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|| TWO WEEKS LATER ||

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DYLAN ||

It took two fucking weeks for the idiots I called family to be taken to the kingdom to await their punishment from the council.

Currently it's 5am and the Kingdom Guards have just arrived. Dad linked the little family pack we have established to come out and witness one of the best things we would ever see.

Raiden, myself, the pride, Raiden's family, Taj, Bennett, Gabe, Avery, Hunter and our magical creatures stood outside the cells. Well all the magical creatures except Quiweeme, I haven't seen him in a few weeks since Rhogon brought King Kano to see the assholes in person to be honest.

Dad and King Kano welcomed the Kingdom Guards at the pack gate entrance and then escorted them to the area we all were waiting.

"Goodmorning everyone, the warriors behind me are my Kingdom Guards and they will be transporting your prisoners to the cells in the Kingdom, where they will await their punishments." King Kano announces before looking at two of the guards and motioning them to step forward.

"This is Beau and Derrick, my most trusted guards and they will be helping with the transport from inside the cells and into the imprisoned vehicles." King Kano introduced the two men.

I noticed the little look they gave each other.

"For anyone wondering, yes Beau and Derrick are mates, but their secret is safe with me as I'm sure it will be safe with you all and if you ever need anything else in the Kingdom and I'm unavailable, you can always reach out to either one of them."

King Kano then motions for Weheil to come to him, which the elf did, happily.

"Beau, Derrick, this is Weheil... He's a light elf, he lives here in the Shadow Pack and he's my mate." King Kano smiles down at his mate, as do the other two men after their initial shock.

"It's good to meet you, My Queen." Beau bows.

"Thank you for gracing us with your presence, My Queen." Derrick bows.

Weheil blushes before hiding his face into King Kano's side and nods to the men that have formally greeted him. I never noticed how shy Weheil actually was, I wondered if that was just an elf thing or a Weheil thing because his brother, Quiweeme isn't shy at all.

After introductions, I slipped Raiden's arms around me and watched King Kano, my dad, Beau and Derrick go down into the cells.

Maybe 10 minutes later, they all came back up, King Kano led the way with my dad and the two Kingdom Guards behind him, each with a prisoner in hand.

"Stop! Wait please! Please! Don't do this please!" Jade pleaded with King Kano, while thrashing in Beau's arms before her hands landed on me. "My son please! I'm so sorry! Please do something! Don't let them kill your mother!"

I turned my head away from her, burying my face in my mate's neck and doing my best to ignore her cries for help.

This was hard to watch and hard to hear the woman I called my mother, cry out for me, but I know this woman doesn't deserve even an ounce of my love anymore.

"Dylan please! Bennett, my son! I'm so sorry, please help me!"

"Oh shut up." Eva says, bringing my attention back to the ridiculousness in front of me.

Pulling my face from Raiden's neck, I watched as Beau threw Jade into the back of one of the armored vehicles, just as Derrick came out the underground door with Jake in his hands.

"Nephew please! We were young, so young when all this happened! Please, give us a chance to make everything better, please!" Jake cries out, doing his best to fight against Derrick's hold. "Dylan, Bennett, I'm sorry for everything that's happened, please, please don't do this! My King please hear us out!"

"We've heard enough, now go quietly or Eva will do her best to silence you." King Kano tells him as Derrick walks him towards the second armored vehicle before throwing him in and slamming the door shut.

Dad was the last one to come out the underground door with Dean in his hands.

It didn't surprise me that Dean wasn't fighting back or pleading his case, he clearly has accepted his fate.

Dad walks him quietly towards him the third armored vehicle, but stops because Dean stopped walking and turned his head towards myself, Raiden, Bennett and Taj.

"I'm not sorry for anything that's happened, but it was never supposed to get this far... You both truly are Liam's seeds, you made everything difficult for me, Jake and your mother and clearly neither of you are Alpha material..... Garrett will run his own pack with the correct mindset, something I tried to instill into both of you, but you were too dumb headed for the information to ever take... I tried to tell you how to act, how to think, how to conduct yourselves but neither of you ever listened.. I'm glad you both won't ever run a pack with any of my members because they need strong leadership, not leadership coming from wolves like you..... My son knows this and he will give his pack the Luna they deserve, he would never be as weak minded or foolish as you two and he would never be mated to a man." Dean snarls at both of us before focusing his attention on me. "Much less be a pregnant Alpha male."

