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Christmas morning dawned bright and early and I swear even from the comfort of our bed on the third floor I could smell the scent of mulled wine and spiced apple tarts.
A smile tugged at my lips. As I relaxed back into Tristan's arms. It smelt like Christmas.
This was the one time of the year I had always felt like a kid, no matter what else had been going on in my life at the time, everything seemed to matter less on Christmas day.
"Morning baby." Tristan greeted, his voice husky with sleep sending a jolt of desire straight through me.
Irrespective of what the doc had told me, my desire for Tristan hadn't decreased, if anything I wanted him now more than I had weeks ago.
"I have a present for you." He stated before sliding from the bed and grabbing an envelope. He handed the me the sealed paper with a smile, sitting on the bed beside me rather than climbing back under the covers.
Curiosity took ove
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A.N. – Thank you all for your dedication to Fire and Ice, the story from here on out will include chapters from the POV of both Roman and Amber, the next few chapters will be Ambers entirely as we get to know her better and finally learn all about what has been going on between her and the Beta, but don’t worry, we haven’t heard the last of Tristan and Cali just yet. I hope you enjoy, L.M.Nokes xxAmberOkay so maybe blurting out that I’m pregnant on Christmas day while surrounded by my Alpha and Luna and our friends and family wasn’t the smartest of ideas, especially considering I’m unmated. I mean BlackRock is a progressive pack and all but even this is a little outside of the accepted norm. I just got so damn frustrated. The man can’t seem to help himself. He has to push.It probably doesn’t help matters that carrying a shifter cub generates three
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Amber (Christmas day)I could hear a commotion downstairs and strained my hearing to find out what was going on. It was yet another thing I regretted as I heard my father shouting, it didn’t take a genius to work out who was the recipient of that tirade and as frustrated as I felt he didn’t deserve to be on the receiving end of my Fathers anger.I stood and paced my room, felling all kinds of anxious. Somehow, I had managed to make everything ten times worse with my outburst, but I just couldn’t help it. Somewhere over the last few months my infatuation with Roman had turned into full blown love and it was killing me. Seeing him every day, working with him, sleeping in the room next to him, when he clearly didn’t feel the same way.God I really screwed everything up. I sat back on the bed, my hand on my stomach as the tears started to fall once again.
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Amber(Christmas day)A knock sounded on the bedroom door pulling my attention out of the memories that seemed to be all I could concentrate on recently.Ever since I found out I was pregnant, I couldn't stop thinking about how the hell my life had gotten so off track.My parents raised me right. With good ideals and strong morals, I had spent the entirety of my teenage years focused on my goals. Graduate with good grades, become a teacher, earn a good wage, find a mate, have children and live happily ever after.It might seem like a simple boring life to most, but life is rarely boring when you live in a pack of werewolves and I guess I always strived for normal.Well, my life was anything but simple, boring or normal now. I was pregnant with the Beta' baby and he could barely stand to look at me most days."Come in" I called, my voice low but I knew they wouldn't struggle to hear me."Oh, my
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Amber(Christmas day)Cali’s eyes glazed over slightly, in the tell-tale sign of a mind link and I watched as her face screwed up in a comical expression, under any other circumstances I would have laughed aloud, but I really didn’t have it in me today.“Tristan said your parent have gone home, they want you to call them later.” She informed and I nodded, my mind registering the look of love that was plain for all to see, any time she spoken about, or even thought of her mate.How I envied that. It was all I had every truly wanted, a family to call my own. A mate that loved me and a brood of children to occupy my time. Now it seemed that would never be my reality, because let’s be honest, even in this day and age, who would want to mate with a child in tow.“I’m sorry Amber but we have to get ready for the party. Do you want to skip it?” Cali asked wincing and I offer
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Roman(Christmas Day)The Christmas party was in full swing by the time I made it down to the ballroom.I offered obligatory smiles to pack members, but there was nothing to feel happy about, nothing to celebrate. I scratched at the new mark on my neck as I flagged a passing waiter and grabbed two drinks, downing one before placing the empty glass back in the tray and making my way deeper into the ballroom.Amber was flat out, no doubt burnt out by the stress of the day, hell, of the last week, I guess.Part of me wanted to be mad. She had known about the baby for days and not said anything. We could have sorted something out so that it didn't come to this. But I couldn't blame her for not telling me. Not really.I know the image I portray, I'm not exactly the most approachable of men, couple that with the fucked-up situation over the last couple of months, and well, I'm surprised she's talking to me at all.
