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Harriet's kiss became more heated but when Severus failed to match her enthusiasm, she pulled back and flashed him a wry smile.

"What's gotten into you, Sev?" Harriet asked with a hint of dejected disappointment in her voice, "...Do you not want me?"

Severus frowned as he contemplated how to respond to her question.

Did he want Harriet Potter?

Of course not, he thought of the very idea as intrinsically repulsive.

However, the hormones and pheromones that came from the omega hit him squarely in the face and despite his feelings, he couldn't deny that Harriet's beckoning scent was nearly hypnotizing.

Severus's strict resolve wavered as he eyed the taunting, soft glow of Harriet's cheeks and the subtle hint of cleavage that her robes exposed, but he forced himself to remember his situation.

Regardless of her surprising allure, Harriet belonged to a different version of himself.

He wondered if he would be committing an offense by moving forward with his future self's wife?

He would…...wouldn't he?

Harriet ended his musings for him.

"You're breaking my heart, Sev!" She confessed with a saddened laugh.

Anxiety curled in Severus's chest when he realized that his hesitation had upset her.

"Pardon me, my love, you're...lovely...However, I must quell my desire…….I have no intention of hurting the child." Severus wisely reasoned.

He silently commended himself on his use of wit.

Of course he should mention the baby to make his escape from Harriet's loving arms!

He frowned when she took his hands and placed them on the sides of her belly.

Severus had never touched an expectant mother before, especially not one who carried his child.

His dark eyes widened when he felt a slight quiver of motion under his palms while the life inside Harriet wriggled and stretched.

"The midwife said it may encourage her to go ahead and enter the world. As much as I love carrying your little ones, Sev, I am ready for her to be in our arms! Will a bit of harmless fun hurt?" Harriet asked with a smirk.

"...'Her'?" Severus repeated.

Harriet gave him an incredulous look as she placed her hands over his and spoke, "Yes, 'her'...Our daughter? Sev, are you alright? You're acting really strange tonight."

Severus drew in a silent breath.

A daughter.

He would have two sons and a daughter, at least.

From what he had been able to infer about his relationship with his mate, he pondered the startling but realistic possibility that there may be even more Snape children to come in later years.

Severus felt that he and Harriet seemed to share a very…...intimate….bond with each other.

"...Forgive me, my love." Severus replied in a low purr as he looked down into his future wife's emerald eyes. He carefully chose his words to allay Harriet's suspicion, "My day has been very trying. I'm quite fatigued, but I assure you, it has nothing to do with you or my affections towards you."

He blinked when Harriet held his gaze while she snaked a hand up and slipped it into his raven-black hair.

Severus was not accustomed to touch, but Harriet's gentle gesture struck him as surprisingly refreshing.

He tried not to groan as she began to tenderly massage his scalp while she looked into his dark eyes and whispered with a soft smile, "...I love you."

Severus Snape had never heard those words before.

It may have been Harriet Potter who spoke that statement, who stood in front of him, but she was a different Harriet than Severus had known.

It was Harriet Snape who had whispered those words of love to him.

Harriet Snape, his wife, his mate, the mother of his children……. and the holder, apparently, of his heart.

There was something about her effortless display of genuine affection that shook Severus down to his core.

In that moment, with Harriet's pheromones and hormones wafting up his nose and into his brain, Severus decided to allow himself a taste of the riches that his future self had the luxury of enjoying on a daily basis.

Severus's hands kept their possessive hold on Harriet's womb as he bent down and pressed his lips against hers to renew their kiss.

He was embarrassingly inexperienced, but Harriet seemed to have enough knowledge for both of them as she gave Severus a quick lesson on snogging.

Harriet showed him how to be enticing, vulnerable, and loving all at once.

She taught him about closeness as she held his face in her hands and nipped solicitously at his lips.

When Severus parted them in response to the slight pain from the delicate love bites that Harriet gave him, her tongue dove into his mouth and he teased hers with his own as he challenged her invasion.

Instinct began to take over as Harriet groaned into their kiss.

Severus felt a very unfamiliar sensation as he noticed that his trousers were quickly becoming uncomfortably tight under his black robes.

"Take me, Sev~..." Harriet whispered in one wanton, little moan against his lips as she broke their kiss to speak, "Please…...I need you."

I need you.

No one had ever spoken those words to Severus either.

Harriet's plea bathed him in a thick wash of grateful gladness.

Severus opened his black eyes and looked past Harriet at the mound of pillows, blankets, and soft things on the bed.

He assumed that was his omega's nest.

In Severus's hazy mind, clouded by want and sweetened by the promise of love, he wondered how many times his future self had claimed Harriet there?

Had his sons been conceived and born on that bed?

He decided that he would leave those musings for later.

Harriet squeaked as Severus boldly swept her up into his strong arms and carried her over to the bed.

He sat her down on the top layer of blankets as gently as if she were a porcelain doll.

Severus hadn't managed to think far enough ahead to remove his clothing, but Harriet had already undertaken the task.

Severus watched in stupefied awe while his wife transfixed him with her emerald green gaze as her hands unfastened each closure on her robes to slowly expose her magnificent figure to his dark stare.