I scoff at his words as does Bennett. Our felines tightening grip around us. Who would have thought both of us would be mated to men, who were felines and coincidentally, both black leopards.

The Gods and Goddesses really knew what they were doing and I'm so glad they gave us such strong, understanding mates because if Bennett fought his bond and treated his mate like I treated Raiden, we could have lost the most important beings in our lives and our present situation would have never happened.

Thank you Goddess.. Thank you for giving me Raiden

"You done? Got it all out now?" Dad asks, boredom written all over his face.

"Yup, I'm good." Dean growls back, then dad shoved him into the vehicle and gently shuts the door before turning around and shaking King Kano's hand.

"Thank you my King."

"Anytime Alpha Liam.. would you like to be present for the executions?"

Dad looks at me and Bennett, I shrug and my brother nods, so dad looks back at King Kano.

"Yes, we would love to be there, thank you."

"Perfect, I'll arrange your transports to the Kingdom when the time comes.... take care of my mate while I'm away, it looks like we will be seeing a lot of each other." King Kano tells dad before leaning down to kiss his mate one more time.

"I'll see you very soon little one." King Kano tells him.

"Ok my love." Weheil blushes again.

With that, Beau and Derrick followed King Kano and the rest of the Kingdom Guards into the other vehicles and made their leave from our pack.

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|| FOUR HOURS LATER ||

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After the hilarious foolishness earlier, Raiden took me back home so I could get some rest before my ultrasound.

However, that's not what I decided to do once I got home. I had the strongest urge to clean and wash baby clothes, then fold them the only way that made sense.... My way.

I literally cleaned the whole kitchen top to bottom, cleaned the bathrooms, the baby room, the livingroom, I even fucking vacuumed the couch and dusted the blinds. No matter how tired I was or how much I wanted to sit down, I just couldn't, it was like my mind was telling me that cleaning the entire house was the only thing that was important. Raiden tried to help of course because you know, he's fucking perfect, but I didn't want his help. My brain felt like I could do everything by myself, even with this 130 pound belly I have.

I'm now 16 weeks, so I've gone one week over what Miles and Allio thought I would and I couldn't be more fucking irritated about it. I thought these pups would come last week, but nope! They decided to continue to stew in my womb for another week and if they don't make an appearance by the end of this week, I will be going in there and taking them out myself. I don't know how, but I'll figure it out, damn it.

I LITERALLY HATE BEING PREGNANT!

Being near the end has been the absolute fucking worst when it came to symptoms, I swear. This can't be Goddess sent.

My back is killing me because of how fucking heavy this stupid belly is, like I'm a literal whale. I can't see my feet nor my dick anymore and even though I can't see them, I just know my feet and ankles are beyond swollen. I can't stand for very long without being in extreme fucking pain. My hips feel like someone has a 7500 pound boulder just sitting on them, like constantly.

There's so much pressure in my crotch and I just don't understand why. Like why the hell would there be pressure in my crotch if I'm not going to push my pups out my dick? Like why? WHY?!

Then there's the fact that I can't even climb a set of stairs or get out the car or even get off the furniture by myself. I hate feeling this helpless, it's obnoxious and I'm fucking over it. I'm never doing this again.

LIKE NEVER!

I'M NEVER GETTING PREGNANT AGAIN!

After cleaning for the last four hours and needing constant breaks in between because I'm huge and I was getting these stupid cramps, I finally felt like I could sit down and relax, but by that time, it was 10am and I had to get up again and get ready for my ultrasound appointment at 11am.

"Raiden! Come help me up please!" I yelled from my position on the couch, hugging my huge belly as I felt another weird crampy feeling.

My mate takes his time walking into the livingroom because he knew by now that I would have told him if I was pain or needed help and he didn't want to get hit or yelled at again.

After this pregnancy is over, I seriously have to make this all up to my mate because he's been amazing and I've been terrible.

