My Warlock Mate

Uncle Harley! Uncle Harley!

Chapter 3 - Present 

Harley didn't know how he ended up in that situation...

Currently, two children were running happily around him in the Alpha suite, although his plans originally, were to be arranging his things to leave tomorrow. Here he was, being a babysitter to Melton and Jackson.

... A few hours ago, he was relaxing, watching tv in the guest bedroom in the Alpha's suite when someone knocked on his door...

"Hi, Harley! Good evening," Cinthya entered the room even before he said she could. "I see that you're a little busy."

She spoke, laughing when she saw that he was watching a random tv show, something he only did when he had nothing else to do.

"Hi... What are you guys doing here?" He asked, turning off the tv, seeing that his brother had the couple's son in his arms. "You didn't tell me that you're coming."

"... Well. It wasn't exactly planned," Andrés answered after looking at his wife and placing a backpack on the bed.

"Yeah, I can see it," He said before noticing that the couple was strangely well dressed as if they would go for a party or something, although his nephew wore just his pajama. "Why are you guys overdressed? Are you going out or something like that?"

"I was telling Andres that he had been while since we have a date," Cinthya answered him with a smile on her face as she lifted her son from the older Witch's lap. "So... We decided to do it tonight, and we need a baby sitter."

Smiling all the time as she speaks to him, putting the boy in his arms, the little hybrid smiling at him like his mom.

"Wait! You want me to take care of Melton tonight? Out of nowhere?" Harley asked indignantly, finally realizing what was going on. "I can't! This place is not ever mine."

"I'm sure, Alpha Penelope wouldn't mind, and I would have a babysitter today if someone hadn't taught my son how to make someone levitate out of nowhere, in Spanish!" Cinthya told him, and he knew it was his fault, but even then he would try to defend himself before the Alpha in question appeared there asking what the couple was doing in the Alpha's suite. "I just saying to Harley that you would mind If he took care of Mel in here while we go out for a little date night today."

"Sure, why not? Actually..." Penny soon agreed, before turning to the man with a smile that made him think that she couldn't be thinking what he thought she was thinking. "I'd be happy if you could take care of Jack too, we would leave him at Alex's mom, but I think he'll be happier here with his best friend."

His best friend? Harley knew that she was using such words to convince him...

"Why can't he stay with your mother-in-law? I'm sure she must be waiting for him already." The Warlock spoke, hoping that the Alpha would change her mind.

"Too bad this don't gonna work," Alexander said, entering the room, greeting the other couple who could be his parents as they have the same age as his mother.

"What happened?" Andrés asked worriedly, thinking it could be something with the Pack he loved so much as the Werewolves.

"My brother's mate is giving birth right now in the hospital wing, and she will stay with her until my brother arrives." Penelope smiled, knowing about that wonderful news as the couple told their Alpha to send their congratulations to his brother's family. "So if you can stay with Jackson too, I'll be grateful Harley."

"But! How about Joseph?" Harley asked, remembering about his friend and the pup's grandfather.

"Dad is visiting his friend outside of town," Penelope answered him.

"..." He couldn't refuse them, the Alpha's couple had an important meeting with a close Pack, and tonight was the only time that everyone was available to talk.

But it didn't change the fact that even if he liked kids, Harley had never spent more than an hour with them, and now he was supposed to take care of the little ones for more than three hours?

... Yet, that was how he found himself at the moment, with two little kids running around the suite as he tried to make them sit down to watch a movie that their parents said they enjoyed...

"Uncle Harley! Uncle Harley!" Melton called for him amid his coiled words. "I want popcorn! Mommy always makes popcorn for movies!"

"Ok! Ok! I'll make popcorn but stop levitating," He spoke while lowering the young hybrid to the ground, he truly needed to stop casting spells out loud near the kids, although he didn't know how the little one had gotten and learned it so fast.

He was going into the kitchen with Mel on his back, and Jackson following close behind when someone knocked on the door before the doorbell rang. 

A frustrated growl escaped his lips as he turned to head toward the entrance, a daunting task when there was a pup hanging in his leg, and a hybrid mounting him like a horse.

... As soon as he opened the door, Elizabeth couldn't help laughing when she saw the situation the Warlock was in at the moment, making her, for a second, forget why she was there before Harley said that neither Penelope nor Alexander were in there.

"I know that. Actually... It was Penny who asked me to come here." She said putting her son down before the boy joined his friends running through the suite. "She wanted me to make sure they didn't kill you yet."

He ended up, laughing at her words, he was sure Penelope would never talk about her son like that.

"Thanks, I really needed help."

"I can imagine." Eli could see it clearly as he entered the suite where toys were scattered everywhere, and a children's movie was playing on the TV. "When you work with children every single day, you know how they can make us want to tear our hair out sometimes."

Once again, Harley laughed in the presence of Beta's sister, and for the rest of the night, they spent the time together, sleeping on the couch with the three little boys between them while the television continued to play by itself, on the children's channel...