"I would like to propose a motion to open a committee to audit the treaty with the intention to renegotiate and restructure the terms," my father said in the room full of wolves, witches, and vampires that looked back at us.

Dominic was sitting next to Ethan and I; Ethan had an arm around my shoulders while we watched Levi and my father represent our region at the national council meeting. A meeting that Derek and Elliot along with Alex, Alister, Steven, Bernard, and Susie were participating in as well. Dagny waved at me from across the room; Vincent was sitting next to her with Alice in his lap.

"On what grounds?" the meeting officiant called out.

"On the grounds that the rules have not been constructed so they fairly represent all parties and the procedures for enforcement and investigation are also not effective nor do they best serve our kind."

"Do you have evidence of such claims?" the officiant asked.

"Yes," my father said as he passed around a large binder, navy blue, that officiant assistants passed copies of around to the other alphas, coven masters, and head witches in the room. "These were all emailed out before, but in here you will find evidence of the treaty being broken as well as the failure for such incidents to be properly investigated and brought to justice."

Incidents.

We were able to use the incident reports along with some other things, many other things, Aurelia type things, to support our claims that the treaty needed to be adjusted. There was a whole section on her and Hale, on how she was a result of the fighting over the years–a side that was oppressed choosing to lash out in an extreme way.

She was the wakeup call our world needed of how easily it would be to fall into the honeytrap of another. We wouldn't make that mistake again.

"Thank you, Alpha King, do I have a second for this motion?" the officiant asked as the room broke into murmurs.

"I second," Derek called out as he stood up.

"As do I," Bernard said as he stood.

"As do I," Alex echoed, causing my eyes to widened as we watched him stand up. "Hadrian is right, it is time for a change."

I looked at Ethan, whose mouth almost dropped. We had expected Alex to cooperate, but we had not expected him to be this supportive. Regardless, we would take what we could get.

The officiant looked around and nodded. "It seems we have seconds. How would you like to proceed Alpha King?"

"I suggest we head up a committee made of equal parts wolf, vampire, and witch to review the treaty then propose them to the group within six months time. The changes will go for a vote. If they are voted upon, then they will be open for revision and negotiation where we can place a final vote on them next year, where if they are voted on, they will be considered active within the specified time frame."

The officiant nodded. "Do we have a second for this?"

"I second," an alpha called out, Issach Quickfoot to be exact.

"I second," Alister said.

"I second as well," Callista added with a smile.

The officiant tried to hide his smile. His looked up at my father and nodded. "Alright Alpha King, you have six months. Before this meeting is over, and everyone dismissed, you will be expected to have your committee members selected."

My father nodded. "Thank you," he replied before he sat down, my mother kissing his cheek while the room broke out into murmurs.

"Wow," Dominic breathed out. "That just happened."

"It did," I replied. "I can't believe it."

"I can," Lizzie whispered to us. "What happened was a big wake-up call for everyone in this room. As horrible as it is to say, it was what a lot of these people needed to see the truth–see that we needed change."

A horrible truth, but Lizzie was probably right. It may have been the dramatic wake-up call that people needed. A wake-up call at our expense, but at least I could sleep better at night knowing my pack was safer because of what we did–the people I loved, were safer.

"There better be. We didn't go through hell and back for there not to be," Ethan added.

I rubbed Ethan's arm then leaned on his shoulder as the meeting went on. The rest of it wast mostly spent with Ethan and I playing games of tic-tac-toe while they went through some kind of procedural something that made both my father and Levi look like they wanted to pull their hair out.

Dominic kept making people sneeze randomly while Lizzie made them say random words that we would come up with over our group link. When the meeting was over, Levi was more than ready to get out. He pulled Eve up with him and turned towards us. "Bar," is all he said.

"Food," Evan said from behind us.

Levi eyed him then nodded. "Food would be good."

"Did you talk to Lander?" I asked. Lander was supposed to come but Jane got her heat, so Lucas took her up to a cabin in the mountains in my father's pack–away from other wolves. Lucas was going to look over the pack with David while we were gone; he, Caden, David, and Jake were going to hold down the fort. Needless to say, Lander was pissed. It wasn't Lucas' fault, but Lander really wanted to come to Florida, but since my father and Levi were such 'besties' now, they told Lander they would make it up to him. They actually got Callista to let them borrow the rooms again after winter, Levi was going to surprise Lander on his birthday which was close to Christmas.

