Missing Vampire: Reward Available (Hypernaturals 6)

Bedtime

The four of us lay in our big bed.

We are talking. Wedding night, and we are talking.

Jessica snuggled in with Helen, and up against Morgan. I am on the far side from Helen.

"You know. It occurred to me: You do not have fangs, Morgan." Jessica said.

Morgan touched her teeth with a fingertip. "Never needed them. Never had the compulsion to drink blood even once. Would have been nice to be able to Juice someone now and then though."

Jessica-the-Doctor said: "I am thinking about you having that third baby you talked about in the pool. If you inhale Adrian's scent and you ovulate, you need to drink his blood. Your egg will not be permeable to sperm without doing that."

"Not good: You can't bite him." Helen looked troubled. "I wonder if you even LIKE blood."

Morgan ran a knee up and down my leg as she considered. "So. Seems to me we only need a syringe? To get pregnant I can tolerate almost anything. Even snails. Blood would be better than that, even. What about the hookup loop? Mix us together again completely, like after I lost most of my kidneys in Mexico? Does the blood need to be ingested? Your theory is that Vampire genetic programming enforces that our bodies know the father of the child is near and staying that way. We have other ways to tell my body to get ready for incoming and accept the wiggling guests with open ovum."

Jessica, noticing Helen seemed unhappy about the idea Morgan might not be able to get pregnant, assured both Helen and Morgan: "We'll figure it out. We are getting you pregnant Morgan, make no mistake about that, but not till after Helen delivers. You are a different kind of Vampire, but I assume your plumbing is the same or close enough. When we get back to the US, we'll ask Sally to help us figure it out. She loves a medical challenge. One that leads to another grandchild for her? It is a dead certainty that you are having a baby. Only a question of when."

"I did not think about that either. I now have a mother and father-in-law! The things I am getting in trade for losing sole ownership of my Miata! Wow." Morgan marveled.

"Regrets. Morgan?" I asked her.

"No, No. I told you all it will take some getting used to it all, and it is funny to realize all the things I did not even consider at the time. I am thinking about the fact that as much sex as I had in Houston as a cop, I have never been in a group sex situation. Things of that nature."

"Never?" Helen asked, and could not help but have a disbelieving tone in her voice.

"Unless you count necking in the school bus when a number of other kids were also necking. Also, of course, I have been in the bed or the shower or wherever while you all were having sex with each other. Just not me." Morgan replied.

"Should we leave?" Jessica asked, concerned. "You don't need to jump into this all at once. I can sneak in later for some Adrian. I am not caught up on that, but you get first dibs. Damn, I must love you."

"No. No. Bear with me, my wife. It is all-new, and I am going to be in this marriage. I made up my mind about that and I will by all the gods be IN it. I thought about it for too long already and for all that thinking I missed so many ramifications. This goes to show you what overthinking something like love will get you. I wasted too much time. I want all the way in. It is not like I do not love you two as well."

Helen asked gently "You and Adrian. Never?"

"Never." Morgan replied. "Not counting the breast hickey when he turned me of course. Also today, in the pool. That was more a tease than anything." Morgan looked at me. "A nice tease. I wanted to do so much more than that. It was... A promise of things to come."