REMI Soreness radiated from my back into my stomach. These cramps just kept coming back. Calder and Cullen were helping now that we were back home, but I felt so bad for ending our night just as it began. I didn’t feel any pressure or the urge to push, and my water definitely had not broken, so I was hoping that this wasn’t labor. It was too early for the pups to come; I wasn’t ready. “We are ready!” Callie tried to assure me. “No, no, we aren’t. We finally have names, but the nursery isn’t ready. What about Thorin and Maya? What is Voldigoad’s plan?” I fretted. “If the babies are ready, then we are ready! Everything will be great,” my forever optimistic counterpart said. “I’m glad you are okay with all of this,” I groaned. For a moment, I just wanted my body back. If pregnancy w