Chloe's POV The next few weeks seem to fly by.After my talk with Lucas, along with finishing our mating bond, things have been steadily becoming a routine.Taking care of the pups, helping with pack issues, being a Luna to my pack, as well as watching my mates really work well together.I felt all these doubts after that weird realistic dream but lately those feelings have faded.With everything that comes with taking care of the twins, along with helping Aria with her little, worrying about some dream hasn't been a top priority, especially after watching Alaric and Lucas grow into their roles together.Alaric is always a bit busier than Lucas so he helps out more with the pups, but honestly I think Lucas doesn't take on as much so he knows I have a break to let my wolf out and have some time for myself outside of being a mom, a Queen, a Luna, and basically a second mom to David and Aria's little one.I can never express the amount of love I have for that man, how he shows me in the
Alaric's POV Ever since Chloe had the pups then almost died things have felt very different with her.Lucas and her have been spending a lot of time together while I get everything in our packs sorted out. I feel I am missing out on gaining that connection with the pups as well as being her partner. I know they are marked now, we all are, but I have this awful feeling in the pit of my stomach that they are keeping things from me.I walked upstairs today to go see her but Aria was in the room with Chloe as they fed the pups as I watched Lucas walk in to help out.I'm not sure why but I felt jealousy starting to flow through my veins so I decided a run would do me some good, then maybe later tonight I can sit down with them to talk about things.Making my way over to the tree line from the back of the house I stripped down before shifting. 'I wonder what it's like to run on all fours like the wolves do? I know Chloe is fast no matter what form she is in but that curiosity always bite
Chloe's POV Having Alaric chase me through the woods felt so freeing, exhilarating, and I know he let me run longer than he really wanted to do.He could have caught me so many different times but he let me continue. He's always so great at reading my feelings, even before being mated.Even with everything that has been going on, especially with that dream, the moment I am around him all those doubts just seem to fade away, his presence has such a positive effect on me.I can feel how much he loves me, it makes it hard to believe that he would hurt me in such a way, he cane clean about using magic on me to make me believe we were fated, that he basically stalked me for my birth father, I believe he's told me everything, but this dream is still nagging at the back of my mind 'The Lycan King is alive'. What's worse is Alaric is the Lycan King, since my father died, so that would mean it was him, the magic, me turning, everything, but I just don't believe it, not my Alaric. After a li
Chloe's POV This man knew my name, his tone strong like Alaric's, he exudes power yet I don't feel fear from him.He is on our territory, he doesn't belong here yet he holds no fear in him as he looks upon the Lycan King and Queen."Who are.." Alaric cuts me off holding his hand up before he speaks."How are you here? I thought.... you were on the border earlier weren't you? How did you get through the enchantment?""Oh you forget young one, I helped create that enchantment, as well as knowing these borders like the back of my hand."He started stalking closer to us before throwing clothes in our direction."Get dressed, I don't wish to see you naked." His eyes traveled passed Alaric to mine aiming his comment at me.I pulled the shirt over my head before pulling the shorts on as well, Alaric pulling on some sweat pants.His head tilts to the side as he smirks at me, he made me feel uneasy yet felt familiar at the same time.Those eyes, they are the same as mine, his aura screams to m
Chloe's POV We walked behind him to the old pack house, I could tell he was taking in the changes as we started through town."Adding to the pack I see. I know the territory was expanded, I could sense the barrier being quite bigger than before."His tone was very matter of fact and somehow cold.Alaric and I glanced to one another but neither of us spoke as we continued until we reached the house.As we entered I noticed him sniffing the air when his head whipped back to look at us, his eyes black with rage."You don't live here" anger laced in his tone as he sniffed again."This place reeks of Omegas along with warriors and children" his aura wrapped around us, I could see it was having an effect on Alaric but not myself.I can feel it but it doesn't suffocate me, maybe because he is my birth father?"Stop it! Reign in your rage. You asked to come to the pack house, we are here to speak, whether we live here or not any of your damn business. You want to speak, let's go sit and talk
Chloe's POV After we made our way back to Lucas's father's cabin I was in the living room holding Rose.Everyone was speaking around us about what needs to be done when it comes to the battle about to take place.I am terrified about losing Alaric, I know he is King but something inside me tells me that his strength is not where it needs to be to compete with my so called 'father'."Listen, everything is going to work out the way it needs to but if something happens, in case I lose this, she can't hesitate."Alaric was speaking, initially I wasn't really listening, lost inside my own thoughts while looking down at our daughter, 'she can't lose her father'.That's when I heard him, something about how 'she' can't hesitate, I know he means me.Slowly I looked up to see them all looking down at me.Alpha Micheal has such concern in his eyes, Damon looks worried, Austen looks terrified but attempts to mask it as she holds her nephew.Aria, on the other hand, has an evil behind her gaze a
Lucas's POV Seeing Chloe, standing under the lights I couldn't help but feel the love radiating from her as she looked at Alaric. The love that grew between them is so strong, that chosen love that I feel for her. I know we are fated mates so feeling were already there but falling in love with her was by choice, she draws you in with her heart.Chloe walked over to us looping her arms in ours, linking us together as one as she walked us to the table she set up.Every desert that we love is sitting upon it, her smile telling us how happy she was to be with us in this moment.Some soft music started playing when she stood herself I'm front of Alaric. Reaching her hand out to him as he looked up at her, taking her hand as she led him besides the table, slow dancing in one another's arms.Jealousy should probably be running through my veins but I guess since we are all marked as one all I feel is the love, no sense of jealousy at all.Watching the two of them I worried about tomorrow,
"Good morning Aria, are you okay? I had made you breakfast, I was bringing it up to you."She looked at me, anger rolling through her eyes, red shining through more than usual."I need to eat, thank you for cooking but I'm needing something more today.""I know" I remove the lid for her food showing a blood bag as well."It's B positive, your favorite, along with pancakes, eggs, bacon and spinach puffs.""Wow, Alpha, this is... it's amazing, thank you. I'm going to eat down here though, okay.""Okay, we will be down soon, want me to check on the kids?""Yes please, thank you." She grabbed the tray then headed back towards the dining room.Her aura was still off, something just doesn't feel right but right now, with everything going on I need to shake it off and focus on my mates.When I got to our room, opening the door I found them laying there, Chloe was still sleeping but Ric was sitting there looking down at her as he softly stroked her hair.Looking up to me, I could see he was fi
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