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.

then and there. The sense of doom and dread that had

had been replaced by

I said and we all

“Coffee?” Zane asked.

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

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

back to my mates. “What by the Goddess

right after I left this morning. It was a surprise to see them all the size of toddlers, but not a shock.

But talking…

Mason said “Gabriela said

crossed my arms over my belly, hugging myself to hold back

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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?

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. which isn’t supposed to

have a precocious daughter,”

here and there, and they had a

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