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litter. Should I contact Dr. Grimes?”
    “No. Not yet.” He rubbed his forehead as a collection of things that needed to be done flowed over him, line by line.
    “Do you know how many pups are in your litter, Sir?” Jacque voice brimmed with happiness.
    “No. She just had it confirmed today. We’ll know soon. Contact me later if you have any questions.” He looked at his watch. “I have a meeting.”
    “Yes, Sir,” Jacque said as Silas disconnected the call.
    He sent a message to the driver. “Take me to Alpha house.”
     
    * * * *
    “Mom, I don’t know why he isn’t coming here to talk to you. All I know is he asked me and Rese to accompany you to dinner tonight. He said you wanted to talk. Is that what you told him?” Tyrone asked.
    Flustered, she waved off his question even as she answered it. “Yes. He wants me to move across country to West Virginia. West Virginia for goodness sake! Why should I move? Why can’t he come to Seattle?” They’d been going over this for the past thirty minutes and she hadn’t made any headway.
    “Mom,” Tyrese said quietly. “You’re pregnant by the most important wolf in the country. Probably the world. He has enemies. They would hurt or kill you and my new brothers or sisters.” He pointed to her stomach. “As much as I love you, I agree with Patron on this one. As long as you’re alive, I can live with your anger.”
    She released a pent up breath. “I don’t mean to be difficult. Things are happening so fast. I just discovered my two sons and dead husband are were-wolves.”
    “Mom,” Tyrone said with censure in his tone.
    “Wolf shifters, dual-natured, whatever.” She threw up her hands. “My whole world has flipped and I don’t know the rules. Do you know I offered to pay for my doctor visit today?”
    “What? We don’t pay to go to our doctors,” Tyrone said, leaning forward in his chair. “What’d they say when you made the offer?”
    She stuck her nose up and spoke in a well-to-do modulated voice. “Charging for health care is barbaric.”
    Tyrone laughed.
    Tyrese snorted. “They knew you didn’t know. Instead of making fun of you, they should have explained how the medical system works in our world.”
    A sliver of appreciation slid through her at his defense. “I’m not a part of your world. I’m human.”
    “So am I,” Tyrese said, taking her hand.
    “Me too,” Tyrone said as he took the seat next to her.
    “You’re wolf shifters.” She looked between the two of them. “Did I get that wrong?”
    “We are hybrids. Part human, part wolf. Your human DNA is a part of our makeup. Full-blooded wolf shifters don’t have that.”
    She frowned, trying to understand. “But they are dual-natured, right?”
    “Yes, part wolf and part human, but they lack the same kind of human DNA like us.”
    “How can they be part human without human DNA?” she asked, growing more confused.
    “Over time their DNA changed to something else, they are more wolf but can retain their human form and faculties. They don’t think like humans, they have pack mentalities. That’s why they consider themselves full-blooded.”
    “And my babies will have both, that makes them hybrids or…half-breeds.”
    Tyrese ran his hand through his short cropped hair. “Mom, it’ll be okay.” He moved and stooped in front of her. “I promise. My brothers or sisters will be loved and taken care of. Insuring the protection of your litter isn’t only a wolf thing, it’s also a human trait. Dad made sure we were safe and taught us how to shield so no one could detect our wolf side. That’s how we entered the military. No one can simply look at us and tell we’re shifters unless we allow it. Silas is the only one who’s been able to bypass that.”
    She didn’t want to hear about Silas or Davian. Neither man had wanted to be a father. She’d sworn she’d never be in this situation again. “I’ve lost control of my life. I wanted to do things…like travel,