The council meeting only lasted another day, another day in which Ethan was ready to pull all of his fur out. We ended up skipping lunch and venturing into town before we went back to the beach; the beach that we snuck out to in the middle of that night so we could shift under the pier and run in the water.

My beast loved it. She was like a little pup frolicking around, chasing ghost crabs that would run away from her while Ethan just laid in the water, watching her with a ghost smile on his lips.

A ghost smile that disappeared when we had to wake up the next day and board the plane home. A plane that Ethan once again cursed along with Evan who swore that we were going to die. Lyanna just rolled her eyes and looked at me as we waited in line to get to our seats. "I brought some Benadryl. I'm taking a nap."

I chuckled and pulled Ethan with me to our seats. My beast just rolled her eyes at our male. She didn't like the plane, but she wasn't as skittish in it as he was. It probably helped that I had traveled a few times more than him on one.

Jake was glad to see us when we got home, as was Lander. Levi brought Lander a sea-shell bra which he didn't think was all that funny. He ended up having Lyle build a snowman in front of Levi's cabin when Levi was gone after the first snow hit the ground, which wasn't more than a few days after we got home, just so he could tie the sea-shell bra up on the snowman.

Jane and Lucas eventually came down from the mountains. Jane was not pregnant–or at least the couldn't smell anything, which gave me some relief–as horrible as it was to say. With Andrea pregnant, my beast and I wanted pups of our own but it wasn't like we could control when it happened.

Remi and Ryder were bunking with Bowie for the time being, until the snow melted at least. They wanted to build a cabin on our land, but close to Tikanni's. Remi had talked to Ethan, he wasn't sure he could still be the Beta-to-be for Lucas. It wasn't that Remi didn't like Lucas, but Remi was really close to Liam. He said it didn't feel right without Liam, and Ethan couldn't argue with that.

Ethan said he could always change his mind, and we decided we would see what would happen after the snow melted. The winter raged on and Thanksgiving came. We had Andrea and Jaxon over at our cabin along with my parents, the Thornes, and Evan and Lyanna over. Derek had helped Levi deep fry the turkey and Dominic brought more booze than Lizzie brought crackers for her fancy cheese plates. It was a houseful of wolves but even with our appetites, we could not finish all the sides. My mother joked afterward that she had to roll my father back up the mountain.

The mountain.

I got better at linking in the mountain. My parents had picked it up, but they were also living there full time. We were lucky we had the moon plants; they grew almost like weeds on top of the mountain, it was like the closer they were to the moon the better they grew, except for right now in the snow mom was having a hard time keeping them alive inside; she had put them into pots with Susie, but the little plants needed the moon over their heads not a roof.

Susie came once a week to check on them with Bernard. Sometimes Dagny would come too, apparently, Alice loved the snow. She even got her a little sweater to wear when she came out here.

Towards the beginning of December, when I thought that I was going to go stir crazy in our cabin, Ethan left with my father, Levi, and Evan to go to Anchorage to meet with some of the committee members. The one good thing about the snow is that it slowed a lot of things is that we had more time to help my father with the treaty.

Since the boys left, it left Lyanna and I to hold down our fort which ended up being Lyanna, Cora, and I all camped out in my cabin while we binged watched movies and ate junk food. A few times we would let our wolves out to run, or more like hop, in the snow. The snow that was piled high, so high that we made a wine cooler outside with the snow packed in front of my door.

It was in the third day that things went to shit. We had a few generators out that we all had to trudge through the snow to help our men fix. After freezing my ass off for hours, I went home and ran a bath that burned when my cold skin hit the water.

"Charlotte!" Lyanna rushed out, panic in her voice.

I shot out of the tub. "What?! What is it?! What's wrong?!"

"It's me," she said as her beast whined out. "It's my heat. It's here."

"Shit," I hissed out. "Ok, it's ok. Link Evan."

"I tried! He isn't linking me back!"

"Did you call?!"

She groaned. "Yes, like four times."

"Lyanna I am sure there is a reasonable explanation."

"Charlotte, what about the pack?"

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"This storm is going to settle tomorrow. The scent is going to stick to the snow and everything around this house."

