Chapter 475


    Sharing the News E “Cora?” I gasp the minute I get the phone to my ear, still scrambling out of bed


    and tangled in the sheets.


    “Hey, Ells,” she says, her voice somehow both tight and bored at once. “Sorry to wake you up – ” “You


    didn’t wake me – ” I say quickly, reaching for Rafe in his crib and scooping him up in my arms. Behind


    me, I hear Sinir climbing out of bed too,ing to my side.


    “I didn’t?” Cora asks. “Why actually.” Her voice goes stony. “Don’t tell me.


    Knowing you and Dominic, I probably don’t want to know.” A littleugh bursts from me as I shake my


    head, trying to get back on track with this conversation. “Cora,” I say, looking down at Rafe’s bright,


    wide -awake face, “what’s up? Why are you calling? Is the baby -” “Yeah,” she says on a sigh. “Roger


    insisted I call. Baby’s on its way!” “Oh my god!” I shriek, spinning to Sinir and beaming at him for the


    second time this morning. “It’s time for the baby! We’lle right away -” “No, take your time,” she


    says on a sigh and I frown at her even though she can’t see me.


    “Cora, what is going on? Why are you calling in the middle of the night for us toe but then also


    telling us not to hurry?” “Because my stupid mate made me call you,” Cora says, her voice annoyed.


    She lowers her voice to a whisper. ” He’spletely freaking out, Ells, even though everything is


    progressing totally normally -” “A,” I say, passing Rafe to Sinir’s waiting hands and smiling up at


    him.


    “Go easy on him, Cora! He’s a first-time dad!” “And ast time dad,” she mutters, making meugh


    again, “if he’s this annoying every time I go intobor.” “Okay, well, should wee?” I ask, looking up


    into Sinir’s face, a silent question in my eyes. Can we go? Is there any pressing national business


    that means we need to stay back? Sinir nods eagerly to me, letting me know we can.


    “Yeah,” she says on another sigh. “Do you mind? Honestly, E, I don’t think my body is anywhere


    close to ready to push but Roger just wants everything in ce.” “Okay,” I say cheerfully, nodding up to


    Sinir who gives me a wink and starts to walk away to the closet to get himself and Rafe dressed.


    “Honestly, Cora, if he’s freaking out this much how did you ever talk him into a home birth?” “Well now


    he’s trying to talk me out of it – anyway,” she sighs, “will you juste?” I grin as I hear Roger yelling


    something in the background, his voice thick with anxiety though I can’t hear what he’s saying. My


    heart swells a little for my secretly-sweet brother-in-w, who I know has his whole heart wrapped up in


    what’s happening today.


    “Yup,” I say, “we’ll be there as soon as we can. And we’ll let Henry know too.” “Okayyy,” Cora says on a


    sigh. “See you in a bit!” “Excited!” I call through the phone before hanging up and tossing it onto the


    bed. Then I practically skip into the closet in my excitement, going immediately to Sinir’s side and


    wrapping my arms around his waist, grinning up at him.


    “Is Cora all right?” he asks, cupping my face in his palm.


    “I think so,” I say, nodding up at him. “Apparently she’s still got time – Roger’s just freaking out.” “Of


    course he is,” Sinir says with augh. “Roger’s great under pressure except when ites to things


    that arepletely out of his control. It’s going to drive him crazy to have to watch Cora have to go


    through a great deal ofbor and pain and not be able do anything about it.” “That’s so weird, but also


    so sweet,” I say, nodding and pressing a quick kiss to his chest before flitting off to my side of the closet


    and selecting some clothes that I hastily pull on. When I’m ready, I turn to take the half-dressed baby


    from my half-dressed mate and finish getting Rafe all wrapped up in cozyyers.


    “Are you ready to meet your little cousin, Rafe?” I coo to him, plucking a little squeeze pouch of baby


    food off its ce on the shelf and sitting down with him in our little arm chair so he can have something


    to eat while Sinir finishes getting ready. “And then, in a couple of months, your little baby sister?”


    Rafe grins at me and Iugh, because the way he looks at me when I talk – god, it’s as if he’s already


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    I spend a few quiet moments with my son, thinking about how he’s going to react when there’s a little


    baby around – And quite suddenly my eyes fill with tears when I realize that in my mind I’ve already


    stopped thinking about Rafe as The Baby That the title has already passed to my little girl “What is it?”


    Sinir asks, and I whip my head up to see that I was so lost in my thoughts that I didn’t even notice


    when he walked over to me.


    “Rafe’s not the baby anymore,” I say, sniffing even as Iugh at my own ridiculousness. “I didn’t even


    think about that “ “Of course he is,” Sinir says, smiling sympathetically at me and taking Rafe from


    my arms. “He’s always the baby.” “He’s already so big!” I insist, gesturing towards him. “He was trying


    to stand up in his crib today! And now that there’s a Sinir cousining today – and another baby


    on the way “the tears start to spill down my cheeks and I press my hands to my poor mother’s heart.


    “Oh, he won’t be the baby anymore! He’s the eldest!” Sinirughs at me a little, shaking his head.


    “He’s always our baby, E. You know that. He can be both.” I stand quickly, reaching for my baby boy


    and clutching him protectively to my chest when my mate hands him back to me. I shake my head as I


    look up at Sinir. “It’s just all going so fast…” “Life has a habit of doing that,” Sinir murmurs,


    stepping close and wiping my tears away with his thumb. ” But if it didn’t, you won’t get to live it.” I nod,


    sighing and looking down at Rafe, who looks up at me with curious and interested green eyes. I can’t


    help but smile at him and press a quick kiss to his head. Then I look back up at his father. “Let’s not tell


    anyone about the new baby yet, all right?” I say quietly, sniffing back thest of my sentimental tears.


    “Let Cora have her day.” “It’s a good idea,” Sinir says, wrapping an arm around my shoulders and


    pressing a kiss to my forehead. ” Though Roger will probably be able to smell it on you.” “Do I already


    smell different?” I ask, my eyes going wide. I am, at best, a few days pregnant – honestly, even if that.


    Sinir sniffs the air around me lightly, experimental. “A little,” he says with a shrug. “It’s subtle, and


    Roger will be distracted, but yes, E, any wolf who gets close enough to you is going to be able to tell


    that you’re carrying my pup.” “Weird,” I say, looking down at myself and sniffing. “Why can’t I smell it?”


    “I don’t know,” he says, his mind already moving towards other things as he starts to look towards the


    closet door. “Can you usually smell yourself?” “I don’t know…” I say, honestly thinking about it.


    Seriously, I’ve known I’m a wolf for a while now, but it’s still weird. “Can Rafe smell the baby on me?”


    Sinirughs, tugging me along with him as he starts out of the closet and we cross to the door of our


    room. “I don’t know, ask him.” So I do, babbling a little to my sweet baby as we walk down the hall. But


    of course he doesn’t respond with his own words, though he sends a great deal of happiness down our


    bond and reaches out his hands to me, trying to touch my face and making meugh.


    I’m quite full with happiness as Sinir and I climb into one of the cars in the garage downstairs,


    surprising the poor sleepy attendants who rush to get it ready for us. But even with the little dy, we’re


    on the road in a few minutes, heading to Cora’s house to help her, and calm her mate, and greet the


    new little Sinir baby