Mated to the Alpha and His Beta

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.

and there. The sense of doom and

it had been replaced

and we all went in there.

“Coffee?” Zane asked.

all the coffee I had at the shop.

looked into the living room again at the sight of our children

turned back to my mates. “What by the Goddess is going on?”

of toddlers, but not a shock. They’d been growing so fast

But talking…

aren’t sure,” Mason said “Gabriela said she’s never heard of

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

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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

pitching my voice low to make sure none of the pups could overhear. As they grew bigger, their wolf senses would start to kick in before their wolves introduced themselves. “But talking is definitely not. They don’t learn to talk until they’re through the second doubling.

a precocious daughter,” Xander

using a few sounds here and there, and they had a sort of twin