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to stay.”
    “Why do you think I hope to stay?” she asked stubbornly.
    “Well, I don’t think it’d be worthwhile to build you a house if you’re not even going to be here to live in it, do you?” Night asked with a grin. “Unless you want to keep living in this shack while we’re trying to raise our kids.”
    “Our kids,” she gasped, blushing again.
    “Yeah, sweetheart, you don’t think one baby is going to fit the bill, do you?”
    “I suppose not, huh?” she whispered, blushing even more. Night slid his hand under her chin again, tilting her face up so he could see her eyes. He kissed one, and then the other, and then gave her a small kiss on her lips for good measure.
    “Then it’s settled,” said Boris briskly. “I’ll begin supplementing your food right away. All things considered, I may need to move out of here and find a bunk with the men. You two aren’t going to need a third party kicking around while you’re trying to tend to business such as this.”
    Chastity was so flustered that she almost burned the porridge. She turned and took it off the stove without looking at either of them. “I guess I should dish this up then, hadn’t I?” she said. “I still intend to teach my class today. I wouldn’t feel right if the only job I did around here was—well, you know.”
    Night grabbed her hand and gave it a squeeze. “Pretty soon, you’re going to know, too.”
    *
    Chastity was feeling a bit nervous as she followed Night out to the main tent. He found her a little corner within the large enclosure and set up a small table for her and her students to sit at as they talked. When he turned to go, he gave her shoulder a little squeeze. “I’ll send you five the first time till we see how it goes, okay?”
    “Sure,” she agreed softly.
    Night’s touch did queer things to her insides, and this fact made her even more nervous than before. She wondered if her reaction was stronger simply because she was well aware of what they were likely to be doing later, or if his touch would have unsettled her this much even without that knowledge. She tried to remember how Night had made her feel beforehand, but she just couldn’t stop focusing on upcoming events.
    What would it be like to have that beautiful, hardened cock she’d seen in the cave, deep inside her, making a baby? What would it be like to give herself to Night completely? She felt giddiness well up inside of her that she couldn’t seem to squash with logic or reason. Nothing she did to quell her thoughts on the matter seemed to help. Obviously, she liked the idea very much.
    Four men and a woman all showed up about fifteen minutes later. Chastity recognized the woman named Tess as the mother of the only two children who lived in their pack. She was wife to one of the wolf-born males who had come with Night when they came to the town. The two smiled in greeting as the four men settled into chairs around the table.
    “So, do you know a whole lot about midwifing?” she asked conspiratorially. “I may have need of that service in about six months.”
    Smirking, Chastity replied, “If Night gets his way, I’ll end up needing one sometime as well.”
    Laughing, the woman said, “Well, I was beginning to wonder if that sort of thing didn’t interest him at all. None of the four women here seems to have struck his fancy. Did he actually try anything with you yet?”
    “This topic should probably wait for later, Tess,” Chastity reminded her as the men glanced over at the two of them expectantly. “Come and see me around dinner time, assuming Night hasn’t got me set possessively on his knee or some such nonsense. Men are weird that way.”
    “Yes, I agree,” she chuckled. “John did something like that with me.”
    “Night’s the Alpha,” said Chastity with a sigh. “My Alpha, Julian, apparently sent me out here to be his mate, and I’ve only just found out about it. You just know that now it’s all decided that he’s