Chapter Fourteen
Lindsey looked at Amy whose mouth was gaped open like her own. She could tell her friend was about to smile and scream with joy.
“Don’t you dare, do not say a thing, got it?” Hissed Lindsey to Amy.
Amy frowned but closed her mouth, she couldn’t wipe the smiled from her face though. It was incredibly irritating to Lindsey.
“Hey, what are you guys talking about,” said Jayden as they walked into the kitchen.
“Nothing!” Said both woman in unison.
The men looked at them suspiciously.
“Okay, well, we should go. I wanted to, I don’t know. Go shopping or something I guess. Come on honey,” said Amy to Colfax as she grabbed his hand and drug him from the kitchen and out the front door.
“Oh good, I love shopping,” said Colfax, his voice full of sarcasm.
He waved to Jayden and Lindsey as Amy drug him out of the house.
Jayden looked at Lindsey when they hear the door close, “that was a little bit strange, wasn’t it?”
Lindsey quickly stepped away from Jayden and started to clean up the kitchen, “sure, I mean, Amy does like shopping and they are going to have to start packing.”
“Packing?” He asked her.
“Oh right, I gave her the house, I want them to live here since I won’t need it anymore,” said Lindsey, still avoiding eye contact with him.
“Wow! That’s wonderful! She will be good for Colfax; he had never enjoyed living in the pack like some of us. It happens, he’s a shifter.” Said Jayden.
“Oh! That makes senses now why Amy knew so much about them,” said Lindsey.
“Is that what you two were talking about?” Said Jayden.
“It doesn’t matter,” said Lindsey as she moved to Jayden and put her arms around his neck. She stood on her toes and kissed him as he leaned down to kiss her. “How did it go with the pack?”
Jayden sat down, “it went well. They have dealt with Beyer and now they are getting ready for the move. Aeron sent us back to help you. The transition can be rough, especially with you changing soon,” he said as she listened intently.
She wanted to know as much as possible about what to expect over the next few months, “okay so what do we do?”
He smiled at her enthusiasm, “well, we will move in a few days but it won’t be far. Our pack has a permanent home base in Colorado. You will love it there; I promise it’s not as rustic as you feel. I have a cabin that I built.”
She smiled, it sounded like heaven, “I can’t wait. How long will we stay there?” She asked him.
“Longer than normal,” he said, “we wouldn’t go so early in the season normally. We would go around and help other packs, it’s our passion, helping others. One of our woman though is pregnant, it’s a beautiful thing but trekking can be hard with a first child. We will head back and wait for her to give birth. Then we will stay through the winter. It’s actually wonderful. The perfect time to have a child, he will be old enough to run the first time we leave in the spring,” said Jayden.
Lindsey started to fidget in her seat, “so, do you like kids?” She asked him.
He looked at her in surprise, “I have never thought about it to be honest, I didn’t think that I would ever find someone I could love enough to have a child with.”
Jayden slid from the chair onto his knees in front of her, “now that I have you, though, I think, when the time is right, I would love to have many children. I have four brothers and two sisters, they are spread out across the world. I chose to stay with my father though, one day, I will lead the pack.”
Lindsey looked at him in shock, “you will lead the pack? Is your father the pack leader now?” She asked him, wondering who he was. She was becoming nervous; she hadn’t thought about all of the other people she would be meeting soon. Lindsey hadn’t grown up with a ton of people in her life. What if they didn’t like her?
“Lindsey? Come back to me?” Said Jayden, he could see the fear growing in her eyes, “they will love you just like I love you, I promise. Already my father thinks you are wonderful. I can’t wait for you to meet the rest of them.”
“Your father?” She asked, “is your dad, Aeron?”
Jayden smiled and nodded to her, “oh wow.”
They sat in silence for a few minutes, he could tell she needed the time to think about everything that he had told her. As they sat, he looked at the box on the table and opened it. Seeing the gold bands, he smiled and picked one up. Lindsey was off in her own little world, thinking about things. He took her hand and she smiled at him.
“I’m fine, I promise. I have just got a lot of news today; you know?” She said.
She meant it too, she couldn’t think of anything more wonderful then leaving with Jayden. She wanted to have the child and enjoy their live together forever. Jayden took her hand, as he did, though, she jerked away, “ouch!” She said, then saw what had hurt her.
“Did the ring cut you?” Asked Jayden, looking at her clenched hand in concern.
“No, I’m fine,” she said.
She knew that she couldn’t wait forever to tell him. She had no idea what to expect with her transformation and now with a child on the way, she was scared. Nothing would keep her from being happy with Jayden, but was a shifter an outcast? If her child wasn’t a full blooded werewolf, would they treat him differently?
Jayden went pale as he watched her face, “Lindsey, what’s going on?”
She was out of time. She slowly opened her hand and looked down at her palm where the ring had once again burnt her skin. His eyes followed hers down.
“What happened?” He asked.
She didn’t need to say anything, she watched him working through it on his own, just as she had done. His eyes moving from the woods outside the window to her and finally settling on her stomach.
“Oh,” he whispered, his voice cracked and his skin was pale as her had been when she too put together the pieces of the puzzle.
“Jayden, if this isn’t what you want,” she started, she couldn’t bring herself to finish the sentence though.
His gaze shot up to her, “what?” He looked at her and smiled, a smile that lit up her world, “are you kidding me? I thought that my life couldn’t get any better when you told me you loved me. I thought to myself, ‘I am so blessed, nothing can make this better.’ You have just proven me wrong though! A child, a shifter! Do you know how rare our child will be? He will be loved by all.” Said Jayden.
Lindsey sat looking at him in shock, of all the things she had foreseen, this wasn’t one of them.
“So you are really happy?” She said, her heart was overflowing with joy.
He pulled her into his arms and looked her into her eyes, “I love you, and I will love you and our child forever.”
Lindsey looked at Jayden, “you have made me so happy. I love you too so very much.”
She looked into his eyes and knew that her life would change forever, for the better. The love that she felt would only continue to grow with the child she was carrying. They embraced passionately and she let him lead her upstairs to her bedroom. Lindsey smiled as she shut the bedroom door, ready to start on their new journey as a family.