Legally Mated (MM Gay Mpreg Romance) (Mercy Hills Pack Book 5) by Ann-Katrin Byrde

Author:Ann-Katrin Byrde [Byrde, Ann-Katrin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-07-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 33

After dinner, Holland sent Duke outside with the pups to play again. Duke obediently gathered up the pups and a bag full of toys and herded them out the door. Holland followed him out with a bag of store-bought cookies for bribes, handing them out with a cheerfully evil grin while Duke heaved a sigh of resignation. Laine heard him say, “I hope you’re going to be around to help put them to bed,” and Holland was grinning in broad amusement as he came through the door.

“I have to feed the baby. You can wash the dishes.”

Laine raised his eyebrows at him but went without complaint. He was hunting now, trying to find out what Holland wanted from him, and also to see if he could tease out of Holland what Laine could do to ease the pack into accepting him and his relationship with Garrick.

Holland came back a few minutes later, carrying a baby in the first stages of turning fussy. “I hope you don’t mind him nursing while we talk,” Holland said, a hint of challenge in his tone.

“Not at all,” Laine said, and rinsed another plate before setting it in the drainer and starting on another one. “It’s natural. I’ll just keep washing up.” He caught a glimpse of Holland’s grin and turned back to the dishes as Holland stripped off his t-shirt with one hand. The baby made disgruntled noises as he was jostled, and then there was the creak of a chair and a low murmur from Holland before the baby’s gentle squawks turned to quiet sucking noises. Laine started in on the silverware and waited for Holland to begin talking.

He was moving on to the pots when a sigh from behind him signaled Holland was ready to begin. “So this puts the wolf in amongst the sheep.”

“What do you mean?” He set the small frying pan in the drainer and scrambled to keep one of the tumblers from falling out.

“Have you ever slept with him in heat?”

Laine paused with his hands in the water. “What—how would I know?” He turned around in time to see Holland slump a little in relief.

“You’d know.” He looked up at Laine. “Never mind, it’s not important.” He turned his gaze back down to the baby. “Laine, don’t think I don’t appreciate what you’re trying to do here, I do. Quin does. Garrick’s grown so much since you took him under your wing. He’s not so quiet, he’s more likely to speak up. He’s…happier.” Holland’s tone implied a certain sadness that he hadn’t been able to give Garrick that.

“Thank you. It makes me happy to see him happy, you know that?”

“I do. It doesn’t make this any easier.”

Laine pulled the drain plug in the sink and started rummaging through drawers looking for something to dry the dishes with.

“Just leave that,” Holland told him. “They’ll air dry as well as anything. Come sit.”

This didn’t sound good.

Laine took a chair kitty-corner to Holland and was struck again, in an objective manner, by the beauty of the man in front of him.

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