Chapter Two-Hundred and Sixty-Six

Jessica flipped on her uncle's surveillance equipment that she'd hooked up to the camera she'd planted in John's amp, smiling as she saw that he was hanging out on his bed without a shirt. "No better view…" She whispered, squinting at the black marking on his left arm. "A tattoo? How long has he had that?"

John rubbed his hand over the back of his hips, pausing in his actions when he felt the bumps on his skin. "Mom?" He turned the water for his shower off, wrapping a towel around his hips before he walked down to the kitchen where Clarissa was fixing dinner. "Mom, I think I caught the pox."

Clarissa dropped the tomato she was holding, rushing over to him and examining his body for the dreaded rash. "Damnit…" She hissed, grabbing a bottle of Calamine lotion and immediately staring to slather it over his body. "I was afraid of this."

John dropped his towel slightly, letting her get every welt on his hips while at the same time protecting his manhood from her. "It's not gonna kill me is it?"

She shook her head, taking in how close the rash was to his private area. "I don't think it'll kill you… but if we don't get this under control, it might make you infertile."

His eyes widened, fear coursing through his body as the thought of never being able to make babies shot through his mind. "How can I get rid of it?"

She sighed, picking up the phone and dialing a direct line to Ryan's office. "I'll ask Ryan if we can use penicillin and what treatments he would suggest."

Dominic stared blankly at the wall, gently bouncing Sage and Flynn in his arms to get them to burp. "When are we gonna get to sleep again?" He asked, jumping as Flynn spit up on his pajama pants.

Jade rocked in the rocking chair they'd moved into the bedroom, glaring at her future husband while she breastfed Violet on one boob and Iris on the other. "I don't think we get to sleep until they go to college."

He looked at the dark circles around her eyes, smiling at the sight of her feeding his children. "Well, as long as I get to see boobies at two AM, I'm happy."

She rolled her eyes, suddenly realizing that she was still engaged to an eighteen-year-old boy. "Dom, my body is not as hot as it was a few months ago." She handed Iris and Violet over to him, taking Flynn and Sage from him to change their diapers.

He smiled, looking at her belly and the scab from the C-section along her hips. "Baby, you're even more beautiful than the day I met you." He laid Violet and Iris on their bellies over his lap, gently patting their backs to get them to burp.

She barked a laugh, wiping Sage's butt and rubbing some diaper cream into her hind end. "You're just saying that because you're delusional from sleep deprivation."

He shook his head, taking her hand in his right before Iris burped and his lap was covered in even more spit up. "I mean it Jade. You are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen, and the best mother I could ask to care for my children."

She leaned down, gently kissing his lips. "Yeah, well, I pee when I sneeze now. And I have stretchmarks so big they'd put a tiger to shame."

He chuckled, handing her Iris and Violet so that he could change his pants while she changed their butts. "Well, I like tigers and to tell the truth, I've done worse than pee when I sneeze." He kissed her neck, taking Sage and Flynn to put them in their cribs. "I've shat my pants while I was drunk."

She laughed, the first real laugh since the babies had been born. "That is pretty bad."