Page 73 of A Beta Protects

“Where will we sleep?” she asks.

I point upward. “Up there. For now. But we have space along this wall for two or even three bedrooms.”

“For?” her voice is soft.

I peer down at her. “Who do you think? Those growling children we’ll have.”

She doesn’t laugh at my terrible joke. Mostly because it isn’t one. “You really want kids?”

I sense I’ve wandered into a sensitive subject. “I do. But you don’t?”

“I do,” she says softly. “But I never thought I would.”

My wolf growls.

Bryce.

Yeah, I mentally growl back. I wish I could kill him all over again.

“Kira?” A thought suddenly hits me between the eyes.

“Yeah?” she whispers.

“I forgot about the bathroom.” All that time sketching, and I forgot we would need a bathroom.

She stares at me.

I kiss her. “You have destroyed my ability to think straight, and I have never been happier in my life.”

Her face splits with a grin. “Yeah?”

“Yeah.” I peer down at her. “I want a future with you, Kira. If that comes with kids, that would be amazing. If it doesn’t happen, I still have you, and you will always be enough for me. I love you.”

“I love you, too.” She points to another wall. “The bathroom can go there.”

I look at the wall and nod. It’s not near the kitchen, and we’d have enough space to put in a bath and a shower.

“And we need storage,” she adds. “We’re going to need a lot of storage for three growling kids.”

I hug her. “Maybe you should do the sketch.”

“We’ll do it together, Dom. Between us, I think we’ll figure it out.”

Yes, we will.

EPILOGUE

KIRA

TWO WEEKS LATER

It isn’t every morning that I wake up cuddling with a wolf, but I do this one.

We stayed in the outbuilding again, our last opportunity to take advantage of the soft straw and the cozy space, just the way it is before Dom and the rest of Pack Hunt rip everything out and get started on building a house for Dom and me.

Dom is awake already.

I run my hands over his fur and he sinks into the straw with a soft rumble of pleasure.

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