Gio inhaled softly and said as he knelt down onto the floor and looked me in my eyes, "Love, what is it you trying to tell me? Are you saying—?"
I smiled softly and replied as I stroked his cheek, "Yes, my angel, I'm pregnant."
Gio didn't say anything for a few moments and then laughed happily as he stood up and swung me around in his arms. When he put me down he pressed his lips to mine and then said when he pulled back, "I can not believe this, love, are you certain?"
I nodded and said as I pressed his hand to my stomach, "Yes my angel, look."
Gio inhaled sharply once again when he felt the child within my stomach and said, "But how does it have a heartbeat so soon?"
I smiled and replied, "Nymand pregnancies are shorter than most. They only last up to eleven weeks, Selena told me. How can you tell it has a heartbeat though, the baby is inside me."
Smiling Gio said, "With Nymands we can feel the baby's heartbeat even if they are inside our partner. Don't ask me to explain more because I can't, that's all I know my love."
"I see. While it's a little weird, I like it!" I replied.
"Oh gods, I can not believe I am going to be a papa in only eleven weeks!" he wondered, still in shock.
I smiled and said, "Believe, my angel. Are you happy about this?"
"More than happy, my love, I am beyond happy! There are no words to describe how I feel," he said.
"I can think of three," I replied with smile. "I love you, Gio."
"As I love you, my love," he replied and pressed his lips to mine.
As we pulled apart Gio smiled and said, "Come love, let's tell the family."
We decided to wait until the final toast to tell everyone and during dinner I got to know Selena better. I realised that she had meant every word about getting to know me at my pace and at one point I smiled and called her mother. We both cried when I did this and hugged one another. As Papa raised his glass to make the toast, he smiled and said, "I would like to make this toast to family, old and new, to love whether it be newly found or years old. We are now forever family." We all cheered as he said this and drank.
Gio and I looked at one another and Gio stood up and said proudly, "Speaking of family, there is something Aquila and I must tell you all." He looked at me with a smile.
I stood up and said as he pulled me into his arms, "As you all know, I am not royal by blood; my mother is Nymand. I spoke with her earlier about something that I found out. She informed me that male Nymands can become impregnated by their mates."
Everyone gasped as I said this and then Gio said, "Well, Aquila and I are glad to inform you that soon we will have a child. Aquila is pregnant!"
As soon as he said this, Lily screamed and ran over to us and said as she hugged us, "Congratulations! That's so wonderful."
The Duke of Sutherlands smiled and said as he hugged us, "I'm so happy for you both."
Gio and I smiled as we replied together, "Thank you."
Next to congratulate us was Papa. He smiled, hugged us and said he would build us a crib for the baby to sleep in. Momma finally came over and said, as she let the tears fall from her eyes, "I'm going to be a grandma?"
Gio nodded and I said, as she hugged him and then me, "Yes momma, you're going to be a grandma."
Selena hugged me once again and congratulated me as she had earlier and then looked at Gio and said, "Take good care of him, Gio."
"I will, Selena," he replied.
We all moved the celebration to the family room and I sat in Gio's warm embrace the entire time. Lily and I spoke about our favourite baby names and she asked me if I wanted a boy or a girl. I told her I did not care as long as the baby was healthy.
Later that night Gio and I were in bed and I was wrapped in Gio's arms. He smiled and said, as he pushed me onto my back and started to pull my silk trousers down, "Need you, my love."
"Yes, Gio, need you too. Make me yours."
"You already are, love," he replied as he kissed his way down my body. Licking, biting and sucking me all over.
He sucked my nipples into his mouth and bit gently. I moaned and said as I felt his finger push inside me, right on that hidden jewel, "Gio, need you so bad—"
"Soon, my love," he replied as he licked down my belly towards my now throbbing and leaking cock. I screamed as he swallowed me whole. His mouth was like a hot furnace sucking me up and down, making me moan and groan from pleasure.
I moaned and said, "Gio, so close—"
"Hmmm," he moaned as he sucked me faster and faster.
Seconds later I screamed with pleasure as I shot my juice into his sucking mouth. "Gio, god!" I said breathlessly and he smiled and replied as he added another finger into me, twisting and pulling them apart to open me up more.
I moaned as he hit hat jewel inside me once again and said as I wrapped my hand around Gio's cock and began to stroke it, "Need you inside me, my mate."
