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Lucien and Bardhyl are off the couch and move to stand on either side of me, their hands on me.
“Don’t cry, beautiful,” Dušan assures me. “You’ve always been special, and it seems that because you transformed so late, your first shift couldn’t completely eradicate the disease. But it has made it dormant and inactive in your body.”
I’m still processing his words, trying to come to terms with the results.
“It’s why she’s still immune to the zombies,” Lucien adds, to which Dušan nods.
Bardhyl hugs me from behind, his whisper in my ears, “This is incredible.”
“Are you sure?” I ask Dušan, so used to always hearing bad news that I now struggle to believe that in a roundabout way, everything turned out so well.
“Beautiful Meira. You have nothing to worry about.” He grabs me and lifts me off my feet, and I’m suddenly laughing, my chest close to bursting with happiness. I don’t remember ever feeling this way. Where I don’t have to constantly worry about surviving. About someone wanting to kill me. About running away.
That’s no longer who I am.
“I still can’t believe how it’s all turned out,” I say as he lowers me to my feet. I’m surrounded by my three Alphas. “But I have one question.”
“Go on,” Dušan says.
“What happens if I have kids? Will they get sick too?” It’s crazy to think this, but the notion popped into my head.
No one responds at first, which has me blushing at the thought that I’ve somehow put them on the spot, talking about babies when we’ve only just found our freedom.
Dušan finally says, “Mariana told me it’s not a hereditary disease, but it can happen. Except seeing as yours is dormant, it’s very unlikely. And when the child transforms, which we will ensure they do, their wolf side will protect them as it has you.”
I blink at him, and it makes sense, though I still worry. I exhale loudly. “It’s so much to take in all at once. All these changes and what’s going on with me.”
“You don’t need to think about anything right now but settling into your new home, then helping us three rule the pack. Plus, we have our Northern Wolves promising to return for a visit, and I want everything set up to give them no excuse to think we’re weak in any way.”
My eyes widen, and already a plan is forming in my mind. “I have an idea.” I turn so I’m facing all three Alphas. “Let’s position zombies around the settlement. I can command them to stay there. Anyone who dares come near our compound will be terrified to come any closer.” I shrug. “I just think it’s a great cautionary measure.”
“I love that idea,” Bardhyl states. “Back in Denmark, we’d do that with wild wolves. Keep them around our campsite. When they made a sound, we knew we had intruders, and most were scared away by them.”
“Agreed,” Dušan says.
I glance over to Lucien, who’s been silent and staring at me strangely. “Are you okay?” I ask.
Sunlight from outside spills through the window, casting over him, giving him a glow. “I’m still back on our previous conversation.” He clears his throat. “You’re ready to have a baby with us?”
The softness in his voice, the tenderness in his eyes, undoes me because they aren’t from someone scared, but someone dreaming of this day. I step toward him and hug him. “Maybe not right away, but yes, if that’s okay with all of you.”
I catch his hitched breath. “It’s everything I’ve always wanted.”
He holds me against him, with Bardhyl and Dušan joining the hug. Me in the middle of these powerful men who love me, who want me in their future. But it turns out they’re not the only strong ones. All along, I thought I lived with a monster inside me. But the real fiend was my own fear.
My new life is everything and I love them so much. For the first time, I have a purpose in life. And now, I have family.
I will never be alone again.
“Who’s up for practicing baby-making early?” Bardhyl asks out of the blue, which has me rolling my eyes.
Strong hands that I think belong to Dušan slide under my skirt, and I twist to face him. But the deviant is too fast. His fingers curl under the elastic of my underwear and in a violent tug, he rips them off me. I jerk from the movement, and suddenly, I have three sexually starved men staring at me.
“Are you ready?” he asks.
I back away from them, the heat between my legs already slick with arousal.
My breaths rush, and in an instant, I am craving them insatiably.
