“Wait! Why were you kissing Aamon?” Reika asks.
“I wasn’t! He needed energy. And unfortunately for me, I was all there was. Can we just pretend it didn’t happen?”
“Fine by me!” Ace says, side eyeing me.
“No. I think I will reminisce on that moment. Was so, sensual, and erotic,” Aamon says. I go to kick him only for him to mist behind me.
“Missed me, lover!” he says.
“Aamon!” I warned him.
“Just playing. No need to get your knickers in a knot. I know you want me! It’s only natural for you to have feelings for me after such a moment,” I rolled my eyes at him just in time for Avery to come over.
“You ready? I want to get back so we can find them somewhere to stay,” Avery asks Aamon. He nods before taking her hand.
“I will be in contact soon. We might need to send some your way,” Avery tells me and I nod. I see the place starting to clear, cars leaving and Ace and Tyson hop in the car. Tate and Drake both say goodbye to Aamon before hopping in their car. Avery walks over and gives Reika a hug. Squeezing her tight and Reika hugs her back before letting her go.
Avery comes over and gives me a quick hug before pulling back.
“Take care of your mate and new daughter. I will be in touch,” she says, rubbing my arms just as Aamon wraps an arm around her getting ready to mist out of here. She lets me go, her eyes sparkling and burning emerald green as she smiles at Reika.
“Oh! And congratulations!” she says.
“For what?” I ask and she nods to Reika.
“On your son,” she says before they both misted back home. Reika was just staring at the space Avery was before looking up at me.
“She is aware Lucy is a girl, right?” She asks and I chuckle, pulling her to me before placing my hand on her stomach. “Our son,” I tell her and she looks at my hand before placing hers over it.
“We are having a son? You impregnated me?” She says, and I can’t help the laugh that leaves my lips.
“You truly have a way with words,” I tell her.
“And yes. She means you’re pregnant,” I kiss her head before resting my chin on her head. Her arms going around my waist when Tyson opens the car door sticking his head out and looking at us.
“Can we go? I am starving!” he says before shutting the door and I sigh letting her go. We walk over to the car and Reika goes to open the back door to hop in with Lucy. Hopping in my seat I see Lucy is fast asleep leaning against Ace, who was asleep with his head on the window. Reika opens the passenger side door climbing in the front, also seeing them asleep.
“She is fine,” I tell her as she looks over at Lucy asleep. Tyson pulls a shirt from his bag tossing it over her arms to keep Lucy warm.
“We won’t let anything happen to her Reika. She is safe in the car,” Tyson tells her yawning. She nods, turning back to the front and I start up the car and we all head home. Tate and Drake honk their horn as they turn off in the opposite direction of us, heading home too.
R eika
One month later
I yawn rolling over onto my stomach before jumping, when I realize I nearly crushed our son. My entire body ached with the extra weight I was carrying. I feel for Ryker yet his side of the bed was cold and his scent weak in the room.
“He probably fell asleep in Lucy’s room,” Amanda tells me as I force myself out of bed to go pee. I nod to her in agreement. Lucy has terrible nightmares, and was constantly waking during the night. For the first few days she refused to sleep anywhere besides our bed. Tyson and Ace made the bedroom next to theirs a princess room and managed to convince her to sleep in there, but she still gets up. But it was better than being kicked every night, and for the most part Ryker puts her back to bed before I even realize she got up.
I washed my hands before pulling on some of Ryker’s pants, they were all that fitted around the growing bump. Once I am dressed I go in search of Ryker and Lucy. I stop at her bedroom door and stick my head in. Ryker was asleep on the floor. His head resting on her pillow on her bed as he slept half sitting up. A book still clutched in his fingers. I hold in my laugh when I see Tyson sitting next to him and Lucy on the bed, both of them with textas in their hands as they drew on his face.
Lucy puts a finger to lips shushing me as she giggled while joining his eyebrows together with a red texta. Tyson drew on a mustache before laughing quietly and standing. Lucy hands him the texta, and he reaches over Ryker and picks her up before walking toward me with Lucy on his hips. He hands me the three texta’s and I shake my head before taking them.
“He is going to kill you,” I whisper to Tyson.
“Was her idea,” he says motioning to Lucy in his arms and she points at him, blaming Tyson. He pretends to bite her finger and she pulls it away quickly giggling.
“Let’s go make breakfast,” he tells her before walking down the stairs. The three of them were inseparable. Lucy is constantly harassing them, and I have caught them up at midnight playing video games when she was meant to be sleeping. Pocketing the texta’s, I follow them downstairs leaving Ryker asleep on the floor.
“Why do I think Lucy is going to turn into a terror like them,” Amanda says as we walk down the steps. I laugh at her words, yes, the three of them were always up to mischief.
Getting to the kitchen, Tyson grabs the cereal down and pours a bowl for himself and was about to pour some for Lucy.
“Not those. They made her hyper last time,” I tell him.
“Please! The other ones are gross,” Lucy whines. Tyson looks at me and I roll my eyes as he pours them in her bowl, before he sends her a wink.
“Fine! But you’re dealing with her then! I am getting too fat to chase after her,” I tell him.
“Looks like you’re with me today ,” Tyson tells her, sitting next to her. I plug in the toaster. The only thing I have mastered in this bloody kitchen is how to make toast. Ace walks in yawning before slumping on the table.
“Wake up!” Lucy tells him, pulling his eyelids open.
He growls at her and she growls back at him, making him smile. “Flick the kettle on Reika,” Ace whines and I roll my eyes, turning it on and grabbing cups down.
“Don’t make them, I will. You can’t make coffee without destroying my taste buds,” he says as I reach for the coffee. I finish making my toast before sitting down at the table. Ace makes me a coffee and places it in front of me just as Ryker walks, in looking rather tired. He cracks his neck and I shudder at the sound. Tyson and Lucy snickering to themselves at his drawn on face. Ace shakes his head trying to hide his smile when he notices, and I nearly choke on my coffee as he walks over to me. He grabs my coffee and I huff annoyed.
He takes a sip before looking at Ace. “It’s my first one,” I tell him and he eyes me before looking at Ace who nods, before he hands it back to me.
“No more today,” he says, reaching down and rubbing my belly before pecking my lips. He goes to make his own when I see his eyes glaze over and I know someone was mindlinking him.
“Fuck sake!” Ryker growls out loud before I see his eyes refocus.
“Language!” Ace says, pointing to Lucy.
“No! I gotta go. Bloody fight between your pack and mine,” he tells him. Ryker had started dividing the packs for Ace and Tyson. And now some old rivalries had come back. Both packs competitive and not liking the change, even though there were no borders between them. Some also didn’t like the idea of being told what to do by two teenage boys. Even though they have both been working their asses off and learning what to do. Ryker tries to get me involved, yet I just can’t wrap my head around what I am meant to do and find it stressful.
“Wait!” Tyson calls after him.
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