My Surprise Mate

Dane walked into the room smiling as he carried a tray of food.

“I could have come in there and ate at the table,”

I told him, feeling a little guilty.

He shook his head as he placed the tray on my lap, “Why would you do that when I am perfectly capable of bringing it to you?”

I couldn’t help the guilty feeling that seemed to settle in the pit of my stomach.

I tried to hold back tears as I started picking at the food, “Talk to me, ”

he said softly.

I did my best to swallow the lump forming in my throat, “This is my fault.

You didn’t have any problems until I showed up and now y'all are being threatened by another pack.

You just handled Kain and his family and now you are cooking and waiting on me hand and foot...I should be doing this for you.”

By this point, the flood gates had opened.

Dane pulled me to sit in his lap as his hands snaked around my waist, “You have done nothing wrong.

I love having someone to wait on hand and foot.

I handled Kain because that is my job and even if it wasn’t, I still would have done it, and just so you know, the Oakwood Pack isn’t the first pack that we have fought.

Though I think they will be the He always knew what to say to calm me down, except this time I still couldn’t shake this nagging feeling.

I wasn’t sure if it was just because Kain said he would be back or if it was something else altogether.

I ate as much of the meal as I could, thanking Dane a million times for everything he has done for me.

“Babe, I have something I need to take care of, Ash will be with me.

It shouldn’t take long, but mom is going to come over.

You rest and I will talk to the doctor before I come home.

Love you.”

He pulled the blankets over me before kissing me on the forehead.

“What do you have to do?”

I questioned, finding it a little odd at how vague he was.

He looked everywhere but at me before answering, “Just some pack stuff, shouldn’t take long.”

Somehow, I knew he wasn’t being completely honest with me.

I narrowed my eyes at him as I heard his mom announce herself as she came through the front door.

“I’m going to talk to Nyla.

See if I can get some answers from her.

She was the one that told Kain you were here.

We don’t know how she knew he was looking for you though.”

I nodded and rolled over, letting sleep overtake me.

Darkness.

I looked around realizing I was in the woods again.

The only light from the full moon peeking through the tops of dreaming, but it felt so real.

It was just the same dream, right? I started walking with no idea where I was heading when I heard it.

in circles trying to find who was

left had me turning

behind the trees, its bright blue eyes staring

wolf let out a loud bark,

screamed as I fell back, my eyes popped open asI sat up in

as

“Holly!”

room before sitting next

“What happened?”

telling her about my dream, and how it was

shocked, to say the

pale as

it? Please

I begged her.

by her reaction that

when Dane gets

to leave the room, “Is there anything you

my head as

react that way when I told her about my dreams, and why did we have to wait for Dane? Couldn’t she just tell me right now

a shower

couldn’t get my

and turned the hot

I waited for the water to warm up, a little surprised to see how fast my belly was

how normal

see a

down my back seemed to relax my tense

“I’m home babe,”

Dane’s gruff

sure how long I had been in

find Dane waiting for

up in surprise,

as I quickly grabbed the towel from

“Sorry, it’s nothing.”

He tried to lie.

just that you are showing a lot more than I

are absolutely

the bathroom and sat on the bed as I dug through my clothes,

when I was getting in

Is it normal?”

t-shirts and slipped it on as I

sure, but we will go

in the

Now I am worried.

was normal or not, or at least I felt like he should

slipped on some sweatpants after trying to find a pair of jeans that fit

to the clinic, letting me

was already waiting

nurse from last time walked us

was indeed already waiting for us, “Alpha,

questioned before he looked at

eyes widened, “I

as he motioned for me to

not be

of a bed as he spoke, “Let’s do an ultrasound and see what’s going

the hem of Dane’s

my baby bump before moving the wand across

few minutes, Dane spoke up,

the pup is growing twice as

am not sure

seems to be

All vitals are great.

would say she will

breath hitched at

wasn’t ready, I still didn’t even have a room set up for