“Welcome Back!” Rose greets Bär and Ingrid to her house at Conrad Pack. “Beta,” Bär teases his sister.“Hey, I was a good Duchess for all of 4 weeks,” Rose accepts his teasing. “How are you feeling sister-in-law?”Rose asks Ingrid who is only a month from delivering at this point. “Oh, I’m great. Being pregnant with one is a walk in the park,” Ingrid tells her. “How are you doing?”“I don’t get the walk in the park,” Rose says. “I’ve never been sicker or more horny in my life.”“Gross!” Bär says before walking away. “I’m going to see my nephew.”“I would love to tell you the horniness passes but it doesn’t,” Ingrid giggles.Rose also giggles and they head toward Monty’s house to meet Leopold Conrad. After spending time with Monty, Zoe and the rest, Bär and Ingrid head back to Ari and Anderson’s house for the night.“Are you sure you want to only stay the night?” Ari asks seeing Ingrid is pale and uncomfortable.“I really want to get home. Emma is two months from giving birth, Ad
At the pack hospital Finley has already called Carter and Tina, they are on standby. Anderson is pacing back and forth both worried for Bär and Ingrid.“Dude you are making me nervous,” Finley says hoping his brother will calm down.“What if Ingrid doesn’t make it?” Anderson looks at Finley. “Bär won’t survive. He will die and then my daughter will have to take the throne. I’m not ready to have no kids here.”“Wow,” Finley looks shocked.“What?” Anderson asks.“That is the first time since you mated Ari that you didn’t refer to Monty as your son,” Finley keeps his eyebrows raised as realization washes over Anderson.“Don’t ever tell anyone I did that,” Anderson finally sits down. He now is breathing heavy after the guilt of denying his son weighs on his chest.“I won’t Bro,” Finley puts a hand on his shoulder. “Doc is not going to let anything happen to Ingrid. Stay calm.”As they are sitting there waiting. Gabby is wheeled by with Carl and Jacob close behind. Romona and Turk ru
“Carl,” Gabby calls as another contract hits. “Do you love me?”Carl looks between her and Jacob before lying to her. “Yes, Baby. I love you.”Carl kisses her head and holds her hand. Jacob starts whispering in Gabby’s ear about how much she loves her. He holds her other hand and places soothing kisses on her face. “You are going to be a great mother. This sweet baby is going to look just like you. His Daddy will teach him how to flirt and pick up girls. I will teach him philosophy and art. You will give him a magnificent work ethic. He needs all three of us,” Jacob looks up at Carl knowing he is lying. “Right Carl. He needs us all.”Carl looks at Jacob, the man he really loves. Then back at Gabby. She is beautiful. She will be the perfect mother for their child. Carl leans down and kisses Gabby’s head. “I love you so much,” Carl says finally understanding what he has is perfect. Carl starts to pray to Selene and his own deity.‘Don’t take my family. They need me and
“Mom had a girl!” Emma tells Ada when she arrives for her daily visit. “Mom is great. Our sister Marya is perfect and Bär is over the moon.”Ada looks up and can’t hide the hurt in her eyes. “He is happy to have a girl?”Emma sighs and sits in the visitor’s chair. “Yes, he is very happy. He told Mom to have her tubes tied or whatever she wants. He was a wreck during labor and Mom said she can’t put him through it again.”Ada laughs. “He was a wreck? The King was a wreak over a she-wolf giving birth? I don’t see that from Bär.”“Well,” Emma smiles ready to gossip. “Mom said he was a complete cliché. He was doing ice chips, cold compresses, dry cloths, the works. Everly was picking on him and he was all ‘I’ve never done this before.’ Then Everly hit him with ‘She has.’”“OH shit!” Ada covers her laugh with her hand. “How badly did he lose it?”“Not too bad thankfully, Mom said. Apparently, she had to start pushing after that,” Emma giggles. “I can’t believe we are only a month a
