CHAPTER 35- Expecting?
HUNTER’S P. O. V.
I really can’t believe that Allison attacked me like that. She had to plan it at the exact same time as Jasmine coming back. She really fucked me over this time. Now this guy is looking smug as hell next to me. He knows I have fucked up and he is here to gloat. He wants my girl and she is hurt and more than willing to have someone relieve that pain.
“What the hell are you so happy about? She kicked you to the curb too.” I growl at him.
“Yeah, but she took my son with her. I have more of an in then you do. Plus I am not the one in the bush with another girl.” He smirks at me. I can’t help it, I lunge at him. My fists are flying but so are his. I feel us pulled apart. I am still swinging.
“Enough.” Someone growls. I am so pissed it takes me a minute to realize that it is Jay growling at us. “You two want the Alpha down here. He will be far less gentle than me.”
I look and he has us both by our necks. When the hell did Jay get so strong? Alpha Christian pulls away from Jay. “I have no intention of finishing this fight. After all, as far as I am concerned I won.” He is glaring daggers at me.
“Fat chance of that. She is my mate. I will get her to listen to me. She loves me.”
He smirks at me. “Yes, but does she love the pain you give her? I wonder how much tolerance she has. I have a feeling it is waning.” He straightens his clothes and leaves me with Jay.
“I might just kill that guy before the end of the week.” I growl out. Watching him go up the stairs.
“I said enough. You are the one that fucked up this time.” His eyes looked almost red. His vampire side is showing through. I have to admit it is a little scary.
“She blind sided me. I was trying to get her off me without actually hurting her.”
He snarls at me. “I saw. You had no problem getting her off you when Jasmine found you.”
“She showed you.” I didn’t even know they could do that. I am shocked, also I know how it looked to both of them.
“Yeah, she showed me. I suggest you steer clear of her from now on. I will be watching.” He tosses me. Anger must be fueling him. He has never shown this kind of strength before. I landed on the ground, hard. I get the point, he is protecting her. He is always protecting her. Normally I would be grateful, but it is against me.
“Jay, I want her. She is my mate. You can’t keep her from me.” I hope that the friendship that we have built will be enough to appeal to him.
“Watch me.” He growls out.
I watch as he storms off. I have lost my mate and my friend. Nothing that has happened tonight hurts worse than that. Hell nothing in my life has hurt more than this. Except the night Jasmine rejected me. This almost feels like I have been rejected all over again.
I get up and make it to my room. I want nothing more than to disappear. I want this hollowness to go away. Tears are dripping down my face. She is going to pick him. I can see it now. She isn’t going to want me, not after tonight. I can picture her up there right now cuddled up with that little boy. I want to be him right now. To him it probably feels like his mother. It wouldn’t feel that way for me. It would feel like home to me.
Maybe if she spends the night cooling down, I can talk to her in the morning. There is hope there. I want to have Jasmine for the rest of my life. If I have to kill Allison to get it, then so be it.
JASMINE’S P. O. V.
Spending the night with a child next to me wasn’t so bad. It was oddly comfortable. He curled his little fingers around my hand. I have a feeling that this little boy is getting really attached to me. I feel sad that he will be leaving soon. Not just for me but for him. If he is this attached to me then it will be sad for him to be apart from me. I pull away from the little boy while he is still sleeping. He squirms a little bit but then gets comfortable.
I sneak into the bathroom and take a shower. I linked my dad and let him know that I won’t be at training this morning. He doesn’t really ask many questions, I am assuming that Jay told him what happened last night. Jay seems to have a pretty open relationship with my dad. At least when it comes to me and my safety. When I come out of the bathroom I see that the little guy is still asleep.
I smile at his cute little body. I grab some clothes and quickly get dressed. I am not really sure what I even grabbed, I just wanted to make sure I was covered before Eli woke up. As soon as I put on the last of my clothes I hear a faint knock on the door. I am assuming it is Selene. I rush over to open it so that she doesn’t knock again and wake him. I am wrong in my assumption, it is Hunter.
“Jasmine, baby.” I don’t even let him finish before I close the door in his face. I have no intention of listening to his crap right now.
I turn around and hear another knock. I link through to him. “I am not opening that door again, you might as well leave.” I take a seat on the love seat.
“Baby, please you have got to believe I didn’t do this on purpose.”
“Just go back to your slut and leave me alone.” I closed down the link. I really don’t need it. He is going to act like he did nothing wrong.
I take a few good breathes, I need to calm down. I really don’t know how I am going to be in a car with him this morning. I am definitely making Jay be a buffer. He is sitting in the middle whether he likes it or not.
There is another soft knock on the door. I am not sure if it is Hunter again, but I have to check if it is Selene. I open the door cautiously, thank the goddess it is Selene. I give her the shh sign and let her in. She gives me a nice smile. “Thank you so much, he has been antsy since we got here. I think he really wanted to see you. I am not sure why he is so drawn to you, but he sure is. Last night I thought he was waiting for Christian. When he ran to you though I was not surprised.”
