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262. Watch The Shadows
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LINC - I didn’t remember the drive home. The journey blurred into headlights and turns, each one blending into the next. Pulling into the driveway, I barely registered the strange feelings Cast being the alpha on my land brought. It made me realize that I was done with this whole switching back and forth bullshit. If we were going to constantly be trading off and trying to keep the family afloat, then we both needed to remain alpha. Both of us. I'm not sure how the council would see it, but at that point, I didn't really care.Selena burst out of the house. She stopped short in front of me and waved me inside, scanning me from head to toe before stepping aside.I moved past her into the house, my body heavy with exhaustion. I turned to her as she shut the door. “The girls? How are they? Are they okay? Wady said someone called to say that she was in labor.”I dropped onto the couch as I caught my breath. “They’re perfect. Two tiny fighters. Strong lungs. Healthy despite being early
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CAST - The darkness wasn't silent. It breathed and pulsed, a living thing pressing in on all sides. I couldn't tell where I ended and it began. The lack of boundaries made my skin itch. If I still had skin. My body felt distant at best. I was still me, but... was I? Flashes of something sharp and bright interrupted the black. They seared through my mind, leaving jagged edges behind. It wasn't pain exactly, maybe anguish. Lila's voice tore through the space. It didn't echo. The sound sliced and faded before I could grasp it. I reached toward where she had been, but there was nothing to touch. The sensation of her pain lingered, though. Her pain and Lincs. Then came Kat's voice. The sound of it emerged unbidden, like a knife twisting in my thoughts. "You didn't even fight for me," it accused. I wanted to argue, to scream that I hadn't known how to fight then. My silence had let her slip away with my child. Worse, it had left her exposed to the poison of my mother.Images bled into t
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LILA - Maya had turned the office building into a makeshift apartment. The sterile white walls of the meeting room now cradled our hastily gathered belongings, every corner crowded with signs of our rushed relocation. I settled uneasily into the fold-out bed from an old couch, wincing at the sharp reminders from the surgery each time I moved. The twins rested against me as I watched Linc working on makeshift furniture and supply setups. I could already see the exhaustion in his eyes when he looked over at me. "It's just temporary, I promise. I will have you a decent bed ready by tonight.""Don't do that. This is amazing. I'm actually impressed you managed to pull this together for us." He just smiled at me as he continued putting together a frame. "You know they don't even have names yet?"I tilted my head and smiled. "Actually, we named them already. Cast and I… while you were out."He straightened. "Oh yeah? What did you decide?"I adjusted my position slightly. "Roxy and Cory."
Last Updated : 2025-01-19Pregnant Luna - Lawful Rebellion 266. Fighting
LILA - I adjusted Tory in my arms. Linc was sleeping restlessly beside Cast, his movements nearly constant as he groaned and huffed. It was the middle of the night and I couldn't sleep. Cast’s chest rose and fell with the rhythm of the machines around him. I couldn’t look away.Roxy was sound asleep in the bassinet. Tory shifted against me, her hunger becoming evident. I moved to the bed, settling next to Cast. Linc had made sure to get the biggest hospital bed he could find.I shifted carefully, adjusting the baby until she rested on Cast’s bicep while his other hand lay inches from where Linc slept beside him. I let my lips hover near his ear. “You hurt me so much,” I whispered, my breath brushing his skin. “In ways you probably don’t even realize. I thought I hated you for it. Sometimes, I wanted to. But I didn’t. I never could. Even as I fell in love with him, I never could.”The baby shifted against me as she continued to nurse. “I’ve watched you grow, change, fight to be bette
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CAST - The blackness pulled me deeper no matter how hard I fought. I clawed at the emptiness, my fingers grasping for something, anything, but there was nothing to hold on to. No light, no sound, no sense of direction. Just the void, endless and unrelenting.It shifted.At first, it was subtle. A pull, a sense of movement beneath me. I froze, straining to feel it again. It came back, stronger this time, a tug that sent a ripple through the suffocating dark. Something was pulling me. Moving me. The void wasn’t endless anymore.I didn’t know how long it lasted. Time didn’t exist here, just the relentless force of nothingness. The pull came again, and I felt a flicker of something else.Warmth. It wasn’t physical, more like the ghost of a sensation, but it was enough to latch onto. I clung to it, focusing every ounce of myself on that tiny spark.The pull turned into a steady rhythm, and with it came something sharper.Pain. A dull ache in my stomach, steady and unyielding. It didn’t be
