Page 64 of My Bad Boy Alpha

“Don’t worry,” Shivani said.“We didn’t watch.”

I paused for a moment.“Did we …”

When I didn’t continue my sentence, the sisters looked at each other in confusion.My cheeks reddened because Idid notwant to say this out loud, and I played with my fingers, gesturing obviously to my stomach.

“I think she’s trying to ask if there is a pup in her belly,” Ifa said to Shivani.

Shivani shrugged.“Not something I can tell you.”

“You’re literally the goddess of pups,” I reasoned.

She smiled and brushed some hair out of my forehead.“You get to live your life with your mate.You get to discover if you have or don’t have a pup on your own, like all she-wolves do.Because this will be the only life that you get with him, and you deserve to live it normally and to be happy with him.”

CHAPTERFORTY-ONE

STONE

After Zuri leftour bed this morning to train, I walked down to the training area and leaned against a wooden post-and-rail fence and watched her laugh with Sina, Maxine, Olenna, and what I assumed were the other two goddesses that I couldn’t see.

Grandma Bee hobbled up next to me.

“You were wrong,” I murmured, not to rub it into her face, but because I was happy that she had been wrong about Zuri.Zuri was the goddess of her dreams, my mate, and most importantly, the woman who would save all of us.

“Wrong about what, Stone?”

I side-eyed her and arched my brow.“No Stoney today, Grandma?”

She intertwined her fingers in front of her body and rocked back and forth on her feet, like she usually did.“Sorry, Stoney.I’m not feeling too well today.I think I ate something bad last night after you left.”

“What’d you eat?”

“Some berries that I’d gathered from the forest,” she said, her hand on her stomach.

“The ones in your fridge?Where’d you get them?”I asked, crossing my arms and giving her my full attention.We had cleared out all the poisonous fruit from the forest a couple of years ago.“There shouldn’t be any poisonous berries within our property.”

“It could be my stomach,” she said.“It’s not the same as it was years ago.”

Gaze flickering back to Zuri, I nodded.“Let me know if it gets worse, okay?”

“Will do,” she said, patting my shoulder.“Now, what was I wrong about?”

“Zuri,” I said with a smile, watching as she moved with ease, her brown skin glimmering underneath the sunlight.She was tall, strong, and so fucking perfect.And knowing that she was a goddess … made her even more beautiful.“She’s a goddess.”

“A goddess?”Grandma Bee repeated in a whisper, fear written all across her face.She glanced up at me through wide, almost-glowing eyes and shook her head.“What do you mean?Like the Moon Goddess?”

I paused.“Are you sure you’re okay, Grandma?You look like you’re about to?—”

Suddenly, fury replaced the fear on Grandma’s face, and she lunged at me.Before I could react, her talons ripped through the flesh on my chest, right down to the bone.Blood seeped out of my wound.

“What are you doing?”

“What I should’ve done a long time ago!”she growled, shifting into her silver wolf.

Last time I had seen it, she could barely shift.And her wolf had looked so weak.But today, she looked reborn.Her wolf might’ve been silver, but her body was stronger than anything I had seen from her in a while.

Shuffling back, I shook my head.“Grandma, you’re sick.”

“I’m not sick,Stoney,” she said, stalking toward me.“Zuri is makingyousick.”

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