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“With the magic from the child polluting her body, she will need help to keep it–
and her–alive. The magic is usually absorbed by a werewolf female and pushed back into the fetus, but since she doesn’t have that ability, you will need to give her your werewolf toxin,” she explained.
I sat there, trying to take it all in, but I was still stuck on the idea that I could carry a werewolf baby without getting us both killed.
“The bite will kill her!” Brax snarled, but Tabitha shook her head.
“Not with that baby inside her. It will absorb the toxin. It needs it to grow and to develop. So, you will bite her every day, as well as getting her to drink the potion, and that will keep them both healthy. More than that, I assume.”
She smiled, sinking into her rocking chair like this was a casual discussion, when to me, it felt anything but casual.
My life was tipping on its axis, threatening to fold in on itself. I couldn’t get past the fact that I was going to have a baby. My alpha’s child. And Kai wouldn’t be a part of it. Not like Brax and Derik.
I pushed the pain away and tried to get back to the only answers I had. “You assume?”
“Well, prediction is not an exact science, but I daresay pushing alpha toxin through this child in utero will create a very strong child. An alpha so strong…one this age has not seen.” She smiled, and I swallowed hard.
“And you think with the bite and the potion, that I will be able to survive it?” I asked, and the slight hesitation had the tension tightening in the room.
“What aren’t you telling us?” Brax demanded, and Tabitha looked at Cain, who nodded.
“Tell them. They should know it’s a possibility. A high one,” he urged, and Tabitha nodded.
“Yes. Well,” she sighed, “first of all, you can’t use your shadows. Now that your child has formed enough, they need to stay in you to keep you and it alive.
“Secondly, from what I can see when I peek in on the little fella, he is already very developed. Not big, a tiny thing still, but fully formed as a baby.
“This means he has skipped the stages of human development, the werewolf magic helping it grow as a pup would in a werewolf, developing on its size and magic.
Which means–“
“The child may shift into a wolf while in utero,” Derik said, his eyes going wide, his face paling.
I sucked in a breath as I thought about that little baby I had seen turning into a wolf. The claws, the teeth. It would tear through me. I shivered, and Kai grabbed my hand.
“It is only a possibility, and as long as she doesn’t get too worked up, no overt emotions like anger or sadness, then the wolf within the child shouldn’t feel the need to come forward,” Tabitha explained, but I was still terrified.
If Kai mated while I was pregnant, those emotions were an inevitability. And we all knew it.
“I’m staying with you, Little Human. I won’t mate,” he said again, but he had promised it over and over again. I still didn’t believe fate was going to be thwarted like that.
“And the toxin? That won’t help her survive or at least heal from something like that? It could make her turn, couldn’t it?” Brax asked, finally not hostile as he questioned her.
Tabitha looked at him sadly.
“Unfortunately, no. The child will take every drop of toxin that enters her bloodstream at the moment. It will need to. And it will grow using it. But that is where the good news comes in.” She smiled.
I looked at her, hopeful as anything, like the naive girl I had been when I first came to the wolves as a virgin.
“Good news for who?” I mumbled, and she smiled wider.
“All of you. Once the child has been born, Lorelai will turn. The residual toxins from carrying will pollute her blood and she will become one of you. It is a guarantee, her body will be used to the toxins by then and adapt. It will be an easy transition for her.”
“If I survive the pregnancy,” I muttered, and Tabitha’s face fell a little.
She nodded slightly. “Take that jar back with you. Cain will see you every day, and the wolves will give you their bite. It will help,” she said, trying to push the optimism around, but I wasn’t ready to feel it.
“Is there anything you can do about Kai’s mating brand?” I asked, and then all her hope disappeared with mine.
“No, Lorelai. Unfortunately, I don’t have the power to redirect what fate has chosen,” she whispered, and I nodded.
I stood up from the couch, thankful I could stand on my own legs without collapsing. Kai helped me anyway as Derik stood.
He took our cups to the wash bench, then whispered something to Cain that I couldn’t hear and didn’t come through the link, so I assumed it was werewolf business. Brax and Kai shadowed me to the door.
“Thanks for everything, Tabitha,” I murmured, then left, wishing I could be more grateful for the answers I had been given.
Kai lifted me over the shallow part of the pond and into the carriage. My alphas followed, and then we were heading back. Quiet. Tense.
“Lorelai?” Derik checked.
I turned to him, and I’m not sure what he saw in my face, but he winced.
“I know this is going to be hard on you, and probably us, but I want to reassure you.
I am unbelievably happy that you carry our child.
“I don’t know what we did to deserve such a miracle, maybe it was restoring balance through killing Elias, but this news? It’s made everything worth it,” he said, his feelings shining through the link.
I smiled at him, shuffling to him and cuddling into him. He held me tightly, kissing the top of my head.
“I want to be excited,” I murmured.
“But this fucking brand is ruining everything?” Kai snapped as his claws came out.
He looked down at the brand, and I knew what he was going to do. I rushed over to him just as he pierced his skin with a claw.
“Don’t!” I said, sinking into his lap, distracting him.
He huffed angrily before he found my lips, covering them with a desperate kiss that woke my core full force. It had been dull, almost dormant before, but with the link back and the potion working, I felt everything.
And it was a feeling I had missed.
Heat rose within me so fast as he claimed my mouth, and I moaned as his fingers dragged up my thigh. He pushed me down on the seat, his mouth never leaving mine.
“I will be a part of this,” he growled, and I didn’t answer, knowing if fate really wanted him mated, then he would be. There was nothing we could do.
But I could play ignorant and pretend it didn’t exist until it happened. Then I could be happy with the child I had been given. Which meant I could be happy with my alphas in the moment.
Kai’s mouth was demanding and hot as he kissed me. It wasn’t until he was lifting my nightgown skirt and undoing the strings of his pants that I realized how much I had missed the connection with my alphas.
“You sure you’re okay?” Brax asked, kissing my forehead, brushing my tendrils of hair back, watching with hungry eyes.
I nodded. “I will be soon. Once I’ve had all of you,” I breathed, and Kai grinned, pushing his cock inside me.
I gripped his bicep, the muscles straining as he moved slow, spreading my legs wider, finally filling my body with the heat and pleasure it had been craving.
I reached up to kiss him again, rocking my hips into him as he growled.
“Can I go faster?” he strained out, and I nodded.
“Please,” I begged.
And then he was fucking me like he used to, like an animal, wild and carnal with desire, claiming me as his, promising me so much more than his body and an orgasm.
I cried out as he fucked me, the intensity something more than it had ever been, and then his fangs dropped and he slowed.
“Are you going to bite me?” I breathed, not sure if I was ready.
Kai nodded. “It will feel good. I promise you, Little Human. It will feel so fucking good,” he said.
And it did. It felt like heaven and bliss all rolled into one euphoric high when his fangs, dripping with toxin, buried in the side of my breast.
I could barely breathe as pleasure and fire took over the blood in my veins. I arched up to him, his cock filling me again and again as he grunted and groaned, the ecstasy hitting him too.
I had never felt so good or so high. I clutched him tight, his hair in my fist as his mouth stayed on my breast, sucking the spot he had his fangs in.
And then I was releasing the pressure in an orgasm that tore me apart. Everything but him dulled, and I was blind to the world that wasn’t him.
“Kai!” I screamed, and he came hard, his hips bucking, his hot seed filling my pussy as his fangs dripped, stained from my flesh.
It was moments later when I could finally come down from the high. I was breathing hard, sweating out the last of the pleasure.
My blood tingled as he climbed off me and tucked himself in before helping me up.
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