Melissa (Gabriella’s Pov) I woke up with the boys already up and playing in the room. The room was in a mess, but I looked far worse as I dragged myself from the bed, trudging to the bathroom. Motherhood wasn’t as easy as I would have thought it to be.My hands were on my face as I rubbed them underneath my eyes. The eye bags grew less with each passing day and how they viewed maturity.I smiled as I turned to look at them playing. They had the characteristic look of Alfredo, tainted with my image in the mix. If there was an advantage to it, I saw more of myself in Daemon than in Damian, but it was enough for me. They belonged to me.“Going somewhere, mom?” I turned to see Daemon flashing me a smile as he beat the toy sword in his hand on the door, making a drumbeat rhythm with it. “Yes, I am,” I answered as I closed the bathroom door. “Allow mom to have her bath.”The water cascading down my body was a thing of joy as I let it sting me with its heat, feeling my pores open and invig
Claire’s Pov Seeing her every day was enough torture for me. It became unbearable when Aiden informed me about the Alpha’s move to make her his assistant. It tore at me each moment when I came to see Aiden.“What do you want us to do?” Anya, my wolf asked as I walked the path that would take me to the mansion. I had tried a range of things, but she always came up with a way to turn my actions in her favor with my best chance happening six years ago.“I don’t know,” I answered as I stopped, staring at the house from a distance. It was like a tall dream that I could never reach with the time that I spent. “We are getting old,” Anya said, a timely reminder of the time I had spent waiting for him to notice me.“I know,” I growled, gritting my teeth in the process. It felt like I rubbed my teeth against steel with the force I used. “I’ve tried everything in the books, but if he isn’t occupied with the affairs of the pack. He gets occupied with Gabriella and her children.”I could feel rag
Claire’s Pov.I stood in sheer shock as I walked into his room. Aiden lay in his bed with the sheets wrapped to his neck, shivering and mumbling words I couldn’t understand. This was the first time I had seen him in bed till this time of the day.“I’ve been knocking for a while,” I said as I walked to the bed, dropping to his side. He moaned as I touched him, groaning in pain as I turned him to face him. His body burned with a fever, making me step back to monitor the situation. “Seen Alpha Farrell this morning?” He asked, wrapping the sheets tighter around his body.“I’m pretty sure I have seen no one since I got inside the house. Eerily quiet that I’d consider it a ghost house,” I answered him as I got closer to him. “You don’t look so well.”“I’m fine. I just need to get up from this bed and I’d be up and moving,” he said as he struggled to put his hands over the sheet, moaning from the pain just to turn around. Beads of sweat formed on his head from that little action and it tol
Melissa’s (Gabriella’s Pov) “How are the boys?” I raised my head to see Alpha Farrell with a coffee in his hand. I could feel the urge to have coffee rise again in my stomach from the reaction he built inside me.“They are doing well,” I said as I packed the pieces of paper on the couch, arranging them properly before I filled them.He nodded as he took a sip, moving around the living room like he had a specific thought in his head that he wanted to speak about, but could not. “Anything the matter?” I asked as I tried to clear the air.“It’s nothing, just feels weird,” he said as he took another sip, dropping the coffee on the table next to the chair he sat on.That was weird; him feeling weird was one thing out of the charts. “What’s the matter?” I asked as I dropped the filed papers on the couch before me, walking to meet him.“Have you seen Aiden this morning? I heard his sister’s voice,” he said, completely avoiding my question.That was an answer I never had, as I hadn’t seen A
Alpha Farrell’s Pov“This is bad,” I muttered to myself as I had spent my day here on the sick bed with Aiden. He wasn’t getting any better as he wrapped himself in a thick blanket. I doubted any air would get to him.A knock sounded on the door, jolting me from my thoughts as a man of mine stood at the door bearing the nightshade emblem.“What’s the matter?” I asked as I turned towards him, slightly angered that he disturbed me at the hour and would love to take his head if he did not give me a suitable response. “The doctor is here,” he said as he opened the door wider, ushering the doctor into the room. It was a different doctor this time, as our doctor seemed caught up in some issues. This was the first time this was happening. I let out a little curse word, promising myself to get back to him when everything was over.The doctor that appeared this time was lighter, with dark curly hair like mine, but with gray eyes. It felt like a bottomless pit as he stared at my beta.“You ne
Alfredo’s POV“I would not get a kiss before you leave?”I turned to see Sheila standing behind me. She wore a lacy dress that made her look like a goddess, sending sparkles around the room. “If you never got a kiss. Who do you think would moisten mine?” I asked as I walked next to her. Six months had run past like a smoke in the wind.She smiled as she walked next to me, wrapping her hands around my neck. It was a wonder we had no kids running around our house with the time we had spent around each other. “Well, these lips are waiting for yours,” she said as she lowered her head, dropping it on my lips so that it aroused me.My hands wrapped around her waist at that moment, pulling her closer to me as she sucked the air out of me. Our tongues wrapping and unwrapping in our mouths. Her nipples poked at me, urging me to do something to them. She moaned as my hands found their way through the spaces of her gown, stretching towards her breast.“I thought you were leaving for a meeting
Alpha Farrell’s Pov “I guess it’s time to leave,” Aiden said as I walked into his room. A jacket over a white shirt was my pick for the day. The suit would be worn better when we got to Stormhold pack by the morrow.“You refuse to get better and leave me no choice but to leave your sick ass behind,” I said as I sat next to his bed. I knew his sister would be here any moment and there was no need for me to waste any more time than I had to spend.He let out a chuckle as he pushed himself to a sitting position.“I know what you want to warn me about,” I said. My expression turning grim at the thought of what lay ahead.He sighed, raising his head to look at the ceiling. “It would have been me with you. This isn’t something that she can waltz in and out like it was some playground.”“Let’s hope for her sake there is no squabble or argument that could lead to one,” I said as I stood from his bed, tapping his hand as I did so. “I’m taking Frin with me to act as a driver and also a failsaf
Alpha Alfredo’s Pov I stepped out of the car as I stood in front of the castle, letting out a deep breath.“We are here now, aren’t we?” Dex asked as I placed my hand on my tie, setting it properly. Sarah came next to me with a tablet in her hand as she did at home.“What do we do next?” She asked as she shut down the screen, placing the lab on her chest. She went with the formal looks, a black skirt and dark high heels I could consider a weapon just in case a fight broke out as the heels were made of refined silver. A stab to the heart from the point of the heel was instant death.I looked at the castle once more. It was the only place we could head to, as every sign pointed in this direction. It seemed the three packs that organized this place a lot of planning into it. This meant two things which included the success of a well-organized meeting or the success of an organized assassination.“I hope we don’t end up as the only targets here,” I said as I took a step forward. If the a