We're Still Standing...Book 5

Plans for the New Additions

Zander POV 

Two weeks, three days, and twelve hours. That's how long it's been since my mates and I left California, I found out Julian won't be home for another week and found out three of my mates were pregnant so all in all life was good. Today my mates have their biweekly blood test appointment and I'm waiting on a call from Julian. Last night he told me Shane's father was healed enough to make an appearance in court so in two weeks they'll make their appearance. 

"Are you guys ready?" I asked, waiting by the door. 

"We're pregnant, hold on." Zeke sassed and I held up my hands.

"Yes, love. I apologize." I picked him up and carried him to the pack hospital. 

When we got there I laid him on the bed and Jaylen came in. "Well hello and good morning." 

Well isn't he chipper this morning, he's usually zoning out, daydreaming, or whatever else goes on in his head and most of the time he looks stressed. 

"Let's get that sample shall we?" He smiled. 

After he did Zeke he did Ian then Seth. "How are you guys feeling?" 

"We're fine…" Zeke said, a bit annoyed. His mood swings were starting and boy I pray the others skip that symptom.

"Very well, you guys have a great day. We'll go over the results at the next appointment." He smiled walking away. 

As we were walking out of the hospital my phone started ringing and I picked it up putting it on speaker. "Hey sexy what's the good news?" 

"We have enough evidence to gain custody of Shane's brothers as well. I don't know how their dad got away with what he did. He prostituted them off to the highest bidder, abused them, and hardly fed them. We have statements from the hospitals, past teachers, and staff. Sadly, still no news about whether we can have the trails back to back or if I have to stay here longer until I can bring them all home. So I guess it was good and bad news. How are things back at home?" 

"Shane's bedrooms are completed, our mates are here with me and you're on speaker." He chuckled.

"Hi my loves, I miss you guys and can't wait to be home." He said to us but mainly them. Their hormones are heightened and they've been missing him like crazy. 

"You're never fucking us again, the shop is closed." Ian said and we laughed making him pout. 

"Y'all are mean." He stormed off towards the house and we followed him. 

"Babe we'll talk to you later, we have major ass-kissing to do." I laughed and we said our goodbyes. 

"What did you guys do this time?" Papa said looking at us from the couch. I had him watch the kids while we were at the pack hospital. 

"Ian's mad because we got him pregnant." I shook my head. 

"Welp, good luck." He said hugging me and my mates walking out. 

"What, no advice?" I yelled and I could hear his muffled laughter.

After I put my mates to bed I went to find my other, not so happy mate. "Ian…?" 

"What?" Uh oh… he's pissed.

"We're sorry for laughing. We didn't mean to upset you." 

"Fine, I forgive you but you're not off the hook yet." I nodded. 

"I promise I'll make it up to you." I smiled and he kissed my cheek and I helped him up the stairs. 

"I love you guys, I'm going to go talk with papa to talk about plans for Shane's brothers' bedrooms." I kissed them all and I walked to papa's house.

Before I could even knock papa was opening the door with his measuring tape and other things he needed.

"So I, of course, used their favorite colors for the aesthetic of the bedrooms as I did with Shane's so I did green and yellow for Dillon's, red and purple for Dustin's and orange and gray for Dakota's." He said as we walked back to the Alpha suite and then off to Julian's. 

"Sounds good, I think I'll order the furniture after you get the measurements and all that kinda stuff so I know what we're working with." He nodded and we went room to room and unsurprisingly we had a lot of space to do as we pleased. 

"I hope they'll like the rooms whatever you decide to do. Calder, Dad, Grandpa did the nurseries when you kids were born so if you need an interior designer's mind you can go to them." I nod. 

"Thanks, papa I'll keep that in mind." I said as we got in the truck and drove us to Julian's.

"For someone working for the military, his house isn't very big now is it." Papa said. Here we go again, he thinks if it's not pack size it's not big enough. 

"If you must know, he's planning on renovating and making the house bigger. Now that we know a generalized idea of how big our family will be he's decided he needs something bigger. Remember it was only him, Matty and Gracie. They didn't have to worry about luxury or bigger because it was just them." I sighed. 

"No need to get defensive jeez." Really? Really? Ugh.  This is why we don't let him see any buildings that aren't 'pack sized'. 

"Let's just go old man." He glared and I laughed. 

"Will they be upstairs or in the basement too?" He asked. 

"I may have forgotten to ask Julian…" I gulped and his face was not happy.

Not knowing where Julian would want the rooms or how bad Shane's brother's conditions were we just went upstairs and in the basement. 

"Well in my personal opinion and based on the measurements I think we should do the rooms upstairs but that's just me so when Julian calls then ask him but at least you can do your part now and order the furniture." He said as we drove home. 

"Fair enough, I'll talk to him sometime tonight… well in a few hours since it's about four ten right now." He nodded, getting out of the truck. 

"Love you kiddo." He said walking home. 

"Love you too, papa." I said walking to the Alpha mansion. 

Time to go online shopping… I hope I find some good furniture for both houses. 

After an hour or so of online shopping, I got up and stretched my back, and damn it felt good. 

"Zander, has Julian called saying when he'll be home?" Seth asked pouting. He and Zeke have been extra clingy since becoming pregnant. 

"No love, he hasn't but how about we facetime him like we did that one time and we all eat together and chat." I held him on my lap. 

"Ok deal." He blushed. 

"Good, by the way. Have you guys thought about names?" He shook his head. 

"The family has used most of the alphabet so I have no ideas what to do for names. We have a bunch of names with different letters so I don't know." He pouted. 

He doesn't want to hurt great-great-grandpa Danny's family tradition but grandpa Connor pretty much messed up the flow. 

"We'll figure it out, don't worry, love." I kissed him. 

"Okie…" He left and I went to go cook dinner, I texted Julian that we'd facetime him and Shane while we have dinner. 

After I finished cooking I helped Kaiden bring our mates down and I facetimed Julian and Shane. "There's our boys." 

I smiled and set my phone up. "That's better." 

As we ate we talked, caught up, and had family dinner. We started talking about names for the pups and Shane suggested D, J, C, S, M, B, and G. D, J, and C for our great-great-grandpa, great-grandpa, and grandpa and then all the kids we already had. It made sense, in a way. 

"That's a great idea, Shane. Now we just have to know genders and start looking for names." I said and he blushed. 

"We miss you guys so much, keep us up updated and we'll do the same." We said our goodbyes and Kaiden and I took our mates to bed and we cuddled.