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  There it was. Unmistakable, strong, his. Throwing his head back he howled in triumph. Asger opened his eyes to find Kim looking down on him. Silent tears ran down her face. She, too, slid to her knees, and Asger pulled her into a hug that he never wanted to end. He shifted them both, so that they sat on the ground with his back resting against the tree, and Kim and her precious cargo snuggled on his lap. Asger couldn’t help himself. He put his large hand on her abdomen in a possessive move that made his kona smile. Dipping his head he claimed her mouth in a tender kiss.

  When they were forced to break apart due to the urgent need for oxygen they were both gulping air into their lungs and grinning at each other like fools.

  “I missed you so much,” Kim said. Cupping one side of her face, Asger nodded and rested his forehead on hers.

  “And I you. I never thought I would see you again. Let alone like this. I thought you didn’t want my children.” He tightened his hand on her abdomen. When Kim brought her hands over this, they interlinked their fingers.

  “I never said I didn’t want them, you silly wolf. I just wasn’t ready. I’m still not entirely sure I am, but your son had other ideas.” She grinned at his sharp intake of breath. “It’s a boy, you know. I can feel it.”

  Asger pulled away, bubbles of happiness bursting in his chest.

  “I do not care either way. Boys, girls, what does it matter? I have you back, and any children we have will be a bonus, but I do not understand. How did this happen?”

  He smirked when Kim laughed. She punched him lightly in the stomach, trailing her fingers over his taut abs up to his shoulders.

  “Do you need me to draw a diagram, you big, brave, and rather dumb warrior of mine?”

  Her grin deepened when he growled a warning.

  “Watch it, woman. With child or not, I can still take my belt to your ass for talking to me like that.” He wouldn’t of course. No way in hell would he risk their child. This miracle he’d never thought to have. Judging by the careless shrug of Kim’s shoulders, she knew that, too. She stuck her tongue out at him, making his wolf growl a warning.

  “I seem to recall I told you before. Your big bad wolf act doesn’t scare me. It never has. As to how. I wasn’t feeling well when I was wrenched home. Richard was sick.” She put her hand over his mouth when he was going to interrupt her. “He’s okay now, but I think that’s why I was pulled back. Well that, and unfinished business. I tied up my affairs so to speak. I never told you, but the ancient one summoned me, and told me I had to make a choice. I didn’t really understand what he meant, until I woke up in my cottage, and felt as though I’d left the best part of me behind, here with you.”

  Asger’s wolf growled, recalling the horrifying sight of his mate fading from view, as though she had been nothing but a dream.

  “I paid him a visit, too, and that’s what he told me. When you didn’t return I thought your choice meant you didn’t want me.”

  Kim gasped and shook her head.

  “Never that. You have to believe me. I spent hours just willing that ledger to bring me back to you, but nothing happened until now. I guess, the gods decided the time was right.”

  Asger gave a tight nod. That was as good an explanation as any, he supposed.

  “At first I thought I was being sick because I missed you. Lord, how I missed you, but eventually Susan convinced me to go to the doctors. Imagine my surprise when she announced I was pregnant. When my doctor went to remove the coil, she couldn’t find it.” The most delicate blush spread across Kim’s feature as she said that. Asger frowned at her. She had lost him again.

  “Coil?” he asked. “That’s the device that stopped you from having my children?” He couldn’t quite keep the bitterness at that old hurt out of his voice, and Kim pulled his head down for a kiss.

  “That’s not why I had it. Well, I did, but not to prevent your children, per se. I didn’t know you then, did I? It’s just something we do in my time. I know it doesn’t make any sense to you, and it really doesn’t matter anymore, does it?”

  Seeing her cradle her abdomen, Asger had to agree. She was here with him, and that was all that mattered now.

  “Not if you truly want this baby, no, it doesn’t.”

  Kim smiled, and he couldn’t doubt the sincerity behind it. It lit up her face and soothed the last niggling doubts in his soul.

  “I do, don’t ever doubt that, Asger. Anyway, let me explain what happened.” At his nod she continued.

  “Apparently vigorous sex can dislodge the coil. Extremely vigorous sex. I tell you, she made me feel like a right freak, but I couldn’t exactly explain the whole wolf shifter knotting thing now, could I?”

  Asger smiled at her. Kim’s embarrassment subsided at his quiet acceptance. She wiggled on his lap, and pulled a small parchment out of the back pocket of her jeans. The black and white grainy image looked vaguely like a…

  “By all of Odin.”

  Asger’s shout of surprise made a flock of nearby birds took flight. Kim giggled, and pointed out the various parts of the image.

  “Meet your son. That’s his head, body, arms, and little legs, all accounted for. This was taken yesterday. She did one when she checked for the coil, too, just to make sure everything was all right. In fact, I’ve had a few. Paid for a private one, too, because I wanted to show you, and well, being that I’m back here I won’t be having any more—”

  Asger shut her rambling up by kissing her. A kiss that quickly turned passionate. Picking her up, Asger carried her out of sight and into his dwelling, discarding clothing as they went. He only stopped when he was buried balls deep inside her body with her internal walls fluttering around his cock.

  “Has anyone ever told you that you talk too much, kona?” he asked.

  When Kim seemed to consider this question, he pulled out, only to thrust back in again. The action solicited a gasp of pleasure from his woman. Asger smirked and did it again.

  “Well?” he asked.

  Kim rolled her eyes. Using her internal muscles she clamped around him, making him grunt. The little minx grinned at him.

  “Now who’s talking too much? Shut up and fuck me already.”

  Asger didn’t need to be told twice. He’d been granted a miracle, a gift from the gods. Only a fool would argue with the gods, after all.

  The End

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