Page 33 of Betrayed By the Alpha Wolf

The room erupted into chaos, cheers and excitement bubbling over from every angle. But everything felt distant and far away from me as Aspen stood at my side, holding my arm aloft. Every wolf there was in a glorious uproar, howling and hooting and hollering.

But all I could see was the empty chair where Kenzie should have been.

Chapter 13 - Kenzie

“I’m what? You can’t be fucking serious. Run the tests again.”

Forrest and Willow sighed in unison, and my heart tried very hard to burst itself through my rib cage.

“We ran them twice, MacKenzie. I don’t know what to tell you. I mean…You’d know if you met the prerequisites for this, so to speak.”

Willow eyed me, shrugging slightly as she pinched her lips together.

Everything was spinning, and if I weren’t already sitting down, I would have fallen into the nearest chair. I mean, sure, I met the one condition necessary for my…condition, but that had only been once.

Well, a few times. Fucking heat.

“I…You’re really sure?”

Forrest nodded, taking my hand. The movement felt miles away, and my stomach, which had already been flip-flopping, lurched. I didn’t know what this meant. I didn’t know what I was supposed to do about it. It was like Grayson…Oh, fucking hell.

“Yes, honey. And we actually noticed a few other things we wanted to talk to you about.”

I raised my brows at him. “Other things? Besides the fact that I’m pregnant?”

Willow stepped forward, rolling her eyes. Her bedside manner was much weaker than Forrest’s, and I was about ready to tell her to cool it with the judgmental stares.

“You have V?lva blood. But I’m guessing you knew that,” she said.

The term was still so new to me. Still, I was with Senna. I’d started to piece it together with Kaiden when we considered what we remembered about our grandmother. She had no wolf, and she’d always been a bit…prophetic.

“My grandmother, I think. Kaiden and I…She didn’t have a wolf. And she’d…say things.”

“That tracks from what we’ve found in your blood.” Willow held up the printed data like it was supposed to mean something to me. “It’s on the matrilineal side.”

“Great. I don’t really see how that’s important right now. I’m apparently carrying a child after having gone into a sudden heat. How did that even happen? The pregnancy rates are supposed to bewildlylow. But we’ve had both Senna and Kit get pregnant now.”

Forrest held up a hand as Willow sighed, stepping in for her because he could clearly see how upset I was.

“That’s just the thing. Senna is a V?lva, and Kit’s human DNA reacted differently to the combination of wolf DNA. It looks like…well, it looks like the pregnancies weremorelikely to occur because it wasn’t just the standard wolf-wolf combination. It’s the differences that make the outcome more successful. Stronger.”

I shook my head. “Wait. You’re telling me that our genes, wolves, it’s actually better to mix things around with others? I would have thought cross-species pregnancies would be impossible. Not more likely.”

Willow held up the paper again, pointing to the rows of genetic information displayed.

“Here, look. This is the standard. A wolf-wolf child mix. It’s Forrest’s DNA.”

“I am far from standard, but go on.”

We both rolled our eyes at that one, but Willow continued. “This is yours.”

When she pointed to the next row of information, even with my limited knowledge, it was possible to pick out the elevated levels displaying in my genes that weren’t in Forrest’s.

“There’s more, umm, whatever those things are.”

“Genetic markers.” Willow nodded. “Yeah, and they’re markers for health and fertility. They’re higher in you. They’ll probably be higher in Senna, Kaiden and Kit’s child, and your child.”

“My child.”

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