Lexie’s POV “My mother must have finally lost her mind.” Cash said as I told him what Emily had told me and he agreed to help me find Xavier. Xavier meant a lot to me and I had to do everything in my power to save him because he has always been there for me. He now was not just Emily’s husband, but also my brother-in-law. We were family something I had so little of and I planned on keeping the few of them I had safe. Once I finished my call with Cash, I looked around our room and realized that Tyler and Lena were waiting in here for me to finish the call. This was twice now that the four of us have been in the same room and it was crazy that less then twelve hours ago I was scared of being around Tyler and having him find me. “You shouldn’t have involved him. There is something about him I just don’t trust.” Tyler says to me and I can see he isn’t happy with me and my decision to bring Cash into this mess. Cash has been the only one here that I have gotten to know and he is th
Tyler’s POV The thought of Lexie being involved with extracting Xavier from Beverly was too much for me to handle. I wanted her nowhere near everything that was about to go down and I knew Samuel felt the same way. Plus, we now had the matter that she had involved Cash and I knew he was up to something. Also, after hearing how Lena was used by her aunt, a part of me felt bad for her and I didn’t want her involved either. Lexie and Lena began to talk among themselves and I motioned for Samuel to follow me. When we headed towards the door Lena looked at me but didn’t say anything. Once we were outside the room and out of the girls hearing range I said to Samuel, “You’re right, neither of the girls need to be involved.” “Well, what changed your mind all of a sudden? Was it the fact that you are starting to have feelings for Lena?” Samuel asked me and I chuckled at his words. Why would he even think that? “No, that’s not it. You don’t want Lexie involved, so you don’t want either of
Lexie’s POV “Do you think it worked?” I asked Lena as she shuts the door to her room and I just hope that I didn’t hurt things in the long haul with Samuel. “Yeah, I think Samuel bought it, but I am not so sure Tyler did.” Lena tells me but it didn’t really matter if Tyler bought it because he is so caught up in trying to piss Samuel off. The question he asked me was deliberate and I knew it was to get under Samuel’s skin. “Here, put this on. We have to get going before they notice we are gone.” Lena said to me, handing me clothes to wear. Putting the clothes on, I wonder if I am doing the right thing not including Samuel in trying to save Xavier, but I know Lena and I have the best chance of getting in and saving him, verses having the men with us. Lena knew our aunt better than anyone and she knew where our aunt would possibly take him. It was just a matter of figuring out which location she had him and Lena had it narrowed down to two locations she thought her aunt would us
Lexie’s POV As soon as I saw the wolf, I relaxed a little knowing it was Samuel but knew I was in deep shit with me sneaking off. Lena on the other hand was still tense as Samuel’s eyes were glued to her as he continued to growl at her. Tyler then stepped into the room and looked between Lena and I and said to Samuel, “Down boy, it’s just Lena.” And I looked at him confused how he knew that it was Lena and not our Aunt Beverly. Samuel turned his head towards Tyler and let out a growl at him and I knew it was from the remark that Tyler had made to him. Samuel’s wolf left the room and I wondered where he was going to, but Tyler turned back towards us and said, “Did you two really think that you could sneak away from us that easily?” Lena then shifted back into her normal appearance and before I could give him an excuse, Lena said to him, “I’m sorry but the two of us thought this was something that we should handle on our own.” “Lena, you two, could have gotten yourselves into so
Lexie’s POV I never felt my heart race as fast as it was racing at this moment. How as this even possible? Lena didn’t even hesitate running to our mother, while I on the other hand was in shock and couldn’t move. Samuel rushed to my side and I knew it was because he could hear my heart beating out of my chest. I watched as my mother embraced Lena into her arms and our father wrapped his arms around her too as the three of them cried happy tears together. My brain couldn’t wrap around the whole concept of them actually being alive and the way they hadn’t aged. Something about the whole situation seemed unrealistic and I felt like I must be dreaming. A part of me could feel the connection to them but in all honesty, they were nothing but two strangers to me. I hadn’t even seen a picture of them through my lifetime and I was too young to remember their faces. My father pulled from the embrace and stepped towards me, but Samuel let out a growl to warn my father not to come near me.
