Loveless: A BWWM Wolf Shifter Romance (The Alpha Series Book 2)
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Shenique took my cheeks into her hands and kissed them away.
I rolled off her and flipped our position so that we were lying side-by-side, her leg wrapped over my thighs. And then we fell asleep, anticipating the morning, because we both knew that it would be the start of a brand new forever.
Epilogue
Sasha
‘Congratulazioni’
“Baby, are you sure you don’t wanna just head into the city and go into the doctor’s office?”
My Remi folded his arms over his chest. “Why on earth would we want to do this?” he asked. “We have doctor’s on staff, Fiore. There is no need for us to meet a random doctor in Tuscany, when we have everything we need right here.”
Shenique dropped into a chair, which was next to the hospital bed Remi had ordered and placed in, what used to be our bedroom.
“Would you please just let this man do his job?” she snapped in disapproval. “He’s trying to take care of you, and you know how they get when we are... disobedient...”
We both rolled our eyes.
Vince pulled himself away from the wall on which he was leaning and approached the bed. “Extremely disobedient,” he clarified, and then he lowered his face to his mate’s. “Carina, did you do what I asked you to do?” he asked. “You were supposed to see the jeweler and select the ring you liked. I have a feeling you have not done this.”
“Are you serious, Shey? See now, if my Remi had told me to do that, there’d be no talk of disobedience. Hell, I’d shift into a wolf my-damn-self and run into the city on four legs.”
Everyone, except Remi, burst into laughter. My amusement settled and my brows furrowed. “Baby, what’s the matter?”
“Nothing,” he answered, but his tone was clipped. “I am only wondering where the doctor is. It is past eleven o’clock.”
“Five minutes past eleven o’clock, baby. The appointment was for eleven.” Remi had positioned me on the bed, as if I was in the intensive care unit, and I sat up to reach for him.
His green eyes were glowing, and his jaw was taught as he sauntered over to me. I pulled him into a kiss and ran my fingers through the stubble on his chin. “Baby, you know it’s just an ultrasound, right? I’m not in labor. I’m only four months in.”
“I know but...” he rubbed his forehead. “You are my mate, Fiore, and you are carrying my offspring. I have never been through anything like this before. Maybe I am a little nervous.”
“A little nervous?” Vince barked out a laugh. “Fratello, your anxiety is burning my fucking nostrils.”
Shenique hit his arm. “You know what? Vinny, let’s go.” She stood up and placed her hand into Vince’s, and then she turned to look at me. “Let us know how it goes. I have an appointment at the jewelers.”
I watched my sister walk out, with her mate by her side, but just before she disappeared, I called her back.
She peeked inside and told Vince to continue, before returning to the bedside.
“Remi, do you mind giving my sister and I some privacy?”
“Of course, Fiore,” she agreed. He nuzzled me and headed for the door, but not before shooting Shey a look of warning.
She rolled her eyes at him, and he disappeared.
Now that we were alone, the heaviness of the past few weeks was settling upon us. We had been meaning to talk – for real – but our schedules had been crazy. When Shey wasn’t with Vince, touring Italy and strengthening their bond, I was managing morning sickness and visits with the resident.
But now it was just me and her, and it was time to have a heart-to-heart.
I patted a space on the bed, and Shey eased herself onto it.
I didn’t know where to begin. So much had come out – dreadful things that I hadn’t known about. To think my sister had struggled with being raped, over and over, by my biological father...
My mouth bunched.
Shenique grabbed my hand. “There’s no need to cry,” she assured me with a warm smile. “The past is just that. All we have to do is move on and look forward to a bright future.”
I nodded, trying to see her through a curtain of tears. “I know,” I agreed, “it’s just that I was so mean to you. I thought you were trying to control me and ruin my life, when all you were doing was trying to keep me safe.”
Shenique’s mouth pressed into a line, and her head dipped.
“I’m sorry,” I whispered.
“Me too,” she agreed.
“You’re my sister, and I love you more than anything. Thank you for all the sacrifices you’ve made over the years. I’m so glad you’ve found Vince. You deserve all of the happiness I know he’s going to bring you.”
Shenique threw her arms around me and squeezed me tightly. Soon, we released one another. “I’d better go,” she said pulling herself from off the bed. “We’ll talk later, but right now your mate is about to turn into a big bad wolf and blow everything down, especially if that doctor doesn’t show up in the next two seconds.”
