As Corbin was getting dressed for work and looking down at a smiling Kaeden, the doorbell rang downstairs. Both mates frowned, especially when a familiar scent drifted into their noses.Kaeden raised a brow and asked, “Why is your mother here?”Corbin sat down on the bed and kissed his stomach, resting his head on Kaeden’s belly. He looked at his mate, “I told her to help you in the house with cleaning since I don’t want you working too much.”Kaeden sat up on his elbows saying, “Are you mad? What if she kills me?”Corbin smiled weakly. “Rayland will be with you and I’ll have someone monitoring her.”Kaeden rolled his eyes and got up with Corbin’s help.Corbin smirked, following behind Kaeden, who refused to be held any longer. He said, “You’re getting heavy mate!”Kaeden waddled in front of him and looked back with a smirk. “You like it, so stop complaining.”Corbin burst out laughing and kissed the back of his head as he lifted him up and carried him down the steps.Rayland was at t
Rayland walked into the kitchen and watched Miranda pace back and forth. He could tell that she was talking to someone, but didn’t know who or cared.Walking over to the fridge, they accidentally bumped into each other.“Oh sorry,” Miranda suddenly said and touched Rayland’s stomach.Rayland looked at her and said, “It’s fine, she didn’t get hurt her.”“Oh,” Miranda said and excused herself.Rayland thought to himself that she was a bit too nervous but let it be, she had nothing to do with him.As Miranda was getting dinner ready and Rayland was digging in the fridge, Miranda said, “Parisa is a beautiful name.”Rayland closed the fridge and held a bottle of water in his hand. Looking at her, he said, “Thank you.”*Rayland left and made it to the packhouse clinic, where he waited outside for his turn to meet Peter and Patrick for a sonogram.Inside the room, he heard an unfamiliar voice speaking with Patrick and could tell that the man was afraid of being a father. He felt incompetent,
As Miranda was ironing, Kaeden walked in with a catalogue and pink book in his hand and sat down on a chair in the laundry room.Miranda looked down at him briefly, then continued with what she was doing.After a moment of silence, Kaeden said, “So mother dearest, Corbin, Cyro, Phoenix, and I have come up with baby names since we’re having quintuplets and it’s better to be prepared. For girls, we came up with Claire and Theresa, Crystal and Christine. What do you think?”Kaeden looked up at Miranda from the pink book and saw that she wasn’t paying any attention to him.Humming he continued, “For boys we decided on Christian and Christopher, Caius, thanks to Waylon, Cairo and Chyler.”Sucking a mouthful of air, he said, “You know, I don’t understand why you have to make your life so miserable by being angry at us. Corbin did you nothing, and I only killed Charlese because it was what was best for my family. I get you are angry, but you need to accept that Charlese had issues which you i
A few weeks later…Miranda stood in the kitchen cutting up homemade berry marshmallows, then placed them on a plate as a pyramid, then covered it with a glass dome cover and placed it on the counter.She moved on to cutting up rice puffed rice treats and did the same to them and placed them on the counter. Moving on to the brownies, she did the same and as she was covering them with the glass dome. Then she heard a grunt.Shaking her head with a slight smile on her face, she walked out of the kitchen, down the hall, and stopped at a door. Looking in, she saw Kaeden standing in front of a mirror, looking at his stomach and rubbing it.Kaeden had on gym tights and a sports bra, while barely standing up straight. “What happened now?”Turning his head to look at her, he complained, “Ma~ just look at my stretch marks. Why is my stomach so big? I haven’t been standing for long, but my legs already want to give in.”Miranda chuckled. Shaking her head, she walked into the room and grabbed the
Chris drove his BMW up to the packhouse and smiled when he saw Rayland was already waiting for him—it was a little troublesome since he had to lie to Samantha about where he was going. Chris didn’t get out to greet him because he didn’t want to make it obvious to the others who were around. Rayland was with Valentino, who waved crazily at Chris, who just honked his horn in greeting. Reaching over the seats, he opened the door and smiled. Rayland sat down and closed the door and almost jumped out of his seat when Chris reached over and tugged the seat belt in place, then clipped it in. He placed it over Rayland’s chest so that it wouldn’t touch his stomach; he looked at Rayland and asked, “Are you comfortable?” Rayland didn’t answer him and only stared. That’s when Chris realized how close they were. He stared into Rayland’s eyes and heard Crypt say, >I can hear Parisa’s heartbeat from here.< He cle
Rayland was so full of shit the following weekend he didn’t even bother to get up but he informed Chris that he didn’t have to pick him up, Chris was bummed out about being dropped on their date but it didn’t stop him from going shopping. Kaeden sent out three invitations, one for Parisa’s baby shower that only the pack members received, the second for Cael’s baby shower that other packs also received and lastly for Kaeden’s baby shower that was specific asking that if they wanted to bring gifts, diapers for newborn babies to two years would be great. Everyone was confused but the fine print said, “We do not know the genders, so we’ll figure that out in the future and to make up for the lack of gifts, you can make it up on their first birthday.” Chris walked around inside the baby supply store with a checklist in his hands. He was going over things to buy, from a car seat, to a stroller, a diaper bag and a changing table. From over the years, h
Chris folded his arms. >The only reason I was touching him was because his daughter was kicking. Why wouldn’t I want to know how that feels?< >Chris, Samantha is pregnant as well at home. Why can’t you wait for your son to grow, then you can feel him kick? Why are you touching a pregnant, mated wolf who was abandoned? Are you feeling sorry for him?< Miranda scolded. Chris stepped back and looked at his mother in disbelief, >Mom, Rayland wasn’t abandoned, it wasn’t safe for him to be with his mate and that is why he is alone, wait, Rayland isn’t even alone, he has the whole pack here with him!< Miranda smacked Chris across the face and said, pointing at his nose, >And how the hell do you know that? Don’t think I don’t know what’s going on, the entire pack is talking about it, you’re lucky it hasn’t gotten to Samantha yet since she doesn’t visit the pack house
Chris sighed and sat back. “Not good, but they are both healthy.” Kaeden hummed, he had a question on his mind that he didn’t want to ask but felt that he needed to, “Chris, I don’t want to be the one to tell you this since you will most likely not believe me but, while you’ve been out doing whatever, your mate has been sending texts out and been transferring money to an account from your pack account to one registered under her name that isn’t linked to the packs main account.” Chris raised a brow, baffled. “What do you mean? Who has she been texting?” Kaeden shook his head. “We only know the number, but I asked Grayson to do more digging on where she was transferring the money to, and he found an offshore account.” Chris narrowed his eyes at Kaeden. Kaeden didn’t have to tell him anything, but here he was, another thing was that he never used the pack’s money and mentioned to Samantha that he was going to use that money and ha