Lexie’s POV My Aunt Beverly stepped out of the car looking suspiciously at me and asks, “What are you doing here Lena?” Taking a deep breath, I did as Lena had told me and when I began to speak, I sounded just like her, “I thought I would show my husband my family’s estate for when we come back here for visits.” “Oh, I never thought you two would be interested in coming back here.” Aunt Beverly said looking from me to Tyler. Tyler wrapped his arm tighter around me and said, “This is Lena’s home and you are the only family Lena has left. I am sure that she will want to come from time to time to visit you all. Plus, when we have children of our own, I am sure you will want to see them, seeing that you raised Lena as your own.” Aunt Beverly’s look on her face went from suspicious to a forced smile as she looked at Tyler and said, “Of course, I would want to see your children. I will treat them as my own just like I did with Lena raising her.” The thought of this woman being a
Lexie’s POV Samuel entered my father’s office and I quickly shut the contract and placed my hands over it. Thankfully Samuel had other things on his mind to notice what I was doing. “Lexie, I can’t handle the idea of you and Tyler at the Raven Estate together. It’s killing me knowing that the two of you will be there together acting as a married couple.” Samuel said as he moved towards me. Standing from my father’s office chair, I moved around the desk to go to him. I knew he needed my reassurance that everything was going to be okay and that I was his. Once I got to him, I wrapped my arms around his neck and looked into his eyes and said, “Samuel, you have nothing to worry about. I am yours and I will be coming back to our bed tonight. My heart belongs to only you now.” “But I can’t be there to protect you.” Samuel now said as part of his argument of why I shouldn’t go. “Tyler will protect me. I am sure he will not let anything happen to me.” I told him, knowing that this p
Lexie’s POV The car pulled to a stop in front of the Raven Estate house and I found myself holding my chest at this point from the eerie feeling I was having. It was as if my heart was now being ripped out of my chest and I couldn’t shake the feeling that something was gravely wrong. “What is wrong?” Tyler asked me as I turned to look at him with tears beginning to pool behind my eyes for unknown reasons. I tried to speak but I couldn’t find my voice to. “Lexie, you are starting to scare me.” Tyler said as he unbuckled his seatbelt and got out of the car and came to my door and opened it as he kneeled down to look at me. Tyler took my hands in his and it slowly calmed the feeling that I was having inside of me. I was able to breathe once again, not realizing at the time that I was holding my breath from the pain. “We are leaving now. You don’t look well, and I am not putting your life in danger.” Tyler said to me as he went to stand letting go of my hands and the pain started
Lexie’s POV One could say I was a bit nervous as I was to say my vows once again. This time things were a bit different than the last time and this time I had my best friend by my side as I waited for the wedding to start. Xavier then entered the room I was waiting in with Emily and quickly moved to her, placing his hand on her now extremely large belly. “How are you feeling?” He asked her concerned that she was ready to pop at any moment. She swatted his hand away and said to him, “I am not having this baby until I see my best friend marry my brother.” Xavier chuckled at her and then gave her a kiss before he turned to me and said, “I am happy for you today and I know that my brother is happy to see you are happy once again too. Tyler and Samuel may not have seen eye to eye on a lot of things, but the one thing that the both of them agreed on was that you were the one for them.” I could feel tears starting to pool behind my lids and Emily says to Xavier, “Get out of here before
Lexie’s POV After my talk with Emily, I headed home to my empty house. Pulling into the driveway with only the motion senser light turning on to my arrival and then opening a locked door with no one waiting on the other side to greet me, made me realize how alone in this world I really was. Laying my purse on the counter I walked over and slumped onto my couch with a million things now running through my head. Maybe Emily shouldn’t have told me about Tyler’s situation, like he asked her not to. I had been fine before all of this. I was beginning to be able to function normally in this world on my own. I was on my way to recovering and now I am sitting here thinking about him, trying to convince myself that I am happy all in this world alone without him. Yes, the last couple months had been rough, but I made it through them without him. I didn’t need him in my life and I was perfectly happy without him in it, I kept telling myself, but my heart began to ache the more I thought ab
Lexie’s POV Today was a huge milestone as it has been two months now on my own without Derrick by my side and I have been taking baby steps daily towards my old lifestyle. Each day has been a challenge for me but I have been trying to be positive moving forward in my life. It has also been months since I have talked to Tyler and I had met up with Lena and Emily a few times for lunch, but Lena seemed a little bit standoffish towards me and I don’t blame her. I knew she and Tyler were trying to make their marriage work even though that is what she had run from in the first place, but I could tell that she had resentment towards me, and I had no clue why. I had stayed away from Tyler not wanting to interfere in their relationship and I thought I was doing the right thing by doing so. Lena was my sister, there was no doubt about that but the two of us had been raised so differently that we really didn’t have much in common, unlike her and Emily. I had been asked many times to go sho
