My whole world plummets around me and all I wish for is for the ground to open up and swollow me whole."Erin?" I choke back the tears stinging my eyes, hoping she'll tell me it's not true, or that she can fix this, that she can save and bring her back. As everything and everyone seems frozen in time and there is only darkness, I feel lost, like I am endlessly falling down a rabbit hole but I ever find or hit the bottom.But instead the privacy curtain is whipped back and the doctor from before stands there, looking in on us standing around my mate's still body on the hospital bed, with wires coming off of her."What the bloody hell is going on here?" He bellows looking mortified at the scene he is witnessing. I stagger forwards ignoring the mans presents and question. My only mind set is Chilli and how I've lost her, how I didn't protect her as I should have and how much of a shit mate I am, to have let my true mate slip away from me, and the ... baby.. o
Maxwell stares from Chilli and then at me as he fills with anger and unknown confusion of the situation. "Alpha Maxwell, wait, please let me explain, it's...." I try to clear up this misunderstanding before it gets out of hand but it's too late."No!! No more bullshit!" Maxwell shouts at me angerly, getting up in my face. "You need to tell me everything right now, Elias! You come into my house, onto my land and lie to me! Now explain!" He is so uncomfortably close, I can feel his hot breath on my face, the stench of his breakfast lingers in my nostrils. "Alpha, ple..." "No! Now, answer my questions Elias!" He pauses for a brief moment before asking the first one. "Is your mate pregnant?" Maxwell snarls."Yes, alpha," I have no choice but to answer honestly,"How far along is she?" He barks, somehow getting even closer to me. "I dont know exactly...""Roughly?" He growls viciously, his hands creeping up towards my neck, "best educated gue
Chilli POV "Chilli...""Chilli..."I can hear a faint voice calling my name, again and again, like a ghost whispering on the wind. I can hear it, but it's not clear, like they are here but not at the same time, as if there is something in the way, muffling, blocking the sound, the words."Chilli..." There it goes again, waking me, pulling me from my sleep, no, not sleep. From my ... nothing, I feel like I was ... nowhere?As I try to work out what the hell is going on, I suddenly feel pain, such an aching pain.'Oh, my head .... my body ... my ... everything... arrhhhh. I feel so groggy, weak and so saw when I move... wait... why can't I move? My limbs hurt but don't at the sametime, what the fuck is going on? Why can't I fucking MOVE?!' I ramble to myself as the feeling of panic drowns me, suffercating me, weighing me down, restraining me. Stopping me from breathing, stopping my heart from beating, from anything worki
Elias POVChilli's wolf sends Maxwell hurtling hard into a bed and equipment on the opposite side of the ward. I look up at her in amazement and concern, she's just picked a fight with an alpha, an alpha at full strength, when she on the other hand, was just laying basicly dead a few moments ago. "Chilli, no! Stop!" I tell her, reaching up to run my hand through her fur, partly to check she is real, that this is really happening. As my hand strokes her soft , smooth fur, I can feel her body vibrating and heating up, she growls at me, but not in a threatening way, in a protective way. "Chilli, I'm okay, but you need to stand down! You need to stop! Don't do this! Please! No!" I tell her as I recognise the warmth coming off of her and see her legs trembling, struggling to hold her up, "Think about the .." but I'm stopped mid sentence as Maxwell gets to him feet, looking extremely pissed off, growling, snarling at her with murderous eyes. Shit! "Alpha! No! Stop!
