Chapter XXXVII

"Baby, wake up," the soothing sound of Atlas' voice awoke me from my sleep. After the event in my office, Atlas cleaned the both of us up and insisted that I rest while he finished out his day. I was wrapped in a giant fluffy blanket and made to lay down on the couch. I protested of course, but after a few minutes, I was passed out on the sofa in his office.

I grumble and try to bury myself further into the couch cushion making Atlas laugh at me a bit. "Sorry, she has had a rough day."

The sound of him saying that snapped my eyes open. I felt embarrassment rise in my cheeks as I recall the horrifying nickname, he called me earlier. I sit up with a pout and turn away from him to see Ellie and Declan.

"Ignore him, I am." I grumble out rubbing my eye with my hand.

Atlas moved to sit next to me on the couch with a shake of his head, "You guys got me in trouble."

I lean my head back and laugh at that. Once I stop, I turn to him, "oh yeah. They are completely the reason I am not talking to you."

"Are you going to make me grovel all day because I called you Squirtle?"

My mouth hangs open as Declan and Ellie die of laughter.

"Dude, look at her face. She is going to murder you!" Declan shouts with his hand on his stomach.

Declan might not be the smartest of the bunch, but he was spot on with this analysis. My face is beat red holding the hardest scowl that it ever has before in my life.

Atlas tries so hard not to break his blank face as the other two soak up my embarrassment.

"Atlas Roman Lycurgus, do not," I point to his face giving clear instructions on not to laugh. I can see him cracking under the pressure, so I turn to our betas to change the subject. "What's up with you two?"

Cel spoke for the first time in forever it felt like.

Ellie dries her tears with the pads of her fingers as she normalizes her breathing, "we came by to talk to you two."

Within a second, Declan goes from jolly to passive. Atlas can sense it too because a feeling of worry washes over me from the bond. "Let us all sit down then." He says getting off the couch. He grabs my hand and walks us over to his giant leather office chair. After sitting on it, and making himself comfortable, he tugs me onto his lap.

I instinctively wrap my arms around his neck and lay my head on his chest. Comfort came over me as his two strong arms pulled me closer into his chest and held me there. Declan and Ellie sit across from us in the chairs placed in front of Atlas' giant oak desk.

"We want to get married, like soon." Declan starts off yanking me from my protective bubble.

"Like this weekend soon," Ellie bites her bottom lip and looks away, "I know that is asking a lot and that is a lot of paperwork for my family to visit and I am sorry."

"Do not be sorry about the paperwork," Atlas spoke with his eyebrows together, "Declan can handle that, but why so soon?"

"Well, you see-" Declan starts but is interrupted by Ellie.

"I'm pregnant." Her is blunt when she says this, and her face holds no emotion on how she is feeling. Silent alarms go off in my head and it pushes me to leave the embrace of my mate and make it to her side.

She doesn't make an attempt to look at me as I come down beside her. "Ellie," my voice is soft as I take her hand from her lap into mine. "Are you okay?"

Her expression crumbles and silent tears stream down her face as the males watch on silently "I am scared, but I honestly could not be happier." Ellie's sunshine smile breaks through "My dad is going to kill him, but I am excited."

Declan exhales deeply at her statement and looks back at Atlas who is watching Ellie and I with careful eyes. "Congrats you two." he finally says with a big goofy smile.

"Thank you, Alpha," Ellie laughs through her tears and squeezes my hand.

Atlas lets out a small laugh at her and shakes his head, "please, Ellie, start calling me Atlas. It makes me feel weird that my best friend's wife is calling me by my title."

"Wife." Ellie smiles over to Declan who is beaming with joy. Ellie stops their moment and plucks me from my position and into a tight hug. "We have to start wedding planning! Like now!"

I chuckle at her and return the hug, "and we need to get you three into your own house."

"Already on it, my love." Atlas says from behind me.

I pull away from Ellie and help her to her feet. "Come on! We can use my office to plan!"

Ellie squeals and Declan stands to walk with us but I push him back into his chair. "No males, you stay with Atlas and figure out groom shit."

"Is that an order, Alpha Female?" Declan teases.

"Maybe it is or a threat that I will beat your ass again and this time do it in front of the whole pack so they make fun of you." I say with a sweet smile.

"Ladies," Atlas stands from his chair with an eye roll. "Ev, speaking of Alpha Female, when do you want to do the ceremony?"

"Uh," I say now being put on the spot, my mind goes blank to all my previous commitments.

Celeste sparks up to much of my annoyance.

"The sooner the better. Whenever we can. I don't even know the tradition for PM." I finally say.

Atlas walks around his desk and leans on the front of it with his arms crossed. "Well," Goddess he looks so good. "After we pick a date, I would announce it to everyone. Then during the ceremony, we will all be in wolf form. It is more than a mateship when it comes to being Alphas, the rawest form of our selves is our wolf so the pack will accept you or deny you purely on that. Once they accept you, we will go on a run and have a bonfire after."

"That is not intimidating at all."

"You will be fine," he reassures me and smiles "The soonest we can do it," he looks over at the calendar hanging on the wall. "We can do it on Wednesday." Today is Monday, that leaves me with two days to mentally prepare myself for this.

"That's fine." I say biting my lip trying to calm my nerves in my stomach.

"Should we have like a dinner to tell the people closest to all of us all of this?" Declan asks looking between all of us.

In reality, we should. This is a lot at once and I would feel terrible if Josh, Leo or Artemis was told by the announcement about all of this. "That is a good idea. We can do it at our house tonight." I say and ignore Atlas throwing a toddler tantrum at my invitation. "See you all later." Just like that, we are out the door and in my office.

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