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“That is for Cain’s abilities to decipher, I’m afraid. As for me, I can tell you you need to drink more water. Being dehydrated won’t help with the pain.
“You also need to be keeping yourself fed. As much as I am sure these alphas have you occupied most of the time, you need to keep up as much strength as possible.
“I’m going to give you some herbs from my garden to help, they’ll keep you hungry so you remember to eat, and then others will help with vitamins and all of that,” he said, standing up as Derik held his hand out for the notebook.
Galen handed it over, then looked at my mom. “Pearl, you look like someone who appreciates the value of our plant life. Would you care to join me in the garden?
“I daresay the herbs you pick will be of the most help in this situation; magic has a way of leading us to what we need through connections we can’t see,” he said, and even me with my winter born mind picked up the double meaning.
She blushed and nodded before looking down at me. “You’ll be okay here?” she asked, and I nodded.
“I’m okay,” I said, closing my torn dress and pulling the blanket over me.
She gave my hand a squeeze, then went with Galen out the front door.
I smiled after her. “He is strange, but he seems nice,” I said.
Derik frowned. “He is one of our more polite wolves. His beast stays on lockdown for most of the year,” he murmured, still looking over the notes.
I frowned at the implication that his control wasn’t guaranteed. “He has flipped out before?”
“Last year. He’s big on respect. He was disrespected. Can’t say I blame him. He is a little…frigid.” Kai smirked.
“I have no idea what you mean.”
“It was the heat. A female assumed because he wasn’t mated that he would be joining, but he never does. Somehow he resists. Says he is waiting for the one.
“She laughed at him for it, and he killed her. She was beneath him anyway so it wasn’t too big of a deal, but everyone stopped harassing him after that,” Brax said, sitting on the end of my bed.
I was about to respond when Derik snapped the book shut and chucked it on the tray next to the bed. We all turned to him, and he ran a hand over his head before he clenched his fists and stalked away.
“Derik?” I asked, and he spun to me.
He came forward, finding my mouth and kissing it fiercely before holding my face between his hands.
“I’m sorry, beautiful,” he said, and I frowned.
“For?” I asked, not complaining if it meant more kisses.
“We should have looked after you better. We have been neglecting your human needs in favor of ours, assuming magic alone would keep you alive, but we were wrong. For that I am sorry,” he said.
My heart warmed. “I’m okay,” I said, but he shook his head, grabbing the book.
“Not according to this, you’re not. But we’ll fix it. No more sex until you are better–
human standard better,” he decided, and my jaw dropped.
Brax raised a brow, and Kai just flat-out refused.
“No sex for you maybe, but I’m–” Kai started, but Derik shoved the book at him and he frowned, flicking through the pages before his lips pursed.
He handed it to Brax, and I huffed.
“So I’ll eat and drink more, but I have other needs,” I tried, but even Kai shook his head this time.
“Nope. Not right now. Let’s just get your human body better,” he said patronizingly, and I rolled my eyes, sinking down on the bed.
“I feel fine. I don’t need to be punished.”
I sulked, and Derik kissed me softly again.
“Not punished, looked after, like we promised to do. We need to remember meal times and make sure you are drinking.”
“And resting,” Brax breathed.
I frowned, reaching for the book, but he pulled it out of my reach and handed it back to Derik.
“No stressing for the pregnant human,” Derik said before putting the book out of my reach again.
I sighed and leaned back. Fine. I trusted them. If I had to rest and eat and drink then I would, but the no sex thing seemed unfair.
“The easiest way for me not to stress is definitely taking my mind off matters.” I smirked, and Kai laughed.
“For every day you eat three meals with snacks in between and eight glasses of water minimum, I’ll let you cum,” Kai bargained, and I grinned.
“Deal.”
He sealed it with a kiss that made me want to go stuff my face right then to make sure I was going to get my reward.
He pulled back just as Galen and my mom came back in.
She had a basket of herbs and flowers that she put on the bench by the lab area, her eyes lighting up at all the fancy equipment that we had no hope of experiencing in the human villages.
“Lorelai, your mother is going to help me mix the right things for your daily vitamins. In the meantime, I suggest you go and find some food.
“I’d like to see you back every week to replenish supplies and to monitor your and the baby’s weight. The positioning of the child too,” Galen said.
I was still stuck on the fact that my mother was going to stay with him. He was a wolf, she was a human, and she was usually so aware of that fact. Either the herbs had gotten to her brain or Galen had.
“I’ll be back to collect Lorelai’s mother and the herbs. How long will you need?”
Derik asked, and Galen held his chin, thinking hard about the answer.
“Three hours, forty-two minutes, fifteen seconds.” He gave a precise number, and I held back my chuckle.
“Right. I’ll be back then,” Derik said as my mom came over.
“Are you sure you are okay here, Mom?”
She nodded. “Yes, sweetie. I’m in my element here, and I would like to make sure no extra herbs or concoctions are being made that could harm you.
“Not that I don’t trust your judgment, Galen, I just need to make sure,” she said, looking over at the doctor, who didn’t seem offended in the slightest.
I nodded, then looked at my alphas. “She’ll be safe here?”
“Galen is an elder. No one will harm her while she is with him and a guest of the alphas,” Derik said, and I raised a brow.
Hmm, him and his secret elders. I still had to ask him about his parents.
He narrowed his eyes on me with a stern warning written in them, but I didn’t care.
I deserved to know, and I wanted the answers he still hid from me, especially since we were now mated.
Our lives were entwined by the fates whether his parents liked it or not.
21. The Corruption
LORELAI
It had been an entirely inhumane amount of time for my body and soul to go without sating from my alphas.
I was eating and drinking as much as I could stomach, but it wasn’t enough for them to be happy I had held up my end of the deal, so I was left restless and wanting all night.
It didn’t seem fair, but then again, it was for the best. Apparently.
Mom had stayed for four days, stretching out her excuses through letters for Vaughn the pack had delivered to the widows’ village, but today, she had to leave.
The anxiety was killing me. My stomach was in such ribbons that not even my potion was appealing.
I leaned back from the table as the alphas and my mother ate in silence. My arms crossed over my bump, and I winced at the ache there.
Baby had been getting stronger. The more food I ate, the stronger my body got, the stronger the baby got. It made sense, but it was also painful.
It had power in its kicks now, and it was winding me a little. I rubbed the bruise that had appeared on my stomach overnight and sipped some water, my eyes catching Derik’s, who frowned at my plate.
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