Lexie’s POV As the plane landed Tyler woke me to get dressed so we finally could head home, but as we exited the bedroom on the plane my eyes shot to Samuel who looked at me with bloodshot eyes. I felt my heart begin to ache seeing him like this and knowing I had to be the one that caused him this pain. I had promised Tyler that I would leave my skeletons in my closet but there was more to the relationship between Samuel and I, than just sex. There was a friendship that we had built off trust and heartache and I felt compelled to give him a hug. When I reached Samuel’s seat where he was now standing, I stopped and pulled him into a hug. Samuel hesitated to hug me back but a few seconds later he began to hug me and in a hoarse whisper he said, “I am so sorry. I failed to protect you.” And my heart ached even more knowing that was what he was upset about, that he had failed to keep me safe from the sirens. Pulling away from the embrace I say, “We are both alive and home. That is a
Tyler’s POV Not having Lexie in my sight was making me go crazy and now that I have her back in my arms, I felt myself relax somewhat. I didn’t know how I was going to handle her going to this party of Emily’s without me, but I could tell that Lexie knew I wasn’t excited about it and that’s why she asked Emily if she could just go to the dinner part. With everything that Lexie had been through I didn’t think that my protectiveness was overboard. I wanted to make sure that Lexie remained safe, especially on my watch. As I pull Lexie into our temporary bedroom, I close the door and press her up against the wall and begin to devour her lips with mine, not able to resist any longer. Lexie welcomed the kiss as she wrapped her arms around my neck and pulled me into her. When we finally pulled apart, I looked into her hooded eyes and then her swollen lips from our kiss and say, “I can’t stand to be away from you.” Lexie began to giggle and asked, “What are you going to do when we have
Lexie’s POV There was a knock on the door with Emily’s voice saying, “I need my best friend. The seamstress is here.” Tyler growled and pulled me in tighter to him. We had fallen asleep in each other’s arms after our little make out session. I didn’t know if it was the pregnancy that was making me tired or everything that had happened in the last couple days but what I did know is that I felt safe in Tyler’s arms and never wanted to leave them again. “Tyler! Lexie! I know you two are in there. I can smell the damn sex down the hall from you two.” Emily now said and I had to giggle. Tyler finally gave in and yelled back at her, “We will be down in a few minutes.” “You better be.” Emily said and then we heard her footsteps walk down the hall away from the room. Tyler placed a kiss on my forehead and then snuggled into me and I could feel the hardness of his cock against my thigh. There was no way we were going to make it downstairs if he got what he wanted right now. His lips
Lexie’s POV Before I knew it, we were heading to Emily’s doctor’s office for me to get a proper evaluation of my baby and myself. To say I wasn’t nervous was quite an understatement because I still wasn’t a hundred percent sure that Tyler was the father even though he had convinced me that he was. I wanted nothing more in this world than for him to be the father and as we silently rode in the car to the doctor’s office, I said a prayer to whatever god or gods were listening for this baby to please be Tyler’s. Tyler parked the car in the parking lot of a commercial like office building. He turned to me as I stared at the building and reached for my hand. As he took my hand into his I turned my gaze to him and he said, “Whatever happens and whatever we find out in there today, the baby and you are still mine. Okay.” He says and his words make me relax a little, but I honestly just want the baby to be his so that we can leave everything that happened in the past and start our life to
Lexie’s POV Tyler drove me to my house and I went through the clothes I had in my closet that would possibly still fit me. I had gained a little weight and I knew it was a matter of time before I would have to go shopping for maternity clothes. The doctor had said that my pregnancy wouldn’t be normal because I was carrying a royal but what he didn’t know is that both parents were of royal blood which I was sure was going to make the babies even stronger. Plus, let’s also factor in the fact that I was carrying not one but two royal babies. Tyler had taken a phone call when we first got to my house and I went ahead and began to pack my clothes without him. His call must have ended and he joined me in my bedroom as he looked at the mess that I had made in less than the ten minutes he was on the phone. “Why does it look like you are deciding on what to take?” Tyler asked me as he picked up a sexy dress lying on the bed. “Because I am. Half these clothes probably don’t fit me anymo
Tyler’s POV Carrying Lexie to the examination room I realized I was responsible for this. In my rage towards Lexie feeding from Samuel I lost all control, and I pushed her out of the way. I began to pray that her and our unborn children were okay, knowing that I would never be able to live with myself if I had harmed one of them. Once in the examination room the doctor pointed to a bed for me to lay Lexie on. Her hand was still on her stomach and I wondered if she was still in pain. The doctor moved to the corner of the large room and pulled out an ultrasound machine on a cart. I was shocked to see that they had one here at the packhouse but then remembered that the she wolves were only pregnant for so many weeks and that would cause a lot of suspicion at a human doctor’s office. The pack doctor plugged the machine in and turned it on and moved beside the bed grabbing the jelly like stuff to apply to Lexie’s belly. “Can you please pull you shirt up and lower your waistline of yo
Lexie’s POV The sound of the door opening to my room awoke me from my nap. As my eyes tried to focus in the dim light I heard the sound of giggling and knew right away who was in my room. The light flicked on, and Emily stood beside my bed and said, “Surprise!” What the heck was going on? I looked around the room and saw Olivia, Xavier’s and Samuel’s sister by the door holding a mountain of blankets and pillows and then looked at the alarm clock beside the bed and saw that it was six pm. “Emily what are you doing? You are going to miss your party.” I said to her as I slowly pulled myself to a sitting position. “Seriously, you think I am going to still have a party without my bestie. I cancelled it and we are going to have a sleepover.” Emily said as Olivia brought the mountain of pillows and blanket into the room and dumped them onto the floor beside the bed. My heart warmed that she would do this because of me not being able to go but a part of me was sad because I took thi
Lexie’s POV Morning came the day before my best friend’s wedding and I couldn’t be happier for her. As we all woke in my room to the sound of my shower going, I knew that Tyler had snuck back into the room to get cleaned up for the day. Emily and Olivia decided to sneak their way out of the room before Tyler emerged from the shower. “Will I see you at breakfast?” Emily asked me. “I will be there even if Tyler has to carries me there.” I tell her as my stomach begins to grumble and I feel the urge to pee. As they left the room I slowly get out of the bed and make my way to the bathroom opening the closed door and then straight to the toilet bypassing Tyler’s naked body in the shower. As soon as I was done peeing a gallon out of my bladder that one of the twins must have been resting on, I slipped my night shirt over my head and decided to step into the shower with Tyler. Tyler welcomed me into the shower with him opening his arms for me to step into them as the water poured d
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