Worrying her bottom lip between her teeth, Kara stood there, listening and waiting for the coast to be clear only to groan when the door opened and the large asshole that was easily amused leaned against the doorway. “What are you doing?” Chris asked, looking bored as he pulled his phone out of his back pocket and began scrolling through his text messages.
“Trying to decide between blue or black ink,” Kara said, gesturing towards the neatly stacked boxes of pens on the shelf.
“I thought you were hiding from your mate,” he said, typing something into his phone.
“Why would I be hiding from Drew?” she asked as she stood there, frowning in confusion only to curse, grab the large Sentinel by the shirt and drag him inside the supply closet and slam the door shut when the Sentinel said, “He has your iPad.”
“Did he look mad?” Kara asked, shoving the Sentinel aside so that she could search the shelves for something to lock the door with only to berate herself for not finding a better hiding spot when she realized that there was nothing here to save her.
“Why don’t you ask him yourself?” Drew drawled from behind her, making her wince only to make her whimper when he wrapped his arm around her and dragged her out of the closet.
“Help. Me,” she mouthed to the large Sentinel, who simply shot her a wink and continued making his way to the office where Kara hoped the spider was waiting to tear him apart.
“Is there anything that you want to tell me?” Drew asked conversationally as he released her so that he could take her small hand in his and entwine their fingers.
“I almost died?” Kara said, hoping to use sympathy to save her.
“That’s what I heard,” he murmured absently as he led her to the back staircase.
Sniffle. “It was terrifying,” she mumbled, sniffled, and because she really had no shame, she placed her hand over the slight swell of her belly where their babies were growing.
Drew’s gaze flickered to her belly and-
“I found the files,” he said, releasing her hand halfway up the stairs and leaned back against the wall.
“I figured,” Kara said, sighing heavily as she moved to head up the stairs only to have Drew stop her with a touch.
“I thought you were happy here.”
“I am,” she assured him, knowing that they were here so that they could keep her safe. She also knew how much the move had cost him, it was just…
She’d given up the only thing that she’d ever wanted.
Then again, Drew and the babies were more than she could have ever hoped for and she couldn’t wait to be a mom, but…
“This isn’t the life that you’d always dreamed of, is it?” Drew asked as he wrapped his arms around her.
“There are so many bugs,” she said, making him chuckle.
“That tends to happen near the woods,” he told her with a kiss against the side of her neck as he placed his hands over her belly.
“I know,” she mumbled sadly, feeling his lips pull into a smile against her skin.
“The Sentinel, huh?” he said, resting his chin on her shoulder.
“It was just an idea,” Kara said, shrugging it off, but she was curious what he thought about the club that she’d been dreaming of opening one day.
“Just an idea, huh?”
“Yes,” she said as he wrapped his arms around her and pulled her closer.
“We’ll have our club back one day,” he said with a heartfelt sigh, making her frown.
“You promise?” she asked, placing her arms over his.
“Yes. We just have to wait for the right time. Right now, they’re having problems keeping the Boston Packs in line.”
“We knew that was going to happen,” Kara said, granted, she’d actually expected one of the other Packs to take over by now and force the other Packs to come to heel.