During the next night, Amy got pulled back into surgery two more times. I can see the hope slowly draining from everyone’s eyes, even Dallas’s. Every time they come and update us, his eyes dim a shade. He’s been trying so hard to keep it together for everybody, but he’s slipping. “Why don’t you boys go home and get some rest. We will call you the minute they update us.” My mom says sweetly. None of us are able to sleep right now, but she wants us to try. I shake my head, no. I’m not going anywhere until I can see her. My mom sighs, knowing she’s not going to win if she tries to push this.My dad steps up, “Go home, shower and rest. We will call you if anything happens.” He uses his Alpha command. Everybody stands up, except for me. He looks at me confused, “I’m not leaving, not until I can see her!” I shout and sit back in my chair glaring at my father. I see a faint smile on my mom’s lips, apparently proud that I’m able to standup to his Alpha command, or proud because I did it for A
Liam keeps watching me like I’m going to die any second, and a part of me wishes I had. The memories of that night, the pain... My mom. My mom is dead. Waking up and not seeing her, confirmed it. She would have been here if she had been able to. She died, because of what? Because my father is crazy? He said my mom hid me for eighteen years, but why? Did she know he was crazy? What else was my mom hiding from me? Was all of this my fault?I’m torn from my thoughts with Liam looking at me like he asked me a question. He realizes I wasn’t paying attention and asks again, “Are you hungry? The doctor said you could eat, if you’re feeling up to it.” I nod my head, and he kisses my forehead and leaves to get me food. I’m not sure why I said yes, I’m not hungry at all. He left Dallas and Mia to watch over me. Dallas walks over to the seat that Liam’s been occupying, sits down and grabs my hand. “Aims, I know I can’t understand what you went through, but can you at least talk to us?” He pleads
We see the therapist come into the waiting room, and she signals for us to follow her into a small room. I mind-link Dallas to go stay with Amy and he instantly heads that direction. She’s already been alone longer than I would like right now.My mom, dad and I walk into the room, and she motions for all of us to sit down. We all sit and wait patiently for her to tell us what she wants to say. She sighs and looks at my dad. “She said it was her father.” My parents' eyes go wide and then they glance at me trying to control their faces. Her dad? For as long as I’ve known her she hasn’t had a dad. Before I can ask about it, Dr. Kennedy continues, “I didn’t get a ton out of her, but she did tell me she blames herself. She knows her mom has passed, she said she saw her. She says she took off a necklace that she believes was keeping her hidden from her father, saying if she hadn’t, he wouldn’t have found them. I’m having her put on some anxiety and depression medication, hopefully that can
It’s the day of the funeral, and I get dressed in a nice black dress and black heels. I stare at myself in the mirror, looking to see if I look different. I know I feel different, I feel empty. My friends have tried like hell to help me, but how are they supposed to replace a missing part of me. I lost my mother, and on top of that it’s my fault. How does someone heal that?Liam walks up behind me, and I watch him in the mirror, he’s dressed in a nice black suit with a red tie and black dress shoes. I’ve never seen Liam dressed so formally, even at prom. I’d like to say I like it but the reason for it makes me want to puke. He doesn’t say anything he just studies my face in the mirror. His mom yells up for us that it’s time to go. Liam grabs my hand and kisses it slowly, still watching me, and leads me to the front door. I know he’s worried about me, and worried that I’m not talking, but nothing I have to say will put their hearts at ease. They don’t want to know what I’m thinking.I
Dallas and I wait outside the bathroom, for Amy to finish her shower. She finally slept, but you can read it all over her face that it wasn’t peaceful. “She talked.” Dallas says softly, I nod. “Progress, slow, but it’s happening.” I say, a little excited that she’s finally talking, but trying not to get my hopes up to high in case she regresses. He smiles and looks at the ground, seemingly thinking the same thing I am.Amy walks out in black leggings and a blue t-shirt and looks at both of us. She sighs and comes over sitting between the two of us. She grabs one of each of our hands and lays her head down on my shoulder. “I want to get out today. Maybe a walk?” She asks taking her head off my shoulder and looking at me then at Dallas. We both smile, “Of course, Aims.” Dallas answers, putting his head on her shoulder. We both couldn’t be happier, the most she’s gotten out is walking to a car. This could be good for her.It’s only a little after six, so we head down to make something to
I’ve been planning this party all week; I already have the horse and bounce house. I don’t know if Cole was serious or not, but figure it’ll be funny either way. Liam’s yard is going to be a carnival. Like, literally. I’ve hired a carnival to come out. Should be fun. Luna Julia gave me her card and said have fun, so I did. I know it was probably just to take my mind off things, and it has helped. Everybody will have fun, even adults, so I figure it’s a win win.I haven’t had a nightmare again. Since Liam’s been sleeping with me, my sleep has been peaceful, which is nice. I’m out in Liam’s backyard, directing people where to go. I can feel eyes on me, I always have eyes on me. They’re always watching me, waiting for me to snap. But I honestly feel okay. There’s still a sadness I don’t think will ever go away, but keeping my mind off of it really seems to be helping. I just refuse to look across the street, I don’t want to think about all the memories in that house. I’m trying to keep e
