Free Standing Before Monsters (Vorans and Vampires) by Donald Wigboldy Page B

the first full moon, she’ll be in heat until the next one. I don’t think I can help your sister, but if you think you are there with Kate, then go for it. If you are unsure, then we’ll just have to make sure to keep her near you to alleviate any symptoms that might still be on the horizon.”
    “I can go to one of the pack houses, if I need to, I guess,” the big man stated with a sigh.
    “She can come to the apartment, if you want to share your bed; but that’s up to you two.”
    Logan looked into the Escape and was caught by the woman he was now bonded to. She merely smiled looking like a loving bride and the man sighed again as he asked, “You’re sure, Nick? It’s bad enough that you have us mooching off of you.”
    Breathing out the words with the shrug of his shoulders, he replied, “What’s another mouth to feed?” After a moment, he added, “I wonder if we could somehow get you and the others jobs though? I mean, you and Charlotte are highly educated people. You two can’t be satisfied with just sitting around the apartment with nothing important to do.”
    With a chuckle, Logan quipped, “You need money?”
    “Hardly,” the man replied as he heard the sound of the side doors opening. “I just hate to see you wasting all that you worked for, if we can find some sort of solution. You may not be able to do ER work because of the stress, but maybe a pediatrician or even a teacher might be better than just reading through my library while hiding in my apartment.”
    Logan pushed away from the car to look at Kate standing in his shirt that looked like a dress on the dark haired girl. “You think teaching children isn’t stressful?” he asked with a laugh.
    “If you have puppies with Kate, you might need to get used to them,” he laughed as the big man missed a step, before quickly glancing back at the voran. His eyes softened from the initial panic at the thought. Nick guessed that maybe fatherhood didn’t sound so bad to the man after all.
     
    Kate had no issues with being near Logan and didn’t care if it was with the pack or not. For her, she had made the decision to be with Logan. Even before her current condition, she had been considering leaving the pack to be with him. She had missed him when he and Charlotte had left.
    Once Kate had felt honor bound to stay with the pack and Eric. He had taken her in, a stray in pack vernacular, and she owed him her life. While their leader had been moving around the country to avoid notice, he had been building his pack slowly. Most were converted by the alpha wolf personally when he found worthy people. Of course ‘worthy’, often meant willing to be subservient. Eric was the most powerful of them all and was the type that needed to be the leader.
    After five years with the pack, Charlotte and Logan had left. Kate had known some of the siblings’ dissatisfaction with pack life and their desire to leave before it came to happen; but when they had left it had still been a surprise and so sudden. They had defended a human that wouldn’t turn or couldn’t depending on one’s view. They had refused to let Eric kill Lena, which led to them being banished from the pack.
    When Nick had shown up to save the girl; the two, along with another wolf interested in the pretty Lena for different reasons, had helped defend their escape route. They had been left to fend for themselves during the hunt, but in the morning the voran had come to find them and take them away.
    She had seen them during the battle with the elder vampire’s army, but there had been no time to ask Logan his thoughts of returning or taking her with him. Now she had gone into ‘heat’ and needed him. Her heart had ached for him and now she was attached to him. Surely Eric would understand, the girl hoped. She had to go, if only because she needed him.
     
    The large two story house with basement, looked like several of the others on the street, but none of the others held werewolves. As