The Lion's Cat | Completed

46 ⚡ Benjamin

Chapter 46

ten months later

"Is that the best you can do?"

I groan as I drop my knees to the ground from the plank position I held for less than thirty seconds. I will punch Xavier if he continues to bother me.

"I'm not letting you go until you plank for forty-five seconds," he says, crouching in front of me.

"Aren't you going a little too hard on her? She just had your damn child," Nala defends from beside me with a perfect plank pose.

I raise my head, glaring at the furrowing feline with the sun kissing his bronze skin. "I'm going easy on her or, it would have been a two minutes plank," he says.

"Fuck you," I growl. Foxy cowers in a corner, making sure his lion knows she isn't angry with him. Coward cat.

Meanwhile, Xavier grins. "You'll thank me once you're back to your old self. Now start the damn plank again."

I should have never asked him to go hard on me. I was pregnant and regretted eating the box of brownies in less than five minutes.

Ten tedious months passed since we officially mated. Eight stressful months where my belly got bigger and Xavier got more anxious. He thought my stomach would split in two to release the baby for how round and big it was. At the same time, he couldn't stop poking it.

Nevertheless, a beautiful baby boy was born under the new moon. At only two months old, I'm confident he'll have my hair but keep Xavier's golden eyes. Same color as his lion. That should tell you enough about what he'll turn into.

With a groan, I go back to the plank with Xavier's eyes fixed on me. Sweat is dripping down my forehead as my face turns red. I used to do this with ease, but ten months of nothing ruined me. I hate it.

A piercing baby cry makes me grin as I drop my knees and get back onto my feet. "Duty calls," I say, patting Xavier's back before walking inside the clowder's house.

"Not so fast," he says, grabbing my wrist. "I'll go take care of that while you continue—"

"Look!" I yell, pointing behind him with a shocked wide-eyed look. Xavier frowns, following the direction, and I take that chance to push his hand away and take a run for it.

I laugh as he curses me out.

I walk to my bedroom, finding the wooden crib in the middle of it. That and Benjamin's changing table has taken the free space I once had in my room.

His cry is loud as I approach him, and a horrified gasp echo in the room.

His entire eyes are pitch black. Goosebumps make themselves known as the baby keeps crying black tears. Should I even pick him up?

"Xavier!" I yell a couple of times when a warm presence walks inside the room, inhaling chunks of oxygen.

"What happened?" he asks, approaching me.

I cross my arms over my chest, tilting my head to the side. "I think we can call the Creatures Council now. Benjamin is weird," I say.

Xavier frowns, getting closer to the crib. I hear him take a sharp inhale as his hands grip onto the rails. "That's a first," he comments before wiping the black tears from the crying boy.

I watch him bring his wet fingers under his nose, followed by his tongue tasting it. "They're normal tears, but I don't get why his eyes are like that. I'll go report it to Richard. In the meantime, try calming him."