Rejected By My Alpha: My White Wolf Ignited novel · Chapter 23 of 24

Chapter 23: Ours

"Say it," Rhys said hoarsely.

The whole hall had gone quiet again.

Two packs, and every face turned to the head of the room, where their brand-new Luna was standing in a puddle of poisoned mead holding a cup.

"You're going to be a father," I said. "I'm sure. She's sure." I tapped my chest. "I can hear it."

He didn't say anything.

He went down on his knees right there in the mead and put his forehead against my stomach, and his big shoulders shook.

I put my hand in his hair.

From the front row, Greer said, "I knew it."

Everybody turned.

"I knew it," Greer said again, wiping her face. "She's been putting honey on pickles for a week. Nobody puts honey on pickles."

"I like honey on pickles."

"Nobody does, Linnet."

The midwife started to cackle.

Then Kinloch was on its feet and roaring, and somebody had the fiddle out before the mead was mopped up.

That night the Kinloch kitchen was so loud I couldn't hear myself think.

Greer was making a cake, and Cressida was icing it, and the two of them were arguing about the spelling of the word pup.

"There's only one way to spell it."

"You put two Ps on the end."

"For emphasis."

Rhys sat at the end of the long table with me in his lap.

He hadn't let go of me since the hall.

His hand was spread over my stomach under the table, warm and very still, like he was listening.

"You can't hear it yet," I told him.

"I can hear you hearing it."

The midwife pointed her fork at him across the table.

"When it comes, I'm delivering it."

"You'll be eighty-two," said Greer.

"I delivered her at fifty-seven. I can do it at eighty-two. And if it's breech, I'm not doing it twice in one valley."

The whole table laughed.

At the back of the room, Cressida put down the icing bag and looked at me.

It was the first time she'd looked straight at me since she'd come over the ford.

"Congratulations," she said.

"Thank you."

That was all either of us said.

It was enough.

Greer handed her a spoon to lick, and then, very deliberately, counted the rest of the spoons in the drawer out loud.

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