Page 24 of Ensnared By the Werewolf

Broderick had to leave the picnic table to help Elliot with the food, and Grace had taken her infant from her mate with gusto.The baby has settled now but is very awake.The small clawed hands grab at Grace’s fingers as she entertains her son.

A gray fist curls tight before the baby stuffs it in his mouth, and I laugh.He’s such a character.

I start to say no but stop.He’s really cute.I’m sure just holding him for a minute wouldn’t make me want things that I’ve determined to be patient about more than I already do.

“I think I would,” I say.

Grace smiles as if she understands how taken I am with her baby.She probably does.

“Make sure to keep his wings next to his body.They’re small right now, but flexible.”

She places the warm weight in my arms, and he wiggles.I smile at him, and he stops wiggling.He blinks at me before smiling back, all gums save for two tiny fangs.

“Aw, look at that.Lachlan’s found a new best friend,” Grace coos.

“He’s adorable,” I say.

“And a troublemaker already.I can’t wait to see what kind of destruction he and his brother Graham will get into.At least the delight of having three mates is that there are more than enough hands to go around.”

“I bet.”I bite my lip.I don’t need three mates, but baby Lachlan is definitely giving me baby fever.Instead of a little gray face with curled horns nestled in fluffy black hair, I’m thinking of a baby that would be a mix of Jack and my features.

Maybe the lycanthrope blood would show true at the beginning, but most likely, our child would start as a wolf shifter.Witches don’t usually produce witches when we mix with nonhumans.I’m getting ahead of myself.Jack might want to wait longer.

Lachlan’s little tail wraps around my wrist and my heart melts.

I look up to check on my mate and freeze.Jack stares at me with a look hot enough to scorch.It’s almost uncomfortable to hold Lachlan with how my body instantly responds, so I look away.

My smile is slow, but wide.At least I have company in my baby fever.

“There’sa nature walk that the Bramblewicks thought we might like.”Jack makes a turn instead of heading the way we came.He’s back in his glamour so he can drive, but I can still read the sexual frustration in his posture and the tightness of his jaw.The hours it had been for the picnic to wind down were low-key torture with the thoughts swirling in my mind.

I’ll bet there is a beautiful nature walk, and I’ll bet it’s private.It would seem Grace is looking to acquire a playmate for her sons, and I don’t mind the interference a bit.

“That’s the marker.”Jack parks the car beside a trailhead, well away from the dying embers of the party, but neither of us moves to get out.

“Soooo, did you want to talk about something?”I tease.

Jack raises a brow.“Did you?”

He tries to play it cool, but I see the way his eyes rove over me and if he grips the steering wheel any harder, it’s going to break.I take mercy on him, mostly because I want to hurry this along.I’m so wet, it’s a surprise that I’m not making a mess in the passenger seat.

Jack will definitely make a mess of me.

“I want to have babies with you,” I say, my breath catching as I outpace my nerves.“And if you’re ready to have babies with me…” I trail off and drag my contraceptive charm back and forth on its chain.

“I want that too,” he says.“I want it so much.I want to breed you,” Jack’s voice growls and he clears his throat, clearly struggling to keep his wolf from taking over.

I swallow, my skin on fire now.

The chain around my neck snaps and I look down at the delicate thing that’s kept me from getting pregnant up until this point.

“Oops,” I say.

Fate is at it again, or I don’t know my own strength when I want my mate to fill me up.I drop the charm and it falls to be forever lost in the crack between the seat belt and center console.The drag of the chain on my skin as it goes has me biting my lip.Everything is unbearably sensitive.My sundress feels two sizes too small, and my breasts seem like they’re fighting to get free.

“Bel…” Jack says, clearly losing control because my name is all growl now.

I swallow, my chest rising and falling quickly in the tense atmosphere of the car.The forest outside calls to me, an echo of the first time we came together with the full moon bright.I know exactly how I want this to happen.

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