“A pup,” Finlay said as he walked up to us. He placed a hand on my back and one on his aunt’s shoulder.
“It was about time, I have been waiting for almost seven years for this,” she told me as she let go. She patted me on my cheek. “Now, let’s get you some breakfast,” she told me. I was guided to our usual table and Finlay sat on my one side, Sam on the other. When Matilda came back with my breakfast she just looked at Sam. He got up from his seat so she could sit down. Then he got a new chair and placed it between Matilda and Medow. Medow giggled.
“It will be a funny seven months,” Shelly said, sounding pleased. After breakfast we all gathered in the top tier meeting room.
“We need to reorganise the meeting next week,” Finlay told us.
“Sure,” Sam said.
“Makes sense,” Jake agreed.
“What?” I asked. “The only meeting I know about next week is the one where we will meet representatives from my old pack to sign the alliance between our packs.”
“That’s the one,” Finlay happily said.
“What needs to be changed about it? We have been planning it for over three weeks.”
“Since you aren’t going, we need to change the planning a little,” he told me.
“Oh boy,” Shelly said in a low voice.
“Amie,” Medow gently called out.
“Are you telling me I can’t go and meet my parents for the first time in almost eleven years?” I asked with a low growl.
“Did you just growl at me?” Finlay asked.
“Alpha, now is the time to backtrack. Fast and unconditionally,” Jake told him.
“You thought I wouldn’t mind skipping a meeting like that?” I asked.
“It’s not like you won’t see them at all. You will just have to wait until we bring them back,” he insisted.
“What about Elder, Becky and Armino?”
“Right. Maybe we ask them to come here when the pup is born?” Finlay suggested.
“I think you should listen to Jake, Alpha,” Sam said.
“Finn, I may love you. But get between me and seeing my family and you will see how nice it is to sleep in the car until this pup is born.” Again, I growled. Finlay looked at me like I had gone mad. Then he looked at Jake and Sam.
“You can’t seriously think I will let my pregnant mate travel half across the country to a meeting with the wolf who rejected her and then tried to win her back?” he asked the room.
“We will revise the drive. If we leave a day earlier we can schedule several stops along the way,” Jake said.
“We will make sure you and I are by her side at every moment,” Sam suggested.
“We will call my brother and let him know so he can tell James. It will be fine. I won’t budge on this, Finn.”
“Fine,” he surrendered. “But you won’t be alone. Not for a second. Either Sam or I am at your side at all times. Preferably both.”
“Sure, sounds like a fair compromise,” I agreed.
“You think so?” he asked, sounding like a petulant child.
“I do, and I will let you go all over protective Alpha mate until we leave. As an extra bonus.”
“The best thing you can do is to keep her happy,” Sam told Finlay.