Ingrid and Bär bring Marya home after two weeks of checks and rest. They fly in without announcing their arrival. The hope is to have a quiet night at home getting Marya settled before all the pomp of the heir’s arrival surrounds them.“Sorry,” Emma says sneaking over to meet them. “I can’t wait to meet my sister.”“She is asleep,” Bär warns. “You better not wake her up.”“Bär don’t act like that,” Ingrid teases him. “It’s her sister. Sisters are very important to Emma.”Emma starts to cry, making Duke rush to her side.“Sweetheart,” Ingrid holds Emma. “What did I say?”“She and Ada had a really bad fight,” Duke tells them about what he found out from the guards.Bär starts to see red the more he talks.“Don’t do that Bär,” Ingrid stops him. “I know you are getting angry, but that fixes nothing. Just let Emma cry it out. What Ada did was wrong, but she is only two weeks from her due date. You don’t want to hurt an innocent child.”“It is close enough to her due date that we can
“You came?” Ada smiles seeing Alexander. Alexander looks at her and wants so much to run to her, but he stops himself. She is a killer. She is a liar. She is the love of his life.Alexander moves so quickly Ingrid almost falls over. He wraps her in his arms around her and kisses her temple.“I want to hate you. I want to hate you so much. What you have done disgusts me. I can’t believe the same evil inside of you will be inside my child. But I love you. I can’t believe I still love you. I spent months hating the sound of your name. I spent all this time swearing to myself to never see you, never lay eyes on you again. But my heart can’t stop loving you. I love you even through I can’t stand to be in your presence. How did you capture my heart so hard. I didn’t want to love you; it was never the plan. I don’t want to be so in love with you,” Alexander finally stops talking and kisses Ada’s lips to accent his point. “I can’t breathe in your presence, but you are the very o
“Do we give her a funeral?” Ingrid asks as she melts into Bär. “I feel like the answer is no. I feel like we need to let this all go and try raising her daughter to the best of our abilities.”“My daughter,” Alexander reminds them. “As her husband I get a say in the next steps. I get to decide what happens with my daughter. I know you think you can bully me because technically you are monsters. But I am a father now and nothing will come between me and her.”Bär holds Ingrid close to him as he answers Alexander.“Alexander, you know the agreement. Our granddaughter stays with us. You can visit anytime you want. She stays here with her wolf family. She will need a support system without her mother. You can’t provide that for her, but we can. I know she is your daughter. And 16 days ago, I would have told you, you are nuts. But today I can understand what you are saying. If anyone said to me what I am saying to you about Marya, I would tear them apart,” Bär rubs Ingrid’s back.
Ingrid stands at her window looking out over the back garden. The moon is high now and the beams of moonlight hit her face. She looks back into the room with a heavy sigh. Her daughter is sleeping in a basket next to the bed. Her granddaughter is squirming in the basket next to Marya. Bär is asleep with one arm over his head and the other hand is resting on his dick. That makes her laugh.When she turns back to the moon, she believes she sees a face in the moon and her breath hitches.“Selene, if you have mercy in your heart, find a way to accept my daughter. I know she did horrible things to those I love most. She even treated the man who loved her like garbage. But Selene she is my child. You have blessed me so richly so completely. How can I be so blessed and my daughter so cursed? I don’t understand and my heart is both full and broken. Selene, help me understand why. I can’t stop the burn of my heart for my child. She was troubled so young. Was that my fault? Did I mak