"Hey puppy, are you ready?" He asks, walking towards the couch I was sitting on.

"No not yet, I still have to.. mmm." I tried to explain that I still had to get ready, but another cramp shot through my stomach and I clutched it even harder. Raiden rushes over to my side and kneels in front of me.

"Dylan? What's going on?"

"Nothing, just cramps.. I think I overworked myself." I groan out while the cramp worked it's way through my body. After maybe a minute, I sighed and then smiled at my mate's concerned expression.

"I'm fine babe, really... I get cramps all the time." I try to reassure him, but he shook his head.

"I'm going to bring this up to Miles and Allio."

"No, please don't.. the last time you told them I was having cramps, they put me on bed rest for a week and that was torture... just let me work through it and I'll be fine, plus if they put me on bed rest again, then we can't go on our date tonight and I really want to."

"Pups.."

"Raiden please."

He stared at me for a while, his frown deepening before sighing and agreeing to let it go for now. Raiden knew how miserable I was when Miles and Allio put me on bed rest, it was literally torture.

Wolves can't be alone for too long, I need to be around my pack and be able to do things as an Alpha. So it was a double whammy for me and I refuse to be put on that shit again. Nope not happening and these cramps will just have to work their way through my body because I will be going on my date tonight.

"Ok pups, let's get you up and ready."

I extended my hands for Raiden to pull me off the couch, then he helped me walk up the stairs and into our room. Of course I needed his help getting dressed too because like I've said, I can't see my fucking feet or my dick and putting on pants has now become a chore that I'm not willing to complete anymore.

Once my perfect mate helped me get dressed, I went into the bathroom to brush my teeth and wash my face while Raiden ran his fingers through my hair with some gel, styling it the way he liked it and I didn't fight him because the last 16 weeks, I've only been worried about lugging his belly around and I couldn't care less about the way my hair looked.

Who cares anyways? I'm pregnant with a litter and everyone who has anything negative to say about my recent lack of care, could kiss my entire ass.

"Shit." I hissed, dropping my face towel and grabbing the counter as another cramp worked it's way through my stomach.

Raiden wrapped his arms around me and rubbed my belly just like he would everytime I had one of these cramps for the past week, although these seemed stronger than the ones he told Miles and Allio about last week.

"Pups, these are getting worse, maybe we should mention it to Miles and Allio." Raiden whispered cradling my belly.

"No babe, please.. if anything we can mention it after tonight, I really want to go on our date." I pleaded.

"Ok pups, but promise me you won't overwork yourself anymore today." He says, looking at me through the mirror.

"I promise." Holding his gaze until he nods, I smile softly and nod, signaling I'm ok now, so Raiden unwraps his arms from my body and helps me out the bathroom.

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Arriving at the hospital, we make our way up to the 5th floor to the medical clinics. I sit in the lobby while Raiden checks us in and it only took maybe 15 minutes before Miles and Allio called us back to one of the exam rooms.

I already knew the drill, so I laid on the exam table and rolled my shirt up, then pulled the waist band of my pants down just enough for Miles to do his thing.

The heartbeats surrounding the room tells everyone that all our pups are healthy, despite still only being able to see one on the screen.

"Well based off the one pup we can see and the measurements I'm able to get from your belly, you are on the right track Dylan, hopefully these little ones make an appearance soon." Miles says with a huge smile.

"Do you have an idea when they might come because I'm miserable and if you don't do something, I'm going to take them out myself." I growl, making Raiden chuckle.

"No we can't really tell our expectant parents when they will see their little ones, but seeing how you are far enough along, I can schedule you for an early C-Section."

"What does that involve?" Raiden asks nervously.

"It's a procedure that we will perform that involves cutting through about 7 layers of muscle and tissue...."

"What?!" Both myself and Raiden shout, causing Allio to fall out of his chair again, as expected from any loud noise that scared the so called werewolf. Miles helps his mate up without even a single change of expression, I'm sure he was used to his mate's jittery nature by now.

Dude... Get your shit together man.....

