Chapter 23

Wishes was sitting at the kitchen table when I came into the kitchen with several bags of groceries. Dropping the bags with a sigh of relief I leant over and gave Wishes a soft kiss.

“Hello love, I didn’t expect you to be home yet.” I pulled back as I noticed the worried expression on her beautiful face. “What’s up love?”

“Linda, I, I want to talk about our future a bit.” Wishes stammered.

I sat heavily in the chair opposite her, a sudden chill in my stomach.

“Our future, why baby, aren’t you happy. I, I thought we were good together.” I could feel a tear trickling down my cheek.

Wishes grabbed my hand off of the table and kissed it before she held it to her cheek.

“You know I’m happy sweetheart. I didn’t mean to worry you, I love you Linda and that isn’t going to change, but,” Wishes looked down at the table.

“But?” I asked, I was a little calmer, although that “but” worried me. Such a small word, yet it can shatter your world.

“But, there’s something missing love.”

The cold feeling was creeping back in again.

“Is it a man, is that what you need?”

I was surprised when Wishes laughed, A wonderful sound that could always lift my mood.

“No honey, it’s not a man. Believe me love you keep me more than satisfied in that way. Linda, how would you feel about having a baby?”

For a fleeting moment I had a vague memory of having the equipment to create a baby then it was gone.

“Oh goddess, Wishes I would love to have your baby, I, I’ve been feeling bit broody for months, but I remember checking last night and neither of us the wherewithal to make either of us pregnant.”

Wishes chuckled at my admittedly lame joke.

“About a month ago I found out that Dr Roberts has a bit of a sideline going at a clinic in Spain. He is offering couples the opportunity to select the gender of their child. It’s perfectly legal there so he’s not breaking the law as long as he only consults with the couples here and any other work is done in Spain.”

“But darling I wouldn’t worry about whether we had a boy or a girl, but we would still need to get a man involved.” I felt a tear again, “If that’s what you want then okay, but I really wanted your baby.”

Wishes came around the table and pulled me to my feet. We kissed for a long time, almost long enough to distract us from our discussion.

“That’s the whole point love. I explained our situation to Alan, that’s Dr Roberts and he is happy to try an experimental process that’s only been tried on animals so far. He would take several eggs from you and several from me. He would use half of my eggs to extract the genetic material and use it to fertilize your eggs. Then do the same using some of your eggs to fertilize mine. We could both be pregnant and the babies would truly be ours.”

“Goddess, I didn’t know that they could do that!” I gasped and hugged Wishes tightly. “Oh baby to think we could have our own family.” Now the tears were on in full force. We both hugged and cried and kissed until Wishes pulled back slightly.

“There is a small amount of risk babe. Not very much to us but there is a good chance that one or both of us may not catch, the egg may not develop properly. Or there is a chance we could end up with a child with problems. This area is kind of new, they’ve done the procedure with rats and monkeys and it worked out okay but there is a risk.”

“Love you know that every parent takes that chance, it’s a risk you have to accept, it may be that we are going to have more risk than most couples but I trust in the Goddess.”

“The only other thing is that Alan wants to write it up for a medical journal. He has promised me it will be anonymous but there’s a slight chance the press would find out.”

I kissed Wishes gently. “I want us to try honey, you will make such a great mommy.

Capter 24. Epilogue

A tall woman with reddish gold hair walked into the living room of the small house. She was reading from a handful of printed sheets. As she entered she looked up and smiled at the sight of the dark haired woman sitting in the armchair.

She paused for a moment to watch her lover, Linda’s head was lying back against the chair and her eyes were closed, a contented smile on her pretty face.

Wishes cast her eyes down lower, her partner was sitting there topless, their daughters clasped to her chest suckling from her ample breasts. She felt a sharp pang of jealousy for a second, she hadn’t been able to breastfeed their daughters. When Wishes milk came in her small breasts only produced a tiny amount of milk, unlike Linda whose breasts had swelled to a DD cup and seemed to have a never ending supply of for the hungry twins. Then she grinned to herself, there was even some left over for Wishes most nights, the thought sent a tingle to her crotch as she thought of suckling from those beautiful heavy globes.

For a time Wishes just leant against the door frame, her reading forgotten, and took in the beautiful sight. A warm feeling had suffused her being as she gazed with love at the three most important people in her life.