15 years later“Oliva,” Alexander calls after his daughter.“No Daddy,” Oliva yell back. “You will not take me to New York. I am staying here. You want to go back and be Mr. CEO, Mr. BigShot, Mr. Boss, GO! I’m staying with my family!”“I am your family too. I’m your father,” Alexander yells as she runs to Bär’s office.“Poppa,” Oliva yells not caring that Marya and Julia are there. “Don’t make me go.”Bär stands up and hugs Oliva. “What is going on?”“I want her to go with me back to New York,” Alexander tells them.“This is her home,” Marya says running to her Niece and hugging her.“You suck,” Julia says to Alexander.“Julia,” Bär calls her down. “Show a little respect.”“Sorry Uncle Alexander,” Julia says before sitting down.“I want to finish high school here with my friends,” Oliva tells him.“I know that,” Alexander rolls his eyes. “I mean for college.”“She is going to Conrad with us,” Marya says. “We are going to rule that school, with a Dear Friends and fellow Supernatur
“Duke?” Emma walks into the office an hour before the Royal Pack will honor Ariella. “My Duke, are you in here?”The lights are off and curtain is drawn. Duke is sitting behind his desk and holding a picture of his family. “I’m here,” Duke crocks out. “I just needed a minute before going in there and everyone talking about Mom.”“I remember Dad’s Funeral. All these people talked about what a loving gentle man he was. I was too young then to understand it was a bunch of bitches rubbing in my Mom’s face that they had slept with Dad. At least you won’t have any of that,” Emma sides into his lap.“That will be good,” Duke holds her. “But my concern is all the housekeepers and warriors who knew she was being abused and did nothing. What are they going to say to defend themselves. The ones who went to school with her and saw everyday what was happening but didn’t stand up. I don’t know how to face them. Luanne was one of them. So was the head chef, the several who work here. What
2 Years and 6 Months Later“Baby!” Bär screams as he runs toward Ingrid’s office after training. The new Omegas still giggle at him. The ones who have been there since the beginning smile at him with pride. Seeing the example the King sets for mates, makes all the kingdom happy.“Daddy,” Marya runs full force toward him.Bär smiles and kneels to hug her. She smiles as she throws her tiny arms around his neck. “Are you being helpful to Mommy?” Bär asks his daughter.“No,” Marya answers honestly. “Poppa!” Oliva runs to join them and Bär scoops her up as well.“Are you being helpful to Oma?” Bär asks Oliva.“No,” Oliva is also honest. “Poppa!” Julia runs to him too.“Hey,” Duke calls her attention making Julia change directions.“Daddy!” Julia hugs her father. “I help Mommy!”Bär looks at both Marya and Oliva. “So one of the girls is helping and the other two are doing what?”“Playing,” the girls say in unison. “Terrorizing everyone,” Luanne, the head housekeeper, tells him. “
Duke is standing next to Emma as she lays on the table.“You look funny with that mask,” Emma tells him making him laugh.“You feel better with the drugs?” Duke asks.“Better? I’m not feeling anything,” Emma smiles. “We will have our pup soon. If it’s a boy I want to name him something that has nothing to do with either family. Like Brian or Julian. Hell, Felix or Claus are fine too. ““I like it. Julian Felix Conrad,” Duke smiles.“For a girl Amalia or Hannah,” Emma tells him.“Or Jane, Alice, Julia,” Duke offers.“Julia Amalia Conrad,” Emma says with a smile. “I love it,” Duke kisses her head as a baby’s cries fill the silence. Duke looks at Emma who is smiling. “You okay?”“I really don’t feel anything,” Emma tells him. “If we do this everytime you can keep me pupped.”“Let’s see how you feel about this after the drugs wear off,” Duke kiss her again.“Lady Julia,” A nurse presents a baby girl to Duke.Emma starts laughing. “Bet you are regretting your playboy ways now.”“Not
“Your Grace if you don’t let her go, we can’t hook up the monitors,” The nurse tries to explain to Duke. “Please we will let you back in the bed with her once we have the monitors on. She can move around and do whatever, but she needs the monitor so we can make sure the new pup is safe.”“I’m okay My Duke,” Emma touches his pale face. “I promise I’m okay. You have to let them prep me. The contractions just started we are going to be here a while. We need to know our pup is okay. Just breathe.”Duke finally lets the nurse start their work. He is breathing heavily and looks ill to the nurses. He hears them but it sounds like they are in a tunnel. He stumbles a little. The head nurse calls for another team to come in to look after Duke.“Your Grace please sit down,” a nurse tells him. She takes his blood pressure and other vitals. “Your Grace you are having a panic attack. You need to take deep breathes.”Another nurse turns to Emma. “Do you know is he allergic to anything?”“
