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196. Wolves
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Brother’s Best Friends Are My Mates 197. Crazy party
LiaMy mates knew I was pregnant now, but I also had to adjust to the fact that I was dealing with a pregnancy.There was a child or likely children in my belly. I kept saying that there were twins. I had no proof yet, but it felt like there was. It was just one of those feelings I had deep down, as strange as that sounded.Yawning, I was lying on the couch, trying to nap after having a difficult morning, throwing up a lot, when Simone burst into the room.I was still processing everything when Simone practically burst into the living room, wild-eyed and vibrating with energy."We have to plan a party!" she shrieked, already pulling out her phone like the planning was happening right now.My head started to hurt. I wondered if I should go for another run. When I was in my wolf form, I didn’t have so many morning sickness. Strange that when I shifted, the morning sickness was mostly there, but I suppose that made sense.Our human forms were technically weaker than our wolf ones. There
Last Updated : 2025-04-29Brother’s Best Friends Are My Mates 198.Threats of violence
RainAfter learning Lia was pregnant, I became even more anxiety-ridden and neurotic. I was always like this, but when I was stressed, it was a hell of a lot worse.Right now, I was determined to make Lia’s life as uncomplicated as possible. I was doing my best and probably overreaching, but there was no stopping me now. Every part of me was determined to help Lia as much as I could.If I ended up acting crazy during this point, then so be it. I was willing to do it.I raced back into the living room, nearly slipping on the hardwood floor. "Lia! Where’s your water bottle? You need to stay hydrated!"She gave me a look over the mountain of pillows she was lounging on. "I drank it already."I froze. "You finished it?! That fast?! Oh my god, you’re dehydrated. You're going to shrivel up. I’ll get more—""Rain!" she snapped, cutting me off. "I’m fine! Sit down for five seconds before I throw this pillow at your face."I blinked, halfway to the kitchen. "But—""Sit. Down."I shuffled over
Last Updated : 2025-04-29Brother’s Best Friends Are My Mates 199. Nightmare
JesseLearning Lia was pregnant was amazing but also fucking scary. I never imagined myself as someone who would be a father. After the two of us were together, I knew it was bound to happen, but the fact of the matter is, I never thought I would be a parent.Sighing, I finished gathering the groceries and headed home. It was truly annoying to go about the day-to-day things you needed to live. I had gone for a run last time, realizing that we all had been missing out on this.It was a good run, but when I got home, I realized I had to get back to normal life. AKA getting groceries.Huffing, I pulled into the driveway and then took the bags to the front door. It was a bit of a balancing act, but I was able to do it.I pushed open the door with my shoulder, balancing a couple of grocery bags. "Lia? You home?"Silence.Then I heard it—the soft sounds of... something. Shuffling. Rustling. A thump.Frowning, I kicked my shoes off and followed the noise upstairs. "If you're hiding and plann
Last Updated : 2025-04-29Brother’s Best Friends Are My Mates 200. The twins
Colby A few months has passed since we learned Lia was pregnant and it was crazy how close we were getting to her giving birth. The Werewolf pregnancies didn’t last as long so she was in her six month, ready to give birth any day now. There was a set date the doctor had marked, but they could always come early.Or late.When the doctors said they came late she was very angry. She glared at every one of us.I was halfway through a sandwich when I heard Lia gasp from the couch.Rain shot up like he'd been electrocuted. "What was that?! Was that a contraction?! Was that a baby contraction?!"Lia winced, gripping the edge of the couch. "I don't know! Maybe? It hurts!"Matt practically fell off the armchair. "Define 'hurts'! Like normal hurts? Like stubbing your toe hurts? Or like—' call an ambulance' hurts?!"Rain was already pacing in wild circles. "Oh god. Oh god. We’re not ready. We’re not ready! We don’t have the bags packed, we don’t have a route to the hospital mapped out, we don’t
Last Updated : 2025-04-29Brother’s Best Friends Are My Mates 201. Low expectations
MattI sat on the edge of the stupid plastic chair, my head in my hands.How had this happened? We were acting like assholes and worrying for nothing. It seemed truly fitting that nothing ended up being wrong, and who was to blame? Well, all of us.I couldn’t even blame it on Rain for jumping to conclusions because we all were acting like it."False labor," I muttered, feeling like the biggest idiot on the planet. "We nearly broke land-speed records getting here for false labor."Or as they were technically called Braxton-Hicks contractions. When we were going to the classes with Lia, we just assumed that labor was going to be the finale. A few hours later we would be holding the twins in our arms.Except, we had been fooled by these false contractions. Lia seemed to be handling it well. I think I was the one who mostly felt like an idiot. What happened when she gave birth? I needed to make sure I had my wits about me and didn’t allow myself to get overwhelmed or worried.Rain patted
Last Updated : 2025-04-29Brother’s Best Friends Are My Mates 202.A boy and a girl
LiaI was a week overdue.Yes, a week.It didn’t seem real.My mates didn’t want to leave me, but they needed to go to work and do what they had to do. I didn’t want to prevent them from going to work or keeping the household functional.Besides, Simone was home and right next door. She was set to come over within thirty minutes and keep me company, so it wasn’t like I was going to be alone.Shifting on the couch, I glared at my swollen stomach.“Gemma, Rowan—you two need to get the hell out of here.”We were also having a boy and a girl. The five of us went to the doctor and got the results of the scan—we were having a girl and a boy. It felt good to know that we were having one of each.Perhaps one day we will have more of the same gender.But I wasn’t going to think of any more kids right now. The two kids we were having now were the only ones I wanted to think about. They were going to be enough of a handful for the five of us to handle.I rested my head against the back of the co