"Soon, my love. Soon I will be inside you," he said as he added a third finger and began to push them inside me hard and fast, making me moan and groan louder.
Gio smiled devilishly at me and said as he lined his hard cock against my hole, "Still want me, my love?"
"Always," I moaned.
Gio pushed into me and we both let out a moan of pleasure and he sank all the way in until I felt his hair against my ass. He moved in and out of me slowly, hitting that spot inside me almost every time. I was moaning and whimpering within minutes, Gio moaned and said as he began to move faster and faster, "So good, my love, so tight and warm."
"Oh, Gio ,you make me feel like I'm on fire!" I moaned as he wrapped his hand around my cock and stroked me fast and hard. Gio was thrusting into me harder and harder making us both moan. He hit that jewel inside me once more and I moaned his name as I came over us, shooting my juice over my body and his. Gio pounded into me harder and harder as I came and roared my name as he shot his warm juice inside my tight and contracting ass.
As we lay there both panting, Gio smiled and said softly, "Love you, my Aquila."
"Love you too, my Gio," I replied as he pressed his lips to mine.
When we stopped kissing due to lack of air, Gio laughed and said as he ran his hand over my belly, "Soon we will be a full family, soon our child will be here."
"You sure you're ready to be a papa?" I smiled playfully
"Definitely, as long as it is you who carries my child, I will be a papa to as many children as we can have," he replied.
I smiled and said softly, as I felt my eyes start to become heavy, "Love you forever, Gio."
"Love you forever too, Aquila," he replied.
The last thing I remember hearing as sleep over came me was Gio saying softly into my ear, "Love you, my mate, with all my heart."
****
Over the next eleven weeks Gio and I moved into our own castle and, nearing the time I was to give birth to mine and Gio's child, Selena moved in with us to help prepare me and tell me what was going to happen during the birth. I learnt that I was not going to have to be cut open as I thought I was but that because I was male a light of silver and pale blue would form in front of me and I had to push my child into that light. It would be like a normal birth but instead of the baby coming out of my body it would materialize into the ball of light until it was fully formed. And the symptoms of being pregnant were so much fun, too........not!
The morning sickness that lasted all day and couldn't tell time, and the achy body parts . . . more than once I shouted at Gio for making me pregnant. He just laughed it off and said, "Remember, my love, this is a gift from our gods and goddesses. We must cherish it."
He said it so many times I finally snapped once and said, "Oh go fall in the lake from our highest window."
He just smiled and kissed my forehead as I ate yet another strawberry. Strawberries and apples were two of the things I craved the most. Any strong smell made me sick to my stomach and I would throw up.
On the eve of the fourth week I gasped as I saw my stomach and said loudly, "Gio!"
Moments later the door swung open and Gio said as he ran over to me, "What, what is it?!"
I smiled and said as I turned to face him, "Look!"
Gio gasped and got to his knees, running his hands over my belly. "You're showing! Oh, my love."
I smiled and said, "I can hardly believe it has been four weeks already, the time for this baby to be fully formed does not seem long enough. I mean eleven weeks . . . surely that cannot be right."
Gio smiled and replied as he continued to run his hand over my belly, "It doesn't, but it is my love. Your mother and my father both confirmed it. It was the same timeline for both your birth mother and my mother, so it will be for us."
"I'm scared, Gio," I said softly as I looked down at my belly.
Gio sighed and then picked me up and placed me gently on our bed. He smiled and said as he climbed under the covers with me and held me close, "Everything is going to be ok my love, nothing will ever harm you again, I promise. You are going to be happy, cared for and loved unconditionally from now on until your dying day, and even then I will still love you with all my heart and soul."
"I love you with all my heart and soul, too, Gio. I'm so glad you're my mate."
"As I am you are mine, and soon you will be my husband," he replied.
I smiled and said, "I know. I can not wait to have you as my husband."
"Neither can I, my love, neither can I," he replied as we began to fall asleep.
