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“And we’ll get you a bloodshake once we’re inside,” Terrick said when we were almost back to the house.
“Yep. I’m a blood thirsty wolf,” I laughed.
“Mate, you sort of are,” he said, poking me in the butt cheek with a finger as I started up the porch steps.
I stopped and blinked at him. He was right. My wolf tilted his head to the side too before sitting on his haunches to consider what was said. Before we had the front door unlocked, he decided he wanted to bite Dara, not drink his blood. So, I was blood thirsty. He was just protecting his personal space.
I grabbed the test out of my pocket as soon as the front door was shut and locked. He followed on my heels down the hall and into our bedroom before I disappeared into the bathroom.
“Do you want me to wait out here?”
“Just give me a second,” I said, leaving the door ajar.
A minute later, I stared at the pregnancy test while Terrick set a timer on my phone. He leaned in the doorway watching me while I watched the test. His eyes on me made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
“It feels like you’re trying to look through me to see the baby,” I laughed, shaking off the feeling.
“He might be,” Terrick said.
I glanced at him to see his eyes glowing.
Terrick’s finger tapped three times against the doorway, and I glanced at him.
“That was him,” Terrick said.
“Him? Your hound?” I blinked.
“Yeah.”
“What does he want?” I asked, but he tapped three times again.
“I think that might be his answer.”
“What? Tap four times for yes?” I laughed.
“Is it a yes?” he asked.
I glanced down and the pixelated baby wrapped all snug in their green blanket stared back up at me.
“It’s a yes!” I shouted, my wolf morphing the yes into a howl.
Terrick threw his head back too, his howl deep and throaty, his eyes glowing brighter than before. I crashed into him, hugging him, as he leaned down for a kiss. His tongue darted between my lips and swept around my mouth. I pressed my weight against him, delighting in how strong he felt against my body. With his arms wrapped around me, I felt the safest I’d ever felt in my life.
***
Since we weren’t going out much, we hadn’t told anyone else our good news and somehow we both managed to keep it off all the links we were on. By that weekend we were still holding our silence when one of the Lost Fang Coven guards brought Salta for a visit. Terrick wanted to show her around town. He met her on the porch and they headed off to stop at Bad Wolf Cakes 2.0 first thing.
I lay on the sofa considering what I might bake while they were gone. As much as I wanted to get to know Salta better, I understood that she and Terrick had a lot to discuss. I wasn’t sure if he was going to tell her about sending their dad off to rest or not, but regardless of whether he told her or not, their lives had changed a lot.
“You up?” Blithe’s voice played into my thoughts over our family link.
For a second, I panicked afraid our secret would leak out before we were ready for it to.
“I’m up. Just laying around for a bit, I think. Terrick is out with Salta.”
“I know I just saw them leave. I’m almost to your house.”
“Is everything okay?” I asked him.
