Alpha King's Missing Mate (Book 1 Of The Regal Eclipse Pack Series)

Chapter 20

"Jenna, are you pregnant?"

It took a full moment for Tyler's words to register in Jenna's mind. She'd put her mother to bed an hour ago and had escaped to her room and a good book so she could keep her obsessed mind off of Daniel for a few hours. Or at least try to.

No matter what she did, she couldn't seem to forget about him, and the pain of being separated from him never seemed to ease. In fact, it did the opposite; the heartache was growing worse as the days went by. She tried her best to put on a happy face around her family, but she knew they were concerned about her and the way she was always losing focus.

She couldn't fathom how she'd managed to fall so hard for someone she'd only spent one night with, but he had consumed her thoughts for the last few months. She couldn't get him out of her mind.

Jenna spent most of her free time reading to distract herself from Daniel and was considering getting a job. She'd barely left the house since she'd arrived in Pennsylvania, but now that her mother was doing so much better, a job wouldn't be unreasonable. She'd need a car, though, and a phone.

But now, Daniel was shoved to the forefront as Tyler stood in the doorway of her bedroom, judging her with a critical eye.

"Good grief, Tyler. Why would you think I'm pregnant? I'm not." Denial was, of course, the first thing that popped out of her mouth, before she had any time to think about it. When had she last gotten her period? Not since she'd been home, she realized. She'd been so busy with her mother, she'd never given it any thought. Her tampons were still packed away. She'd never had a reason to pull them out. "I don't know."

"Come into my room and let me draw your blood. We'll find out." Tyler reached a hand out to her, and Jenna took it, standing up. He gave her a quick hug, then led her to his room.

Jenna's mind was racing as she thought back over the past few months. She'd never been sick. There were mornings she'd felt nauseous, but she'd always attributed it to thoughts of losing her mother and missing Daniel so desperately. She'd been tired too, but she had also attributed that to her mother's care. Some nights, she was thankful she'd been too tired to lie in bed and think.

Tyler grabbed his blood draw kit off his desk and brought it over to the bed. "Sit," he told Jenna. "Have you been with anyone since you came back from New York?" he asked quietly.

Jenna gave him an exasperated look. "When have I had time?"

He shrugged and opened the box. "I don't know. Maybe you're sneaking out at night," he joked. Tyler knew she wasn't, but he was also trying to lighten the mood. He pulled out a tourniquet, gauze, gloves, a needle, a tube, and a tube holder. He screwed the tube holder on the back of the needle. "Hold out your arm."

Jenna held her arm out for him and watched him tie off the tourniquet, then gently palpate it with his fingers. If she were pregnant, it would be Daniel's baby. He was the only man she'd ever been with, and at the rate she was going, the only man she might ever be with. Which meant her child would be half werewolf. She groaned internally. She knew nothing about werewolf children or half-werewolf children.

Was that a dominant trait? Would her child be able to shift? She had no idea. That wasn't something she and Talia had ever discussed.

Tyler cleaned her arm, then slipped the needle in her vein with ease. He pushed a tube into the tube holder, and Jenna watched her blood fill up the tube. He pulled the tube out, freed the tourniquet from her arm, and then removed the needle, immediately covering the spot with gauze.

"I'll take this to work with me tomorrow. If you're pregnant, you need to be on prenatal vitamins," Tyler said as he cleaned up.

"Okay." Jenna watched him quietly. "Tyler, why did you think I was pregnant?"