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nursery.
I sucked in a breath, tears stinging at my eyes, emotion clutching at my throat.
“This is amazing,” I breathed.
Sheer curtains blew in from French doors that matched ours. There was a small patio like ours too.
There was a wardrobe, open, with rows of knitted items and fancy clothing that children in the village had never worn.
The bassinets were layered in fabric, with netting hanging down from the vaulted ceiling.
“There’s two. How’d you know we needed two?” I asked, looking at any of them for the answer.
“We had a spare in case our little wolf shifted and broke one, but maybe that was fate,” Derik said, and I couldn’t help but think the same.
“I just want this to be our lives. I want to be happy here, safe. I hate that all this is tainted by Adrenna and the vampires,” I said, my voice wavering as I tried not to feel overwhelmed.
The room was everything I could ever dream and more for my children, decorated with blocks and wooden toys.
Teddies and artwork sat on shelves, books were in a stack in a reading corner with a cozy, cushioned chair that reminded me of Mom’s rocker at home.
It was so damn perfect, but how could we pretend it was going to stay that way?
A tear rolled down my cheek, and Kai moved into me, holding me to him.
“Put Zale in his bed, Little Human. We’ll talk away from them,” he said.
I nodded, sniffling as I put our son down. He fidgeted until Derik put Enzi in her bed right next to his before they both settled into sleep.
I watched them for a second before turning to my alphas.
“We’re dealing with that witch, and I am not letting those vampires come anywhere near our children,” I said, my voice angry and determined as my shadows responded to my declaration.
They were ready too. The border magic hovered, waiting to find out what I wanted it to do.
“I’m going to go check on the humans, sweetie,” Mom said before we could war talk, and I nodded.
“Thank you,” I said, pulling her in for a hug.
“No, thank you. I always knew you were special, more than the rest of them, but this is beyond what my mind could conjure. I am proud of you, Lorelai, so unbelievably proud,” she said against me, and I held her tighter.
“I love you.”
“Love you too. Now go be a luna. I’ll see you soon,” she said, then left.
I turned to my alphas, and they all wore the same determined mask I had applied.
They said nothing, leaving the room and moving toward the council meeting room.
“Wait, I don’t want to leave them,” I said, and Brax grabbed my hand in his.
“My shadows will stay with them, Spitfire.”
I smiled up at him, loving how much we were connected. Like he knew what I needed and catered to it without me having to ask.
“I don’t want to leave them either, not until the threats have been eliminated,” he said, listening to my thoughts again, and I curled into him.
“I think I have an idea how to deal with one of those threats,” I said as we walked into the empty council room.
The round table had nothing on it, only a carving of a wolf on the wood. I walked up to it, admiring the craft, my fingers finding the groove.
“Your idea?” Derik asked, sinking into one of the three bigger seats.
Kai and Brax went to the other two just as Galen came in and took a seat.
Before I had a chance to say anything, more of the council members filled the room, sitting down in their seats. They looked tired, worn out from fighting a battle that was completely different from mine.
“Hurry up, Luna, we have to get back on patrol. How do we deal with this?” Tatum asked, dropping his bloodstained sword on the table.
I eyed it, then him. My body filled with heat, a rush of power and adrenaline, a hint of pain searing into it. I smiled, knowing what it was.
The toxin.
“There’s only one thing Adrenna fears, and only one thing that can truly beat her,” I said, pacing to each side of the room, all the seats in front of me filled.
I said nothing about the ache building in my bones or the way my gums were starting to sting, but neither did my alphas, so I assumed they were waiting for me to be ready to mention it.
“You?” Carden offered, but I shook my head.
“I could go up against her, but there is a chance I would lose since she has half the border magic in her too.
“No, the only way we stand a chance is if we let her own monster catch up with her,” I said, and my alphas got it straightaway.
“You want to pull the beast from the world she was locked in? Let it hunt her down?” Derik asked, leaning forward, holding his chin as he smirked at me.
I nodded. “Yes. We’ll deal with the vampires, let the beast deal with Adrenna,” I said.
My eyes were burning. I clenched them shut and looked down at the stone of the floor, the fraying edge of the rug in the room.
When I opened them again, I looked back up, my head pounding as I stared at the council. They all wore the same expression. Shock.
I smirked at them, nerves and excitement coiling through me. I couldn’t wait to truly be one of them, and we all knew in that moment that was exactly what was happening.
I didn’t care if it was going to hurt. I was becoming pretty accustomed to pain, so the idea that soon I would be the same as my alphas overpowered it easily.
The idea had me grinning, my gums aching as I felt my teeth change within them.
“It’s happening,” one of the council members whispered, and I turned to my alphas.
“It is. Council, get the pack organized where they need to be. We must guard the city and be prepared for any signs of Adrenna or the vampires now that the border has been destroyed.
“We’ll be back once your luna is born.” Derik grinned and stood up.
Everyone did. All of them bowed as they left the room, some whispering congratulations, or even good luck.
Once the room was empty of everyone but my alphas and me, that’s when the real pain hit. But it was pain I consumed easily, soaking up the strength and power that was already filling me.
“I can feel it,” I whispered, my voice hoarse and raspy, my fingers digging into the wood of the table as my claws grew.
“Let it all in, Luna. Even the pain. How much you can handle in the shift decides how strong your wolf is.”
Kai grinned, and I knew why. He was an expert in pain. He could handle a lot, thanks to his past, so his wolf was strong.
He clearly loved that fact, and I was going to too. I had just delivered a werewolf child through a body that was breaking with magic, I was going to make sure my wolf was just as strong.
And then I was going to make sure I taught Silas why he should never have gone up against the wolves or threatened the lives I had just birthed.
It had just marked his soul for death at my hands…or teeth.
39. The Hybrid
LORELAI
I thought I would feel something more.
There was pain in turning, there was strength too, but I was expecting some bone-crunching, soul-crushing type of epiphany that I had to overcome to become one of them, but that wasn’t happening.
Instead, I clutched the table, my claws digging into the wood, my head down, breathing through the spinning in my head and ache in my bones that weren’t even close to the pain of childbirth.
“Tabby said it would be easy for you, that your body would accept the toxin,” Kai said, coming forward and pulling my hair back from my face.
I looked up at him, and he stared directly into my eyes.
“I want it to happen faster. Bite me,” I urged, and Kai chuckled.
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