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“Now Brenda is asking for the same sort of understanding from you that I got from Sean. She knows it’s not the most desirable situation you can find yourself in, but if you can accept her life as it exists, she’ll work like a dog to make you happy. She’s just hoping you’ll give her a chance to prove it, before you say it’s not for you. She’s throwing her cards on the table and hoping you’ll give her a chance. If it weren’t for my own situation with my husband, she’d be telling you herself, but I thought that my husband and I had something to add to the conversation. You don’t have to give her an answer tonight, because you got a whole bunch of shit just dumped on you, but think about it, and see if you can see your way to giving it a try.”
“You’re right. It is a lot to have dumped on me.” He looked at Brenda. “Why didn’t you tell me before?”
“Most men disappear when they find out I have a son. I figured, a couple of dates, you’d disappear too, so what’s the point. I also didn’t know I’d like you as much as I do. You’re the first person I’ve met, I’d even think of raising Tommy with.”
“What about your bodyguard? He’s a handsome guy?”
“I can’t marry him, and he can’t marry me. He is handsome and he’s nice, but we’re not compatible on a very deep level.”
“Is that right, Mathias?” Brian asked.
“Yes, sir.”
“Are you gay?”
“Pansexual, sir. I like Brenda, but she’s not my type.”
“Who is your type?”
“Any of the women at this table.” All wolves, of course.
Brian looked them all over. “You have good taste, anyway.”
“Yes, sir.”
“Have you had sex with Mathias, Brenda?”
“Sex was one of the services offered by my dates. If I went on a date with someone, we normally had sex. It sometimes included Mathias, but he wasn’t the only one I dated. That’s all it was. There’s no emotional connection at all. They were clean, handsome and healthy, and gave me an outlet. That’s it. You’re the first person I’ve had any emotional connection to since my divorce. Obviously, if you’re willing to date me under these circumstances, I won’t be dating anyone else.”
“What do you feel about your wife being pregnant all the time,” Brian asked Sean.
“I love my wife, and she does everything in her power to prove that she loves me. During our honeymoon, she surrendered herself to me in submission, and refuses me nothing. That’s how much she loves me. I can live with the rest, because I’m familiar with the surrogate program and how important it is to the people who need it. If Brenda is anything like my wife, and I don’t know, because I just met her, I doubt you’ll regret continuing to see her. I think you should give her the chance to prove she is or isn’t what you want. It might have ended anyway, but if you like her, it should die of its own inertia, not because she’s pregnant, and will be again.”
Brian thought about that for a bit, then said, “That makes a lot of sense.”
I put my hand on his again. “I knew I liked you, Brian. You’re every bit as nice as Brenda said you were. I hope you’ll give me one of your dances today.”
“Sure, if your husband doesn’t mind.”
“Since he’s my Master, and I’m his submissive bitch, he can tell me no if he doesn’t like it, but he’ll want to dance with some of the other lovely ladies here, including Brenda, so I’m sure he’ll cut me some slack.”
Master laughed, and said, “It’s highly likely.”
“There you go, Brian. I get a dance.”
******
I actually danced with a lot of people at the reception, including Quinn. They included the bride and groom, my Dad, Conor, Gretchen, Eric, my two bodyguards and Peter. When I danced with Dad, I told him I needed to use his old house where my parents were going with Lois tonight for some fun time, to do the wolf explanation to Peter and Lucy immediately after the reception, so he had to give me back the key. I told him I’d leave it under the doormat if we finished the explanations before he and mom arrived. Since I was staying on the wolf compound, I couldn’t bring them there for explanations.
When I danced with Peter, I told him to follow me when I left the reception and we’d explain everything else he needed to know about all the documents they’d signed earlier. He agreed to follow. When I danced with Gerhard and Janet, they both thanked me again for bringing Peter and Lucy into the fold.