"Shit," I hissed again. I was chewing on my lip, my legs still standing in the tub as I thought when an idea popped into my brain. "Ok, hold on a few minutes. Is it bad?"

"Not yet, I put some snow in the tub with me."

"Ok, just hold on let me call my mom," I said as I jumped out of the tub. I ran back to the closet and tore through every shelf until I found our satellite phone.

Quickly, I dilated my parents number that was pre-programmed into it. The phone rang a few times and I crossed my fingers that my mother would pick up, I wasn't sure if the snow storm would do anything.

"Sweetie? Everything ok?"

"Mom," I said on the breath of a relieved sigh. "Ya, we're good. I'm good. Listen, I need some help."

"What's wrong dear?"

"It's not me it's Lyanna. She has her heat–"

"Oh my God that poor thing! Did she get a hold of Evan?"

"No, I mean she's trying. I'm sure he'll link her back. Do they have the dust with them?"

"Not much, remember? They poofed to the diner then drove so they wouldn't use so much, they're not poofing back they were just going to leave their cars at the diner and run back. I'm supposed to come get your father at Levi's when he comes back. We're trying to conserve the dust in the winter. A lot of the plants aren't doing good, we've moved them inside but they need to moon. You're father's supposed to work on a greenhouse when he gets back."

"Shit, ok," I breathed out. "Ok, well could I bring Lyanna up there? To one of those cabins? Tomorrow the storm will settle down here and her scent is going to stick to everything."

"Of course! Do you have enough dust to get her here then get back?"

"Yes! I do! I can poof her to your place?"

"Ok sweetie, today?"

"Yes," I rushed out. "I'm going to go over there now."

"Ok, love you. See you in a little bit."

"Love you too mom, see you soon," I said before I hung up the phone.

"Cora, where are you at?"

"Still stuck at home. Jake's trying to make a Lego fort."

I rolled my eyes as I pulled on some of the clothes that Dagny had enchanted for us; spandex pants and a tank top. "Listen, Lyanna has her heat. I'm taking her to my mother's then coming back. She's got a cabin we can put her in. I don't want the scent to spread to the pack–we're stir crazy as it is."

"What about Evan?"

"She's trying to get a hold of him," I replied as I ran to the door.

"I'll be back, but I may need help moving the snow around in front of their cabin in case there's a scent."

"You're coming back?"

"Yes, why?" I replied as I stepped out of the house, closing the door tight so the wind wouldn't blow it open before I shifted to my fur. My beast groaning as we hopped through the thick snow.

"Uh, why don't you stay with her until Evan comes?"

"Cora we have things to do here–"

"Charlotte don't be an idiot," Cora injected. "We're snowed in. The generators are fine, the only problem is all these legos laying all over Jake and my cabin. Go, stay with Lyanna, see if the heat doesn't spread to you too."

"Cora..."

"We can't have all of us pregnant at once, besides, Jake and I want to enjoy a kid-less life for a few more years. I mean if it happens it happens, but I would rather not go near Lyanna."

"Are you sure?" I asked as I continued to try and run down to Lyanna's cabin.

"Yes, of course, go. I'll tell Jake. It will be fine."

I felt butterflies swirl in my stomach. "Thanks, Cora."

"Anytime Char," she replied as I pushed harder through the snow. My heart anxious to be near Lyanna, my wolf anxious. Maybe Cora was right, maybe we would get our heat again? Maybe we could try again?

Lyanna was laying in a bathtub of snow when I found her that she had shoveled herself. I helped her out then walked her out to the bathroom. She sat on the edge of the tub while I ran and grabbed her pouch of dust on her dresser, the scent of her heat rolling off of her like a thick snowdrift.

"Come on," I said as I hugged her to me, throwing the dust down and poofing us out and through the air until we were falling, snow hitting my face, until we landed in my parents living room. "Hey mom," I groaned.

"Oh sweetie!" my mother said as she rushed to Lyanna who was weeping. "Oh honey, it's going to be just fine."

"It hurts," Lyanna whimpered as she doubled over and clutched her stomach.

"Ok, hold onto her, let's poof her to the cabin," my mother said.

I pulled Lyanna into my lap as my mother knelt next to us. She put and arm around me and threw some dust down, poofing us quickly through the air and into a cabin much like the one Ethan and I had stayed in before.