Severus's eyes devoured Harriet's creamy, bare shoulders first, then the pale outline of her throat.

Her bra came next, filled with its weighty contents, followed by the soft flesh of her swollen belly, all the way down to the small scrap of fabric that served as her underwear, which her feminine hips nearly concealed.

Severus's black eyes were wide as Harriet reached behind herself and unfastened the hook on her lacey bra once she had successfully wriggled out of her robes.

He nearly groaned when his omega's overly full breasts tumbled into his view, round and heavy, with their peaks darkened into hardened tips that begged him to come closer and……..

Harriet gave him no warning as she vanished her panties with a wordless spell.

Severus was rendered speechless when she laid on her back and spread herself wide for him.

"Go on, Sev~." Harriet teased as she reveled in the longing gaze that her alpha lavished upon her, "I'm yours. Take what you want.~."

Severus moved forward, eager and curious, but he stopped suddenly when Harriet grimaced and put a hand to the side of her belly.

"What's wrong?" He asked quickly, "What are you feeling? Are you in any pain?"

"No….." Harriet said after a moment as she gave Severus a subtle smile, "I think I need to turn though, will that be alright?"

"...Yes." Severus replied in a low, fascinated whisper.

He forced himself not to drool as he watched Harriet sigh and roll herself onto her side to shamelessly show him the rounded cheeks of her plump bottom.

He gnashed his teeth at the noise that her breasts made when they slapped together while she turned.

Severus hovered over Harriet as a new sense of selfish, alpha dominance gripped him.

He had suffered, he had been through enough, it was time that he received a reward for his troubles.

He had been foolish in his previous thinking.

Time was an irrelevant notion, Harriet was his mate.

Surely Severus's future self wouldn't mind if he sampled the prize that he would one day receive….

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Severus was so engrossed in Harriet that he didn't hear the popping sound that rang out downstairs.

………….Neither did she.

Severus's future self arrived back in the living room of his home with a frown as he checked the time on the wall clock.

It wasn't as late as he had anticipated.

Good, perhaps he may have a moment alone with Harriet before they went to sleep.

Severus's future self pocketed his wand before he glided out of the living room and up the stairs in joyful anticipation of seeing his wife.

Severus's future self passed through the hallway upstairs and frowned when he heard murmured whispers behind the boys' bedroom door.

He paused, turned the knob, and peered into the room suspiciously.

A scowl marred his pale face when he saw Albus and Verinth lying in their beds with their eyes closed, either asleep or convincingly appearing to be.

Severus's future self raised an eyebrow as he silently closed his sons' bedroom door.

He slyly waited for a moment outside in the hallway to verify that Verinth and Albus weren't trying to trick him.

When he heard no more whisperings come from behind their door, he resumed his journey and glided towards the bedchamber that he shared with Harriet.

Severus's future self hoped that his darling wife was ready to greet him as he placed his elegant hand on the knob and opened the door…...

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Severus had Harriet's thigh in one hand while he moved his other towards the fastens on his trousers as he prepared to free his aching manhood and slip into his mate.

The decadently pleasant scent that Harriet carried had strengthened and nearly blinded Severus with primal need.

Her core was temptingly wet as he stared into the center of her womanhood that he knew so little about.

Severus had always been an eager learner.

Harriet let an impatient moan leave her throat as her body burned with want, waiting and willing for her alpha to satisfy her.

The bedroom door opened as a sudden intruder destroyed their privacy.

A cry rang out, "EX...PELLIARMUS!"

A blast of bright light shot forward.

Harriet shrieked when Severus was violently thrown off of her.

His body tumbled onto the floor as Harriet worked to sit up in her nest.

She blinked as she found herself face to face with…….Severus?

Harriet hastily pulled one of the blankets over herself to preserve her modesty as she looked at Severus's future self, her husband, and asked, "W-Who are you?!"

Severus's future self huffed and jerked his head to move the strand of black hair out of his way that had fallen in front of his face.

"I'm your alpha, Harriet Snape! Or have you forgotten?!" Severus's future self snapped, "How could you do this to us?!...To me?! I leave to tend to some work and you repay me by bringing someone else into our marriage bed?! How long have you been betraying me?! How long have-"

"-I haven't betrayed you!" Harriet snapped, "I…..I….."

From the crumpled heap that he lay in on the floor, Severus sat up and ended the argument between his future self and his wife.

Severus's future self's black eyes widened as he furrowed his brow in shock while he looked at the younger version of himself.

Harriet frowned in confusion as she glanced between them both.

Severus's future self was instantly in front of him, with his wand held to his throat as he glowered and asked in a dangerous growl, "Who on earth are you?"

Verinth and Albus had fooled their father well, they were not asleep.

The two boys had heard the blast from their father's wand that had echoed out into the hallway.

Their footsteps pounded down the corridor as they rushed to respond.

The three adults looked up as Albus and Verinth appeared in the doorway to the bedroom with wide eyes.

Severus's future self turned and snapped at them both, "Boys, go back to your room! Now!"

"Mum, Dad….." Verinth said warily as Albus took a step closer to his older brother, "We can explain."