The One He Claimed by Cooper

Chapter 75: Kinsley's Surprise Sophie

When she calms, | look at her. "You've gotten more intimate and what?" | ask gently.

The tears continue to fall as plucks imaginary lint off of her clothes. "Lucas thinks it's because I'm m**y unable to

handle our intimacy." She looks up atwith pleading eyes. "That's not it at all. I'm not disgusted by being with

him. The first time, it was hard, yes. We both had to work to keepin the moment and not flashing back to my

marking day. But we've tried a couple more times and each tit's gotten easier. But then, then he caught me

throwing up and he thinks I'm not being honest with him. He thinks that it's my disgust at being with him that's

makingsick. | told him it isn't, but he thinks that even if | don't think it, that subconsciously | don't want to be

with him," she says, breaking down into **bs again.

| pull her into another hug, holding her while she cries. "That's not it at all. Truly Luna. Things have finally started

to get better between us. Seeing you and Alpha together, | know that's what | want, and | know that it's up to me

to give Lucas a chance to showthat | can trust him. But now....now he won't touch me. He's so worried that |

hate his touch that he barely even holds me. I'd just gotten to the point where | wanted him to holdand now

he'll barely touchand if he does, it's only for a few moments." She continues sobbing as she tellsall of

this, hiccupping through Her words and rubbing tears and s*t o**n my shirt as she cries.

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"Kinsley, when you say that you've been together, do you mean that you've had sex?"

She nods against my chest.

"And when you had sex, did he cinside you?"

She nods again.

"Kinsley, have you taken a pregnancy test?" | ask, pulling back to look at her. For me, this is simple, but | can see

that the two of them are so twisted up over their mate bond that they can't see this for what it is.

"It's too soon, and it was only a few times," she says. "No one has pups this quickly."

"Really?" | ask, giving her a look as | wipe the tears from her

eyes.

"You're different. You're Sophie Meyers, now Sophie Reynolds. It's different for you."

"I don't think so. Con," | say standing up and holding out my hand to her. "Where are we going?"

"We're going to see Dr. Felicity. If you're not pregnant, she can still look you over and figure out what's wrong.

But if you are, she can let you know that pretty quickly."

"I don't know..."

"I will not allow you to be ill, Kinsley. | cannot run with this pack without you. You are too valuable toand to

this pack, and

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that doesn't even begin to account for how much you mean to your mate. He's so worried about you. Let's at

least let him know what's going on with you. If nothing else, if you are sick with sbizarre wolf disease, then

he'll know it's not in your mind, Kinsley. He'll know this isn't about him and the two of your can continue to work

on your mate bond."

She nods, finally accepting my hand and together we walk to the pack hospital.

"We need to see Dr. Felicity," | say when we walk in. She's walking by at that moment and looks around the

corner.

"Luna, is everything alright? Everyone is talking about your pup already. The pack is very excited," she says.

"Yes, I'm good, but I'd like you to take a look at Beta Kinsley for me."

"Sure, con back."

When we get to the room, she turns and looks at Kinsley.

"Tellwhat's going on," she says. | continue to hold Kinsley's hand as she tells the doctor about being sick in

the mornings, how she feels better as the day goes on, and then goes on to tell her about Lucas’ fears that this is

all in her head.

"Well, | don't think it's all in your head. Have you been more tired lately?"

"Well, yes, but we've had so much going on."

"And how about food. Are certain foods that you usually like smelling bad to you?" she asks.

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"Yes! How did you know? Do you know what's wrong with me?"

she asks.

Dr. Felicity smiles. "I'm pretty sure | know what's going on, but I'd like to take sblood and get surine.

Then | can confirm my suspicions and let you know for sure."

| stay with Kinsley while Dr. Felicity draws her blood and | wait while she gives her urine sample. Then, | hold

Kinsley's hand as we wait for Dr. Felicity to return. | can feel Kinsley getting more and more nervous the longer

we wait.

"It will be fine, Kinsley," | tell her.

When Dr. Felicity walks back into the room, she sits down and H**ks at Kinsley.

"Well, Beta. It looks like you and our Luna are going to be having pups around the stime. You're pregnant."

| watch as Kinsley's mouth opens and closes several times before words cout.

"You're sure?" she whispers.

"I'm positive. I'll want you to start coming in for routine exams. You and your mate will most likely want to hear

the heartbeat of your baby. We can do it now, but I'm sure Beta Lucas would want to be here as well," Dr. Felicity

says and Kinsley nods. "And depending on how far along you are, in the next week or two, we'll be able to tell

you if you're having a boy or a girl."

Kinsley turns to look at me, then bursts into tears again. | reach out to hold her again and Dr. Felicity givesa

tissue for her along with sinstructions for her to start following before

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her next visit.

"Thank you, doctor," | say.

"Congratulations, Beta."

Kinsley pulls away fromand smiles at her. "Thank you."

"Ready to go tell your mate?" | ask her.

She nods, choking out a laugh between her tears. "Yes. He'll be so excited."

"Yes, he will," | say, and we walk back to the packhouse quietly. | leave Kinsley to her thoughts, knowing that it

must be overwhelming for her right now.

When we get back to the packhouse, Lucas finds us almost immediately as if he's been searching for Kinsley.

"Kins! Oh, Luna, is everything okay? You've been crying, Kinsley?" he asks, and | understand exactly what Kinsley

meant about him not wanting to touch her. | can see his hands twitch wanting to hold her and if it were Hunter,

he'd have pulledinto his embrace the moment he saw my red-rimmed eyes, but Lucas is holding back.

"Can we talk privately, Lucas?" Kinsley asks and | watch as he steels himself for what he must think is terrible

news, probably that she really doesn't want him touching her.

"We'll talk later, Kinsley," | say, leaving them to their

conversation. I'm headed to Hunter's office when | hear Lucas' how! of excitement Coming from across the

packhouse.

Hunter comes running out of his office. "What's going on?" he

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asks as several pack members respond to Lucas' howl.

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"We should have a party tonight, Alpha. We have more than one pup to celebrate," | say, wrapping my arms

around his neck as he wraps his around my waist. "Lucas and Kinsley?" he asks excitedly.

I nod and he lifts his head, howling almost as excitedly as he did when he found out about our pup earlier today.