Lexie’s POV I watched as the real Lena walked directly to Tyler wrapping her arms around him and I could see the happiness in her eyes from being with him. It was a happiness that I used to have long ago when the two of us were together. “Lena, I want to introduce your twin sister to you, Lexie.” Tyler said to her and she turned my way like she hadn’t noticed me when she walked up to Tyler. “Wow, Tyler wasn’t kidding when he said we looked identical. I’m sorry where are my manners, it’s a pleasure to finally meet you. You will have to forgive my hesitation to embrace you, after what I have been through with our family. I hope that we can get to know one another, and I can find it in me to trust you. Tyler told me what happened to all of you on the island and I am sorry for your loss.” I knew exactly what she meant by having to find it in her to trust me because I also had the same feeling inside of me after what I had been through. “Don’t feel sorry for the way you feel, I hav
Lexie’s POV It’s now been a month since we returned from Boracay and still no word from Tyler and I am beginning to worry that something has happened to him too. The walls of the packhouse are starting to feel like a prison and I don’t know how much longer I can stay here. The only time I have left the pack lands is when Emily takes me to see a psychiatrist. After one of my breakdowns, Emily decided it would be a good idea to seek help for me with everything I had been through. Of course, the psychiatrist was a wolf and I could talk freely with her about what really happened. At first, we focused on the deaths of the twins and Samuel but then moved on to my fear of people shapeshifting, which seemed to be my biggest fear. Unfortunately, the treatments weren’t working so well and it was due to the amount of trauma I had been through in such a short period of time. I had no clue if I would ever live a normal life after everything I had seen. Derrick was once again assigned to me
Lexie’s POV Today was the second hardest day of my life laying Samuel to rest between his twin brother and our twins. Sophia didn’t blame me for her son’s death but welcomed me with open arms to their family. Even though Samuel’s family held no ill will against me for his death, I still felt the guilt on my shoulders. As Samuel’s celebration of life gathering happens, I sit in the corner of the room with my head down not knowing exactly if I belonged here. Yes, we were celebrating the life he lived and I was certainly a part of that life, but I felt out of place now among the wolves without him by my side. It had been a full week that I have been here at the packhouse and Emily has done her best to be by my side, but I feel so lost being here in Samuel’s room alone. Each day that passes I ask Emily if she has heard anything from Tyler and each day it is the same response of no. I had promised Tyler before I left the island that I would stay at the packhouse for my safety, but th
Lexie’s POV When Tyler and Xavier emerged from the packhouse I thought it was all over with but I was so wrong, by the look on their faces. Quickly, I stood up from the step I was sitting on as they walked towards me. I knew I had to look like a hot mess after all the crying I have been doing but I could care less. “What is it?” I asked them, wanting to know why they had the look on their faces that they had. Tyler shook his head, not able to say what needed to be said, which left Xavier to tell me, “It’s about Lena.” “What about Lena?” I asked him, confused as I looked up at the door to the house like she was going to walk out of it. “That wasn’t Lena I just killed in the house.” Xavier tells me and I furrow my eyebrows at him confused at what he is telling me. “Then who was it?” I asked him wanting to know who it could have possibly had been if it wasn’t Lena. “We don’t know who she was but we know it wasn’t Lena.” Xavier says and I start shaking my head not understand
Lexie’s POV “Derrick, is everyone okay?” I asked him as I looked at the gate to the packhouse. “Lexie, you shouldn’t be here, its not fully secured yet.” Derrick tells me and I begin to worry what is happening behind that broken down gate. “Have they found Xavier?” I asked him, hoping he would at least know that to tell me. “Yes, he was being held in one of the cabins on the property. He is with Tyler and they are securing the area as we speak.” Derrick told me and I felt a bit of relief wash over me but there was still the fact that I hadn’t heard from Samuel yet. “What about Samuel and my family?” I asked him and I noticed a change in his posture when I mentioned Samuel. “Lexie, I think it would be best if Xavier talks to you.” Derrick says to me and the pain that was there last night overtook me and I knew in my heart that it had to do with Samuel. “I want to speak with Xavier now.” I told Derrick and he began to shake his head no to me. Before he could say a word, I
Lexie’s POV It wasn’t quite morning when I heard Tyler’s voice talking to someone and as I listened, I realized that his men had arrived. Rolling over in the bed I watched him as he was giving the man on the other end of the line orders. He was in his element and he was used to people listening to him, unlike myself. Tyler looked over at the bed and he saw my eyes on him and he quickly finished the call as he walked over to the bed to me. With a groggy morning voice, I asked him, “What time is it?” “It’s almost four am. Why don’t you go back to sleep and I will wake you later.” Tyler said to me as he sat on the edge of the bed and ran his fingers through my hair and I closed my eyes relishing his gentle touch. I knew it was wrong of me to love the feel of it but my body was craving him and what he was doing was innocent or at least that was what I was telling myself. “Will you hold me in your arms again till I fall back to sleep.” I asked him as I curled up in the blanket. Tyl