Irina's POV

Looking at the small figure on the screen, my heart flutters a little as a smile creeps across my lips.

"It seems like the baby is healthy!" Jenny smiles as she wipes the gel off of my stomach. She hands me a napkin of my own to wipe as she stands to throw her's away.

I feel eyes looking at me and look up to see Jenny with watery eyes. "Jenny? What's wrong?" I ask sitting up on the bed, rolling down my shirt.

"I," She croaks. "I'm getting married!" Jenny holds up the dazzling ring on her finger.

"Oh my! That's a big ass ring!"

"Isn't it? I can't believe he proposed!"

"When did this happen?" I ask thinking back.

"Well, a month ago after us being under attack, Jake said he would lose himself if something had happen to me. I know it seems rushed, but Werewolves do things pretty fast. It feels right you know? I love him. And he loves me. As long as we are happy, you know?"

"I do," I say getting off the bed with my arms open wide. She embraces me and squeezes a little.

"I didn't want to tell you since you're going through your whole little situation. How is it living with Aiden?"

"Peaceful. Aside from his ex wife who watches me like a hawk, and when I look at her, she acts as if she wasn't staring at me."

"That's just Vivian," she laughs. "She loves Aiden more than anyone in the world. He is who turned her."

"Really?"

"Yep. I've never seen Aiden more in love with anyone in his years."

Hearing a knock on the door, it opens to reveal a scruffy looking Ezra. "Hi."
He has bags under his eyes, a beard that makes me do a double take. "What? Do I look that bad?"

"You do," I say. "You look like shit."

Ezra does a small smile and clears his throat. "Can we talk?"

I look at Jenny, and she does a small nod. Seeing how her alpha looks, I'm sure she would do anything to help him. I look back to him and nod my head yes. Ezra's eyes light up like a child seeing a Christmas tree full of present.

Walking out of the room, Ezra looks a bit nervous. "What?"

"Can I blindfold you?"

"Excuse me?" I say quickly turning around to him.

Ezra laughs. "I have a surprise for you. In order for it to be a complete surprise, I would have to blindfold you."

I squint my eyes at him. "Fine."

Ezra grins and walks behind me. He places the silk cloth over my eyes and ties it tight, but not too tight. "I swear if you make me fall," I start to say.

"I would never." He takes my hand, and starts to guide me to his surprise.

Just what on Earth could this be? Oh please don't be a room for me. I don't want to live here right now. Maybe it's a jail cell.

"Watch out for the steps," he says making me stop. I slowly raise my left foot and feel for a step.

Up the stairs? Oh no! Is he going to hold me hostage again? Not again! I can't keep going through this! Maybe I can slip away!

"Almost there," he says making me nervous as I open my eyes to only see darkness. I try to wiggle my nose and my eyebrows to see if that would help the blindfold me a little and it does nothing. So I close my eyes again and huff as the suspension drives me crazy.

"Your not going to kidnap me again are you? I can't handle that shit again!"

Ezra gets quit, but says, "No."

I sigh a bit of relief, but then says, "I'm sorry. I never should've done any of those things to you. You have to understand, I've never been in this situation before. I've never had something to call my own. I've roamed the world far before your parents parents and many before them were ever born. I murdered so many, so many people for selfish acts of my own. I don't know how I am suppose to act as of now."

"Well, not like an ass I can tell you that," I smirk. "But thank you."

"So, does that mean you'll move back in?"

My smile fades. "Let's not push it."

Ezra laughs and I finally notice that we haven't moved in a while. I hear a click, and a door open, and the aroma of gingerbread hits my nose.

I feel the cloth around my eyes loosen, and I open my eyes to a beautiful sight. Tears swell in my eyes as I look around at the gray, white, and tan nursery.

"Oh my, who? You?" I look to Ezra, stumped.

He just smiles and nudges me into the room. I wipe my tears away, and smile even bigger. I walk to the baby bed and feel the fluffy blanket inside. I smile at the bunny stuff animal, and pick it up.

"We are still unsure about what the child is, though I can sense it's a boy, I went ahead and did neutral colors.

"I love it," I say, without blinking. "Wait, a boy?"

"Yes," he smiles.

I frown. "We'll see. We won't know until we see that bare ass baby."

