Page 143 of The Packaged Deal

He’s also a little menace. I swear, he absorbed that part of Sven. Osmosis or magic?

We’re standing on the new addition to the Knight Manor, a large paved and shaded area at the back of the estate, with plenty of room for all of us. There are a half a dozen stairs that lead down to an open lawn that’s surrounded by trees, and a lone white gazebo. There’s food on trays and drinks in coolers with ice. And all our friends and family everywhere. We come here every year on this date, it’s one of the few times we’re really able to get everyone together. My pack looks forward to it a lot.

Kandi hands me the baby, and I immediately coo at her precious little face. Kandi birthed our daughter, and she is the sweetest, most precious darling on the planet.

“Luna, my own little moonglow,” I sing to her.

“Oh, you have the baby, give, give!”

I turn, finding Onyx beside me. I pass her the baby and watch in awe as she expertly cuddles the child close, but is it any wonder? The beta has four, count them, four boys. I’m exhausted just looking at her. My son runs my pack in circles. I can’t imagine four.

Her sons race onto the lawn, chasing a girl in a red dress. My son naturally toddles after them, determined to keep up. I glance around and find that Acton Knight’s mother is following the children. She looks up and waves at me.

Luckily, I can lip read her well enough to translate. I’ve got your son. I hold my hand up in gratitude and a lot of relief. With a lot less weight on my shoulder, I turn and spot Kandi and Sunny’s parents with Adrian’s mother down there, too, and let myself relax for two minutes. He has an army of grandmothers watching him…nothing will happen, right? It’s hard to be reassured. There are so many variables.

“Your sons are trying to win over Ruby?” I point out to Onyx.

“Trying and failing. That girl is too smart. She’s a little combination of the whole Knight pack, but around my sons, she is Taylor’s daughter. Mercurial and full of haughty disdain.”

“That’s because your sons are little beasts.”

I turn towards the voice and find Scarlet sipping a glass of wine. She moves towards us with that confidence I’ve long admired. There’s a softness about her now, though. I think it’s happiness.

“My sons are not beasts. You just don’t like that you already have to worry about boys,” Onyx shoots back.

Gold and Barren appear behind Scarlet and, with a gentle touch, they communicate without words, something I don’t understand. Scarlet’s eyes soften.

“There will be no boys. Ever,” Gold growls deeply. Vetoing the future, and sentencing his daughter to never-ending arguments with her father.

It’s softened by Scarlet leaning up and kissing him softly.

“Win for me.”

“Always,” Gold murmurs. He kisses her with enough passion that I look for my pack.

Kandi spots me and lifts a hand. Missy turns and beams. The omega hasn’t changed much in appearance in the last ten years, but she’s certainly grown into herself.

The pack’s reputation grew and grew. The company is now the biggest security company in the city and all the surrounding areas. They never had any children, but Missy told me once that her pack never wanted children. They were happy with just themselves.

I spot Darion, who smiles far more than he used to, Lukas, who is just as reckless, and Sebastian, still strong and sturdy, huddled together. Which is just plain weird.

And suspicious.

“What’s going on?”

Onyx follows my gaze. “Football, pack style.”

I groan. The game is the same as you’d imagine, just with multiple teams on the field. It’s pretty much a free for all for the alphas to beat on each other.

Falcon brushes past us. “Excuse me, Omegas, Alpha.”

“You, too?” I yelp out. There’s no way I would have thought the always immaculate pack Treyfield would take to the field.

Falcon turns, walking backwards as Silas, Dylan, and Gray reach him. “What can I say? We like to win.”

I gape at them as Falcon pulls off his suit jacket and shirt. “No way-”

“Hello?”

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