Austen's POVI know that Chloe and Lucas have spent this last year together in every physical form that is possible, my room is right next door and she isn't exactly a quiet one. I wished they would use his room instead, ya know, put some more distance between us. It's midnight and I have no idea what is happening with them and it's driving me insane, my wolf is thrashing around screaming for me to go in there and grab her so she can see that she's supposed to be with us but it's Lucas. I can't go against my brother, he truly loves her, anyone can see it and he's been so patient with her, listens to her, teaches her, she will be an amazing Luna, everyone here has taken right to her and just loves her, she reminds me a lot of our mother. Once they decide to be together and mark one another Lucas can officially take over as Alpha of our pack, and he will be a great Alpha. I am so torn, I have never felt this before and I feel as if I am being torn apart from the inside out.
Lucas's POV Standing here, with her, she is helping me heal and the feel of her is everything to me. I know she is made for me, the single best feeling in the world to me is her. Looking down into her gorgeous eyes, I can get lost in them, she looks up at me and gets on her tippy toes and presses her lips against mine. She says she accepts me, she can feel our mate bond and it's pulling her right into me, everything is heightened even more than before. Her touch is like lightning shocking into my entire body, her kiss makes my entire body go weak, I am so in love with this enchantress, I want to take her, feel myself inside of her, that animalistic, raw, almost feral sex, her favorite kind actually. She is like a demon in bed, so savage and wants to make love one minute then devour each other the next, right now it's so intense, feeling every part of her naked wet body as she pushes into me and I get harder with every second that passes by. I grab her ass and rip her up in
Chloe's POV Sitting up in bed, dumbfounded at how Lucas just jumped up and threw himself out of the room, he said nothing, just had this look on his face and within a blink was gone. I was a bit shocked and went to go call out to him 'DONT SAY ANYTHING' 'Ummm, what's going on Callie? I'm starting to freak out a bit' 'Can you smell that? It's sweet yet earthly dirty, something isn't right but I recognize that scent' I sat there for a moment, hearing nothing but sniffing the air 'Callie.... that smell, we know that smell... it's eerily familiar' 'Chloe... Get up, and we need to shift, that scent is wrong, very very wrong' I stood up and walked towards the door and heard Lucas, he was breathing so heavily and I could feel, what is that? Fear? Anxiety? No! 'CALLIE ITS WHAT KILLED MOM AND DAD!' I shifted quickly and stalked forward and heard Lucas's heart racing and felt him he wanted me to run, I turned and threw myself out the window landing hard on the ground, Callie whimpe
Alaric's POVThis female had the scent of 100 roses and a sweetness so faint I needed to make it stronger. She took right to me, I knew, even without her wolf that she would be able to smell me all around her, after all, we are meant to be. She was falling right into me, it felt heated and her arousal was making me want to take her hard and powerfully, no escape even if she tried. I had her in my grasp, she was clouded over but her mind was strong, stronger than I gave her credit. Pinned down on the couch, waiting for her to beg me to take her and she started trashing, trying to get away from me, thinking of this Lucas she believes is her mated. I can hear her thoughts, feel her emotions and it angered me that even while in my presence she had the audacity to think of that weak soon to be Alpha. I let my anger take control and I picked her up and slammed her into the wall, in the darkness, her eyes grew wide as she tried to see, but without her other half she can't, I cam see her perfe
Chloe's POV I woke up to the door closing, the scent of Alaric was over taking all my senses and when I opened my eyes and looked up he was towering over me, looking down, my heart jumped when I realized he was so close, I let out a gasp and pursed my lips together tightly to try not to make another sound. He bent down closer to me and pulled my shorts away from me, he was trying to catch my scent, I assume to see if he could smell Lucas on me, I saw his eyes go full black as he slowly looked me in the eye and let go of the shorts. I could feel my arousal again with the way he looked at me, so intense and intimidating, I know he caught a whiff because his eyes shifted and he glanced down then back to my eyes before smirking. "I won't have you smelling of another man, or boy I should say." With that he lifted me with his hands, with ease, damn is he strong, and scary. He took me over to the bed and dropped me on it, I bounced a bit but stayed in one place, I knew he could hear my heart
Lucas's POV It's been a week and there is no sign of her, I feel so lost. I can't sense her, we never finished marking one another, I wonder if she can feel me, feel how worried I am about her. "Lucas" I snapped back to reality, lifted my head and saw Austen, my mother, father, Cole, Finn, and even Anabel standing around me, I didn't even hear them come into the room, every eye on me looking at me with sympathy, I felt pathetic and useless. We have searched everyone within a 200 mile radius and nothing, even her scent was gone. I had rushed down and out the back after hearing our bedroom window smash, Chloe's heart racing and felt pain. I got there and she was already gone! How could she disappear that fast? It wasn't possible, she had to have been hurt from that fall. Her scent was there at the fall point, scattered glass shards everywhere along with blood, but then her scent just disappeared, no trail of her scent, absolutely nothing. How can she just vanish without
