Their Mating Rituals [Paranormal Protection Unit 4] (Siren Publishing Classic) by Honor James Read Free Book Online

food. “My mate is all crazed about babies right now,” he said conversationally. “She’s pregnant and loving it but she doesn’t realize the odds of it being twins. All back through my lines it’s been twins with the latest being myself and Aiden.”
    “You sound happy at the fact she’s pregnant,” Lina said, putting some vegetables on her plate.
    “Thrilled,” he said with a grin, “mainly because she can’t get into nearly as much trouble as she would like to with the pregnancy. She’s now more or less stuck redecorating our entire house and driving me batty. Oh and then there’s the complaining about the gas that the little Dragons are giving her, non-stop bitching about it actually.”
    Lina snickered. She paused in the food line and said, “You would stay with her through it all though, right?”
    Looking to Lina, he frowned. “Why wouldn’t I remain with her? She’s my bond-mate and I love and adore her even when she’s completely off her pretty little rocker.”
    “Because men don’t stay,” Lina shot back with a frown. “I’ve seen it time and again. Men just don’t stay.” Not just her mother, but she had seen it before when women would come to the ER with their children, no father anywhere around. This man, though…She didn’t understand it, because this man…“Wait, Dragons? Huh?” She latched onto that now. “Why would you call a baby a Dragon?”
    “Heartburn, gas, unpleasant bloating,” he said as he scrambled over that slip. “Most women don’t have that as part of their everyday norm, do they?” Yeah, he was making shit up on the fly, dammit. “Men stay if they know, and with bond-mates, even when they fight they can’t stay away long or mad long.”
    Lina wasn’t an idiot. There was something that he was hiding and it was pissing her off, but she shook her head. “All right.” She would let it go for now. “Is this one of the things that you are waiting for Aiden to tell me or something?”
    “Yeah, it is,” he told her honestly. “I will tell you if he doesn’t wake in time, but otherwise I still would prefer to wait on him, Lina. I know it sucks to have to wait and I’m sorry.” Gods, he wished he could just tell her, show her, and get her through the shock, horror, stunned numbness, and the other four billion emotions, thoughts, and accusations that all come about.
    “All right, I’m going to trust you on this. Don’t make me regret it,” Lina murmured and took her tray of food to a table, having a seat and waiting for Allister to join her.

Chapter Five
     
    “Hey there, you,” Lina murmured as she leaned over Aiden on the moveable bed. She still didn’t get why they were moving him so soon after surgery, and not into a room either but into a large warehouse-looking place. “Open your eye and look at me, Aiden. I need to see that you know who I am, honey, please?” she asked quietly and stroked her fingers gently over his cheek as she did so.
    “He’ll still be out for a while yet,” Allister told her quietly. “I need you to move for a minute while we shift him, Lina. You will be able to lay down with him if you want but we really need to move him while he’s still out cold.”
    Lina nodded and took a step back while the large men moved to Aiden’s side. Again she tugged her hoodie close over her head and looked down because of Talon being there once more. “Thank you, Allister,” she murmured softly. “I think that I will lie down beside him. It will be lovely to be able to just have him to myself.” Away from Talon, a man that was making her so antsy and uptight that it wasn’t even funny.
    Nodding, he helped the others move his brother with care onto the waiting thickly padded pallet on the floor. Thanking the others, he shook his head at Talon’s worried and curious look to her. “Later,” he mouthed to the man. Shutting everyone else out of the warehouse, he walked back over to Lina and waved a hand. “Pop on into bed.