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It was working.
My mother entered the kitchen with Isaac holding one hand and Alaina gripping the other. They’d both hit their growth spurt, too, but although they were toddling, neither one of them was as steady as Stella. They babbled to each other softly, not real words, Isaac held up his arms. “Dada.”
I picked him up and put him on my hip. “Hey, there, little man. Do you want a snack, too?”
The little boy put his finger in his mouth and nodded My mother was already putting Alaina in a booster seat as Lanie cut up apples onto plates and adding a dollop of peanut butter. Zane opened the cupboard to grab out some sippy cups with lids Lanie had also had delivered, and Mason pulled out the jug of apple juice.
We all moved, coordinated as a dance, and I looked over to see my mother shaking her amused expression.
I settled our son into his seat as my mate put the plate in front of him. My mother saw me She let out a soft chuckle.
“It takes five adults to take care of three children,” she said with another chuckle. “And now tha mobile… Well, if your children are anything like you were as a boy, Xander, we’d all better step up our c workouts so we can keep up with them.”
Stella kicked her little legs against the rungs of the chair. “Daddy, what car…cardy.”
“It means exercise.”I bent to kiss the top of her head.
Lanie put the plate in front of Stella. “What do you say?”
“Please” Stella said confidently Lanie looked startled, but her voice was calm. “You say please when you want something, but when you get something, my little love, you say “thank you”
“Tank you,” Stella said. Then, after a second, softly as though she was speaking more to herself, she repeated it. “Thank you.”
only is she speaking in sentences, which is way beyond what she ought to be doing, she’s also progressing in her language skills.”
Alaina pounded the table, and my mother hurried to get the little girl her own plate of apples and peanut butter. Alaina didn’t say anything, but her pout turned into a smile when my mother gave her the snack.
The differences between Stella and the twins were so obvious now. Isaac dragged his apple slice through the peanut butter and managed to get it into his mouth, but the peanut butter fell off and he used a finger to try to scoop it up. Alaina didn’t even try to get the apple into the peanut butter, just used her finger right off the bat Stella, on the other hand, daintily took an apple slice and dipped it into the peanut butter. She used her finger to press the gooey brown treat onto the apple slice and lifted the entire thing to her lips, then took a small, careful bite.
The difference in her coordination was vast.
“You were an early walker and talker,” my mother said in a rough voice. She gave me a look that seemed. oddly hopeful.
Like the rest of us, she seemed amazed by her granddaughter’s growth. And like us, she was obviously hoping that it didn’t mean something was wrong with our little girl. The catch in her voice, though, led me to believe my mother was doing her best to sound braver than she felt.
I met Lanie’s gaze over the top of our little girl’s head. My Luna’s eyes flared bright with her wolf for a few seconds. Waves of nervousness rolled off her, a rush of sensation that faded in a second. She was doing that on purpose, and it was taking a lot of effort. I could feel her using self-will to shield her anxiety.
We all were frozen, watching our children at the table. No idea of what to do, or how to handle any of this. Just then, Isaac dumped his cup and the lid came off. Apple juice spread across the table as he started to cry. Alaina joined him. Stella pouted and looked upset.
“Oh, no, what a mess. Let’s get this cleaned up. Don’t cry, sweetheart. Mommy will get you more.
Lanie sounded glad for the distraction, and we all started working to clean it all up.
But what were we going to do about this much bigger mess, the one we didn’t know how to take care of?
Lanie–
“I haven’t been this worn out and exhausted since I was pregnant.” I held back an enormous yawn and grabbed my brush from the dresser. I pulled the tie out of my hair and let it fall down around my shoulders so I could brush it. “I swear, I almost fell asleep in the shower!”
All three pups had been constantly on the go since got back from the coffee shop. Alaina and Isaact were still a little wobbly, but Stella was able to run. We’d spent the rest of the day trying to wear them out playing tag outside. Then Ring Around the Rosy.
Then Simon Says, “I thought they’d never go down,” Mason said as he pulled back the comforter and blankets on our giant “Isaac definitely didn’t want to.” Zane chuckled from his place on the other side of the bed as he helped fold down the covers.
“Stubborn little pup.”
“Like his Abba,” Xander said with a grin and plucked the brush from my hand. “You. Get into bed. Let me do this for you. You’re falling asleep on your feet.”
I held back another yawn but obeyed. When the four of us had settled into the bed, I settled in between Xander’s legs as he sat up against the headboard. He started brushing my hair. Mason took a bottle of lotion from the nightstand and began rubbing it into my hands for me. Zane took some of it and gestured for me to give him one of my feet.
My mates pampered me, and I loved them for it.
“When Stella asked me to read her to sleep, I noticed she was reading along with me,” Mason said. “That has to be just memorization…right?”
Xander pulled my hair to the side and kissed the back of my neck before gently beginning to brush again. “I was not an early reader. Lanie?”
“I remember reading books before I went to school,” she said, “but only after I’d passed my second doubling.”
“It’s clear she’s advancing faster than is to be expected,” Zane said. “The question is, what are we going to do about it?”