Standing up, I carried Lyanna to the bed then walked over to an empty pail. "I'm going to get her some snow."

Grabbing the pail, I opened the front door that had snow almost packed to the roof, and started to scoop it out and carry it to the bathtub. "Lyanna honey, have you gotten Evan?"

"He said he was coming," she murmured.

My mother nodded with a soft smile. "Ok, let's get you into the tub. Char baby girl, you stay with her. I'm going to go get my satellite phone and see if I can't call them. Lyanna did you tell him you were coming here?"

"I think so?" she whimpered out as my mother carefully helped her into the tub filled with snow that started to slowly melt as Lyanna sat into it. My mother helped Lyanna out of her clothes down to her underwear, the scent of her heat almost overwhelming it was so thick.

"Ok," my mother reached out. "I'll be back," she told her before she kissed her forehead. She walked to me and kissed my cheek as she eyed Lyanna; her hair sticking to her sweaty skin while she panted steadily out of her mouth. "Poor thing, stay with her, see if–you know."

"Mom!"

"What?! Your father and I want grandchildren!"

I rolled my eyes and carefully dumped some snow on Lyanna, continuing the task until she was covered with snow in the tub. "How do you feel?"

"Horrible," she moaned out as a wave of it rolled over her. "Why didn't you tell me?"

I shrugged. "I don't think anyone can prepare you for this."

"Where the hell is Evan!" she barked out, the snow slowly melting around her.

"I'm sorry," I murmured to her. "He has to be on his way if you told him. Just hang on," I added with a reassuring smile."

I stayed with her for a few more hours. The whole time my best was subtly trying to intake her scent, hoping it would spark something in us The only thing that sparked was a little fire I built in the wooden stove fireplace in the corner, mostly because I was starting to shiver from the cold.

Eventually, I emptied the water out of the tub and had Lyanna just lean into the snow outside the door. She looked at me with a soft smile of relief when she did. "Can I just stay here?"

I rolled my eyes as I poured more snow into the tub. "I don't know if that's healthy."

"Being on your heat without your mate isn't healthy," she whined out.

My mother poofed back in with a crack. She had some bags with her, mostly for and two big jugs of water. "Ok, I talked to the men. They let Evan drive ahead of them so it should only be a few more hours. Evan said he's going straight home then poofing here. I have some food and water for you while you wait."

Lyanna nodded and crawled back into the tub, desire pouring off of her while my mother and I tried to air the place out by opening the windows, but it just let more snow it. I waited with Lyanna for a few more hours; pouring snow on her, emptying it out of the tub, or trying to console her when she would start crying.

"He's coming! Charlotte baby, you better go," my mother said as she poofed in.

I sighed, almost defeated because I had been around her most of the day and nothing happened. Apparently being around a female in heat, when you were a female, could spark up your own heat if you were mated. Sighing, I hugged Lyanna then took my mother's hand, letting her poof me back to my cabin while the snow poured out outside.

"Your time will come, sweetie," my mother said before she kissed my forehead. "One day it will come," she said before she threw down some dust and poofed away.

I groaned and walked to the refrigerator, taking out some wine and some leftover chocolate cake that Derek had made me. My beast sunk down in the back of my mind. The smell of Lyanna's heat still lingering in my nose, making me eat the cake a little more aggressively.

Ethan wasn't back yet, and I assumed he may not be for a while. They could be letting Evan poof to Lyanna while they all ran home. "Ethan?"

"Sunshine?"

I smiled at the sound of his voice. "Is Evan–"

"We let him use the dust. We're running home. Shirley's letting us just leave the cars at her place. We can come get them when the snow melts. It's not like we'll need them."

"You should have convinced my dad to let you all poof," I told him.

"Well your father can be a hardass sunshine," he replied, drawing a chuckle from my lips.

"How's the snow?"

"Like hell. It's sticking to my fur. I'm going to look like an abominable snow monster when I get home."

I barked out a laugh as I walked up stairs and into my bathroom. "Well have fun in the snow my snow monster, how long do you think you'll be?"

"A few hours baby, hopefully not much longer."

"Alright, I'll see you soon. I love you."

"I love you too sunshine," he replied while I drained the bathwater I had left, water that was cold.

Sighing, I filled it back up and climbed in. Letting the hot water rush over me as I leaned back with my glass of wine. I sat in the bath for a while, then watched a movie until eventually, I passed out curled up in bed.

