Page 45 of His Treasured Mate
“You’re going to be fine, Lily. Take it easy and try to rest while you’re here,” Micah instructed.
“Oh, I am. We’re hosting a ladies’ night tonight, but we’ll just be sitting around catching up and stuff. And then tomorrow, I’ve already been informed that I am off duty for the picnic. Everyone keeps telling me to just sit back and enjoy it. For once I’m going to listen.”
“Sounds like a great plan,” Lucy said.
“Would you like to join us?”
She laughed. “I’ve been to enough ladies’ nights around here to know better. While fun, I’m going to have to pass for a quiet night home with my little family.”
She showed me a few updated pics of their kids and then they both said goodbye.
I was still sprawled out on the bed, half-naked.
Thomas disappeared into the bathroom connected to my room and returned with a wet cloth.
“What are you doing?”
“Cleaning you up,” he said with a sly smirk.
The second he touched me, my whole body lit with need.
I moaned with the anticipation of so much more.
“Knock that shit out. There’s no dampener in that room, Lily Ann,” Elise yelled from somewhere else in the house.
This time, a growl of frustration left me, followed by a houseful of laughter.
Sometimes it really sucked being in a wolf-shifter house where everyone has heightened hearing and listens to everything.
“You suck, E.”
Laughter followed my response.
Thomas just shook his head, finished cleaning me up, and took the rag back to the bathroom, knowing damn well he wasn’t getting any now. Then again, I was so worked up that I could have been easily persuaded.
When he returned, he went to the suitcase and pulled out a dampener to plug into the wall.
“Now you use it?”
He grinned. “You weren’t getting any anyway. You heard Lucy, you’re already a centimeter dilated. I’m not taking any chances.”
“What? You’re serious?”
“I am. Until Sam gives the okay and we know this baby is ready to safely enter this world, you are cut off.”
“No!” I protested.
“This is the way it has to be.”
Thomas
Chapter 12
Denying Lily was just as hard on me. I knew my mate wanted me. Nothing would make me happier than taking care of her needs right here, right now. But the safety of our baby trumped both our desires. There would be plenty of time for us later. With only seven weeks left until her due date, we could make it.
In truth, I’d never gone seven whole weeks without Lily. My balls hurt just thinking about it. But there was also nothing I wouldn’t do for any of my kids.
Lily wasn’t happy with my decision and, of course, since they all knew when I’d turned on the dampener our family expected we were fooling around finishing what I had never intended to start. I was genuinely just helping her clean up, though I quickly realized it didn’t appear that way. I hadn’t meant to tease her like that.