and crawled into the back seat. “That is still taking a risk.” He mumbled.
“Not really. If you look up to the left in the tree there you will see a camera, and to the right as well. As soon as you pull into the drive, a sensor goes off alerting Randy’s parents who are here. I take it Mom dropped you off?” she asked.
“Your mom and my dad, why?” he asked.
“Because Randy’s father would have come over if some stranger had pulled into the drive. He’s a bit paranoid after all the terrorist attacks. Randy calls her father, Rambo-daddy. But he is an amazing man.” She rested her head on the window. “You know how to get back to my house, right?” she asked Nolan and he pointed to her GPS.
Lucy reached over and pushed a few buttons. “It’s all set up. So where are you guys staying tonight?” she asked.
“We’re bunking down at your house, Lucy. We’ll be camping out in the basement. Your mom already has sleeping bags, blankets and pillows down there for us.” He frowned. “There was one room upstairs next to yours, but your mom said it was locked and she didn’t want to intrude.
“I’m glad she didn’t. No one goes into that room unless it’s me.” Lucy looked back over the seat at him. “Tomorrow, after my appointment, you can see it. I’ll show it to all of you, but not till afterwards.”
“I’m surprised you haven’t told your mother what you are doing?” his brother asked, giving her a quick look.
She shook her head. “No, this had to be done by me. I didn’t want any sympathy if it does not turn out. It was something I wanted to do all by myself.” She turned sideways in her seat looking from Nolan, then to Duke. “If this turns out like I want, you two might want to forget you ever saw me, but I won’t give this up. I’ve worked for two years for this and jumped a hundred hurdles for this moment, so there is no going back. I wouldn’t even if I could. I promised someone this would happen and I don’t break my promises.”
“Nothing is going to change with us.” Duke told her and wondered what was behind that doorway. He knew it was some kind of hall, because the house she was renting was old and large. One thing was for sure he didn’t like surprises, but it would seem they were going to get another one tomorrow.
For the next ten minutes she said nothing as they got closer to her home. “Duke what exactly does being a mate entail? Does it just mean I’m supposed to give you children? Because if that is the case, you two are screwed. Well, unless you know someone that wants to carry my eggs, but then I would have to trust that person if I even allowed this thing to go on,” she asked.
Duke scooted forward and placed his hand on her shoulder. “It’s more than having children, Lucy. Already our wolves are pushing against us to claim you. We’re very attracted to you. Hell, even that is putting it mildly.” He reached up and tucked a piece of her hair back. “To us there will be no other woman, you’re it. Our wolf would even get aggressive if another female tried to even touch us. You are the only one that controls the animal inside us both,” he explained as they pulled into her drive.
* * *
Lucy stared up at the ceiling of her bedroom, 30 minutes before she had to get up and get ready for her meeting at the children’s home. Roman and Karla would either come home with her today or they would be put in the foster care system.
Even though their father, Henry, had been a psychopath from hell and had hurt her badly, Lucy had fallen in love with his two children, the ones he’d been physically abusing for years before she had every met them.
The one thing she never regretted was putting herself in front of the children so their father wouldn’t touch them again. She would do it again if she had to. Karla was eight and Roman six. Lucy had visited them both ever since she had gotten out of the hospital. No one had known she had sacrificed herself