I woke though. I woke to my heart racing and my beast scratching at me. I pushed her back, I was in a deep sleep and I didn't have time for her shit.

She just snapped at me and pulled me away as something lapped at me, something that rushed over my skin, making it feel hot and dewy. "What the?" I groaned as I sat up.

I rubbed my eyes, the snow still pelting the roof of our house while I tried to comprehend what was going on. My heartbeat picked up while whatever this was lapped at me some more; my skin was slowly heating up like someone slowly turning the dial up on an oven, until it hit me.

A wave.

A wave of heat rushed over me and took my breath away. I laid there, the feeling over overstimulation had my body crying out in fear–we remembered the last time before Ethan came too well. It was then that I really realized what was happening.

I had gotten my heat again.

I jumped up on the bed and did a small happy dance routine before a wave of heat had me hunched over as a moan escaped my lips. "Oh, premature celebration is over," I groaned.

"Ethan?" I waited as the waves rolled over me, the heat growing stronger and stronger by the minute. "Ethan?!"

"Sunshine? I'm almost there, I'm passing Evan's."

"Oh thank God," I breathed out.

"Baby, are you ok?"

"Yes! I mean–well, just come home and find out," I almost laughed out before another waved rolled over me.

"Sunshine are you ok? Is everything ok?"

"Yes I'm fine, just get home."

Ethan growled, almost annoyed at me in his tone. I just laughed because he was going to not be able to think of anything near annoyed when he smelled this scent rolling off of me. The scent that had me doubling over as a wave of heat racked through me.

I waited a little longer, the heat growing a little stronger, and my beast starting to howl out and tug at the bond for our mate. Our mate that finally came when we felt his veins hum out to ours as he approached the house. Our mate that growled out, a growl that was seductive and excited in nature, rolling off of his chest and over my skin. Our mate that ran upstairs with a smile on his face while I wiped the sweat off of my brow.

"It took you long enough," I groaned before another wave of heat took my breath away.

Ethan was over to me, crushing his lips into mine before I knew what was happening. The bond lighting up and the heart flaring up as his lips covered mine. "Oh sunshine, this is probably the best thing I could have come home to," he said as another growl rolled off of his chest while he pushed me back against the bed.

Snow was following from his hair and onto my skin, causing me to squeal into his kiss. "Ethan!" I squealed again as he shook snow from his hair off and onto me. Looking at him, I saw that the snow was stuck to parts of his skin as well too. I rolled my eyes. "Baby you're covered in snow!"

"We'll melt it off," he said while he kissed my neck.

"You're absurd."

"No, I'm in love with you, there's a difference."

"I love you too," I replied back before he covered my mouth with his while the heat cried out and made me forget that there was even snow outside.

The heat lasted for five days. Five days that I don't remember much of. The heat does that. It makes everything this crazy daze. A daze where all I could remember was sweat, his name, memories of his hands holding me in place while he thrust into me so slowly–teasing me, that it was almost painful. We only stopped really to sleep. Ethan made me eat throughout the time, but something about the heat always made me a little nauseous and hungry for things other than food.

After Ethan got home that first day, later, we had talked about going up to the mountains after the snow settled, but lucky for us another storm picked up and it helped that we lived on the outskirts of the pack–nestled on our little hill.

After the fifth day, Ethan and I both more or less went into hibernation. I think we both slept for almost two days straight. At one point, Ethan carried me from the bed down to the living room where we laid on the couch and went back to sleep.

His nose was on my belly more than once on the sixth day, the day after the heat had stopped. Ethan said he wasn't sure. I was excited but I didn't want to get my hopes up. I called Andrea and updated her but she said that Ethan was like Jaxon–a moron, that we wouldn't be able to smell it for maybe a few days after–maybe even a week or more. She told me to 'pee on a damn stick,' in a few days and see what would happen.

When I told Ethan what she said, he as well thought Andrea was a moron because he was totally going to be able to smell his own pups and he thought that it was, 'a solid maybe sunshine.' I called Lyanna a few days after she got back and she just laughed when I told her what Ethan said. She said that Evan had said the same thing. It was a little less than two weeks until Christmas and part of me hoped that I would find out in time, mostly because this would be the best Christmas gift ever.

