They froze at my words, exchanging glances between them as if they had secrets themselves. I raised an eyebrow at that, waiting for them to come clean, but they didn't. “What is it you want to tell us?” Mitch asked, frowning. “Are you okay? Or — have you changed your mind about helping us at the office? That's not fair, baby girl! You promised. You can't just disappoint us. We have let —” “That's not it,” I interrupted before he could say anything more, knowing that he would only spurt more nonsense if care wasn't taken. Whatever informed them I was trying to forgo my promise? “Then, what is it?” Mike demanded, looking impatient. Though the wine I brought out should have told them that whatever I had to tell them was something good, they didn't seem to think that way. They looked scared, as if I was about to break sad news to them. “I…” I played with my fingers, nervous as I glanced at each of them. They were waiting for my reply, eyes wide as they watched me. It was difficult for
After dinner, we watched a movie before retiring to bed. Since the incident that happened in our room, my mates had locked it up for renovations. They bought a new bed for my chamber and had been sleeping there any time I allowed them in. Most of the night, I wouldn't be in the mood for sex with them, so I would kick them out, to sleep in their room, while I stayed in mine. Tonight was one of the nights that I spent with them, which was why I allowed them into my room without asking them to leave.“Are we sleeping with you tonight, my love?” He asked as he casually brushed my cheek and leaned in to kiss me.I moaned into the kiss, wrapping my hand around his neck as I brought his face closer, wanting him to envelop me with his warmth. Mitch took his time with the kiss before he finally unzipped my dress, and it fell off me. I stood in front of my mates, naked and not shy. I was, after all, expecting this. Which was why I went commando from the night. They seemed very pleased with t
Mitch reached for my face. He kissed me on the mouth appreciatively and laid me across the bed again before going to town on my pussy. It didn't take me long to cum myself, but it was the orgasm that I knew would keep going, so I looked down at him and begged him to continue going. I was always insatiable during sex. Though it wore me off each time I slept with the three, I couldn't deny the need in me to have them touch me each day. He removed his mouth from my pussy and lined his cock, ready for sex. My gaze went towards the part of his body that I liked the most after his mouth, and I snaked my tongue out to lick my lips. He smirked at my actions, knowing what was going through my mind as I watched him. Laying his hands on my waist, to keep me in place, he slid his cock into me with one full thrust, and quickly I started to build again. Having him take me hard, and feeling the stares from the others, seemed to heighten my arousal. Smiling down at me, he lifted my legs and burie
SUMMERThough they begged me to help them with their work, they didn't allow me to do anything. They asked me to relax while they handled everything.Being pregnant had its perks. My mates had been extremely vigilant towards me. Should I do much as yawn, they would race to my side, to check if there was something I needed. I wasn't allowed to go anywhere without them, not even to the restroom. It was embarrassing as hell, and I thanked my stars that I had already asked Janet to look over the office until I resumed in two weeks. It would have been downright annoying had they done this at my office. Here, the werewolves knew about our mate bond, but not humans. They would either see them as overprotective brothers or think I was in trouble. I couldn't tell how the human brain worked, but it seemed to be something they would come up with. I might be human, but growing up with werewolves made me think like them. I knew how different I was when I studied at a human university. Everyone a
I didn't get to see the woman who visited until a week later. My mates thought she had returned to wherever she came from, but that wasn't the case. She returned seven days later, in the same manner as she did before. I was also the one who opened the door for her because my mates were in their study, going through some things. Though I sought not to think about it, it was impossible not to do so, not when they had been acting odd these past few days. They were always leaving in the afternoon and whenever I tried to know where they went, they would always look for excuses. Most of the time, they claimed they left for a meeting with a client in the human world. At other times, they would look for lies to feed me. I knew they were lying, but I didn't pursue the matter any further, realizing they had their reasons for keeping it from me. Like now, they were locked in their study, doing only what the goddess knew about. I had gotten tired of asking them what was wrong with them, knowin
