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“What am I supposed to do here? They don’t cover thisinShifter 101. I know because Maddi made me take the damn class when Penn started teaching it.”
“I wish I had answers for you,bro.I really do.” Wouldn’t life be so much simpler if Riley could toss him a pamphlet:Whatto do when you knock up the wrong chick. “You want to call Penn? Maybe she’ll know more about it.”
Jasper shook his head. “I’m not ready for the pack to know.” He wasn’t ready for anyone to know. He wishedhedidn’t fucking know,if he was being honest. “Shit.I need to talk to Callahan.”
“She doesn’t know yet. It’s too early,and like you said, you guys were careful. It’sprobably not even on her radar. Finals were hectic and now she’s packing to move home for the summer.” Riley got up, grabbingJasper’sshoulders to stop his frantic pacing.
“So what do I do? Wait for her to come to me? I can’t tell her I think she’s pregnant because my packmate noticed with his supernatural shifter abilities.”
Shedoesn’tknowshe’spregnant,andshesure as fuck doesn’tknowshe’sgotten impregnated by a shifter. Hell, shedoesn’teven know shiftersexist.
Maybe it wasn’t his though.Maybe she’d been so into dick after being with him she’d gone out the next night to find another one to hop on? Like a dick addict, searching for her next fix.
Riley dropped his hands to his side now that Jasper was being still. “If it was me, I’d invite her over, see if she’s having any symptoms you can notice and point them out. She said she was leaving this weekend, that gives youonlya few days to work with. I’m bettingit’dbe a lot easier for her to find out here on campus than at home with her family waiting for her at the dinner tablewhile she’s hurling in the bathroom.”
Jasper’s eyebrows rose to his hairline. “You’re suggesting I follow her around and point out when she starts getting fat? Are you high?”
“How you’ve survived around four pregnantpackmatesand not been murdered in your sleep, I’ll never know.” Riley plucked his laptop from the bedand openedup the internet search engine. “It’s way too early for her to start to show, idiot. But there are a ton of pregnancy symptoms that come in the beginning.” He turned the screen around. “Nausea, sore breasts, exhaustion, hormonal. If you point things out,maybeshe’ll start to question things too.”
“Whose breasts are sore?” Blake came into the room, plopping down on the bed and wrinkling her nose at the boxer briefs she landed on. “Is someone else pregnant? Oh, is it Axie?”
“It’s Callahan.”
Blake gasped. “Whoa.” She cut her wide disbelieving eyes toJasper. “You got Callahan pregnant? Are you fucking kidding me?”
“What the fuck,Riley?” Jasper threw his hands in the air.Logically, heknew Riley would tell Blake. Jasperprobablywould’vetold her himself as soon as he had a moment to digest it. To blurt it out like that thoughseemedharsh.“Accordingto your mate’s wolf senses, Callahan is the right amount of preggo for the baby to be mine.”
“That’s so freaking huge. I don’t even know what to say. Does she know?”
Both he and Riley shook their heads.
“I ran into her on campus,” Riley explained. “It’stoo early,and there’sno way she suspects yet.”
Jasper lay down on the bed, curling up next to Blake and closing his eyes. He needed some comfort and cuddles. He’d ended up having a real shit day.
Most likely taking pity on him,Riley ignored their close proximity.
“That reminds me, Barbie Doll. We need to talk about me being yourboyfriend.”
Blake gasped again, this time dramatically fake as fuck as she ran her fingers through Jasper’s hair. “Are you breaking up with me?”
“We’re mated, we’re end game. There is no breaking up.”
“Then what’s your point, sourpuss?”
Jasper snorted at her nickname for his best friend. Riley could for sure be a sourpuss. No one could bring him out of his funk better than Blake though, a job that used to solely belong to him.
He was glad Riley had changed the subject for a beat; he couldn’t wrap his brain around his next steps, and talking it to death wasn’t going to help calm his racing heart.
“I don’t like being called your boyfriend.I’m more than that.We’remore than that.”
“Uh, okay? What would you like me to refer to you as? BAE? Boo? Lover?” Jasper could hear the smile in her voice. “Oh. I know.We could go old-school. How aboutconcubine?Or paramour?”
“Hilarious.” Riley reached out and moved her hand off the top of Jasper’s head,clearlyfed up with his mate touching another male. “We could tell people we got married.”
“If that got back to my parents, they’d probably have some questions.”
Riley scoffed. “Your parents love me.”
