***Chastity***Working this party is hard now that I have found my mate, and I know that he will not be accepting me. I struggle to hold back the tears, and keep a smile on my face. I cannot make any mistakes tonight. I know if I do the punishment will be beyond anything I have experienced before. I can feel Aurora, Naomi, Gina, and Fiona’s eyes on me, watching my every move the whole night. I know they are waiting for me to make a mistake. Every once in awhile I catch sight of Braxton glaring at me as well, but I do my best to shut him out.I can say that I’m glad Alpha Rowen has not approached me, at all. I don’t know how I would handle it if he did. I do all I can to make sure I don’t try to look for him in the crowd either. I simply keep my head down, and continue to pour drinks for everyone. I am working along when I hear someone clear their throat, and I catch a familiar scent. One I haven’t smelled in 4 years. I peek up to see Jax standing there. He has a pretty gir
***Jax**** I’m so confused about what is going on. I can’t seem to understand why my sister was not given the night off to celebrate my homecoming. Ross had called me, and told me what Braxton did to her. To say I was furious is an understatement. Seeing the healing bruises all over her face, and arms ignites that anger even more. That stupid pup just made a mockery out of our family. We are the Beta family, and we are expected to set an example to the rest of the pack on how to behave, and how to treat others. He showed everyone in this pack that it is ok to treat others, lower rank wolves, especially like trash. That it is ok to beat them, and disrespect them. The Omegas are the backbone, and care takers of every pack, and deserve to be respected, not beaten. To make it worse, he showed the pack that it is ok to disregard our law on hitting females. He showed it was acceptable to do such a thing because someone in the Beta family did it. He set an example that should have never be
***Chastity*** With a whimper, I tried to open my eyes. I hurt every where. There wasn’t a part of my body that wasn’t riddled with pain. I couldn’t remember why though. The last thing I remember was coming out of the bathroom in the pack house then seeing Alpha Rowen. Oh yeah. That happened. As soon as I remembered his rejection I felt tears spill down my cheeks. I could hear Leila whimper in my head. I could tell she was curled up in a ball, shaking. My poor wolf. She didn’t deserve this pain. “Leila. Leila my sweet wolf. I’m so sorry. I’m sorry for all of your pain.” I called to her softly. She only whimpered, and did not respond. I imagined myself running my fingers thru her soft fur in comfort. I wanted to make sure she knew some one loved her no matter what. As I did this I tried to remember what happened after his rejection. Slowly it started coming back to me in flashes. Being hit, and voices screaming at me. I couldn’t pinpoint exactly what happened, or who had hit me this
***Dimitri*** I closed the hospital door with a sigh, and leaned against it for a moment. The warrior Jax had at her door gave me a funny look, but said nothing. Honestly I was thankful Jax thought to do that. While Aurora, and the other 3 females were still locked in the dungeon, Braxton was not. More than once I heard him grumble about getting revenge for having his mother locked up. I knew Chastity was safer here, and under the watch of warriors. I hoped Jax kept warriors with her when she was released to go home later. I slowly started making my way out of the pack hospital, thinking about just saying her name. I hadn’t called my daughter by her name since the day I realized she was an Omega. She hadn’t deserved that. She didn’t deserve anything she has been put thru by any of us. Especially by me, my mate, and her son. Some how I needed to correct my mistakes, and make this up to her. I just hoped I could. I also found myself mulling over what Chastity had said about having a m
***Dimitri*** I spent several hours in my office just thinking. Mostly about Chastity. I thought of all the things Aurora told me she had done to the girl. It broke my heart that I had been so blind, and selfish to treat my daughter as I had. Also to allow others to treat her as they had. I was a terrible person, and a terrible father. She didn’t deserve anything she had been put thru, and it was all because of me. She was innocent. A baby, a child, but I opened the door to allow her abuse. Now I needed to figure out how to make it up to her. Eventually I opened my top right hand desk drawer, and pulled out the photo and folder I had been ignoring these past weeks. I set up the photo on my desk, then opened the folder. I read through everything, twice. I had no idea that despite what Chastity was experiencing at home she was a shining star. She was very intelligent, dedicated, and driven. According to all of her recommendations she was also caring, compassionate, and loving to those
***Rowen*** After leaving the living room I wandered around the house for awhile. What a hellish day it has been. Well maybe more to the point, what a hellish week it has been. This time last week I had been so excited to come home. To see my family, and my pack. I thought I’d come home to find everything wonderful, and nothing but joy. Now, well now