Filed to story: Owned by the Alphas Novel
I chuckled. She was still so stuck in tradition, but it made it all the more crazy that she was trying. I loved her for it, so damn much. I didn’t want her to leave.
Derik held me tighter and kissed my head. “We’ll do what we can, beautiful,” he said, and I smiled as he walked me along the cobblestone paths.
“So what happened to Garrett?” I wondered.
Brax snickered. “He’s now the bitch. He’s on all the shit jobs, and even initiates can tell him what to do now. He won’t be able to challenge any of us again until he is further up the ranks,” he said.
“I’m glad you’re okay, Brax,” I said, and he slowed to walk next to me.
“I’m not that easy to get rid of, Spitfire.” He grinned, then kept walking, moving up to flank my mother.
Other wolves stared at us, their eyes narrowing on her, her human scent everywhere, but none of them looked like they were going to attack. They were more curious.
The three alphas that enclosed us were huge, intimidating, and wore scowls so perfect that I’d be surprised if any of the other wolves even breathed when they passed, making sure they didn’t piss them off.
We moved through the city, finally stopping at a small stone building near the east wall.
It had large windows with wooden frames, a porch, and an amazing garden beaming with flowers, lined by a small hedge.
A man was in the garden, digging and troweling as he hummed. I raised a brow, and Derik smiled.
“He’s a little eccentric. But he is the best doctor we have. He’s obsessed with flowers,” he said, and stepped forward.
“Actually, I am obsessed with their healing properties, Derik, but thank you for the introduction. I assume this is Lorelai Valarian, the pregnant winter born?” the man said, standing and brushing the soil from his pants.
He was tall and had an impressive look, even considering the graying hair at the sides of his slicked-back black hair. He wore a loose white cotton shirt.
Derik placed me down and nodded as the doctor came forward.
“I am,” I said. “And this is my mother, Pearl Valarian. She’s–“
“–a stunning specimen. Welcome, Pearl,” he said, grabbing her hand and kissing it, looking over her intensely.
Mom stammered a little before blushing, her other hand going to her chest as she smiled. “Uh, thank you, Dr…?”
“Call me Galen,” he said in a seductive voice that even made me blush.
Kai chuckled. “Should we give you two some privacy?” he teased.
I rolled my eyes, but Galen eyed my mother like he was waiting for her to decide on that. Everything went silent before she realized she was actually meant to answer.
“Oh, gosh, uh, no thank you, Kai. I’m here for my daughter,” she said, her blush telling me she was flattered.
I smiled. Maybe wolves and humans were more right for each other than originally thought.
“Another time then.” Galen patted her hand, then walked over to me.
His eyes were intense as they took me in, huddled in my blanket, the sun breaking through gray clouds to lighten the day around us.
“Lorelai. Come,” he said, then turned away and led us inside the home.
It was cozy, covered in plants and flowers. My mother looked like she was in heaven, drawn to each plant as she looked them over.
The room was huge, bigger than it looked on the outside.
There was a loft upstairs, outlined in a wooden railing, which contained his bedroom, but downstairs was a big, open space with a medical bed and supplies. It was clear of plants and led into a lab setting.
His kitchenette and living area were along the opposite side of the home, the half we had entered in, a direct divide between cozy and homey to clinical and clean.
He led me to the bed and sat on the stool next to it.
“Lie down, please,” he said, and I frowned.
“You know why we are here?” I asked.
He nodded. “Of course. I have been expecting you since you got here. A hybrid alpha being birthed from a human? Exceptional circumstances.
“I’m sure I am the only wolf here that will be able to give accurate information,” he said, grabbing a notebook and scribbling notes down as the alphas and my mother surrounded the bed.
“What about Cain?” He had been pretty insightful so far.
“Ahh yes. Our other hybrid. He is magically connected, sure, but I am sure you’d like to know if the human part of your fetus is developing as normal? Facing the right way?”
He smiled, and I nodded. My mother grabbed my hand, her eyes on the doctor, that telltale blush on her cheeks.
The doctor reached for my dress, pausing when three growls echoed through the space. He eyed them before huffing and pulling back.
“You three. Out,” he ordered, and they all snarled in return.
Galen stood, his eyes furious. “You have brought me an extremely complicated case on my day off, and to work out her baby’s vitals and structure, I need to concentrate, which I cannot do with you three pulling the mate and alpha ranks on me.
“This is my home, one I have opened my door to for you. You will respect my authority in it. Get. Out,” he said, obviously seething, but in a way that was polite and intense.
My mother clutched my hand tightly, but I rubbed a soothing thumb over hers. Kai kicked a chair closer and sank down into it, clearly refusing to leave. Derik looked hesitant, and Brax didn’t move.
Galen narrowed his eyes on them.
“We were just challenged. Despite dealing with the threat, the entire city knows of the quickest way to get to us. We are not comfortable leaving her alone yet,” Derik explained, ever the diplomat.
Galen looked between us, then sighed irritably and sat back down. “Fine. But no snarling or growling. I have to touch her–as a physician, nothing more,” he said.
I trusted him; I just had to wait until my alphas did.
They all stayed silent, building the tension until Derik finally nodded.
Galen nodded back, then tore a hole in my dress, letting my stomach pop through.
He rubbed his hands together before placing them on my stomach and pressing.
He nudged the bump around, the ache intensifying as he got lower. He frowned then and pressed his fingers along the width of my pelvis.
I gripped Mom’s hand and waited for him to say anything about what he was thinking, but the minutes passed silently.
He started going between feeling my stomach, the pressure increasing, to the notes in his book and back again.
I sucked in a breath as his fingers pressed in harder, the pain a little worse. His eyes flickered to mine before he frowned, muttering to himself and going back to his notebook.
He went to press in again when Brax’s hand snapped out and grabbed Galen’s before it could touch me.
“Gonna need a bit of information before you put your hands back on her, Doc,”
Brax said, and Galen sighed, sitting back on his stool and grabbing his notebooks.
“The baby is the size of a six-month fetus; I understand it hasn’t been that long since conception.
“That isn’t too concerning, except for the fact that winter is around the corner and judging by the accelerated timeline, this child will be born in that window,” he said.
The tension thickened. Everyone knew that a winter born in any race was not ideal.
Would this child be like Brax or me? Would it even be a wolf? It didn’t matter to me, but it might to the pack.
“Her pain in the lower abdomen could be normal growing and stretching, but I’m concerned the pressure of growing so quickly is putting strain on her placenta.
“The toxins and potion are keeping the child healthy in a werewolf way, but Lorelai has a human body. I’m not sure how strong we can let the fetus get before she will have to birth.”
He kept explaining. It was all stuff I had expected, but it still came as a little bit of a shock since it was so real now, the idea that I was going to have a child, a hybrid child born to alphas.
It’d be strong and tear me apart for sure.
“The birth, how will it go?” I asked, and he sighed heavily.
“Unfortunately, that is one of the things I cannot get any accurate information on.
“There are two options. One, you go into labor naturally and birth the hybrid like a human or a wolf. Staying calm will be the only way for that to happen. Otherwise, the second option is this child could turn and tear you apart.
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