Page 77 of He Claimed Her Heart

He came back over and started swabbing my arm looking for a good vein. He got his sample of blood. He said he would take it to the lab himself and run the results so nobody would know who it was for. Then, he would return with the results.

As soon as he left, Drake took me into his arms. “It’s okay honey.I feel your anxiety. What’s wrong? How can I help you?” Drake inquired of me as he held me.

“I don’t know why I’m anxious.I just am. I have all these emotions going through me right now and I don’t understand it,” I mumbled as I started crying into his shoulder.

Drake just held me andrubbed circles on my back. He tried to soothe me as much as he could. He didn’t understand it. I didn’t understand it. This was all new ground for us.

Dr. Banks came back forty minutes laterwith a blank look on his face. “Well? What was the result?” demanded Drake in his Alpha tone.

“Congratulations Alpha and Luna. You are definitely pregnant.Here are some prenatal vitamins I want you to take. I want to schedule you for your first prenatal appointment in two weeks. That would put you at about one month along. I’m not sure if you know this or not, but werewolf pregnancies usually only last between five and a half to six months. We need to get you started as soon as possible,” Dr. Banks explained to us.

Drake kissed me and held me when Dr. Banks said ‘congratulations.’I’m not sure if he heard anything else after that. “Drake, honey? When are we going to tell the pack? We need to tell them soon, right?” I inquired with tears still flowing down my face. I looked at Drake’s incredibly happy smile on his handsome face.

“Well, we can announce it at your Luna Ceremony next week. Will that bealright, or do you think we need to do it sooner?” Drake replied to me or to Dr. Banks, I’m not sure who. “What do you think Dr. Banks?”

“You can wait until next week at her Luna Ceremony. That would definitely bea memorable ceremony,” Dr. Banks mused out loud.

“Dr. Banks, you arehereby commanded not to breathe a word of this to anyone until I have announced the pregnancy to the entire pack. Is that clear Dr. Banks?” commanded Drake.

“Yes, Alpha,” Dr. Banks replied with his head bowed in respect.

“Very good. Thank you, Dr. Banksfor everything,” Drake said as he helped me down from the exam table.

We walked out of the pack hospital hand in hand. We decided to take a walk down by the training grounds to see what was going on. I missed being able to train. Now, that I was definitely pregnant, I was not going to be able to train for a while. We didn’t make it to the training grounds, we stopped by the recreation area where the pups were and watched them play.

I enjoyed my morning and soon enough, we had to return to the pack house. We had afternoon appointments. Drake had his Beta take care of everything saying that we needed a day to ourselves. Which we did.

When we got back to our suite, I immediately saw how we needed to change things. So did Drake. We were going to have to change one of the guest rooms into a nursery.We immediately began to make plans to renovate our suite to include a family. Happy times, happy times indeed.

We spent the next week making plans without telling anyone. Keeping secrets isn’t easy.Now I know how hard it is to keep them and not spill them. Let’s just say, next time a secret is being kept from me, I won’t say a word. The day before the Luna Ceremony my family arrived. They were all buzzing with excitement. Immediately, they noticed something different about me. Dad kept asking me what did I differently or what was new? I held steady my course. It wasn’t easy. Uncle Reese was the hardest one. If he wanted to know, all he had to do was command you and he would know. Luckily for me, he didn’t do it.

After all the family had arrived, Drake decided we would have a family dinner in the dining hall.Naturally, with all the cousins and whatnot, we were a force to be reckoned with. Our family enjoyed the meal and each other openly for the first time in a long time. Dinner with my family lasted almost two hours. We finally said our good nights and we to our respective rooms for the night since all of us are on the Alpha floor. To save on room, dad and Tom were staying in our guest rooms in our suite. It was nice having them close by.

As we entered our suite, all four of us, Drakequickly made sure no incriminating about the nursery renovations were lying around. We forgot that dad and Tom were going to stay with us. I asked them to wait in the living room while I made sure that their rooms were ready. They were, but I just wanted to make sure I didn’t leave anything in their like swatches or anything.

When I returned to the living room, Tom was holding up a swatch book and talking with Drake. “What’s this for? Are you redecorating the suite already?” Tom asked Drake with a sly grin on his face.

“Yes, Bree wants to redecorate to get rid of my bachelor pad vibe. She wants the suite to reflect ‘us’ and not a single male,” Drake replied with a smirk and a chuckle.

“What?I don’t know about you, but I like light and airy colors as opposed to dark and broody,” I chimed in with a hint of mischief in my tone.

“I should have known it. You get these two together and Tom startsstuff between them. Now, he’s involving you in it. Tom, stop it. You redecorated your suite to suit Holly, is this any different for Bree?” dad inquired of Tom with his eyebrow raised.

“I guess not. Holly was quick to get rid of the color scheme in our suite. I couldn’t blame her. The color scheme was awful.The fact you’re still looking at swatches means you’re still not in agreement. What’s holding you up?” Tom questioned Drake with a hint of confusion in his voice.

“Well, we have been a little busy lately. But also,we have been planning her Luna Ceremony. That has taken precedence. We will get on renovations after the ceremony. But speaking of colors, we both like creams and natural beiges for the living room. It’s the bedroom colors we can’t agree upon,” Drake announced with a frown as he looked at me.

“Yeah, the bedrooms are the hardest ones to pick.Especially the guest bedrooms. You might want to think about turning one into a nursery soon. You are planning on having pups soon, right? Then, you need to turn one of these rooms into a nursery,” Tom replied with a gleam in his eye.

“A nursery sounds like a good idea.Why do you look so … so happy when you talk about a nursery Tom? Are you and Holly …” was all I could ask him before he blurted out his response.

“Holly is pregnant with our first pup! Can you believe it?! Me a dadwhich makes dad a soon-to-be grandpa,” Tom shouted as he jumped to his feet.

“Congratulations Tom!” Drake and I said at the same time. I enveloped Tom in a bear hug. Drake shook his hand and clapped Tom on the back congratulating him.

“So, you’re going to be a grandpa. Are you excited?” I asked dad as he had tears welling up in his eyes.

“Yes, I am very happy for Tom and Holly.It would be even better if you and Drake would be pregnant as well,” dad gushed as he hugged me tightly.

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