wrong in there, I will sue or kill you all,” Cage barks, his eyes narrowed and trained on the monitor like a freaking madman.
His antics make me want to laugh my ass off but I can’t, not now when my heart is beating so hard I’m sure he can feel it through the hand he’s clutching.
It’s just as the doctor start smiling and is about to talk that I hear a ruckus outside before the door bursts open and four pissed-off maniacs come barreling through the door.
I already told them all about the baby and moving in with Cage, and after some violently un-repeatable statements they’re all happy for me and ready to be aunts to the second addition to our family.
“Jesus. What the fuck, Luci? You look ready to explode and you’re not even halfway through,” Indie yells, shoving the nurse out of the way and coming at me like a freight train.
“Hey! You know I have feelings, right?” I mutter as Cage growls and throws her a filthy look.
“Don’t listen to her, baby. She’s just an asshole in a cute package. She doesn’t mean a word of it. Do you, Indie?” he grates.
Indie just shrugs and looks a little discomforted as Percy, Dot, and Callie come closer, eyeing my belly as if it’s radioactive or something, though I note with amusement they don’t say a damn thing as Cage glares.
“Well now, ahem! If you are all ready for me to proceed?” Doc Sparks mutters, shaking his head at the circus that is my life.
“Go ahead, Doc. Don’t mind us, we’re just here to see if she’s packing an elephant. Wouldn’t that be totally icky? If they somehow got the sperm mixed up with—”
“Percy! Be quiet,” Cage growls.
She zips it with a long suffering sigh and we all watch as the doctor starts rubbing the wand around again.
“Ah, just as I thought,” he mutters, fiddling with his machine and peering at the monitor as we all wait with bated breath.
“Oh for crying out loud already, man! Just tell us if she’s packing a mutant or not.”
“No, it’s just as I suspected when Mr. Cage called yesterday. Here, listen.”
I don’t know what the hell I’m listening for when he turns up the volume, but I think I lose a few brain cells to shock when a cacophony of thumps reaches my ears.
“Twins?” Callie gasps, going high-school cheerleader as she claps and squeals.
“I’m afraid not.”
Oh shit.
“Trips!” I yell, looking at my belly with fear.
“Ahem.”
Oh hell no!
“Oh God. It’s not really happening. It’s a nightmare. It’s a nightmare and you haven’t woken up yet. Wake up, Luci!” I start yelling as the knowledge of what he’s saying and not so much saying slams into me.
I look up with wide eyes at Cage. I can’t help it. He’s like my rock, my go-to, and as I feel the doctor look back at the screen and then at me again, I see Cage’s eyes go wide, too.
“Quads?”
That’s not happening. That is so not happening. I have one tiny little hole down south that’s already going to try and crawl off my body and abandon this sinking ship.
“Yes Mr. Cage.”
I hear nothing else as shit starts going fuzzy and I pass the hell out.
***
Cage
Holy shit.
When the doctor confirms that I did hear four little heartbeats and that there are four babies inside my girl, I don’t know if I want to cry in fear or start cheering the roof off.
First and foremost, I want to have a heart attack when I finally look down again to see that Luci is out like a light and dead to the world.
“Fuck.”
That’s Indie and I can’t quite blame her for her language as I glance at the others to see equally shocked faces staring down at Luci’s prostrate form.
I feel like a bus hit me, turned around, and came back to finish off the job. It takes a few minutes of silent shock as everyone just looks at everyone else, but I dig deep and finally find my balls where they’ve lodged in my throat.
I can so do this. Hell yeah I can do this!
Now Luci will definitely need me around, and as soon as she
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