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
COLE'S POV I return to the packhouse 2 weeks after Skyler gave birth to the pup she was carrying. I climb into her window and have the shower I always have before I see her. I stay in the shadows as she enters the room. I watch as she enters the bathroom. She stays in there for a while and then comes out already wearing her night slip. She finishes drying her hair and sits at her vanity. She looks tired as she braids her hair. I catch a glimpse of my mark on her shoulder as she throws the finished braid over her shoulder. It looks beautiful with me in Xander's wolf form, standing protectively over Alice's wolf form. I'm just disappointed in myself because of the way Xander marked her. She didn't mark me in return. I watch as she makes her way over to the bed, slowly climbs in and seems to just collapse onto her pillows. I move out of the shadows, over to the bed, and climb in with her. I smile as she turns over and allows me to wrap my arms around
SKYLER'S POVElijah had to stay in the pack hospital for a month due to his injuries, much to his disagreement. Nathan took care of all the pack work, while I did my Luna work plus visited himevery day with Samuel and Emma. I haven't talked about the pregnancy yet to either Elijah or Nathan, especially since Nathan has been even more protective of me since he came back and Elijah has been in hospital. He has also been a lot quicker to lose his temper and it doesn't matter who it is or what it is over."What's on your mind? Sweetheart" Elijah asks while playing carefully with Emma"Huh?" I look up at himHe laughs "What are you thinking about? You looked like you were miles away and Samuel has been pulling your hair for the last 5 minutes with no response from you!""Oh! I guess I'm a bit worried about Nathan, he is losing his temper with everyone. I had a couple of the young pack members come up to me yesterday and a
NATHAN'S POVXaiden and I are so restless now, I am happy that Skyler is having Elijah's pup, just like I was when she was pregnant with Cole's pups. I love them all and I can wait until she is ready to be with me too, but it is getting harder. Smelling her everywhere is intoxicating. I am snapping at everyone, and for stupid little things and it's starting to affect the pack, but more importantly, it is affecting our family.Elijah was still in the hospital recovering. Skyler was doing her Luna stuff and visiting Elijah when she had time. I had dropped some paperwork into Elijah earlier this morning to help him get rid of some of his boredom. For some reason, he actually likes doing the paperwork. I went back to the office but after losing my patience with having to do more paperwork; I head to the training field, hoping to get rid of some of my built-up irritation. Unfortunately, as soon as I got to the training field, the few warriors that were ther
SKYLER'S POVI woke up the next morning and stretched, to find a heavy arm wrapped around my waist and from the heat and butterflies travelling through me, I knew it was Nathan. He stirred as well, pulling me tighter against him and placing soft kisses down my neck to his mark, making me moan out in pleasure. I moved my hand along his arm until I reached his hand that was resting on my stomach. We could just start to feel the little movements of the pup. I tensed a little and whispered, "Nathan!? Are you upset?""What? Why would I be upset?" his sleepy husky voice whispered back"Well, first I had the twins, and now I'm carrying Eli's pup. We all never really got a chance to sit down and talk about this before everything happened."Nathan bit down on my mark, causing a low moan to escape my lips. He then very quickly turned me over so that he was on top of me."Listen here, Angel. I have never been happier. I love the twins
SKYLER'S POVI was sitting at my bedroom window, thinking over the last few weeks. I am now 3 months pregnant. We found out two weeks ago that we are having a boy. Elijah and Nathan are over the moon. With the way Nathan has been behaving, you would think it was his pup/son, not Elijah's, but then again, we are one family. I guess, in a way, he is. I feel really bad as it took me a couple of weeks to work past what had happened with Nathan and to stop thinking and seeing both of them as Alphas instead of my mates. I know he still feels bad about making me remember both what Cole and my father did, but I don't blame him for reminding me. Remembering is the only way I will one day get past what they did to me. I don't blame my brother anymore, but I don't forgive him either, because I now remember the birthday that changed him. *FLASHBACK* It's my 8th birthday. I get up early; I head to my fath
COLE'S POV I stop at a distance and watch as Nathan approaches Skyler, gets down on his knees in front of her and apologises to her for what happened on the training field. When I saw that she managed to put him on his arse, I couldn't have been more prouder because if she can get Nathan to the ground, something that only Elijah and I have been able to do and do with difficulty for the last few years. She would have no problem defending herself against anyone, including me. Elijah has taught her well. I then turn and run, allowing them to have their privacy. I stay away from both the house and the packhouse, knowing that Nathan and Skyler either completed the mating that day or in the days following. I run the border and even over the border for the next 2 weeks but I am starting to really struggle though, as the mate bond is pulling at me for physical contact and Xander won't stop growling in my head needing the contact with Skyler as well. I slowly ma
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