Possible Trauma TriggersKyle POVI had a sense of calm as I followed Quinn and Levi the rest of the way to my uncle’s cell. I hadn’t given Abby much thought and I felt a little guilty about that. But after seeing the way that she melted into Dylan’s arms I knew that she was going to be taken care of. Abby was like me and had lost her parents young but she didn’t have any relatives that were with the hunters. We were never able to figure out how she ended up with them. “Quinn, when Abby was brought in were any tests done on her?” I asked.“What kind of tests?” He asked as we stopped outside the door leading into the next hallway of cells.“To see if she has any wolf genes. She is like me and was raised by the hunter from a young age, but none of them were blood relatives like my uncle and me.”I watch Quinn as he links someone. “I have Dr. Beal coming to draw blood and run the test we need.”“Thanks, man.” W
Possible Trauma TriggersQuinn POVI knew that today in the cells wasn’t going to be fun, but to find out that Kyle’s uncle had been mated to a werewolf and that a group of guys had drugged, raped her and let him believe that she had been with them willingly. That was a lot. Meg and I were supposed to have a date tonight but I didn’t feel much like going out I just wanted to sit and hold her. I had linked her asking her to meet me in the room that Aunt Mona had given us so we had a spot to be alone. When I walked in, I found Meg lounging on the couch flipping through the channels and a spread of Chinese takeout on the coffee table. I walked over to her picked her up placed her in my lap nuzzled into her neck and deeply inhaled. Her beautiful coconut scent calmed me but it wasn’t enough to stop the tears. All that had been going through my head since I left the cells was that they could have done to my Angel the same thing that they had done to that other girl. I know it wouldn’t have
Possible Trauma TriggersKyle POVI decided to come to see my uncle alone today. Something is telling me that after what he found out the other day he isn’t going to give me a lot of problems. As I walk in I notice that Abby’s cell is empty. Good. I never did hear back anything about the blood work they did. I’ll have to remember to ask Quinn about it. I did ask about Dylan. I found out that he is one of four brothers or the Thatcher brothers as they are known around the pack. Dean is the oldest then there is Nolan, Dylan and Axel. I was told that Nolan has recently moved back here to the pack with his mate Cassy after finishing his schooling in psychology. The other three are warriors here in the pack. From what I have heard the whole family is well respected. I was really glad to hear that. Abby needs to see what a good supportive family is like. I think she’ll be happy. I notice that a lot of the cells seem to have been emptied. It is making me wonder how many of the ones working in
Meg POVIt has been just over a week since Quinn and I moved in together. Things have been good. We have both been sleeping better than we have in years and it is not all because we are falling asleep from exhaustion after our other nightly entertainment. No, it is all in the knowledge that we are where we are supposed to be. I still haven’t heard any more from Willow since that first night that Quinn and I stayed together. But just hearing her voice that night gave me some of the reassurance that I needed. That is one less worry that I have had on my mind. I have spent the morning setting up things for Mona and me to tell the others what we have pieced together. We were going to do it earlier but had to put it off after April went into her first heat. I tried to ask Heather how her first heat was for her but she never had one. She and the twins didn’t worry about protection. They just decided to see what happened.I start to check the equipment again. I have already checked the proje
Meg POVI had to hold in my laughter as I walked away from Quinn. The look on his face… complete and utter confusion. It was hard to walk away when all I wanted to do was drag him off somewhere and do all kinds of enjoyable things to his body. The minute he walked into that room my brain had started to short-circuit. The first thing that threw me for a loop was hearing Willow yell ‘Mine’. It took all my control to hold her back. I quickly explained that we needed to get through this stuff first. While Mona had been going over some things I asked Willow why Ash had not reacted to her. ‘I masked my scent. They can still pick up yours but they don’t know for sure I’m here yet. Ash might be sensing me though.’I had made a decision before Quinn approached me. I was going to set up a surprise evening for us. I asked Willow to keep her scent masked. She wasn’t too sure at first but when I told her what I wanted to do she agreed. As Quinn stepped up beside me I was able to recognize what tha
Quinn POVI can’t believe these guys. First, they made me spend the whole morning reviewing the information the Council sent about their finding in Avery’s case. Which OK I will admit needed our attention. The crimes that she is charged with do involve our mates. But did we have to do it today? I had one of the shittiest night's sleep that I have had in a long time. All I wanted to do this morning was find Meg and hold her, but nooooo, that’s not what I was allowed to do. Yes, I know I sound like a whiney brat but I can’t help it. Besides it is only in my head. I can be as whiny and childish as I want in there. And it’s not like Ash isn’t being just as whiney, if not worse. I thought that I was finally going to be free to go once we had reviewed everything only to find out that we were scheduled to go and join our fathers out at the building site of the hotel/resort that we were building in partnership with Silver River. So now we are standing out here waitin
