Father severs the mind-link as I let Chilli in. She steps towards me, keeping her centre of gravity low and unthreatening. 'Elias, please' she Pleads, stepping closer. 'Elias,' she calls to me again in my mind as I watch her come, but still keeping an eye on Logan, not trusting him. A slight growl escapes me completely by accident, 'Okay, okay', she echos apologetically. I look down on my wife as she lowers her head, remaining still. 'What am I doing? What am I doing to her?' I think to myself, feeling a different type of pain along with sadness and guilt in my heart. I let my body relax trying to let go of my fury with a deep breath as I look my Chilli in her eyes, which still only hold love and warmth for me. 'It's okay' her voice whispers in my head, I can feel she wants to run to me but doesn't, for fear of overwhelming me. She's so close to me, just one more step and then I'd feel her fingers running through my fur. A sudden movement behind her pulls my eyes away from her beaut
Lowering Chilli's naked body into the roll top bath, the calming, soothing scents of the essential oils washing over her. She only just let me put her down to run the water. The blanket and father's jacket skattered across the floor, as I crouch down holding my mate's hand, her knees brought up to her chest, tucked under her chin. Her heart breaking, her anger melting within the hot waters, becoming sorro and disappointment at her father's actions and the events that have transpired these last few days and weeks.This week has barely begun and yet there is still so much that can still go wrong for us.I realise the time by how hungry I am, I don't want to leave her but we need to eat, she needs to eat. We missed breakfast due to my wild behaviour and although I know food is the last thing on her mind and she'll say she's not hungry, but I can feel she is. Can feel how weak her body is and how much it wants and need substance, I just hope I can get her to eat something, this difficult
The next day.Chilli POV "For fuck sakes!" I curse under my breath. Luckily I got to the hospital early, because the directions on the map that was enclosed with my appointment letter was wrong, so I got lost again. First time I got lost was my fault, I went to the wrong building, I just saw MAIN ENTRANCE in big letters and went in, not realising I needed the building next door. But the second time I got lost was the maps fault, it had me walk to the other side of the bloody hospital only then to be told I was in the wrong place, and I needed to go somewhere else which was right by the entrance. When I showed the very helpful desk atendent the map, all I got is, 'oh yeah, don't know why they put that in there', as I said, helpful. "Stupid fucking place", I mutter to myself, as a kind nurse notices me walking back the way I just came and asks if I need help and am I lost? He points me to the right unit which says x-ray, 'fucking hell', I think to myself, lost again as I'm here for
FridayChilli POV "So doc, what's the verdict?" Sitting in his office, my hand in Elias's, as he asks the questions. A mixture of fear, anxiety, impatience and doubt flooding us both, weighing us down like boulders underwater. Elias squeezes my hand as Dr Jones shuffles through his paper, not sure how much longer I can sit waiting, this week has felt like an eternity."Well, you see.." coughing, the doctor clears his throat, "I'll get straight to it shall I? Won't beat around the bush." Our silence seems to answer that suggestion, so the doc carrys on as I hold my breath, trying not to fear the worst. "It will be difficult but there is a chance you will get pregnant again, but you will struggle to get to full term." Silence falls upon the room, I feel stunned, like a ton of bricks are pressing down on my chest, as Elias keeps asking the questions,"So it's possible? It's possible we will have a child? A baby?" "Theoretically yes, but as I said it won't be easy, and conceiving will o
Elias POV Driving home from the hospital and I'm lost for words, unsure on how to help or what to say, what to do. Desperately trying to keep my anger and hatred for those who's fault it is, under control. I keep gripping Chilli's hand in-between changing gear, heartbroken every time I have to let go. Chilli looks like she's seen a ghost, as she just sits there, unmoving, silent tears falling into her lap. I just want to hold her and tell her it will be okay, but I can't keep saying that, I know it's driving her up the wall, plus I get the feeling she doesn't really want to be held, not right now anyway. So what else can I do or say? Nothing, it seems. Dr Jones said to keep trying, any opportunity we get, but I'm worried Chilli will think I'm only wanting her for reproducing reasons now, which I understand may sound silly, as that's what sex formostly is for. That now she will associate sex will failure and stop enjoying it, because to the contrary, I just want to be with her, to ho
Elias POV Knock knock, at our front door, I freeze, mid way through towel drying my hair. 'Hu, wonder who that could be?' Thinking to myself, dropping my towel into the hamper, then calling out to Chilli, who's finishing up in the shower, "I'll get it!" Then, "coming!" To whoever is at the door, as I glance at the time, it's late, and because of that my parents are the last people I expected to be knocking on my door at eleven o'clock at night. "Hi?" I say, well sort of ask, confused by their presence."Hey son," father speaks first, "sorry to intrude at this hour, we're not disturbing anything are we?" Silence and stillness falls over me, till the sound of the shower shutting off snaps me back to reality."Hu? No, no, of course not." Opening the door wider, gesturing for them to enter, inviting them in. "Is everything okay?" Closing the door behind them."Everything is fine, sorry. We just wanted to check in on the both of you, see how today went. Where's Chilli?" "Just getting ou
Chilli POV A tingerling sensation, makes my nerve endings wake up and come alive, way before I do, as I purr, still semy asleep as Elias pulls me close and into his arms. I snuggle in deeper to him under the duvet, purring in my limbo state of sleep, not quite awake but not completely asleep either. Until that is my phone deeps repeatedly at me, alerting me to messages, texts. Groaning as I reach for it, unwanting to open my eyes as my hand paws at the side table, blindly searching. Elias growls softly in my ear at my movement to retrieve my phone. Finally having it in hand, the screen lights up as I turn it towards me, the brightness hurting my unadjusted, tired eyes. I blink at the name shining back at me, somewhat in shock, Elias feeling this, nudges and kisses my shoulder, "What hun?" "Dad" I simply say, "a text, it's from my father, or at least his phone.""Hu?" Elias lifts his head to look over my shoulder, confused and concerned by my words. "What?" I'm as confused as he is,
Elias POV Watching my wife handle things, taking control, fills me with pride, I'm so very proud of the powerful woman she is today, and when she landed that leap, wow. Yes, at first, for a brief moment I was worried but for no reason it turns out, Chilli made it look so effortless, so graceful, so sexy, well at least to me that is. "What is she doing?" Logan asks aloud, "she shouldn't be here"."No," father agrees with an accusing tone, making Logan snap his attention back to his oldest friend, like brother."What's that suppose to mean?" "Oh come on Logan, what do you think it means? Are you that blind or dence?" A stillness fell between then for a moment as Maria screeching voice carried on the wind, causing the fathers to look up at them, I didn't need to as I could feel Chilli was okay, losing her patience, but okay. Father continues, not waiting or caring what Logan might have to say, "look at her Logan, your daughter is always here and there for you, without a complaint. Wea
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