Lilith’s POVThere’s a strange ambience in the pack house today.Things seem dull and sad yet excitable and happy in the same instance.And I think I know what it is, why I feel this way.It’s to do with Leo and Tabby, I’m sure of it.The pair of them are finally moving into the house Theo gave them. All renovations now finished and the brick and mortar ready for them to make it into a home.A place they can birth their child and bring him up. Hopefully nurture him into someone that can love Lora with everything he has.And with that love I’m hoping that he will give her a different future to the one she’s destined for.Of course I cannot force her. I cannot make her chose him.But I’m hoping that having someone of the same age that will love her unconditionally will give her options.Of course I think that things happen for a reason and I believe Leo and Tabby were forced into our pack under our rule for a reason.The reason being we needed their son around for Lora.It’s sad that t
Tabby's POVI hate to admit it but driving away from the pack house down the short one one road that will take up to the house hidden within the tree coverage has me expelling every ounce of anxiety held within my body.I hate that I'm not particularly thrilled to have been living in their home, especially because they've given Leo and I so much despite not actually owing us anything.My stomachs been painful all morning.Small and shape bursts of pain turning into radiating pain around my midsection.I know exactly what's happening and I didn't want to admit it in the pack house because Lilith and no doubt Theo would have ordered a doctor my way.I won't be having any of that.The birth of my son will contain only the two of us and no one else.Exactly how it should be.It's not like I need painkillers or intervention, it's not like I cannot handle the pain in regards to birthing my child.I don't admit to Leo either though. Remaining silent as he drives us home.Home, that word seem
Leo’s POVI walk back into the room to her knuckles white as snow.She’s hiding pain from me again and the only pain that would make sense is labour pains.She’s been in a quiet mood since this morning, having not spoken much as we left and her excitement to be in our own home again has been lacking.But I know confronting her will only cause he anxiety so I pretend I haven’t see anything, and instead being the bag of clothes I had chosen in Theo’s small town of shops the other day.“What’s this?” She asks.“Clothes I chose for Arlo, some small onesies and outfits,” I tell her.She breaks her cold exterior for only a moment as she pours the contents of clothes inside the cot.She segregated them into piles of style, keeping all the onsie’s together and the vests, even the little outfits and she fingers the material and just stares at the clothes.And from where I’m stood this is the break in her facade, the opening of the flood gates so to speak.“Are you hungry? Thirsty?” I ask with
Tabitha’s POVMy labour progresses quickly, the bath relaxing my muscles enough for my body to charge forward with its endeavour to rid my son from the safety of my womb.Now that Leo knows I’m in labour I don’t hold back on the guttural moans that surface in my throat.With each passing contraction my legs spread, hooking my right leg over the edge of the bath for purchase.I cannot help but let tears run down the side of my face and despite being inside water already I feel the pop of my waters.It comes after a particularly painful and harsh contraction. My stomach hard as rock, my breath caught into my throat and the burst happens audibly.At least to my ears it does and the bath fills with murky water from inside of me.The contractions double down after that and Leo is there right beside me as he always promised to be.He’s rubbing my tummy, cradling my face.Whispering words of encouragement when I feel discouraged at best.He is the definition of the words best mate, labour pa
Leo’s POVI never thought I’d meet a scenario where my world would change as dramatically as it did on the the day I found Tabitha.The day I met her everything came to a crashing halt around me as my world repositioned itself to revolve around her. But the birth of my son has posed yet another emotional wreckage for me to contend with.A good one but nevertheless an emotional narrative day.He looks just like his Tabitha and I couldn’t be more in awe of her than I am right now.She’s grown this tiny little human over these last few months without so much as a mutter of discomfort. A son for me to hand things down to.My heir.Yet even though I know have an heir, I have nothing to give him.Nothing but love and time.I suppose the one good thing that will come from me not having a pack to run will be the fact that I will have time.Ample amounts of time to spend on my son of which I wouldn’t have had before.I must count my blessings because I should technically be dead, and if it we
Theo's POVThe connection is instant, waking me from the slumber we had fallen into after having sex this afternoon.Lilith is lying on my chest, her eyes closed and breathing even.And Khai is sitting against the window on the bench as he looks out across the yard.'What is it?' I ask.'I'm ready,' he tells me whilst staring over at me.His eyes are so sincere that they break my heart.'For?' I ask because he could be ready for anything. There's no point in pretending I know what, no point in miscommunication surfacing between us. Asking for his explanation will leave no room for doubt.'To pledge here, to leave Damian and his pack.'"You are?" I ask aloud moving to get off the bed.I place Lilith down softly, so not to wake her and I love to his feet kneeling on the flood before him.This is a huge step.One I wasn't sure he would take so soon.No matter how much he states he doesn't belong to Damian he does, inside at least.I can feel his emotions towards Damian, the need to bel
Tabitha's POVMy first day with Arlo is filled with sleep, crying and feeding.The feeding is the most uncomfortable and tiring part of our day and I'm getting overly frustrated because I cannot get him to latch.And I'm turn his screaming becomes louder and more insidious.Why can't I do this?Surely it's not that hard.I mean, look at Lilith, she feeds Lora so easily that the child's never off of her breasts.I want that, need it yet I cannot fucking do it.I'm a failure already and it's getting the better of meSo I end up going to bed, hiding within the sheets like a child as Leo potters around the house making it our home.I stare at a now sleeping Arlo with tears in my eyes.How did I get so lucky to be given a gift such as him when I never thought I could have a child?There's been nothing I've ever done in my life that would enlighten to be deserving of him and yet here I am struggling to do the one thing I should be able to do right off the bat.I trace his features with my p
Lilith's POVExcitement is an understatement.When I wake I can feel the buzz running through the pack and the murmured whispers of the pack members talking about the newest member of our family.Our family, because that's truly what we are.A huge family.Tabby's had her son, my daughters future is residing not far away from the pack house.I had wondered what was wrong with Tabitha earlier in the day, she seemed robotic and stiff and now I know she was hiding labour pains.I remember them so vividly still.One of the worse pains I have ever experienced yet one of the most rewarding experiences to take part of.I cannot imagine how she's feeling after losing everything only to be given someone that will replace that emptiness.That sounds sordid and wrong but it's true.Her little boy will now be everything.Her whole world shifting to revolve around him.And I cannot wait, I'm so excited that I bound from bed with more energy that I knew I currently held and I pick up Lora."Todays