So Lyanna and I waited. We waited, and waited and waited. Ethan drug me out of the house one day, into the snow–the snow that stuck all over my fur and made me look like a snowball, so we could chop down a Christmas tree. I had no idea why he thought this was a good idea. It wasn't like getting the damn tree back would be easy–it wasn't easy. It was hell. By the time we got home I wanted to chop the damn tree up and toss it into one of our fireplaces; fireplaces–because Ethan liked the wood burning stove so much in the cabin he installed one in our front living room before winter had hit.

We set the tree up in the back living room with all the windows that looked over the pack, although right now it just looked at snow, but with the decorations on the tree it made the house feel more warm and cozy. Our first Christmas together. Apparently, last Christmas had been a depressing shitshow of Claire mostly crying with Lyanna while Levi and Lander tried to keep everything from losing it.

Ethan still smelled at my belly everyday, and everyday he said, 'a solid maybe' sunshine. I called my mother and asked her, it had almost been a week and she said that some pregnancy tests could tell. Sam was out though, and with the snow she hadn't been able to get a restock of supplies. So, Lyanna, my mother, Andrea, Jaxon and I all decided that we would have a 'girls day,' at Andrea's, and poof to Sam's in Anchorage–a trip my mother thought totally worth using the dust for. Jaxon told Caden to, 'keep your damn mouth shut,' and insisted on going; according to Andrea he had become 'a pain in the ass that is stuck to my hip like hot glue,' since they found out about her pup.

We bought an industrial sized box of pregnancy tests at Sam's, the whole time my mother was bouncing around like a kid. Jaxon was too, he had eaten most of the samples at Sam's and decided that he was going to start making supply runs for his pack from now on.

We got the box then decided to go eat at a restaurant so we would have somewhere to sit and wait while the tests worked. Riley gave us the recommendation of this pizza place that had a wood fired oven where they cooked their pizza. We had to walk in the snow, but it wasn't so bad and luckily for us down in the city most of the streets were plowed.

"Well?" Jaxon asked as he eyed me. "Go pee on the damn stick!"

Andrea smacked his chest while Lyanna and I downed some water that the waitress brought. "Jaxon have you spoken to Ethan or Evan?"

Jaxon nodded at my mother. "Yes mama Willa, I told them the girls were watching a movie all camped out in our living room and eating all of the dark chocolate in the house," he said, playfully narrowing his gaze at Andrea.

She rolled her eyes. "Jaxon it's my favorite!"

"I know sweet thing, which is why I bought that jumbo bag," he replied with a soft smile. Andrea sighed and kissed him quickly as the waitress came around.

A young blonde girl with bright blue eyes and freckles covering her face. "Hey guys, did you decide what you wanted to eat?"

My mother eyed her name tag that read, 'Mindy.' "Not yet Mindy, sorry. We've been busy chatting. Where is your bathroom dear?"

"Oh no problem, you guys take your time and it is right back there through that hall to the left," she said, turning to point towards a hall past the hostess booth.

"Thank you," my mother said with a smile.

"No problem, I'll give you all a few more minutes," she said as she walked off.

"Ok go!" Andrea said as she shoved two tests at Lyanna and I.

"Hold up, what do you want to eat?" Jaxon asked.

"Anything," I replied. "Just no sausage or anchovies."

"Same," Lyanna said as she slid out of the booth.

My mother kissed my cheek as Jaxon gave me a goofy thumbs up before Lyanna took my hand and started to drag me back to the bathroom. "Oh my God Char, if we are we should totally go shopping for the babies while we're here!"

"We should!" I breathed out. "But they'll know..."

"No! We can hide it at Jaxon's!" she said. "If they boys ever go over they won't notice, he's got enough baby stuff there already."

I nodded as we turned down the hall towards the bathroom. "I like the way you think lightening bug."

"Me too," she laughed out as we walked into the bathroom, marching our feet with a mission. "Do you think?"

"Ethan says a strong maybe," I said as I walked into a stall.

"My dad said he could smell all of us but my mom said he was full of shit," Lyanna said as she walked into a stall of her own. "She said he also said that the other times she went into heat as well."

I rolled my eyes and pushed my tights and panties down, eyeing the stick as I sat down on the toilet. "Ready?"

Lyanna sighed. "Ya, let's do this."

