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.

me, and I loved them for

she was reading along with me,” Mason said. “That has to be just memorization…right?”

back of my neck before

before I went to school,” she said,

said. “The question is, what are we going to

silent at that. I could sense my three mates thinking about the reasons why

me,” I said aloud, but quietly. “The twins are Alice’s children, but Stella’s a hybrid, like me. That has to

sat back against the headboard. “But you didn’t grow faster, did you? Or

my mother had the spell that was supposed to

was mesmerizing. “Something didn’t work

that my hybrid scent was an aphrodisiac draw to any vampire

up having full use 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

sole of the foot

testing facility wouldn’t exist to take hybrids if someone

her there,” Xander

to be in his arms. “Of course not. I’m just saying that she’s not the first hybrid. There has to be someone who knows