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ChapterForty-SixKatya“About 8 weeks!”
Jasmine giggles excitedly.I furrow my brows at
her, looking down at her stomach. “But, you haven’t been with your mate that
long, and shouldn’t you be massive, seeing as werewolf babies are born in half
the time?” I ask. Jasmine chuckles, finding what I said rather funny. I don’t
get what is so amusing, I can’t tear my eyes away from the non-existent baby
bump.“No, Kat. The baby
is 8 weeks along in foetal development, I am only like a week or two pregnant,
but scans are still done with human technology,”Even Angie laughs at
my idiocy. “Hello Kat? Did you not pay attention in your child studies class?”“In my defence, I
have hardly been at school,” I tell them with a sniff and fold arms, besides,
babies are the last thing on my mind. Though I am happy and excited for
Jasmine.“I am surprised
Ezra, and Mateo haven't knocked you up yet, though,” Angie muses.“Not like we are
exactly careful either,” Ezra agrees, joining us in the kitchen. It had been
the most he had spoken to either Mateo or me since the incident, and it wasn’t
even to us, but the girls. Strolling over he grabs a beer out of the fridge
before sitting at the dining table watching us. Angie grows nervous beneath his
gaze, but Ezra pays her no attention instead looking out the double glass doors
out to the treeline.“Too bad you haven’t
found your mate, it would be nice not to be the only one getting fat and
pregnant,” Jasmine jokes, glancing at Angie.“Sure, I will get
right onto that,” she chuckles, the pressure of being in the same room as a
grumpy Alpha being taken away for a few minutes.“Yep, just jump him
on sight so we can be fat together,” Jasmine adds with a grin.Angie’s face glows
bright red at her words. “Gotta find him first,” Angie laughs nervously. But
her blush doesn't go unnoticed by either of us.“What are you all
embarrassed about? Look at how bright red she is! Not getting any, Angie?”
Jasmine ribs, and I also stare at her blushing face, finding it odd. She has
boys hanging off her all the time at school, yet mention sex, and she turns
into this?.“She is a virgin,”
Ezra remarks, making both me and Jasmine stare at him like he just grew two
heads.“Bullshit, she dated
half the football team,” Jasmine accuses, looking at Angie, whose face just
grows redder before she processes what Jasmine said.“That doesn’t mean I
am a whore Jas!”I chuckle at their
bickering, but even I thought Angie was far from being a virgin.“Hey, not my fault.
I heard the rumors going around the school. I assumed some of them had to be
correct.”“Yeah, thanks for
thinking so little of me. Just because I dated them doesn’t mean I slept with
them!”“Sorry, my judgment
was wrong, wait how do you know she is a virgin?” Jasmine questions, twisting
around to stare at Ezra.He taps his nose
before looking at his phone screen. “Everyone should leave soon, Kat, Andrei
will be here in twenty minutes,” Ezra announces.“Who, that Alpha
from the next pack over?” Jasmine asks with her head cocked to the side, and he
nods.“Yeah, turns out he
is my brother,” I answer her, making both their heads whip back to me.“You have a
brother?” Angie gasps.“Yeah, I will fill
you in later. Just another hidden bit that has come out of my box of family
secrets.”“Well, make sure you
ring us later. I will be heading to Angie’s tonight anyway. I want to hear
about this alleged brother you have,” Jasmine grins, and I nod.Following them out
to the car, I hug them when Angie quickly sniffs me before shaking her head.
“What?” She has sniffed me so many times in the last few days she's making me
entirely self-conscious.“Nothing, I can
smell your mates, that's all,” she confesses before unlocking her car and
climbing into the driver’s side. Jasmine honks the horn as she leaves, and
Angie follows behind. I wait till they disappear around the bend before heading
inside.Ezra is still
sitting at the same table when I enter the kitchen. “You okay?” I ask, walking
over to him, he pushes his chair out before pulling me onto his lap.“Yes, fine, I just
have things to do today,” he admits with a heavy sigh.“Like what?”“Patrol rosters, so
hopefully Andrei isn’t here too long.”“Already got those
done, did it yesterday with Alex,” Mateo adds entering the kitchen. He leans on
the counter, staring at Ezra. “How is Maddox?” Mateo asks him.“Under lock and
key,” Ezra growls, his mood instantly changes.“Sure that’s wise?”
