SKYLER'S POV
I continued to throw up my breakfast every second morning for the next 2 weeks. Katie came into my bedroom like she has been doing since the incident with Cole, but this morning was different. She was carrying a small box. Katie came up to me, gave me the box, and pointed to the bathroom.SKYLER'S POV I must have fallen asleep because I am awoken by the door opening and someone entering. I am surprised to see my father's, Beta John. I struggle against the ties on my wrists and try to move away from him as much as possible expecting him to take advantage of where I am and that my hands are tied, but he surprises me, by raising his hands in the surrender position and whispering as he comes closer, "I'm sorry, Skyler..." "But... You??" I look up at him, confused "An act. I have never liked how he treated you after your mother died, but there was no convincing him that it wasn't your fault and that the Rogue that attacked would have done so even if he had been there. He wanted you to replace her a couple of years after she was killed as you were a spitting image of her even then but I managed to convince him to at least wait until you were 18 and then he wouldn't have the elder council on his back for making a minor into a sex slave. Which is what he
NATHAN'S POV "WHERE IS SHE?" I yell with Xaiden coming out in my voice. I stand up and pace the room. It has been a week since Skyler was taken from the mall. Katie and Alexander are both beside themselves as they couldn't stop them. No one in the room can tell me anything, let alone look at me. I may be the quiet youngest brother but no one wants to cross me. I'm the one they come to, to get the hard things done. So when I say something, everyone listens. I only spent a little time with Skyler, but in that time she became my whole world, my breath of air and my heart. We have searched everywhere; we have even reached out to our allied packs to help and see if any of them have come across anyone that could be holding Skyler. I sit back down and look over the maps that are spread out o
COLE'S POV After being too late to help my brothers keep Skyler safe, I was able to give Max the information needed to find and rescue her. I stay nearby to see who they send to go and get her. I smile to myself when I see Alexander exit out of the back of the packhouse, followed by the very best of his high ranked officers. I follow them to the edge of the border. I may not have my Alpha status anymore, but when I open my pack link, I can still hear everything. I don't do it often and when I do so; I make sure to keep very quiet so that Elijah and Nathan don't know. As I still can't face them. I run the border again, making sure I don't go too far so that I know the exact moment Alexander is successful and come back with Skyler riding his back. This seems strange, as I know she can shift and her wolf is beautiful. Did her father treat her that badly this time that she was too weak to shift and run herself? I follow them back to the packho
SKYLER'S POVAfter the doc had looked me over and gave the all-clear, without telling Elijah and Nathan about the pup at my request. I was sent to bed to get rest. I was so exhausted that as soon as my head hit the pillows, I was taken by the darkness of sleep.The next morning I wake with a start, sit up and look around the room. There was no one there, but I knew someone had been in here, as I was no longer in my old top and pants. He still scares me, but I get a hint of chocolate and rain, Cole's intoxicating scent. I sigh and turn to Alice, "Alice, he was here!" "I know, he gave us the touch we have been craving since that night. I feel much better..." "But he could have?" "Yes, he could have, but he didn't. But then, would you have actually stopped him if he had woken you up with a kiss and love?" I don't answer her as I don't
SKYLER'S POV It's been 6 weeks since the Luna ceremony, Nathan is away on business and I have been busy working with all the women, catching up on all the Luna duties that I missed, after what Cole did, and then being kidnapped back to my old pack. I walk into the office to give Elijah some paperwork on what was needed in the pack nursery. I put the paperwork on his desk and turned around to leave when he got up from his chair and said, "Skyler! Do you have a minute?" "Of course, Eli. What do you need?" Elijah walked up to me and put his hand on my cheek. He smiled and whispered low, "Will you have dinn
SKYLER'S POV The twins, Samuel and Emma, are now 6 months old. We still haven't heard a single thing from Cole, so I'm not sure if he even knows about them yet. Elijah and Nathan have been the best. One of them is still always with me, but they absolutely love playing and spending time with both Samuel and Emma. Nathan is spending time with me at the moment, as he has to leave in the morning for another business trip. A pack is attacking other packs without cause. It's part of our pack's alliance and protection duties to investigate who could be behind the attacks. We have been getting to know each other over the last six months by just hanging out, no dates, no dinners, just two people spending time together. Even though everything is going really good between us, I can tell that they are both getting restless. Their wolves are getting to th
ALPHA DAVID JACKSON'S POV I stand in the kitchen doorway and watch as Skyler makes her way around the kitchen. It's like she had never left, except she now fights back more. I knew she would look like her mother Catherine when she grew up. I just didn't expect her to look that much like her. Even my wolf is having trouble defining her as our daughter, not our mate. He wants me to take her; he wants me to go in there, pick her up, throw her over our shoulder and take her to our room so we can have some fun with her. I was just about to give in when my watch beeps; I sigh, take one more look at her moving so gracefully around the kitchen and then head back to my office. No sooner do I sit down at my desk than my phone rings. I answer it, "Alpha Jackson..." "Hello, Alpha Jackson here!" There didn't seem to be anyone on the line, but it wasn't dead either. I shrug my shoulders and hang up the phone. I lo