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AmberWith my eyes firmly fixed on his, I pulled the tie on my gown and let it drop to the floor before stepping in the shower behind him and running my hands over his heated, wet skin."This isn't a good idea right now Amber.""Why not?" I asked distracted by the feel of his smooth skin under my hands as I stepped closer and ran my fingers around his sides, down his stomach and that enticing v line of muscle until they hit the hard erection that felt like a rod of steel wrapped in silk.Roman's hands dropped away from his body with a groan and a shiver, allowing me to take over as I wrapped my fingers around him in a firm grip, the way he liked.I barely managed to slide my hand down his length twice before he pulled away and turned to face me, leaving space between us."Amber, I'm not entirely in control right now. I don't want to hurt you." He stated and I watc
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CaliWhile I had come to love the idea of being a Mum, the pregnancy itself wasn’t doing me any favours. I felt like a walking time bomb. One minute I was happy, content, the next I was an emotional wreck, and I just couldn’t seem to get a hold on it.A month ago, someone shouting at me like that would have done little more that rile me, but today, well today it was taking all of my strength not to curl up in a ball on the floor and cry until I couldn’t think any more.I paced around my office, trying not to listen in to the argument that was still going on downstairs, but I couldn’t help it. Amber was my friend, my first friend, and to have to stand by and listen as her own father spoke to her like that was killing me, but I also knew that right now I just wouldn’t be able to handle it and that was the thought that finally had the tears spilling over.Eventually the shouting stopped and now I had to actively
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The pack house was blissfully quiet the next morning, something I was surprised to find, even as I walked down from the bedroom and through the halls, there was no one in sight and no noise, it was actually a little eerie.Roman had explained the night before that the warriors had located Liberty pack and they were planning an attack on their camp so I had no doubt that Roman Tristan and the other relevant people were ensconced away in the war room making plans, but I would have expected, at the very least to run into some of the pack house staff.Cali was sat alone in the sitting room with a trolly full of breakfast foods, her head bend as se read through what had to be the oldest book I had ever seen.“Morning.” I whispered, not wanting to disturb her but Cali closed the book and placed it in her lap before looking around the room and fixating on the trolley of food as though surprised to see it there.“Morning. What time is it?”“A little after nine. I slept in.” I muttered feeling
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RomanThe sense of relief was astounding, even Smoke was calm inside my head for once, laying with Amber wrapped in my arms, our cub growing safely inside her, for the first time I felt like I was home. I guess it’s true what they say, you don’t know what you have until its gone. The risk of loosing Amber over this made me realise just how much I needed my mate, and only part of that feeling was due to the bond we had created.For the most part it was all her, her smile, her gentle approach, she tempered me in a way I didn’t know was possible, even Smoke was generally calmer when she was around.Her fingers traced the ridges on my chest and stomach, the now familiar tingles leaving bump on my skin.“You okay?” I asked, loathe to break the comfortable silence, but we couldn’t ignore this, a baby wasn’t just going to disappear. The no of her head against my chest wasn’t the most reassuring answer he could have given. “Amber, baby. I need you to talk to me.”“It hurt. Knowing that this t
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CaliTristan genuinely looked like he was at his wits end, not that I could blame him, yet again he was shouldering a hell of a burden and there didn’t seem to be a reprieve around the corner. I watched as he sat back in his office chair, scrubbing his face with his hands as he took deep breaths, trying to control the overwhelming emotions running through him, frustration, anger, disappointment, disbelief, not one of them were positive and left me feeling overwhelmed and I only felt the echo of his emotions.Anger seemed to tip the scales a little as he dialled the phone and placed the call on loudspeaker on his desk waiting for the other person to pick up. He tapped a finger on the desk, and I bit my lip, I had a feeling that Lotus pack were about to be on the receiving end of all of Tristan’s pent up frustrations.“Leroux.” A young voice answered and my eyes flicked up to Tristan in surprise. Alpha Paxon was far from young, his son Abel was set to take over any day, but word was tha