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LILA - Tory rested on Cast’s chest, her small body rising and falling with his shallow breaths as I patted her back to burp her. The rhythmic sound of the machines matched the motion. I adjusted her around the machines, watching her tiny body settle against him.The monitors began to change, the soft beeps picking up speed. I glanced over, watching the numbers rise steadily. I froze mid-pat, and I turned toward Cast just as his eyelids opened sluggishly. I didn’t even have time to process it before Tory shifted, her head lifting just enough to turn toward him. Their eyes locked, and I couldn’t stop myself from leaning closer. Their eyes. The same color. Exactly the same.It wasn’t possible. Yet, it was unmistakably the exact same color. Cast’s unique deep brown color, but this baby wasn’t his. She couldn’t be.The chair scraped loudly as Linc jumped up. He grabbed his phone. “He’s awake now. Get someone here,” he barked into the receiver.Cast tensed, his movements jerky as his body
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LINC - The hospital decided to keep him for two more days. I hated the idea of staying here longer, but it wasn’t about me. Cast needed time to stabilize, and there was no argument I could make that would change that. He didn’t seem to mind, though. Every second was spent with Tory in his arms, so glued to her that I wasn’t sure he even noticed where he was. He never even questioned the name change.When he wasn’t holding her, it was only because he absolutely had to hand her off for a minute. Even then, he barely lasted long before he’d reach for her again, his focus narrowing in on her like nothing else in the world mattered. Watching him was both heartwarming and unsettling. Tory’s eyes didn’t make any sense. They were his color. His exact color. I couldn’t explain it, and every time I tried to bring it up, I found myself trailing off, unable to articulate what I felt. What I could tell they felt as well. Later that evening, as we sat in the room with Declan toddling around, Lil
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LINC - Each step toward the pack house carried the grief and the fragile relief of what had been returned. A child was gone, a life we’d never know, yet the moon goddess had left us with something extraordinary in its place. Tory was here, whole and alive. Not just Cast’s daughter but proof of a miracle forged from pain.Declan, Roxy, Tory. Lila. Our family had grown in ways I couldn’t have predicted. The ache still lingered, but the thought of them together softened its edges.The pack house came into view. Cast sat on the porch, the rocking chair moving gently. Tory rested in his lap, her attention fixed on the soft glow of the moonlight above. I stopped at the steps and motioned toward the path leading away from the house.“Walk with me?”Cast stood and joined me. We started walking, close enough to brush against each other occasionally. I moved slightly closer at times, pretending to adjust my pace, and felt Cast shift in tandem. His physical presence calmed the panic rising in
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Pregnant Luna - Lawful Rebellion 2- 42. Not Like This
DECLAN -The trees blurred past as Gaia ran, powerful and sure beneath me. I gripped her fur tighter, not because I was afraid but because I had never felt anything like this. The wind cut sharp against my skin, my pulse pounded in my ears, and my body moved in sync with hers like we were built for this. Everything in me buzzed with adrenaline, with the rush of speed, the sheer force of her muscles coiling and flexing beneath me. Then I saw it. A shadow slipped between the trees, fast and silent, keeping pace with us. Suki. Not now. Not like this. I silently begged her to stay back, to leave this moment alone, to not push this any further than it had already gone. But she didn't. Her wolf stayed just on the edges of my vision, always there, always lingering, never letting me forget what was still tangled inside me. The pull. The connection that refused to break, no matter how much I willed it to disappear. Then Gaia saw her. Her muscles coiled. A ripple of tension passed through
Pregnant Luna - Lawful Rebellion 2- 41. Hear Me
DECLAN -I made it back to the house just as Gaia came tearing out the front door, furious. She was barely holding herself together. The second she saw me, she yanked her shirt over her head. My brain barely caught up. I froze as every muscle in my body seemed to ripple at once. I was still reeling from being near Suki. From the way she looked at me. From the way my body reacted even when my mind told me I belonged to Gaia. The confusion pulled me in opposite directions, turning every second into a battle. And now Gaia was storming toward me, tearing off her clothes, taking up every bit of space in my mind. "Damn, Gaia." I snapped my head to the side, forcing myself to look anywhere but at her. She stalked closer, bare feet kicking up dust. I frowned. Why the hell were her shoes off? She had stormed out of the house so fast that she hadn't even thought to put them on. That wasn't like her. She grabbed my chin and jerked my head forward. "We... werr 'dults. We... need to stop act
Pregnant Luna - Lawful Rebellion 2- 40. Experienced
DECLAN - Suki stretched out on the rock beside me, legs extended, fingers tapping idly against the stone. She wasn't in a rush, and that only made everything worse for me."Why are you upset?"I stared at the dirt, exhaling hard. "You don't want to know.""Please. You rejected me. Nothing else you say can be worse than that."That shouldn't have hit as hard as it did. My hands tightened against my knees, but I kept my voice even. "Yeah... Sorry for that too."She shrugged like it didn't matter. "You did what you had to do. That doesn't mean I can't tease you about it."She smiled, not mean, not teasing, but something about it still made it impossible to ignore. I didn't push. Couldn't. Not right now.Some of the pressure in my shoulders eased. "You're handling it better than I thought.""What, did you expect me to run off crying?" She kicked a loose rock down the slope. "I don't do the whole helpless thing."I huffed. "I know. Takes a lot of strength to live out here on purpose all t