"Yes, the body is a very complex vessel and there's about 7 layers of muscle and tissue between your skin and your womb." Allio explains as he allows Miles to help him back into his seat.

"Once we get to Dylan's womb, we will then pull each pup out along with their placentas. Taking our time to make sure there is no lingering fetal tissue and then stitch him up and his healing process will about 4-6 weeks after." Miles explains, causing me to frown.

"Why can't I just heal him?" Raiden asks.

"Because his body will still be reacting to the pregnancy hormones that will linger throughout. He will be unable to shift, therefore his expedited healing mechanisms won't be much help because his body will still act like it's pregnant."

"So I'll still be hormonal and heal like a fucking human even after giving birth?!"

"Unfortunately yes." Allio says.

"Oh that's great.." I say sarcastically.

"Will the C section hurt him?" Raiden asks.

"No, we will make sure he's comfortable and completely numb from the chest down before we begin the procedure and don't worry, there will be a medical tarp up so you won't be able to see any of the gorey stuff." Miles nods.

"Is there anything else that you two want to mention today while we have you?" Allio asks, causing Raiden to shoot me the coldest side eye.

I narrow my eyes at him and growl quietly in warning, which makes him roll his eyes.

"No, nothing to report." Raiden tells them before shaking his head.

"Alrighty then! I'll get your C Section scheduled and we will give you both a call."

"Thank you Miles. Thank you Allio."

Raiden helps me sit up on the table as the doctors leave the room. As soon as the door was shut, he goes to open his mouth but I stop him.

"Please babe, you promised."

"Fine." He growls before helping me off the table.

Seeing how we weren't exactly dressed for a special night, Raiden drives us back home. With it now being 1pm, we went up to our room and got in a much loved nap before needing to get ready for our date.

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|| 5PM- GETTING READY FOR THE DATE ||

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Raiden took his clothes and hygiene products and went into one of the spare rooms to get ready, which just made me even more nervous about our date.

I've never been on a fucking date before. Even when I dated girls throughout high school, I wanted to ask them out on dates but Dean and Jake said Alphas shouldn't stoop that low to ask someone out, the one who wants to date the Alpha should always make the initiative.

Fucking dumbasses.

So now I'm panicking because I don't know what I'm doing right now. Trying to think of the only people I know that's been a date and that left me with Hunter, Roman, Gabe, Avery, Taj, Bennett, Dad and Emilio.

Well I'm definitely not asking for Gabe, Avery, Hunter or Roman's help because I would never hear the end of it. They would tease me until the day we all die, so that left my brother, his mate, my dad and Emilio.

Well I trust all of them and they haven't teased me about anything so far, so yeah, I'm going with them.

"Bennett, Taj, Emilio, Dad.... I need help please, come to my house. I'm in my bedroom."

After calling them through the pack link, I sat on the edge of my bed and waited for them to arrive, which didn't take long. I swear 10 minutes later, my bedroom door bursts open and they all rushed in, breathing hard with panicked expressions across their faces.

"What is it? What happened son?" Dad and Emilio both panic, rushing to my side and fussing over me.

"Why the hell did you sound so upset? Are you in pain? Is it the pups?" Bennett asks, clutching his chest and leaning against the wall, as Taj walks towards the bathroom.

"Who's ass am I kicking?" Taj growled, frantically searching my room.

"Everyone calm down, I'm not in trouble or hurt or anything, I just need help getting ready for my date." I tell them, chuckling at their worried expressions.

"Your date?" Dad asks, finally pulling shirt back down.

"You have a date?" Emilio asks.

"Yes." I smile.

"You mean to tell me you sounded that panicked over a date?" Bennett growls, placing his hands on his hips.

"You almost gave us a heart attack Dylan, you know you're getting close to giving birth, you can't sound so panicked like that and expect us to act normal." Taj breathes out, clutching his chest.

"I'm sorry everyone, I was nervous and I didn't mean to scare everybody, but I do need help."

"Ok, ok. How can we help?" Dad asks, seeming to have calmed down.

"I don't know what to wear."

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I shouldn't have told the chaotic party of men that shit because now I realize they are not helpful at all and I won't be asking for help picking out clothes again.