Last Updated : 2025-04-29Brother’s Best Friends Are My Mates 203. Hospital rules
RainI pressed my forehead against the nursery window, staring at the twins sleeping inside their little bassinets. Their tiny hands curled into fists, their soft breaths making their chests rise and fall. They were so small. So perfect. A lump caught in my throat out of nowhere, and to my horror, my eyes started to sting.Rowan and Gemma were finally here! It was about time.I didn’t know if either of them was biologically mine, or we honestly didn’t care to check right now. Eventually, we might, so we could find out for paperwork purposes, but until then, we were going to remain ignorant of their biological parents.Or biological fathers, I should say.Lia was their mother.The babies yawned, pumping their little fists in the air as they slept on and on.God, they were so cute. Too cute.How could something so cute even exist?It wasn’t like I hadn’t seen babies before. I had been around babies a lot, including some of my younger cousins and siblings. But this was different.These w
Last Updated : 2025-04-30Brother’s Best Friends Are My Mates 204. Games
LiaFive months passed quickly. Before I knew it, the twins were already rolling over and crawling around. They even shifted into wolf forms without warning, which were so fuzzy and cute!But being a parent at the same time was exhausting. My mates and I didn’t have a lot of extra time to spend together. A good portion of the time, we were just taking care of our kids.This time, however, things were a little different because we were going on a date night.Simone was planning something, and I wanted to tell her it wasn’t necessary. We were going to just go out and do something simple. All that mattered was as long as the five of us could be together.They hadn’t touched me in months—not since I had the babies. I was aching for their touch and wanted it so bad. It was just difficult to express it after having children. A part of me was almost embarrassed, wondering if they still found me attractive.I flopped onto Simone’s bed, groaning into her pillows. “I have no idea what I’m doing
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Brother’s Best Friends Are My Mates 215. Four fathers
LiaBefore we got there, Matt shifted into a wolf.I stared at him.“Matt what the fuck.”Colby blinked. “Yeah seriously what the fuck.”“It’s a way to show that we mean business,” Matt said, snapping his teeth to make a point.I pinched the bridge of my nose.Matt was pretty intimidating in his wolf form, his black coat reflecting off the sunlight. His tail was lowered, ears flattened down onto his skull to show he meant business. Or he further meant business.I wanted to shame him, to tell him that we couldn’t do this. It was a bad idea to go in there guns blazing so to speak or for us to be shifted in our wolf forms. What it was going to do was make everyone look at us like we were going to lash out at them.“Matt, please shift back. As your omega and mother of your twins, I am asking you. Don’t you think you can do that for me?”Colby stifled a laugh. “Oh, that’s good. Use the fact that you are our omega. I think it would break even Jesse.”I looked at Jesse. He didn’t say anythin
Brother’s Best Friends Are My Mates 214. Ghosts
RainIt was safe to say shit was getting real.I hated saying that shit was going to get real but this was what was happening.How was I not screaming, running back and forth, ready to pull my hair out with frustration? I didn’t know what to do. But I had to stay calm, especially with me being home with the kids right now.I was staying back with the twins while Matt, Jesse, Colby, and Lia went to talk with the coven. It had been my decision to stay back with the twins because I loved being around them.But it was also more than that. I couldn’t imagine myself stepping away from them while all this shit was going on. What kind of father would I be?No, I didn’t want to say that. That made it sound like the rest of the pack were bad parents for going. And that wasn’t fair. They were doing what needed to be done for all of us. For the kids, too.Still, I couldn’t help but feel this heavy weight in my chest at the thought of leaving them, even for a few hours. Every time I looked at Rowa
Brother’s Best Friends Are My Mates 213. Evil
JesseWhen I got up that morning, something strange happened.I noticed Lia sitting there at the table with her scrying crystal and a map of the area spread out in front of her. Her fingers hovered over the glass like she’d been there for a while, focused, tense.“Lia, what are you doing?”“Nothing.”I sighed. “Are you seriously going to sit there and tell me that you are doing nothing when you are doing something?”Lia dropped the crystal so loudly that it clattered onto the table.“Fuck, Jesse. I’m trying to scry for the Rosewater Coven.”There was a name I hadn’t heard in a while. And one I wished had stayed buried.The mention of the Rosewater Coven was still a little raw for me. I kept thinking about what they had done and how they had nearly fucked over our pack. But everything was fine now.Mostly.It didn’t mean I could let go of this one specific grudge. Usually, I was able to. I could shrug things off, move forward. But not this time. Not with them.“Why the hell are you loo
Brother’s Best Friends Are My Mates 212. Kiss