As I feel myself getting more and more worked up and becoming blinded by my emotions, a hand gently touches my cheek. My vision clears and refocuses on my beautiful mate still in my arms gazing up at me, worry clouding her eyes. The sensation of her skin on mine calms and relaxes me almost instantaneously, with a delicate smile, she whispers,"No, Elias please don't lose yourself to hatred like his, please, look, I'm okay too. See? I'm still here, we are still here," she reassures me as her other hand rests on her stomach. "But, but..." I say through gritted teeth as my hands clenched with the last bits of anger still lingering inside of me. My nails digging into my parms, helping me feel something apart from this hatred, the need and want for his death not completely gone yet."Elias, " Chilli speak softly as her hands cups one of my fists, trying to relax it, wanting to calm me down, "Elias, I...""Red wolf," a whispering voice comes from a far, interupting Chilli and pulling my ga
Chilli POVHappy tears roll down my cheeks as I stare at the screen showing me my little pup as she grows inside of me. "Woow..." I gasp with joy, "that's our girl, our baby!" "Yes," Elias purrs still holding my hand and now leaning in close to my face, "our precious," he says with a peck on my wet cheek. "Oh huni, don't cry, look she is fine.""I know, these are happy tears," I tell him turning to look up at his glossy eyes, welling with joy too. As Elias eyes connect with mine, I'm lost in their pure blueness and I can't help but purr, especially when his lip bush mine in a delicate kiss. My eyes close and I feel like I'm in heaven as the kiss intensifies, my purr increases in volume as the tips of our tongues start to dance together between our lips. "So, the baby is okay?" A male voice sounds, interupting our kissing. Elias pulls away to see alpha Maxwell inspecting the screen and image of our child. I feel my cheeks burning with embarrassment as the man obviously just seen us
For the first time in a long time I seem to have an uneventful sleep and for once just rest with no weird or creepy dreams and or nightmares, I wake feeling refreshed. I open my eyes to see the sun beeming in through the window and the duvet cover over me. As I stretch my sore arms out wide I suddenly realise I'm alone and Elias is nowhere to be seen in the room. Slight panic pierces my heart as I don't know where he is, just when the door to the en suite opens to reveal my mate chuckling at me. "Your so cute," he laughs at me, obviously feeling my worry through the bond, I chuck a pillow across the room at him making him laugh out loud even more. "Anyway, how are you feeling?" "Good, but hungry," I reply touching my stomach as it grumbles noisily."Perfect," he smiles at me and I tilte my head slightly to the side, wondering what he means, "because I've ordered us some breakfast.""Oh, I love you," I sigh, feeling emotional for some reason at the mere mention of food and he laughs
With a full belly for the first time in ages, I am content, happy, and well nourished.Ring ring... ring ring... The phone in the room is chiming, Elias and I stare at each other, puzzled at who it could be as it keeps on ringing.Ring ring... ring ring...Elias gets up to answer the call, lifting the hand set to his ear,"Hello?" He asks, "Oh, hello... Yes ... okay ... fine .. yes... of course... yes, thank you." And with that, he returns the receiver to its holder,"Who was it?" "Maxwell," he answers me, turning to face me, "he's asked us to join him downstairs in his office,""Oh?" I ponder,"Yes, to talk about red wolves." I honestly didn't think he would, I know he said he would but I don't really know him or what his word is worth. "Thats if you are up for it?" Elias asks as I lose myself in self thought,"Oh, yes, when?""Right now," "Jezz, wow, okay, lets go," I jump up eagerly. I wonder what he know
Elias POV I look up and watch as Chilli steps out from the en suite, wraped in just a towel, making her way towards her dressing table as I lay on our bed where I was just aimlessly flicking through my phone. Taking a seat and opening its draw, she removes a single, plastic pot housing her facial cream and unscrews its lid. It's nothing fancy, not expensive, its just a simple, none branded, vitamin E night cream.I continue to ovserve as she dips two fingers into the pale lotion and looks into the mirror, to then slowly drag said fingers down her face, starting at her forhead, gliding smoothly along her nose and then finishing with a dab on her chin. She then wipes a bit of the remainder on each cheek before replacing the lid and putting it back in its draw. My eyes are fixed to her as she slowly but firmly works the cream into her skin, taking extra care near and around her eyes. Her finger tips caress over her own face and down her neck, over my mark on her neck
Chilli POV Perching under a tree with Chant as we take a break from sparring whislts our mates for some reason decide to chop some fire wood. I find it amusing and humble how as the alpha he likes and enjoys chopping fire wood for the pack house, no job is to small for our mighty leader.Chant's seductive eyes never leave her mate as he swings the axe up into the air, where it seems to pause for the briefest of seconds before falling down onto a chunk of wood, spilting it into two. The whole movement and process is magical, so smooth and artistic like poetry. I had watched my own mate for a time, admiring his tensing biceps with every swing, the beauty of his movements and strength of the action, but now I'm just leaning back against the tree's trunk with my eyes shut, listening to the beautiful rhythmic sound of the wood splitting, of metal against nature, somehow for some reason I find it peaceful as I smirk at the thought of Chant lustfully gazing at Jay, it al
Elias POV That was brutal, oh my goddess do I hurt, I haven't hurt this much from training since, shit, I don't know when. Sure, I was mad and needed to work it off, but fuck me, Chilli was livid, she was masking it well, I mean, wow. My ass hurts. I had to use all my strength to stay on my feet, especially after I hit the ground hard the first few times of her kicking and taking me down. Once she swept my legs out from underneath me, my wolf instincts took over just so I could stay on my feet. I think I pulled something that time, thank the goddess for wolf healing, cos my left ass cheek and leg are killing me. With Chant now paired with Chilli and Erin and Leroy working together, that leaves me with Jay, who is as good as his mate, oh dear. I sigh inwardly as we step away from the others to train, I can spar and keep up with anyone, I'm alpha afterall, but after the beating I've just endured, I'd prefer a nice easy spar, but hay ho, lets do this. Thankfully, Jay see
