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She peeked up at him. “I like being irresistible. I’m so happy that you were able to accept your berserker and be mine.”
“Me, too, sweetheart.”
* * *
On Monday morning, Mia and Lucian headed to Doc’s. She couldn’t keep from fidgeting in the passenger seat as Lucian drove them to the house. Doc was the pack doctor, an omega wolf who had dedicated his life to helping his people in their time of need. After Mia had taken a pregnancy test that morning and it had turned positive, she’d called Nila, who suggested they come into Doc’s for another test just to be sure. Since Mia had conceived at a time when she shouldn’t have been physically able to, Nila thought it best to have Doc involved from the get-go, which was fine with Lucian.
“What’s with all the wiggling, sweetheart?”
“I’m pregnant.”
“Yeah.”
“But I shouldn’t be.”
“You’re worried about the baby?”
“And myself. What if carrying a pup when I’m not supposed to is harmful to me and the baby?”
He grasped her hand and brought her fingers to his lips. “I don’t think you call baby berserkers ‘pups.’”
“Is that all you have to say?”
He didn’t have to look at her to know she was smirking.
“Of course not. I think maybe they’re called serkies. Or berzies.”
“Are you serious?” Her voice rose a little at the end, her annoyance clear in each word.
Damn, he enjoyed teasing her.
“Mia, if you’re pregnant it’s because you’re meant to have this baby. I know the timing is off because it’s not fall, but there’s no sense in worrying about something that you can’t control right now. Either you’re pregnant and we’re going to have an awesome baby in about eight and a half months, or you’re not and we can see about bunning-up your oven in September.”
“You can’t just make up your own verbs.”
“Can and did,” he said.
He stopped the car in front of Doc’s house and turned off the engine. Turning to face his mate, he let his gaze roam over her, from the pretty golden blonde of her hair to the way her brow arched in silent query. The blue eyes he adored staring into, the crinkles at the corners when she really smiled. And that mouth – sassy and tempting.
“Whatever happens, we’ll get through it together.”
“I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else or with anyone else,” she said.
He got out of the car and came around to open her door. She took his hand as she got out, and as they walked up the sidewalk to Doc’s house, he squeezed her hand a little tighter. He’d faced down a nest of raven shifters for her. He could handle a visit to a wolf doctor.
He held the door open for her, and a bell chimed in the house. Nila called out, “Come on back, we’re in room one.”
The house smelled like a hospital, but the front room they walked through was furnished like a regular house. Piano in the corner, a couch and table with magazines on the top, arranged in a fan. Through the living room, they followed a hallway to a set of doors. The first door on the right had a gold number one on it, and Nila was standing next to a hospital bed inside. A male with salt-and-pepper hair sat at a white desk with a laptop. He looked up and smiled, then stood, extending his hand to Lucian.
“You must be Lucian. I’m Rich Gedding, the pack doctor. Everyone calls me Doc. Have a seat,” he said, gesturing to chairs set against the wall.
Nila smiled at them in greeting.
Doc swiveled on the stool and faced them. “Why don’t you tell me what happened, and then we’ll see where we are.”
Mia looked at Lucian. He knew she didn’t want to be the one to tell the story, so he did. He told Doc every pertinent piece of information he could think of, and Mia occasionally chimed in when Doc asked her a question about the effects of the drugs and the mating heat itself.
“You took a test this morning that came back positive?” Doc asked when the story of her ordeal had been thoroughly discussed.
