labor, and no one seemed bothered!

  At Maddie’s instruction I helped Kyle up off the table. He started to shuffle out of the room, and I was about to follow him when Maddie put her hand on my shoulder. I thought she was going to tell me some secret about being an ideal birthing partner. Instead she winked.

  “You have been an excellent father through this whole pregnancy. This will be ea
sier than you think.”

  I smiled and felt a little better, almost convinced everything was going to be just fine when Kyle let out a yelp.

  “Kyle!” I rushed to his side.

  “Oh fuck. Bad contraction. Oh it’s bad!”

  “Breathe through it,” Maddie said, and Kyle started huffing like a maniac. Just as I thought it was passing, he let out another cry and then gasped.

  “My water just broke!”

  The seat of his pants darkened, and then spread down his legs.

  “Alright, here we go,” Maddie said with a happy laugh. She rushed off to get supplies while I uselessly rubbed Kyle’s back. When she came back she loaded me up with towels.

  “Get him home, get him in the tub, and I’ll be there shortly. The second baby usually comes faster than the first,” she said as she gave me a shove and walked off down the corridor.

  “Wait. Can’t we… Can’t we just do it here?” I asked desperately.

  Kyle let out a guttural groan and glared at me. “Get in the car, Gavin.”

  I got the car.

  In the birthing tub, naked and wet, I wrapped my arms around my mate and took him through his breathing techniques while he groaned through the pain of his contractions. We’d prepared the family room to be a dimly lit, peaceful haven, decorated with salt lamps and a thousand crystals from Britt’s collection, with the water in the bath soothingly warm. But Kyle’s desperate cries cut through all of that and sent my heart racing. My wolf whined constantly as it paced back and forth, all of its senses trained on our mate and unborn cub.

  I was so focused on Kyle I barely noticed when Maddie arrived. She set up a lamp to see what was happening, confirmed Kyle was fully dilated, and it was time to push.

  “Okay, alright, oh fuck.” Kyle gripped my hand and brought it up to his mouth.

  “You can do this,” I told him, and pressed a kiss against his temple.