Chapter 43: New Home
After 60 more days, Astri’s belly is already bigger and all her mates are enjoying that scene.
They know she will be a very loving mother, and she keeps being a very loving mate to them, letting them feel the cubs and touching her belly.
She was sewing the cubs’ bed and bedsheets when Claud called her in her mind.
"Hey, were you busy? Normally you call me sooner." Astri asks in her mind.
"Yes. I was checking if everything was working according to my plans, and I checked everyone’s minds to see if anyone knew I would be leaving. Galion and I’ll be leaving tonight."
"Really?" She even stopped with her work.
That caught Cyprian’s attention; it was his time to stay with her, and he was behind her, brushing her hair slowly.
"Yes. I’ll be arriving there in 25 to 30 days with Galion and 3 more guards." He tells her.
"Oh my.. I’ll finally meet you!" She says happily.
He smiles, happy that he will meet her too.
"Claud is coming?" Cyprian asks.
"He will be leaving tonight and will arrive here in 25 to 30 days." She answers. "But be careful. Will you be able to contact me along the way?" She asks Claud.
"Not everyday. I’ll try whenever possible. But this is something I need concentration and not to pay much attention to what is around me very much, so I’m more vulnerable."
"I understand.. Do only when it’s really safe, then. Don’t risk yourself. Even if I won’t be relaxing, not knowing how you are." She says.
"I’ll be fine."
"Let’s do this. If you don’t contact me for more than 3 days, I’ll ask some of your guards to go after you."
He chuckles. His heart is warmed even with this long distance. freёnovelkiss.com
"All right."
They talk a little bit more and she lets him rest since he won’t be sleeping the next night.
Claud knows that this is going to be a high risk for him, but to be with her he will do anything.
Even if people discover sooner than later that he left, he will follow his heart like Nature is telling him to do.
Astri is still sewing the beds, then she feels something in her belly. She touches her belly and then she feels a kick.
"Oh my!! Look at this, Cyprian!" She says excitedly and pulls Cyprian’s hand to her belly.
He feels the cubs moving and smiles happily with her.
"Yes, they’re kicking. It’s very probable it’s Wayde’s because if there were eggs we wouldn’t be capable of feeling any movement." Cyprian speaks.
"Awn.. Our little tigers. Wayde will be happy."
"Yes. He was your first male and also the first one to have cubs. It’s fair."
"The cubs will feel attachment to you, Lee and Zin too?" She asks.
"Like elders or as your mates, but until they shift from the beast form only Wayde will be able to communicate with them. They will want to be near you and Wayde the most."
"Because he will be teaching them how to be tigers." She assumes.
"Yes." Cyprian nods.
He hugs her from behind and watches her finish sewing the bed.
"Look how cute and soft." She says showing the bed to Cyprian. He touches the bed smiling.
"It is. Not as cute as you."
She smiles at him and kisses his lips. He keeps her head still and deepens the kiss.
"Humm. My handsome dragon wants something?" She asks.
He chuckles and turns her to lay her on the bed.
All of them keep making love to her but in a way that won’t make her too tired, they see her as the most beautiful and sexy female all the time, but she looks even more so when pregnant.
When the others arrived home they were finished and Astri was making dinner.
She welcomes them with kisses and a table full of food as always. When she sits down she feels the cubs moving again.
"Come Wayde!" She calls Wayde and she pulls his hand to her belly.
He smiles happy, feeling the cubs moving. He’s beaming.
"They’re moving?" Lee asks.
Lee and Zin also feel their movements.
"For sure it’s tiger cubs for these movements." Zin says, smiling.
"Hey, you little kitties. Come out already with your cute little snouts so I can have some hatchlings." Lee speaks to the belly like he was telling it a secret.
Astri giggles. He feels the movement on his face.
"Strong kitties. But you need to respect the Second Father! Why kicking my face?" Lee plays.
"Do you think there will be a female?" Cyprian asks Astri.
"It would be nice to have more females in our family, but the only wish I have is for them to be healthy and happy." Astri answers.
"If we have a female I’m sure she will be as beautiful as her mother." Wayde says and kisses Astri.
Wayde sleeps hugging Astri, feeling a great happiness of knowing he’s going to be a father.
All of them will be kind of parents even if it’s tiger cubs, but he’s the biological father. He feels so thankful that Astri is giving him this kind of happiness.
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The castle is finally ready, but they don’t tell Astri that.
They decide to furniture it the way she said she imagined her home.
They built a huge garden and a table just for her to draw, and bookshelves for her books. She’s writing her own medicine book, and there’s space for way more books.
They made a bathroom with a big bathtub for her.
They thought of the minimal details, like a pot with aromatic herbs and a little fireplace.
The kitchen is bigger than what they have. Have a dinner table, and a living area with a kind of sofa they built according to her drawings.
They made more kitchen supplies and pots, everything is complete.
They bring her to their new home, wearing a blindfold.
When they’re in front of the entrance gate, they take her blindfold off and she gasps seeing how big and majestic the castle is.
It has a square shape but has four towers on top of that.
"It is huuuuge!! It’s beautiful!!" She says, holding her mouth in amazement.
She was worried that the castle walls would make the place have no wind, but since it has a big land it’s still windy.
They bring her to the front door, she opens it and gasps loudly seeing the big kitchen and living area on the right.
She laughs, not believing her eyes. She walks through the kitchen and looks around.
"This is perfect! We can cook and eat together without hitting on each other. I can make food and still watch the kids. This is amazing!! You guys are amazing."
They bring her to her workshop, they need to keep her knowledge as secretive as possible, so when they have visitors no one will see her books and paintings.
They show her the master bedroom, she’s constantly amazed and looking around like she’s not believing what she’s seeing, she’s even crying thrilled.
"Look, you even put the cubs’ bed near ours." She says, lovingly.
They made a huge bed for all of them.
All of them agreed they would have another bedrooms just for them when one wants to be intimate with her, but none felt fine letting her sleep by herself and none could agree who would be sleeping with her always.
The pictures that Astri made of each one of them were put into wooden frames and hung on the wall near the bed.
She looks lovingly at the pictures of her mate, including Dieg’s.
There are four more bedrooms, enough for the cubs and future cubs.
Then they finally take her to the backdoor and show her the big garden.
She looks so happy and thrilled that they did all of that for her. She feels like the luckiest woman in the world.
"Did you like your new home?" Lee asks her.
"I love OUR new home. I couldn’t be happier." She says, trying to hug all of them at once." I’ll make dinner today to celebrate! Your favorites!"