Mated to the Alpha and His Beta

Chapter 383

Lanie

By the time we all got to the school, the other parents were lining up, too. Nobody seemed bent out of shape about the lights flickering. Some even joked about it.

The only concerned faces I saw belonged to my mates.

We got the pups back to our quarters. We settled all three with snacks and some games, and then they played sweetly together. I watched Stella carefully.

Now that I knew she had to be capable of reading my thoughts, I wanted to see if she’d reveal that talent.

Stella.

She didn’t look up or even seem to blink. That didn’t mean she couldn’t hear me. Just that she didn’t.

Maybe she hadn’t discovered yet that she could, or she’d sensed that I was upset at the idea of her telling

the teachers to make fa rt jokes.

She was just a little girl, after all. One who’d grown faster than was to be expected…I was trying really

hard not to think of her in terms of “normal” or not.

She’d grown faster. Matured more quickly. She could do things other wolf children couldn’t, even things.

other hybrid children weren’t able to.

And for Stella, all of that was exactly as it was meant to be.

“Love?” Xander put a hand on my shoulder. “We’re ordering dinner in tonight. What do you want?”

decide will be

the kids that isn’t

hungry. That in and of itself seemed like a big change, considering how intense my appetite ha been lately. I pretended to be folding some clothes that had come

even recall if any of them had ever had a tantrum. Wolves

if…what if Stella did rebel? Even something as simple as telling her to go to bed, to brush her teeth…there was no way for me to enforce that. Not if she truly was

understand what she was doing

girl. But

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actually hope that she did, in fact, understand and chose to anyway, even knowing that it

wrong.

that was better

without understanding it.

could choose it. Could control it. Because if she couldn’t, that would

child had more power than anyone else

***

Xander

at the door was our food being delivered, but

without so much as a nod at me. He strode in and turned

on his hips.

“Ha!”

“Ha, what?” I demanded:

Lanie looked nervous. “Grandfather?”

looked at her. He focused on me and Mason. “You two will be interested to know that my gut feeling-and

the point,”

was correct in telling me something was wrong,”

small noise. “What’s wrong? What’s going

in strong waves. Zane could, too, and I sensed him sending out a

from here. Very remote. So remote,” Malachi said, “that everyone in it single