Billionaire Alpha's 99 Deadly Games novel Chapter 191

Chapter 191

Chapter 191

I gave Lily a worried look. Kelsey wasn’t raised in a pack. We often forgot or took for granted the things she still didn’t know.

“Um, Kels. I don’t think that’s going to happen.”

“Oh, you don’t need to worry. Talked to Doc this morning and he said now that I’m in the second trimester I can go back to all my normal activities.”

My mouth opened to speak, but nothing came out. I didn’t even know where to start to explain how and why that wasn’t going to happen.

“Mom!” Lily yelled.

“What on earth are you yelling about?” my mother asked

Mary Westin was a small, unassuming woman, or so one would think on first impression. They’d be wrong. My mom had been a strong alpha’s mate and pack mother for nearly thirty years. Even now, just because Kelsey was technically the current pack mother, didn’t mean my mom wasn’t still keeping charge. No one crossed that woman, not even my dad, and he could be downright scary at times. Strongest male I knew. He cowered to no one–except Mom.

“Now what’s this ruckus all about?”

“Um, Mom, Kelsey’s looking forward to running next weekend. Uh, forget to explain a few things?”

I wasn’t sure why Lily and I couldn’t just explain it, we just couldn’t. Pregnant shifters were our most vulnerable and highly protected, though I doubted Kyle had the balls to explain that to his mate, either.

Kelsey wasn’t like normal females. She was an alpha in her own right with extra powers I hadn’t known existed before she came into our lives. She had been sentenced to death at the ripe age of four along with her triplet sisters. Her sisters had died, transferring their powers to Kels, but she had gotten away and been hidden from the world until her parents had died a gruesome death, leaving Kelsey alone, shifting into her wolf form far too young and bearing the burden of thinking herself a Hollywood werewolf monster. I thanked God daily for bringing her to our territory, and not just

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little things that catch me off guard.”

“What’s going on?” Kelsey asked.

“Dear,” my mother started, “I’m afraid you won’t be running for the remainder of this pregnancy.”

“Oh, but Doc said-”

Mom cut her before she could finish. “It’s not that, sweetie. You physically cannot change while pregnant. Try all you want, but it will not happen.”

“Oh, I didn’t know.” She turned and looked at me accusingly. “Why didn’t you just say so?”

I blushed. I didn’t know how to explain it all to her. She made it sound so simple, but it wasn’t simple to a female wolf shifter. It was our biggest burden, shame, and pride all rolled into one package, and while the knowledge was passed from mother to daughter it was otherwise never discussed, sort of like how the humans avoided the S–E–X talks. Sex to a shifter, no big deal–our reproductive legacy–a very big deal.

“Why don’t we move to Kyle’s office for this conversation?”

“Heard it all before,” Lily said. “I’m out.”

“You guys are starting to freak me out,” Kelsey whispered to me, even while knowing whispering around wolves was a moot point.

I giggled. “It’s okay, kind of like the birds and the bees talk with humans. Not bad, just awkwardly uncomfortable.”

“I learned that from a textbook at school,” she whispered back.

I snorted. “Then you’re in for a real treat.”

“Sit down, dear,” Mom said as she pulled up a chair and sat face–to–face with her. She took Kelsey’s hands into her own and stroked them lightly. I rolled my eyes. Mom made exactly the same big deal

about it when she sat me down for the “talk.”

I took the big, comfy chair behind Kyle’s desk and propped my feet up, making myself comfortable. I already knew we’d be here awhile.

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She shook her head no.

“Let’s back up and start there then. You were raised in the human world, so do you know the story of Noah’s Ark?”

“Yes. Where the old guy, Noah, built an ark and all the animals came two by two and joined him. God condemned the Earth, killing everything and everyone except those on the ark. It rained for forty days and forty nights and he repopulated the land.”

“Good, but that’s the humans‘ version and not entirely accurate, at least not in the details. It sounds like quite the fantastical tale, right? Now, ever wonder why the animals didn’t eat each other or Noah? Or how they could survive locked in a wooden vessel without dying from the stench alone for forty days?”

Kelsey giggled. “Actually, one of my foster moms made us all go to Bible school one summer and I got kicked out for asking that. Well, really I asked, ‘With all those animals, what did they do with all the shit?‘ She asked I be reassigned shortly after.”

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