NATHAN'S POV I have been away from the pack, Skyler and the twins, for over a month and we still are no closer to finding out which pack is attacking without cause. They hit fast, hard and silently. We can't work out if they are working with rogues or if they put a spy into each pack before they attack and we can't seem to pick which pack they are going to be hitting next. I have been keeping Elijah up to date, but there isn't much I can tell him. I really need to get home Xaiden is getting really restless, and he's making me lose my temper much too quickly. We need to at least mark Skyler soon, so we will be connected to her a little more and it will calm him down just a little. "Nathan, we need to be with our mate!" Xaiden growls and paces more in my head. "I know, but we need to get on top o
SKYLER'S POV With having the twins, I didn't get to spend more than one night with Elijah when we first mated and then, with the resurfacing of one of my bad memories, I only got to spend one night with Nathan as well. So, being here with Cole, I have lost complete track of time. I feel like I'm 18 again and spending imitate time with my mate for the first time.I have fear, excitement, nerves and extreme pleasure running through me, on their own as well as combinations of all of them. Cole has been wonderful, giving me so much pleasure as well as receiving the pleasure I give him. I stretch and let out a mix of a moan and a growl as Cole tightens his arms around me and kisses along my shoulder to where my mark from each of them sits. He sucks on it as he whispers for the thousandth time, "Skyler, this is absolutely beautiful... And I'm glad I can now be proud that you are wearing it... I have finally proven that it deserves to be there..." "Co
COLE'S POV I got back from King Noah's territory a few moments ago and heard the pups outside playing. I walked out the kitchen door and smile at what I see. I then sit down on the porch and watch as Skyler plays with Samuel, Emma, Marcus and Claire. I ponder and still can't believe, even after all this time, that my brothers allowed her to keep both Samuel and Emma as Skyler confirmed to me that they are the result of what I did to her that night. Samuel is so much like me that it is scary sometimes, and Emma, well, she is a spitting image of Skyler in both looks and personality. She will be one strong-willed she-wolf when she grows up. I smile, thinking that if Skyler's mother hadn't been killed, and she wasn't put through all the abuse from her father and brother, she would be a totally different person. As I watch her now, I can see the Alpha/Luna she should have been, but I know that even though what she went through with her family was something no one should h
SKYLER'S POV I have been waiting for Cole to return so I can spend some time with him and start getting close to him once more. I smile a little to myself when I see him exit the house and sit on the porch. He just sits there and watches, it would be nice to know what he is thinking but he has our link blocked, I then see Samuel trip, Emma, he then runs off without so much as a look back to see if she was alright, so I catch up with him and say, "Samuel, that wasn't very nice..." "I didn't mean to, Mummy, it was an accident..." "Samuel! The truth?" "But Mummy, she called me a Wolfie pup!" I giggle a little to myself as it was Emma's way of calling him a Mummy's pup without actually saying it. "But Samuel, that is no reason to trip her over..." I quickly look over to where Emma had fallen and see that Cole is with her, picks her up and heads back to where he was sitting on the porch. "When Emma comes back to play, I want
COLE'S POV I hit the counter with my fist, Xander stepping up next to me as the anger and rage take more of an effect and we snap. "I CAN'T BE HERE... I CAN'T BE THIS CLOSE AND NOT TOUCH HER... I'll be in the barracks if you need me!" I then stormed out of the house and headed over to the barracks. Once there, I walk into Alexander's office and have a look at his patrol map and schedule. Unfortunately, with all the help I had been giving him before, there is nothing here to do. I pace the office for a while trying to bring the anger and rage under some sort of control but it isn't working the only way to make it lesser is to be with Skyler but with just how she reacted there is no way she is letting me close to her, anytime soon. I just hope it doesn't take us too much longer. I am just leaving the office when I see the calendar Alexander has on the wall. I am surprised it has been so long. I walk over to the desk and pick up
SKYLER'S POV It's been a week since Harper put the dampener on my fear of that night with Cole and everything has more or less returned to normal the only thing is that it didn't quite work how we wanted it to as yes the fear was reduced but even the thought of being alone with him raises that fear. I actually haven't seen him for a few days. I am heading to the office to see if Elijah or Nathan knows where he is. Once outside the office, I knock on the door and open it slightly. Slipping my head just inside, I smile at the 2 Alphas that are sitting in chairs facing both Elijah and Nathan. They all look at me and I hide the wave of fear that goes through me at the feel of all the Alpha auras within the room. Nathan gets to his feet and makes his way over to the door. He opens the door and pulls me into a kiss as he moves us backward and closes the door behind him. When he pulls back from the kiss, he asks, "Was there something you needed, Angel?" "Um.
