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Mason seemed untouched, but that made sense, since he was also now a true Alpha. He wouldn’t be affected by Xander in the same way. He looked past me with a raised brow. A silent understanding passed between us, and I nodded.
Xander wasn’t on the porch anymore when I got out there. I opened my senses to search for him. He was still radiating his Alpha power, so it wasn’t hard to find him. He’d gone around the side of the cabin to a stump used for splitting wood.
I took the time to admire his bare back as he hefted the ax and swung, splitting a log neatly in two. Physically, we’d always been closely matched, but Xander had a grace his bulk denied. Watching him move was sometimes like watching a trained dancer, fluid and mesmerizing.
He knew I was there. I could tell. But he reached for another log and set it up on the stump, then swung the ax with such power I felt the thud of it against wood in my belly. He kicked the split pieces out of the way and reached for another log before I spoke alend …mlied for him to lann tka — —
stump. He faced me with clenched fists. “But I’m also very f ucking glad to be back here with you, so maybe. you could let us all just settle before you go waving that big di ck around.”
For a second, I thought I’d gone too far. Then Xander gave me a grudging smile. He put his hands on his hips and looked over my shoulder toward the cottage, then into my ey eyes, “You think my di ck is big?”
My own co ck thickened at that knowing tone. Suddenly, I wasn’t so tired. I grinned at him.
“Come here,” he ordered in a dark voice so powerful it sent a shudder straight to the base of my spine.
her Xander had never compelled me; he never needed to When he gave an order, I obeyed it. I was in front of him in a few long strides.
When he kissed me, our teeth clashed. His tongue f ucked deep into my mouth. It wasn’t the first time we’d ever kissed, but this time it felt different. Like the two of us had agreed on something we’d never really admitted to before.
His hand cupped my rising co ck and rubbed it as he fisted his fingers into the hair at the base of my skull. Xander nuzzled my throat, smelling me. He pressed his sharp teeth to my skin, and I tipped my head back to give him as much of me as he wanted.
“Boys?” Gabriela’s voice carried to us from the front of the cabin, If Xander had shoved me away from him at the sound of his mother’s call, I would have understood. What we had and shared wasn’t unknown among the packs-you don’t consistently mate two males with one female for years without accepting that two men sharing a mate would also be intimate with each other. But Xander and I had never been that way with each other around anyone else.
Instead, he gave my c ock another slow rub and kissed my mouth firmly before slinging an arm shoulders.
n over my “Let’s get you in a hot shower,” he said. TIl wash your back. If you’re lucky, I’ll wash your front, too.”
Mason–
I hated being this f ucking jealous, especially of Xander, but bitterness surged all the way up my throat as ! watched my half-
brother move through the kitchen, pausing to press a kiss to Lanie’s hair, then baby Stella on her lap. Hell, I even hated the way he casually ran a hand along Zane’s back and shoulders when he moved around the other man at the counter, where he was grabbing plates from the cupboard.
They were all so clearly a unit, and L..f uck. Who was in all of this? An outsider. Interloper. I might also be the true Alpha because we shared a father, but that didn’t make me part of what they all shared.
“They’ve known each other a long, long time, Mason. That’s all” Gabriela murmured by my side as she hitched Alaina on one hip.
The baby fussed and gnawed a fist until Gabriela soothed her My baby. No actual blood relation to Gabriela at all, yet the woman clearly loved the little girl. The same as I loved Stella, despite knowing I hadn’t fathered her.
Isaac squirmed, fussing in my arms as I glanced at the woman my father had been married to. The one. he’d betrayed. Xander–
had grown up with a mother, a father. He had a Beta.
But Lanie Lanie was mine.
Lanie looked up at me as I thought the word. Her eyes narrowed and her head tilted, but she didn’t say anything. She crooked a finger at me.
“Mason. Bring the baby here. He needs to be fed.”
“Don’t they always?” I joked.
Between the three infants, it sometimes felt like all we did was rotate through feeding, rocking, changing diapers, bathing, and soothing babies to sleep. But I couldn’t deny how hot it f ucking got me to watch the woman I loved being so maternal. Not for the first time, I imagined her belly swelling with my pup, and my cock throbbed.
Gabriela put a hand on my sleeve to hold me back for a second. “I’m glad you and my son have found a way to get along. I always wished…”
Her voice cracked, causing both Xander and Zane to look at her.
“I often wished for another son. A brother for Xander,” Gabriela whispered and lifted Alaina up so she could nuzzle the baby’s cheek. Gabriela’s eyes shone. “You are all so blessed. I hope you realize that.”
I did, even if I did hate parts of that blessing.
With a grim nod, not sure what to say to her, I took my spot at the table as Xander slid a bottle in front of me. Isaac was already wriggling in my arms, ready to eat. When Xander put a hand on my shoulder, I tensed, not sure what he wanted.
He waited until I met his eyes. “You need anything?”
unshed tears, but her lips curved into a smile. I shook my head.
