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The Andashman Pack arrived first, a few days before our Grand Feast. I smiled at Fernandez warmly as he came inside with his pregnant mate. Harmony Rana Andashman was every bit as beautiful as her firstborn. I could see where Fiorelle got her beautiful brown eyes and her impossibly perfect features. Why couldn't Jerry be satisfied with that? Fiorelle was more than willing to start a life together and I honestly thought that they would make a very beautiful couple together. Fernandez smiled at me but his eyes didn't shine like the last time I had last seen him at the Thorn-Andashman Mating Ceremony.
It felt just like yesterday.
"Nice belly," he commented, touching my stomach which had rounded bigger after more than two weeks of being pregnant. "It seems like you'll be having more than one child considering the swelling of your belly in such a short time," he flashed me a genuine smile, and then he dropped his voice to a whisper, "Will you be out welcoming Jerry Thorn and my daughter when they arrive?"
I blinked at him as James went to my side and shook hands with him. "Fernandez," he clicked his tongue, "You're making my mate nervous."
Fernandez smiled faintly, "I will save my daughter, James."
"She is still bonded with Jerry," James reminded him. Fernandez growled unhappily but became quiet as other members of his pack were moving closer to us.
Frankly, I didn't want to go out and welcome any of the packs, let alone welcome Jerry and his mate. I was anxious to see how he would react when he saw me with a defined bump covered by my pink sundress. When I had voiced my concern to James, he told me that we should act as if nothing was wrong. We couldn't risk him knowing that there was a possibility that we were prepared to face him with his conquest.
Harmony approached me with a dazzling smile. Clearly she was oblivious with the fact that her daughter was suffering with her mate. "When are you due, Gracielle?" Even her voice sounded sweet and sugary.
I started to blush; I was still uncomfortable with people asking me on things regarding my pregnancy. Our pack, a prime example, had whooped and cheered loudly. It was as if they had been betting on when I would get knocked up by James and it turned out my wild imagination was right.
I had seen a lot of the pack members, even my Betas, gathered around in a circle and started demanding money and jewellery for the bet payment after our annoncement. Malcolm had won a healthy amount of money. My Betas, on the other hand, hadn't win any since they thought that I was too young to be a mother. I guess they were right in a way; nineteen year olds were certainly a very young age to bear responsibility as a mother but I still believed that I could do it. I wouldn't be a perfect mother but at least I could be a great mother. A number of the female pack members had even dared to ask me about James' bed stamina. I had cringed at their questions as they burst out laughing. "You're such a little child," one of them had teased me. "There's no need to get so secretive about sex!"
The little ones had been oblivious to the excitement in air as they phased and leaped all over each other while playing around. I had seen a singular brown cub in the midst of silvery-white-coats and I had smiled as I scooped down the singular brown cub, ignoring my female pack members' direct questions. I had heare them burst into a fit of fresh laughter at my retreat. Wonderful, just perfect, I had thought as I held the brown cub higher and swung him playfully around. I'm the pack's personal dose of laughing gas.
The brown cub had made happy sounds and then, he phased back into his human self, "Don't mind your wolf colour," I said to him. "I'm just like you." I had put the child on his feet and then he had made a big jump to his wolf playmates, phasing back into his beautiful brown wolf form.
"Having a test drive, are we?" James had asked me as he encircled his arms to my waist behind me. He had kissed my left cheek; I had tilted my head to the right and his kisses had lingered down to the nape of my neck. "You'll be a wonderful mother," hehad murmured on my skin.
I smiled at the memory. Harmony snapped her fingers at me. "Gracielle? Are you all right?"
I looked up at her, startled with the disturbance of my wonderful memory. "I'm fine, Harmony,"
"Yes, so, when is your due date?" she prompted at me.
"I'm not sure yet, probably in the next 5 or 6 months. It all depends on how many babies are inside me," I answered with a shrug.
She grinned. "The more the merrier, I've always said." She paused as she caressed her clothed big belly. "My daughter is so excited with the idea of having little siblings. She felt so guilty about -," she stopped herself, pausing for a moment. She looked at me apologetically. "I'm sorry; I think I need to go to the bathroom,"
I knew that she was just making up an excuse to stop herself from talking about her second born: Felix Rana Andashman, the heir to the Andashman throne. James had told me the entire story about the Andashman Pack a few days back but I had already known details about it long before I had mated with him. Mom was an incessant force when she had something juicy to talk about.
However, I humored her request and took her to their resting quarter. She had returned to her bouncy self when we reached the door entrance that she jokingly added to me, "If you have triplets or hopefully more, you'll have a very unreliable bladder, like me."