{ Caroline }
I took a deep breath in of my baby girl’s sweet scent to calm my nerves but it didn’t seem to be enough. I felt a hand on the small of my back that was rubbing circles to calm me down and I knew by the feeling it had to be my mate’s. I turned and I saw that he was talking to a few warriors from our pack. I felt a soft smile on my face before I could stop it, even when he was busy he could still sense my unease and helped to calm me down.
I sighed deeply for the umpteenth time today as my eyes wandered off to the forest ahead of us. We had a decent journey ahead of us today, but we would be mostly making the trip as wolves so it wouldn’t last too long. We told the Spain pack that we would be there this evening but were leaving early. My mate seemed to be eager to reach Alexander’s pack while I was officially out of excuses to keep this from ever happening. This was my living nightmare, to go back there.
“Here mama,” the boy came back and this time he had a small bouquet of wildflowers that were orange and pink. “These ones are for brudder and sisser, pink for sissy and orange for brudder,”My veins were pumping with venom as I understood his words. I felt my mate’s hand on my back, no doubt sensing my emotions but even he couldn’t help as I watched the women take the flowers from the boy, kiss him on the forehead and then look to her belly. Alexander’s hand was now underneath it, showing off the bump that I couldn’t believe I missed seeing at first.“Ah, there is Navarro and his Luna. Oh their little man is here too! Perfect,” my mate said as he followed my gaze to the garden.“I don’t remember you mentioning that he had a Luna,” I said, trying my hardest to sound innocent but the look on his face said he was confused why I asked. “I wou
She allowed me to lead her into the pack house and we found our boy in the living room playing with the scrabble tiles on the board someone had left on the coffee table.“Look look!” he yelled and we walked over to see the board. On the board were scattered tiles and then some of them were organized to spell out a sentence‘“How did you do that?” Raine asked as she bent down to his level on the other side of the table.“Abuela showed me. Do you like it mama?” he asked with anticipation.“I love it baby, I really love it, you are so smart!” she said as he ran around the table and threw himself into her arms. The scrabble tiles spelled out ‘I love mama dada’.“Do you like it Daddy?” he asked turning to me.“I love it buddy, you did a great job. Are you ready for Mac n cheese?&rd
“How were the King and Queen chosen?” Anna asks.“By fate,” Tell said.“You knew about this?” I asked Raine, because honestly this was the most shocking part, that she hadn’t told me.“He told me his theory on the last attack, when you went after the rogues at the border, but I decided not to tell you. I confronted you about the new power that you had been keeping to yourself, but I still wasn’t completely convinced that it was what Gust thought it was. I still held my own doubts about what we were.” she told me.“And now?” I asked her.“Now we have nearly 700 less wolves in the world. Now, I can not only feel, but I can quantify and command other packs. Now, I have zero grounds to stand on when I try to deny what we are. Alex, I want you to do something for me. Try mind linking Garcia”&nb
Abuelo and Abuela arrived to the room just after the food did. I was setting up the dinner on the spare table when they knocked.“Come in, come in,” I told him and gave them each a big hug, or the best I could with my belly. They each gave me a kiss on the cheek and a soft touch to my belly.“Hello sweetie, how are you doing? How are your little alphas?” Abuela asked me as they sat down with their dinners.“Oh busy, and giant,” I said with a laugh. We chatted lightly for a few minutes, them saying hello to Anna as well. I could tell they loved that Anna got matched with Nel as much as we did, a perfect match indeed. Once the catch up was done I dived right in.“Abuelo, Abuela, I have something I need to tell you about, but I need to also say that most of it, cannot leave this room.”Their faces fell into serious ones and they
I felt myself tense at who was at the other side of the door and silently thanked the Goddess I hadn’t opened that can of worms. I motioned to Lorenzo to get the door.“It’s for you. We can continue this later,” I told him and he raised an eyebrow before opening the door revealing Caroline.“Hey love! How did you know where I was? Where this office was..?” He asked, clearly confused and no doubt concerned about the idea she had been wandering trying to follow his scent and lost in the packhouse for who knows how long. Little did he know that she knew damn well where this office was.“I-I asked a pack member and they directed me up here. I wanted to check on you. You’ve been gone awhile and I was worried the meeting had…. gotten, serious,” she said. I heard my wolf chuckle in my mind. She was worried I had told him. Well, little did she know I was going to soon.
{ Raine }I sucked in a breathe as I heard Car speak the four words I had been afraid of hearing since this whole thing began. I looked to Alex who was instantly in Alpha mode.“You stay here, you monitor what you can and please, please don’t leave the house,” he asked me. I was grateful he wasn’t telling me outright but I also knew this wasn’t a request.“Of course, I will work from here. If you need eyes in the sky or… I don’t know… a storm, let me know,” I told him seriously. He nodded and swept in for a kiss before my heart walked out the door to war.I took deep breaths while Anna came over and held my hand.“What now?” She asked me, as she slowly pushed me to the war table to look at it.I focused on my emotions and centered myself on my sadness to have full access to my abilities
{ Alexander } I watched her breathe in and then out more times than i could handle and she still hadn't spoken. Her hand had made its way to her stomach unconsciously. She sat there staring at the photo and rubbing her fingers over her bump. I watched as she closed her eyes and I was being tortured with her emotions that were washing over me one by one as they hit her. From shock, to pain, to grieving, to guilt. It was when the guilt hit me that I made my move to finally say something to her. "Baby, You have nothing to feel guilty about. Nothing. This is all on her, her choice to join her mate, her choice to allow this and be apart of it. You couldn't stop her or change this, even if you had known," I told her softly. She just shook her head and closed her eyes. I saw one tear fall and I heard the rain on the windows shortly after. I glanced over and saw that both Nel and Car had wide eyes so I reassured them it wo
{ Raine }He watched me for a moment before he said anything in response.“And by us…” he said finally, drawing out the end and raising an eyebrow. I rolled my eyes in return at his question and turned to my dad without even responding. The only issue was that he was looking at me the same way that my mate was.“Excuse me gentleman, but the last time I checked I was the Luna Queen, the reason this entire war even is happening, and the only elemental werewolf in the world. I was born for this, so yes, I was including myself in the ‘us’ that need to go to America,” I said standing up and eyeing them both. I felt my power leaking out however It didn’t effect either of the men present. Neither of their faces faultered so I added at the end to make them feel better, “I am aware that I am also much more, including a daughter, mate and mother to be, and I assure you I have