Chapter Twelve

Sheldon

We didn’t leave until two mornings later. It took some time to work out our sleep schedules and to leave on good terms. I didn’t want to leave with Terrick still mad at Travis. I couldn’t make Terrick feel anything, but he needed to understand that Travis wasn’t going anywhere. He was my true-mate. That meant he was family.

It also gave me lots of time to spend with Cardian, Dakota, and of course, Baby Shieldon. Yep. Sorta after me, but more after the fact Cardian would be a guardian forever. He might’ve named the baby Shield if Dakota let him. Actually, I was pretty damn sure he would’ve.

“You’re next,” Cardian said as I passed the baby back to him in the kitchen.

Dakota napped in their bedroom and Travis was off with Scott. His brother played mediator between him and Terrick. I volunteered to stay with Cardian, because Terrick was on my nerves. I understood where he was coming from, but Travis was still mine.

“For what?” I played dumb as I made up some bloodshakes.

“For a baby and twins run in his family,” Cardian grinned and glanced down at his sleeping baby boy.

“That means you’re next,” I shrugged.

“I already have one.”

“You’re next to be an uncle. I guess Terrick already did that to both of us. Well, he wasn’t the first either,” I laughed. “It’s so hard to think in a straight line right now. I’m glad Mom didn’t bring the accounting books when she came to pick up Salta. I don’t think I could math right now.”

“I’d be surprised if you could,” Cardian chuckled.

“Do you think they’ll work it out?”

“I don’t think they’ll get into a fist fight, if that’s what you mean. I wouldn’t have let them talk without me if I thought that was going to happen,” Cardian shrugged. “I get both sides of it. At the end of the day, it’s up to Scott, though.”

“I believe him about his sister,” I said, setting a bloodshake down in front of him before sitting down with my own.

“Thanks, and I do too for what it’s worth. He doesn’t smell like a lie when he says it. Also, she’s not here with him. I don’t know where she is, but it’s not here. Dakota says the twins were inseparable. Now that they’re apart, I tend to believe he’d have to have a good reason to logic his way into surgically removing himself from her hip.”

“We could stay past tomorrow morning, if you needed us to,” I offered.

“We’ll be fine. Scott and Terrick will be fine too. You deserve a matingmoon as much as anyone else does, Sheddy. Don’t blow up the plane for being loud or anything. Stay in touch. Don’t get on a spaceship. I know the Moonscales think they know how to do everything, but I don’t think they know how to do spaceships. So, don’t get on one of those. I’d hate to have to scale whichever draconic engineer failed in designing it because you died, but I would. I’d use the good kitchen knives to do it and Dakota would never forgive me.”

“Don’t worry. I don’t want to get on a spaceship. I’m not even sure I’m okay with a plane to be honest,” I shrugged.

“Have you told him that?” Cardian asked.

“Yeah. We’re going to take the round about way to get to London. At least, I think we’re going to London. He hasn’t said exactly.”

“He’s probably afraid that Trista will overhear him and show up there,” Cardian laughed but I frowned. “Don’t look like that,” he said a second later. “Seriously, it’s not your problem to fix her or put up with her. I don’t care who she is, she pulls something like what she did on Scott on you and she’ll be telling her sob story to Juda and Frost in person.”

“Okay, Terrick.”

“Okay, Mom,” Cardian laughed.

“If I were Mom I’d be hogging your baby,” I teased.

“Yeah, she did that while she was here, huh?”

“Some things never change.”