there was a part of me that wished I had never come home. In what seems like the blink of an eye, everything went to shit. The excitement of finding my mate was destroyed upon discovering she was an Omega. To make it worse, she is my best friend’s baby sister. Oh, but the things that girl has lived through, especially in the last six years. Truthfully part of me feels guilty for her having to go thru those things. Hearing everything Aurora did to that poor girl made me sick to my stomach, and enraged me more than I have ever been in my life. I never knew anyone could be so horrible to another person, especially to a child. What made it
***Chastity*** Yesterday I was finally released from the hospital, after 6 days there. I still hurt, a lot, but Doctor Deb said I was healed enough to go home. She, again gave me care instructions, and food recommendations. I knew not to expect to be able to follow any of it. I did what I could not to get used to the three meals a day I’d been receiving as well. My mattress in the attic wasn’t really supportive enough for healing either. I appreciated her thoughts, but I knew I would be back to work the second I walked back into the house. I had been shocked when Beta Jax, and his mate Molly came to get me from the hospital. I know he’s my brother, but the rest of my family has turned their backs on me, so why he hasn’t is a mystery to me. The fact that he carried me from my bed to the wheelchair than from the hospital to the pack house made me very uncomfortable. He is a Beta while I’m only an Omega. He should not have been carrying me. In all honesty, everything that has happened
***Chastity*** Standing at the bedroom door was Alpha Rowen. The moment I saw him I knew I was in trouble. I didn’t know why he was here, but I was very scared. His sister, aunt, and chosen mate were being punished today because of me. I began to tremble, and squeezed my eyes together to try to stop the tears that sprung to my eyes. I did not want to cry in front of him again. I heard him sit down in the chair that Beta Dimitri had just left. I waited him to speak. “Good morning Chastity.” Rowen said after a minute of sitting there in silence. “Good…Good morning Alpha Rowen. What can I do for you today?” I responded quietly. “Many things, I think, but I would like to start with just a conversation. Is that alright with you?” “You are the Alpha sir, while I’m a just an Omega. Your word is law.” “You are so much more than that Chastity, aren’t you?” “I don’t follow sir.” “Before we go any further, I would like to ask two things of you, ok?” “Ye…yes sir.” “First, please do not c
Thank you all of my fans, and readers. Thank you for you time, patience, and support as I worked to write, as well as publish my first book. I really do appreciate your patience when I struggled to move the story forward. I also appreciate your continued support. Thank you for walking this journey with Chastity, Rowen, and me. I don't know if I'll ever write another story, but I did enjoy this one. Again, thank you. I can't tell you how much it means to me that you stuck by me through this, and that even though I wasn't sure anyone would like my story, you all did.
20 years later ***Rowen*** Some times it’s hard to believe it’s been 20 years since I almost lost my mate, my sweet girl, my Chastity. First because of my own stupidity. Second because of a horrible, manipulative female. I can’t even imagine what life would have been like if things had gone differently in any way that day, or any day after that. Sometimes I still kick myself for my own foolishness, and then I am thankful that I got the chance to make it right in every way. Life since then has been as close to perfect as one can get. Dad, Dimitri, and Uncle Peter retired when Jax, Ross, and I stepped into our roles. To say they loved it would be an understatement. They stepped into the grandparent role like no body’s business. Dad, and Dimitri never did look for second chance mates. Dad didn’t want to feel like he was replacing mom. Dimitri never completely trusted his own judgement again so they filled their lives with their grand pups, babysitting all of them everyday, and there ar
***Rowen***I woke up early the day after Chastity’s graduation. I know the reason was because I was beyond excited. Chastity was coming home, permanently. Today was the last time we would leave here together. She was coming home. She had gotten her degree, and was one step closer to living her dream. I was so proud of her. Thinking back to the day I found out she was my mate, to today, my sweet girl has come so far.There were times when I wish I could forget that day. Just erase it all from my memory. To erase the fact that I rejected her, and she almost died from my memory, and our past. I sometimes wished that had never been her life. That she never experienced the things she did, that she had never had to struggle as she did, but at the same time…She wouldn’t be where she is right now. She may not be the person she is if those things hadn’t happened. If I had accepted her immediately instead of being an idiot, the abuse she suffered may not have stopped. It may have
***Chastity*** The next morning I woke up to Rowen’s fingers buried inside me. I did enjoy the mornings he woke me up that way. It always started my