*Cali POV*
My eyes are shutting down when I see him. 
“No!” the witch cries in disbelief as my fuming Epsilon and Rufus snatch their charms from her neck. I drop on the floor and hungrily take in the air I was starved off a minute earlier. I sit up in time to notice the witch’s hair turning red. She is trying to flee when my extended, mighty and pissed-off family arrives. Now we are even. 
“Go be with her,” Alloy tells my fuming mate, whose eyes are blazing at our attackers. The idiots are now trembling. I wonder what their end game was. Kill Leroy and the witch would kill me, then what? Alloy’s family were still going to avenge us, or did they not think that far?
They start hauling in distress but I don’t think anyone is going to come to their rescue. 
They now have the Sable king, a hybrid, two Lycans, and an inferno wolf against them. We have won. 
Sky looks at me, but I know what he wants. 
“Finish them off,” I link and he goes wild. 
I should not cheer him on as he alienate the four Alpha’s of our neighbouring packs, but they deserve it. 
“Queen of queens,” a voice I have not heard in a while, greets. 
“Don’t even think about it. I don’t want bloodshed,” Alloy warns his crazy uncle, who gives him an innocent look. 
“I am only greeting my Queen.”
I roll my eyes. Neptune and innocent don’t go together. 
“Don’t. He will be upset and all possessive and she will get upset. Then he will collapse and she will freak out. Bottom line, that is not good for the babies,” Alloy explains. It sounds so weird, but very accurate. 
Neptune lifts up his hands to surrender. 
“Fine. I will behave. The doc is more enticing anyway. She’s giving Dante goosebumps.”
I can only shake my head at him. He had not changed a bit. 
The hall is covered with blood of our enemies when my mate’s rage dissipates. I am taken aback when Alloy  winces and falls to his knees. 
“Alloy!” I cry out and everyone rushes to us. 
“Alloy, have you been hurt?” Alpha Omario, his father questions and quickly checks on him.
“No, I did not sustain any injuries,” he responds and groans. “It’s just my insides…”
My eyes are on Alloy when Leroy looks worriedly at me. 
“Babe?”
I frown at him before following his kind of vision and find the floor wet below me. 
My eyes widen. “My water broke!”
I should not be surprised, I am due any moment from now, but I should have felt something. 
“You are in labour, My Queen,” the Epsilon states but I don’t think so. 
“I don’t have any contractions,” I tell everyone, whose eyes are now on me. 
“Alloy needs help,” I redirect them to our friend who is panting and wincing. 
“You are in labour,” Rufus resonates our Epsilon’s words, but I don’t get it until Leroy spells it out for me. 
“You felt the contractions when Phoebe was in labour. Alloy is the one having contractions.”
My jaw drops. 
“You are the first she-lycan we know, but the king is right,” the Epsilon says and I have mixed feelings about this. It still does not sit well with me that Alloy is mated to one of our unborn pups. I don’t see how any of that is possible or ethical. 
“We need to get to the bed,” my mate tells me before whisking me off my feet to our chambers. 
“Freakin’ damn it! Someone bring me a pain killer right now!” Alloy roars and I feel bad for finding this funny. I am nibbling on pineapples and don’t feel a thing, while he is sweating and groaning. 
“I don’t know what to give you, Your Highness. I don’t have any experience in this,” Dr Brown tells him. “I have given you what I have, but nothing really takes away labor pains,” she adds. 
“Then, why the fuck do we reproduce if nothing takes this away?”
“Oh, Honey, that is nature. It is what every species goes through,” Luna Abi tells him before gently wiping his sweat. 
“You could just rejects the little rascal. She can’t be worth all that pain,” Neptune suggests to his nephew, who almost bites his head off. 
“Fuck off, Neptune! You want me to die without a mate?”
Neptune moves away from him. “Hey, I was just feeling sorry for you. You are a hybrid, not full Lycan. Surely you can have a second chance mate.”
Neptune’s defensive response is not helping. Leroy is also mad with him for calling our child a rascal. He is soon chased out of the room. 
Four hours later, Alloy has lost consciousness. It’s no longer funny. We are all worried about him now. 
All our Epsilon and Rufus can tell us is that he is alive. 
“Babe, I know that you don’t like this, but I think Alloy is really mated to one of our daughters,” Leroy says with a concerned tone. Alloy is his best friend. It must be hard to see him like this. 
I momentarily close my eyes. “I will not fight him as long as he stays away from them until they have their lycans. They will be old enough to make their decisions and I won’t have a say in that anyway.”
“He won’t stay away, Love. Our daughters will need protection and I only trust him with them. He will never do anything, I know Alloy.”
I can tell that he and Alloy have discussed this. I also know that she-Lycans are rare and just about everyone knows that I am carrying twin girls. Lycans from all over, hybrids and alphas will be coming for them. 
“Fine, but I will kill you both if he do much as try anything stupid with my girls,” I warn and wince when I feel my pelvic bones shifting. 
“I think it’s time.”