Mad Gold (Providence Gold 2)

Straightening out from my crouched position, I walked out too, glaring at him the whole time.

“What were you guys doing?” he asked, looking at the separate trees and then back at us.

“Hunting for fucking mermaids,” I snapped before walking up to my woman and removing a leaf from her hair.

“Huh,” he scratched the back of his neck and then peered around us at the water behind us.

No one could be that dumb. Well, aside from his brother Tate!

“You here for a reason?” I snapped, losing what tiny bit of patience I had left and getting a sharp elbow to the gut from the woman beside me in return.

“Yeah,” Levi said, sounding worried suddenly. “Luna’s in labor!”

And then I truly lost my shit.FourteenMadix“W omen have been having babies since the dawn on mankind,” Dahlia repeated out of breath as she struggled to keep up with me as I stalked down the hallway toward Luna’s room.

“Not my sister,” I growled, seeing the room I was looking for just up ahead.

When I got to her door, I reached out and noticed how much my hand was shaking.

“I understand that,” Dahlia said from behind me, having just caught up with me. “But was it really necessary to punch Levi?”

Well, yeah! I had a list longer than my leg why that had been necessary. I’d started that list when they’d first met and it had just kept growing over the years. Granted, it was a Santa scenario – on one leg I had the good list, on the other the bad one, but fucking still! And his brother had married my baby sister in Vegas of all places. I had nothing against Vegas or people getting married there, but Luna deserved a huge wedding at a castle. Oh, and he’d knocked her up – which was why we were here.

Gulping, I spun around and looked at the woman who I was starting to see a wedding and babies with myself. Out of the corner of my eye, I also saw a pissed off Levi who had the beginning of a black eye walking in our direction.

“What if something happens to her or the baby?” I asked, my voice sounding desperate and croaky even to my own ears. “I can’t lose her!”

My little sister was my world, and I’d already let her down…

A sharp pinch and twist of my nipple made me yell a yodeling sort of noise.

“Shut up,” she snapped, glaring up at me. “She’s like every other woman who has gone through this and who will go through this. Now get your very attractive and impressive testicles into that room and give her some support before I call Bonnie to break them.”

With a groan, probably at the amount of information she’d just given about my balls and the mental image of balls being broken, Levi spun around and covered his ears with his hands.

Ironically, seeing him grossed out made me feel better and somewhat smug. Grabbing her head in my hands, I planted a big smackeroo on her lips. “You’re the shit, Dahlia Ferguson,” I whispered, pulling back so I could make eye contact with her. “You’re everything!”

I heard her gasp before Levi groaned, “Ah, fuck me. Can you go back to talking about breaking balls? Seriously, this is making me sick. There are women squeezing babies out of their vag…” he broke off and swayed, no doubt now picturing the birth process going on around him. This most likely wasn’t helped by a woman choosing that second to scream her ass off seeing as how he went even paler and sank back onto the wall, taking deep breaths.

I didn’t bother even acknowledging him before I turned around and walked into the room with my hand over my eyes just in case. I really didn’t want to see my sister’s vagina, or see a human being coming out of it.

Just as the door shut behind me, I heard the familiar sound of Levi yelping followed by a groaned, “What did I do?”

“You know what you did!” Dahlia hissed back.

And then the door clicked shut.

All the irrational thoughts and worries I’d been stewing over since I’d heard the news about my sister vanished, and I became the strong big brother that she needed. This was partly thanks to Dahlia. It was also partly thanks to Levi. Then again, if Dahlia hadn’t done whatever she’d done to him just now making me feel like laughing, I might not have been able to totally shake the heavier shit and worries off, so I’d just thank her for all of it.

And this, folks, was the random thought process of a man surrounded by women squeezing babies out of tiny holes.

Of all the things I expected to encounter when I got here, I didn’t expect for my sister to be a sobbing wreck.