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expression Aria had seen in a while. She had forgotten how nice it was to see shining faces. Since the battle at her nightclub, no one had done anything but frown.
    “Emma?” she said as she threw off the covers to her fully-clothed body. “How the hell did I get here? Wait.” Her memory recalled something stinging her in the back, and Trevan’s eyes screaming anger at her. She hadn’t even done anything wrong yet. “How did I get here? Are we at your home?”
    Her wolf friend bounced into the room and wrapped her arms around Aria. “It’s so awesome to see you again. I’ve missed you.”
    “Great to see you, too. But I still don’t know how or really why I’m here.”
    Emma pulled back. “Let’s start with we’re at my alpha home with the Central pack.”
    Aria wasn’t expecting that, but fine. She’d roll with it.
    “And to answer your other question, Trevan and his friends brought you here. And I don’t know why, so don’t ask.”
    Okay, that was too confusing. “Why would they do—” Then it hit her. The object that tagged her back was a tranq dart. Anger erupted within her. “He tranquilized me. The bastard shot me with a fucking dart!” She stepped around Emma. “Where is he? I’m gonna rip his balls off and feed them to the pigs.”
    Her friend lunged for her hand. “Aria, settle down. Trevan isn’t here. He and Mason left after dropping you off. And you can’t rip his balls off.“
    She hated when someone told her she couldn’t do something. Even friends. “Why not?” She fisted her other hand.
    Emma looked at her sadly. “We don’t have pigs.” After a heartbeat, Aria busted out in laughter. It felt so good to release the tension and anxiety she’d kept bottled for so long now. If anyone could make her laugh, it was Emma.
    Still holding her hand, Emma dragged her forward. “Let’s go to the kitchen. I’m hungry.” Aria took a deep breath through her nose.
    “Oh my god. You’re pregnant.”
    Emma whipped around. “You can smell I’m different?”
    “Yes. And for women, that usually means their having a baby.” She wrapped her arms around her friend and gave her tight squeeze. “You don’t even show.”
    Emma rolled her eyes. “Well, I do have a lot here to begin with, and it’s only the size of a grape, the doctor said.”
    “Yeah, but still,” Aria said. “You guys must be thrilled.”
    Emma grabbed her hand again and pulled her through the door. “That’s an understatement. Mason is already having morning sickness.”
    Aria spit out a laugh. “Oh my god. I can so see that, too.”
    When reaching the kitchen, Aria sat at the table while Emma pulled out a box of Oreos and tub of ice cream from the freezer. “I’d offer you something to drink, but I know we don’t have your preference.”
    Aria lifted a brow at the contents Emma set on the table. “That’s your new diet?”
    Emma grinned. “Isn’t it great. I’d stay pregnant forever if I could eat this all the time.” She quickly added, “Don’t tell Mason that. He’d take me up on it.” They giggled.
    Emma scooped out a bite of ice cream with a cookie. “So, I’m guessing you and Trevan haven’t mated yet.”
    She about fell out of her chair. “Emma? Are you serious? Why would you say that?”
    Her friend pointed a half-eaten cookie at her. “Because, woman, everyone but you and him see you are natural mates. You both need to shut up, accept it, mate, and move on.”
    She snorted. “Look who’s talking. How long did it take you and Mason to finally mate?”
    “No, that doesn’t count.” Emma waved a new cookie in the air. “He’s a mutt. That excuses all the dumb stuff he does.”
    “Trevan is a mutt, too.”
    Emma bit into a cookie topped with ice cream. “Oh, yeah. Forgot he was a wolf. He feels vampish to me.”
    “Vampish?”
    “Yeah, you know,” she shrugged, “like a vampire but not.”
    “Emma,” she said, “either you’re a vamp or you’re not. There isn’t much