Chapter 435
“He’s
your son too,” I tell him, kissing him softly before he moves me off of his lap, carefully putting me on the shirt that he was sitting on.
Jacqueline is the last to wake, jolting up out of her sleep.
“I’m glad to see you were able to go back to sleep,” Lucas says to her. –
“Thanks for talking to me until I calmed down,” she says, shyly.
“Nightmares?” I ask her. She and I both have them. We’ve been
waking the other one up when we start talking out loud in our sleep. I must have been deeply asleep to not hear her.
“Yeah,” she says looking down.
“They eventually go away…mostly,” I tell her.
“So this Alpha David, he’s not your fated mate, right?” Hunter asks
her.
“No, he’s not. Does that matter?”
“It doesn’t, it’s more a matter of the law and which ones we’re skirting around and which ones we’re actually breaking,” Erza says.
“And you are eighteen though, right?” Dutton asks.
“Yes. I ran before that, but I had my birthday while I’ve been gone. I’ve
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been on the run longer than I thought,” she says, glancing at me.
Just as Robin comes back, Rory finishes eating. I show Robin how to burp our son, but I need to pee as well.
“I don’t want you going alone, Nikki.”
“I can go with her. I need to pee as well,” Jacqueline says.
“Howl if you need us,” Lucas says.
As we walk away, I make sure that Jacqueline is doing okay.
“They’re so different from the ranked members that I’ve known all my life. When I woke up earlier, Alpha Lucas talked to me until I calmed down, then he talked to me about winning his pack and how it’s a whole new life for him that he never expected to have.”
“I’m sure it is. He was a Beta. So was Jake. There’s a lot of opportunity for us and our pack members. Who knows Jacqueline, maybe you’ll become an Alpha,” I tell her.
“I doubt it,” she says.
“Why not? There’s nothing in our laws, the ones we’re rewriting anyway, that say you can’t,” I tell her.
“I was never trained to be an Alpha. I was barely trained to be a Beta female. I have no idea how to run a pack,” she says as we walk back into the area where everyone is waiting for us.
“If you’re talking about becoming an Alpha, I didn’t know either, and neither did my mate,” Lucas says.
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“I still don’t know, and neither does my mate,” Jake says.
“That’s not true You have great instincts, Jake And so does Letti,” Ezra says to him.
“Instincts maybe, but running a pack? I don’t know the first thing about that,” he says.
“But we can help with that,” Hunter says as they hand out what’s left of the deer they caught. I take two chunks of meat and hand one to Robin, smiling when I realize that he looks terrified.
“Did he burp?”
“Umm, well, I’m not sure if he burped, pooped, or both,” he says.
“He definitely pooped. How close are we to that stream we crossed?”
“It’s too cold to bathe him Nikki,” he says, looking at me like I’m crazy.
“He’ll get a rash if we leave him sitting in his own shit for hours, Robin,” I say, giving him an ‘are you serious?‘ look.
“How about we use a shirt, get it wet, use it to clean off your newest Alpha heir, and then someone can give us a cleaner, warmer
we can wrap him in it,” Jacqueline says.
Everyone turns to stare at her.
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