“I’m glad everything is running smoothly.” I say with a smile to Crystal as we watched a nurse burping a newborn. “I hope that doesn’t mean you won’t come around anymore. If I need to lie and tell you things are awful I will.” She says, looking up at me with a worried expression. I laugh a little. “I’ll come back-”“Right this way Alpha. It's an honor to have you visit us today.” I stiffen and let out a deep sigh when I hear a nurse calling someone Alpha, and footsteps coming towards us. “We keep the newborns here for monitoring, and to let the mothers get a little rest after giving birth. Would you like to meet a few of them?” I hear the nurse telling who I assume to be Sebastain and most likely Camilla as she leads them closer and closer to where we still stand watching the babies. Why the hell did he have to bring her here? I bet he knew the first thing I’d want to do was check on my projects. He probably brought her here on purpose, to rub it in my face. I can feel Crystal look
I grab a glass out of the cabinet in Sebastain’s kitchen and set it on the counter. I move to the fridge where I know I'd seen a chilled bottle of vodka. It was already ten pm, and Sebastain wasn’t back from his time with Camilla yet. God, why the hell did that irritate me so much? I shake my head at myself as I fill the cup halfway with cranberry juice before topping it off with vodka. I scoff and drink the whole thing in one go, wincing a little at the burn of vodka in the back of my throat. Seems like you definitely care a little. “Shut up.” I mutter at my wolf as I pour myself another drink. My entire body tenses up when I hear the front door opening. I listened, my hand clenched tightly around the glass. I hear Camilla telling Sebastain something quietly, too quiet for me to hear. Sebastian says something back, and then I hear heels clicking up the stairs to the bedrooms. My eyes dart up to glare at Sebastian as he comes into the kitchen, stopping his tracks when he sees
I stand frozen at the entrance of our pack's land. Because it looks like my husband, lovingly smiling down at a petite woman I've never seen before, while she holds her slightly swollen stomach with both hands and stares up at him like he was her saviour.This is not how I pictured our reunion to be. I thought I'd run up to him, give him a big hug, then we'd go and I'd surprise him with the welcoming party I had been planning for him for the last week. "Killian. Welcome home." I'm swallowing a lump in my throat, and willing my heart to stay in my chest while I try and figure out what's going on."Everly. I'm so glad you found us. There's someone I want you to meet.""Us?" My eyes dart down to the woman he's now gently pushing towards me.She's very pretty, with long, soft looking blonde hair, lovely thick lips and icy blue eyes. Shorter than me by a lot, she looks to be only five two. She seems sweet and soft on the surface, but I can see the glint in her eyes when our gazes finally
The week my husband returned home was not at all how I imagined it. Right off the bat, the welcome party I had intended to use as an excuse to hear all about Killian's trip turned into a "get to know May" event. Everyone, all the people who had surrounded me in the past week, helping me drag tables and chairs around for my husband's party, blow up hundreds of balloons and hang shiny decorations from the ceiling for the event I planned, gathered around Killian and May to ask her questions. How had she and Killian met? What happened to her previous husband? How far along was she? Killian had stayed out with May almost all night, "showing her the pack" he had shot over his shoulder as they left me to clean up the remains of the party. When he had finally returned home that night, he didn't say a word to me. Just slid into the bed, his back to mine, and slipped into sleep. All while I lay there, my heart burning in my chest, swallowing over and over again to keep the tears from fallin
"I need to make sure the new floral arrangements are going to be here by three pm tomorrow. The event is at six pm, and we need time to set up.""Yes Mrs. Hunt, they'll be there well before then." "Good." I hung up my phone, sliding it back into my pocket and resuming what I had been doing before the florist for May's pack swearing in ceremony had called to tell me they were out of the Rafflesias I'd ordered. "Can you flip the switch on these lights?" I ask the pack member who has been assisting me today. Her name was Ana, she helped maintain the landscape around the area, but was pulled away from her normal duties to help set up for what is apparently set to be a large event. We were using our pack's meeting hall, which had been cleared of the folding chairs and water coolers lining the walls.Now, there was a temporary stage set up in the front of the room, sitting at about six feet high above the ground, and with lights hanging across the top. I had gotten nicer chairs, with pad
"Clear a path!" I quickly follow after the group of medics, lead by Killian who has still refused to put May down since she collapsed. I try my hardest to ignore the feeling of hundreds of eyes glaring at me, but it's hard when literally everyone in my pack is shooting daggers at me as I follow the group out of the meeting hall. I don't understand why everyone is acting like I've done something? I had been on stage with her, I could have just as easily been the one to get crushed. I can see the camera men turning to follow after us, shouting questions about what happened as we pass. We race towards the pack's medical clinic, which is luckily only half a mile or so away from the meeting hall. If you broke a finger, needed cough syrup, or needed a heart transplant, for this pack, this was where all that happened. I slow a little when I see the building coming into view, letting the group enter ahead of me before following in after. This building is set up like a very small hospital,
There's no way this is true. That's the only thought running through my head as I zombie walk back out the door to May's room. Her words are still ringing in my head, over and over again. "You're just in true love's way." She cannot be pregnant with my husband's child. I'm pregnant with my husband's child. "This isn't real." I mutter to myself once I'm out and standing in the hallway. I look to the side when I hear footsteps approaching. "Killian." I say once he's stopped directly in front of me. I almost think he's going to comfort me, or say something to me, the way he's just standing there, looking down at me. For just a moment, I think I see a flash of who we used to be in his eyes. He looks concerned for me, like he wants to ask what's wrong. But then I hear the bed creaking from the room behind me, and I see his attention snap away. "I need to see May." Is all he says. I press my lips together, and step to the side, rushing away from the room as fast as I can. I ca
Whoever said bad things come in threes, was a liar. I wish that were true right now, because this last week, bad thing after bad thing has happened to me, and I don't know how much more I can take. I have just about reached my limit for life changing and traumatic events.And the universe wasn't done with me yet, apparently. You are my Luna, and I thought you should see this. I was still staring at my banking app when a text popped up suddenly. It's from a number I don't have saved, and they've sent a video. My husband, standing in front of the medical wing, sliding what looks to be a very big rock on May's finger. They're still wearing the same clothes they wore to the ceremony. This had to be just taken. She was hurt enough to be laying in a hospital bed twenty minutes ago, suddenly she had enough energy to be flouncing around with another woman's husband? "Congratulations on your rebirth with your new pack." I swallow thickly as he smiles down at her warmly, and pulls her agai