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Artist: Karmin Song: Everything (perf for Jay+Kay)

"The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. ~Jean Giraudoux"

Korali's Pov.

Jordan picked me up off the table and walked me to the next room to see Luton. He knew he wouldn't be able to leave me in that room. I needed to see my friend. Luton's injuries were minor but it was no light threat. He was doing rounds at the border and was out numbered. He was beaten black and blue around his body, but he had gotten away enough before they could kill him. After treatment, Max and Cailo would take him home to his mate and children.

Another note had been left after the attack.

Tick, tick, tick tock.

Time is passing by

Waiting's not for amateurs

Its either do or die.

Worry about what type of death

Slow or will it pass you by?

I'm coming soon enough so be ready for the ride.

I was going to be sick. I worried for Jordan's safety, I worried for my own. From what all her stupid riddles seem to add up to her killing me, so that Jordan would become the ultimate psycho. What she didn't know was that Jordan didn't plan on living without me. Period. So it would be all for naught.

I rubbed at my stomach to calm myself down.

***

I tried to swallow my fear of Jordan's mother by readying the last of the boxes for the pregnancy announcement. The pack was waiting in the field and we thought that instead of worrying them with Jordan's mother, that we could

"You all can obviously tell by now, that I am pregnant." I smiled and they all had good natured laugh. "But we wanted to share the sex of the baby to the pack!"

Loud guesses roared over the field. Jordan and I smiled at each other before opening our separate boxes letting the blue balloons fly in the air. Children jumped around trying to catch them, and many different pack members came up to congratulate me and also to check on Jordan to see if he was showing any symptoms of being abnormal.

Jemma and Jalisa even came to see me. I haven't seen them since I first arrived here, so to see them was a shock.

When it started to die down, and families were having picnics around the space, Jordan sat me down for a rest handing me a Capri sun and a ham and turkey sandwich with cheetohs mashed into it.

"Do you have any--" before I could finish my sentence he pulled out a jar of orange jelly. I smiled kissing him before opening the jar.

"Uh--I know this is a random time to ask. But, did you want to get married?" It wasn't common for werewolves to get married. That was just a human law our kind tended to not follow. There was no point. We were soul mates, the moon was our witness, and we didn't need the law to acknowledge that.

"Nah," I smiled biting into my sandwich. "We're practically already married and I'm pregnant. That's what humans usually worry about happening right?" I laughed, "Too late."

He grinned, chuckling a bit before pulling out a sandwich for himself. When I felt a bit of movement in my stomach I squealed causing Jordan to look at me from his food abruptly.

"Feel!" I commanded, pressing his hand to me belly. I moved it around a bit before I felt another kick. Jordan's eyes widened and he looked at me with awe. When he moved again, Jay's hands moved around soothingly.

"He's going to be a runner. Unlike his mother." I remarked picking up my jam.

***

Jordan had been on the floor trying to assemble the bassinet for about 2 hours now, so I decided to put him out of his misery.

"Jordan," I called out. It was one of the empty bedrooms up stairs near ours. When I received no response I walked into the room knocking lightly on the door frame.

He looked up at me the pieces spread all over the floor. Much the same as they were hours ago. I smiled.

"Jay, I don't want to hurt your feelings. You're still my big strong Alpha, but I could have put this thing together an hour or two ago." Jordan grabbed my hand yanking me down to floor and into his lap.

"Then why would you let me suffer then? Put me out my misery. I'm not ashamed to say that I have no idea what I'm doing." He pecked my lips once before doing it again and again till it became a full on make out.

Once his hand started to slid up my shirt I stopped him. "Isn't that what got us in this situation?" I quirked an eyebrow at his lust-filled eyes.

"Building a bassinet?"

"No, well kind of, but" I laughed. "Pregnant."

He shrugged. "Well its not like I can get you pregnant twice at one time so I say we enjoy it."

My stomach was a lot bigger at this point. I had only a month and a half to go and the symptoms were getting more severe and more annoying. I was round, I weighed almost twice as much, yet Jordan still picked me up and carted me around as if I weighed nothing.

His lips pressed against mine twice and my hands threaded into his hair.

"Knock, knock." Kaliko said, walking into the room. "Jordan's still not done with this thing? Its been like 12 hours."

"Five," he corrected with a frown, glaring at her. Jordan and Kaliko's relationship was heartwarming. He treated her like the sister he never got to grow up with. It always made me smile when they interacted.

"Well, even then you still got nowhere. Well except my best friend in your lap. Don't you think you've had enough of that?" She smiled picking up one of the bassinet's legs.

"I mean, I did get her pregnant, so I've had a lot. But I'm still touching her, so probably not enough. So does that answer your question?"

