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Chapter 12
Thalia's POV
After that Varian gave me the silent treatment, I accepted it thinking that maybe I had overstepped with Shelly. He didn't speak to me for the rest of the day until night came and he turned around in bed and said. "I want to throw a baby shower for Shelly, she has a very specific image in her mind and I want to make sure that everything is perfect."
Inside of me I wanted to explode, when I had asked for a baby shower he told me that I was greedy and it was a waste of time and morning and now Shelly wanted a baby shower and everything had to be planned to the smallest detail.
She had already spent so much money on her and now this.
But I was already working on thin ice with him.
"Sure I'll be happy to help," I said overlooking my own discomfort forth he finally smiled at me for the first time today.
"That's great we can begin talking about the preparations now she wants it a week away from today."
I blinked my eyes in rapid succession not believing that he actually wanted me to stay awake to discuss this I thought that we would eventually fall asleep after a few more minutes but the conversation continued for 2 hours before finally I dozed off by the time I woke up he was angry once more, said he had a lot to tell me and he couldn't because I selfishly went to sleep.
I mean I had already discussed it for 2 hours holding myself back from complaining every time he threw out one exorbitant expense after the other but still that was not enough.
Nevertheless what I kept at the forefront of my mind was the baby shower, 2 days into the planning and preparation when Liam started to have muscle spasms and so did Lily not long after, they were also getting hot quickly and experiencing mood swings it was all lining up to one thing-their first shift.
Most kids experienced them at 10 or 12 I was so proud of my own kids for reaching is milestone so early, it was only natural that stay where to be celebrated according to the norm of the Pack, there was a ceremony that was meant to be held to bring the moon Goddess Blessings and also ensure that they shifted safely with as minimal pain as possible.
I was giddy with excitement, and even though my husband was supposed to be on patrol I went looking for him myself to tell him the good news.
The warriors I met at patrol said that he had not joined them instead he had gone shopping with Shelly.
"What do you mean he went shopping with Shelly?" I asked them utterly confused the question was bloated out without much thoughts this was because as an alpha it was his responsibility to join the patrol at least once a week to improve the moral of the warriors that had to do so everyday by shift it was something that he had never failed to do.
Well until today at least.
I waited for him to come back from shopping with Shelly hours passed by and before I knew it I was putting the kids to bed.
"Mommy why hasn't daddy come to see us?" Lily asked, Liam didn't say anything but he looked just as concerned if not more so than his sister.
I felt crushed for their little hearts expecting their father to congratulate them but he was basic catering to another woman and her unborn child.
I gripped the sheets a little tighter than necessary, there was no way for me to be thinking of it that way.
Shelly was a friend she needed help and that was all.
My duty as a luna and a mother was too reassure my children that their father cared and I did just that singing them a lullaby so that they could fall asleep and afterwards I carefully crept out of their shared room.
Waiting for me write outside the door was my mother-in-law, she had that we need to talk face written all over her and quietly we both went over to the park house lounge to have that conversation.
"Talia be honest with me do you not care if you lose your husband?" That was the first thing she said at the moment both of us were seated down and I needed a second to recover from her bluntness and respond accordingly.
"Of course I care, but I don't think there is any thing currently that would make me lose him we have a happy and solid marriage-"
She didn't let me finish before she openly scoffed in my face.
"Are you sure about that?"
I gripped the arms of my chair. The change in my in laws was not something that happened overnight. It was a slow gradual process that transformed them from the supportive people that they were into the kind of in-laws that people had a nightmares about.
"Is there anything in particular you want to tell me?" I asked my mother-in-law, "thank you it will be better if you just outright say it instead of moving around in circles."
She gave me a pointed look.
"Is that the thanks I get for trying to save your marriage?" She said to me still insisting on being rude, "I thought you were smart enough that I wouldn't have to spell it out to you again for the millions time but it seems I'll have to waste my breath once more"
She sat closer to the edge of her chair.
"Don't you think it's about time you get pregnant again?"
That question even coming from my mother-in-law that had no filter still took me by surprise like a swing from a bat.
"Why do I need to get pregnant again?" I asked her, truthfully I loved my children to the moon and back but my first pregnancy not being planned had scarred me. I thought I was a suitable mom to the twins but it seems that wasn't enough.
My mother-in-law in the back and said something that I have suspected for a long while.
"The council is having second thoughts about making your son the Alpha.”