On the fifth day of the sixth week, Gio and I had our wedding ceremony. We had decided to have it take place at the lake near our new castle and Gio had filled a portion of the lake with the petals of black, red and white roses. I was fighting back my tears during the whole ceremony. Gio looked so handsome in his robes. He wore a dark red satin robe which was laced with white along the V of his collar and he had a white rose on the right side of his chest. I wore a silver robe which I had laced with dark blue along my v neck of the collar and along my arms. I also had a white rose on my chest but I had it placed on the left side. Selena performed the ceremony and as we placed our rings onto one another's hands I finally let the tears fall, as did Gio. I moaned deeply when we pressed our lips together. We pulled apart and everyone cheered as I smiled and Gio laughed softly and said into my ear, "Forever and always my mate."
I nodded and said, "Forever and always my mate."
I smiled happily as we all sat around the dinner table and ate the food. The food was wonderful. Gio had made sure everyone's favourites were prepared. We had steaming fish, baked potatoes and vegetables, bowls of strawberries, grapes and raspberries. In the centre of the able stood our wedding cake, it was strawberry flavoured with white icing laced with blue around the edges.
Lily smiled and said as she ran her hand over my stomach for the tenth time, "Are you scared?"
I nodded and said, "Only a lot. Remember my body isn't supposed to be able to do this really, but I know it's going to be worth it."
Gio smiled and said as he hugged me gently, "Indeed it is, my love." I smiled happily as we all talked about the impending birth.
****
That night Gio smiled devilishly at me as he ripped off my robe and pushed me onto the bed and said, "Stay there!"
I smiled and moaned softly as he began to undo his clothing slowly and teasingly. Each time he removed a piece of his clothing, he licked along my neck and said softly into my ears, "I love you."
By the time he was fully naked, I was so hard and leaking pre-cum that I was aching. Gio saw this and said as he pulled me to the end of the bed and wrapped my legs around his neck, "If you move, I will stop. Do you understand?"
I nodded and said softly, "Yes, master."
As soon as I said this, Gio snarled and attacked my hole with his tongue. I screamed loudly as he tongued my hole. He licked, sucked and pushed his tongue into my hole and I moaned and said as I felt him add a finger, "Oh, master please! I need you master, please!"
"Soon, my love, soon," he replied as he began to finger fuck me hard and fast, hitting my jewel each time perfectly. I was moaning and whimpering under him within seconds.
He did this for so long that as he hit my jewel again I moaned and said, "Coming, coming Gio!" And I shot my juice over us both.
Gio roared and said, "Yes, come for me, Aquila." I panted softly as Gio still fucked me with his fingers and he smiled and said as we locked eyes, "You up for taking me inside you, my love?"
I moaned and said, "Always my husband."
Gio pulled his fingers out of my body and pressed
himself against my hole. He pushed in slow motion. He slowly inched himself inside my very willing body until I felt his hairs against my ass. I moaned and said as he held still, "Move, Gio . . . I need to feel you moving."
"As you wish. my love." he replied as he pulled out and pushed back in ever so slowly and torturously.
I moaned and said firmly after what seemed like a century of this slow lovemaking, "Just pound me already, Gio, I need it harder please." Gio snarled as I said this and then wrapped my legs around his shoulders and started to thrust into me hard and fast as we both moaned from pleasure.
As the moments passed I moaned and said as I felt my orgasm coming on, "Close my love, so close—"
"Come for me, my mate, come for me," he moaned.
I screamed as I came once again over both of us and Gio roared my name as he shot his juice into my tightening hole. As we lay there perfectly happy and fully loved, Gio smiled and said as I felt my eyes begin to get heavy, "Love you, my husband."
"I love you, too, my husband," I replied.
"Forever and always," he said.
I nodded and repeated, "Forever and always, Gio."
Later that night I lay awake watching Gio sleeping, I couldn't believe how well my life had turned out. I had gone through one of the toughest periods of my life and had wound up marrying a prince and falling head over heals in love and happier than I had ever been in my entire life. Gio sighed in his sleep and tightened his arms around me. I smiled and cuddled up to him and let sleep overwhelm me and pull me into darkness.
The next morning I woke up and saw that Gio had made a trail of white and red rose petals leaving the room. I smiled and slipped into my white robe and followed them. They led me out to the waterfall near the end of our back garden where I saw Gio standing near the water. He smiled and said as he held out his hand for me, "Fancy a swim, my husband?"
I smiled and nodded as I took off my robe.
