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.

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“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.

mates pampered me, and I loved them for it.

to sleep, I noticed she was reading along with me,” Mason said. “That has to be just

back of my neck before gently beginning to

to school,” she said, “but only after

faster than is to be expected,” Zane said. “The question is, what are we going to do about

mates thinking about the reasons why Stella was different than Isaac and Alaina, despite them sharing

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

squeeze and sat back against the headboard. “But you didn’t grow faster, did you? Or start talking sooner?”

spell that was supposed to cloak her vampire side and

brush was mesmerizing. “Something didn’t work right, which is why when I

hybrid scent was an aphrodisiac draw to any

or control of my vampire side,” I added softly. “And Isolde, the witch who gave me the spell that sent me to Stillwood the first time. she said that in hybrids, vampiric powers sometimes

obviously, it didn’t in Stella,”

just don’t know enough about hybrids, Zane said. He kissed the sole of the foot he’d just lotioned

fiercely. The testing facility wouldn’t exist to take hybrids if someone

there,” Xander said

prevented him from being able to run the brush through my hair, but it felt good to be in his arms. “Of course not. I’m just