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The doctor smiled. "Yes, two.”
“Holy shit, there's two?"
“Yes.” The doctor chuckled. “You’ll have some fantastic news for your alpha when he returns home.”
Fantastic news indeed. I knew he wanted children. I knew I wanted children. But two at once was…. terrifying? Amazing? Mind-blowing. All of the above.
The tech printed some of the ultrasound pictures for me, and I stared at the image on the screen while I walked to where Trev was.
“Everything all right?”
I handed the images to him to decipher because words weren’t coming to me.
“What am I looking at? You have some blob things? Is it a kidney stone? Those suck.”
“Babies. Two of them.” I shook my head, just staring into space. “Can you believe it?”
Trev whistled. “Holy shit.”
“No kidding.”
Trev put his arm around my shoulder to comfort me but also to guide me to where we were going. We were just a few steps from the car when I finally snapped back to reality.
We needed to get home before anyone noticed we were gone, but I could barely comprehend where I was and what was happening. Shock gripped me and would not relent.
The snap of a gunshot splitting the air pulled me from my own mind. I looked around to where it could be coming from as I reached for my weapon. We were in the parking lot of the hospital, and with the way sound echoed on all the concrete, it could have come from anywhere.
Then I realized that Trev was slumping over as his legs folded unnaturally beneath him.
I gripped his midsection to hold him upright, but he was too heavy.
He moaned in pain and a warm liquid covered my hand.
“Trev! Trev?” I dropped to the ground next to him and released the gun so I could hold my hands over his wound while blood began pooling between my fingers.
Strong arms gripped mine and pulled me away, leaving Trev to bleed out.
I fought against them, needing to stop the bleeding. If I could get Trev inside the hospital, he would be fine. We were so close to the doctors who could help him.
“No!” Trev reached for me with one hand as he grappled for his gun with the other.
One of the men let go of me long enough to deliver a kick to Trev’s face.
His hand fell to the concrete, and he was completely still.
“No—” I tried to yell for help but a hand covered my mouth and muffled my scream, while an arm snaked around my middle and carried me away.
16
FELIK
Once I left my brother's house, I worked on shaking whatever tail had been on me. I hadn't noticed one when I left, but that didn't mean Vince didn’t have one on me as soon as he could. Not that it really mattered. They knew where the Ferrinis lived. They didn’t need to follow me back.
It was a flex to remind me that he was in charge.
The drive back to the Ferrinis was long, but I wanted to stop at a bookstore to pick up a little something for Jeremiah. There was a little bookshop I enjoyed going to when I was younger and needed to get away from my family. I would sit in there for hours, just reading whatever random books I could find.
It had been a long time since I'd been there, and I looked forward to the day when I could take my mate and show him the collection of used books that brought me so much joy in my youth. He would likely get lost in the stacks, combing through all the books they’d collected, just like I did.