Look, I know its only mid-May, but it was a highly requested. The line starts with Cole, Dallas, me, Liam, Mia and ends with Walker. We make it through the first half with minimal scares. Though, Cole keeps pretending that everything scares him, making the haunted house more funny then scary.Liam’s leaving a little space between us, letting me try and be a little more scared and have a little fun. I walk around a corner, not too far behind Dallas. When something grabs my arm, there’s instant pain a little above my wrist with how hard they’re holding. I look over and see bright red eyes and creepy ass smile, in the black lights overhead. It’s him! I scream and throw myself at Liam. “Hey, it’s okay. It’s all fake.” He tells me, I slowly pull my head out of his chest and look at the spot. There’s nothing there. I shake my head, “No, he was there!” I yell and grab onto Liam tighter. He looks and starts to push at the wall, and it opens up. He looks back at me worriedly. Dallas immediatel
We get to the Alpha’s office, and John and Julia are already waiting for us behind the desk. Liam and I walk in and take the two seats in front of the desk. And we wait. The tension in the room seems to build higher the longer they stare at us. They clearly don’t want to tell us what they need to.Finally, Alpha John speaks up, “Amy, there’s a lot that you're going to learn. It won’t be pretty. Are you sure you’re well enough to handle it?” He asks as he stares into my soul. I mean I don’t know if I want to know, but I do know I need to know. Maybe this can answer some of my questions. I nod, “Yes, I can handle it.” Liam squeezes my hand tighter. John sighs and starts his story.“Your mom came to us before you were born, on the run. She was very pregnant, and once we found out the situation, we decided to help her.” He pauses to take a long breath. And looks at Liam, “Have you told her the story of the moon man?” He asks. My eyes shoot to Liam, confused. Liam with the same confused ex
My body shakes in Liam’s arms as he makes me cum for a third time. And we hear a knock at the door.Our breathing labored I glance towards the door, while Liam lays his head into my neck, sighing. “You should probably save some water for the other patients.” Cole laughs, and I groan. Having had forgotten that there were other people in my room.Goddess, how much did they hear?Liam chuckles, ‘Just enough to leave quickly.’ He says in my head, and I groan again. “Let’s get you dressed. You have company.” He says smiling as he places me on my feet.Once I’m dried and dressed I make my way out of the bathroom. Falling to my knees to grab hold of my babies as they race towards me.“Oh, I missed you two so much!” I say between kissing their faces and hair. They giggle, “We missed you too, Mommy!” Heather exclaims, squeezing me tighter.“Mommy, grandma and grandpa say the bad man is gone! We can finally be home!” I smile widely and nod. A tear of happiness falling from my eye. Finally!Liam
While I’m happy I got to spend more time with my mom, I hate that she had no options in life other then to die. I grab my mom’s hand and squeeze.She gives me a reassuring smile, “I’m happy, Sweetheart. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to be around for you and to watch those to babies grow up, but you’re safe now and I’m so happy it’s finally over for you.”I sigh, is it though? I’m still here. I’m still not with them.I look at my mom thinking about that. “How are you here? I thought he took souls when he killed them?” I ask.She smiles and looks over at the Goddess, “It had something to do with the fact that I’m a wolf, and the fact I was wearing my necklace. She brought me here after I passed and now, I’m essentially hiding.” She explains, with a shrug.I swallow, “For all time? Can you do that?” I ask, looking over at the Goddess, who nods. “As long as she’s wearing the necklace, I don’t see why not.”I nod slowly, then a pain radiates through my stomach. I clutch my stomach, and my m
I stare at the ceiling from the hospital bed they’ve put me on. I felt her come back, I felt the bond snap back together, but how long til it happens again.The amount of pain that caused. My heart felt like it had been hit with a hammer and then stomped on for good measure. I’d rather die.How selfish does that make me? I know my kids are waiting for me, but they’re waiting for Amy too. I can’t look them in the eyes and tell them I once again failed their mother.I can’t go through this pain; I’d rather just be with her.A flashback of something she said hits me, when she was asking where the souls her father kill end up.If I die with her, will we end up in the same place? Will I get to hold her again, kiss her, be with her. We’ve already spent too much of this time apart. I can’t live the rest of my life without her.They won’t let me see her, and I know they think I’ll freak out again, which to be fair I can’t promise I won’t, but I need to see her.After watching Dallas’s sullen
I stare up at the gorgeous Goddess in awe. As much as I don’t want to be here, this is insane.“She says she can’t see anything here. What does that mean?” My mom asks the Goddess, frantically looking between the Goddess and me.The Goddess looks down at me, giving me a soft smile. “She’s not fully here, but not fully there either.” She explains, which only makes me more confused.“Wait. Does that mean I can go back?” I ask and she smiles, “That’s up to you. Do you want to go back? She asks, and I nod frantically. “Yes, please! How?” I ask, needing to be back to everyone.I love my mom with all my heart, but as someone who lost their mom, I wouldn’t wish that on anyone. Especially not my kids.I know Liam will be an amazing dad, but I’m all they’ve known for so long. And I’m sure Hazel and Nick, probably all of them will step up and help, but it’s not the same as having your mother with you. I don’t want to put them through that.“That’s up to you. Something must be keeping you here.”
