Lion

“Matthew!” her blood-curdling scream filled my oversized ears, making me dig deeper. There was not going to be any new addition to this pride. Not if I could control it. I roared loudly, looking down into her pain filled eyes. This was power. This is what I was capable of. No one is ever to challenge the leader of a pride, not even his wife. Her cries never stopped, and I smirked down at her. She would have to learn eventually, right? I heard a noise off in the distance, it sounded a lot like Scarlet’s voice, but it was cautious. She wasn’t panicking, or screaming. She sounded normal.

I entered a state of confusion where everything was dark. I was in between a place with a screaming, dying wife and a calm but worried one. I didn’t know what was happening. But when I finally started to see where I really was, everything started blurry. But as it cleared up, Scarlet was holding one of my paws in her hand. I saw that it was covered in blood and I pulled it away from her, roaring and jumping up.
“Matt! Please calm down!” Scarlet jumped back, but scrambled forward to grab my paw once again. when I looked this time, there was no blood. It was normal. I reached forward and rubbed her stomach, moving her shirt away from the skin to make sure there were no marks there. She was fine. Everything was fine, there was no blood, or marks on my wife. I let myself fall back onto the bed, sighing. What the fuck was all that about? “What happened? I couldn’t even use our animalistic communication to feel your emotion…”

“I…I don’t know.” For some reason, I wanted to keep it that way. I didn’t want her to be afraid of me. She was a sensitive soul, I knew that much. And she would be scared of something like that, especially since she knows I would never ever in my right mind want to hurt her! “I think I was having a bad dream or something. I don’t remember…” I rolled onto my side and pressed my large wet nose onto her small human one. This made her smile, but it faded quickly as she remembered what we had happened.

“Are we okay? I know that we weren’t in too great of a mood earlier about this whole baby thing…” her voice got quiet quickly.

“Yes, love. We are just fine. And we always will be.” I showed her my giant teeth, hoping to get a smile in return. She relaxed a little and returned it, standing up and stretching. Her shirt pulled up a little bit, and I took the opportunity to lick the skin I could see. This made her laugh as she stepped back. I hopped off the bed, carefully jumping up and setting my front paws on her shoulders. She grabbed my arms to steady herself, and smiled greatly, mesmerized by my eyes. “Do you want to tell the kids?”

“Only if you are ready.” Her answer was calm, but I watched the excitement grow in her eyes. I loved seeing that. And I was glad that I could produce that still. I carefully let go and rested back on all fours, leading her from the room. The more time we had to help the kids adjust to a new one, the better. We had only done this once before, to Matt when he was young. But he is older now, and Genevieve is older than he was when he got a sibling. Hopefully she would be more excited than anything. Most women like kids better than men do!