JENNAI forced myself to not think of anything while I packed.I didn’t want to think of Jason, what he represented in my life. How he was. If he was with someone else. If he’d gotten married or chosen a mate and luna.I didn’t want to intrude if he has a family. I only need his help to figure out who took my kids and that is the end.Once they are safely back home, I’ll leave and he can go back to living the way he has and I’ll go back to my life.Even as I told myself this, I couldn’t help thinking. Did he miss me? Did he try to look for me?And the biggest and scariest question. Did he ever regret rejecting me?“Don’t be a fool. It has been seven years. He has probably forgotten all about your existence.”Scratch what I said first. This is my scariest thought.I think I’m being delusional if I believe I’m still on his mind. Maybe I cross it once in a while.I couldn’t say the same. Seeing my kids—our kids, is always a reminder of what could have been, but didn’t be, because he didn
JASONI didn’t have too much to drink tonight, but I could have sworn I was starting right at Jenna.She wasn’t my eighteen year old adopted sister. Not the girl I taught how to climb out of her window to sneak out at night.Not the one who kissed me in the—No. We’re not going there.I haven’t let myself think of that in seven years. I’m not about to start now.But God, I wasn’t looking at my Jenna. Not my Jenny. She was a woman.The woman that has haunted my dreams, since she disappeared on the night of her eighteenth birthday. The night I rejected her, even after she begged me not to.My heart burns every time I think of that night. It was the worst night of my life. I thought I was doing the right thing, the best thing for us.I didn’t understand the gravity of what I’d done until I returned home that night. I found my panicked mother looking for her. She held a piece of paper in her hands as she cried for the daughter the Goddess had blessed her with.I was waiting for the tongue
JENNAStanding with Jason now, all the things I wanted to ask him. All the questions I thought I wanted the answers to disappeared from my brain.I’m left gaping at him, like a fish out of water. Totally no thoughts in my brain that feels absent.“Come on.” He motions to the couch.Moving ahead of me, he waits until I get there before sitting.I force myself to not look around the place. Right from the door, you could see that a lot of things have been changed.It didn’t look like the office we used to spend time in.How many times have I imagined coming here? Not as the daughter looking for the alpha, but the wife and luna, coming to see my husband.I’d imagined and day dreamed about the kids we would have, the way we would run the pack. All the new activities my young brain thought would make sense for the entire pack to do.Jason doesn’t make a move to start a conversation as much as did. The tension in the room could be cut with a knife. It was sufficing, taking and filling every
JENNAJason glances at me but I refuse to look at him. Scared, and hating the fact that he would see my tears welling up in my eyes.The voice came again, soft and feminine.“Babe?” There is a knock on the door before it gets opened.I hear the clicking of footsteps, then they halt.I’m guessing she noticed me.“Jason? What’s going on here?” There wasn't an accusation in her voice, just curiosity..Jason gets up from beside me.I have to do breathing exercises a little before I can look up. The last thing I want is for either of them to know this affects me in any way.Of course he has someone. He is an alpha. Women would be rushing him.What did I think? He was going to wait for me for seven years?I knew it couldn’t be possible. Seeing how we even separated. But still it burned to see he has moved on.“Will you introduce me to your…friend?”I hated how nice she sounded. There was curiosity in her voice. Maybe even a little uncertainty, but she didn’t sound jealous or insecure.“Jenn
JENNAI thought Kristina would leave me hanging the moment she got rid of Elizabeth. Cause there is no way she was actually being nice to me because she was nice.Yes, it has been seven years. But she bullied me for more than ten years. Forgive me if I don’t easily believe she has had a change of heart.She took me to her room. We didn’t really have a conversation. But she told me about all the good things the old luna used to say about me before she died.That even the morning of the accident. She’d assured them that I would be back, and they should always remember her words when I do.Weirdly, I didn’t feel anything when I felt the emotions take over me. I let the grief take hold and I cried. We cried together and it was the most we’ve ever bonded.My suitcases were already in the room when we went there. She’d jokingly asked if I could still remember the way.How could I forget? I had the best memories there.And it was opposite Jason’s bedroom. I know he is in the alpha’s room now
JENNA“What is the meaning of this, Jenna?”My mouth dries up. All the things I practiced telling him flew out the window and it felt like my brain had deserted me.“Jenna.” He repeats, his voice trembling slightly.I blinked, shaking myself out of the haze I entered.When I finally moved, I snatched the phone out of his hand and locked it. Then I hid it behind my back like that was going to make any difference.It didn’t take a rocket scientist to figure this out. It was their sixth birthday, he could see the six clearly written there. And they were pretty much exact replicas of him.“This is the last time I’m going to ask you this. What is that?” He points to the phone, his voice wavering slightly as he stutters.I breathed in and pout. Then I told myself this just made telling him easier. I’d been worried and thinking of how to start the conversation. He saved me the trouble by snooping around and finding it out.“You were pregnant? Why didn’t you tell me?” He asks.The look in his
JASONI stayed with Jenna until she fell asleep.I wish I could say it was because she seemed broken, and needed the support. But I just wanted to be with her.I’d forgotten what it was like to have her around. To have her in my arms.And God, I’m a father.An actual father with real kids.I didn’t know how to feel about that. To be honest, I don’t think it has already sunk in yet.I’ll need a drink, or five to fully understand that news.Not only do I have a kid—kids, three of them—they were kidnapped. We have no clue who they might be or what they want exactly.Jenna explained everything to me. They hadn’t called, which led them to believe it wasn't money they wanted.I wanted to ask how she was. What she has been doing. But things were already complicated between us. We had too much to talk about and not nearly enough time.Looking down at her sleeping form, I’m taken back to seven years ago, before she left.I knew she was my mate the moment I turned eighteen. My wolf had recognis
JENNAWaking up in my old bedroom made me feel like the past five years were just a crazy dream.I almost thought I was going to wake up to Jason shouting and telling me we’re going to be late for school. Mum will yell that we must eat breakfast first. Dad will grumble about being late to a meeting and she’ll force him to sit and eat.Jason and I will bicker from our rooms right down to the breakfast table, and it won't end there.We get a free pass for being late as the alpha’s kids.At least Jason gets a free pass. I don’t get detention, but I certainly get dirty looks from pupils and teachers alike.Life was much easier then. Simpler. I had my unhealthy crush on him. Only Zeke knew about that, because he’d made me confess. He saw my diary and saw how many hearts I’d doodled with mine and Jason’s name in the middle.He never told him, because I made him promise. And it was our little secret for the longest time.He is the only person that knows what happened between us that drunken