What do you think could be causing the unusual energy that Heather was feeling?
Heather POV By the time we returned to the clearing at the beach, the fire had been put out, and the area had been cleaned up. The group is standing around the truck waiting for us. Quinn hollers at us to hurry up and get our asses in the truck. I walked up to the back of the truck and turned to Levi, who was standing at the rear of the truck, talking to Jacob and Zane, who were already in the back of the truck. “You can get in the front with Quinn, Reed, and Lucas. I’ll ride in the back.” All three guys look at me with looks of confusion and concern on their faces. I made my way to the tail gate of the truck, looked up, and asked Jacob and Zane to give me a hand getting in. They each grabbed my hand and lifted me up. I took a seat across from Dawn, not wanting to answer her questions that I could see that she had. Jacob sits down beside me. He puts his arm around my shoulder and pulls me in close. “Are you ok? You seem lost. Did the twins do something you didn’t like?” Oh, I liked
Quinn POV I parked the truck and started my walk back to the packhouse. This has been a fucked up day. Heather seems like a really nice person, but some weird shit has been happening since she got here and that was only looking at my phone to see that it’s now 1:00am, eight and a half hours ago. I walked through the back door and headed towards the stairs linking Levi. “Hey, where are you?” “Bottom of the stairs.” I rounded the corner to see Levi, Jacob and Zane standing at the bottom of the stairs. “Hey, did the girls get settled in?” Levi turns to me with a big ass smile across his face. “They are all in the Beta’s quarters. I was told that some serious girl talk needed to take place, so I had to back off and leave them alone. You have to put up with them all night.” I motioned for Jacob and Zane to follow us. I was just going to put them in one of the guest suits on the second floor of the residence building. As we were entering the covered breezeway that divides the residence b
Quinn POV I turned and headed to go up the next set of steps with Reed and Lucas behind. As I reach the top, I wave good night and head into the Beta’s quarters. As I passed April’s room, I could hear giggling. I looked at the time 1:30am. Operation Water Gun is definitely going to happen. As I raise my hand to knock on her door, it is all of a sudden thrown open, and Meg barrels out right into me. I grabbed her around the waist to stop both of us from ending up on the floor. She pushes me away and runs down the hall, and goes into my room. What the hell? I entered my room, closed the door, but I didn’t see Meg. That is when I hear a noise coming from my closet. Again, what the hell? Meg comes barrelling out of the closet with some articles of my clothing in her hand. As she reaches for the door handle, I grab her wrist, spin her around, and pin her to the door with my hands on either side of her head. I step in close, lean down, and whisper “What the hell are you doing?” She gives
Heather POV Dawn and I had thought that we were going to be given a room that we could share, but as we were walking into the packhouse, April had suggested that we all just head to her room and have a serious girl talk about tonight. Megan said that she was going to head to the Gamma quarters first and have a shower. The way this pack house was laid out was interesting. The main building had your normal stuff, kitchen, dining, entertainment, offices etc on the main floor. Then the next two floors had rooms for unmated wolves. There was a large covered breezeway that you could access from the main entrance hall and kitchen. On the other side of the breezeway there is another building that houses another kitchen, conference room/dining room, and another entertainment room on the first floor. The second floor had guest rooms for visiting Alphas and Betas. Then, starting on the third floor were the Alpha’s, Beta’s and Gamma’s quarters. One side was divided into two, two-story apartments
Heather POV “Hey come on get up.” I felt someone shaking me. “It’s 6:00am. If we move quickly enough we can get the guys.” I sit up and rub my eyes and tried to focus on the person in front of me. It’s Megan. “Here, hurry, get dressed. April and I will explain on the way.” In less than ten minutes, we are all dressed, have hit the bathroom, brushed our teeth, brushed our hair and are heading down the stairs. April and Megan explain that the last time they were late for training after a girls’ night, Reed, Lucas, Quinn and Levi had attacked them with water guns while they were still sleeping. Their revenge plan is to make sure they follow us out of the covered breezeway in a certain direction where Megan will be waiting with the hose. April, Dawn and I are standing in the breezeway waiting for the guys to show up. “Shh I think I hear them,” April says. “I can’t believe they actually made out in time. Talk about having your morning fun ruined. It’s almost as bad as having a good wet
