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.

might fall over right then and there. The

to Quinn hadn’t returned, but it had been replaced by a new sense of

and we all went in

“Coffee?” Zane asked.

the shop. No. I could

sight of

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

left this 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

But talking…

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

put the glass on the table. I crossed my arms over my belly, hugging

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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

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. which isn’t supposed

a precocious daughter,” Xander

of babyish 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

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