The Hybrid (Alpha Trilogy #2)

Chapter 23

Skye

"Skye? Are you alright?" I hear Hunter call out from outside the bathroom. I'm about to answer him, but another wave of puke stops me. I dry heave into the toilet bowl due to lack of food in my stomach.

"Skye?" Hunter repeats, increasingly worried.

"I- I'm fine." I cough up, panting in exertion as I flush the toilet and walk up to the sink to brush my teeth. I need to get rid of that horrid acid taste in my mouth.

"You don't sound fine, love. Can I come in?"

"No. I'll be right out."

"Okay, I'll wait here." I only sigh at this. Hunter's been really overprotective lately and has barely left me alone, unless it was with his mother. She's been training me and Pearl, my wolf every day, that's of course when I felt good enough to train. Lately I've been feeling awful, so we had to postpone our training. Morning sickness is a bitch.

'I know, right? I feel so weak and tired.' Pearl agrees with me. After she got stronger, mainly due to being mated and trained properly by both our dad and Luna Angel, she could finally speak to me in my mind without problems. She's also grown quite a bit, but compared to Red, she's still like a newborn puppy.

'Don't call us a puppy. Our mate finds us adorable!' She huffs indignantly, retreating to the back of my mind. She's right though, both Hunter and Red constantly compliment us and say how cute and lovely we are.

"Do you want the pack doctor to take a look at you? You've been like this for days..." He stares at me worriedly as I walk out of the bathroom. He's immediately in front of me, cupping my flushed cheeks with his warm hands. The way he looks at me, as if I'm the most beautiful girl he's ever seen, never fails to surprise me. Usually I'm pale like a ghost, but lately, because of my morning sickness – or rather all-day sickness – my face is unattractively flushed. Yet he still looks at me the same way as always.

"No... I'm okay." I mumble against Hunter's chest, wrapping my arms around him. Despite being really busy with the pack stuff, he always finds time for me.

"You're not okay. You can barely eat and I can tell you've lost weight. – he picks me up gingerly before setting me on the bed – I need you to be alright." He kneels on the floor in front of me, raises my shirt and gently caresses the bump on my stomach. During the last 6 weeks, our baby grew a lot. I don't know about human pregnancies or werewolf pregnancies, except for what I learned from the women in the pack, but from what I heard, my baby bump is quite big considered how far along I am. I freaked out when the pack doctor said that, thinking that something's wrong with my pup, but Luna Angel only burst out laughing at my panic. She was laughing hysterically for few minutes, leaving both me and the doctor confused until she whispered something to him, too quietly for me to hear, causing him to laugh with her. But the difference is, he sounded incredibly happy about something.

I told Hunter about it, but he just smiled at me and kissed my bump about a hundred times. Yet he never told me why Luna laughed. They know something I don't and I hate being left in the dark.

"I wish there was something I could eat and not throw it up. – I groan – No matter how good the food is, it's not exactly tasty on its way back." Hunter chuckles, kissing my stomach again. He's doing this all the time, so I no longer bother to comment on that.

"I know. But I can't let you starve, you need nutrients." He takes my hands into his and presses his lips against my palms. It's also something he likes to do – kissing every part of my body, whether it's my fingertips, my hands, my shoulders or whatever piece of skin he sees. I love it, obviously. Ever since I got my wolf, I can't get over the feeling of the tingles Hunter's touch causes. It's addicting.