Ingrid spends her day in her room with the babies. Bär tries to keep his head above water in the office. Emma is running, eating and begging Duke to have sex again and again.Alexander tries to work from the suite but finds he needs an office to keep himself for turning on the TV or crawling into bed. He heads down to the offices to see Bär and runs into Emma in the hallway.“Every time I see you, I see her,” Alexander says. He looks at Emma’s round belly. “Did her belly get like this with Oliva?”Emma gives him a tight smile. “Yeah, it did. I never saw her eat as much as she did when she was pregnant. She wanted Oliva to be as healthy as possible. She loved you and Oliva very much.”Alexander scoffs. “I know that is not completely true. You and Ada have the same tell when you lie. The tips of your ears turn pink. The bigger the lie the deeper the color.”“Really?” Duke asks coming into the hallway from the stairs. “I never knew that.”“I never lie to you,” Emma tells him.“
After a long night of tears, Emma has one goal. Get this baby out. She wakes up Duke to fuck her hard, then she runs on the treadmill for three miles, after which she drinks a bottle of hot sauce. “Emma calm down,” Ingrid tells her. “Mom, I need this baby out. I need to replace Duke’s memories,” Emma sighs. Ingrid looks at her daughter with sympathy. “I didn’t know you were feeling that way,” Ingrid tells her. “I don’t want to feel this way,” Emma sits at the breakfast table waiting on Duke and Bär. “I don’t want to resent Bär, but I do,” Ingrid admits sitting across from her. “He could have left Ada and Alexander alone and just let them be happy. But he and his mother couldn’t leave her alone.” Emma looks at her mother in shock. “Mom, Ada murdered a King and brought about the deaths of two others. You can’t be serious about expecting anyone to overlook that.” Ingrid sighs but stands when Bär enters the dining hall. Emma also stands, waiting for Bär and Marya. When they arriv
Ingrid stands at her window looking out over the back garden. The moon is high now and the beams of moonlight hit her face. She looks back into the room with a heavy sigh. Her daughter is sleeping in a basket next to the bed. Her granddaughter is squirming in the basket next to Marya. Bär is asleep with one arm over his head and the other hand is resting on his dick. That makes her laugh.When she turns back to the moon, she believes she sees a face in the moon and her breath hitches.“Selene, if you have mercy in your heart, find a way to accept my daughter. I know she did horrible things to those I love most. She even treated the man who loved her like garbage. But Selene she is my child. You have blessed me so richly so completely. How can I be so blessed and my daughter so cursed? I don’t understand and my heart is both full and broken. Selene, help me understand why. I can’t stop the burn of my heart for my child. She was troubled so young. Was that my fault? Did I mak
“Do we give her a funeral?” Ingrid asks as she melts into Bär. “I feel like the answer is no. I feel like we need to let this all go and try raising her daughter to the best of our abilities.”“My daughter,” Alexander reminds them. “As her husband I get a say in the next steps. I get to decide what happens with my daughter. I know you think you can bully me because technically you are monsters. But I am a father now and nothing will come between me and her.”Bär holds Ingrid close to him as he answers Alexander.“Alexander, you know the agreement. Our granddaughter stays with us. You can visit anytime you want. She stays here with her wolf family. She will need a support system without her mother. You can’t provide that for her, but we can. I know she is your daughter. And 16 days ago, I would have told you, you are nuts. But today I can understand what you are saying. If anyone said to me what I am saying to you about Marya, I would tear them apart,” Bär rubs Ingrid’s back.