“He is great. I am going to be sad to see him go back home.” I give her a smile in return.
“So when are you expecting?” She gives me a smile that you see when people are making polite conversation.
I give her a quizzical look. “Expecting what?” Not a clue what the heck she is talking about.
She looks at me shocked. “I’m sorry, I thought you knew.”
That does not make it any clearer. “Knew what?” Still lost here woman.
“That you are with child.”
I can’t help it. I know I am supposed to be quiet for the little boy but I can’t hold it in. I break out in laughter. “That is a good joke. Who put you up to it?”
She looks at me dead serious. “I am not joking. I can smell it on you. I was a midwife so I smell things like that a little faster than others. I would say at least two weeks.”
I start hyperventilating. There is no way. No way this is happening. “You have to be wrong.” She puts her hand on my shoulder, trying to calm me down.
“I’m sorry. I didn’t realize it was a bad thing. I say go to the pack doctor. I have never been wrong before, but you know there’s a first time for everything.” She tries to sound upbeat. I am not taking it that way.
I take a seat on the love seat and put my head between my legs. “You said you were a midwife. Why are you a nanny now?” I am trying to distract myself. Anything to calm down. Even mindless chatter will do.
She takes a deep breath. “When his mother died in childbirth, I knew someone needed to look after him. Alpha was a mess, he was in no condition to do it. I made a choice to take care of him for his sake. Alpha pulled through about a year ago.”
I sit up and look at her quizzically. “A year ago?”
“Yeah, he just turned everything around. He was more attentive to Eli. He really opened up then.”
Crap, crap, crap. Now his happiness is in my hands. And I am pregnant with Hunter’s baby.
She gives me a concerning look. “It is not Alpha’s baby is it?”
I shake my head. “It is my mates. I have never been with Christian in that way.”
Selene smiles. “I wouldn’t worry about it. I am sure Alpha would be willing to raise it anyway.” She shrugs like it isn’t a big deal. “He changed being around you. I am not sure anyone else noticed, since they are not as close to him. But I see him everyday, he is in love with you.”
“Sadly that doesn’t help right now.” I sigh, my breathing has calmed. That doesn’t mean that my mind isn’t swimming. “I need time to put my head around all of this.”
“I think you still have at least a month before others smell it. I hope that is enough time for you. I know that by then you are going to need to start making decisions. You also are going to start feeling sick about the next week. If you need anything you feel free to talk to me. I am more than willing to help.” She is being great. She doesn’t even know me.
I take a look at her, never really taking note of her before. She has long raven hair, straight. She is thin, but not super thin, just a little thinner than me. She seems to dress pretty simple. Everytime I see her she is wearing a t-shirt and jeans. I am sure it is simple to clean up after a two year old if you don’t dress all fancy.
“What about you? Do you have a mate? It seems sad for you to devote this much time to someone else’s baby and not have any of your own.”
“I have a mate. We have one baby. He is great and helps out, he is very loyal to Alpha and knows that his son needs a mother figure at the moment. When we are in our lands I have both babies with me during the day. My boy is a little older than Eli, about six months.” She gives me a warm smile. I think she likes talking about her son.
I look at my watch. Crap, I am supposed to meet Carlos in ten minutes. “I have to get going, you are welcome to stay here until he wakes up. I trust you.” I give her a smile.
“Thank you. It would be better if he gets some sleep. He doesn’t usually sleep well when we are here. I am glad that you put his soul at ease.” She is really happy about that. I can tell from her expression. I can imagine that she is the one that helps out at night when he can’t sleep.
“He can stay with me while he is here. If I bring him comfort then by all means, I can help.” I smile back at her.
“That would be so great.” She gives an exasperated sigh. “You have no idea how much better that will make things.”
“As long as you help me out with this baby thing, while you are here. We can help each other out. Also you keep my secret.” I give her a look asking for her confidence.
“Your secret is safe with me. I won’t say a word until you are ready.” She gives me a nod and checks on Eli.
“See you later Selene.” I duck out the door. I will have to tell my dad that I will be missing training for the week. I will have to miss more than that, but Eli is my excuse for now. Dad doesn’t need to know.
I head down the stairs linking Jay on the way. “I need you.” That is all I say as I come down the stairs. Before a minute passes he is by my side.
“What happened?” He looks worried.
I have to link him. I don’t want anyone else to know. “I am pregnant.” He can see the stress lines on my face.
“Well, that is new.” I can see from the shocked look on his face that he has no idea what to make of this news.
We are quiet as we step out on the front steps and see Hunter and Allison. They are distant, but I really could care less right now. Jay wraps his arms around me, resting his chin on my head. “It’s going to be ok, you have me.” He links to me. We are silent to everyone else. I hear Hunter let out a growl, but I could care less.