“Just my…I coughed, clearing my throat, risking the next words. “Just my family.”
Silence fell through the entire kitchen. Zane turned from the cupboard, his eyes wide. Xander didn’t lift his hand from my shoulder. He nodded once, firmly.
“How about a big old steak, too, little buddy?” Xander asked.
I almost bared my teeth at the “little buddy” until I realized he was yanking my chain. Was that how it felt to have a brother?
I rolled my eyes. “Rare as you can make it, so long as it’s not still mooing.”
Gabriela sighed soft laughter and shook her head as she settled into a seat next to Lanie. “Boys. Behave yourselves.”
“It’s what we are, though,” Lanie blurted.
When we all turned to look at her, pink flushed her cheeks. She gave each of us a short stare before settling her gaze back on mine. She reached across the table for my hand. Our fingers linked.
“It might be unconventional, but that’s what we are. A family. All of us, she emphasized. “And if you three are going to get worked up about it, you can all just…not. Got it?”
of F uck, she was sex y when she got all tough like that could see the blaze in Xander’s eyes at her tone.
Zane’s, too. Were they thinking what I was? About carrying her into the bedroom and ravishing that sassy mouth?
Of course, they were.
I didn’t love the idea. Hell, no. But I’d seen how they could share her, and I knew it was possible for more than one man to love the same woman.
The question I couldn’t get out of my head, though…could Lanie love all of us equally?
Or would someone…me, for example, always be the odd one out?
Lanie–
“I wouldn’t dream of going up against you,” Mason said as his thumb rubbed over the back of my hand. “Not when you get that look.”
“No man or wolf would dare,” Zane put in with a grin as he sat.
ch hot, s exy men…
I didn’t think a woman could be as lucky as I was. Cared for so deeply by three such hot, mother to a gorgeous baby girl and also healthy, beautiful twins. I’d never imagined on my mating day that I’d end up here, but now that I had, there was no place I would rather be.
I squeezed Mason’s fingers as Zane slid bowls of mashed potatoes and a basket of bread onto the table. I wasn’t sure where the bounty of food had come from, but he and Xander had insisted on cooking for all of us, a skill I hadn’t even known they had.
The two of them had been sending each other secret glances since we got back…sharing emotions they didn’t know I could sense. Their dynamic had changed ever-so-slightly, and I wondered what that would mean for the three of us.
What would all of this mean?
Xander slid a platter of seared steaks onto the table and took his seat next to his Beta. “One grandmother, one mama, three daddies, and three babies. Sounds like all we need’s a white picket fence.”
I loved them all so much, it was like a flame that had been kindled into an inferno inside me. Emotion my throat as I looked at all of them. In my arms, Stella cooed like she understood exactly what was going on.
cho “She’s right,” Gabriela said. “Of course, the Luna is always right.”
I laughed with a little choke in my voice and met Mason’s eyes. Then Xander’s. Two Alphas, but only one me. We were going to have figure out what that meant for all of us.
“I’m not sure I even feel like I’m ready to be a Luna,” I said around the lump in my throat.
“Well, that’s just silly, because you definitely acted like one,” Zane put in fiercely. “You all should have seen her. She was beyond anything I could’ve imagined. So strong and brave. Lanie, I’m so insanely proud of you.
Never let me hear you say you’re not ready.”
“Being the Luna is more than household chores and planning parties, Lanie. A Luna is a warrior who stands by her Alpha’s side, and if not at his side, she fights to protect him however she can. You did something none of the rest of us could do. Because of you, we have these two precious little ones returned to us safe and sound.”
Gabriela’s soft voice was so full of love and pride it made me miss my own mother. Xander’s mom had intimidated me when we first met, but that was back when I hadn’t known that, eventually, I’d be mated to her son for real. We weren’t what I’d call close, but I could see us getting there, and I certainly held her up as a “Thank you,” I told her sincerely. “That means a lot, especially from you.”
I snuggled Stella closer to me, breathing in the sweet fragrance of her soft baby-fine hair. She was my pup, my daughter, but Alaina and Isaac were also mine in a way I would never have expected I could feel about them. They might’ve been the children of a woman who’d been my rival, but I was the only mother they would ever know.
“Zane, I can never thank you enough for bringing my pups back safely. Anything you ever need from me, you have it.” Mason’s rough voice cracked with his emotion. He shot a quirked grin toward Xander. “I might have to go toe-to-toe with this as shole now and then just to remind him he’s not the only top wolf, but I’ve got your back, no matter what,”
“Hey, man. No need to thank me. I love those babies Zane said firmly, making sure Mason looked toward him. “As far as I’m concerned, Alaina and Isaac are as much my pups as Stella is. It doesn’t matter what the biology says. They’re all mine, and I will fight to the death to protect them.”
My heart swelled with love again. I knew what Gabriela had said was true, no matter how I still felt about. my abilities. ..or not.
But I did agree with Zane about the pups. I’d risked my life for them, and I would do it again in a heartbeat.
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