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"No, don’t concern yourself" He took her in his arenetics are such that as humans we have only human DNA As wolves, only wolf DNA Now, if they found both, blood from when you were a wolf and from when you were human, it’d make them believe a wolf and a huhed heavily "Then if they do discover wolf’s blood in the condo, they’ll assu a wolf at the Crestview Motel I’ing your fa, don’t you think they’ll get a warrant to search your place to see if I’ a wolf there?"

"They won’t find any"

"But what if I shift? I thought I was controlling it, but anytime now I could just, poof, turn into a wolf And if I do it in front of a bunch of police officers--"

"We’ll deal with it, Alicia You’re one of us, part of a pack We’ll take care of this in any way that we have to"

Tom said, "You want me to take her home" But the tone of his voice was more of a question--did Jake want to take her to see Doc Weber instead?

Of course the doc made house calls when necessary, but in Alicia’s case, Jake assumed he’d need blood work, a urine sanant and ht At least he thought that’s as needed He was certain that if he proposed it in front of Alicia with To in, she’d be upset with him On the other hand, he didn’t want to take her to the hospital under false pretenses

"The hospital, Tom"

Alicia tried to pull away fro she was , but he held on tight, forcing her to remain in his arain, but not of her own accord, he felt Rather, she just wasn’t feeling up to fighting him

He kissed the top of her head and enjoyed the feel of her soft supple curves, her ferance, and her thick silky hair beneath his cheek He wanted to give her a life free of worry by sequestering her fro care of Mario and his bastards, and showing Alicia the way of their people until she felt co one of them

But now they had a new dilemma Who was Alicia’s father? And why had he and Alicia’sabout the visit to the hospital, but she didn’t voice a word He felt guilty for forcing this on her, but they had to know If she was pregnant, she needed to be seeing the doctor anyway

"Call ahead to the hospital, will you, Peter, and make an appointo of Alicia for a second to try and fish his phone out when she seeh to relax in his arms

Peter opened his cell phone and said, "Bethany, we need an appointlanced at the clock in the car--"two hours and fifteen minutes from now Yeah, it’s important For Jake’s mate, Alicia Greiston" He paused, cleared his throat, and then said, "Possible pregnancy" He spoke as softly as he could so that Bethany could still hear hih that Jake and Alicia couldn’t, ith their wolf’s hearing Although Jake gave hi the effort "Thanks We’ll be there then," Peter said, and put his phone away

"We’ll have to getto keep telling people I’ain, not until you walked into ht"

"We don’t wear jewelry So wedding rings are out" Jake tried his da, but this was probably one of the hardest things for newbie lupus garous to get a handle on "We don’t need rings to stay faithful But even so, it would be especially difficult for you to wear any jewelry because you don’t have the shifting under control Trying to res or necklaces and bracelets in the process of a shift could prove disastrous As for e certificate It means we commit to one another for life"

She frowned up at hinant, I want to be officially married With the paper to prove it Bla"

He looked down into her dark chocolate eyes and thought of how addicted he was to looking at her, to feeling her close, to being with her He would be with her always He wished she could understand that "We don’t marry because we make a commitment…"

"I… want… to… be… married I understand, or at least think I understand, how you commit for life without the need for a witnessed document But I never kneho my father was and never knew if my parents had really beenwe’re formally committed"

He really wished they could have this discussion in private He could just i They were probably glad neither of the to deal with an unreasonable newly turned wolf He realized then her feelings h--the fake birth certificate and not knoas going on with him Her father’s abandonment of her and her mother, and then thewithout letting Alicia know Maybe, beyond all that, she was concerned Jake wouldn’t live up to his pronant

"Any baby you have will be mine and yours, Alicia And he or she will be raised as a olf, knowing hoe live our lives and that a fore isn’t part of the equation You don’t have to worry about that"

She let out her breath in an exasperated manner "You’re a man," she said sourly

He wanted to tell her he wouldn’t be like her father had been to her mother But he didn’t think she would believe him, even if he tried to convince her All he could do was prove he’d stick by her side forever<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>