Chapter 254

Lanie

“What do you mean, talking?” I turned in confusion toward the playpen where the pups had all been happily playing when I left. It was empty.

I turned to the couch. Isaac and Alaina sat at one end, each them playing with a cloth book that had manipulatives sewn to the pages. Stella sat on the other end.

“Hi, Mommy.” Stella waved a small hand at me, and her face lit up with a grin. She had board book in her other hand.

“Hi, baby,” I said. “Mommy’s going to talk with…”

I stopped. We hadn’t really talked about how the pups were going to address Xander, Zane, and Mason. I’d been calling myself Mama and Mommy to all the babies, but with three fathers, we’d have to figure out how to differentiate

Your

daddies,” I said quickly. “Can you stay here and be good for Grandma?”

“Yes, Mommy,” Stella said cheerfully. Incredibly, she looked down at the board book and began sounding out words.

there. The sense of doom and dread

returned, but it had been replaced by a new sense of

and we all went in there.

“Coffee?” Zane asked.

I had at the shop. No. I could use a cold glass

sight of our children on the couch. The twins

to my mates. “What by

morning. It was a surprise to see them all the size of toddlers, but not a shock. They’d been growing so fast over the past couple of weeks, I knew it could only be a matter of

But talking…

Mason said “Gabriela said she’s never heard of this

me the glass, and I gulped it down. I put the glass on the table. I crossed my arms over my belly, hugging myself to hold back the

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She needed a hand with the diapers and getting them some lunch, so I told Zane to grab a shower while Mason and I helped her out.” Xander shook his head with a small chuckle. “I knew pups grew fast, but it’s different when they’re your own. I never really paid attention to it before, you know? And having three so close in age, it was

bigger, their wolf senses would start to kick in before their wolves introduced themselves. “But talking is

we have a precocious daughter,”

voices from the living room. Isaac and Alaina had been using a few sounds here and there, and they had a sort of twin language we’d heard from them both. But Stella was talking to Gabriela

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