The twin boys, which were named Julius II and Augustus, were far more difficult than their older half-sister. For one thing, they were aggressive with their nursing. Julius offered for Pear to nurse them, but Andi refused. She had one job in this world: to be a mother. And she was determined to make sure her babies grew up to be better men than her first mate.
Andi poured herself into motherhood. Anything that wasn't explicitly caring for her children, she outsourced to the servants. She refused to let the staff watch or nurse her children, even as it frustrated Julius, who wished to turn her into a lady. But Andi was too busy with her three children to attend her lessons. Eventually, Julius resorted to giving Andi books to read that would tell her what she needed to know. Andi read them while the children were sleeping or as she was in bed with Julius.
Well, when she was in bed with Julius and her husband was not vigorously trying to impregnate her again. Andi happily took the sex with her husband. She was a mother, after all. And mothers had children.
The twins were six months old when Julius was successful. Andi rubbed her growing belly with a smile on her face. She was doing her one purpose in life. She was making babies.