[Warning! Potential cheesy chapter. (It won't happen again, I swear.)]
"Arnold, I'm scared..." Nina mumbled in a low voice, "Or it's my hormones acting up again."
Nina was sitting on the bed as Arnold entered the room with a plate full of her favourite dish. Well, it wasn't her favourite but she was advised to eat fish and a lot of fruit juice postpartum. The problem was... Nina hated seafood. She wasn't allergic to it, she just hated it for no reason at all. But for Aiden, she happily ate it all without any complaints whatsoever. Nina wasn't alone in the room as Nicole was accompanying her and the four-month-old Aiden, who was happy in his own world. Talos had been helping Arnold in the kitchen and had followed him back to the master bedroom.
The bedroom wasn't fancy. It was quite unlike anything one would expect for an *Emperor's* bedroom. It was just a quite large yet cosy room in their humble abode. The house itself was nothing less than a mansion. It had eleven bedrooms each having attached bathrooms, three kitchens equipped with the latest technologies, three living rooms, a dining room, a special games room for the kids and a big front and back garden where the hounds and the golems liked to play.
The back garden also served as a training ground for Arnold as well as his summons. But it was mostly used when Yu Zhung showed up along with the rest of Arnold's heads of state to discuss something. The rest of the time, the garden was used as a meditation ground for Arnold. Doing mediation had helped him to control his rage a lot.
"I know you don't like fish. But you gotta eat some, once a day." Arnold pushed the plate forward, "And my cooking isn't that bad for you to get scared either."
"I'm not scared about the food doofus!" Nina slapped her fiance's wrist, "Mom and dad are coming over tomorrow..."
"So... what's there to be scared about?" Arnold blew at the hot tuna to cool it down a bit before feeding it to Nina, "They are here to bond with their grandson. There's nothing to be worried about."
"Yeah but it's the first time they are coming over after Aiden was born... and what if they don't like how we have been raising him..."
"Dear future sis-in-law. Aiden has been in this world for four months only. The way I see it, there isn't much of a raising to do until he's a bit older." Nicole couldn't keep it in anymore and burst out laughing, "Just think of it like this, Aiden is in safer hands than I was with my big-brained brother."
"Wait, what? I did everything I possibly could to raise you. Yet, you turned out to be a brat." Arnold said, pretending to be hurt by his sister's words.
"Bro... relax, I was just trying to make your fiance feel better about herself!" Nicole sighed before shaking her head, "But to be honest, I know you guys are going to be the best parents ever. Orco is a living example of how good your parenthood is."
Nina took Nicole's and in hers, "Thanks Nicole, it means a lot to us."
Arnold handed the plate over to Nicole the two of them were done with their sisterly bonding time, before turning to Talos.
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