Lilith's POVI scream in fright as I watch Rex lunge for the bear that's easily just as big as him.It's dark brown, its paws are enormous, and it's aggressive.And what's worse is it couldn't have chosen a worse time to attack than right now.My stomach contracts with pain every few minutes, and the skin tightens. My stomach became hard as my breaths caught in the back of my throat with the slight pain felt at the base of my tummy.Khai holds onto me, the basket in his hands forgotten as it falls to the floor at our feet.I'm not sure why but seeing the basket down there, abhors me.There's something about the basket. So I bend to grab it. Holding onto it with one hand as Khai puts my back to a tree trunk and his back to me.Both of his hands come back to cage me behind him, using himself to shield me away from danger.Snarls, snapping teeth, and two types of growls wound in front of me, and I listen blindly as Rex and the bear fight tooth and nail for dominance over the situation.T
Khai's POVI've learnt enough from Calley that Lilith will use her reserves and ultimately ending her protective qualities far to premature.I assess the situation.Three bears, all at least double Rex's size.Double his weight and now doubt capable of killing him if so willing.I cannot let that happen, I cannot see Lilith's mate... our... Lilith's other mate die.It would crush her, send her spiralling into a frenzy of angry need for revenge as she mourns the instant loss of Theo and Rex from our closely bonded mate bond.That's the ugly truth of a true mate bond. The ability to feel the loss, the happiness, even the pain of someone you love so dearly.Someone that Celeste all but forced upon us, because that's what I have now realised is the case.All this time she's been picking and choosing the wolves and humans and even the mates too. Never once thinking about the opportunity for people to chose on their own.I understand her logic, the need to know each and every one of her kin
Lilith's POVMy head hits the tree with a thud and crack, pain migrating down my spine as a vision takes me."Wait, wait for me" it's the annual mating run but I still haven't been able to coax my wolf Abyss to shift. She says the time isn't right, that I'm not whole. I need to be whole. She speaks in riddles most of the time and it leaves me confused all of the time.No one else seems to struggle to shift after their thirteenth birthday, but for me the doctor says it's to do with my head injury that I might never be able to shift now and I don't know how I feel about that.You'll shift when you are complete.I'm running along behind my best friends Calley and Arlo they are twins and the betas siblings. They too live in the pack house because unfortunately their parents were killed in a rogue attack a few years back leaving the three of them orphans but Theo's taken to looking after them and me.Arlo skids alongside me having morphed into his wolf Jaxon, he bends his head allowing
Lilith’s POVI drop my hold on Rex and Obsidian as my hands come to cradle my stomach.Yet another wave of agonising pain takes hold of me, and my little girl isn’t happy.Her aura is scared, anxious and sad, and I think mine is starting to mimic hers, and what’s worse is Theseus must feel that. His eyes are wide like saucers as he takes in the scene before him.And Celeste snaps my attention from him to her. She’s standing in the upstairs window watching as if he isn’t surprised as if she saw this coming from a mile away.Theo’s the first to shift, not caring about his nakedness as he scoops me up from where I am standing on the floor.He rushes towards the house and demands for a doctor as he goes.Khai shift almost immediately after him, cupping his cock as he, too, follows behind.“We need a doctor, towels. Whatever you need when you give birth,” Theo demands in his aloha aura. The need to bow before him is overwhelming. Theseus walks beside us, opening the door and nodding his h
Khai's POVTheo demAnds I help the child into this world, the child that’s exiting out mate as we speak.Stretching parts of her that shouldn’t be stretched so wide.I watch as the water murks with blood, the colour changing as she obviously pushes the child through your body and down and out of her vagina.And I baulk at how large her opening becomes, a brown-haired head moving its way to me.The water only blurs the vision before me some, not enough if you ask me, but then again, this is my job, apparently.Where is Celeste? Surely she would be better suited to this than I…Lilith moans, whines and screams, her voice portraying her pain while Theo and I remain quiet. Though Theo’s supporting her more than me, and I’ll admit that.Between contractions, he will mutter positive things, nice things.Urging her forward, telling her how well she is doing.The only problem is she’s obviously not happy.She’s in pain, and I don’t believe she believes she can do this.I wouldn’t either, if
Lilith’s POVI’m absolutely exhausted, my body feeling like a ten-ton truck has run it over.My legs ache, my back aches, even my shoulders, and they did nothing as I pushed out my child, my little girl who looks the perfect mix of both her fathers.That’s the thing I wondered about most.This child has three DNAs running through her little body. How does the genetic makeup work in that case?It’s obvious to see how that she took after her fathers rather than me, though maybe she will change as she grows.She has a head full of brown hair, chubby cheeks and a slim and slender body.She hadn’t opened her eyes before Dr Knight had taken her, but I’m sure she will have one of their eyes too.Will they be blue like Theo’s? As blue as the see where I can get lost as I stare into them.Or will they be deep brown like the earth like Khai’s?I hope to find out soon, but for now, Theo has emptied the bath, encourages me to climb out and has us both in the shower cubicle.The running water is r
Theo's POVHave you ever looked down into a perfect set of blue eyes and melted from the inside out whilst falling in love with the very being you've stared at?I have, twice over but this time it's different. It's separate kind of love looking down into the eyes of my child.I wipe the white looking cheese off her skin gently, out of her face, eyes. Even her ears and then I place the nappy on her and pick a white all in one to dress her in.Celeste has been busy for days getting Lilith's old clothes ready for Lora and it seems right to dress out child I'm her mothers clothes. Even if Lilith's parents never kept her past a few months.In cradle Lora to my body, her warmth radiating off of her as I bring her up to my nose to smell.She's sweet like vanilla and spicy like cinnamon and I notice that she's the scent I found on Lilith a few days ago. It's exactly the same.I look down into her face. Her eyes holding my own as she wriggles with her mouth open.Her hair is the same colour as
Khai's POVCeleste and Dr Knight leave not long after I arrive and I’m glad. I kind of want it to be just the three of us again. Or four, including our little girl. Lilith has been laying with the baby for a while, struggling to eat one handed before I decide it’s time for me to step in. I briefly held Lora earlier on but I feel the need to take her, to cuddle her so that precisely what I do as I sit beside her on the bed.I watch Lilith pick at the food Theseus made her, licking between the different fruits. The sandwich and the glass of juice as if she has never eaten before.That’s when Theo comes over, demanding Lora.“My turn,” he says, holding his hand out for me to pass her.I feel like our cuddle was brief, very short and I’m not ready to give her up but I do.He picks her up with one hand under her head and another under her bum taking her from me."Make sure you hold her head," the Lilith says, with a mouth full of food.I watch with jealous eyes as Theo settles the other s