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

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

neck before gently beginning to brush again. “I was not

she said, “but only after I’d

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

mates thinking about the reasons why Stella was different than Isaac and Alaina, despite them sharing the same bloodline as her father

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

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

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

brush was mesmerizing. “Something didn’t work right, which

three virile mates that my hybrid scent was

gave me the spell that sent me to Stillwood the first time. she said that in hybrids, vampiric powers sometimes skip

in

of the foot he’d just

has to know,” I said fiercely. The testing facility wouldn’t exist to take

taking her there,”

in his arms. “Of course not. I’m