“You’re right; I apologize for treating you poorly. It’s just…I have a very special place for Katie in my heart. She helped me through so much, and to return the favor I’m acting like a child and upsetting her. You are also right that the way you mated is none of my concern, so I will cease bringing it up. But you should know she had a rough childhood after her parents died. She had to defend herself, a lot, and she has some trust issues. The good part about that is; when you get into her heart, you stay forever. She is a loyal friend to me and Decker, who she considers her family also. She lets us see the real her. Not the bitchy standoffish person, but the real woman under all of her layers. You broke her trust once, and now you have to redeem yourself, as you can see she’s not very forgiving. If she’ll love you and accept you, I can do no less. Plus, it’s not very Alpha of me to punish you for something that you’re being punished for already.” She gave a wicked smile, “Welcome to the family.”
Conner let out the breath he was holding. Hopefully she meant it. He wanted his family together. Shana, Jake, and Trevor were already family. He had always dreamed of raising his cubs with Jake’s.
Shana came over to Conner, and suddenly flung her arms around his neck in a big hug. “I’m glad we worked it out.”
At the full male Alpha wolf growl of displeasure, Conner pushed Shana off him, and scooted down a couple chairs to put distance between them. “How is Katie? Can I see her yet?”
Jake had barely restrained his beast when he saw Shana and Conner hugging. He was stuck in a room with a pregnant gun toting crazy lady, talking about emotions, and his mate was snuggled up to his best friend, unacceptable.
Jake went over to Shana, pulled her up from the chair, and proceeded to ravage her lips in a heated kiss. He rubbed his face all over hers, and then ran his teeth over the mate mark he’d placed on her a little over a month ago. She shivered and giggled.#p#分页标题#e#
“Uh, Jake? Katie…?” Conner felt uncomfortable with the easy and open affection his Alpha’s shared. But that was probably because he wasn’t giving, or getting any.
“Oh yeah. Doc says he’s going to do the ultrasound, and Katie said you’d want to be there. So, go.” He didn’t need to say the last, because Conner was already sprinting to his mate’s room to be by her side.
When Conner entered Katie’s room, he noticed that she was on the same gurney, but somehow there were stirrups and the bottom had folded down. Katie had her legs in the stirrups with her knees closed and a sheet was covering her. Conner had to swallow the immediate burst of anger and jealousy that another man, the doctor, was between her naked spread legs. When he looked at Katie and saw the longing and fear in her eyes, he rushed to her side. He took her hand in his and placed a light kiss on her temple.
“Welcome back,” she whispered.
Holding up something that looked like a long skinny dildo, with a cable attached to the ultrasound machine; covered in what appeared to be a lubricated condom Dr. Holtz said, “Katie, this is the ultrasound probe and it is inserted into the vagina. You are going to feel the cold probe, okay?” He was talking to Katie, but he turned anxious eyes to Conner whose eyes had turned golden again. The room suddenly smelled bitter.
Katie turned to Conner and brought their joined hands to her lips, and gently kissed the back of his hand as she stroked his knuckles with her thumb. “Look at me. It’ll be fine, over before you know it. Go ahead doc, we’re alright up here.”
Conner closed his eyes briefly and said, “Isn’t that my line?” And smiled so bright, it stole Katie’s breath away. When he opened his eyes again to look at her they were the color of the brightest summer sky.
“This’ll be cold Katie.” Dr. Holtz said, as Betsy placed her hand on Katie’s knee to open her legs and provide comfort. The nurse would probably never know how much that small gesture helped. Katie kept her eyes on Conner, whose expression looked pained.
“Okay Katie, I see the sacs, and they’re intact. I don’t see any bleeding. Are you having any pelvic pain?” When the doctor said sacs, pleural, Katie’s eyes closed and her hand tightened on Conner’s.
Conner placed his other hand on Katie’s head, and began to unconsciously pet her hair. When her eyes opened, a tear slipped out the corner of her eye and Conner wiped it away.
“No pain doc, but…sacs? Can I see please?”
Dr. Holtz turned the machine so that both Katie and Conner could see the monitor. Immediately Katie looked but could only see-goo. Yuck. What the hell was that? She was so caught up in the icky stuff on the screen she forgot to listen to the doctor. “So…twins huh?”