Quinn POVI’m standing in the middle of my room muttering to myself over and over again. It reminds her of me. What the hell? There are so many places around here that hold meaning for us. I started pacing while I talked out loud to myself listing off places that were a little more special than others. The gym, that is where Ash started pushing that she was our mate and we almost had our first kiss, but we didn’t spend a lot of time there as kids. I walked over and looked at the back of the bedroom door. Since that is where we did share our first kiss and we did spend time in here off and on over the years, but there was nothing. I ran out of the apartment and down the hall to the stairwell where I gave her that first hickey claiming her as mine. I scanned every inch of the place and even spent ten minutes looking out the window hoping to see something, but again nothing. I hear snickering from behind me. “She knows you so well it’s scary. You know that right
Meg POVI’m starting to think that maybe I should have just told Quinn to meet me in our room last night and been done with this. Now I have been sitting here for about an hour waiting for Quinn to show up. The longer I wait the more unsure I’m getting. What if he can’t figure it out? What if he gets frustrated thinking that I’m playing games? What if he doesn't think I'm worth the time? When I first thought of this it sounded like such a good idea. Way of showing him some of the good things and the one time that we need to get over. I didn’t think about it at first but when I was writing the last note I realized that by telling him to take the new path that the twins had made from the cabin to the beach. I was telling Quinn it was time for us to start a new path. Leave the past in the past and move on.My whole body tensed with nervousness when I saw him walk out of the tree line at the back of the cabin. I had chosen this room because I had the view of where the path exited the tree
Epilogue 4 Molly and LeviLevi POVI grab the chair we placed up here for Molly as she makes her way across the stage with the other women. I know she will try to stand for most of the ceremony, but that doesn’t mean she can’t sit until it starts. I just have to convince her of that. “Hey, Firecracker how about you sit until everyone else is ready?” She waddles towards me and it is so damn cute I can’t help but smile.“Are you laughing at me?” She asks with a pissed-off stern look that just makes her look even better.“NO, I would never laugh at you while you are uncomfortable. I was just smiling at my beautiful glowing mate because I’m so happy that she is mine.” I say hoping that little truth calms her. I don’t dare tell her that I find her waddle cute. Molly must be more uncomfortable than I thought because she doesn’t reject the idea of sitting. Once she is seated I crouch in front of her and start rubbing her ankles. “Have I told you, you look beautiful today well every day?” I sa
Epilogue 3 April and KyleApril POVI look towards the stage when I hear Mom laugh. By the look on Dad’s face, I’m going to guess that she is teasing him about something. They both gaze towards Kyle and me, and I think I know what she is teasing him about. Dad only gets that look on his face when someone mentions the fact that I had to have sex to get pregnant. Even after all these years he still will not accept that is how his Grandchildren came to be. He accepts and respects Kyle as the Father but not how he became the Father. I think at first it was just a shock for him to believe that his little girl had grown up. Now I think it is more of just a game to give Mom something to tease him about. “Why is your Father giving me a death stare? I thought we were past that in our relationship.”“I think Mom was teasing him again about how our children came to be,” I say leaning over and putting my head on his shoulder.“I really hated it when she does that for two reasons. One, I get looks
Epilogue 2 Meg and QuinnQuinn POVI heard Uncle Shane holler at the kids, saying it was time. Yeah, it was time. I looked down at my beautiful Angel that I had my arm wrapped around. I can’t believe that she is mine. If someone had told me when I was younger that she was going to be my mate I would have called them crazy. Oh wait, I did do that and Mom doesn’t waste any chance that she gets to rub it in that she was right. But I’ll take all of Mom’s teasing if it means that I get to spend the rest of my life with Meg. I know I don’t deserve her. I am just so happy that even after all the things that happened she was willing to give me a chance. Things could have turned out so different if we hadn’t had the love and support of our families. I glance over at Levi as he helps his very pregnant mate sit down. If he hadn’t been there to beat some sense into me when Meg was kidnapped I don’t want to think about what shape I would have been in if and when we found her. I turn my attention b
