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He wasn’t sure that all was going to be well. “What am I gonna tell my family?”

“That they’re going to be uncles, of course.”

“It can’t just be that easy.”

“Of course it can,” she said. “You’re a wolf. This is natural. Let yourself relax. You have to use a lot of energy to grow a whole baby.”

“But my brothers?—”

“Will be happy for us. Liam and Dean are coming up next week,” Fen said. “We’ll start by telling them.”

Rory sniffed, feeling so…hormonal. Dammit, he’d always been just a guy. And now he was a pregnant omega wolf!

“My pregnant omega wolf,” Fen said tenderly, petting his back. “I do love you so.”

“Aw, babe, I love you too. I’m just so wigged.”

“There is no need for you to be. We’ll work through all this together. I will take the rest of the day off, and we can just spend it quietly with each other.”

“Do you need to, like, have me pee on a stick or something?”

Fen’s eyebrows damn near hit his hairline, and Lonia just chuckled. “No, dear. We can smell it.”

“Does it stink? Do I stink?” He stared at his mate in a panic. “Fen, do I stink?”

“You do not stink,” Fen assured him.

Lonia shook her head. “It’s my gift, silly wolf. Take him home and get him some rest, possibly a cookie.”

Rory wanted to scream and stomp his feet and say he didn’t want a cookie, except that he did want a cookie and he did want to go home, and so it seemed silly to throw a fit about something that he just wanted to do right now.

In fact, doing it right now seemed like a great fucking plan.

Fen beamed. “Yes ma’am, I would be happy to. We have cookies.”

“I’ll have someone drop dinner off. We could just leave it outside the door and that way you don’t have to cook.” He opened his mouth to argue, and she stared him down. “We don’t mind. You would do it for us.”

He would. “I do.” He had.

“Go home, be with your mate. All will be well. You have my word, all is well.”

He didn’t know about that, but he did know Fen had his arm and was slowly but surely leading them home, the constant soft rejoicing ringing in his head.

My mate is having our baby.

Chapter

Ten

Fen grinned at Liam and Dean, who had rattled up the mountain in their old truck, bringing all manner of supplies and toys and more. They were good men, good pack members. And he was about to give them some amazing news.

Well, he hoped it was as amazing to them as it was to him. Rory had been having a terrible time this morning with his belly, and he’d asked Fen to talk to his brothers alone.

He chuckled. Rory was a little freaked out. Still. But he was singing to himself again now, his smiles coming more and more regularly, his worry less evident. And he was popping out fuzzy parts less and less, shifting mainly when Fen did and running, gently, with him.

His love for Rory grew every day, and it stunned him.

“Where’s Rory?” Liam was the most suspicious of all the brothers, but also the most adventurous. It made Fen wonder if those qualities came together. “Let’s see if I can guess. Is he too fuzzy to come see us? It’s not like we haven’t seen him fuzzy. We were there for the original fuzz.”