Chapter 44

Brooklyn's POV

It's been a couple of days now, and Scott still hasn't came back home yet. My stomach has been letting me know since yesterday that I needed my mate to help with my heat, not as bad as before but it was still there. And I was always hot or cold, my tempurature didn't know what it wanted to do.

But Scott wasn't anywhere in sight, but I knew wherever he was he was getting closer. So until he got back, my sister and Evan have been staying here, they insisted on it after I told them that Ryan showed up.

I mean I don't mind having them here, I enjoy spending time with my nephew very much. But even he knew something was wrong with me and didn't mess with me as much as he usually would.

I slipped the loose shirt on and slipped on my shorts that I prayed wasn't too short. I was boiling, and have told Evan and Bailey thow sorry I was about how cold I kept the apartment when I got hot. It still being winter it didn't kick on like I wanted, but I did keep a box fan in my bedroom.

"Brooke?" I looked over at my door, it opened and revealed my brother-in-law, he was holding Tyler as he walked in. He gave me a smile and his eyes never left mine.

"I was asked to remind you to take this!" He lifted up a small bag, then held it out to me. I took it from him and looked inside.

I looked up at Evan who smiled sadly at me. "Is it necessary?" I asked him. "I mean I took the pill!" I told him..

He nodded his head. "You're still a wolf, Brooklyn. Better to know now rather than find out later."

"It would still be very early." I told him and walked over to the bathroom. I did my business and came out and placed the test on the dresser and then sat down on the end of my bed.

Tyler walked over to me then fell over on his bottom,I looked down at him once I was finished setting my timer.. He didn't like jeans and was still adjusting to walking around in them. "How hot was your temp today?" Evan asked me, making me look up from Tyler to him.

"Not too bad!" I gave him a small smile to avoid the glare he threw at me. To not look at his gaze anymore I looked back down at Tyler who was more interested in playing with his socks.

"The further away he is the deadlier the symtoms can be." He said, I glanced back up at him.

"Scott is getting closer, he was only too far for a couple hours yesterday, but he began getting coloser this morning." I told him. "Hell I don't blame him for avoiding me right now, I mean who wants somebody who allows their narcissistic ex to sleep with them?" I asked him then pointed at myself. "I do apparently!"

"Does bipolar mood swings come with an unsatisfied mate durring a heat?" He teased me and I couldn't help the giggle that left me. I really did sound like i was crazy for a split second there.

"I'm sorry, Evan!" I mumbled. He waved me off just as my timer went off. I took a deep breath and got up from the bed and went over to my dresser.

I flipped the pregnancy test over and I felt like I stopped breathing. "No," my stomach dropped into a dark put and I felt a cd sweat form on my brow as I backed up once then changed my mind and stepped closer again to look at it again to see if I misread it.

"No, no, no, no, NO!" I screamed and threw the test at the wall. I ran both of my hands through my hair. I wanted to give up right then and there.

"Brooklyn, calm down!" Evan wrapped his arms around me from behind and held me tightly probably seeing how much I wanted to break down.

I let a sob leave me as I ran my hands down my face and hair. "When, Brooke?" He growled at me making me jump because he rarely did it. If he asked me a question I didn't hear it.

"When what?" I asked him and leaned back into him. I needed his warm comfort right now, I felt like I was gonna have a panic attack as my breathing got more sharp.

"You and Scott, there's still a chance it's his!" My face scrunched up in thought. "That morning, and..." I stopped becoming embarrassed. He nudged me and gave me a light squeeze. "Pretty much everyday before that." I blushed ferociously..

"Then there's no way that this baby isn't Scott's." He tried to lighten the mood.

"There's still a huge chance Evan that it's, Ryan's." I looked up at him through the mirror and my lip trembled at the idea of being pregnant with Ryan's baby.

"I will call the OB and tell them what's going on and to keep it on the down low." He leaned in and kissed my cheek, then removed himself from me. Some baby talk behind me made me turn around and look down at Tyler.

I sighed deeply knowing Evan left him in here on purpose.

AI leaned down and sat on the floor with him. "Can you promise you'll never leave me, Ty?" I asked the one year old and plucked him up from the floor and placed him on my lap.

"Your uncle Ryan said he would give me forever and a day when we got married," Tyler accidentally hit me with the toy he had in his hand but I didn't mind, he was only a baby. I pick up his toy and gave it back to him. "Well you see, I got that extra day, Ty.. but..." I looked at rhe ceiling to blink back tears. "it hurt more than I ever thought possible." I knew Tyler couldn't understand me but, venting to somebody who was unbiased in all of this was a relief in a way.

"And now.... Scott, has left me too. He said I was his forever, but now he will not even come back to see me." I sighed deeply. "Am I that repulsive to look at, Tyler?" I rambled to the child in my lap as he played with his toys.

About half an hour later Evan came back in the room, only Tyler was sound asleep on my chest. I was on the verge of falling asleep myself had I not heard the bedroom door open. I parted my eyes as saw Evan come over and lean down.

"Sorry they had so many personal questions. Once I told them you were sexually assaulted they stopped asking so many." I nodded my head, he took Tyler from me and I shivered because his warm body heat with my own merged well together. Now I was feeling cold.

"Your first appointment is tommorrow morning. I'm sorry I know you don't feel well, but it is all they had." I was too tired to care, I nodded and yawned.

"When does, Bailey get off?" I asked him getting up and off of the floor. I went over and pulled down my blankets and sat down.

