Randy’s POVI continued my pacing, running my hand across the back of my desk chair on the way by. Part of me wanted to shove it into the desk and watch everything fly apart, but I resisted the temptation to lose my temper.My thoughts had come back to the danger they’d put Helen in. What were they thinking? Justin and Helen had a full two months of unchaperoned sex while Justin was in a lethal lycan form. She still had unknown side effects from having absorbed a half-demon’s power.Those two could sugarcoat her sex with the Huntsman any way they wanted, but it didn’t change the fact that we had no idea what the long-range effects were going to be. I just hoped the doctor who was coming this evening was smart enough to double-check everything and put those two in line with reality.As Beta, I could really use to relax about everything with this pregnancy so that I could focus on all of the other work that had piled up.The intercom on my desk crackled. “Beta Randy?” our receptionist s
Randy’s POVAt the idea of her leaving, my wolf started to panic. He leaped around my chest, demanding I take action to try to win her. Good Grief. One whiff of her pheromones and he was bouncing around like a teenage boy with his first hard-on.But maybe he had more control of me than I liked to admit because I blurted out, “Is that at all?”“Was there anything else?” she asked, pausing at the door and looking confused.“Not unless you wanna have dinner with me?” The words popped out of my mouth before I could stop them, and my eyes shot wide open. That had fully been the fault of my wolf.The doctor giggled, putting her hand on the doorknob. “I guess dinner with you might be all right,” she said. “Normally, I don’t mix dating and patients. It’s not good practice. But since you’re technically not my patient . . .”Her smile at me turned my stomach gooey. “I guess I won’t be going back to your practice now that your father’s retired,” I joked.She giggled again. “If you are one of his
Randys POVI set my phone down on my desk and leaned back in my desk chair, making a mental note to fix the squeak. Inside my stomach, butterflies or some sort of squirmy things wriggled all over. I had a date with the good doctor.Friday, after Helen’s appointment, I had a very difficult time making myself wait to call Emily, but I forced myself to. I didn’t want to sound desperate, especially if her wolf hadn’t chosen my wolf for a mate. If this were simply an exploratory date, then calling the same night I got her number would just come off as weird.But despite waiting, I couldn’t help the anticipation that built inside me. In agony, I waited as late into the day on Saturday as I could before finally giving in to the impulse to call. Thankfully, the phone call went smoothly, and she had agreed to meet me for dinner tonight.Because Emily was Helen’s doctor, and I was Justin’s beta, the last thing I wanted to do was have any awkwardness on our first date. So I’d made the reservatio
Randy’s POVDespite all the time I’d spent reasoning with myself that Emily was someone else’s choice for me, I spent well over an hour poking around in shop after shop until I finally found a set of clips that I absolutely loved. The hair ornaments had been enameled in a deep forest green and set with gold sparkles. Along the top edge ran a row of tiny pearls.“Those are perfect,” my wolf practically sang inside me.“That’s what I thought,” I agreed.The clips were a little more expensive than I had intended on making the gift, but they were the only thing I’d seen which were so obviously perfect for Emily. So, I went ahead and coughed up the extra money for the purchase.Besides, even if things didn’t work out between us, I wanted to keep the channels of communication with her open so that regardless of our standing together, I could help her focus on Helen’s pregnancy. Emily had been kind enough to take my advice seriously, making sure that she posed the real risks to Helen. And I
Justin’s POV“Oh my,” Dr. Peterson muttered.She adjusted the ultrasound wand again and then a third time.“Is something wrong?” I asked.“No. Not at all. It’s just this here is your second pup.”“What?” Helen and I both yelped at the same time.She looked at each of us with a wide smile. “Congratulations. You’re having twins.”“Twins?” I gasped.“Twins!” Helen gushed out.“They’ll be fraternal twins,” Dr. Peterson explained. “Look. See, this one has its own amniotic sack, which means that they’re not identical twins because the same egg didn’t divide into two embryos. You have two fertilized eggs, and they’re each growing in their own sack. But they’ll be born about the same time, within a few minutes, I’d say.”We must have looked worried because she gave us an even wider smile. “Don’t worry. All of this is perfectly natural, especially for werewolves. It’s very common for a female werewolf in heat to ovulate more than once and send off multiple eggs for fertilization.”The news was
Justin’s POVAfter cleaning her hands off, Dr. Myles placed two fingers in the center of Helen’s abdomen and started muttering. I waited to see if I could visualize the magic, but whatever she was doing wasn’t something that was apparent on the outside. The only indication that the doctor was doing anything was the changing look on her face.She kept her fingers there a minute before she pulled her hand off, cleaned her fingers again, and replaced two fingers on the other hand on Helen’s stomach. The same display of unreadable emotions, or rather, disconnected emotions, flitted across her face.I couldn’t pick out whether it was good or bad or what was going on, but whatever it was, she must have found something interesting. Otherwise, why bother doing whatever she was doing twice?“Well?” I demanded when my patience ran out.She waved me quiet with her free hand. After a moment, she washed up and handed Helen a cloth. “This is to clean the herbs off your stomach. Would you like priva
Randy’s POVA fresh blanket of gloom had settled itself over the office area inside Juden’s mansion. I hadn’t expected Justin to come back for the day after he left to go to Helen’s appointment. We still had work to do, but it was early in the evening, after all.Yet he busted into the office, all worked up, barely controlling his temper. He didn’t even have to tell me that anything was wrong. Simply by the way he was acting, I could tell that we weren’t through with the Huntsman. Something had happened during the doctor’s appointment with Helen.My only question was what.After I had asked Justin that very question and heard the explanation, I wished I hadn’t.Knowing that Helen was carrying that beast’s child made me physically sick to my stomach. My first instinct was to tell him to abort the pregnancy. They could conceive another lycan child. Whereas they only had this on
Randy’s POVI stepped outside into a sunny, late winter day, and my breath came out in a puffing cloud. Thank goodness, from just down the street, I could see the little white car which had been parked in Emily’s driveway the other day coming towards me. At least I wouldn’t have to wait outside in the freezing cold for very long.She waved as she pulled up in front of the mansion to pick me up. I opened the door on the passenger side and flopped into the seat, shutting it behind me.“Hi, Emily.”“Hi,” she said. “Looks like you heard.”I nodded. “As far as doctor-patient confidentiality goes, you don’t have to hide anything from me, at least not about the fact that one of the twins is actually a part demon. How could that happen?”I tipped my head back, closing my eyes.“Just bad luck,” she said. “Instances of twins with two differen