“You have to sit in the middle.” I linked to him.
“I have no intention of letting that creep next to you, unless you tell me otherwise.” He links back.
Allison comes and puts her hand on Hunter’s shoulder. “See, she doesn’t care about you.”
Hunter growls at her and throws her arm off. “I told you never to touch me again.”
Allison looks over at me. I hope she doesn’t say anything to me, I am so not in the mood. “What the hell? Are you using some sort of spell or something? I mean seriously, you are nowhere near attractive enough to have this many guys flocking over you.”
That is enough. I can not take this bitch anymore. I am out of Jay’s arms before he can blink and I grab Allison by the hair. I start dragging her down the driveway. “You stupid bitch. Using spells really. You are the only one calling on witches here. You are out of the pack. You come back again and I will kill you.” I throw her by her hair. I didn’t even notice at first that Jay is right by my side. Good, I have a backer.
She landed about five feet away and is grabbing her head. She glares back at me. “You are going to regret this bitch.”
“Not regretting it yet. Get out of here.” I snarl at her. I hear a hiss from Jay next to me. I know he would eat her in a minute if I asked him to.
I watch as she makes her way down the drive to the gate. She knows I am serious about her leaving the pack. Normally my dad would need to make it official, but the fact that I told her I would kill her, was enough to let her know I was not going to tolerate her any longer.
I head back to the stairs and see Hunter standing there shocked. “You can join your slut if you like. I really don’t mind at this point.” I snarl at him.
“She forced herself on me. I am not the one to blame here.” He protests.
Jay growled at him. “We all know how defenseless you were. Just cut the shit.” He puts an arm around me. He links to me. “You need to be careful doing that stuff. What if she fought back? She could have hurt the baby.”
I roll my eyes. “I am fine. Besides, I had my strong vampire by my side.” I linked back.
“I will still feel better when you get it checked out. You were fighting that Alpha yesterday and he wasn’t holding back.” He gives me a serious look.
“Alright after school I will. Does that make you happy?” I didn’t link this time. I forgot what I was doing.
“Much.” He squeezed me.
This time I remembered to link back. “Don’t tell anyone ok. Not even Zoe. I don’t want her to know.”
He doesn’t link, I think he wants Hunter to know we have a secret. Make his blood boil so to speak. “My lips are sealed.” He gives me a wink.
I can hear Hunter growl behind us. “Let me guess, you are going to pick the Alpha.” He is not happy at all.
I turn to look at him. “I told you both last night that I wasn’t picking either of you. You both are fuck ups. I am done with that.” I don’t growl like I want to. I just keep my face straight and look ahead.
He gets sad. “Jasmine, baby. I love you. I didn’t want to hurt you.”
“You never do Hunter. That is the problem. You don’t want to hurt me but you have no problem letting others hurt me. I can’t be with someone like that.”
He inches closer to me. Thankfully right then, Carlos arrived. He leans out towards the window. “I saw Allison on the drive. I am assuming she isn’t joining us.”
I shake my head. “Never again.”
He nods. “Alright, Jasmine, if you want the front seat, I won’t complain.”
I give him a smile and hop in the seat offered. Jay takes the seat behind me. I am glad that means that Hunter can’t reach around the seat and touch me. Jay links me one more time. “You know you should tell him at least.”
I linked back. “He will know soon enough.” I point to my nose. He gets the point. Hunter will smell it soon enough. I can just avoid being close to him for now and that will make it so that he doesn’t know immediately.
Hunter growls. “It is irritating that you guys are doing that.”
“We don’t want you to hear. It is none of your business anyway.” I growl back. “You have your slut. You can follow her if you like.”
Carlos looked at Jay and I. “You two have a link. I didn’t think that was possible.” He really does look perplexed.
“We did some research and found that it was possible. It has already come in handy a few times.” I smile at Carlos. “Like last night, when I wanted to rip Hunter’s head off, Jay was there to make sure that everyone left with all their body parts.” I think it is an evil smile that I have, but I really could care less at this point.
“So, he fucked up again I see.” Carlos growled.
“It wasn’t my fault.” Hunter started. But Jay growled at him to get him to shut up. “No one listens to me anyway.” He almost sounded like he was pouting.
“Maybe if you sang a different tune. I am afraid I have heard this one before.” I spat back.
“She attacked me. I should have fought her off harder, I will admit that. I didn’t want to hurt her.” He is pleading. It sounds pathetic.
“Yep, still don’t care.” I sneered.
Jay puts his hand on my shoulder to reassure me. “The baby doesn’t need the stress, calm down.” He links me.
I take a few deep breaths. He chuckles. “There you go.” He says this part out loud. I can’t help but laugh, Jay makes things lighter. I guess I really need this right now. With everything going on, I really need a friend that will lighten the mood.