Tessa's Chosen (9 page)

Two weeks had passed since Brett and Stephanie had taken Tessa. she had never been so happy. Having three loving protective husbands was something she never thought she would be able to contend with. Boy had she proved herself wrong.

They were attentive, a little over protective at times but she could live with that. She was so satiated every night she fell asleep as soon as they'd finished making loving to her.

She still got annoyed with them now and again, but she expected that. What relationship didn't have their ups and downs. When they pissed her off she would talk them, tell them what they had done to annoy her. It worked both ways. When she annoyed one of them they would explain to her why they were so annoyed. Usually it was when they laid down the law and Tessa just did what she wanted anyway.

Tessa entered the dining room for breakfast to see the table full of pack members eating their meal. They all turned to look at her, sniffing the air.

Tessa noticed all eyes directed at her as she made her way to her place at the table. She couldn't contain her annoyance noticing everyone was still staring at her.

“What the fuck is everyone looking at me like that for? I had a shower do I small bad or something?” she asked with an irritable scowl on her face.

Everyone looked away from her trying to cover up their humor at her irritability.

Gabe who was sitting on Tessa's left scooped her up from her chair onto his lap. Leaning down to kiss her temple.

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“Why are you so grumpy baby?” he asked with smile, because he already knew the answer to his question. Just as everyone in the room knew as well.

“I don't know Gabe. Maybe I got out of the wrong side of bed. Probably PMS,” she muttered to herself.

“Tessa honey what do you think about starting a family?” Lucien asked trying to contain a grin.

“Do you want to have babies with us babe?” Rafe asked with a grin on his face.

A few pack members at the other end of the table coughed trying to cover laughter. Tessa ignored them, giving all her attention to her mates.

“I haven't really thought about, but yes I do want babies. Do you think this is the place to be discussing this subject?” she asked irritation evident in her voice.

“I don't think it matters where we have this discussion baby. You can't hide anything from a werewolf,”Gabe said with a big smile across his face.

“Well I think somethings should be discussed in private Gabe. I think we should end this discussion right now.”

“Sweetheart you are the only one that doesn't know yet,” Rafe said with a smile that lit up his face.

God her men were so sexy and handsome they took her breath away every time she looked at them.

“What don't I know? What have you three been up to now? If you've done something you shouldn't you need to

'fess up right now,” Tess said with a scowl, squirming from Gabe's lap to stand again.

Lucien snagged Tess around the waist with his arm, hauling on to his lap.

“It's not something we could have done without you little bird. You were there when it happened,” he advised with a huge grin as her saw fire spitting from her eyes.

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“Will you three just get to the bloody point and tell me what the hell is going on?” All three of her husbands were grinning at her, like the cats that ate the canaries.

“You are pregnant Tess,” Lucien stated.

“Pregnant. How could I be pregnant?” she asked then felt her face heat with color as everyone in the room laughed uproariously. Tessa had to wait for the noise to die down before she rephrased her question.

“What I meant to ask was how the hell you can tell I'm pregnant when I don't even know yet?”

“We are werewolf's babe,” Rafe stated as though that explained everything.

“I know you are werewolf's Rafe. What has that got to do with anything?”

“Our sense of smell is very acute,” Gabe stated.

“So?”

“Tessa as werewolf's we can smell when you are in heat or ovulating as humans would put it. When you are aroused and when you get pregnant,” Lucien explained.

“Oh my god. You mean every time I got horny everyone could smell me. How embarrassing. You will stop smelling me right now,” she stated ludicrously as she glared at everyone sitting around the table.

All the pack members in the room bowed their heads, more to hide their humor, than in a gesture of respect for their queen. Opening her mouth to give them another mouthful, she stopped as Lucien's statement sank in.

“Pregnant? Did you say I was pregnant? Oh my.”

throwing her arms around Lucien's neck she as tears of joy coursed down her cheeks. When she finally able to speak coherently she asked, “Are you sure? Absolutely positive?”

Looking from Lucien, Rafe to Gabe and back again as a smile began to spread across her face filling the room with sunshine. Laughing she jumped off Lucien's lap to hug Rafe and Gabe.

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“Oh no. Does this mean I am going to give birth to puppies?”

The laughter in the room was so raucous, her mates had to wait before they could explain to their mate that werewolves did not begin to shift until puberty hit. They were all grinning with joy, happiness and love.

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