MIKEThe bodies kept on piling. In the last week, over 10 bodies were discovered, killed in the same manner as the first ones. There were notes on five, while the others had nothing on them. The notes were still the same as the ones we found before; threats on our mate. This time, the killer added an extra something to it, our child. It came as a shock when we saw the latest note a day ago. The killer had noticed something, and he was out to kill, targeting Summer and our baby. We have tried countlessly to catch the culprit, but each time, we came up empty. We haven't been able to do anything productive. “What do we do now? We are not getting anywhere with this!” I felt like banging my head against the desk. Mitch sighed, leaning on his chair with his eyes closed. “This is growing out of hand. Our mate isn't safe anymore.”“We already know that, Mitch. What we want is a solution. What do we do? How can we save our mate from whoever is prowling in the dark for her? How do we catch
SUMMERNelly stopped coming to the house after that. I didn't get to hear from her from my mates either. They acted like she didn't exit, which wasn't difficult since they had never spoken of her before. We returned to how we have always been, with my mates acting secretively around me. Not for the first time, I wanted to confront them, to ask what they were keeping from me, but I kept it to myself. If they wished to keep the secret from me, it means they had their reasons for doing that. I could only wait for them to trust me enough to tell me what the problem was. This way, they wouldn't have to shoulder it alone. After my lunch break, I strode back to the room to rest. I had been working all morning. Though they asked me to have a rest in between, I worked to keep myself busy, so I wouldn't think of the secretive glances, they shared between themselves. I bet they converse in their mind whenever I was in the same room with them. It was off-putting whenever I thought of that, but
MITCHI should have known telling her would only endanger her. Back when I gave my brothers the solution, I thought she would listen to us and keep her nose off the matter, but she was too stubborn to do that. For two days, she had been investigating with us, not letting us leave without taking her. Despite everything we did to get her to stay back, she stubbornly refused, threatening to work alone if we didn't let her go with us. We had to let her tag along because that sounded better than leaving her to work alone. With us, we could keep her safe and away from the killer. The same couldn't be said should we let her investigate alone. “Didn't you say this was the best solution?” Mike groaned, downing his cup of coffee. “I feel like I have aged these past few days. Summer is one stubborn mate. How the hell did we end up with her?”I chuckled at that, while Miles shot him a glare. “Haven't we always had a crush on her? The moon goddess just gave us a push and challenged us to man up
“But before that, you guys need to wash up,” I said in my way stern voice. “What do you do after a full day of playing out?” “We wash up!” Blue replied while the girls groaned.“Good. It's time to do that, darlings.” The girls sighed at my words. With their shoulders drooped and matching frowns on their faces, they strode towards the stairs, with Blue skipping all the way.“How was work, darling?” Miles asked as he placed a kiss on my left cheek. “Good.” Smiling, I stepped into the kitchen to announce my return to my other mates before I went upstairs to help the kids with their bath. The girls asked to go first, so they could rush downstairs and eat the cookies their dad promised them before Blue could finish. And being the best mummy I could for my son, I bathed him first, while the girls groaned about how unreasonable this was. Really? They thought it was unfair because I didn't honour their wishes. I couldn't be blamed for that, though. Not when Blue was the only one who wo
Four Years Later“Mum!” I turned at the call, smiling as Hazel ran towards me. “See mummy, I drew a cat!” she yelled out. “Oh, darling.” I got down on one knee so I could hug her. “Let's see.” I took the drawing book from her and made a surprised expression at the cat she drew. “It's wonderful!” I leaned down and placed a kiss on her forehead. “Soon, you will be so good at this, you will beat the best artists in the entire world.” “Even the humans?” She looked up, her eyes sparkling.“Yeah, those.” I patted her red hair, which was so much like my father's. Well, our babies all had red hair and blue eyes. I assumed they would have the same hair as their fathers, but they took after their grandfather. “Mum!” Scarlet and Blue ran towards me, yelling as they tried to outrun each other.Seeing how delighted they were at my return, you would think I left them for a trip, not knowing I just returned from work. Ever since the pack opened the veil to welcome the human city, the human
When I assumed things couldn't get any better, my mates proved me wrong. I didn't know they were still thinking of the mating ceremony. I had long given up on that. Despite the change of treatments from the pack; I assumed they wouldn't fully accept me. Who would have thought my mates would get them to accept me?They didn't tell me about that because the elders were still waiting for an auspicious day. As my due date got nearer, they became apprehensive. However, they didn't tell me the reason until the elders provided a date, two days before the date the doctor gave me. They were so thrilled, they almost hugged the living hell out of me. It felt like they were going to press our babies out from how happy they were as they expressed their happiness. I might not be a werewolf, but I understood how important it was for them to bond with me before the babies arrived. Father was, after all, the one who made the rules. Funny enough, I had forgotten about that until Mitch mentioned it.