MattIt was one of those days were we were out and trying to pretend everything was all right.This was easier said than done. Rain was currently becoming more of a vampire. We had his blood tested and it proved that this was true.No one knew why it was kicking in all of a sudden. This just seemed to be happening for some reason.The doctors couldn’t explain it, the elders, scientists, or anyone.My theory was that it was tied to the twins. Perhaps Rowan, being a vampire, had helped bring out more of Rain’s vampire senses because he wanted to protect him. But I hadn’t shared this theory with anyone, afraid that it might be wrong.Honestly no one fucking knew and all we had were theories.The best thing we could do was just deal with it.But right now, we were going ot be having a break.Simone had agreed to watch the twins, which made Lia nervous. When Simone first offered, I saw the look of panic flash across her face.“I don’t know,” Lia whispered. “I don’t want to leave the twins
Brother’s Best Friends Are My Mates 211. Gemma and Rowan
LiaRain seemed to be going through something.He wasn’t his usual cheery self, which made me realize it could be tied to all this craziness. Our twins were acting strange, dealing with this curse, and that strange vision I had. So far, nothing else had happened, but I was on edge. I was constantly on edge regarding this situation.But Rain? His behavior was making me feel even worse because I wasn’t sure how to handle it. There was already the blood issue. He was drinking more blood, much more than normal.I already confronted him about it, but he brushed it off as nothing.Or tried to anyway.He’d laughed it off, called it “a phase,” but I could see the tension in his jaw, the flicker of something unreadable in his eyes.After our conversation, I brought this up with the rest of the pack—or more specifically, my mates. They should know what was going on with Rain.“It’s like he is becoming more of a vampire than a wolf,” Matt said out loud during our conversation.Everyone, includin
Brother’s Best Friends Are My Mates 210. Prophecy
LiaIt was another prophecy. I knew it. How did I know it? Well, I just felt it in my bones.And then I had a dream. Well, not a dream, but it was a vision. I hadn’t gotten a vision in a long time. By this point in my life, I was thinking that I was incapable of having them.But that night, they came back full force.I’m walking through the house. I am cleaning and just taking care of things. The house is quiet, but it’s late, so this is normal.When I hear a noise from upstairs, I run upstairs, taking two at a time. The noise came from the direction of the twins’ room, so I wanted ot make sure I could get to them to see what was happening.I walk inside, the two still in their little beds, fast asleep. Their chests are rising and falling, eyes completely closed. The twins are fine, fast asleep, and sleeping the night away.But what had that noise been?Swallowing, I stood there for a while, but finally managed to talk myself into leaving. I turned around and left, only to stumble upo
Brother’s Best Friends Are My Mates 209. Ancient curses
RainIt was difficult to pretend nothing was wrong. I tried my best, especially when I was in the presence of the twins.They were pretty perceptive for almost three years old. In two days, they would be three years old, and I was trying to be happy over their upcoming birthday, but I couldn’t deny that something strange was going on.The twins had always acted strangely. They didn’t cry that much compared to other children I had been around. But I always chalked it up to them being intelligent and hyperperceptive compared to other children out there.Now I was wondering if there was more to it.I was bathing the twins right now, helping them wash up and get ready for tonight. The twins were playing in the water, splashing one another. Everything was normal until they looked at me.“Daddy Rain?” Rowan asked, tilting his head to the side.I grinned. It was always great when the kids called me daddy. They called all of us daddy, followed by our names. This was the best way for Gemma and
Brother’s Best Friends Are My Mates 208. Cursed children
JesseWhen Lia came to us the next night and said she caught the twins saying they were hearing strange whispers, I didn’t know what to think. She said that it either sounded like someone was saying the twins were cursed or someone was in the process of cursing them.This just begged the question—who the fuck was trying to curse our twins. It pissed me off to think that they would dare to do such a thing. Who would curse children? They weren’t even three years old. Yet. Soon they would be three years old, but it didn’t matter.Either way, no matter which way you sliced it, they were children. Children didn’t deserve this. Why would they curse children?It did fill me with anger, making me punch the wall. Lia happened to walk into the room, eyeing me.“Why did you punch the wall?I sighed. “Why do you think I punched the wall? Our twins are being targeted, but this begs the question: Why are they being targeted? It makes no fucking sense.”Lia sighed softly, taking a seat at the kitche
Brother’s Best Friends Are My Mates 207. Birthday
LiaThe next step was to get the kids tested. We always wanted to do it after the kids were born to figure out who the kids were biologically related to, but things always got pushed off.To be frank, Rowan and Gemma were being raised by all of us. It didn’t matter who their biological fathers were, but now it was important to find out.With a simple test, we found out that Rain was the father of Rain while Gemma was biologically Jesse’s. No one reacted because we were all raising the kids together, so it didn’t matter. Except, Rain being Rowan’s biological father made things complicated.“Oddly, he is showing more vampire traits than wolf,” I muttered one night while sitting around the living room with my mates. “Gemma has shifted into a wolf many times—including yesterday when she chased around a stray cat from inside the house.”Rain laughed. “Gottta love that kid.”“Rain,” Matt muttered, giving him a look. “Now is not the time.”I pinched the bridge of my nose, trying to calm myse