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AmberWhen I suggested to Cali that we take Amie out of the boot room, I was just trying to be the bigger person, and if I’m honest I was feeling a little guilty, the girl couldn’t be much older than 18 if at all, and she was on the receiving end of a hell of a lot of hate, even if she hadn’t witnessed it, I didn’t want to be one more person in her life that hated her, when truth be told, Cora was right, that cold have just as easily been me.But the story she told actually broke my heart. No one should have to live in that kind of a household, no one should be belittled by the people that are genetically engineered to love you. I couldn’t help but rub my hand over the rounding belly that contained the bundle of life I already loved so much.I couldn’t even imagine.“Amber?” The question startled me, I had actually forgotten that Roman was here, I also hadn’t noticed that everyone else had abandoned me. I guess it was for the best. No one wanted to be a part of this kind of conversati
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Cali‘Well that escalated quickly.’ Thalia’s thought in my head was pure amusement as she practically drooled over how protective and strong our mate was. Damn baby hormones. We were in the middle of a nightmare situation and all I could think about was how much I wanted my mate.Tristan growled at the older man before issuing a threat of his own, his tone pitched low enough that bumps rose on my arms, if the man wasn’t wetting himself he was an idiot, I more than anyone, knew just how soft and loving Tristan could be, but in Jacks shoes, I’m not entirely sure I would still be conscious.“You have some nerve, coming into my home, throwing around your accusations, threatening my beta, demanding things like you have a right and now you have the balls to throw a vase at my mate, my Luna. The only reason you’re still breathing is because of that young girl over there. The very girl you were ready to abandon, the girl you call a whore, just saved your life.”I felt the tell-tale signs of t
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RomanJack Elisse’s voice carried when he was mad, I didn’t even have to force my hearing to listen in on their conversation, standing in the hallway, with the door closed, I could hear him as crystal clear as if he was stood beside me, and every one of his words sliced through my patience like a knife through butter. I could practically feel Tristan’s displeasure from here, and I had no doubt that after this performance I was shortly going to be on the wrong end of another one of the Alpha’s rants.The fact that I had to step out of the room at all was just icing on an already fucked up cake.“Look at you, standing there like you think I’m in the wrong. They always said that Alpha Leroux was fair, tough but fair and yet you’re taking that bastards side without blinking. You have to know that he’s in the wrong here, behind that blank mask of yours, you cannot be this blind.” I winced at the older man’s words, knowing just how pissed off Tristan was right now, there was no way that wou
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AmberIt literally felt like my heart had been torn from my chest. The only man I had ever loved, had a child with someone else.“Romans talking with Tristan, he was up here with you for a while but Tris is pissed.” Cali informed from her seat beside me on the bed, although I could barely focus on her words, and I wasn’t sure I wanted to.“I don’t want to see him.” I muttered and Cali shook her head.“Don’t talk like that, you’ll work through it.”“I don’t care, right now Cali, I do not want to see him. How could he do this to me?” I asked as the tears fell from my eyes and my hands went to my stomach. The child he had been so worried about, scared to raise, wasn’t even his first.“There’s still a chance the baby isn’t his.”“I don’t believe that, and neither do you. We both saw his face Cali. The baby is his.”“So, what are you going to do?” The question was asked tentatively but that was the question of the hour, what was I going to do?“I don’t know, but I can’t, right now I just c
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RomanOf all the fucking things, and all the fucking timing.I grit my teeth as I stroked the hair back off Amber’s face. My pregnant mate had literally passed out from the news that I had apparently fathered another she-wolfs cub. The doc was on his way over, while I had managed to catch Amber before she hit the ground, I wasn’t willing to take any chances with my mate or my cub.Now I just had to figure out what I was going to do about the girl and the baby.I recognised her, of course I did. She was a member of Lotus pack, a she-wolf I had met over a year ago while Damian and I were on assignment there.Was there a possibility the baby was mine? Unfortunately, yes. I was always careful, I always had been, with everyone but Amber, although that didn’t really mean a lot, shit still happened. But I hadn’t been her first, and I doubt I was her last, so was there a possibility that the cub belonged to someone else? Sure. And fuck was I hoping that was the case.A knock on the door had m