I pulled the cap off of the stick and sat it on top of the compartment that held the toilet paper. Quickly, I relieved myself and tried to make sure I properly got enough of it on the stick thing. Sighing, I capped it then set it on top of the compartment then reached for some toilet paper. "Well?"

"It said on the box it takes a few minutes," Lyanna said as she flushed her toilet.

I chunked the toilet paper into the bowl and flushed mine as well, then pulled my pants back on and picked up my pregnancy test and put it into the pocket of my vest.

"Good thing we're here," I replied as I walked up the sink and washed my hands while Lyanna did the same.

"Do you think you are?" she asked.

I shrugged. My beast and I didn't know. Some days she was almost positive we were then others she wasn't so sure. "I don't know, it's still really early."

"It will happen," Lyanna. "It took Levi and my dad forever but it happened. Levi told Lucas that, I guess Lucas was hoping to beat Ethan to it."

I scoffed. "I swear having babies is like a competition for him, he's already set on twins since Jaxon beat us all to it."

Lyanna rolled her eyes. "I know. He told Evan. He already had some names picked out–"

"What?!"

Lyanna laughed as we walked out of the bathroom. "I told him you were going to beat his ass if you found out."

I rolled my eyes and shook my head. "Damn male," I grumbled as we walked back to the table.

Andrea was eyeing me expectantly as Lyanna and I slid into the booth. "Well?"

I pulled the stick out and set it on the table next to Lyanna's. "Jaxon how long?"

"It says three minutes, may take some more," Jaxon said as he eyed the sticks. "Should be soon now."

I leaned back as my heartbeat picked up. Eying that damn stick, I turned it over so I wouldn't get paranoid by it as Jaxon put his phone on a timer. My mother was rubbing my back while I sipped my water; my beast and I agreed that we would wait if we had to, but damn–waiting as long as Levi and Lander did sounded excruciating.

The waitress came back with three large pizzas and set them on the table. She eyed them then us, almost like she wasn't sure if she should have brought us that much food. "Anything else?"

"No thank you," Lyanna replied with a smile.

"Oh shit, my timer went off a while ago. I must have had it on vibrate," Jaxon said as he slid his phone back in his pocket. "What's it say?"

"Ok Andrea what is it again?" Lyanna asked.

"Two lines pregnant," Andrea said as she looked at the back of the box while my mother put slices of pizza on Lyanna and my plates. "One line is not."

I nodded, my fingers trying to hide the tremble as they flipped the test over. My mother almost dropped the pizza and let out a squeal. "Baby girl!"

Two lines.

"Lyanna?" I breathed out, my eyes still trying to make my brain comprehend what they saw.

Lyanna was staring at her test with her mouth wide open. "That damn male was right!"

Andrea smiled while Jaxon eyed my stick. "Congrats girls, you've got the two lines of power."

Andrea smacked his chest as my wolf howled out in my mind. I was going to be a mom. "Are you sure? This is like–it works?"

"We have more sticks," Andrea said.

I bit at my lip and took another, as did Lyanna. By the end of the meal we had used up three sticks each, and all three of them said the same things. Two lines–pregnant.

My mother was ecstatic. She kissed Lyanna's cheek then kissed my temple. "Well, I think we should do a little shopping then while we're here. Andrea, do you and Jaxon know what you're having yet?"

"A boy," Jaxon said confidently while Andrea rolled her eyes. "Sweet thing, I'm right!"

"Ok, Jaxon is right, I've been able to smell it for a while. We haven't had the ultrasound yet, but I'm like ninety–"

"It's a boy," Jaxon injected. "Hundred percent sure."

I rolled my eyes then looked at my belly. "When are you going to tell Ethan?" Andrea asked.

I eyed Lyanna. "Well, it's close to Christmas..."

"They may smell it..." Lyanna added.

"I'll talk to them and see if they actually do," Jaxon said. "Christmas–totally a good idea."

"When did you?" I asked.

"Well, about a week or so after," he replied. "But, it was faint. One day we were laying in bed and I was sure. The next day is when sweet thing and my damn beta were cooped up in our bathroom. Anyways, it's probably faint right now. "

My mother nodded. "It was about ten days after that your father could smell you on me, so you may make it to Christmas."

"I'll keep them busy," Jaxon said with a cheeky smile. "God this is going to be rich."