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Neah
"Twins?"
"Yep." Raven smiles. "Definitely." She presses the little wand harder against my stomach as I stare up at the ceiling. Danes' fingers curl around mine. I knew he was happy. I could feel it vibrating off of him.
'Twins?' I mutter to Nyx, hoping that she would understand my fear. I could barely look after myself let alone two pups. 'Look at him!' She mutters
My eyes drift to Dane. He holds the small monitor in his free hand as Raven points out the growing pups. The biggest grin is plastered on his face and his crimson eyes are bright. 'He's happy.' Nyx murmurs. 'We are not in this alone.'
'How? My body has been through so much. I can't be six weeks.' I try to add up the dates in my head, but so much has happened since my first period that I am all turned around. Nyx doesn't say anything.
'Did you know?'
Silence.
'Nyx?'
'The forest.' she mutters quietly 'and our pups develop quicker.'
'Lycans, I'm carrying Lycans?' As much as that was who I am, I wanted nothing to do with them.
'It's too early to tell. But there is every ch......'
"NO!" I climb off the bed, pulling my hand from Danes. Both Raven and Dane stare at me like I'm mad. "Neah?" he tries to reach my wrist and I rip it out of reach.
"I need to think!" I snap a little harder than I intended as I barge past them.
Nyx starts trying to talk to me
"Shut up!"
Raven's dark eyes are like saucers as they flash between me and Dane.
"Just, just give me some time." I mutter, backing out the room.
"Neah?" Raven calls after me. I hear Dane telling her to let me go. To give me what I had asked for.
"Hey, you okay?" Klaus asks as I fly through the doors that led back out onto the grounds
"I need to be alone. And I... I thought you were with Jess?"
""Eric's at the house."
"Right." I huff
"Is being alone what you really want?" he gives me a small smile "Maybe you just need someone else to talk to? Or vent too? Someone that is not your mate." My eyes narrow at him for a second. "Have you done any more research?"
"About you, you mean?"
I nod
"I have some stuff at the house. But I'm assuming you are talking about being pregnant?"
""You know?"
He shrugs his shoulders. "It wasn't too hard to guess. You came to the hospital with no visual injuries. You only looked a little off and Dane was not losing his temper." "What do the books say?"
"To be honest, not a lot."
I inwardly sigh, it wasn't what I wanted to hear.
"What does your Lycan have to say about it?" He quizzes
"That the pups develop faster."
""You're worried that the pup will be a Lycan?"
"Worse, that they both will be?"
It takes him a moment to realise I am telling him it's twins. His eyes widen at the realisation of my words.
"I have Trey and Cassandra coming for me with who knows how many Lycans. Dane will be having guests arriving and....and....." "It's too much?"
I nod my head, closing my eyes to fight the tears that were trying to leak out.
"For everything that those bastards have done to me, they don't deserve to live. But now, I might be bringing more into the world." "And that scares you?"
I nod
"They will be raised by you." He gives me another small smile. "That counts for something."
I knew the words were supposed to be reassuring, yet they plant more doubt in my mind.
Raised by me, it felt like some sort of universal joke.
I see Eric come out of the pack house, his hands firmly planted on Jess's shoulders. He briefly looks around. Spotting me, he pushes Jess in our direction.
Her eyes are low as they come to a stop in front of us. I was too busy staring at Jess's hair to listen to the men. She had taken a pair of scissors to it, and badly. Her eyes catch mine. "I couldn't get the blood out."
I was about to tell her I could fix it. I had learned to cut my own hair over the years, but Eric interrupts us to tell me that Danes guests had arrived.
Dane comes out of the hospital with force. Making the door ricochet against the brick wall. It makes Jess jump and her hand grabs mine. I could hear her heart beating so hard that it hummed.
"Take her to the house." Dane orders.
All the men stare at me, waiting for me to move and take Jess back to the house. But for some reason, I had this burning need to ignore his instructions. I wanted to hear what his guests had to say about me. I wanted to see if they were disgusted by me. I didn't want to be
kept in the dark like a dirty secret.
"No." The single word rolls off of my tongue and Dane just stares at me. Had he listened to my thoughts?
"Jess, go to the house."
Her hand squeezes more, her nails practically digging into my skin, she was afraid to be alone.
"No!" I had no idea where the confidence was coming from. Surely it couldn't be hormones already?
His crimson eyes darken and a faint whimper comes from Jess as she slowly creeps behind me.
"If we delay them meeting me, they will suspect something. You did."
"This isn't the same thing."
"Isn't it?"
"It's too late anyway." Klaus murmurs.
I glance up to see a group of Danes men leading six other men towards us. Jenson is at the front, talking to one of them.
They were all big like the men here. I wasn't sure what I expected really, but they all had that powerful aura surrounding them. Not as strong as Danes, yet still evident. It makes Jess shrink even more. And I was starting to regret not making her go to the house. She wasn't prepared for this.
"Well Dane, we are here!" The first one mutters. His dark grey eyes find me and if I didn't feel the need to vomit, I would hold the glare.
"Roan." I hear Dane greet him as I empty my stomach once again.
"There were a few of us wondering if you were speaking the truth. Especially with how long it has been since you have been trying to produce an heir. But now we can see it is obvious."
I hated his tone already. There was no friendship between the two men and that would likely be the same with the others. Contracts, that was the only reason why they were here.
"Well," I snap. "Then you will be pleased to hear that he is having twins."
'Definitely hormones.' Nyx muses at my frankness and I see how Jenson smirks.
"You must be the mate." Roan cocks an eyebrow at me and I notice how the others haven't spoken. Why were they letting him do all the talking?
"This is Neah." Dane introduces me
Roan holds a hand out to me.
When I don't take it, he laughs, a deep roaring cackle that makes me tense up. I feel Jess tense too. Right now, she was probably regretting not having left the pack with the others when she had the chance. "Suspicious. It makes a change." His tongue plays with one of his canines as he stares at me.
What was that supposed to mean?
"This one hasn't tried running then?"
He knew about the others. How long had he known Dane for?
"No and she is not going too." Dane replies
"We shall see." Roan smirks at me.
"It will be a lot easier to protect you if you don't go running off." He shifts his gaze to Dane. "Now tell me what we are dealing with. Your message was cryptic and we all have the same question." We move to the house, taking a seat at the long dining table that hadn't been used since I had been here. Dane sits at the head and links me, telling me to take a seat to his left.
The men sit and I notice how Jess uses the moment to run off to her bedroom. Maybe that was for the best.
Dane talks. He tells them almost everything except the bit about what I am and how they are turning people.
"Why the fuck would you need our help?" Roan pushes his chair back from the table. "Your pack is huge in comparison."
Dane looks at me and nods his head.
"I'm....I'm not a Wolf." I splutter
Everyone's eyes are instantly on me.
The only blonde haired man with them speaks "You smell like a Wolf."
I peered at the man that Dane had called Greg, "I know." I whisper
"What are you?" Roan demands
"The last Lycan Alpha."