Page 79 of Sunshine

“I want to pry,” Raina interrupted, crossing her arms over her chest.

Luna sighed and looked down at the table. “I’m pregnant.”

I stared at my little sister, looking at her stomach. She was still thin, so she wasn’t very far along. Suddenly, the fact that she’d been leaving work early and had been more overstimulated than usual made sense.

“You and Halos haven’t…” Raina frowned.

I hid my smirk. Luna had a massive crush on Halos, one of the gardeners at Half Moon Nursery.

Luna grimaced. “No. But he knows. When I was in Vegas…”

Ember whooped and jumped up and down. “Oh my gosh, you had a wild weekend in Vegas.”

Luna didn’t look happy about these events. “Yes.”

Ember kept jumping up and down, her red hair escaping its ponytail. “Oh we’re gonna be aunties and uncles, yes.”

Zephyr frowned. “You weren’t in heat…”

“It’s not impossible,” Raina huffed. “Just unlikely.”

“Oooooh, we need to do a tarot reading, stat.” Ember bounced over to her bag.

“We don’t have to.” Luna crossed her arms over her stomach.

“Oh, but we do,” Ember said.

“I told the fathers,” Luna added firmly. “There’s an alpha-beta bonded pair, Colton and Quinn, coming into town tomorrow.”

Luna seemed happy about that, but sad at the same time. I looked at her a little harder. “That sounds like there’s more than just the bonded pair.”

Sure enough, my little sister shook her head. “I don’t want to talk about it.”

Raina growled. “Don’t forget, I still have his number.”

I glanced between my sister and cousin. Raina knew more than she was telling the rest of us. I would have to corner her later and make her tell me. Why hadn’t Raina told me something was wrong with Luna?

“I don’t need him.” Luna looked surprisingly defiant. “I have you all, I have Halos, and apparently Colton and Quinn want to make this work.”

“You’re absolutely right you have us.” Terran put his hand on Luna’s shoulder. Some of his calm beta-ness seeped through to her. She let out a sigh, and the tension left her shoulders. “We’re here for diaper duty and beyond.”

We all sat talking together, surrounding Luna with family for the next couple of hours. In the back of my mind, I thought about being an aunt.

Luna was having a baby, without a pack. I didn’t want to look up the statistics about an omega having a baby unbonded, but that was a problem for later. She wasn’t going to be on her own, because she was dating Halos, and two of the dads were coming to work things out with her.

It was on the tip of my tongue to ask how it’d all happened. She must have decided to throw caution to the wind and have a fling while she was at her Garden Show in Vegas. It had been about two months ago, so the timing seemed right.

After Luna left, I dragged Raina off to the side.

She held up her hands. “Before you bite my head off, I didn’t know she was pregnant.”

Some of the hurt and anger dissipated. So Luna and Raina hadn’t been keeping a huge secret from me. Just a small one.

It was selfish of me to be upset that Raina knew before I did. Maybe if I hadn’t been so wrapped up in my own events, I would have noticed that Luna was sad and exhausted.

“I knew Luna was seeming overstimulated,” I said, unable to hide the defensiveness in my voice.

“I went over to her cottage a few times. I thought she had the flu.” Raina shrugged, picking up the plates. The rest of our cousins and siblings were talking about three or four events coming up, giving us time to have a “Mom Talk” as they called it.

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