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Watching Harmony absorb the news of being pregnant, he could see she was doing the actual
math, her fingers were actually absently ticking off the days, and he was hoping she’d come to
the conclusion that the baby she was carrying wasn’t Damien’s. That would make things
easier for him when telling her it was his child.
Something he knew he had to do, though he was still weighing up the options on that one. Did
he just tell her about their one–night stand in his nightclub and how it came about? Or did he
sit her down and show her the footage? Or did he do both? Then there was, did he want to
wait until after the New Year and see what happened with the full moon? Wait and see if she
was his Mate or not?
If she was, he’d have to convince her to date him, and let her get to know him properly, before
telling her that the child was his. If she wasn’t, he didn’t know what he was going to do with
her. He would still want to claim her for himself, if she would have him, that was.
His doctor, Kristen, had run bloods last night and then mind–linked to him when she’d gotten
the results. ‘Alpha, is there something you need to discuss with me?‘ had come down the
mind–link.
‘I don’t know, is there?‘ he’d tried to stifle a chuckle, and she’d huffed at him.
‘Yours then, I take it, that blood has Alpha markers to it. When were you and Harmony together?‘
‘The 6th of December.‘ He’d stated honestly, and she’d strolled into his office ten minutes later and put the print out of Harmony’s blood work in front of him.
“Your new secretary is having your baby.” She’d stated “The current scandal she’s involved in
was also on the 6th. I noticed the time and date stamp.”
“Mm.” he nodded, ignoring her annoyance as his eyes moved to her
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“Despite your happiness about this, Garrett. I get the feeling there is more going on, spit it out.
“She fell into my lap, in the nightclub, full of tears after seeing Damien Blackwell cheating on her. And well, I offered her a little payback of her own, she accepted it.” he shrugged “She also doesn’t recall anything about that night, to drunk I’d say.”
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He got hit by Kristen. “You took advantage of her.”
“Only a little.” He nodded “I clearly asked, and she clearly agreed, it was consensual, and she wanted to hurt him, like he had just done her. Look at her, how could I possibly say no to such
a lovely woman?”
“And now she’s carrying your heir to the pack.”
“Yes.” He leaned back in his chair and smiled “Now you need to keep that to yourself please.”
“Your mother is going to…”
“I don’t want you telling anyone.” He cut her off.
“Oh, and how long do you think you can keep a pregnant woman off the Luna’s radar? A Luna that is obsessed with mating you off and getting grandchildren from you?”
He chuckled “A bit of a pickle,” he admitted “Wyatt and I are working on that, though we’ve already decided to wait to tell mother until after the full moon. If Harmony turns out to be my Mate, I’ll tell mother right away, if not… I’ll tell mother I’m attracted to Harmony and want to date the human woman. She won’t care about Harmony being human, she was human herself
once.”
“Oh and you don’t think she won’t pick up your dating a pregnant human?”
Garrett chuckled. “She won’t care, not once she realises that baby is mine. Will push for it, anyway, to have her brought into the pack and for me to take her as my Chosen Mate.” And he
knew she would as well.
“Human’s and Alpha pups!”
“I’m aware, it will grow faster than a human baby, and be delivered early.” He nodded and he
was.
“Only really early if you Mark her. I wouldn’t advise that either, not while she is pregnant, only after the birth. That baby will likely come around the six–month mark, maybe a little earlier.”
He did the math and smiled a little bit more and got hit once more, “What? I was thinking about it being an Easter delivery.” He chuckled softly.
“You’re happy about this then?” Kristen asked.
“Yes I am, I love the idea. I’ve also decided that Harmony and I are going to be together, even if she’s not my second chance Mate, I’ll take her as my Chosen. She is lovely, and I actually like her as a person.” And he did like the woman, right from the moment she’d fallen into his lap. He’d thought she was beautiful and hadn’t wanted to see those tears in her lovely blue eyes.
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He got hit once more. “I see you’re smitten with the girl. I wish you luck, Alpha…in keeping this from the Luna.”
He’d chuckled “Yes, a good fun game to be had there.” He’d snorted as she’d left his office.