Pregnant Luna - Lawful Rebellion 2- 39. Secrets
DECLAN - Mom knocked once before stepping inside, moving like she expected this to be a fight. Maybe she did. Maybe it was."Your dads worked out a deal with Jaed."I stayed where I was, back against the headboard, arms locked around Gaia. Keeping her here. Keeping her mine. "Doesn't matter. Nothing is changing."She did her best to ignore my attitude. "Gaia can still stay until her birthday."I scoffed. "You heard what I said. She was staying regardless of all the bullshit."Gaia sat up fast, then shoved off the bed completely. "Don't talk to your mother like that."Heat crawled up my spine fast. A burn that made my stomach wrench. Being called out pissed me off. Being called out by someone below me? Made my teeth ache.And I hated that I felt like that.Mom just watched, waiting. No reaction, no expression, no wasted effort. My breath felt thicker, slower, body bracing for something I wasn't even sure of. I forced my attention back to her instead of the fire sparking hot under my s
Pregnant Luna - Lawful Rebellion 2- 38. Moan
DECLAN - Jaed turned on his heel and stormed out, steps heavy enough to shake the floor. The door slammed hard enough to rattle the frame. Gaia moved fast, pushing out of the room after him without looking back. My body still burned, everything wound so tight I thought I might snap in half. There was no way in hell I was walking out there right now, not like this. I sat on the edge of the bed, planted my feet, and dragged both hands through my hair before forcing them down. If I kept doing that, it would only make everything worse. I needed to get it together. I needed to think about something else. Anything else. My breathing was too hard, too uneven. My pulse pounded in my ears. My entire body ached, my skin too hot, my blood thick and heavy. Every inch of me still screamed for her, for more, for everything I had been seconds away from having. I stared at the ceiling and tried to focus. No good. Every thought ran straight back to her. To the way she had felt pressed against m
Pregnant Luna - Lawful Rebellion 2- 37. Do It Again
DECLAN - By the end of the lesson, most of them had the alphabet down. It wasn't perfect, but it was a start. More than that, it was proof that this was happening. That Gaia was becoming part of us, not just some outsider with no way to connect.As the room emptied out, I felt her before she even touched me. Gaia slid her arms around my waist from behind, pressing herself against my back."You're incredible," she signed against my chest, looking up at me.I swallowed. Hard. "Come on," I muttered, taking her hand and pulling her toward my room.The second the door shut behind us, she was on me. She dragged me down to meet her lips. I didn't hesitate. I kissed her hard, ignoring the dull ache still lingering in my ribs. My shoulder moved without protest, and most of the cuts had already faded into thin scars. I knew I should still be careful, but touching her made everything else disappear. The soreness, the exhaustion, the remnants of pain all vanished the second she was in my arms.S
Pregnant Luna - Lawful Rebellion 2- 36. Not Really
I found Cast and Linc in the office, going over some pack reports. Linc leaned back in his chair while Cast was half-standing, flipping through pages with a scowl. They barely looked up when I walked in, but I didn't care. I had something to say, and they were going to listen."We're starting ASL classes," I said, crossing my arms. "Everyone is required to attend. That includes both of you."Linc's brow lifted slightly, and Cast set the papers down with an exasperated sigh. "You're giving us orders now?" Cast asked, folding his arms over his chest."Yes."They exchanged a look. Linc sighed first. "Declan, you don't get to just..."I cut him off. "I do. And I am. This should've happened the second we knew Gaia was deaf. Jaed made sure every single person in his pack knew how to communicate with her before they moved there. But here? We're still scribbling on notepads like it's the Dark Ages."Linc's jaw tightened. Cast clenched his teeth, looking more annoyed than guilty. But I wasn't
Pregnant Luna - Lawful Rebellion 2- 35. Distracted
Life felt strange now. Not bad. Just different.The routine of school was gone, replaced by the quiet predictability of home. I woke up early, trained with Dad Cast and some of the others, then spent the rest of the day doing whatever needed to be done around the packhouse. The only difference now? I was healing far faster than I should have been.The gashes along my ribs had already started closing. My shoulder still ached, but nowhere near what it should have been given the damage Suki had done. Even the deep bruising felt more like old aches instead of fresh wounds. It was fast. Too fast.Gaia noticed it first. She was there when I peeled off my shirt after training, her eyes narrowing as she reached out, fingers barely brushing over the nearly-healed claw marks."That’s not normal," she signed, eyes flicking up to mine.I already knew that. "I heal fast now that I'm an adult alpha?""Not this fast," she countered . "Do you think,"I exhaled. "It’s you."She nodded slowly. "We heal