Ezra laughs, as do I, and it finally feels as if we are on the same page.

"That being said, will you consider moving back in?"

I lean my head back and grunt. Then I put my head down and sigh. "I still need more time."

"What?" He said shocked from my response.

"Ezra, this is sweet, but you've been nothing but mean to me since I've met you. You don't let me breath! You do a few nice things, and think that that is supposed to make up for everything, but it doesn't. I just need time."

Ezra grunts, eyes turning black at an endless pit. Anger clearly written on his face. "Fine," he growls. He marches out of the room, leaving me to shake my head in disappointment once again.

"Irina?" I hear a familiar voice ask.

Turning around, I see Rick with a half frown. "Alpha being an ass again?"

"Yep," I say popping the p.

He laughs and sticks his arm out for me to grab. Seeing as it must be time for one of our random walks, I take his arm, and we start to walk.

"Tell me what's wrong," I start, as we go down the steps.

Rick laughs. "Can't we just be walking to be walking?"

"No. Now, what's wrong?"

Rick pauses for a second, and smiles. "I've met someone. She's a human."

I now find myself pausing. "Is that legal in your world? Like, Can a human and a werewolf date?"

"They can. There's no rules. Vampires and Werewolves just dislike each other, and witches get thrown into the mix; therefore, they stick to themselves."

Rick pauses again and I stop walking once we reach the floor. "Rick, something else is bothering you. What is it?"

Rick chuckles and sticks out his arm again. I roll my eyes, take his arm, and we start walking. "I haven't dated someone in over fifty years."

I stop, and look at Rick. I look around to see us standing outside, with no one I site. "Are all of you just some insane age?"

"Pretty much," he laughs.

"Okay. I'll remember that. But, why haven't you dated in fifty years?"

"My last girlfriend left me when we were in Paris for a meeting. She slept with someone and decided to stay. I never really got over it I guess."

"I thought it was going to be something horrible. Like she got her head chopped off or something. Rick, as long as I've known you, you're a cool person."

Rick looks at me smiles. "Thank you. But, what about you? You're a werewolf and decided to inseminate yourself while being in school and working. I think the question of the year is, why?"

A do a chuckle of my own, and take a seat on the ground. Sitting next to pansy, I pluck it from it's stem and start to pull off the petals.

"Since I was young, I've always been on top of things. Always had great grades, always knew the answers to whatever the teacher asked, everything. Everything except for family. I was put into foster care after my parents died and I got adopted by them. And then they left me. So, I raised myself. I kept myself busy since the moment I had a job and was in school, because I never wanted to think about how I was abandoned. When I'd think about it, I felt as if I've lost all the breath in my body, like a Dementor off of Harry Potter was attacking me ." I feel tears starting to swell in my eyes.

"I use to hear a lot of people say how crazy, and stupid I after I got inseminated, because I already had so much going on, but I don't feel stupid at all," I cry. "I feel happy. I'm glad I did it! This baby is the only family I have! I was all alone until now! I use to wake out of my sleep from a nightmare with no one to hold me, no one to tell me that it's going to be okay. But now, I get to do that with my child and never leave their side."

Rick sat down beside me and embraced me in a hug. "I never knew," he says patting my back.

After a few more sniffles, I pull away and wipe my face. "Wow, I feel better," I laugh. "I don't think I've ever told anyone that before. It feels like I have weight off of my shoulders."

"I'm glad I could help. But, I must say, you are one strong woman." Rick extends his hand and helps me stand up.

"Why thank you," I smile.

Rick soon stops and seems on alert. My heart starts beat faster. "What is it?"

"Stay close to me," he say, making me even more nervous.

Doing as told, I ease behind Rick and stay quite. Feeling a presence behind me, he says," What are you doing?"

"Ah!" I scream.

Aiden smiles.

"Seriously? I mean, seriously?"

"Come with me," Aiden says with a bit of amusement in his eyes. "I am going to teach you how to fight. Rick, you come too."

My mind goes blank. Fight? "What do you mean fight?"

"You're a very wanted person, so its best to train you now, than to see you dead. I've heard the stories about your taser and seeing as how you no longer have one, I'd say you could use some hand to hand combat."