Five years laterEpilogue 1 Heather, Reed and LucasReed POVI nod to Levi as he steps up beside me. I looked to my left where Lucas was standing with Quinn beside him. Today we were being sworn in as the new leaders of the pack. Yeah, we are a little older than most when they take over but with all the shit that we went through our parents wanted to give up some extra time. That doesn’t mean that we spent the time goofy off. We worked alongside our parents these last five years learning the ropes which had been the plan all along. It just got delayed by other shit. We worked with Keegan from Silver River to get the resort up and running. Both packs are now making a pretty penny off of it. So we are now building one up near the Four Corners pack with Kyle and April.The four of us are standing waiting for our mates to join us. I watch as a mass of children go running across the schoolyard. We had to set up the stage for the ceremony here since it was the largest area that had easy acce
Levi POVAs Molly and I neared the packhouse after our two days of hiding out. She stopped. “What is it?” I asked tuning her to face me.“What if they don’t approve of this?” She said pointing to the two of us.“Why wouldn’t they approve?” I was getting worried that she was regretting letting me mark her. I cupped her cheeks and tilted her head. “You used to be so confident. I am so sorry that I ever made you feel like you weren’t good enough for me. Your abilities and personality were never any part of that reason.” I looked her in the eyes I wanted her to see that what I was about to tell her was the truth that I was finally willing to admit to myself. “It was me not thinking that I was good enough for you. I felt overwhelmed that I was possibly going to be responsible for your protection and happiness of you. And all I could see every time I looked at you was that scared little girl that I found in a log. That is why I made you train th
Levi POVWhat the hell? I made her think that for some reason it mattered. That she needed to be a virgin. How could I have been such an ass? Why did the Goddess believe that I was worthy of having this treasure as mine? I must have taken too long chastising myself and Molly took my silence the wrong way because she tried to get off my lap again. I didn’t loosen my hold in fact I tightened it. Molly had lowered her head again so I cupped her cheek and tilted her face back to mine. “Molly, can I tell you a secret?” She didn’t say anything. She just nodded. I wiped the tears from her cheek with my thumb. “I’m not either.”I took a few seconds for what I had said to sink in but the smile that slowly spread across her face was worth that little bit of waiting. “I have heard that rumour about you. Some people have even called you a man-whore.”“Yeah, I know. There used to be this smart-mouth little brat that would go around calling me all kinds of na
Levi POVAs I broke through the trees, the scent of cinnamon mixed with fresh, crisp apples, and the last person I thought to find was sitting on a log. I didn’t know if this was another dream or some curl joke, but every fibre in my body was charged. “Mate, Mate, Mate. I told you she was ours.” Jasper started going on about in my head.I step forward cautiously because if she is real I don’t want to do anything that will make her leave me. I have spent the last two years regretting our last conversation. As I got closer I saw her bottom lip start to quiver. Tears began to roll down her cheeks. Every bone in my body was telling me to pull her into my arms but what if I’m the reason for the tears? The last thing she is going to want is for me to hold her. I stopped too scared that if I got any closer she would bolt. “Molly, can I come over there?” She kept her eyes locked on mine and nodded yes. I started to sit on the ground giving her the high ground so that she didn’t think I was tr
Molly POVThe dream started with Ben and I in his room at the packhouse in Four Corners. We were sitting on his bed making out. This dream was feeling more like a flashback from the other night. Ben rolled us so that he was braced above me. “You are beautiful Molly. You have no idea of what I think about doing with and to you.” I could feel his hands under my shirt groping at my breasts and struggling to undo my bra. It was nothing new. Over the last two years, we have done this many times but I have never let him go all the way. We have still brought pleasure to each other but in a medical sense, I’m still a virgin. It just never felt like the time was right. This time felt different. Still not right but different. The next thing I knew my shirt was off my pants were gone and Ben was naked above me. He was kissing down my neck and then there was a bit of a burning feeling as my centre was stretched. “Ben stop please it hurts.” He pulled away from my neck but he didn’t pull out of me.
Levi POV“Come on we need to be there soon,” Cole said as he dragged me across the park to one of the paths.“Cole why are we going this way the training centre is the other way. I thought you said you didn’t want to be late.”“I won’t be late and now neither will you.” He said proudly as he stopped at the point that the path led into the woods. “You can go the rest of the way yourself. You know where to go.” He turned and started heading back towards the packhouse then stopped and turned back. “It is OK if you miss our birthday. This is important. I will tell my Dads you will be back in a couple of days. Now go make my mate.” And off he went.Most of the time as an adult most people wouldn’t listen to a five-year-old when they told them to go into the woods with no better explanation than to just go. But this kid is Heather’s and if there is one thing about Heather and her kids they usually have a good reason for telling you to do weird things you don’t fully understand. Cole was so s