I ask anxiously as she lays her phone down on the table next to her
“After dinner so he can hear the kids and maybe talk to them if he wants, it might help him believe me when I start bad mouthing you both, i hope that's ok? I think it's the only way to connect with him now after everything he blames you both so taking his side might make him listen a little easier”“Its fine, as long as it works you can call us whatever the hell you want”Drake grins at her, layla watches him as a surge of jealousy flows through us, i could feel her nervousness that drake was friends with someone that wasnt fiona and to her it made her uncomfortable, she pushes the feeling through the bond to see if dain would respond, making it obvious for him.My cheeks redden as drake chuckles to himself, grabbing my hips he lifts me into the air and onto his knee, baylee had gotten bored of me and went to sit with caden and the older kids while we ate, drake kisses my throat“So if he asks, you hate it here, you want to go home and be with him and that i'm miserable without him”Helen tells the girls, they nod taking in her words as drake clears his throat “He also still might think the kids are still missing, if he does play along, if we don't he will figure out we know he knows and put 2 and 2 together”“Since when is it 2 and 2? I thought it was 1 and 1”I ask confused“What?”Drake snaps “You said put 2 and 2 together, but its 1 and 1”He rolls his eyes groaning “Not the time lilly”Layla snorts inside smiling at me, she loved to annoy drake “Sorry your right”I apologies then i chew on my lip nervously “You ready?”Helen asks the girls, both of them nod so helen presses the ring button, it rings, and rings and rings then the line goes quiet, as it does i hold my breath nervously waiting for him to answer, then i hear hi
I nod walking to her“Seriously how long has it been, she has had me locked up in here since the night Samual was born”My eyebrows shoot up in surprise, has it really been a year since I last saw Emma’s wolf?”“A year, you have been in here a year?”I ask looking for a lock to break, finding one I look around, and grab a table, breaking the leg off I wedge it between the lock and door“Seriously? Shit, well thanks for coming to get me, she won’t see sense”She whispers, I nod“Yeah I know. She’s delusional”“It’s the voices, they keep telling her to do crazy shit like lock me up here, hate you, destroy you”I nod“Yeah she’s good at it too”“I’m sorry, I wish I could have stopped her”She tells me as I break the lock open, as I do I’m forced back as a force of nature bursts free from the cage, the black walls and floors crystallising and spreading, changing colour to light blue, as it changes so does the atmosphere around us, it’
As I hold her I feel for the pain, for her emotions, the problem was she felt everything to a degree that hurt her right to the core, so I numb her, taking the top of each emotion but leaving her empathy and I add to her patience and her love for her family Don’t get me wrong she loved them, she adored her family but the voices stole the joy she had for them, taking her hostage and keeping her from living her life how she had planned I feel her regret for her other part kissing someone, they had blocked it from her to begin with but even they felt guilty about that, they wanted her to suffer. I could hear footsteps approach as I finish healing her, her body almost goes limp against me, like she was sedated as all the bad leaves her, the pain numbs and the happiness bursts free from her chest“Emma?”Matts voice comes in from behind me, I feel Emma lift her face up as I pull away and I smile up at him“You should sit, I need to
“Yes sir”He answers just as Baylee comes running out of her room“Daddy wait”I pause again “What baby girl?”“Be careful, I love you”I smile at her and nod“I love you too, all of you, now wake Sarah and Reggie, tell them to stay with you guys, caden you look after your siblings, I don’t care what you have to do”“I promise WE will”He says confidently nodding to Baylee, her face lights up as I climb into the elevator and I close the door, my heart physically hurts as I watch their faces disappear. Everytime i leave them it’s like a part of me stays with them and in return I take a little of each of them. I had always wanted kids, I never knew adopting kids would feel so fulfilling but it does, it feels more than amazing to know a kid that didn’t have a home, who didn’t have love, hope or laughter in their lives now do. And they do because we took them in and that feeling I would feel prou
I tell her, but who was I kidding, even I was shocked at how horrified i was about the entire incident. They should never have gotten past the treeline never mind as far as the packhouse. “East is secure”“So is the south”“And the north”“West is now secure alpha but the gamma is on his way home, he has been shot”“Crap, Matt was hit”I tell everyone racing out of the front door again“I need warriors guarding my back door tonight, someone blew a hole in it”“Yes alpha”They all agree as I reply to them through mindlink —————-Lilly’s POV It had all happened so fast, I woke up with a roaring pain, it had ripped straight through my chest, a pain I knew all too well. one of our warriors had died and their link to my soul had been ripped apart, leaving a lasting memory behind. Suddenly awake I was thrown into a war, one that I hadn’t been prepared for, the rogu
“Really? Like fully ok?”Emma’s voice asks from the corner, she had barely talked the entire time, she didn’t walk back and forth, she just sat there looking at the wall. I felt for her but I also wanted to scream at her. To cry, to show some sort of emotion but nothing, it was like she was numb to it all“Maybe that’s a good thing”Dain whispers“Yeah, she said he’s ok”She drops her head into her hands and to my surprise she cries, sobs, I just watch her, unsure if I should comfort her or stay away from her “Pat her shoulder or something”Dain snaps impatiently, now that she was finally crying he wanted her to stop because it was annoying. I gently walk to her side and I Pat her shoulder “It’s ok”I tell her, she lifts her head up looking at me, her chin wobbles as she nods her head then to my shock horror she grabs my waist and cries into my stomach, my arms automatically go into the air as Dain gr
Lilly’s POVA warm wash of love starts in my heart and spreads throughout my body, I feel blood rush through my veins, racing to every part of my body. Heat starts in my toes and spreads, as it does I feel a weight on my chest, it wasn’t heavy, it was comfortable, familiar. Layla groans rolling and looking at me, only then did I realise I was inside my mind, numb to everything but the heavy heat on my chest“What happened?”She groans, I push of the floor of my mind and I look around, trying to remember anything “Matt? Matt got shot?”I wonder“And we healed him?”She yawns, stretching. I nod “Yeah, but then?”Layla’s eyes snap open and she sits up with a gasp“Shit we nearly died!”I look at her confused, I didn’t remember that?“What? When?”“After we passed out, shit we need to get out of here”She snaps getting up and grabbing my arm
I snap sitting up straighter“When he realised the kids were not with her he apparently threw a fit, she said that we had taken them like we told her to say, anyway instead of staying in the room she jumped into his car and now we have no idea what’s going on”I jumped off drake and went to the stand to the side where my phone lay. We had briefly talked about her changing my name in her phone in case something like this happened, but to get into his car was way off the plan, we can’t keep her safe if we are not by her side. “What are you doing?”Drake asks, throwing his legs out of the bed and stretching his arms “Ringing her”“No lilly, it might tip him off”I clear my throat and shake my head “It won’t I promise”I press the ring button and I send a silent prayer to heaven hoping she took our hypothetical conversation to heart before she left the hotel room. It rings twice and then she an