Free Natural Magick by Kathi S. Barton Page A

No, don’t tense up. You aren’t going to feel a thing, I promise. I’ve taken all of your pain and worry and have set it aside. I want you to relax or I can’t move through you. For now, I need you to focus on my voice, listen to the calm tones I’m using, the way my voice is soft and warm. I can see your children, and if you close your eyes, you’ll see everything I see. See the little boy, see the cord there? I’m going to remove it now.”
    As Pete worked, she explained each step to Sara and through her, Shade. When she felt that she had done all she could, Pete began to pull out of Sara’s body and gently touch each child as she left. When Pete opened her eyes, Mel was standing next to Sara with the man. Slightly dizzy with exhaustion, Pete took a few seconds to realize who he was. She had met him in the study the other night.
    “ Aaron, how, what are you doing here? Mel? How are you here? It’s daylight. Please, love, go back to the mansion. It isn’t safe for you here,” Sara said.
    Pete looked at first to Sara then the man. Love? Pete was too tired and too muddled to understand what was going on, but she had a feeling she was seeing the master of the house and the mate to Sara. Pete was confused. If this was her mate then who was the asshole from the house?
    “ I’m still at home, sweetheart. Mel has brought me here to see our babies being born. She didn’t want me to miss this event. Her magic is holding me here. I love you very much.”
    Pete was still trying to work out the dynamics and almost missed what the man was asking of her. She was so tired she couldn’t concentrate on him for several seconds. “I’m sorry, sir. What did you say? I was…I didn’t hear you.”
    “ You do look very tired, my dear. I said it will soon be dark enough for us to join you here. I don’t suppose you could slow it down just a bit for me, Pete?”
    “ The children are very anxious to meet you both, but I’ll speak with them for you. They want to be born. I could wait until you have someone…a real doctor come for them now if you’d prefer.”
    “ No. No, you need to do this for me, for us. I want you to bring them into the world. I will have Thomas, our physician, come, but you will need to finish. Sara and I both want you to finish this for us.”
    Sara nodded.
    With her shields down, Pete now knew what they were. Vampire. The word vampire had never entered her mind when dealing with these people. The bitchy woman, Queenie, was something completely different and she had the same feelings about the two women too. Somehow, they were the same thing, magic and vampire.
    Pete moved her hand over the mound of life and closed her eyes, asking for them to wait for their father.
    She turned her attention back to the man and said, “Sire, they will wait for you, but the little girl said not to be too long. Also, she said to tell you that she’s given permission to the male to be born first, but she will still be the boss over him no matter how big he gets for his pants.”
    Aaron, a fourteen hundred year old vampire, master of his own realm, with over one thousand people looking to him for protection and guidance, burst into tears. Life could suddenly get no better than this moment in time, he told her.
    “ Tell the young lady that I have no doubt that she will be just like her mother in all things. Thank you, Pete. I will forever—”
    “ I need to go. I need to get something from the kitchen. Excuse me.”
    Pete did not want to hear whatever he had to say. She wasn’t much for praise. It embarrassed her in ways she could not explain. She was more of the behind the scenes kind of person. Do the job and get the heck out of Dodge. She turned back to Sara as she stood up. She had to prepare the woman for the birth and blocked everything else from her thoughts.
    “ Mrs. MacManus, when the time comes, you won’t be able to feel the contractions so you will need to bear down and push when I tell you to. It is