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.

over right then and there. The sense of doom and dread that had overtaken

been replaced by a new sense

we all went

“Coffee?” Zane asked.

the shop. No. I could use a cold glass of water, though,”

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

turned back to my mates. “What

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 it could only be a matter of time before their

But talking…

said she’s never heard of

the glass on the table. I crossed my arms over my belly, hugging myself to hold back the

1/2

while Mason and I helped her out.” Xander shook his

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

we have a precocious

babble 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