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

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

and kissed the back of my neck before gently

before I went to school,” she said,

than is to be expected,” Zane said. “The question is,

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

“The twins are Alice’s children, but Stella’s a hybrid, like

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

mother had the spell that was supposed to

work right, which is

hybrid scent

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

didn’t in Stella,” Mason said.

of the foot he’d just lotioned and took the

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

there,” Xander said sharply.

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