All of us were silent at that. I could sense my three mates thinking about the reasons why Stella was different than Isaac and Alaina, despite them sharing the same bloodline as her father “It’s because of me,” I said aloud, but quietly. “The twins are Alice’s children, but Stella’s a hybrid, like me. That has to be why”
Mason gave both my hands a squeeze and sat back against the headboard. “But you didn’t grow faster, did you? Or start talking sooner?”
“No, but remember, my mother had the spell that was supposed to cloak her vampire side and make sure pressure of the brush was mesmerizing. “Something didn’t work right, which is why when I turned eighteen.
I trailed off, not wanting to remind my three virile mates that my hybrid scent was an aphrodisiac draw to any vampire or wolf within miles.
“I didn’t grow up having full use or control of my vampire side,” I added softly. “And Isolde, the witch who gave me the spell that sent me to Stillwood the first time. she said that in hybrids, vampiric powers sometimes skip generations.”
“Which, obviously, it didn’t in Stella,” Mason said.
“We just don’t know enough about hybrids, Zane said. He kissed the sole of the foot he’d just lotioned and took the other to start on it.
“Someone has to know,” I said fiercely. The testing facility wouldn’t exist to take hybrids if someone didn’t know something about them to begin with.”
“We aren’t taking her there,” Xander said sharply.
I leaned back against him, which prevented him from being able to run the brush through my hair, but it felt good to be in his arms. “Of course not. I’m just saying that she’s not the first hybrid. There has to be someone who knows what’s going on.”
“Yes, but until we find that person, we have to keep this locked totally down.” Xander put the brush aside. and wrapped his arms around me. “We can’t tell anyone. Her size is a little unusual, but nothing that would stand out, especially around anyone who doesn’t know her exact age. But the talking thing…
“She can’t talk around anyone else but us,” Mason put in with the same firm authority Xander had.
My two Alphas. My body thrilled at their strength, even as my heart twisted at the thought of my little d being in any kind of danger.
“How will we be sure she understands?” Zane asked.
“We’ll have to talk to her. If she’s able to speak in full sentences, and if she’s able to read, hopefully, she’ll be able to understand that she has to keep this secret,” I said.
But what if she can’t?
She’s still just a baby.
Did I send that, or did one of my mates? I couldn’t be sure, since it was obvious that all of us were thinking it, or variations of it.
None of us said it aloud, though.
Because none of us had the answer.
Lanie–
“Let’s just put this to bed for now,” Xander said into my ear. “It’s late, you’re tired.”
“Maybe the Goddess will have some answers for you while you sleep,” Mason offered.
“Like…in a dream?” I asked, curious about what he was getting at.
He nodded and pressed a kiss to my bare shoulder. I was never going to spend a cent on pajamas ever again, if these three men had their way. Not that I was complaining. Being naked with them all in this giant bed was the most complete happiness I’d ever known…or could imagine.
“Yeah. I’ve heard of that happening.” Zane added with one last stroke of my insole that had me giggling… and also giving a little gasp. “Not every Luna communicates with the Moon Goddess on that level, but…”
“I think we all agree that our Lanie is not ‘every Luna.” Xander nuzzled my neck below my ear.
No matter what was going on, his touch always set me on fire. So did Zane’s…his warm, strong hands sliding over my ankles and calves. Mason’s teeth nipped at my skin.
I gave myself up to my three mates and the pleasure they were wonderfully insistent on giving me. When I tried to shift so I could offer my mouth to Xander for his cock, he gruffly refused.
“You lay back and let us worship you the way you deserve to be worshipped,” he said with a hint of a growl.
I did, gladly. My eyes were heavy with exhaustion, and my muscles tense with the anxiety, but in m found all my cares flying away under their skilled hands and tongues.
When the soft scarf slipped over my eyes, I let out a small, startled sigh. But then I didn’t fight it, beca being unable to see made the pleasure so much better. Then, when I felt a similar set of soft ties binding me to the bed posts, all I could do was writhe.
I didn’t think I’d want to be tied up right now, but my three mates seemed to know better. I couldn’t see, and I couldn’t use my hands. All I could do was lay back and let them do exactly what Xander had promised Whose mouth caressed my neck, nibbling down to my breasts and nipples to suckle gently? I didn’t know. Who centered his tongue over my other nipple, laving it to a hard peak until I had to bite back my moans?! couldn’t tell, and it didn’t matter. The tongue stroking my clit was steady and moved in a perfect pace The big bed rocked as my three mates took their time teasing me close to the edge, over and over. I gave myself up to them My hips rocked against the lips and tongue making love to me My orgasm was like a ribbon, curling and colling, wound tighter and tighter until I exploded. Cascades of sparkling stars filled my vision, gold and silver against the darkness of my closed eyelids. I cried out, my voice muffled by a kiss I came again, a smaller burst of pleasure position, wan and Sated from my orgasm, I was too sleepy and content to say a word as they curled around.
I knew I was dreaming because I was alone in the forest, and Lily was in control. I could see everything in the darkness through her wolfish eyes. We scented prey and ran after it into a meadow full of flowers. We poised to spring, but a cool voice said both of our names, and we stopped.
I looked down at the earth and saw hands instead of paws, I stood, naked, and stretched up toward the sky. The big silver moon was the largest I’d ever seen it, tinged with a ring of blue.
“Goddess?” I questioned.
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