“I don’t know if they’ll agree to a breeding after they know the details.” I told Gerhard. “The documents were signed with some reluctance, and I don’t know if being a wolf makes it better or worse for them. I’ll use Conor and my two bodyguards for the explanation, and I’ll prepare them for the mating ceremony tomorrow. If they do agree to breed, I’m assuming that the actual breeding will occur for the southern Wisconsin pack since they reside in Milwaukee. I assume that alpha will be at the mating ceremony tomorrow, so perhaps they could be introduced at your mating.”
“That’s true. I’ll let them know.”
“Where does Barbara live? Where will her breeding take place?”
“She lives in southern Michigan, so her breeding will take place there.”
“She isn’t staying at the wolf compound, is she?”
“No. She and other family members, including Peter and Lucy, are staying at a motel here in town.”
When I danced with Quinn, he scented I was pregnant. We were able to separate ourselves from the other dancers enough we could talk quietly.
“So, Sean managed to plant a baby in you, Jessica?”
“Yes, sir, quite quickly. It’s kind of odd that both he and his step-father have now impregnated me. Rene will no longer breed me because I’ve married Sean. How is Anna Marie doing?”
“She’s doing well. She’s already about the size of a typical human would be at eight months.”
“And she’s only four months.”
“We do mature faster.”
“Where does she stay?”
“We have a nursery at the Maine compound. They had to expand. We’ve never had as many puppies as we have now, and much of that is due to you. I’ve heard some good things about you, Wolf Daughter.”
“You heard them too?”
“Your exploits are becoming legendary. I suspect you’ll go down in wolf history as one of the most famous humans ever.”
“You were the one who showed me what could be accomplished by being submissive in public.”
“Are you having fun with it?”
“What does your nose tell you?”
“That you’re craving sex.”
“Then I’m having fun.”
Quinn laughed, then passed me on to my husband.
When I danced with Brian, he made an observation, that I couldn’t really explain to him. Not because I didn’t know the answer, but because he couldn’t know.
“You know, I’ve been to a lot of different large public gatherings, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen one where so many of the people are in such fantastic shape, and so handsome or beautiful.”
I looked around as if I was just noticing it myself. “You’re right. There are a lot of beautiful people here. It must be a crowd that loves to exercise. I know all of my family does, and all the bodyguards are constantly working out.”
“Not just fit, but good looking.”
“Good genetics, I guess.”
Changing the subject. “Thanks again for giving Brenda a chance.”
“I do like her. It would be ill advised not to see how it plays out on its own.”
“In addition to protecting us, our bodyguards want us to be in peak physical condition so the children are healthy. They work out with us all the time to keep us in shape. I lost all of my baby weight from my second in just three months. I may be pregnant much of the time, but I want my husband to get the best of me the rest of the time, and I expect you’ll have a lovely young woman to date.”
“You do look healthy,” Brian said.
“I spent the first two weeks of my honeymoon hiking all over the western states. I should look like a million dollars.”
“A half million anyway,” Brian teased.
******
When it was time, I got Gretchen, Conor, and Ingrid, and told them to head to my folks place, giving them the key. I gathered my two wolves and Sean, then found Peter and Lucy and asked them to follow our car to the destination.
“How long is this going to take?” Peter asked.
“About an hour, more or less, depending on the questions you have.”
“Good, we’re supposed to meet the rest of our family around seven PM.”
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They followed me to the house on Boom Lake. “I used to live here,” I said, as we walked toward the house, “with my parents, but when they moved to Maine to be with me, Gerhard bought it.”
“There’s some people here.”
“Yes, they left just before us to open it up. We had a gathering with my friends here last night.”
“Gerhard doesn’t live here.”
“He stays here on occasion, but it’s not his permanent residence. It is where he first met Janet, though.”
We went inside and I made sure to reintroduce Peter and Lucy to the others. “Gretchen is my dearest friend from high school, and a surrogate mother, now carrying her third child. Ingrid is her bodyguard. Conor used to be my bodyguard with Brigitte, but I swapped him out for Alicia. You met the others. Why don’t you have a seat. Sometimes people faint when we do this, and I don’t want you to fall down.”