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a small sigh. “I’m just thinking about the pups.” I could tell by the tone of his voice that they weren’t the only ones on his mind but I didn’t press it. It would just hurt the both of us for him to speak about it. He wriggled and looked at me over his shoulder. “Do you think everything’s going to be okay? I know the risks involved but if we’re really going to have five…”
    “Hey, it’s going to all right, I’m not going to let anything happen to you or the pups,” I promised as I turned him around to face me. It was harder for me to hug him with his swollen belly between us but if the pups could hear, I wanted them to know it too. “Seamus is a good doctor, one of the best were-doctors in the state, and I have another coming in closer to the birth. Trust me, nothing’s going to happen that we don’t want it to.” I pushed back the lock of brown hair that had fallen over his eye and caressed his cheek. “You know how important you and the pups are to me. How important they are to the pack.”
    His eyes were still clouded and an unreadable emotion flashed in his eyes before he hid it. He closed his eyes and nodded before opening them again. They were steady when they looked at me. “Okay, I trust you, Wyatt.”
    I smiled and pressed a kiss to his forehead. “Good, now you need to get some sleep. They’ll be enough sleepless nights when the pups are born.”
    “All those alpha abilities are sure going to come in handy in the next three months,” Seth said with a small chuckle as he turned back onto his side and wriggled against me. He did it purposefully knowing how much it tempted me.
    I slid my hand down his side and moved it forward to wrap around his hardening cock. “Let’s see if I can get in some practice with my dominating abilities first.”

 
    CHAPTER NINE
     
     
    Seth
     
    I froze and sucked in a breath as I felt butterflies go crazy in my stomach. Whoa, what was that? I dropped the milk back onto the counter and braced my hand on the edge of it as the other came up to rub my swollen belly. The butterflies went crazy again. And then I felt it. Holy shit, the pups are kicking!
    I forgot about the tea and coffee and my huge bowl of cereal and pickles, and waddled as fast as I could to Wyatt’s office. I couldn’t wait to tell him. He’d probably forgo work the rest of the day just to spend it waiting for it to happen again and again. I was due in two months and I could no longer deny Seamus’s vehement confirmation that I was going to give birth to a litter of five.
    I skidded to a halt as I heard two voices come from the office. The door was slightly ajar and the sound of a gravelly voice from inside reminded me that Wyatt was meeting with Hayden and Gray this morning. Although the six packs had merged into one pack two years ago, some of the older wolves still only felt comfortable relaying their problems to the alpha of their former small pack so the alphas met periodically to keep each other informed of pack business.
    I decided to let them finish up and return with my news later but something they said caught my ear.
    “…Look happy with your new family.” The voice belonged to Hayden.
    There was a pause, a hesitation, and then I heard Wyatt reply. “It’s hard when one partner is in love with someone else.”
    “Are you sure?”
    His voice was sad and resigned. “What I understand is that when you love someone you can’t just let them go, no matter who they’re having pups with.”
    I slapped my hand over my mouth as I gasped and nearly doubled over from the pain that knifed through my heart. I’d suspected it for a while now but I hadn’t known for sure until now. Wyatt was in love with someone else, and he couldn’t forget them, even though he was having pups with me.
    I tried to ignore the burning behind my eyes as I walked numbly and blindly back into the kitchen. Wyatt was in love with someone else. For months now I’d hoped that he would fall in love