The Pack's Nemesis (Quirin's Story) novel Chapter 70

Quirin

A pup? I’m going to be a father? It’s the next thought that makes my stomach twist into knots. Why didn’t she tell me? Is she so angry with me that she’s not happy that she’s having my pup? Is she …

The thought of her wanting to leave me nearly makes me vomit.

‘Let’s wait until she wakes up. Our mate has been through a lot. She and Echo aren’t just healing themselves. They’re also growing a pup. Our pup. I’m sure that the pregnancy is also making it harder for the two of them to heal. Echo would be using her strength to protect our pup, I’m sure it,’ Raif says diplomatically.

He’s right. Our mate would make sure that her pup, our pup, was safe and healthy. It makes Echo’s willingness to sacrifice herself for me even harder to bear. This woman and her wolf were willing to give me everything, every last part of themselves to protect me. I always knew I didn’t deserve her.

‘Then let’s make sure we DO deserve her, because she is going to have our baby and she is going to make one hell of a fantastic mother, Raif growls.

“How far along is she?” I ask Luna Yara.

“Not far. I found the results of her blood test. She must have only just realized that she was pregnant. It may also be why she wasn’t eating. I know she was busy, but women in the early stages of pregnancy can have nausea or an aversion to the smells of certain foods. It will probably be a week or less before you can start smelling the pup on her now that you know to look for it. Either her scent will become stronger or your scent on her will become stronger, depending on whether she’s having a girl or a boy,” she says.

“Are you okay, Quirin? Finding out you’re going to be a father for the first time can be a lot to take in,” Alpha Warren asks me gently.

I nod, looking at my mate. Kennedy has made me face a lot of hard truths about myself, about the person, Alpha, and mate that I am. I have a lot of shortcomings, and she’s always accepted those things about me. But now, it’s time for me to step up, to be the man and the mate that she deserves and the Alpha that she expects me to be so that I can be the father that our child needs me to be.

I stand, pulling her hand to my lips and kissing it. “I need to let my pack know that she’s stable for now. I know they’re all out there, waiting to get news about her. Will you stay with her, Luna, until I return?”

“Of course, Quirin. Everything is going to be okay,” she says. This woman, who glows almost as brightly as her daughter, has always been able to see past my tough exterior into the softer side of me. Her and Kennedy both.

“Thank you, Luna. For everything.”

I walk to the door and Alpha Warren holds it open for me. When I step out to the waiting room, he follows me and stands off to the side with his sons. It looks like the entire pack is here. Everyone turns to look at me and I realize that Alpha Harold and Luna Farrah are here as well, sitting with Henry. They’re here to support me as they have been since they day they took me under their wing.

“Kennedy is stable,” I say and it feels like the entire room breaths a sigh of relief. “She still has a long way to go. Echo put herself a great risk to escape and try to warn me that Alphas Jasper and Brogan wanted to kill me.”

The pack growls at that, and so does Henry. I look at him. “Brogan?”

“Dead.”

I look at Warren and Connor. “Their packs?”

“We’ve offered for them to join any of our packs. Not surprisingly, Alpha Jasper’s pack members chose mine and Henry’s

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