Mateo asks with a raised brow.“For now, it is,”
Ezra agrees before tapping my thigh, wanting me to get up. “I’ll be in my
office. Call me when Andrei gets here,” he orders before walking off. Mateo
sighs, but doesn’t add anything else.Mateo and I wait
around, and once it hits noon, I hear a car's engine rumbling as it pulls up
out front. I rush to greet Andrei.“I will let Ezra
know he is here,” Mateo offers, wandering off down the hall toward his office.Coming outside, I
spot Andrei just getting out of his car. He greets me with a wide smile and an
upraised hand. “Hey, Sis”“Gosh, that sounds
so weird,” I confess as I approach him. He grabs me, squishing me against him
and hugging me before my body tenses. I try to pull away from him, but his grip
tightens as he yanks me back toward him. “Andrei?” I shriek, his grip tightening
on my arm.He jams his face in
my neck before pulling back, and the eyes of his wolf peer at me. Andrei shakes
his head, his eyes returning to normal, but he still hasn’t let my arm go.
Instead, he yanks me back to him as I try to step away.“Andrei let go,
you’re hurting me,” I snap, his claws slip into my arm when he grips the front
of my shirt, sniffing me.“Who were you just
with? Tell me now, Kat.”“What?”“Whose scent is
that?” he demands, his eyes flickering black, and his canines protrude from
beneath his upper lip.Andrei is jerked
away from me in an instant. I shriek a second before Ezra punches him full on
in the face, making Andrei stumble back. Ezra grabs him by the collar of his
shirt and slams him back first on the hood of Andrei's car. “Keep your fucking
hands off her,” Ezra snarls at him while Andrei puts his hands up, not even
fighting back. Ezra shoves him before stepping away from him.“You ok?” he asks,
turning to face me while Andrei slides off his hood to his feet.“You told me every
girl was here when I walked through,” Andrei growls at him before spitting
blood on the ground.“What?” Ezra says,
spinning around to face him.“When I did the walk
through looking for my mate, and yet I can smell her all over Kat.”“Kat’s not your
fucking mate,” Ezra snarls at him.Andrei pulls a face
at him. “Not my sister, just smell her shirt, I can smell someone else on her,
tell me who it is,” Andrei demands.Ezra growls at him,
but pulls me to him before sniffing me. “It's only Angie and Jasmine's scents.”“Then get them
here,” Andrei orders.“Don’t come on my
pack and order me around, Andrei. I don’t give a fuck if you’re Kat’s brother,”Andrei sighs, “I can
smell my mate on her, you said I saw all the girls here, clearly, you lied,”
Andrei accuses.“I didn’t lie, I
showed you all the girls of age, Angie would have been only 12 when you walked
through Andrei, I sure as hell wasn’t taking a 20-year-old Alpha to a school of
underage girls, you could have said any of them were your mate and they wouldn’t
have been able to tell if you were or not,” Ezra explains.“Well, she is of age
now. I want my mate, bring me her, please, Ezra,” Andrei pleads just as Mateo
comes in overhearing the commotion.“What’s going on?”
Mateo asks.“Andrei thinks Angie
is his mate, he can smell her on Kat,” Ezra explains.“Yeesh, got your
hands full there,” Mateo chuckles. Andrei growls at him, and Mateo smirks,
folding his arms across his chest.“I just want my
mate, I will give you Derrick back.”“Angie isn't going
anywhere unless she says she wants to leave with you,” Ezra corrects, making me
stare at him. He hates Angie. Why the sudden change of heart?“I’m not leaving
without my mate,” Andrei warns, sitting in his car.“Mateo, get Angie
here,” Ezra orders. “But I mean it, if she doesn’t want to go with you, she
stays, Andrei. I may not like the girl, but she is still my pack member.”“I’m not going to
hurt my mate, Ezra,” Andrei snaps at him.“She is on her way,”
Mateo informs us, obviously having mindlinked her.“I will have one of
my men drop our father to you,” Andrei assures me.“I don’t care about
a swap, Andrei, but Angie is one of my friends.”Andrei holds his
hand up. “I won't hurt my mate,” Andrei repeats before rummaging through his
pocket, he pulls a packet of smokes out before lighting one, and then he offers
me one.“She doesn’t smoke,
don’t offer that shit to her,” Ezra snaps, and Andrei shrugs, placing the
packet back in his pocket.A few seconds later,
I feel the mindlink open up. Angie’s voice flits through my head. “Kat, is everything alright? Mateo told me to come over right now.”“Everything is fine. Are
you running or driving?”“Running, he said it was
urgent.”“I will grab you a towel,
There is someone here I want you to meet.” I tell her.“Well, I am not far out,
probably five minutes, I can meet you out back,” she agrees, and I cut off the link.“Who was that?”
Andrei asks, watching me.“Angie, I need to
get her a towel, she is in wolf form, she should be here any minute,” I tell
him, walking toward the house.“Well, hurry up
then, Andrei, I haven't got all day, come see if it's her,” Ezra demands,
walking around the outside of the house to the backyard while I walk inside to
grab her a towel to cover herself with.