The Island Of Alphas: A BBW Paranormal Romance (23 page)

I nodded, instantly tearful for some reason. "Completely fine. And I'm so sorry I didn't tell you about meeting with who I
thought
was my ex-fiancé Jason. I don't know how much you heard on the phone, if that was you, but Dominic tricked me. He made me think he was Jason, and I thought I could trust him. He made me think Dominic would hurt him if I told you. I'm so sorry, Eric. I just really thought he was Jason."

Eric kissed the top of my head again, shushing me. "That
was
me on the phone, and I heard enough to realize what was going on. And I do wish you'd told me about meeting with 'Jason,' but you didn't know.
I
didn't know what he was capable of, and I should have. But it's all over now. Now the only important thing is taking you back home so that Bev can look you over and make sure you really aren't injured any worse than a bruise."

I rolled my misty eyes, fighting a smile. "I don't need Bev to look me over. I'm a doctor myself, remember? And I promise you, other than grabbing my arm, Dominic didn't even touch me. A bruise is my only injury. Although...." I paused, looking from Eric to Nate, then back to Eric. "There
is
something else going on with me physically lately, but it's not an injury. I've been trying to tell you both about it for over a week."

Eric frowned, drawing his dark brows together. "What is it? What's wrong?"

I took a deep breath, glad to be able to finally say what I'd been planning to for days. "I'm pregnant. I'm pregnant already. It actually probably happened very early on...either our first night together, Eric, or the first night the three of us ever shared my bed together."

Eyes wide as saucers, Eric and Nate looked like they'd both seen a ghost. Either that, or had been slapped completely out of the blue. Their expressions
might
have been comical,
if
I didn't know what they were both thinking.

Eric asked the question first. "And you don't know whose baby it is yet?"

I shook my head. "No. No, I haven't even looked at the equipment in the lab to run it yet. I'll honestly probably have Bev and the technicians do it. I just don't know if I have the nerves or the patience to do it myself right now. I just want someone to do it for me and tell me the results."

Eric glanced at Nate, then returned his gaze to my face, nodding. "Let's get back to the village."

He soon shifted back into wolf form, and I rode back to the village on his back, as if he were a horse. Nate, who'd also shifted back into wolf form, ran parallel to us, through the jungle, on alert for any of Dominic's men who might be attempting to flee from the area of the lake back to Wulfric Palms.

Over the next several days, while Bev and the lab technicians set up the equipment for the paternity test, then began the process of running the test twice, just to be sure the results were accurate, I had thoughts of talking to Nate privately, to tell him how I felt. I'd begun thinking that even if
he
turned out to be my baby's father, it wasn't fair to him not to tell him the truth, that I cared for him deeply, but I loved Eric.

However, Nate entirely steered clear of me after the fight at the beach, only checking in on me once or twice, and even then, only when Eric was with me, as if he didn't
want
to talk to me in private. At least not until the day that Bev was expected to deliver the paternity test results.

Too nervous to do any sort of work or see any patients at the clinic that day, I was at home picking at some lunch by myself when Nate came over. Eric was taking a run through the jungle in wolf form to clear his head and calm his nerves before the results.

I ushered Nate inside the bungalow and invited him to follow me into the living room, but he declined, shaking his head.

"This will only take a second."

"What will?"

He looked deeply into my eyes for a long moment. "Saying goodbye to you. I'm in some pain, Liz, and I don't want this to go on a moment longer than necessary. Please just respect that, and let me go quickly."

"But what are you talking about? What do you mean you're saying goodbye to me? We haven't even gotten the results back yet, so-"

"Doesn't matter. I'm going to live with either the dragons or the bears for a while, and the results of the test won't change that."

Shocked and incredulous, I couldn't respond right away. "But...what if
you're
the father?"

"It really doesn't matter, except that my heart might hurt a little worse than it already does. But regardless of who's the biological father, your baby will grow up with Eric as his or her father, since he'll be your mate for life. I'm not blind. It's obvious you love him, and you want a future with him, so he should be your mate regardless of what the paternity test says.

“And, yes, I know...Eric's a fair man, and you're a kind woman. I know that if the child
is
biologically mine, the two of you would let me be a part of the child's life, but I just can't do it that way, Liz. I can't hang around the village and watch my alpha and the woman I love raising my child as a happy family of three, with me looking in from the outside, maybe having time with my son or daughter on the weekends. I just can't do it."

"But-"

"My mind's made up. If the child
is
biologically mine, maybe he or she can visit me at some point, so we can have some sort of a relationship. But it can't happen here. Too painful. And now...I'll ask you to please let me go, without another word. I can't talk to you any more, Liz; I can't stay here a minute longer. I just came to say goodbye."

With his eyes becoming decidedly pink and shiny, Nate leaned in and pressed a kiss against my cheek. He then immediately turned, went through the doorway, and strode away from my bungalow and out of my life, leaving me sniffling in the foyer, with tears of both loss and gratitude streaming down my face.

After not even a half-hour had gone by, Bev sat Eric and me down in my living room and delivered the news that Eric was, without a doubt, the biological father of my unborn baby. I dissolved into tears for the second time that day, burying my face in his chest while he cleared his throat repeatedly with his eyes just as pink and shiny as Nate's had been.

A month later, Laura announced that she was also pregnant, to everyone's amazement and delight. Her and Matt's little son Liam was finally going to be a big brother. Somehow, miraculously, it seemed the fertility drugs had worked for Laura. Either that, or Dominic's death had somehow changed the supernatural energy on the island enough to allow pregnancies to become possible once again, as some people in the village thought.

People seemed to be divided into two camps, one side thinking science was responsible, and the other thinking something supernatural was surely the real reason. Believing in medicine, yet knowing what an incredibly strange place the island was, I myself didn't have an opinion one way or the other.

However, whether it was caused by the fertility drugs or Dominic's death, the effect on the fertility rate of the women in the village wasn't
that
profound, unfortunately. In the month after Laura's announcement, two more women became pregnant, one right after the other, but then the pregnancies stopped. But still, the three women besides me who'd become pregnant gave hope to everyone else, and all the women who still wished to become pregnant were determined to enjoy trying with their husbands until it happened.

The day Eric's and my baby was born, a quick rain shower drenched the island, though the dark clouds soon parted to reveal rainbows, at least a half-dozen of them. Sitting up in a bed in the clinic a while after Bev and Laura had helped me deliver my newborn son, who Eric and I had named Sebastian, I looked from the scene outside the window, to Sebastian's little face, to Eric's face.

With my eyes filling with tears, I felt like I should say something meaningful and poignant, but I couldn't even speak. I was too overcome with emotion to think of anything right then, and I was too choked up to form words.

Eric, who was sitting in a chair by my bedside with his own eyes appearing to be just a tad misty, seemed to understand and covered one of my hands with his own. "This is it. The day we're going to remember forever. The day our love story turned into our happily-ever-after."

Blinking back tears, I just nodded, my heart feeling as if it could soar high enough to join the rainbows arcing across the clear blue sky.

THE END

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