XANDER'S POV
I knew it would happen soon. I could feel the weight of guilt getting heavier and heavier upon him. It was and is my fault we are here and until he made me relive what I had done; I hadn't realised that I had that in me. Yes, both Cole and I like our sex a little on the harder and rougher side. Me, just that little bit more, but to take Skyler as I did, was against everything we had always stood for.
I get to my paws and shake out my fur, shaking off those thoughts. I make my way to the border and before I cross; I let out a howl, letting the patrol that is nearby, know that I am there. As I wait for them to approach where I am, I shift. It isn't long before I have 4 patrol guards standing in front of me. One throws me a pair of shorts and says,
"State your business, rogue!"
I growl a little. I may seem like a rogue at the moment, but I am not.
XANDER AKA ZANE'S POV "Right go again! You need to give more if you want to survive my training program... MILES!! Come on, I know you have more. Let's see it!" I have been here for just over 3 years now. Out of the dozen recruits I put through my program, I have produced 7 groups of 8 guards. King Noah then decides where they are needed and sends them there. I stand at the edge of my private training field and watch as my new recruits run through my introduction process. I smile, as I know at least 1 if not 2 will quit by the end of this session. We have been out here since 4 am. I have had them going nonstop since then. "AGAIN!" I make my way onto the field and walk in between each of the recruits as they run through the routine I showed them once early this morning. I step up to Miles. He is one hell of a fighter. He just needs the extra discipline t
XANDER'S POV I run for 2 weeks making my way back to the Royal Blood Moon pack territory, once I make it to the border I approach it carefully as something doesn't feel right. I look left and right, taking one step at a time until I cross over the border. It feels strange being back in our territory, the pack link that has just been a soft white noise in the back of my head comes back to life and I have to remember to turn the volume down. I however don't block it as the sound is actually quite comforting and I find I actually missed it a little. I stop when I hear someone coming, I turn my head one way and then another to work out which way they are coming from. I then find a bush and crawl underneath it and wait, I smile as a border patrol pair walk past. One of them stops and takes a deep breath, does a 360 turn scanning the area and then rejoins his partner continuing on his way. I go
SKYLER'S POV"Samuel! Slow down, stop running in the house. Where are your sisters and brother?" Samuel stops for only a second to look at me and reply. "Playing in the backyard of the packhouse, waiting for the party to start."Today is Samuel and Emma's 5th birthday and we are having a big pack party for them. The backyard of the packhouse is all decorated for the party. Our family is complete for now. Even though there is always a small piece of my heart missing, Cole still hasn't returned. I occasionally get a hint of his scent while out on patrol, especially around my birthday, but I can never actually find him. It was hard, and it took Elijah, Nathan, and Katie a lot of patience, but I have finally come to terms with what Xander did that night. I still don't know how I would go if I ever saw him again, but I miss him. After all, he was the one that saved me that day from my father and gave me the family I have now. I
NATHAN'S POV I knew as soon as Xander crossed over the border, not only did a message come in from the patrols that there was an intruder in the territory, I felt the slight shift in the pack link and our sibling link letting me know that he was near. Both Elijah and I have known every time he has entered the territory over the last few years, but as he has never ventured any closer than the edge of the woods, so we have allowed it to continue. After what happened that night between him and Skyler, Elijah and I agreed that we would never put her through that again. If there ever was a time that she was not comfortable with either of us, we would back off. It took a while, but we had finally helped her to move past that night and start to live, laugh, and be happy again. I feel a tug on my private link with Elijah. "Did you feel that?" "Yes, Xander crossed the border and is now sitting at the edge of the woo
COLE'S POV As Elijah and Nathan leave the cells without saying anything more, I get up from my knee and move over to the cot in the corner of the room. I lay down and look up at the ceiling, not that I can see it as it is now pitch black in here after they shut the outer door. After touching Skyler for just that short amount of time, I feel better and Xander, even though he had blocked me out, has calmed down as well. The rage that has been building has backed off, not by much but enough to allow us to think that little more clearer. Even though I asked them to allow me to return to King Noah, I know that they won't let me. We have always settled things between us in our own way. I don't know what punishment they will give me, but they will make it something that none of us will ever forget. I am not sure how long I have been laying here but I wouldn't be surprised if it was somewhere around the 4 to 5-day mark. I heard arguing at the cell's
SKYLER'S POV I can't believe they would do this to him. He is their brother and they are treating him like he is a rogue and shouldn't be here. I watch as his eyes return to his sapphire blue, and I get lost in them as he says, "I love you, Skyler. I always have. I'm just sorry it wasn't different between us..." I jump as an arm wraps around my waist and slowly starts to pull me back. I then hear Nathan whisper into my ear, "Come, Skyler, you need to move away from him..." I struggle in his arms as I say, "No... Nathan, wait... Please?" I then swap to our private mate link."Alice needs to talk to him, please Nathan??" I feel him sigh and then nod, loosening his hold around my waist just a little. I know they don't trust him and I know that they probably won't like whatever Alice wants to say to him. So we concentrate hard, allowing Alice to find the weak mate link b
NATHAN'S POV It has been 3 days since Cole has completed his punishment, but both Xaiden and I believe he deserves more than what he got. He attacked not only his mate but our mate as well. He then ran away like a little coward, not staying to face the consequences of his actions. I can feel that Skyler has forgiven him as there is no longer that extra pressure coming from her down our mate bond. I know both Alice and Skyler need him, as Alice has been showing more and more of the side effects from him starting the mate bond between them. The deprivation of a mate's touch for so long and so soon after the marking can have a really devastating effect on both the male and female. Not only does their temper start to become uncontrollable, but their wolf can also go insane. We were lucky that Skyler had Elijah and me, but Cole and Xander had no one. I don't know if I can trust him around her. I can't trust yet that he won't do it again. Skyler has bee
SKYLER'S POV It's been 2 weeks since Doc Isaac allowed Cole to leave the hospital. He has been staying in his room at the packhouse as both Elijah and Nathan won't allow him to stay at the house until he earns his place back in the family. Much to their dismay, I have been spending as much time as I can with Cole around all my other responsibilities. Which is what I am trying to do now, I am trying to spend some quality time with Cole, but as I look around, I see Nathan sitting on the back porch. I am getting tired of this. I now have no time to myself and I think even Cole is finding it hard, as we are always under constant watch. I know Nathan and Elijah still don't trust him not to hurt me again, but if we are to ever repair the damage he did with what he did, then he and I need some time alone together.
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