Mated to the Alpha and His Beta

Chapter 257

Lanie

“I haven’t been this worn out and exhausted since I was pregnant.” I held back an enormous yawn and grabbed my brush from the dresser. I pulled the tie out of my hair and let it fall down around my shoulders so I could brush it. “I swear, I almost fell asleep in the shower!”

All three pups had been constantly on the go since got back from the coffee shop. Alaina and Isaact were still a little wobbly, but Stella was able to run. We’d spent the rest of the day trying to wear them out playing tag outside. Then Ring Around the Rosy. Then Simon Says,

bed.

by

“I thought they’d never go down,” Mason said as he pulled back the comforter and blankets on our giant

“Isaac definitely didn’t want to.” Zane chuckled from his place on the other side of the bed as he helped fold down the covers. “Stubborn little pup.”

“Like his Abba,” Xander said with a grin and plucked the brush from my hand. “You. Get into bed. Let me do this for you. You’re falling asleep on your feet.”

I held back another yawn but obeyed. When the four of us had settled into the bed, I settled in between Xander’s legs as he sat up against the headboard. He started brushing my hair. Mason took a bottle of lotion from the nightstand and began rubbing it into my hands for me. Zane took some of it and gestured for me to give him one of my feet.

me, and I

asked me to read her to sleep, I noticed she was reading along with me,” Mason said. “That

pulled my hair to the side and kissed the back of my neck before gently beginning to brush again. “I was not an early reader.

books before I went to school,” she

she’s advancing faster than is to be expected,” Zane said. “The question is, what are we going to do about it?”

could sense my three mates thinking about the reasons why Stella was different than Isaac and Alaina,

I said aloud, but quietly. “The twins are Alice’s children, but Stella’s a hybrid, like

the headboard. “But you

mother had the spell that was supposed to cloak her vampire side and

work right,

to remind my three virile mates that my hybrid scent was an aphrodisiac draw to

vampire side,” I added softly. “And Isolde, the witch who gave me the spell that sent me to

in Stella,”

sole of the foot he’d

wouldn’t exist to take hybrids if someone didn’t know something about

aren’t taking her there,” Xander

through my hair, but it felt good to be in his