"Yeah, but that also just proves that your pull out game is weak!" That caused me to lie back in Jordan's arms my body vibrating from my laughs. I could feel Jordan's glare and hear Kaliko's laugh at her own joke. "Anyway, I wasn't here to break up your time alone. I came because Max told me to tell Jordan that there was a pack disagreement that he should be handling."

Jordan's shoulders slumped slightly, before he let out a sigh, kissing my forehead and lifting me up with him. He set me on my feet giving Kaliko one last glare before leaving.

"You want to help me get this done before he's back just to spite him?" I asked holding up a screw driver.

"You know it. Anything to irritate Jordan."

***

"You don't need McDonald's Kore, it gives you really bad heartburn and diarrhea remember," Jordan reminded softly and for some reason that hit a nerve and irritated the shit out of me.

"Don't tell me what I need and don't need."

"I'm just looking out for you and my son's health," he added quickly a small frown forming.

"You didn't even want this baby until a month ago! You don't have much of a say in anything really!"

His eyes thinned and he retorted sarcastically "Oh I don't? I did put him there!"

"My vagina, my uterus, I'm carrying him. You didn't even care about this baby. You're really working on my nerves today aren't you Jordan?" I don't know why I said it. But I said it. And it was no going back now.

"At first, I didn't want him!" He yelled. "Is that what you want me to say? Is that what you want?" His chest heaved violently and his hands were in the air. "But he's coming and he's my child just as much as he's yours. And I will love him." He ran a hand through his hair. "You've been pushing at that since the beginning. Okay Korali, I admit it. I don't know what else you want me to say? That if you died, I would somehow be suddenly okay to live without you for him. I'm sorry but that's not the truth and I can't force myself into that belief. Not even for you."

My mouth formed into disgust not even thinking about his last sentence. At the moment I didn't care "You really sicken me, I swear. I need to be away from you." I started to walk towards the door, Jordan quickly behind me. He slammed the door just as I opened it and I turned around to face him, completely livid.

"Don't just walk away Korali! I'm not even sure what you're angry about? The truth or are you scared of it?"

"You! I'm angry at you! I don't want to be around you right now and you keep trying to control me! I need to leave," I said through gritted teeth.

"You're not going anywhere. The pack is on high alert and--"

"I don't give a fuck. I'm going."

"No you're not."

I shot him an 'are you serious' look. "I can do whatever the fuck I want."

He sighed his anger leaving his face almost instantly. "Korali I'm not trying to control you."

I narrowed my eyes at his so called I give up demeanor. "Then leave me alone." I muttered finally opening the door and walking out of it. He watched me from the door like a lone puppy while I walked to the pack house.

When I caught up to Kaliko who was with Max, like usual. They were outside polishing their surfboards.

"Kaliko can you please take me to see Peter?" I pouted, asking a bit sweetly. Max looked up, squinting because of the glaring sun.

"Isn't Peter the one Jordan hates?" Kaliko and I both ignored him.

"Kore, you look ready to pop. You sure Jordan's going to let you off the territory?"

"I don't care what Jordan says. For one, he's not the boss of me. For two, I want to see Peter."

Kaliko looked at Max for a second, as if asking for advice and I was irritated at the wait. I wanted to be as far away from my selfish mate as possible.

"Sure. Let me go get Arion and we'll be on our way." I waited by the car with Max. He stood next to me and I glared at him.

"What'd I do Flower?"

"Give me your phone."

"What? No."

"You're going to tell Jordan where we are and I wont have it."

"Korali, you can't just not tell him. He'll panic."

"You'll do what I want or I'll bite you."

He narrowed his eyes at me. "What happen to my sweet flowerchild?"

"She's having a baby who's sitting on her bladder heavily and fucking with her emotions now give me the phone or I'll do what I promised."

"We shouldn't be gone long, so I'll do it. But if not and he's angry when we get back, you're dealing with the consequences."

"Gladly. I'm not afraid of him."

"I'm not afraid of him. More like worried for him," he muttered dropping the phone in my palm.

When we arrived at Peter's apartment, we had dropped Max at some strange house. He said it was an errand and I didn't stop to think about it.

I knocked once before hearing Peter's voice announce that he was coming.

"Kore!" Peter opened the door wide and I smiled waiting for him to look down. His jaw dropped and arms dropped from about to hug me. "What the fuck." He muttered in disbelief.

"It's nice to see you too Peter, now let me in, my feet hurt and my back is killing me." He opened the door wider, allowing me to saunter in and plop on his couch. Kaliko and Arion trailed after sitting next me.

"Okay, two questions. One, who is she?" He asked gesturing his head towards Arion. "And two, you're pregnant... like I guess months ago."