Chloe's POV I have no idea how long I have actually been here, I'm brought meals multiple times a day, I can't see if it's even light outside, I haven't left this room since they brought me in. Alaric comes and goes and so does Sydney with food and forcing me to bathe myself. I'm sick of being here, alone, I've never felt so alone. No Callie, or Lucas, Austen, David, Cole, Finn, Laurie, Claire... My head feels empty, like a dark hole that never ends, Callie has been with me since I was 15 years old and now she's just gone, granted I didn't realize she wasn't just my own subconscious for the first 2 years but she was still there. 'Callie, I really miss you' it's like it just echos in there, then no response as usual. I wonder if she can hear me and I just can't connect to her, is she screaming to me trying to get my attention or is she lost in the dark, sleeping away without realizing she's gone? "UGH! I hate it here!" Suddenly the door opened and there he was, his scent swirling aroun
Alaric's POV What the fuck just came over me!? I can't believe I let that happen, I showed her a side of me no one sees, I couldn't contain myself, stay angry, looking intonher eyes something happened, I let my feelings come to the front, the me before the Beast, that can't happen until I get her where I want her. It's hard to look at her, see her emotions, she was compliant today, coming to me when I called no fighting with me, she was still a smart ass but no reluctance in her step, she cleaned me without fear, stripped naked without complaint. She treated me, differently, almost without hate, her eyes were locked onto mine, the anger wasn't there, it was different this time but I don't know why. Did she like it? Like being treated that way? Me not forcing her, just gently taking her? I need to know.Walking to my office I called for Aria to come see me. "Yes your highness" she lowered her head in a bow then looked over to me "I want you to put a silver cuff on Chloe
Chloe's POV"Push! Keep pushing Clo! You can do this!"I feel him wipe sweat from my forhead with a towel while his other hand is being crushed by my grip while I push with everything in me.Screams tearing from my throat at the excruciating pain when suddenly it stops, my head falls back hitting the small uncomfortable pillow on the bed when I hear him.A babies cry, my son, crying as he is placed down on my chest for me to wipe off.Lucas's eyes filled with tears as he peers down at his son before looking to me, smiling before he leans down to kiss my head."He's perfect my love, you did amazing, I'm so proud of you."I looked down at this perfect little bundle that I was holding in my arms as I feel a tear slip down my cheek when his eyes open, they fixated on mine instantly while he laid there.Just feeling one another, bonding to one another, seeing his gray eyes looking up at him, he was so tiny, fragile, but absolutely breathtakingly perfect."Welcome to the world my little pri
Chloe's POV It's been two months since we laid Alaric to rest. Today is the twins first birthday party, we are celebrating a week late to add in Aria and her son Mikey for his first as well.I have been spending most of my time with the kids, bringing them to do my Luna duties as well.No one is ever bothered having them there with me, they live getting to see their late Kings pups, watching them grow.They are loved by everyone in our pack, treated like family by all, including Mikey who I tend to keep with me as well.Aria has been helping me out a lot with Luna duties as well, taking care of things I don't have the time for, like checking homes, making sure everyone has what they need, no one here goes without.We have Mikey stay with me because the twins treat him as if they are triplets. Rose and Mikey are always together but David tends to go off to play alone.He always seems to walk off alone, not far but far enough where he can't join in when he wants to. I watch him a lot,
Chloe's POV When I woke up in the morning with the kids giggling with one another I smiled at them before reaching behind myself to feel emptiness.My heart stopped for a moment when reality hit me again that he wasn't here, that I had lost him from my life.Bringing my hand up to his mark I ran my fingers across it gently as a tear slipped down my cheek. Wiping it away while I looked at the smiling faces of our babies while looking over to see Lucas looking at me.The love that filled his eyes along with sorrow he was trying to hide from me.Locking eyes he had a small smile on his handsome face making me smile back at him.'We are so lucky to have him' 'We always have been Clo.... I'm sorry for what..''Don't Callie, you have nothing to be sorry for, we are both suffering.'I could feel her curl up in the dark but I also felt a wave of relief run through me from her. We both need to be there for one another to work through this loss, to learn to live without our husband.*****Aft
