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?”

will be

the kids that isn’t nuggets or pizza,” I

pretended to be folding some clothes that had come back from the laundry, but I was really watching Stella interact with Alaina and

pups had ever been a disciplinary problem. Nothing more than the general fussing. I couldn’t even recall if any of them had ever had a tantrum. Wolves might be impassioned and

go to bed, to brush her teeth…there was no way for me to enforce that. Not if she truly was as powerful as that book had

fully understand what she was doing to those teachers

But now I had to

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had to actually hope that she did, in fact, understand and chose

wrong.

but that was

without understanding it.

she could choose it. Could control

had more power than

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Xander

food being

so much as a nod at me. He strode in and

on his hips.

“Ha!”

“Ha, what?” I demanded:

Lanie looked nervous. “Grandfather?”

and Mason. “You two will be interested to know that my gut feeling-and yes, by the sun’s belligerent rays, it was totally in

the point,” Mason

telling me something

small noise. “What’s

her anxiety rolling off her in strong waves. Zane could, too, and I sensed him sending out a few pulses

Malachi said, “that everyone in it single building. The entire town is in one building, can you imagine? Nothing like