“Jenna, are you all right?” Sara looks concerned as Jenna groans.
“Jenna?” I turn my head to look at her.
She’s shaking her head with her eyes closed.
I unbuckle my seat belt. “Sara, keep driving; I’m going to help Jenna.”
“What’s happening?”
“She’s in labour, and I don’t think we’re going to make it back to the packhouse to get Jenna to a doctor.”
I climb into the back seat and take Jenna’s hand in my own.
She clutches it tightly. “I can’t have my baby here!”
“Jenna, listen to me,” I lay my hand on her stomach as it tightens with a contraction.
I push my wolf out of my mind for a moment and concentrate on Jenna. She needs my full attention right now to help her through this.“One more push, Jenna. Just one more, and the first baby will be here. Now, push!”Jenna bares down, pushing with all of her might. In next to no time, her baby is in my arms.“Oh, baby girl, you did it,” Luther kisses Jenna’s head without taking his eyes off his son.I quickly check him over before telling Luther to pull down the front of Jenna’s dress. He, of course, tears it in his quest to free her chest. Jenna simply laughs, then lets out a happy sob when I lay her newborn son on her che
“You did a wonderful thing today, little wolf.”Gianna smiles shyly while tying her hair in a ponytail. She’s just changed after her shower, and now she’s wearing tight blue jeans with a dark green knitted jumper.After helping Jenna deliver her twins safely, I couldn’t be more proud of my mate. I hadn’t allowed her to continue as a healer when she came here. But now I see that was a mistake.Both Luther and Sara told me how amazing Gianna was in keeping Jenna calm. She gave Jenna a homemade remedy that kept Jenna from most likely dying in childbirth.Though I know Selene would have come to the rescue, or Jenna herself, being part deity, would have saved herself. I know Jenna’s great grandmother would not have allowed her to die. Or maybe she would have; I’m only guessing at what might
I lead my father into my office and offer him a seat. I take mine behind my desk and lean back.“What can I help you with, Father?”He sighs loudly.I know he hates how I speak to him and that I don’t treat him as a son should treat his father. But the fact remains that I feel hurt by him. I remember the things he said when I took over Luther’s body. Not once did he try and understand why I did the things I did.When Luther and I were young children, I acted like a child, an angry child. I did terrible things, but I was crying out for my parents to listen to me. I felt wronged and that they favoured Luther over me.As I got older, I knew that wasn’t the case. I understood that they’d exhausted all avenues in their quest to break the curse.
I left the Dalgaard’s alone to welcome the new additions. They were talking about Jenna’s family coming to meet the babies. I felt like a third wheel, so I took myself to the kitchen to make a cup of tea.I was sitting reading a fashion magazine when Josh walked in, telling me that I had a visitor in Lorcan’s office.Now, I’m standing outside the door, wondering who the hell could be here to see me.Lorcan’s family are here, mine are back home, so who else is there?It can’t be Mason; Lorcan would never allow that. He allowed Katy to leave with Mason, but he told me that Mason wouldn’t be welcome to come back here. Well, not to live anyway.I didn’t say anything because even I knew that Katy would choose to live with Mason. That’s just the way thin
The King stands in front of Dad, explaining that he’ll keep Lorcan away from me and have the Moon Goddess break our mate bond as soon as possible.I sob loudly, heartbreakingly, upon hearing this.How could they do this?My father is killing me slowly. Once the mate bond is broken, I’ll no longer be connected to Lorcan. But my heart belongs to him, mate or not, and it’s breaking in my chest.I don’t care about the stupid mate bond; I just want to be with the man I love.“I know it doesn’t seem like it now, Gianna,” I turn my face away from the King; the blood rushing to my head makes me dizzy. “But you’ll come to see that. . .”A-ROOOO-OOO
“What?” My mother gasps and turns her eyes to me. “Lorcan?”I open my mouth to say something, but Gianna slams her fists down on my desk with such force it rattles.“That is not true! Lorcan has never forced himself on me! How dare you call him a rapist?!”Orrin raises an eyebrow at Gianna. She’s disrespecting the King, and that is worthy of the death sentence in his eyes.However, my mate is standing up for me when she shouldn’t. I did not rape Gianna. Yes, I was forceful, and I coerced her, which in the eyes of some equals rape, but had she once told meno, I would have stopped immediately.Gia
“Gianna, are you okay?” Antonio enquires.Gianna snuggles into my chest, and I kiss her head.“It’s okay, baby,” I whisper, and she nods against me.Gianna turns her head to look at her father and nods.“I’m sorry, Dad, I tried to stop her. But you know what Lyra is like when I’m upset.”“Yeah,” He laughs. “I do.”“She just wanted you all to stop attacking my mate.”“I know, sweetheart. It’s okay, I promise.”Gianna apologises to my parents, my siblings, then their partners. Each person smiles and tips their head, letting Gianna know that everything is okay.“Lorc
Mum’s mouth opens and closes like a fish out of water.But I’m not done yet.“When Jenna freed me, when I saw you, standing there in front of me, I hoped you’d be pleased to see me. But you weren’t, were you? You were disgusted and turned away from me.“You cast me out of your house faster than I could blink! Mum may have glamoured Zidiah into believing that I had always been here, along with my siblings. But I wish she’d glamoured you too so that just once I could hear you speak to me the way you do the others.”I’ve waited years to get this stuff off my chest. But I don’t feel any better for it; in fact, I feel worse. Worse because Orrin Dalgaard stands there looking at me as if I were a phantom. He will never regard me as his son; I know that now.