Chapter 101Lucas’s POV When I saw her stalking slowly towards me, her arm raising into the air to strike against me, I kept trying to speak to her, praying she will hear me somehow. I went to close my eyes but before I could she suddenly stopped, like she was fighting herself, Chloe was fighting to get through to Callie, same as I was. Looking up at her when I watched my beautiful mate shift, her body hitting the ground as she curled into herself. She was covered in dry blood, dirt, sweat, everything, yet she still looked simply perfect to me. I knelt down, pulling her into my arms while carrying her up the stairs to our room, her eyes opening to look up at me as she realized she had control again but the heartbreak in her eyes broke my heart more than it already was. We had lost him, our mate, our family, our King. The kids lost a father, someone that loved them so whole heartily, someone I will do everything in my power that they know about, grow to be like him, strong, lovi
Chloe’s POVSitting back in the darkness of my mind, still feeling the sobs rack through my body as I no longer fought against Callie for control.My body, my mind, everything just felt weak right now, I was broken.It took everything in me to keep us from killing that poor girl in the house, we definitely hurt her, but i fought back, hurting myself to keep from ripping her to pieces. I hope she was able to get some help, hopefully she will heal properly from the gash that sliced through her like a knife cutting through softened butter.The feel of her flesh slicing through our claw felt amazing, almost intoxicating so it took all of me to stop it from happening again.Callie wouldn’t listen to me, she has tried to block me from speaking to her, her rage is consuming her but I am so tired I just don’t know how to get through to her.She ran us off into the woods after I broke our front paw then sliced through my hind leg with my other claw. The pain was overwhelming as I hear her grow
Chloe's POV I walked back into my room after getting the kids down, waiting for Austen to bring some food. I've been avoiding the hospital, seeing him there, like that, with nothing I can do was breaking me.Lucas kept telling me to take my time, it made it easier to stay away having him tell me to, but it still felt really wrong at the same time.I keep thinking, wanting to find a way to help, I don't want to lose him. I want the pups growing up with both their fathers, I want them to know Alaric, have him see them grow, teach them what it is to be a Lycan.Even though I know Lucas loves them as his blood, he doesn't know what it is to raise Lycan pups, neither do I honestly. Being as I'm still learning to adjust to being one, I have control but the thought of explaining or helping someone else know what it's like scares me.Being rational with it, I know by the time they are of age I will know what to do, but I don't want to, I want him here to do it.It sounds selfish, even as I
Austen's POV Hours passed with Chloe, Lucas wanted her to take her time so we sat eating something small then went to sit with the children for a while.It helps her to be around them but I noticed, after a while of being with them that she was starting to seem off again.Knowing I was hungry again, since we didn't really eat anything big before I decided to go down to make us some food before meeting Chloe back in her suite.She started putting the kids down to bed as I went down to the kitchen.After about 30 minutes I headed back up with some sandwiches, chips, veggies, along with fruit since I know how much she likes having strawberries with sliced up bananas.Watching Chloe go through the turmoil that was eating at her.We were sitting down eating, well I was while she sat there trapped inside her own thoughts, even though she is still in this room with me she isn't really here.She was mumbling about dream walking to find him but I'm not exactly tly positive what that is all ab
Lucas's POV After we all sat around, contemplating what to do about Alaric I had to force Chloe to go home so she could see the kids.Her asking about whether her blood could help him put everyone on edge, worry she may try something stupid.Her giving him her blood before barley brought him back, didn't help heal him but kept him from dying.It nearly killed her though, the amount of bloodbshe lost in the process was far to much for her. We can't risk losing her, not after everything, plus Alaric would never be able to live with himself if we risked her. Him just finding out she did what she did on the field while upset him, but he also would expect nothing less of her, we know she would die for either one of us, or our kids.'Lucas, I'm home with the kids, going to spend some time with them then clean up and head back''Please Clo, take your time, I won't leave his side. I love you Chloe, so much.''I love you too Lucas'She cut the link off after that.Sitting here with Alaric, a
Chloe's POV I felt helpless.Waking up to see Alaric like that, seeing how tortured Lucas was by everything, feeling his emotions hanging on by a thread as he tries to remain strong for us.After talking to Damon, we all are just here, looking down at Alaric, my heart racing as I try to come to terms with what is going on."Now what do we do?How can we find out how to bring back his Lycan?"Damon sat down on the bed with me as he flopped an arm over my shoulders while Lucas never stopped staring at Alaric. I looked over at Damon as he sat there, no words being spoken as we all try to figure out something.Damon having magic, I'm praying he may be able to figure out something but my heart was breaking as I tried to focus in on Alaric. I couldn't feel anything.No Lycan.Not even him.I couldn't feel any emotions at all coming from him, it was as if he was gone already yet here he is, laying in a bed in front of my eyes.A machine breathing for him with a weak heartbeat on a monitor