"I am not a--" A large yawn interrupted her. Then her stomach rumbled.
Declan frowned. He looked from her stomach to her face to her stomach. "Doc said you should rest, but you need to eat!" Declan looked confused and slightly panicked.
"Maybe a quick lunch and then a nap. Getting healed from a witch healer always makes me tired," Kari suggested.
"Okay, we go get lunch."
She went to get out of bed, he stood and began frantically waving his hands in front of her. "No, wait, stop, don't move."
She froze. "What am I supposed to do?"
Declan began pulling at his hair. "I don't know!" he exclaimed. "Should you move? Should you get out of bed? I mean you were hurt when you fell down the tunnel. Now you're having a baby."
Kari sat at the edge of the bed, her feet dangling. She watched as her mate slowly began to melt down before her very eyes. When he spun around aimlessly for the fourth time, she hopped off the bed, walked over to him, and placed both hands on his chest. He looked down at her with a wild look in his eyes.
"Darling, I am hungry."
"Right, hungry, food. You need food." He swept her up into his arms and began jogging out of the infirmary.
Kari sighed.
Wonderful. He has known for less than an hour, and this is how he is.
She laid her head down on his shoulder.
And I would not change a thing.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
When they were in Magnus' quarters, Kari tapped Declan on the shoulders, and he set her down. She looked at him, "You go inside. I will be there in a moment."
He nodded his head up and down. "Of course. I'll make you a plate."
"That would be lovely," she said. As soon as he was in the dining room, Kari walked in and sat down on the sofa in the antechamber. She pulled out her cell phone and dialed a number she knew by heart.
"Hello," a familiar voice answered. "Kari, is that you?" he asked.
"Of course, it is me."
"Well, I'm not coming to get you. You need to stay there."
Kari rolled her eyes. "Actually Law, Avery and I have found our mates. We are staying here."
"What!" he exclaimed. "You were only supposed to stay there until it was safe to come back. You weren't supposed to move there."
"That is in part why I'm calling. I've met Meryn McKenzie, and she is requesting a security detail." She quickly went over what had been happening since she arrived: From Declan's assault to Meryn's concerns about the division of leadership. There was a brief silence on the phone.
"Come back home; it is not safe there."
"They are going to find the feral."
"What feral?" he demanded.
"Oh, you did not know about that."
"Safe haven, my magical ass." He quieted. "How soon do you need us?
"Well, I may or may not have a stalker trying to kill me too."