An Alpha's Pride (Jamie and the Alpha Book 2)

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      The next day six more members of the Lawson family flew into town and Elaine quickly learned just how loud and chaotic a house filled of family could be.

           "Awe he's so cute! Can I hold him? Can I? Can? Can I?" Tori, Jamie's twelve year old cousin asked Elaine repeatedly, arms outstretched.

             "No, no, no! Don't let her hold him she'll drop him like she drops everything! Let me hold him first to show her how it's done." Malissa, Jamie's other cousin and the older of the two said, her arms outstretched.

           "I so do not drop everything! Stop lying!" Tori protested stomping her foot.

           "Yes you do! You dropped moms favorite tea cup last week and made her cry!" Malissa countered, hands on her hips.

             "That's only because Buddy ran into me!" Tori screamed.

             "Oh please, he barley tapped you." her sister spat, rolling her eyes.

              "Huh.." Elaine stuttered as the twins continued to bicker.

              "Oh yeah? Well at least I don't wet the bed still!" Tori said with an evil smile.

              "I so do not!"

              "You so do to!"

              "I SO DO NOT! IT WAS A GLASS OF WATER!" Malissa screamed.

              "Oh sure it was Maddy, sure it was." Tori said sarcastically, waving her hand in a condescending fashion.

               "You know what, you, you...DADDY!!" the little girl screamed out as she ran out of the pups room.

               "Wait, no, Maddy, I was just kidding! DON'T TELL DADDY!" Tori called out as she chased after her sister.

              "What the fuck just happened?" Elaine asked herself out loud as she sat her pup in his crib for his nap.

       Leaving the some what quite safety of her room Elaine came downstairs to brave the next few hours before dinner was served.

          "I still can't believe it! I mean you're a grandpa! How bout that." Michel, Jamie's uncle and his fathers youngest brother laughed punching the big man in the arm as they sat and watched sports center.

           "I know, and I was starting to feel my age before." Jamie's father laughed drinking his beer.

            "Same here." Martha joked as she sat on her mates lap.

          "You want to talk about age, I'm a great-grandpa now. I swear I can fell my beard growing longer." Arthur, Jamie's grandfather joked making the room laugh.

           "Oh come on now. You all still look wonderful. Especially you Martha. Four pups, work and a move. I don't know how you found the time. Even before we learned I was pregnant again I was still a whale." Kelly, Michael's mate commented softly as she sipped on her water and rubbed her pregnant belly.  

            "Oh stop it. You look amazing. I swear could swear you were glowing." Martha encouraged her sister-in-law making her blush in embarrassment every so slightly.

             "She's right Kelly and besides you shouldn't compare yourself to Martha, she did after all have some help taking care of the pups back in New York." Ruth commented, taking a seat next to her mate on the couch.

              "What do you mean I had help?" Martha said confused and toneless.

              "Here we go again." Elaine thought to herself, opening her own beer and taking a seat next to Jamie who sat quietly as his family talked.