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.

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

to Quinn hadn’t returned, but it had been replaced by a new sense of unease and concern.

said and we all went in

“Coffee?” Zane asked.

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

one for me, I looked into the living room again at the sight of our children on the couch. The twins were babbling happily, and Stella was still reading.

mates. “What by the Goddess is

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

But talking…

said she’s never

on the table. I crossed my arms over my belly, hugging myself to hold back the shivers Zane put his arm around my shoulders, and I leaned

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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

grew bigger, their wolf senses would start to kick in before their wolves introduced themselves.

we have a precocious daughter,” Xander said.

hear the 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

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