against him and looked around the room. "Please give sis a kiss for me and tell her I'll see her in the next life."
Cold hands brushed against his face and his hand. " Thank you," was whispered into his ear before the shadows slowly left the room.
"They're gone," her chin wobbled and tears filled her eyes as she turned to look at him. "It's time to move on. I'll pack this up later." She nodded to the room. “What I want to keep is in the other room well except this." Lacey bent down and collected her blanket. "I want to give this to our first born and my cats to my daughter."
"And what makes you believe we'll have a daughter? We could have all boys," he teased as they exited the room and stepped back into the main area. Akaos and Warden sat at the table and looked up as the came into the room.
"Everything okay?" he asked.
"Yes, are we all clear here?" Isaac asked moving to the table sitting next to his brother pulling her onto his lap.
"Yes, every tunnel and hall has two warriors. Tesuss, Talhrn and Todd are all bringing the women back here." Just when he finished that sentence Maya and Dee came running into the room followed by Talhrn and Tesuss.
Lacey squealed and ran to Maya, hugging her tight. "We're home," she said and each woman burst into tears.
Isaac shook his head. "You know we'll never get them to leave now," he said as he leaned over and took one of the beers on the counter.
"Of course we will. This was our home and it will always be part of us, but our homes are with our men. Yet!" Maya held up her hand to stop them from saying anything. "We need to be brought back here to help those we find. Dee and I agreed the home in California should go to the children. With the pack there and your men, they will be protected enough, but here we have everything we need to search for others," Maya said, directing her words to both Talhrn and Akaos.
"You will not be searching for anything. My God, you carry our children inside your belly. You'd risk them?" Akaos snapped and stood.
Isaac knew trouble was brewing when Maya's skin seemed to ripple and fangs formed for a few seconds before she controlled the cat.
"What did I say about jumping the gun? Do you really believe I would risk our children? Don't answer that. I really don't care what you think right now. Talhrn." Maya turned to their King. "All Dee and I want is to be here once in a while to help, greet new women that are coming in. Dee and I can work from the planning room till it's time for the babies to be born."
Before he could speak, the rest of the women came running in, a quiet Abby with them. "Let's go to the playroom. We all need to run and just relax."
"Playroom? What's that?" Talhrn asked, but already knew the answer as he teased his meru .
"Do you mind? I haven't seen the room yet and I know the children would love it the way Mom talks of it," Dee sounded unsure, looking down at the ground.
"If I wasn't sure you'd be safe, I wouldn't have let you come. The children are here. Lead the way, Maya."
As the others filled through her door, Lacey stopped and held out her hand to him, to look back to Anthony and Dan. "Come on Dan. I know you are dying to see where all that dirt went." Lacey teased and he grinned.
"If it's anything like Maya's room." He stopped when Akaos looked back at him.
"When were you in my woman's room?" Akaos asked and Lacey moaned.
"We've all been in her room. Jeez, give it a break," Lacey teased while Maya yelled back. "Just ignore him, Dan. I am."
"Really?" Akaos took off running towards Maya and she shifted before leaping away. Her adopted girls laughed and shifted, following their new Mom.
"Beautiful, aren't they?" Lacey watched the cubs turn the corner. "Would you three mind when we have a girl if I named her after my sister, Jasmine. We were so close and I never got to say goodbye to her."
"I have no problem with it. Anthony, Dan?" he asked and each of them shook their heads in agreement. "Well, then that takes care
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