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Tears burned my eyes. Dammit, I was a hormonal mess.
“I’ve got her,” Alek murmured from behind me.
His large hands slid over my shoulders, pulling me back against his tall frame. I closed my eyes and just... breathed.
“I’m so glad you’re feeling better,” I whispered, not trusting my voice.
He pressed his lips to the top of my head, loosely wrapping his arms around me and holding me steady to his chest.
“Don’t worry about me. It’s our turn to take care of you. Fall apart if you need to. We’ll be here to pick up the pieces. You’re not carrying the weight of this by yourself anymore, Sunny. You don’t have to hide it from us.”
“I know... I just... You all risked so much to come here, and I’m going to lose you anyway. I don’t want any of this. But...” I placed my palm on my belly, and his hands slipped over the swell in tandem, cradling us both. “Saying I don’t want it means I don’t want her. That’s not true. I’m so confused, Alek.”
“It’s okay to be conflicted. You can love your daughter and hate the circumstances around her birth. It doesn’t mean you are any less devoted to her.”
“It feels like it.”
He kissed my temple. “You’ve been spending too much time with Caleb. You’ve adopted his guilty conscience.”
“He has a lot to be guilty about,” Noah said under his breath. I’d forgotten they were behind us, standing sentry.
I turned, pulling myself from Alek’s arms and mourning the loss of his touch all at once. “And you don’t?” Noah looked chastened, but I continued. “You saw everything in his mind. His past, his penance. I forgave him, and that’s all that matters.”
Kingston smirked, laughing as he held up a hand to me for a high five. “That’s my sexy Alpha baby mama. Put the bratty prince in his place.”
“Watch it, wolf, or you’ll be next.”
He lowered his hand, still smirking. “Worth it. I like it when you spank me.”
Noah cocked one dark brow. “Spankings? Really, Kingston?”
He shrugged. “They call it a spank bank for a reason. And I am secure in my masculinity. I can let her own my ass all she wants.”
“Do you call her Mommy as well?”
“Mistress,” he and I corrected at the same time.
Noah’s mouth hung open as he glanced between us. “Bloody hell, where was I?”
“And me? Are you holding out on us...Mistress?” Alek brushed my hair back from my neck, leaning down and kissing the sensitive spot between my earlobe and my jaw. I shuddered as a ripple of pleasure raced through me. Even now, so pregnant I couldn’t walk faster than a sloth, one small touch from my mates could make me needy.
“Do you want me to be?”
“I’d let you have your way with me. But we both know it would just end up with me topping from the bottom.”
Kingston inhaled. “Our mate likes that idea. Fuck... pick her up, and let’s go break in one of the new bedrooms Alek magicked up for us.”
“Don’t get too excited. Sunday has an appointment with the midwife in a few hours.”
“Plenty of time.”
“Not for what I have in mind,” Alek murmured. “I finally have my stamina back. No more frenzied couplings for me.”
I melted into him. “Tease.”
One of his large palms cupped my breast and squeezed. “Consider it foreplay, Kærasta. You know we’ll take care of you as soon as we get you alone.”
“We’re alone now.”
