Katya
To say they were excited is an understatement. All they talked about the entire way home were boy and girl names, and Mateo hasn’t put down the little scan picture and nicknamed them Peanut one and two. While all I could think about was the fact I was pregnant and what that meant. The change would be huge. I could barely look after myself, let alone two babies. I knew I would have twins from the vision of the moon goddess, yet a vision and reality were different things to wrap your head around.
“You are quiet,” Ezra points out, and Mateo looks over at me before frowning.
“What’s wrong?” he asks.
I shake my head. Nothing was wrong, I just felt odd with the confirmation. “Nothing, just tired, and we need to organize Jackson’s pack, we also have to find housing to fit everyone, and Dad said Andrei isn’t doing too well being at home.”
“Ezra and I will handle all that. You just focus on growing baby limbs,” Mateo orders, and I chuckle at his words. Ezra smirks at him, and it is hard not to find their excitement contagious, yet I worry about all the things that could go wrong, all the things we had to take care of now with a time limit.
“Have you spoken to Andrei since we have been back?” Ezra asks, and I shake my head.
“I hear him come in at night, but haven’t actually seen him. What about you?”
“I saw him yesterday, he has been busy rebuilding his pack, he seems fine. What did your father say about him?” Ezra questions, looking at me in the rearview mirror.
“Nothing much, just that he doesn’t stop working and training.”
“I will check on him for you,” Ezra offers, and I yawn while nodding, my stomach growls, but the thought of food makes me nauseous.
We go to bed early, Ezra and Mateo fall asleep almost instantly, but I toss and turn all night before I hear arguing outside. I sit up and walk to the bedroom window, staring into the backyard.
Andrei is arguing with one of his men before I saw him punch him, but he doesn’t stop, repeatedly punching him while holding the back of his head with his other hand.
I rush to leave the room before stopping. Shit, Ezra would lose it if I walked into a fight. Maddox may kill Andrei if I get hurt in the crossfire. I roll my eyes, rush to the bed and shake him awake. He sits up, alert, grabbing my face with his hands.
“What, what’s wrong?” He looks toward the window where the argument is louder before slapping Mateo’s chest. Ezra storms out of the room, and Mateo sits up, looking around before also rushing out.
I run down the steps chasing after them, and the yelling is louder and louder. I rush out the back to see Ezra throw Andrei off the man whose face is all bloody, he spits it out and Mateo helps the man up.
“What is going on here?” Ezra demands.
Andrei growls at the man, his hands are all bloody and his entire body trembles with rage.
“All I said is that maybe he should stand down as Alpha for a bit and let Alpha Nicholas take over,” the man explained.
Clearly, he is worried about Andrei, but telling an Alpha to stand down isn’t exactly a good idea. That would be seen as a challenge. Andrei lunges at him, punching the man, and Ezra grabs him, shoving him back again, only for Andrei to shift.
“Kat, get inside,” Ezra orders, standing between Andrei and the pack member.
“Go,” I tell him, and he goes to leave, but Donnie’s eyes follow him, and Mateo gives him a shove telling him to hurry up. The man runs off, and Donnie paces back and forth on the lawn.
“Andrei, shift back and come inside, I don’t think he meant it as a threat,” Ezra suggests, unafraid of him.
However, I keep picking up a strange sense from Andrei. Andrei usually saw reason, but this time he is looking for a fight, a reason to destroy something or someone. He is hurting, and he wants to hurt something to get rid of the feeling. I don’t know how, but I sensed it, smelt the anger radiating off him.
Donnie continues pacing and snarling at Ezra, and his eyes flicker.
Maddox does not like the disrespect.
“Ezra, leave him. Come here,” I whisper, my eyes trained on Donnie.
Ezra turns to face me, but Donnie lunges at him as soon as he turns. I shriek, rushing forward, only for Mateo to grab me and shove me back. Donnie bites into his arm and throws him.
Ezra gets to his feet only for Donnie to maul him, knocking him back, and Maddox comes forward before punching him. Donnie shakes his head and growls, but Maddox’s distraction is enough to force the shift before he attacks back. Sinking his teeth in the back of Andrei’s neck, he shakes his head viciously.
They fought savagely, and tears streak my face as I struggle to get free of Mateo’s arms as he tries to drag me inside. “Kat, I can’t help him if you don’t get inside.” Mateo huffs.
“Maddox will kill him, let me go,” I plead, struggling in his grip while Maddox tore him to pieces. Fur and blood flies everywhere as they tear into each other, all teeth and claws.
Maddox grabs his neck before tossing him, and Andrei smacks against the sandstone rectangles that sat randomly as seating in the yard. Donnie growls, getting to his feet, and I drop my weight, sliding out of Mateo’s arms before running forward. Maddox charges at him and Andrei as they went to clash.
Mateo screams when I dart between them. “Stop!” I order with my hands out on either side of me just before they reach me. My aura rushes out in a sort of shock wave through my panic, I could actually see the ripple of its wave blast them. Maddox digs his claws into the ground, and so does Donnie. Both of them slide into me, but I stay upright as they stop.
Both of them whimper, and Maddox lifts his head before dropping it again when I glare at them both. My chest heaves with each breath, adrenaline coursing through me, and I drop my arms. Maddox lifts his head, sniffing me before licking my fingers, while I turn to face my brother’s wolf.