"To answer you first question, this is Arion. She's a close friend, who's been," I looked for a proper word. "Sheltered. She needed to meet new people. Thus, you. To answer you second question that wasn't really a question, no. At the time you guessed it, I was not pregnant. But I am now!" I shrugged.

"If you weren't pregnant now, how are you so huge?"

"Luckily I'm comfortable with my state and that comment doesn't bother me. But I'm just huge faster."

His eyes narrowed, "When are you due?" For some reason Peter's questioning bothered me.

"A month and a half," I couldn't lie. The child was going to be here and it hadn't been enough time for a full baby to develop and come out looking healthy in human standards especially since the last time I've seen Peter.

"Time isn't adding up." His eyes narrowed and he sunk into the chair across from me.

"I must have been pregnant then but didn't know." I added quickly. "But I wasn't staying with Jordan because of it!" I breathed out slightly, rolling myself to sit up. I got up, having to empty my bladder, since the baby was sitting on it. Before I got passed the table a sharp pain went through my abdomen and I clutched the table. Zavier kicked a couple of times much to my bladder's annoyance.

"Korali are you alright?" Kaliko asked in a rush, quickly coming to my aid Peter and Arion right next to her.

"Yes. Yes. I'm fine. You might want to step away though." Kaliko and Arion, knowing what was happening quickly sped across the room and Peter put his hand on my back trying to help me which activated my stomach to release the gas.

"That's so fucking gross Kore," Peter griped, covering his nose with his hands and laughing.

"I told you guys to get away, they listened."

"How does Jordan deal with that?"

"Wall plug ins and the window open." I giggled finally going to the restroom. When I got back Peter just stared at me with a soft look on his face.

"Do you want this kid?"

"Yes." I affirmed with a small smile on my face and my hand resting on my enlarged abdomen. Zavier was a bit restless today. Which made me miss Jordan.

"What the name?"

"His name is Zavier."

"Any particular reason why?"

"Nope. Just felt right."

"I support you in anything you do. But Korali, are you ready?"

"No," I told the truth. There was no point in lying. "I'm young and this is new. But it's Jordan and I's baby and we will love him." Then I added after a few seconds of silence. "And before you get the idea that Jordan forced me to keep this child or whatever, trust me, he didn't. Like I've told you before, Jordan's home life wasn't the best. So children wasn't a desire."

Peter pursed his mouth for a moment. "Have you spoken to your mom?"

"Actually yes," I nodded sinking down into his cushions more. Peter's eyes never left my stomach and he looked at it with keen interest.

"Kaia said," then he stopped and turned his head towards the window. I looked down at the floor for a second before bringing my eyes back to his.

"She said what Peter?" I swallowed, this Kaia person said something that obviously bothered Peter.

"Nothing," he rolled his eyes. "It's mythical, she's crazy. And I'm in love with a crazy person."

"You're in love, Peter?" Kaliko cooed with a smile on her face. I noticed a look of envy but it quickly passed.

I narrowed my eyes at him. "What'd she say?"

"That you were werewolves." He huffed, "Crazy I know. Maybe I can get her help. Medication will only help stop these delusions."

"Did she say what she was?"

His head popped up and he raised an eyebrow at me. "Don't tell me you believe these delusions? Every one I know is a fucking nut!" He placed his head in his hands. "This is stressing me out."

"Peter," Kaliko started softly. "We couldn't tell you because it's a secret. It's how it works."

"Kaliko," he rolled his eyes. "You can quit the joke. It's not funny. She's dead serious about this."

"And so are we. Please don't freak out Peter--which I guess is too late. We're werewolves that's why we were so adamant about soul mates. That's why Korali is pregnant so fast. Werewolf pregnancies are only 6 months long."

"I think I'm going to pass out. You guys are fucking crazy and Korali you shouldn't be bringing a child into this world with thoughts like that. I'm calling Jordan, so that he can put you in a hospital or something."

"We'll show you!" I blurted. "Well one of them will, it takes too much energy for me to shift while I'm pregnant."

"I'll do it." Arion spoke quietly. She walked behind the couch to conceal herself as she stripped down out of her clothes.

"Why is she getting naked? Stop her." He shook his head in disbelief.

Arion's bones crunched and creaked as she shifted into her wolf coming from behind the couch and sitting on the carpeted floor in front of Peter. His mouth hung in disbelief and his eyes were widened.

"I think I have a headache." He rubbed at his temples.

"You cannot tell anyone, Peter." I rushed, "Not even your best friends."

"They wouldn't believe me anyway." He pushed a hand through his disheveled hair. "I need to call Kaia." After he paused. "Uh, you guys. I need to be alone for awhile. I'll, I'll call Kaliko for entry when I come visit. I'll bring Kaia with me, if we're still together."

