pale. “Look, you have to decide what you’re doing about Yakov and that other vamp I sent to Osiris. We need a plan because I don’t want them here longer than absolutely necessary, and you heard what Seth said. Yakov was trying to make deals with the God of the Dead. He’s not going to be held by the vampire council very long if we send him and that other one there. And I’m sure your council would be upset if we turned them over to Anubis and the Soul Eater because they sure aren’t passing the feather test. I don’t think either one of them could pass a lead bar test.”
“Sven’s all brawn with little brain,” Kirill said. “Yakov will be tugging him around by his dick. But fine, if you don’t want to talk about this pregnancy thing now, then answer me just two questions, okay, and then I’ll drop it for now.”
Ra nodded.
“One,” Kirill held up his finger, “are you pregnant, or is it possible you could get pregnant?”
“Is that the two questions?” Ra was leaning away from him.
“No, that’s one question with two prongs to it.”
“Okay, then I don’t know yet, and yes, it could be possible.” Ra stuck out his chin.
“All right.” Kirill inhaled slowly. He wasn’t going to get upset when Ra was looking so defensive. But it didn’t stop him holding up his second finger. “Now, the second question. Does this male pregnancy only apply to gods themselves, or is it possible that you could get me or Arvyn pregnant as well?”
“That’s two questions as well.” Ra bit his bottom lip, and when he looked so unsure, Kirill was hard pressed to remember the man had been around since the beginning of time. Ra looked so young and all of Kirill’s protective instincts came rushing forward.
“Just answer the questions, babe.” Arvyn leaned into Ra’s other side. “We’re mates. We can handle anything so long as we’re together.”
“It could be possible.” Ra was wringing his hands. “I’ve not come across a situation where a god has had two mates before, except for Nereus and he’s only a demigod. In all the other matings so far… well, Madison and Sebastian don’t count because Sebastian is the son of Death and he’s not really a god, although it could be possible.”
“Ra.” Kirill growled a warning. He wanted an answer.
But Ra was unraveling, his speech getting faster and faster. “And then there’s Lasse and Jason, well Nereus got mated first and that was before the Mother gave us all her blessing. He does have two mates, but they adopted a wee red wolf pup, so they might not get pregnant. But Jason got pregnant to Lasse, and then Hades got pregnant to Ali. Poseidon was the god who was pregnant in his mating too which was a real shock to him, I can tell you, and then Artemas, but no, he and Silvanus said they didn’t want kids and the Fates gave them a dispensation, but they had to wrangle to get that worked out because the Fates really need more permanent threads in the tapestry, and then there was Baby and Owen, but Baby got pregnant then, but that doesn’t count because both Baby and Owen are gods. And then we can’t forget Thor, but he was the one who carried his and Orin’s baby too.”
Ra’s chest was working overtime. “So, I don’t know, I really don’t know, but I promise you, I wasn’t keeping anything from you. I just, I honestly forgot the Mother changed the rules. It used to be that the only male gods who got pregnant were ones who mated with someone else in the god line. But then we had this party, it was for Hades and his mate Ali, and Silvanus, who’s the right hand of the Mother, he said that the Mother didn’t think it was fair to pair gods with paranormals or humans, and not give them the same advantages that gods who mated gods got. So, she gave every male god, regardless of who they mated, the chance to give or receive children. I’m so sorry.”
Kirill thought of all the sex they’d had in the past three days – every which way and every combination and summed up the main highlight of Ra’s ramble. “You’re telling me, I could be pregnant.”
“Maybe. Possibly. I don’t know for sure.”
“Okay.” It really wasn’t. The last thing Kirill ever thought he’d have to worry about in over six hundred years of