Free Devi: Matefinder Book 2 by Leia Stone Page B

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                    He kissed me quickly and began to walk to the front of the house.
     
                    “Kai.”
     
                    He turned back and gave me a sad look. A look that said he already thought the worst.
     
                    “I’m not going anywhere until I’m ready. As long as you and my mom are alive and breathing in this world, than so am I.” My wolf had come to the surface. He nodded and gave me a half smile.
     
                    I felt rage boiling up inside me. Where was this ‘angel’ when I needed her before? When my twin brother drowned, when my dad was beating me up, when I had no money? But then, a sudden peace came over me, like my fiery anger had been doused in water. I saw mist surround my body. Magic? It wasn’t mine. Was it? I wasn’t meaning to. I looked around the woods. I took a deep breath through my nose. Nothing. I shook my head to clear my thoughts. The mist dissipated. That was weird.
     
     
     

Tara
                   
     
                    I made my way to the front of the house where Max, Jai, Akash, Devon, and Kai were flying the drone catcher and drinking beers. Probably not the best combo.
     
                    “Is Emma home?” I asked Devon. He nodded. “I’m going to go check on her.”
     
                    Emma had become my best friend. She was loyal, kind, and generous. Being that I was such a dominant wolf and she was submissive, I always felt the need to protect her. This was ramped up one hundred times since she was pregnant. I tried not to think of all the horrible things that I had heard can go wrong with a werewolf pregnancy. Emma would be fine.
     
                    After a short walk, I knocked at her back door. I smiled looking at her lawn and remembering it as the place Kai had proposed to me.
     
                    “Come in, Aurora!” she shouted from deep inside the house.
     
                    I went into the house and followed the soft talking sounds into a back room. Emma was lying on her bed and Diya was squirting jelly on her large, round bump.
     
                    I got excited. “Are we finding out the gender today? Shouldn’t Devon be here?”
     
                    Emma laughed. “Aurora, I told you! I don’t want to know. I am grateful for whatever. Devon gets queasy at these things.”
     
                    A werewolf that beheads people gets queasy at an ultrasound? I looked at Diya. “You will know the sex of the baby, right? You can tell me?”
     
                    Diya smiled. “Not if my patient doesn’t want me to.”
     
                    “Well, how am I supposed to buy a good gift if I don’t know the sex?”
     
                    Emma squeezed my hand. “Grey, yellow, green, brown.”
     
                    Umph. No fun.
     
                    Diya pressed the ultrasound wand to Emma’s belly. She stared at her handheld monitor for a moment and frowned. “Emma, roll to your side.”
     
                    My heart hammered in my chest. My eyes went yellow. I was about to call for Kai when I heard it. Thump, thump, thump. The baby’s heartbeat.
     
                    “My God. You scared me,” I told Diya.
     
                    Emma looked at me and laughed. “You’re going to have to toughen up if you want to be in the delivery room.”
     
                    I smiled. “Really? You want me there?”
     
                    Emma nodded. “Who else will hold my hand when Devon faints?”
     
                    We all laughed.
     
                    Diya moved the wand around. “Eighteen weeks. Everything looks great. I can see