I hadn’t given control over to my wolf in a really long time. She hadn’t even had a chance to stretch her legs in years, but now I was fully buried inside her mind, letting her call all the shots. I hadn't known what it felt like to be an animal on all fours in so long, it was honestly a little strange at this point. I hadn’t felt the emotions and thoughts of another soul inside me since I was in college. It was a bit overwhelming as I tried to get reused to the feeling. Despite her rusty experience these past few years, my wolf was now in full control, as she was getting dragged by the back of her neck, half conscious to somewhere unknown. I can feel everything she’s feeling all over again. Her emotions flow through me as our souls intermingle once again.She’s pissed at the men dragging her. At Sebastian, for stealing her kids and betraying her. She’s mad at Killian for ever cheating on us in the first place, because if he had never done that, my life would be totally different
“Has she been fading in and out of this all night? “Yeah, since she was dragged down here by you fuckers.”My eyes finally peel themselves open after refusing to budge for what felt like an eternity, but was apparently only a night. My body hurt, my head was pounding, and I think I had a broken rib. Someone was touching me, squishing me and poking at me. “She was too injured to maintain her wolf form, so she definitley has a concussion bare minimum.” “Makes sense since it looks like someone knocked her over the damn head.” “I’m just trying to help.” I look up to a slightly familiar face peering down at me. “Who…” I try to sit up, but fail and let out a strangled moan of pain. “Killian?” My eyes search desperately for him, because right now I don’t trust anyone else. I groan a little when I can't find him. “Do you remember me?” I focus back on the man in front of me, and I try to think. “You were the doctor who warned me about the food, right?” I finally say groggily, trying
“Don’t pull her hair, you’ll hurt her.” I hear a male voice saying in a scolding tone. God, why did my head feel like it’d been tap danced on by an elephant? My ribs didn’t hurt nearly as bad as last I’d been conscious, but they certainly didn’t feel great. My eyesf elt heavy and resisant to openng. “Mama.” My eyes start moving finally once I hear a familiar child’s voice in my face.“Ella?” I moan as I finally open my eyes and can see her pretty round face right in mine. I ignore the screaming pain in my body and the protests of Sebastain and another voice to not sit up, and I grab my daughter and wrap my arms tightly around her. I pull her against my chest and hug her, burying my face in the top of her head and inhaling her sweet smell. For just a second I almost forgot about how it felt like my entire body had been steamed rolled over. “Mama!” She says with a happy smile, her chubby arms wrapping around my neck. “Hi baby.” I glance up at where Sebastain is sitting at the end o
“Thank you.” I smile weakly at the nurse who brings me my tray of food around dinner time. Today is my last day here. I’ve been cleared for discharge, and am leaving tomorrow morning, bright and early. Which means I either have to come up with a miracle way to escape with both my kids and Killian intact, or I have to stay here with Sebastain. Because let’s be real, leaving one of my children behind was never an option. I haven’t seen Killian the entire six days I’d been here, but I was told he was alive and functioning, just under lock and key. Sebastian had been hovering around me a lot. Constantly asking how I was feeling, if I was still in pain, if I needed anything. If he wasn’t the entire reason I was laying in this hospital bed in the first place, it might be kind of sweet. But he was, so it was just unsettling. It was hard to tell how he really felt, especially now that I knew he’d been playing me the entire time I thought I was playing him. It was hard for me to accept
“I kicked Alice out of the pack, just so you know.” I glance at Sebastian, who is leading me towards his house the morning after I was released from the hospital. “Why did you do that? Who will you get your side action from now?” I ask a little bitterly as I cross my arms across my chest. I see him shaking his head a little. “I haven’t touched her since I started living with you again, you know. If you had put any effort into our mate bond at all, I wouldn’t have had to turn to other women.” I feel a weird pang in my heart, that very well could be categorized as jealousy, but I was just going to write it off as irritation at how casually he spoke about this kind of thing. I don't say anything, just walk through his front door when he holds it open for me. “I’ll show you where you’re staying.” He says as we start walking up a flight up stairs. I’d been in here before, when I’d first come to Sebastain’s pack. I’d only been here a couple of weeks though and had mostly spent that time
“I don’t know why I have to come along for this…” I grumble as I teeter down the hallway to the committee meeting room. “I never had to dress up and go talk to a bunch of “important” people last time.” “I told you things would be different this time around. I’m making it public that I’ve found my mate, and that she's agreed to run my pack with me. Last time you were more of a… fill in.” He shrugs a little and glances down at the really not very high heels I was struggling to walk in. I was envious of the very even dress shoes he had paired with his ass hugging slacks he liked to wear. “Whatever…” I sigh in frustration as my ankle rolls to the side. “God damn it.” I huff, stopping and leaning against a wall in frustration. “You know I don’t think I’ve worn anything but tennis shoes since I had the twins.” I glance up and narrow my eyes in on Sebastian, who has his head tucked to the side to hide his face in his shoulder. “I’m glad my pain could amuse you.” I say, but there’s a small
“You’re crushing my hand.” I whisper quietly to Sebastain as his dramatically appearing mother and a couple of the committee members get distracted by chit chat amongst themselves.“Sorry…” I hear him mutter, and his grip loosens a little. I glance at him a little out of the corner of my eye as he pulls his hand away from mine and starts rubbing his hands up and down his legs. “Are you okay?” I ask, making sure the committee members are still being self obsessed. My eyes linger on Serena. She’s very beautiful, very elegant looking. She made me feel kind of.. Dumpy, to be honest. “I’m fine.” I hum a little at his very non believable response. “Alright, enough chit chatting. Let’s get down to business.” I shake my head and refocus on the line of committee members now returning their chairs to face Sebastian and I. The apparent leader of the group, Adam, smiles at us and folds his hands as he stares us down. “Today we are here, to discuss if this young woman is a good fit to rule our
“Does anyone have anything else they’d like to add?” Adam stands and folds his hands in front of him, looking at the other committee members expectantly.I looked at each person for a moment, trying to gauge if any of them still had a problem with me. When I had first walked in, their gazes had all been judgy and cautious. Now most of them are shrugging or nodding, seeming to be satisfied with my answers. They lo0ked at me with more understanding, and I was cocky enough to think maybe I had actually convinced them. But of course, when I finally land back on Sebastain’s mother, Serena, she has some evil grin on her face like she was waiting for this exact moment to pull some nasty trick out of her sleeve. Sure enough. “I just had… one more tiny thing to add.” She says, her thick, glossed lips curling into a smile as she stares me down. I glare a little, taking a deep breath to try and prepare myself for whatever she was about to do. There was no way whatever she was about to say wou