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“Do you know the gender?”
“I heard about Beth, are you okay?”
“When are you two planning on mating?”
“Can I plan the ceremony?”
Carli looks over her shoulder at me, biting back her giggle.
“Can y’all give her some space,” I grumble.
None of them listen to me. Patiently, Carli answers them. I listen to her talk about our child with pure excitement. She talks about her apartment, and her job as a waitress, the friends she made and how much she missed Rockport.
“Are you planning to stay here with Jace?”
I still, realizing this question matters.
That I’m waiting for the answer with my breath trapped in my lungs.
Carli nods. Then nervously laughs. “Yep, we haven't discussed it yet but I’m hoping so.”
I squeeze her waist, my hand splaying over her baby bump. She’s staying. Here in Rockport.
With me.
The life I’ve dreamed of is so tantalizing close I can taste it.
“What happens if something happens during the battle,” a pack member thinks out loud, earning a lot of disapproving looks.
The mountain between me and my dreams just raised its ugly mass.
Carli stiffens, and silence falls over us sickeningly. “Nothing’s going to happen,” she whispers, eyes falling to her shoes.
I clear my throat. “I have an idea,” I say with a thick throat, trying to change the subject for her sake. “Let’s settle on that name shall we, Carli?”
She smiles, pain in her eyes but I’ll make it go away at the end of the night. We’ll both forget the stakes of me not surviving.
“Luna, Elena or Rose if it’s a girl,” Carli says. “If it’s a boy, Jacob, Alaric or Kai.”
“I like those choices.” I rub her shoulders, feeling her relax again slightly.
After everyone votes their choice, Rose and Kai winning by a long shot, Carli yawns. Her travels must be catching up to her. And to be fair, I can’t wait a second more to kiss her again. I want her in my bed, her scent in my sheets, hair in my face. I want to feel her around my cock.
“Let’s go home,” I say impatiently, intertwining her fingers and pulling her out the door.
Carli hurriedly says bye, waving at Danika on the way out.
“Why are you in such a hurry?” she laughs.
“I want to fuck you,” I say boldly. It might be the last time…I think but don’t voice.
Carli tries to hide her blush, but even at night, I see it clearly. “Do you like the name options?” she asks on the way over.
“They were good. But I prefer Elena to Luna.”
“Me too,” she smiles.
Once we get to the porch of the beach house, I throw her over my shoulder, spanking her ass when she squeals, heading straight for the stairs.