Chilli POV Finally everyone is out on the field, we can get started. I am needing to hit something. Elias insist on sparring with me first and to Erin's relief but Chant's dismay, I agree. Which just leaves the others to pair up, one of them did suggest mate paring but the guys seems a little bit wary so it's girls vs girls and guys vs guys. For now anyway. After a fairly rough spar with Elias, I finally start to calm down and release my rage, which I guess was his plan, so I don't feel gilty later now if I cause anyone else major harm. Clearly sensing this, Elias allows us to switch partners and Chant and I go straight to each other, to which the rest of the group chuckle at our predictableness. Chant and I exchange a sinister grin as the others repair up, Elais with Jay and Erin with Leroy. I mirror Chant as she raises her arms up into a defensive stance, declaring she is ready, a smile growing on her face. As we stare down on each other I am reminded of our rematch
"You know there was no way he would accept and train with us," Leroy says once we are alone and with just our own pack members, "I know, but it was fun and satisfying to embarrass him like that, the look on his face at the mere thought of it was golden. To watch him squirm." I can't help but let out an enormous laugh, to which Chilli shoots me evil eyes for finding any of this so amusing. "What?" I chuckle at her before pulling myself together because if looks could kill. I had to laugh, if I didn't I think I would have lost it, plus it felt so good, too good to put Jordan down a bit like that in such a slight way in front of the others. However, by Chilli's facial expression, she does not agree, goddess, did I want to kill him, thankfully in a way he did say no, or we would have had a dead alpha on our hands and territory. "Come on, your telling me you didn't want a chance at hitting him?" I ask her in a teasing way, she looks at me whislt crossing her arms across he
"I hear some incorrect information has reached the ears of my children," "Oh, and what's that got to do with us? Idle gossip is not what these meetings are for." "No, not normally, but," she pauses for the briefest of moments to adjust her tone and the ferocity of her words, "but when it comes to petty, stupid, horrible lies about my family, my children, then you and I have a problem! A big problem!" He nearly chuckles in her face as he asks half heartedly,"Pray tell what are these so called insults?""A spare heir, a baby," she lists off the tamer ones first, working up to the biggest and worst one, before she stops again as I feel a heat burning off of her directed straight at Jorden, "and an inbreed!" The room falls silent after everyone gasps and shoot death stares at the alpha. A low growl escapes from mine, Erin and Leroy throats, our protectiveness taking over. Jordan looks like he doesn't know weather to laugh or bite back."Jordan!" One of the ot
Jordan holds his hands up in defence as I take a few deep breaths to calm myself before turning to the rest of the room to acknowledge our other guests. "Alpha Jonathan, Luna Suzie, beta Willow, sorry for my tardiness, how is Maxwell?" I ask taking my seat next to Elias, pushing my anger down for now, eyeing up Jordan in the cornor of my eye, I'm not done with you yet, I think to myself."No problem Luna Winters, father is doing well and thoroughly enjoying his retirement," he smiles with a nod of his head, which we return, "thank you for asking." Jonathan took over as alpha of the west pack two years ago with his mate Suzie and appointed Willow Steal as the first female beta of the west pack. She is a strong minded woman with a powerful right hook."Alpha Alex, Luna Ela and beta Karl, welcome and thank you for coming today," Elias smiles to the leaders of the Spring rise pack from the south, who joined our alliance about four years ago.With the greetings done and out of the way, we
The drive to school is a pretty normal one, we talk, sing and laugh all the way there, forgetting about any and all problems the day may have already brought. Once there and out of the car, we all walk hand in hand with Marcus in the middle, through the blue painted gates."Luna," the teacher on the gate addresses me with a nod of the head, as does any other adult that comes into eye contact with me. I smile back and return their nods.Like always, even though we come to Lily's class room first, we walk Marcus around to his first at her insistence, she says its part of her job to look out for him to make sure herself she sees him to his door. It warms my heart the care and love they have for each other. As I kiss my son goodbye and he hugs his sister, I take note of the other high ranking children from other packs, sitting at their tables ready for the lessons to begin. Future alpha's, beta's and Luna's all learning together including Tammy and Willow, Erin and Leroy's twins who are a
Chilli POVEleven years later"Lilith Kay Rosalee Winters! Get your furry tail out here now! Don't make me call you again!" I call out by the front door as I wait for my ten year old to take her to school. "Mummy, is Li-li in tuble?""She will be if she doesn't hurry up sweetpea,""Oh,""Lily!" I shout again,"I'm coming, I'm coming," my oldest calls back at me, jeez, ten going on fifteen, she's acting like a teenager, where does the time go? It feels like only yesterday that she fitted in my arms as I rocked her, singing her back to sleep.Take me home tonight, I'd do anything with you, buy a bottle of whiskey, we'll get matching tattoos, tell me that you love me, let me drive your car, we can sit 'til morning light, just countin' every star, 'cause if there's a hell, I'll meet you there, and if there's a heaven, they're serving beer, and if you're an angel, then I must be high, if there's a church, It's rock 'n roll, if there's