122 Chapter 121

[Third Person's PoV]

'My lord, everything is ready,' Alpha announced through their connection.

'We'll be right over in a few minutes. She'll probably want to walk there,' Cid answered.

Although Cid couldn't see it, Alpha nodded in response.

Cid watched as she finished eating the last bit of her ice cream with a blissful expression. He almost laughed seeing her messy face but held it together and grabbed a napkin.

"Come here," he said, amused, taking hold of her chin and softly starting to clean her up.

Seeing how gentle he was being while cleaning her up, and how serious he looked while doing so, Aurora couldn't look away. She watched his serious expression, entranced.

When he was done, Cid nodded with a smile. Seeing his smile, Aurora knew right then and there that she had completely fallen in love with him. She knew it wasn't just hormones talking; she could tell deep within her.

Silent tears rolled down her face. Cid sighed as he cleaned up her face as well. "What's wrong now?"

"Why are you so good to me?" she cried, looking up and shedding more tears.

Cid sighed and rolled his eyes playfully before pulling her head down by her chin and kissing her forehead. "Come on, the others are waiting."

"They're done already?" she asked curiously, happy to be kissed on the forehead as she found it much more endearing than on the lips.

Cid smiled confidently and proudly. "Something you should know about my girls is that they're efficient and will quickly complete any task you give them."

Cid and Aurora then walked towards the large ballroom. When they arrived, it was filled with multiple women wearing dresses. Cid even spotted Zeto wearing a little suit with a comically big bowtie.

As soon as Cid entered, they all bowed their heads. Cid just raised a hand while lowering his head slightly, basically saying 'at ease'.

Epsilon was seen on the piano and immediately started playing "ICARUS" by Tony Ann.

Alpha then came up towards them with a smile. "I hope you enjoy yourself."

Aurora nodded with a smile. "I hope to get to know you all after this celebration… well, the ones that are most important."

Alpha reached out her hand. "The name's Alpha, The Sin of Pride, the leader of the Seven Deadly Sins, and the one who rules Shadow Garden after our great lord, so you can come to me if you're ever in need and master isn't available."

Aurora shook Alpha's hand and introduced herself, and as she did, Beta appeared peeking from Alpha's side.

"Name's Beta, the Sin of Lust." Even though Beta introduced herself, one could feel the envy coming from her gaze when looking at Aurora.

Gamma then casually walked in and introduced herself. "Gamma, Sin of Greed. It's a pleasure to get to know the infamous Witch of Calamity and the mother who will bear our Lord's child."

Delta then peeked out from the other side of Alpha. "Delta is Delta, Sin of Wrath… Delta isn't sure if I should be angry or glad. The pack is expanding, but it isn't with Delta… Bossu, breed with me!" she demanded while looking towards Cid.

Cid just started patting her head. "Later…"

"Promise?"

"I promise," Cid said, amused.

Cid then pointed towards Epsilon and introduced her. "The one on the piano is Epsilon, Sin of Envy."

"Zeta, Sin of Gluttony…" Zeta announced her presence as she undid her concealment, appearing next to Aurora.

Cid then felt a pair of arms wrap around his back before climbing up and laying her head on his shoulder before she began to lightly snore.

"Eta, as you can tell, is the Sin of Sloth…" Cid said as he pointed towards his shoulders.

Zeta let out a sigh as she went behind Cid and pulled Eta away from him.

Cid then started introducing her to everyone else, like his sister who had already met her, Sherry, Rose, even Alexia was present.

There were some members walking around with appetizers, which Aurora took, mostly all of them.

Cid then felt a pull on his shirt. He looked at Claire in confusion until she whispered, "What are you going to tell Mom and Dad?"

"Do we even have to tell them?" Cid said with a weary expression.

Claire looked at Cid with a deadpan expression. "Mom would literally kill you if she found out she had a grandkid and didn't find out, or found out about it way later than she was supposed to."

"Oh, I want to meet your parents!" Aurora exclaimed excitedly from her seat, hearing their conversation.

"And why would you want to do that?" Cid asked with an awkward smile.

"Isn't it obvious?" she said, rolling her eyes and rubbing her belly. "They're going to be Celeste's grandparents. They have a right to meet their grandbaby... well, unless you really, really don't want to…"

Cid honestly didn't know how to respond to the question. "This needs some careful thinking, so I can't give you an answer right away."

Aurora nodded in understanding and didn't push it further.

Afterward, Cid started to dance with all the girls one by one.

As Cid danced with Alpha, he asked, "Answer me honestly, how do you feel about the whole pregnancy thing?"

Alpha sighed and held his face with a hand. "Honestly, my lord, I'm just a little sad... I have been your first for many things. When we do things together, I've always been the first one since you always do it in the order when you first met us and named us to make it seem fair and to make it seem like you weren't choosing favorites.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm not used to not being the first this time. I thought out of all of us... I would be the one that would have gotten the blessing of bearing your child, seeing someone else, someone we have barely any knowledge of, getting that privilege..." Alpha couldn't finish her sentence.

Cid pulled Alpha closer and had her rest her head on his shoulder while putting a hand on his chest.

Cid pressed his lips against Alpha's forehead for a while. "I'm truly sorry for making you feel that way, Alpha. You girls are very important to me, and the last thing I ever want to do is hurt you–"

"My lord!" Alpha exclaimed in surprise. "This isn't something you should be apologizing for."

Cid shook his head. "It is. I may be your lord and master and all of that, but I'm still your husband, and when a husband does something wrong that upsets his wife, the thing he must do is apologize... Do I regret what I did? No, no I do not. It would be the same as saying I regret the creation of my daughter, which is something I would never do. The thing I do regret is making you feel this way."

Alpha looked toward Cid with a bit of tears in her eyes. She softly kissed Cid as she looked into his eyes with love and smiled brightly toward him. "I'm forever thankful you are the one I can call my husband."

Cid then danced and made sure that every single one of them was alright and expressed their feelings on the matter, even if it resulted in toe stomps from Gamma. A few hours later, Aurora and Cid were seen slow dancing together.

"How did you get along with the others?" Cid asked, looking at Aurora with a smile.

"They're great. I can see why you care deeply for them; they're all very talented girls," Aurora expressed with a smile.

Just as Epsilon was about to play her last song, Aurora's face went completely pale, and a big splash of water dropped down from her.

Cid and Aurora looked at each other with widening eyes and a look of horror and astonishment...

"My water just broke."