Filed to story: Rylee the Orphan Luna Novel
“Good… I think,” she replied.
“Doesn’t sound like you’re doing so good,” I pointed out.
“Well, I overheard you and the Alpha talking about, you know, the pregnancy. Congratulations, by the way. And well, I just…” she trailed off and suddenly looked three times paler than she normally did. And for someone who has red hair, she looked really pale. “Irene, what’s wrong? If you don’t feel comfortable saying it out loud, you can tell me through your thoughts,” I suggested to make it easier on her. I found that some pack members spoke more freely with their thoughts than trying to express physical words in a conversation. She nodded her head eagerly and projected her thoughts to me rather quickly. “Oh…” was all I could say when she finished.
“Yeah…”
“Have you told Keaton?” I asked. She shook her head and bit her bottom lip. I held both of her hands and just smiled. “Do you want me to go with you?” She nodded her head. “Okay, come on.” I led her out of the hospital, and I mind-linked Keaton on the way and asked him to meet me in my office.
“Do you think we should tell Dylan and the Betas?” she asked as we headed there.
“Not just yet. This is something for the two of you to enjoy privately, well, semi-privately,” I answered while referring to myself. When we arrived at my office, Keaton was already waiting.
“Luna? Sweetheart? Is everything okay?” Keaton gulped as he stood straight up.
“Uh, well, it depends on how you look at it?” I replied and pushed my door open. They both went in, and I followed after while closing the door behind me. I went over to my desk and had them both sit on the opposite side in the guest chairs.
“Rylee, what’s going on?” Keaton asked me informally. I always allowed him to drop the honorifics behind closed doors whenever we were alone. Wyatt hated it but he allowed Keaton to call him by his first name during an informal conversation, so why couldn’t I? “Well, Irene here has something she would like to tell you,” I replied to him. He shifted in his chair to look at her, and she was twirling her fingers in her lap, avoiding his gaze. “Yoohoo, earth to Irene.”
“Hm!?” she snapped her head up to look at me. I gestured to Keaton who was still waiting for her to tell him what she needed to say. “Oh, um… well… I have … good news?” she stated more like a question. I slumped my shoulders and tilted my head at her lack of confidence in the matter.
“Okay, yeah, that doesn’t sound good at all,” Keaton responded and looked over at me. I shook my head and pointed at Irene. This was between the two of them. I was just here for moral support.
“No, it’s good, at least, I think it’s good. I mean, I know it’s good, it’s just that I don’t know if you would think it’s good, but I hope that you would!” Irene spoke a million miles a minute. She was talking so fast, I was afraid that Keaton didn’t understand a word she said.
“Irene, sweetie, you can tell me anything. Whatever it is, we can get through it together,” Keaton told her reassuringly. The moment he said those words, she broke down in tears and pulled out what appeared to be an at-home pregnancy test. I could easily see the two blue lines. Keaton took it from her, and you could just see the wheels turning in his head as he realized what the little stick implied. He looked back at Irene, then at me, and then back down to the test in his hand. He was so silent, it was almost creepy. “Keaton?” Irene sobbed.
“Does this mean what I think it means!? Irene, are you pregnant!?”
“Yes,” she whimpered, afraid of his reaction. His eyes went wide, and without saying anything, he threw the test into the air as he howled with absolute happiness. “YAHOO!!! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! f**k YES! I’M GOING TO BE A FATHER!? ARE YOU FOR REAL RIGHT NOW!?” “Yeah,” she whimpered again. Keaton practically tackled her out of the chair and started to kiss her all over her face.
“Keaton! Don’t be so rough with her!” I shouted at him. He paused and looked down and saw he had put his entire body weight on her.
“Oh f**k! s**t! s**t! s**t! I’m so sorry, sweetheart!” He got up and pulled her with him. He looked her over once more, and when he saw she was fine, he picked her up and spun her around in circles.
“KEATON! I’M GOING HURL!!” she cried out. But he didn’t stop. He was screaming with joy while Irene was trying to hold onto him for dear life. “SERIOUSLY! PUT ME DOWN!” she screamed again. He heard her this time, and sure enough, she ran straight to the nearest garbage bin and started to vomit.
“Oh, s**t,” I muttered. Hearing and seeing her throw up was making my stomach feel queasy as well. “Congratulations!” I shouted before I ran out of my office, holding my hand to my mouth, and went straight for the guest bathroom two doors down. Thankfully, I made it to the toilet in time.
I was in such a hurry to get there, I forgot to close the door, and I felt someone patting my back. It wasn’t Wyatt though. I looked up from the toilet and saw Melody.
“Hi,” I muttered before puking again.
“I don’t miss these days,” she said while she held my hair back and continued to pat my back. When I was done emptying my stomach, I sat back and blew my nose into some toilet paper before flushing it.
“How’d you know I was in here?”
“Well, for one, I could hear you throwing up from my floor, and two, we heard the shouting and came running up to make sure everything was okay,” she answered.
“Everything is fine. You and Kendrick should go into my office, Keaton and Irene are there. She’s the reason why I got sick.”
“Ken’s in there now. I could hear her throwing up too. What’s going on-ohhhhh! OH, MY GODDESS! IS SHE!?” Melody’s tone changed drastically when she put the pieces together, which didn’t take long. I nodded my head and she double-checked to make sure I was okay before running out of the bathroom into my office. Three seconds later, I could hear more shouting, howling, and squealing.
“What the hell is going on out there!?” Wyatt shouted as he stormed out of his office. So that’s where he ran away to. I heard him go into my office, “What the hell!? Where is Rylee?”
“In here, Wyatt!” I called out to him from the bathroom floor. He came rushing in, and I just smiled.
“Tink, are you okay?”
“Fine, just a little domino effect morning sickness,” I replied. He looked at me and c****d his head. “Irene,” was all I said before he, too, had put the dots together. He smiled and helped me to my feet as we went back into my office to see Keaton crushing Irene to death, and Kendrick and Melody smiling at them approvingly.
“Bro, you have to tell dad!” Kendrick told him.
“Dad can wait!” Keaton exclaimed as his smile reached his ears.
“I can wait on what?” We turned to the door and saw Dylan with Leighann in his arms.
“Dad, give Leighann to me,” Kendrick instructed as he reached for his daughter. She reached for him at the same time and had the brightest smile.
“Okay, what’s going on?” Dylan asked.
“DAD! I’m going to be a DAD!” Keaton shouted.
“What!?” Dylan exclaimed in surprise. Without saying another word, Keaton placed a hand on Irene’s stomach and rubbed it gently while cheesing. Wyatt and I couldn’t stop the laughs that came out of our mouths at his utter excitement.
“Irene, honey, is this true!?” Dylan confirmed with her. She nodded her head and showed him the pregnancy test as well. Dylan didn’t say anything as he went to them and hugged them both. After a minute or so, he opened one arm towards Kendrick and Melody and they went to join them. Wyatt and I looked at each other at the same time, and we left them to their family hug.
We went back into his office and closed the door behind us. Wyatt brought me over to the small couch and had me sit on his lap. I leaned my head back and rested on his shoulder as he held me with both arms tight around my waist and his hands flat against my belly. “Svetlana called a minute ago,” he told me.
“What did she say?”
“She said that the clones are done and that she’s getting the first group ready to take our places. She just finished the final memory installations into Chad’s and Richard’s clones.”
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