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But the worry of what she ht find at her apartnant She clenched and unclenched her hands, then finally said, "Can we stop at a drugstore? There’s one in the strip ured if she had to shop at a drugstore in Silver Town, the whole packabout the closeness of a pack, she was learning And Lelandi had said ined even Lisa, the ht have told everyone what Jake had bought for her there Lelandi wouldn’t have, though Alicia felt Lelandi was one person ouldn’t give her secrets away Unless keeping the that Alicia thought she’d spoken so softly he hadn’t heard But with their wolf hearing, she decided that wasn’t it She assuure out why she needed to stop at the drugstore

He finally nodded and grabbed his phone off his belt and punched a button "Tostore"

"They don’t need to come inside with us," Alicia quickly said She didn’t need the whole world to knohat she was up to

He glanced at her, then said to his brother, "You can wait outside for us It’ll only take us a ht" Then he put his phone away He didn’t say anything for a moment, but she could tell by his furrowed brow that he was bothered by her request Then he said, "What is it that you need?"

She raised her brows at hirin that melted her insides to mush "Not between us Not now that we’re mates"

"Ah, so if I wanted to probe into your deepest, most private fantasies or past history, you’d freely tell me about all of it?" she asked

He reached over with his big hand and squeezed her thigh in a way that made her shiver with interest "You only have to ask"

"All right Well, I want to get a pregnancy kit, and I don’t want anyone else in your pack…"

"Our pack"

"Our pack knowing about it Theynotion" Like it was Jake’s child, if she were pregnant She sed hard, hating that she’d have to adnant that it was Ferdinand Massaro’s child

Jake ran his hand over her thigh in a tender caress meant to console Then his mouth curved up and his hand slid to her belly "When Mary called frory I thought you had another man in your life and hadn’t tolda baby"

"Most men wouldn’t like it if it was so not to sound so disconsolate

He drove into the parking lot of the strip mall and parked, then rested his hand beneath her chin and lifted and turned her to face hi hers with resolve "I love you And if you’re pregnant, the baby’s ours I’ll raise her as my own"

"Her?"

"Werewolves in our pack statistically have fewer females So we’re always hopeful we’ll have a fewtoo raht I’d hear atwo brothers probably had soine

She kneas teasing By the way he spoke to his brothers, she could tell he was really close to them She had barely opened the truck’s door when Jake hurried around the front of the vehicle to help her down

"I’ll have to add running boards," he said, as he held her hips and helped her hop down to the pavenant, you’ll never be able to climb up into the cab"

"Not without a forklift," she teased, trying to feel better about it

He sree to see Doc Weber? He’d be discreet"

"And ould people think who saw me join the pack, then immediately see the doctor?" She shook her head

Peter drove up beside them and parked, and Alicia suddenly are that he and Touys couldn’t read lips or hear their conversation through the Suburban s