SKYLER'S POV After my session with Greta and finding out that Alexander and her, are now expecting their first pup. I think back on Samuel and Emma, Marcus and Claire and then the twins I just lost and the joy we all felt at adding to our family, but that memory is now tinged with sadness. So even as the sadness plagues me, not only from losing the twins but as a side effect of the distance I have once again put between me and Cole, I dance around the kitchen as I make lunch and decide on what I will do for dinner. I don't know what the difference was, but I jump and let out a slight scream as 2 arms wrap around me from behind. Terror fills me believing my uncle had returned. Even though I know his king came and got him and that he was executed 2 days after the king returned to his kingdom and territory. Nathan went with him just to make sure he was executed and not just given a warning... "What's going on here?" It isn't until I hear Elija
SKYLER'S POV I feel like I'm underwater trying to swim against a current to the surface but just can't seem to get there. The current pulls me back into the darkness, making it envelop me once more. I feel like I am underwater again, struggling against the current once more to get to the surface. Only this time I seem to make it, but just as I break the surface and take a sharp breath. It seems that I am then grabbed by the ankle and pulled back under the water, back into the darkness. The current isn't as strong this time allowing me to finally break the surface and I wake slowly, I then fight the heaviness of my eyelids but as I manage to open them I have to shut them once more, as bright rays seem to blind me. I hear muffled movements and try again. This time the bright light is gone and I am able to open them all the way. I smile a little as Elijah's worried face comes into view. I move slightly and look around the room. I see another figure standing b
SKYLER'S POV I sigh and make my way around the party, letting the pups and everyone that I pass know that the food is ready and they can help themselves whenever they are hungry. I sit on the back porch, resting my feet for a minute, and watch as Cole continues to play with all the pups. I feel a little guilty and a little sad as I watch him now play and think about what he would have been like with them if that night had gone a different way. I slide my hand over my belly and wonder what he would have been like if he had been with me through Samuel and Emma's pregnancy. I open my mate links as I feel both Elijah and Nathan send down a tug. "Skyler, Elijah, I am on my way back to the packhouse. It was just a small group of rogues that wandered across the border but didn't realise it..." "Okay... I am going to be a little longer as these rogues are here to fight. I currently count at least a dozen running over the border in wolf form... Wi
SKYLER'S POV I wake up, stretch and run my hand over my growing belly. Talking to Doc Isaac, he believes that the twins I am carrying are both Elijah's and Nathan's. Even though there were around 2 weeks between when they had loved me, he said that it is rare but possible. It also explains why one is slightly smaller than the other. I slowly crawl out of bed, as it is getting a little tiring to move as I only have 3 weeks to go. I head into the bathroom for a shower, even though I would love to stay there and soak up all the heat from the water, I don't stay in for too long as I have a little more preparation to do before Samuel and Emma's birthday party starts. I get out of the shower, dry off, and then head out and into the closet. I slip on a loose sundress and then head down to the kitchen. I move around the kitchen, pulling out all the ingredients to make Samuel and Emma their favourite chocolate chip pancakes as their standard birthday breakfast. I jump