I laughed as Shenique passed through the door, but before she turned the corner, she blew me a kiss. I caught it and pressed my hand against my chest.
The minute she disappeared, my Remi appeared. His eyebrows were pulled tight, and that emerald gaze of his was flashing with annoyance.
“Come here,” I purred, beckoning him with my finger.
Instantly, his shoulders relaxed and a distinct bulge formed in the front of his jeans. He growled and slid over me, allowing his fingers to trail over my breasts. My heavy breasts ached for his touch and my nipples stood to attention like little soldiers.
“Feel better?” I murmured against his lips.
He chortled. “Not quite, but this will do for now.”
I laughed. “How many babies do you actually wanna put in here?” I asked him, now totally subdued.
“As many as I can,” he whispered.
Finally, the female doctor entered with a small team dragging medical equipment. She wasn’t the only one on staff, but she was the only one who had been shortlisted to attend to my medical needs, mainly because she was a she. I had seen the resumes of the other six, and while each was impressive, there was another doctor I had initially wanted. When I suggested it to Remi, his jaw had jerked.
“There is no fucking way any man will see my mate without clothes on.”
“Remi, don’t be ridiculous. He’s a medical professional. It’s his job to examine women, naked or otherwise.”
He lowered his face to mine. “I do not give a fuck.”
That had been the end of that conversation.
“Scusami, sono in ritardo,” the doctor said rushing into the room.
“English,” Remi snapped. “My mate is not yet proficient with the Italian.”
“Remi, really? I’ve been here for almost four months,” I contested. “My Italian is way better than it was when I first arrived.”
He ignored me.
“Of course, signora,” she adjusted. “I apologize for my tardiness. There was another patient I needed to attend to prior to my arrival; but I am here now, so let us get started.” She beamed. “It will not take long.”
One of her assistants hooked up a hi-tech machine, which resembled a fancy television, while the other ran a device across my forehead and behind my ear. It beeped a few times, before a mechanical voice rattled off a bunch of numbers.
Remi frowned. “What does this mean?” he asked referring to the information, which had just been delivered.
“Temperature, normal; blood pressure, normal.” She scribbled a note down and turned her attention to me. “Signora, can you give us a urine sample?”
I lifted myself off the bed, and in an instant, Remi was at my side, assisting me. “Baby, I’m cool,” I tried to assure him.
He made sure I was steady, and then stepped away.
I rolled my eyes, unable to keep the grin off my face, and rushed into the bathroom, with a little plastic cup in my hand. A minute later, I returned to the room and handed
it to the doctor, who promptly gave it to one of her assistants.
I climbed back onto the bed, of course, with Remi’s help.
The doctor opened a box and pulled out, what appeared to be, a thick belt, which she instantly strapped around my growing belly.
Remi frowned again. “What is this?” he asked.
“This will let us monitor the baby’s heartbeat,” she explained, with the patience of a saint.
I touched Remi’s arm, not surprised to find it as stiff as a board. “Baby, you’re okay, aren’t you?”
“I am fine,” he answered, but his voice was tight.
Next, one of the assistants turned on the television, which was facing her, while the other squirted cold jelly onto my stomach.
Remi watched as the doctor pulled out another device, that looked like an oversized scanner from a grocery store. Remi opened his mouth to ask another question, but when the thump, thump, thump of a heartbeat sliced into the room, his eyes widened in shock.
Instantly, tears filled my eyes, and I gripped Remi’s hand. “Oh my God,” I whispered. “Is that... the baby’s heartbeat?”
The doctor smiled, while swirling the device on my belly. She peered at the screen.
Suddenly Remi’s nose wrinkled, and a look of cold fear twisted his features, and his grip tightened on my hand.
I gasped. “Baby, what’s the matter?” I asked.
He did not answer.
I looked at the doctor, trying to determine what was going on, but her expression was the total opposite of Remi’s.
“Your babies are very healthy,” the doctor said. Her smile was reaching her ears, but my neck jerked forward.
“I’m sorry, did you say – ”
Remi dropped my hand and hurried to view the screen. Suddenly, his face turned pale and he stumbled backward.
One of the assistants gasped, and rushed behind him, as if he was about to pass out.
I swallowed. “Doctor, what is happening?”
The doctor swiveled the screen around, and that was when I saw what had Remi on the verge of hyperventilation. Instantly, the heartbeats doubled. And then they tripled.
“Signora, you and Signor Moretti are having triplets. Congratulazioni!”
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