Page 96 of Dark Sold Mate

“Upset?” He shook his head, chuckling. “Elle, this is the best news ever. You’ve given me everything. Your forgiveness, your love, your trust. And you are now giving me a family. How could I possibly be upset?”

Elle sighed in relief, tears rolling down her cheeks. “I was so scared you would not want it. That you would think I trapped you or you didn’t want a child from a human or—”

“Stop,” Silas said, wiping away her tears with his thumbs. “Elle, I want to have everything with you. A Life, a family, a child. I want it all.”

“Even though the baby is going to be a half-human?”

“Especially because the baby will be half-human. It is going to have your strength, your courage, your unbelievable heart.” Silas gently placed his hand on her stomach, just over the place his child was developing. “This baby is already the most fortunate child in the world, because you’re his or her mother.”

Elle covered his hand with hers. “We’re really doing this. We’re really having a baby.”

Silas’s body shook with laughter. “Oh, we’re having a baby, all right.”

They remained like that for a long time, getting used to their reality. A baby. Their baby. Their future. Something they had never dreamed of or expected.

“I love you,” Elle said with a watery smile. She could say more, but in that moment, it conveyed even more. “I love you so much, Silas Weston.”

“I love you, too, Elle Jones. More than I ever imagined I’d love someone.” He pulled her into a hug, mindful of her injury. “You and this baby are my everything. My whole world.”

Elle nuzzled her head in the crook of his neck, inhaling his scent, while feeling his heart beat against her own. This moment felt like the beginning of something new.

They had gone through a lot together. Betrayal and reconciliation, anger and forgiveness, danger and rescue. They’d faced down traffickers and saved lives and nearly died in the process.

And now they were facing something even more daunting: parenthood.

“We should probably tell them.” Elle thought after a moment. “Your family, my brother, the pack.”

“We will,” Silas agreed. “But not tonight. Tonight, let’s just be us. Let’s just soak this moment in before thinking about the formalities.”

Elle smiled against his neck. He was right. If they told them now, they would start asking questions, expressing their concerns, advice and opinion. There would also be murmurs about the Alpha having a half-human child. Silas’s siblings would be thrilled, and Silas himself would probably get a lecture from August. He promised her when they were kids that anyone who got her pregnant would receive one from him. Elle snorted quietly. Seems like that’d be his Alpha.

However, at present, in this silent medical room, they would enjoy it by themselves. Alone.

A knock on the door interrupted their moment. Rael poked his head in. “Sorry to interrupt, but we need a debrief. The rescued women are settled, Carter has been examined, and we need to discuss what happens next.”

Silas looked at Elle, silently asking if she was up for this.

“I’m okay,” Elle assured him. “Let’s go.”

They headed to the conference room in the facility where the other members of the team were already present. Rael was sitting at the head of the table with his laptop on and his maps and notes already open. Javi sat in a chair, bloody and looking very tired but contented. August was close to the window, observing the grounds.

“Status report,” Silas said, sliding into Alpha mode easily.

Rael reported that all fifteen women were checked in and under care. “Medical checks are underway. The majority of them have minor injuries, and some have severe traumas that will demand continuous treatment. Cristina’s team is establishing counseling sessions and planning contacts with their families.”

“Well, we all know the head of the auction is dead,” Javi added. “We killed the majority of his inner circle. The survivors fled in different directions. We have the identities of half the buyers who were there, and I am in the process of locating the rest.”

“Carter is cooperating,” August offered. “He has provided names, places, all he knows, how his father was involved in the operation.”

Silas nodded slowly, pressing his tongue against his cheek. “So we dealt the operation a significant blow. But we didn’t take it down completely.”

“No,” Rael confirmed. “The head of the auction was a big fish, but he was not the only fish. This is not about hierarchy. There’s a whole network. Other auctions are going on in other places with other people in charge of those trafficking rings.”

Elle remained silent during the debrief, her mind going through something that had not left her mind since the fight at the warehouse.

“My magic,” she said suddenly with a tinge of shock, and they all turned and looked at her. “I think I have finally figured out how it works.”

“Your tracking ability,” Silas said, nodding for her to continue.