He chuckled at me while shaking his head. ""In a hour, want me to wake you then?" He asked me and I gave him a small smile.

"Yes please" I nodded my head. He gave me another smile and walked out with Tyler. I turned off my lamp and sighed. I really wish I could get Scott here to help me get through all of this.

As much as I pray and hope that this is Scott's baby, I have a feeling that it may be Ryan's. Nothing I have ever wanted has ever went the way I wanted in my entire life. And just when I thought things were going right, it all went sideways in just the span of hours.

Upon laying down I winced slightly when I laid on my back, I rolled onto my left side and tried to get as comfortable as posible.

After about twenty minutes or so I had scratched my skin so much that it had turned red, and in some spots it was stained red with my blood. I didn't understand how I had become so irritated and itchy.

"Evan?" I called out to my brother-in-law.

Maybe it was the laundry soap Bailey used on my bedsheets? The bedroom door creaked open and the overhead light clicked on. The bright light made me squeeze my eyes shut tightly.

"Everything alright?" I heard Evan ask me. I opened my eyes and reached up to itch a scratch on my chest while sitting up. "Did Bailey change the laundry soap?" I asked him.

"Not that I know of why?" I'm not sure if he meant to do it or if my question made his insticts do it but his eyes went down to my chest were my cleavage was clearly showing where I had been pulling on my shirt so I could scratch at my chest better. He is just luck I hadn't taken it off.

It wasn't an awkward stare, he walked over and motioned me to turn so I was facing him and my legs were hanging off the bed.

He leaned down some moving my hair and examining the scratches. He then picked up one of my hands and looked at my fingernails and the dried blood caked under my nails.

"Does it still itch?" I nodded my head, I had to fight the twitch in my fingers to move my hand back to my arm to dig my nails back into it again.

Evan then let me go and picked up my sheet and moved to a clean spot and sniffed it..he pulled a weird face afterward. "What is it?"

"I think it's wolfsbane." His face scrunched up in confusion. "How on earth did wonfsbane get in your laundry?"

"Better than dimeranium or oleander!" I giggled, but he didn't seem to find the joke funny. "I don't know, it's been in storage for nearly a year. So theres no telling what got mixed in with my things while I was moving them from the house." I told him.

Then I remembered.

"Bailey washed these, I just put them on this morning."

"When?"

"When what?" I asked him confused.

"When were they washed?" He said.

I thought for a second. "Last week, the night of the full moon." I said softly and looked away from him.

I heard him sigh. "Listen, go get a hot shower. The hotter the better. And throw your clothes out into the bedroom, I will take these and wash them myself." He said and picked up my hand.

"What about Tyler?" I asked him not wanting to leave him with laundry if he was alone with a wandering toddler.

Evan smiled at me. "He's still sleeping. Now go, get up and go get this crap off your skin." He stood and then pulled me to my feet.

I shook my head at him and walked over and into the bathroom, he started taking the bed linens off. I felt bad and wanted to help him but I knew if I tried he wouldn't let me.

So I closed the bathroom door and I went over and turned on the shower.

I could feel the burning sting on my wounds trying to heal as I waited for the water to heat up. I looked down at my flat stomach and felt sick.

I suddenly remembered my junior year of high school, this class was taught specifically to werewolves and it taught us sex education.

Mostly how a normal sex ed class would teach teenagers about sex but this one explained a female wolf's heat and how she was more fertile and prone to get pregnant at that time, and how a wolf pregnancy was only six months along depending on your rank, four or so if you were born from a Alpha or Luna. But what was interesting for all of us students, was how short a lycan pregnancy was.

I jumped when someone knocked at the door. "Brooke, your clothes."

"Sorry, Evan!" I quickly said and stripped out of my clothing. I placed a towel around myself before leaning down and picking up the clothes. I went over to the door and opened it a little bit.

"Sorry, I got lost in thought." I put my clothes on top of the hamper he was holding. I glanced at the bed. "Don't worry about making the bed, if it was wolfsbane it has to be cleaned aswell. I'll do that later"

Evan's eyes widened. "I didn't think about that."

"Well that's why I'm here. Thinking so you don't hurt yourself trying." I teased him while scratching my arm discreetly behind the door.

He narrowed his eyes in a playful manor. I giggled and closed the door, I removed the towel and went over, tested the water and got in. I released a moan in content because the water instantly made me stop feeling so itchy, I no longer wanted to scratch my skin off anymore.

Grabbing my soap I began lathering every inch of my skin with it. I could finally feel my skin beginning to heal properly because nothing was now keeping it from doing so.

I heard the door to my bedroom open, I knew it was either Bailey because I heard her and Evan talking when I got in the shower or it was Evan.

Once the bathroom door opened I was dead set on the person being my sister so I decided to use them as a sounding board.

"Bailey, why does the Moon Goddess hate me so much?" I asked her, rinsing the shampoo from my hair. "I mean she waited until after I was broken and run over by love to give me a chance to find it, only for my first love to hurt me more than I thought he was capable of, and now my second can't stand the sight of me."

I let out a exaggerated breath. "Do you think Scott will leave me when I tell him?" I asked her and looked down at my belly.

The screen door opened, a slight cold breeze wafted into the warm shower, but after the door was closed the hot steam quickly evaporated it.

A pair of arms wrapped around me, they were still wearing their clothes.

A gasp left me when their hand made contact with my skin.

Sparks!

Tingles!

Scott!

He came back!