I knew Jordan was probably at home fuming. He had called my phone about 50 times already and I hadn't answered. I told Kaliko and Arion not answer him either. Arion felt a little squirmy about disobeying an Alpha, but then again, she had been taking orders for most of her young life so she needed to get over that.

"But Kore, he's probably really worried" she whined once we left Peter's apartment. He was distraught for now, but he'd get over it.

"He should have thought about that before he said what he said."

"You're overreacting," Kaliko said, shrugging her shoulders, stopping me in my tracks by walking in front of me and turning around. "Jordan cares about you two, and he wants you two to be safe."

"In truth, you did goad him into saying it. He didn't want to."

"But if its how he feels then he should say it."

"But you knew how he felt at the beginning. And he did say it in past tense. You're making a big deal out of this."

I pouted at my friends not being on my side. Once they bought me McDonalds with a large shake I was in a good mood once again and I suddenly felt bad for how I treated Jordan. My bottom lip jutted out and my eyes started to water. I took a deep breath sipping more of my shake, trying to conceal my feelings.

"You hear me Kore?" Kaliko said and then she looked over at me. "Are you about to cry?"

"No," I croaked my lips pursing together and my face scrunching slightly.

"What's wrong?" Arion asked with a concerned expression, she placed her hand over mine and then I couldn't control the waterworks.

"I miss Jordan and I'm so sorry and I love him and I was such a bitch and I didn't mean anything I said and trying to control him really and I--I--I" my run on sentence was cut off by a sob. I placed my head on the table and my shoulders shook with the amount of emotion I was expelling.

Arion being the nearest to me rubbed my back soothingly and Kaliko got up saying she'd be back around with the car.

After picking up Max who was covered in mud, we arrived back home Jordan was pacing at the entrance restless and shaking. His fists were clenched and he was breathing harshly.

I got out the car and ran to him. "Korali where the fuck did you go?" He roared, pulling me roughly, and trying to look me over frantically.

"I was angry for no reason, so I had Kaliko take me to visit Peter." He was a blotchy red color, as if he suddenly had really bad rosacea. I could see the worry in his eyes and the panic.

His color evened out and he pulled me close. He started breathing in my neck and I didn't move, just let him calm down his wolf. "I'm just so glad that you're okay. I-I don't know what I'd do without you."

"I was only gone for 2 and a half hours," I mumbled in his chest.

"I didn't know where you were. And there was a threat."

"A threat? Is anybody hurt?"

"Everyone's fine. We just thought--"

"I'm so sorry Jordan. I was angry for no reason; I was trying to force something on you that was wrong of me. You weren't being controlling, you were looking out for me. I can feel the heartburn coming on now. I love you so much and I hope you can forgive me."

"Of course I forgive you. You forgave me for when we first met. I wont lie to you. The thought that you were with that human, and our baby was near someone who their mom loves made me livid."

I struggled to not let the smile erupt from hearing 'our baby.' "Jordan, I love Peter platonically. And after the baby bomb I dropped today, he knows for sure."

"I love you so much. I need you to know that. And despite my outward reaction. I'm afraid Korali. I haven't felt that feeling since I was 8. I'm afraid I'm going to be a fuck up parent and my kid ends up hating me.

"Oh," I sighed placing my hand on his cheek.

"There's nothing we can do but love them. You are not your parents." I leaned into his chest cuddling deeper. "I never want to argue like that again. I for one never thought arguing was because of passion."

"Me neither. Are you sure you got everything off your chest about this baby thing? Because that was the root. Holding off on your feelings is how you end up with pent up aggression."

"You're right and no. I think that was the rest of it. I think I was pinning my doubts and fears onto you." He only nodded at my admission, pulling me closer if that was possible. I leaned up and pressed my lips to his twice before we finally let go of each other's mouths. Our bodies were still pressed against each other and when Zavier kicked, I knew that Jordan had felt it.

"Your baby's up." I rolled my eyes about to grab his hand to go home when a voice cut through the silence.

"Brother, I've realized my wrongs and I ran away from mom. She's--she's raised me to be someone I don't want to be." Mahalia stuttered and finally fell to the ground to her knees. "I know I may seem untrustworthy but I'm only 14, she's all I had." She finally clutched her arm to reveal a long oozing cut. "She did this to me." She scrunched her eyes really tightly before a tear dropped.

I looked up at Jordan's face to see many different emotions in his expression and I didn't know how to feel.

How do you guys feel? Do you trust Mahalia? How should Jordan and Kore feel about her arrival? How do you feel about Korali's mood swing? About Peter finding out? Are you ready for the suspense? What's a question that needs answers(about the story)?

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(I've been working on the TBMS and it's going pretty good. I should have a sneak peek of the new version by next chapter. Question: What's your favorite movie?)