They’re behind those double doors for hours.The rest of the pack has started coming back to their homes, on Walker’s orders. He sent a few warriors out to clean up the mess of Amy’s father, since we didn’t have time.The sun came up and we’re still waiting. No news is good news, right?I look over at Liam when I hear his phone start ringing. He’s still sitting in the same position, watching the doors. And he makes no move to answer his phone.We all know who it is, and I can understand why he doesn’t want to answer it, but he has to. They’ll think we’re all dead if he doesn’t.I crouch in front of him, and his eyes slowly move to mine. “I can’t.” He croaks out, like it physically pains him to talk. I nod my head and hold out my hand for his phone.He slowly moves his hand and grabs his phone from his pocket handing it over to me, when the line cuts off. I’m about to call back when it rings again.I stand up and walk outside, not sure if it’ll be the kids or not, and not wanting Liam
When I open my eyes all I see is white. Where that hell am I?I spin around and still see nothing but white, as I stand here in the middle of nowhere… no, middle of nothing. ‘Liam?’ I try to talk to him, through my mind, but all I get is silence.‘Leah?’ I ask next, hoping I’m not completely alone. ‘I’m here, Amy.’ I let out a breath of relief. ‘Where is here?’ I ask her, hoping she’ll understand this better than me. She sighs, ‘I… I’m not sure.’I swallow, then look around again, before I start walking. There’s nothing to base my movements on so I just walk, hoping to find anything.The pain in my side is gone and to my surprise for the first time in forever, my body feels… Healthy? Goddess, I don’t think I even felt this way when I was younger.My footsteps stop. ‘Amy?’ Leah questions why I stopped, clearly our communications are not as good here, since she can’t just read my thoughts.‘I feel free.’ I tell her and she whimpers, clearly understanding now. Feeling this way, could onl
“No, no, no, no, no.” I whisper, as I fall to the ground with Amy clutched in my arms.Everyone was evacuated into the tunnels while we took care of this, our doctor is down there. I mind-link him to get him up here as soon as possible.Dallas falls to Amy’s other side grabbing hold of her wound and pressing to keep the blood in. Déjà vu slams into me, we’ve been here before. Covered in her blood, because of the same bastard as this time.I can’t breathe, I can’t think.Dallas looks over at me and says something, but I can’t hear him. I can’t lose her not again. Not after everything. I just can’t.This was supposed to be the end of him, not her. She was so worried about no one else dying, that she didn’t realize what would happen to us if she did.Dallas is screaming at me now, but he might as well be in another country, my mind isn’t working, I only know because my eyes are. And I can see him yelling, just like I can see Amy’s lifeless body in my arms, while her blood pours out aroun
‘Amy?’ Liam shouts in my head, desperately. ‘Don’t move! I’m fine.’ I yell back, already knowing he was about to give up all of this and come to help me, but we’re not there yet.‘Amy…’ Liam growls, clearly not wanting to listen, but I can’t respond.His hands wrap around my neck. “You think you’ve won this girl?” He spits at me, as I claw at his arms trying to remove him from my neck. He leans in close to me, “The great part about spells and rituals is they require a witch. And lucky for me yours is right over there.” He says, nodding his head towards Hazel.Though luckily for the plan, she’s not where she was a moment ago.It was up to me to get him riled up. To make him sloppy and hyper-focused. Also, lucky for me that he has the fuse of a bottle rocket, and it took next to nothing.Someone just doesn’t like having his ego dampened.A cruel smile crosses my face as I glance behind him, “You sure?” I croak out, with what little air I had to spare. Then Hazel’s hands, covered in I do
It feels wrong, being this far away from Liam, when everything is about to go down, but there’s nothing that can be done since we’re going this route.I hate this with every fiber of my being. I hate the fact that they’re all putting themselves in danger, again, to help me. If anyone gets hurt… ‘Stop. We all love you and want this for you. And don’t even pretend that you wouldn’t be the first on board to do this, if it was one of us instead of you.’ Liam says into my mind, and I sigh. ‘I love you.’ I tell him, still thinking of what could happen.I understand what he’s saying, but it really doesn’t make it that much easier. My main concerns are everyone making it out of this and Liam and I can get our kids back here safely.They deserve to not grow up like I did. They deserve the world, and hopefully this will make that happen for them.Mia walks over to Hazel and me, putting her phone in her pocket. “Dallas and Nick are in position and so is Walker.” She says, and I nod. “Liam too.”