Everly POV
When Macey returned home, she brought dinner with her, and tucked inside her handbag was a folder of documents.
She sets the Chinese containers on the bench, and I start pulling down some plates and start serving, only to be scolded by Kalen.
“Everly, you’re supposed to be in bed.Do you not know what bedrest is?” he says, clicking his tongue.
“I have sat in bed all afternoon, Kal.I am fine,” he shakes his head, helping me to serve the kids dinner who were perched in their chairs around the table.
Zoe was getting released from the hospital the next day.She rang earlier, and thankfully the nurse had given her some makeup, so she didn’t freak Casey out.
My father was waiting with her until Marcus returned, but I wasn’t willing to tell her where it was Marcus went and why.
Though I think she knew because there was only one reason that would make Marcus leave her side, and that was revenge.
“You okay?” I ask Macey, touching her arm, but she pulls away from me, smiling the fakest smile I had ever seen on her face.
I narrow my eyes at her, and she sighs.
“Sorry, I’m on edge.All this rogue stuff, the hotel, Zoe.” I swallowed, nodding and turning to flick the kettle on.
“Tea only Everly,” Kalen scolds.
Geez, now I know where Valen gets it from.
“Yes, Dad!” Macey and I say simultaneously, and he chuckles.
“I will eat in the room with you.I need to speak to you about something anyway.Something not for kids’ ears,” she says, and I nod just as Kalen chimes in.
“Great idea!You girls get settled, and I will bring some trays in and make tea!your “he says, looking at me before pushing us out of the kitchen.
“Hang on,”
“No.Shoo, shoo!Make her sit down.I caught her trying to bleach the damn bathroom!Watch her,” Kalen scolds.
“She is nesting, leaving her.Besides, she cleans when she is nervous,” Macey defends me.
Besides this sitting around was annoying, and I didn’t like how everyone fussed.I get their concerned, but I was damn near going insane from it.
“Not with my three grC?she doesn’t.She is supposed to be on bed rest.We want them babies to stay in as long as possible,” Kalen tells Macey.
“Fine.Just let me get some Panadol, these cramps have been the worst.Stupid monthly’s!” she curses, and I blink at her confused.
“Wait.You still get your period?” I ask her
“Ah, yeah.I am a female,” Macey says.
” What do you think?The hysterectomy turned me into a man?” she curses, shaking her head.
Kalen looks at her funny, and I look at him.
Macey retrieves her panadol from above the stove, popping two pills with a glass of water.
As she turns, she notices us staring at her.
“What?” she asks.
“You said you had a full hysterectomy?”
“No, a partial.They took all the baby carrying bits out,” Macey says as if she was tired of this conversation already.
“But you have ovaries?” I asked.
“Well, duh!I get a period, so I assume so,” she shrugs.
“Then you’re not infertile,” Kalen says, and she pops her hip and puts her hand on her waist.
“What part of, I haven’t got the baby carrying bits, did you not understand?” she says sarcastically.
Kalen says one word.
“Surrogate!” she seems taken aback.
“Yeah, because someone would want to carry my baby?Yeah right.Besides, I need a man to kind of fertilize the egg and all.Unless your old dust sperm is volunteering,” she says.
Kalen pulls a face.
“Pass!I am too old for babies!But, this news will make Tatum happy,”
“Would have made him happy.He dumped me,” she says, rubbing her temples.
“We are werewolves.We all know how impossible it would be to find a surrogate.Can’t have a human carry them.And we are pack animals, it doesn’t matter if it’s not blood, you know what that would do to a she-wolf,” she did have a point.
I have never heard of someone becoming a surrogate, yet I would do it if I wasn’t already pregnant.Though Valen probably wouldn’t let me.
And Zoe was in no state to ask, and I am pretty sure she and Marcus were trying before all this happened.
“Now, come on, I want to ask you something,” Macey says, grabbing her handbag and tugging me toward my room.
I get comfortable on my bed, propping myself up with pillows and settling under the blankets.
Kalen comes in a few minutes later with dinner trays for us.
Once he has left, she retrieves the documents from her bag.
“Are you okay?” I ask her.
“Yeah, why wouldn’t I be?” I let out a breath.
“I’m talking about Tatum,”
“It is what it is,” she says, trying to deflect the conversation as she sets some papers on my legs.
“Last will and testament?” I ask, looking at her.
“I just in case something happens to me, I want to ensure Taylor will have a place to go,” she says.
“And you want to do this now?” I ask her, and she shrugs.
“Just thought, with all the rogue stuff.I just want to be sure.So I wanted to ask if you and Valen would be willing to take her.You know I can’t leave her to mum or my brother,” she says.
“That isn’t even a question.I would move heaven and hell to keep her.You know that,” she nods.
“I know, and you and Zoe are the only ones I would trust my baby with.The only ones I know love her just as much as I do,” I sign the document, and when Kalen comes in, I ask him to sign the witness part, and he quickly does though he gives Macey the same odd look I gave her.
“Planning on going somewhere?” he asks.
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