She’d mind–linked to him later that morning to tell him Harmony was awake, knew he’d want to be there when she was told the news. He’d gotten up and gone right there to her as well. Wanting to see her reaction.
He knew she understood it wasn’t Damien’s, he’d made sure to have Kristen tell her she was only two and half weeks along, on purpose. They’d only been together once, and so he did know the actual date of conception. Needed things to run fairly smoothly, so Harmony could
get used to the idea of it not being Damien Blackwells.
That would help him in the long run. It was a little sad that she had no family of her own.
Being in the hospital, Kristen had pulled out her personnel file to call her next of kin, only to
find there wasn’t any, it just stated the word deceased.
It was just Harmony, and she was all alone in this world now. He watched as her hand moved
to her stomach as she really thought about things, and a small smile touched her lips. His
own heart rate increased a little as he realised she was going to keep her child. Wanted to
have it, she may have been completely shocked, but she wanted her child right away.
He’d have outed himself very quickly if she’d wanted to get rid of it, to stop her. But he knew
she was now thinking about being a mother. Having her own family, no longer would she be
alone, and it made him happy, to know that.
“Harm?” he murmured softly, and her eyes moved to him.
“Yes?” she asked.
“Your alright with this?” he asked her just to confirm what he suspected.
She nodded slowly “I am.” But then she bit her lip “I’m sorry.”
“What? Why do you say that?” he frowned.
“I just got this job, and now I will need maternity leave in what? Eight months.”
Garrett chuckled, “That’s alright, life is full of happy surprises at times, and we have a crèche here in the building for employees, and well,” he looked around, “a hospital as you can see.” He
smiled right at her “Do you want to know something about me and this hospital?”
“Sure.” She nodded.
“I was born in this hospital myself, my mother went into labour here at the office and I came
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hard and fast.” He chuckled “We have a full maternity ward down the hall.”
“Oh.”
“So, you can, if you want to, work right up until you can’t anymore. If you want to, that is,” he
put to her, though hopefully by then she would know what he was, and be accepting of him.
and his beast, and wouldn’t need to work.
She sighed a little “I might need that, my savings took a hit trying to find a new job.”
“It’s all good. When you signed the employment contract, you would have signed on for full
medical as well, so that’s all covered.”
“Your company is generous, how is it you make a profit?” she asked with a slight shake of her
head.
He smiled at her “In various ways, and we promote health and well–being, so good medical is
a must in my books. Although it was my grandparents that started, that I believe, I’m just
continuing on with the packs…family tradition.” He corrected himself; was already wanting to
talk to her like she was part of his pack.
She raised an eyebrow at him, and he just smiled a little more. “Your job is still secure, I’m not
letting you go, Harmony.” And he wasn’t going to be. He turned and looked at his Beta as
Wyatt cleared his voice.
“I foresee the Blackwell’s being an issue, Garrett.”
He could only nod, “Possibly, but they have to find out about the pregnancy first.” He wasn’t
concerned, not particularly. They could partition for a paternity test. It would show the child
was his.
“It’s not Damien’s.” Harmony murmured softly “It can’t be, if the math is correct.”
“Mm, but they don’t know that, will likely want a paternity test.” Garrett nodded.
“That’s not the problem I was thinking about Garrett,” Wyatt commented. “I’m sorry Harmony,
to bring this up but…it’s more about you being seen as having cheated on Damien himself. He
could turn the press back on you, state he only did what he did, because he was devastated,
that he’d caught you cheating. A baby that’s not his will be good proof of that.”
Garrett sighed himself now, he wouldn’t actually put it past Damien to do something like that.
He mind–linked to Wyatt, ‘I’ll have to out the footage, of myself and Harmony, of shot of her
and I in the nightclub, time stamped to sort that out.‘
‘Yes you will, so you’ll need to tell her before then. Wyatt agreed with him.
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‘Agreed.‘ He murmured, he was going to have to tell her, he just needed to find the right time, hopefully she wouldn’t start to show too soon, but her build was so slight, he didn’t think it was going to be long. He needed more information from the doctor on that; when she was likely to start to show.
