Chapter 349 - 349 The Tiny Bubbles Of Hope

349 The Tiny Bubbles Of Hope

Lucien froze on the spot while staring at the black-and-white picture in his hands.

It was a sonogram, he knew that much.

But whose...?

His eyes slowly traveled to the tiny printed words in white at the top.

In the left corner, the mother’s name could not be more clear.

Lucien Clearwater.

Lucien’s eyes drifted back to the picture again, searching for something in the darkness at the center of the picture.

Anything.

There was something.

.....

Lucien’s fingers slowly wandered to the two tiny dots that were somewhat floating close to the walls.

Could it be?

Dumbfounded, he almost wanted to rub his own abdomen to locate the tiny sparks of life within. And then he recalled that he never had an ultrasound examination before.

And yet, the babies were there.

His children.

His and Ronan’s.

Their children.

Lucien felt light-headed all of a sudden. The ceiling above him started to spin and his world was turned upside down.

“Lulu.”

Ronan’s voice was loud and clear in his ear. It was almost like a wake-up call.

Lucien blinked a few times. When he fully regained consciousness, he was hanging from Ronan’s arms like a boneless ragged doll.

The Alpha pulled his mate to his feet and circled Lucien’s waist with both arms.

“Lulu, is everything alright?”

Worried that Lucien would drop the picture in a moment’s weakness, Annalynne quickly reached out to grab it, but it was not necessary at all.

Two rivulets of tears flowed down his cheeks as Lucien held the first sonogram of his babies close to his heart and refused to let go.

Ronan hugged Lucien from behind and gave him kisses against the back of his head.

“Baby? Lulu, what’s wrong?”

Lucien did not answer.

Nothing was wrong.

The tears simply would not stop, that was all.

Wordless, Lucien showed Ronan the sonogram in his hand.

Ronan stared at the framed picture in stupefaction. He took it from Lucien’s hand and let his eyes dart up and down many, many times.

Once the knowledge set in, innumerable warm and tender feelings burst forth in his heart. They spread slowly to his entire body, filling even the tips of his fingers and toes with an indescribable fuzzy sensation.

Ronan grabbed the back of Lucien’s neck and locked their lips together in a deep, consuming kiss.

His voice hoarse from the violence of his suppressed emotions, he barely managed to prevent himself from breaking down in tears.

“Lulu, it’s alright.”

“...”

“Don’t be scared, I will be here for you.”

“...”

Lucien took the sonogram back from Ronan and hugged it like he would their babies.

Ronan kept rubbing Lucien’s back gently while whispering soothing words to his teary mate.

Annalynne was pale with fright when she witnessed the exchange.

It was clear that Ronan wanted the babies.

What about Lucien?

Was Lucien happy or distraught about this unexpected revelation?

Or was he maybe sad because he thought that he lost them?

“Lulu, I am exaggerating,” Annalynne tugged at her brother’s arm.

“It’s okay to have sex during the early stage of pregnancy, you just need to be careful. I didn’t mean it when I said that you would regret it. Don’t be sad, let’s go to an obstetrician first.”

Ronan cleared his throat.

Lucien gave his sister a confused look.

“Let’s not talk while standing around,” Ronan decided.

Overwhelmed by the amount of drama so early in the morning, Lowell quickly agreed.

“Right. Why don’t we all just go and sit on the couch? Anna?”

Lowell tugged at Annalynne’s elbow. Dumbfounded, the latter did not resist when she was led toward one of the couches.

Lucien himself was led by Ronan to sit on the opposite couch, just next to the Alpha.

Tightly clutching the framed sonogram in his arms, Lucien went into a daze completely and stopped paying attention to his surroundings.

His gaze was unfocused and his lips were shut in utter silence.

Ronan then proceeded to explain to Annalynne and Lowell about the new technology that the fertility center in West Coast City developed to enable him and Lucien to have children.

He did not go into details, but he mentioned that although Lucien was the mother, he did not have the babies inside his belly.

Once Annalynne understood the whole picture, her cheeks were burning with extreme embarrassment. She never thought that the babies that she worried so much about were miles away, safe inside a lab-grown womb, and properly taken care of by experts.

“Sorry, Lulu,” she said helplessly. “I was mistaken.”

Annalynne knelt on the carpet in front of Lucien and grabbed his hands.

“You must be shocked. I am so, so, sorry...”

Lucien lifted his head and looked at his sister.

“No,” Lucien choked out while pulling his sister into a hug. “Thank you, Anna.”

Annalynne turned red in an instant.

“No,” she stammered. “It was not like I helped or anything. I was so stupid and...”

Lucien shook his head.

He did not care about the misunderstanding.

Annalynne’s unreasonable tantrums, the length she went to keep the babies safe, going as far as infuriating her brother, all of it made sense now.

The fact that Annalynne cared so much meant the world to him.

“You are going to be a great mother,” Annalynne whispered to Lucien, tears trickling down her eyes again.

This time they were happy tears.

“And you are going to be an amazing aunt,” Lucien whispered back.

His words made Annalynne float to the seventh heaven.

“I am!” she exclaimed. “I am going to be the best aunt in the world for them! I will always love them no matter what.”

Just like she loved her twin brother.

Once Lucien let go of Annalynne, he was wrapped in his mate’s tight embrace.

Ronan buried his face into Lucien’s neck.

“Ronan, we are going to have children,” Lucien said in a trembling voice.

After fantasizing about it for months, they were truly going to be parents.

“Yeah,” Ronan confirmed.

.....

He put his hands on top of Lucien’s, hoping that time passed quickly so that they could meet the babies soon.