Chapter 0941

He turns his head back to me. “They nap?”

My mouth spreads into a grin. “At four? Kind of a lot.”

“Oh god,” he groans, putting his head again in his hands. “I don’t – I don’t know what I’m doing. I’m trying to do it all right – I just…have no idea what’s going on…”

“You sound just right for a new dad,” Roger says, wandering over with Cora at his side, both of them smiling lovingly down at my big, confused Alpha mate. “We pretty much lived in that state of anxiety and unknowing for the first eight years of Jesse’s existence.”

“And I’m great!” Jesse calls from the breakfast buffet, where he loads up a plate. Jackson hesitates, studying Jesse, clearly wondering if it was the best choice.

Cora and Roger burst out laughing, and I do too, and then Jackson does and the room rings with it. I scootch closer to Jackson’s side, looping my arm in his and leaning against him. “It’s gonna be fine, Jacks,” I whisper. “This is her family. Kind of a crash course in it, yes but…she’s going to have to get used to us sometime.”