Alpha Dario POVTears were pooling in my weary eyes as I trudged up the path to the pack house. There was a lump forming in my throat that I was fairly sure was my stomach. There seemed to be a hallowed pit in my gut.I couldn’t believe what I had just seen. The son I was worried about the most, never wanting to feel the heartbreak from my past, had miraculously gotten his wolf. It was so incomprehensible that I didn’t realize the first shift was what was wrong with him when he came out to the pond. Every other possibility ran through my head, from human sickness to a heated fight with his brother before it dawned on me what all his symptoms were pointing towards.High temperature, body aches, splitting headache, irritability. Those were all common flu symptoms, and being without a wolf, Mick was no stranger to illnesses. He was as susceptible as a human. With all the stress he was dealing with and his reasons for finally coming home, I truly thought he was just sick.I’m so happy I
Miles and I had to help Mick with shifting back, having him feel me through the bond as I did it while Miles explained the theory of it. Rome was frustrating him while trying to explain how to do it, and Mick ended up calling him a parasite and telling him to shut up.I was amused. Cameron never let me in at all, so I have no clue how his communication was with Rome, but Mick and Rome are hilarious. The insults were golden, but you could still feel Rome’s sense of protectiveness towards his new human. Mick wasn’t used to the foreign feeling of having to share a mind with a wolf, but I could feel his acceptance and anxious excitement.“The moon feels good,” Mick leaned his head back, absorbing the last of the moon’s rays before the sun completely overtook the sky. “I never noticed before.”“It’s your wolf,” Miles smiled at his brother. “Our goddess is the goddess of the moon for a reason.”Mick was quiet, looking at the moonlight as Rome reflected in his eyes. “I have a wolf.”“You hav
I pressed my lips together, my eyes meeting Miles’s. I knew Alpha Dario’s reasons for treating Mick the way he has because Miles told me, but Mick is still unaware.“Oh, and the guards told me that the witch sisters of your Rodger arrived last night.” Miles was quick to change the subject.“Driana and Paulina?” I grinned excitedly. “They helped me escape. I’d love to go see them.”“They asked to see you too. I thought we could stop by after dinner.”“Or we can just skip the dinner and see them instead,” Mick offered.“Sure,” Miles shrugged absentmindedly, distracted as I rubbed sudsy soap all over my breasts. “You be the one to tell Nonna we can’t make it.”Mick grumbled something under his breath, obviously not willing to face off with his Nonna.I giggled, biting my lip as I watched Miles turn all his attention on me. He hesitantly lifted a hand, palm out, and after an encouraging nod from me, he grabbed a handful of my breasts, squeezing it gently.Mick sat back on the counter, cro
Miles POV“Damn, she’s pretty,” I said in my head, staring down at my mate sleeping peacefully in the center of my bed, our bed, while Mick slept beside her. She put on one of my shirts before crawling into bed, and now I never want her to wear anything else.“You don’t need to go to work,” Ivar grumbled.“I wish I didn’t, but the pack won’t take a day off just so I can stare at my sleeping mate.”“You just want to show off your mate's mark too.”I grinned, reaching up and feeling the fresh scar on my neck. I’m ready to tell everyone, and ready to start planning Chloe’s Luna ceremony. Nonna and mom are going to go crazy once they see my neck. And Chloe’s friends had already got her that dress.The only thing that could make me happier than I am right now is if Chloe hadn’t gotten the wrong idea about pups and us. In time, hopefully she will understand.“Why does he get to stay here with her?” Ivar asked sourly. “He’s Alpha too. Make him work.”“He shifted for the first time. He's a g
Mick POVI woke up starving like I had never been hungry before. My stomach growling literally woke me from a dead sleep.“What the hell,” I muttered, rubbing my eyes and sitting up in bed right after my stomach rolled thunderously again.“You’re a wolf now. Wolves need more calories since you’re eating for two,” Rome said, still rolled in a ball in my head, exhausted from his exertion last night. It was so weird how I could now not just hear him in my head, but see him when I focused on my mind. It was more vivid than visual thoughts, like a living dream, but more concrete.“You make it sound like I’m pregnant.”Rome grumbled. “Don’t talk about pregnancy right now. Not after last night.”I looked over at Chloe, still sleeping soundly. I carefully tucked the blanket up to her shoulders before sliding out of bed. If my stomach growled any louder, it would wake her, and she looked too peaceful to wake up.Me and my stupid mouth. I didn’t realize she would even have trauma over getting p
Chloe POV“Baby, just wear what you want,” Mick told me as I frustratedly went through my sparse suitcase for the millionth time.“Sparse clothes, my dew claw. You just have a sparse collection of mother approved stuff,” Cortina huffed.“Shut up. You’re not helping.”I’ve seriously gone through all my clothes so many times and have nothing nice to wear for this dinner we’re supposed to be at in ten freaking minutes. I have comfort clothes, jeans and t-shirts, and the few dresses I own I know wouldn’t have Luna Gail impressed in the least.“I thought your, uh, eccentric werecat friend bought you clothes yesterday?” Miles asked, watching from where he was sitting at the end of the bed.“I have no idea where he put those, and he’s not in his room. I don’t have time to look for him right now.”Miles exchanged a look with Mick, and then both started to move to the closet.“Okay,” I muttered to myself, then went back to stressing over what to wear.“You were trying to piss off that Luna the
He just said in a roundabout way that he loved me, which had me blushing while looking down at the ground. This was why I wanted Luna Gail to like me. Because she was the one who raised both of these men. Even if she is stuffy or insufferable like Luna Klarissa was, I’m going to have a hard time hating her just because of my feelings towards the men she raised.When we got to the door to their home, Miles stepped forward to knock, and Mick and I waited behind, grasping each other's hands like we were clinging on for support. After two seconds, the door swung wide open and Luna Gail was on the other side.“Come in! Come in!” She said with a huge smile stretching across her face. “Oh, my sons,” she kissed Miles’s cheek, then carefully approached Mick for a hug. He allowed it, even resting a hand on her back in a half attempt to return her hug, but he never let go of my hand. “Chloe,” she offered me the warmest smile, then opened her arms wide like she was asking for permission. When I n
Miles was watching our awkward exchange, and decided to take mercy on me. “So, dad. You know those cameras that were installed around the perimeter. I noticed today there were a lot of blind spots, and huge gaps in coverage around the border. Why didn’t you have them installed to cover the entire perimeter when they were put in?”“Oh, well, back then they were meant to just cover the easiest accesses to the pack. A lot of the land was covered in overgrowth too thick to get through. We thinned out a lot of the forest and dead trees to prevent wildfires, but never installed cameras to cover those areas.”“Ah,” Miles nodded, taking a swig of his beer. The two of them started going on and on about the border precautions of the pack, and I easily fell back into the headspace I used to go to when they would talk like this, and I would sit back and feel left out.It was never because I wasn’t interested in the past. I just didn’t feel worthy to join in on the discussion. Duties like border p