Lane and Joey (2nd in werewolf series)

Chapter Three

Lane had gone straight to the kitchen after leaving the spare room. Rebecca smiled happily and threw her arms around her youngest son.

"I'm so happy you decided to come visit for a while!" she said. "And you brought a friend." she added, her eyes shining. Lane rubbed the back of his neck and sat down at the table.

"You shouldn't get too excited about that. I just rescued her from some vamps, that's all. I knew she wouldn't live long enough to get to the hospital and Angela popped into my mind." Rebecca sat down a plate in front of Lane and looked disappointed.

"I was hoping it meant you were going to settle down finally." Lane nearly choked on his eggs.

"Come on now mom! I can't settle down. Think of all the thousands of women who would miss out on this smile." he repliied, flashing her the most charming one he could manage.

"What am I going to do with you?" she asked sitting down across from him.

"I wouldn't want you to feel unneeded so I'll let you get me some milk." he said. Rebecca laughed and did just that.

"Uncle Lane! Uncle Lane!" the twins Kaylee and Kayleb yelled running into the kitchen.

"Hello munchkins." Lane said hugging them both. "Have you all been being good for your mommy?" They nodded happily. "But not too good right? You wouldn't want her to get bored."

"Lord knows I would hate to be bored." Raquel said walking into the kitchen and smiling at her little brother.

"I'm just trying to help out your brain. You know boredom could cause your old age to really set it in."

"Haha... So what is this I hear about your mate being upstairs and trying to stab Angela with a fork? I bet that went over real well with our big brother!" Rebecca slammed Lanes' milk down on the table so hard it sloshed over the edges and covered his plate and pants.

"Mom!"

"Don't you mom me! You told me she was nobody! You have a mate!" she said clapping her hands with happiness.

"Mom, calm down. I have no intention of settling down with that frizzy headed, flat chested, witch of a woman. She's a damn slayer for pete's sake! She's made a life out of killing immortals.. How can I be mated to a woman who would sooner shove a silver stake through my heart than look at me?"

"It wasn't very nice to call her frizzy haired or flat chested.. I'm sure she's not that bad." Raquel scolded. Lane sighed. Sometimes he felt like he had two mothers. He thought back to seeing Joey this morning. Okay so her hair wasn't frizzy really it was just a thick mess of curls and that silk gown had revealed to him that she wasn't completely flat chested. Those had definitely been breasts, very perky breasts pressed up against him.

"Maybe she's not that bad looking but that doesn't change the fact that she's a slayer and she tried to kill Angela."

"Old habits probably just die hard Lane. You know slayers. They do what Jake and your father used to do. They hunt down rogue immortals. Your mate has probably never been around normal immortals like us." Rebecca said as she hit a coconut with her bare hand breaking it cleanly in half.

"Oh yea we're real normal." Lane said. But he understood what his mother way saying.

"I don't want a mate mom. I'm having plenty of fun getting to know as many women as possible."

"Children in the room.," Raquel said as she covered Kaylee's ears.

"Mom, we're nine years old now. We're not babies anymore." Kayleb said.