SUMMERIt appeared Helen was the one who followed me. While the others burned in the house, she escaped so she would get rid of me, as revenge. It turned out her lover died in the fire with the rest.We fought with each other, and she would have hit the stone on my head, but she slipped. When I saw her on the floor, I couldn't tell what got over me as I climbed on her and used the rock she intended to kill me with on her. It wasn't until she was dead that I realized what I had just done. My hands shook as I watched her, tears streaming down my eyes at the sight of the lifeless woman I had just killed. I didn't know what to do, and could only sit there bawling out my eyes as I tried to tell the world I didn't harm her intentionally. Had she not sought to kill me, I doubt I would have harmed her. It took a lot from my mates to console me until I stopped shivering. Though I kept on muttering that I didn't mean to murder her, I wasn't as scared as I was when I hit her head with the sto
“I support that,” I added when I noticed my brothers were looking at me, waiting for my confirmation. “It's settled then. No matter how many fake tracks we will get, we have all decided to scale through them, right?” John lifted an eyebrow, waiting for our reply. “That's right.” We nodded. If he was pissed we spoke at the same time, he didn't let it show. Instead, he grinned as he turned, and soon took off. We followed him, my brothers having changed into their human form after our first fight. They realized it was easier to fight the bloodsuckers in our human forms since our wolves were vulnerable to their claws.And like that, we ended up going to ten bases. It wasn't until the last one that we got on the right track. We learned it from a vampire who recognized John. It turned out John was with the vampire prince, who ran away from home when he was eighteen and refused to return.The night we beat him up was his first day away from home. Hearing about that made us guilty. Though
MITCHIt turned out we were right by enlisting John's help. I doubt we would have discovered a trail had he not been with us. Though it was painful to say these words, I would do that. His nose was more sensitive and sharp than ours was. While we couldn't pick up a scent from the different ones in the air, he could do that. He didn't even have to continue sniffing as he went like we would have done.Not only did he discover Summer's scent among the millions in the air, but he also found out that whoever took her was working with vampires. I would have teased him about not knowing the things his pack members were involved with but thought better about it. We had far more pressing matters to do, and teasing wasn't part of it. John didn't immediately set out when he got the scent he was looking for. He kept on sniffing to make sure his nose wasn't picking up the wrong ones before he took off. My brothers changed into their wolf forms and ran after him, while I called Jeremy for reinfor
I watched him without saying a word because I didn't know what the fuck I should say. This wasn't what I was expecting. When I called the murderer a psycho, I believed he did it because of the gratification he got from shedding blood. Who would have thought they forced him to do it? I didn't blame him at all. Even though his way of taking care of things wasn't right. He shouldn't have taken matters into his hands like he did. But I still didn't fault him.Had I been in his shoes, I would have done worse than that. I was aware of how soft-hearted I was, but not in such a situation. I wouldn't have let those men stay a minute more on earth, not after all the things they did to my best friend.“I wouldn't say I understand your pain, and I won't also claim to know how you feel because I haven't experienced something like this. However, I'm not faulting the actions you took. Had I been in the same situation, I would have done the same, even worse.” He looked surprised by my words. “Reall
SUMMERI watched Helen with a bored look on my face. “Why did you tell me that? I believe in actions and not words, Helen. I hope you realize that.” “Oh?” She grinned, not looking fazed by my remarks. “I do too. I love action more than words, Summer. Soon, you will feel a taste of it, but not now. I just want you to enjoy the peace of this place while you can.” I didn't reply to that. All I did was roll my eyes and hope she could tell her words did not bother me. The door opened and closed before I heard footsteps. Like I did when Helen stepped in, I didn't look back. I just kept my attention on the woman sitting on the bed, while waiting for the person who entered to show themselves. And when they did, I could only gape, watching Fred with shocked eyes and my mouth opened wide in surprise. “Are you two working together?” I demanded, looking from one to the other while trying to tell myself I was imagining things. I knew I wasn't when Helen smirked. “Stunned?” Fred didn't say a
He arrived a few minutes later. It was faster than we expected. And to further stun us, he ran all the way. If that wasn't freaking crazy, you got to tell me what else might be. It wasn't until he stood in front of us that we realized why we thought the scent on Summer's body was familiar. On the night Summer ran away from home after we found our mate, we went to a human bar to get drunk and ran into him. He had the most awful smell in the entire world, and that pissed us off more than anything else. To cut a long story short, we ended up hitting him to ease our pain. We might have wounded him, but we didn't care. He was an outlet for us. Though we regretted it the next morning when we sobered up, we couldn't find him. He seemed to have disappeared after the fight. That's if you would call it that. It was more like a beating than a fight since we ganged up on him. “Fancy meeting you again.” He folded his arms, staring at us with his mouth pursed. “Didn't count on meeting the bulli