day with a smile. His smile was pretty great too. Together we went down to have breakfast with Lexi, Colby, Norm, Marcus, Jessie, and Ace. These last few meals with them were bittersweet as they really were the last few with all of us together. I was going to really miss seeing Norm, and Marcus every day. I was also going to miss Colby, and Lexi, but they would be home in a few months. As soon as Colby finished at Denu. “We’re all supposed to be at the pack house at 4:00 today guys. Don’t forget.” Lexi stated. “Why do we need to be there?” Ace asked. “To celebrate.” Lexi answered. “Party!” Norm squealed making us all laugh. “Yes it will be a small party.” Lexi agreed. The graduation was going to be pretty small with just 6 midwives, and 10 nurses. Due to that it would be held in the main auditorium of the school. The graduates had t
***Chastity*** Once I started working in the hospital the months seemed to fly by. I loved every second of it. I learned so much in such a short time. Being able to apply what I had learned in the classroom made me feel very accomplished. My instructors also said they were very impressed with me. That made me feel wonderful. I still had my weekends free, thankfully. Two weekends a month I would either go home, or Rowen would come to Cloverland. If he could get a week away he would come stay for the week. I loved those weeks, but also felt bad about them. I loved them because of the time we got to spend together. I also got to fall asleep in his arms, as well as wake up in his arms. I felt bad about them because of the amount of time he spent alone due to me being in class. He didn’t complain once though, and always talked about how proud he was of me for doing what I was doing. My emotional, and mental struggles had become almost a thing of the past. Yes I still had moments here, an
***Chastity*** Spending 4 days at home had been a nice little break between semesters. As soon as I got back to school orientation, and class prep began. Lexi, Jessie, and I hit the ground running as soon as classes started back up. Norm was lucky because this semester all of his classes were still in the classroom. The three of us only spent a few weeks in the classroom before we moved into being in the hospital. That was where the real work began. Our class schedule was less, but due to the nature of the classes that was necessary. We were now only taking 4 actually classes, but they were all equally important, and put us in different sections of the maternity ward during the class week. The 6 midwives in training were divided into 3 groups of 2 between the 3 midwives that were all instructors. Lexi, and I both got a laugh out of the fact that the midwife we would be working with was Beth’s midwife. We found that out our first week on the ward when Beth, and Robert came in a pre-na
***Chastity***Sunday morning Rowen had a lot of last minute things to do to prepare for Alpha Theo’s arrival so I decided to spend the morning with my dad, Braxton, and Jax. I missed having Colby there too, but I enjoyed spending time with my family. Dad ended up deciding to give Braxton, and I both a driving lesson. He also spent time helping us review the Driver’s handbook. Braxton was 16 now, and it was time for him to get his license as well.After we were done with our lesson, dad, Jax, Braxton, and I went to the deli in town for lunch. I was glad we decided to go there instead of the diner again. As much as I enjoyed the food there, I was not in the mood to deal with Rachel again. I also wanted a deli sandwich. Once we ordered our food we jumped right into conversation.“How do you think you did this semester Chas?” Braxton asked.“I think I did pretty well. I know I got good grades on all my assignments, and stuff. My final grades will be out by the time I get back.
I wanted to let everyone know ahead of time that I'm not sure if there will bd an update this weekend. I've been struggling a bit, and have been unable to write the next chapters. I'm still working on it, but if there is no update this week that would be why. I'm hoping I can get some thing I am happy with written this weekend. I'm really sorry to let you all down, and I'm hopeful I can get more chapters out next week. Thank you for your patience, and support through this journey. I've enjoyed reading your comments.
***Rowen***I was so glad Chastity found a way to come home this weekend otherwise it was going to be several weeks until I got to see her again. I did feel bad that I wouldn’t be able to spend her entire visit with her, but unfortunately I had responsibilities. I was really surprised when Chastity offered to join me while I did the final walk through with Alpha Theo. She said she wanted to see first hand what I was trying to accomplish. Saturday morning I didn’t let Chastity out of bed for several hours. We probably would have stayed there too, but we both wanted to let our wolves go for a run, and do whatever it is they felt like doing. It was nice to let them have their time as well. They deserved it as much as we did. This whole situation was much harder on them because while Chastity, and I some how managed to spend as much time as possible together, it wasn’t always easy to shift, and just let them go due to time constraints.After Duke, and Leila had their time toge