Chapter 29

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE

I made her come two more times, then gingerly set her down. As far as I was concerned, she was pregnant with my baby now, and any confirmation that might come after was merely a formality. I took her to the shower, washed her clean, and then we sprayed half the bathroom as she tried to clean me, mostly because we didn’t both fit in the shower, and neither one of us was willing to admit it.

“This is a point in my apartment bathroom’s favor—the shower’s huge, even if nothing else is,” I told her, when we were drying off.

“I’ll remodel,” she said flippantly, giving me a smile, before sobering. “Though I’m not looking forward to sleeping on a waterbed.”

“That’s a charitable definition of it,” I laughed, before stalking into the other room to fix things.

She heard the bedsprings squeaking. “Ace? What did you do?”

“Flipped over the mattress. Let’s just give up on those sheets though.”

“That was my last clean set,” she said with a wince. “But—I know—just don’t give me shit, okay? I go to a lot of fancy things,” she said, heading into her on-board closet, and coming back with a small fortune in furs to pile onto the bed for us, like we were cavemen indeed.

“Was your mother a fur-trapper?” I felt compelled to ask.

“Shush,” she said, putting a silencing finger out—and I found it with my nose, which made her giggle.

We both made things work, with her mostly curled up on top of me, but not long after she closed her eyes she murmured, “From here on out Ace—your fur is the only fur I need.”

“That’s right,” I promised, feeling her drift to off sleep.

As for me…I didn’t quite want to pass out yet.

Somewhere, not that very far away, there was a raging Monster Security Agency Christmas party happening at Ellum’s—and next year, for the first time, I would be there too. And I’d lean into the whole Krampus thing, because why not? I’d shine my hooves and paint my horns red, wrap myself in rattling chains, and bring a three-month-old baby I “stole” in a basket, along with my loving wife.

I couldn’t wait.

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