The waterfall looked so beautiful; Gio had clearly spelled the water like he had the night in the cave when we first made love. The water was once again an aquamarine colour and had steam softly lifting from it. The trees and veins that circled the water looked beautiful also. As I walked into the water, I sighed happily; it was warm and soothing. When I was completely in the water, Gio smiled and said as he swam over to me and pulled me into his arms, "How are you feeling, my love?"
I smiled and replied, "Happy beyond belief, my husband. How are you feeling?"
"There are no words to express how happy I am, Aquila," Gio replied as he pressed his lips to mine.
When we pulled apart from lack of air I smiled and said to Gio softly, "I love you, my husband."
"As I love you also, my husband," he replied.
By the time Gio and I stopped swimming the sun had begun to set.
We both smiled at one another and got out of the water to get dressed.
Gio smiled as we got dressed and headed back home. "You're showing more and more, my love. I can hardly wait to welcome our child into this world."
I smiled and replied, "I know, neither can I, my love, but I will admit I am scared."
"I would think you a fool if you were not, but I know you are not a fool. Just remember this, my love: I will be there for you for the birth. I will be there holding your hand and helping you through it, I promise," he replied.
I smiled and said softly, "I know. Love you."
"Love you too, my love," he replied.
On the eve of the finally night of the eleventh week the stars shined brightly and the moon was high in the sky.
I was sitting in the family room with Lily and my mom Selena when I felt a sharp pain go through my stomach. I sighed as it went and then tried to listen to what Lily was saying. It came back a second later and I screamed in agony as a ball of water materialised in front of us and then fell to the ground. Selena gasped and said as she ran over to me and looked at Lily, "Lily! Go and get everyone, it's time!"
"Time what do.... Wait! Time as in time, time?!"
As soon as she said this I screamed and shouted in agony "Lily!" She ran off as soon as I said this.
Selena teleported the both of us to my and Gio's room.
As Selena ran around the room and pulled out all of the cotton sheets that Gio and I had bought for the baby, I screamed and said, "Mom it hurts, it hurts so much!"
"I know, sweetie, I know," she replied. As she said this, the door pushed open and Gio, Lilly and my momma ran in.
Gio said as he came over to me, "Oh, my love!"
I screamed and said to him as I felt another contraction, "Ahh! Where the hell were you?" Lily laughed softly and I shot her a look that said 'don't laugh at me you bitch!'
Gio smiled gently and said, "I'm sorry, my love, I was with our papas."
As he said this, I screamed in pain once more and said, "Ahhh shut up!"
Gio smiled at Selena and she said as she put the materials at the end of the bed, "Okay now, start pushing Aquila, push into the light as I told you to."
As she said this, a ball of silver and pale blue light came into view at the end of the bed and I groaned as I started to push. Both my momma and my mom were telling me to push. My momma was wiping a cold cloth over my forehead as my mom was holding my hand.
I screamed and shouted at Gio as I tried to push my baby into the light in front of me. "Ahh! You snake, Gio, you filthy snake! How could you do this to me?!"
"Come on, Aquila, push, push!" Selena said and I groaned in reply.
"Ahh, oh god, it hurts!" I screamed.
Gio kissed my head and said, "I know it hurts, my love, but push."
I groaned and said as I tried to push once more, "You don't know shit, Gio. Oh God!"
'Ah shit, oh fuck, this is fucking hell and it really hurts!' I thought to myself as I cried out in pain and agony and pushed once more. The baby began to materialize in front of me.
Gio laughed softly and said, "Come on, love, push, push . . . only a few more and our child will be here! Push, my love, push!"
As I heard him say this, I finally snapped and said as I pushed the hardest I had since the labour began, "Ahh gods, Gio, you bloody push! You filthy rotten sneaky god-damned frigging snake! This is your entire fault, so you bloody push. Ahhhhhhh!" I finally collapsed as the baby moved fully into the ligt.
I gasped as I saw glimpses of my baby, its hair was light silver just like mine was in my Nymand form, and its skin was pale as the moon. Dark blue eyes opened and settled on me. I lay there painting as the baby began to cry out and Gio and I both smiled as my momma took hold of the child and cleaned it up.
Gio smiled at me and said as he kissed my head again, "It's ok, my love. It's all over now."
Lily laughed and said, "Until the next time, that is."
"Hah," I replied half-heartedly.
Next time? If anyone was going to be getting pregnant and giving birth a next time, I was going to try my damn hardest to make sure it was Gio.