Free Healing His Soul's Mate by Dominique Eastwick

and protective para shifters. He reached out and felt the slight push of curiosity from the first baby. Definite male and strong, he came to the forefront. Shade played it easy, and he spoke to the little one of love and protection. “Easy. I am here to help ensure your mum is safe.”
    Dana rubbed her belly, still answering questions Shade verbally asked. She didn’t like talking about her parents. Particularly her mother, but it kept her mind off the babies for a minute. The second cub, more curious, came forward but didn’t block. He pushed back. Shade hadn’t expected this. The first, though an alpha, acted as guard to the second, who he read as a prime. For any prime to stand behind another meant he protected something or someone else.
    Shade stopped talking and removed his hand from Dana’s belly before replacing it higher and to the side. Rekkus must have sensed something because he stood at his full, imposing height in the doorway, concern marring his brow as he laid the food tray on the dresser. “What is it?”
    As Rekkus’ voice reached the babies, a shift occurred. Not the sudden chill Rekkus’ concern brought to the room but through the protection of the two came…another. “Well, well, well aren’t you a little surprise.”
    “Shade, what have you found?” Rekkus growled, and the air temperature dropped until Shade could see his breath.
    He beckoned Rekkus over. “Easy, Da. Come rub your mate’s belly and tell your sons to stand down.”
    Rekkus climbed onto the mattress on the other side of Dana, rested his hands on her belly, and spoke. “Hawdd fy meibion, gadewch ein cyfaill i mewn.”
    The two boys moved to the side as Rekkus continued to chant in Welsh. Easy, my sons, let our friend in. “There you are, my sweet.”
    “Rekkus?” Dana asked eyes wide with concern.
    “Everyone is fine, but you appear to have three babes inside this beautiful round tummy of yours.”
    “That’s not possible. They did an ultrasound.” Rekkus’ head shot up.
    “You would believe a machine over me? Easy, tiger, your daughter has been hiding or has been hidden by her brothers to protect her. Have either of you noticed strange weather events or unexplained temperature changes?”
    “This is the Wiccan Haus. Most of what happens here I cannot explain,” Dana grumbled, eyeing the plate of food across the room. As if sensing her need, Rekkus rose from the bed and brought the tray forward. Dana, ignoring the fork, picked up the steak and bit into it. “Oh, so good.”
    Shade shook his head in a silent communication to not say anything. She might be human and a perfect lady, but it took a lot of food and strength to nourish three cubs. After a few bites, she came up for air. “I have noticed a lot more changes in the weather, quicker and more changeable, if that makes sense. Especially when Rekkus is angry or upset.”
    “Thunder and rain, maybe?”
    “I guess, I mean it rained last night,” Dana muttered between bites as she tore into the steak like a tiger in the wild tore into its prey.
    “Did it? Because it didn’t rain at my cabin or at the main Haus.”
    “Are you saying one of the cubs is an elemental empath?” Rekkus asked.
    Dana lifted her face from chugging her milk. “A what?”
    Rekkus reached over with a napkin to wipe her away her milk moustache. “ Elemental empath or EE. It’s a special power. The bearer can affect the weather with their emotions.”
    “Was one of you upset last night?”
    “You would have thought with my family’s sudden appearance on the island it would have been me. But I was too exhausted to care by the end.”
    When Shade moved his attention to Rekkus, the man shrugged. “I might have some pent-up anger directed toward the Stones.”
    “They aren’t all bad, Rek. My father and sister genuinely want to make amends. My mother….” She shrugged but her soul screamed out in pain.
    “The bitch is…a bitch.”
    Thunder rolled outside, and rain hit the window