Heather POV We were working on our warm up stretches when I asked. “That wasn’t part of your plan, was it Megan?” “I thought there was a chance that they would simply take their shirts off. I just wasn’t prepared for Quinn to stand that close and look at me like that. His eyes changed. His wolf was right at the surface. Just like last night in his room.” “You mean Quinn has his wolf. How old is he?” asks Dawn “He’ll be eighteen in two weeks.” “Hey Megan, I haven’t seen him with anyone since you kissed him the night of his graduation back in June.” Says April, “Actually, come to think of it, it would be before then, it would be around the time that his wolf first showed up.” Just then, Levi came running up to us. “Ok, ladies, let’s get things going.” Megan looked at us all. “We need to finish this talk later. April link your Mom and see if she and Luna Mona are free after training. I’ll ask mine the same. I think we all have questions.” April steps up beside Levi and starts to
Discussion in the Office Luna Rene - “Ok. First off, Luna Rene, let me introduce to you our Beta female, Sage Shaw, also my sister-in-law, and April and Quinn’s Mother. Then this is our Gamma female, Kelly MacCrimmon, Megan and Levi’s Mother. As you know, I have no daughters but I’m almost certain that something my sons Reed and Lucas have done has triggered at least one if not more of the questions we are about to hear. If you ladies all agree, I think we can do away with titles and just go by first names. We are going to be discussing some intimate things.” All of us in the room in the room and Dawn’s mother on the computer shook our heads in agreement. Mona - “Alright then what are we starting with?” Megan sat forward, put her hands together and rested her forearms on her knees. “I am going to be acting kind of like our spokesperson, but anyone of us will jump in if I miss something.” She takes a deep breath exhales and starts. “First question is about eyes.” Now that statement
Heather POV What does she mean to keep them alive and save the bloodline? I could see the pain in her eyes and hear the desperation and fear in her voice. “OK, I’ll tell you, but can we do it in private? I would feel more comfortable with fewer people. Plus, I don’t know how much the boys would want me to say in front of a lot of people.” Mona looked at me with a huge smile of thanks on her face. “How about I get a hold of Lyla? I’ll ask her if you can spend another night here at the packhouse. Then after supper you and I will have some bonding time and will talk about what happened.” Mona picked up her phone and dialled Grandma. When she got off the phone she asked Meg if she would drive me out to Lyla’s house, my home now too, so that I could pick up stuff for the night. The four of us stand to leave Mona’s office, Dawn faces the computer screen. “Jacob just linked me. He and Zane are ready to go. He said that they wanted to be leaving in the next half an hour, so we'd be home b
Heather POV The next day, Dr. Beal called me with the results of my visit. It looks like I’m going to be a Mom. I was nervous all last night and this morning. I was able to hold off the morning sickness until after Reed and Lucas left the room. I know they could pick up on my nervousness, so I’m not going to be able to keep it from them for too long. That is why I’m now pacing in front of the fireplace waiting for them to come back for the evening. I know a lot of people nowadays are doing cute little things to tell their partners that they’re pregnant, so I’ve been trying to think of a way to do it without having to do massive planning. I’m so lost in my thoughts that I jump when the door flies open and Reed and Lucas storm in. Reed walks right up to me, grabs my shoulders and spins me to face him. “Heather, what is going on? Your agitation has been driving the two of us crazy. Tell us what is going on.” Taking a deep breath, I stared at these two large gorgeous men. “OK, sit down.
Heather POV It has been a month since Reed, Lucas and I marked each other. The guys have graduated, and we have moved back to Twin Moon. The original plan was for the three of us to start learning the day-to-day operations of running the pack. Fine-tuning our knowledge, you could call it. Unfortunately, with Meg and April still missing, that has been put on hold. We are still waiting to hear from everyone overseas if there is any word about Meg. The visions have been happening more often but are not giving us any more information. April has been keeping in touch, but still won't come home or tell us what she is doing or who she is with. Reed and Lucas are planning on joining Mac and Quinn next week in the search. We need to get the two girls home. We have started doing some remodelling on a couple of the rooms on the second floor of the residential building. We are designing them into a small apartment for Mona and Shane. Mona insists that the three of us move into the Alpha apartme
Heather POV I looked down at my hands where they were resting on the guys’ hands. I moved my gaze up my arm and looked at both Reed and Lucas’ marks on their necks. It all seemed to be glowing. “That has got to be the most beautiful thing I have ever seen,” Rene says. “I think there is much for you and your mates to learn about... this,” Grandma says as she waves her finger around pointing at the three of us. “Yes, I say that they do,” Mona says, looking at us in wonder. “Not today, though Mom,” Reed says. “Today we just want to enjoy being together just like any other newly mated and marked wolves would. OK?” Lucas adds. Mona looks at her boys with so much love it sometimes hurts to see it and remember that it is the same way that my Mom used to look at me. “We are not going to even worry about it until you two have graduated and the three of you have moved back to Twin Moon.” She then moves her gaze to me and I see that same love there for me. “I want my daughter to have time t
Heather POV I woke up a few times to make love with my mates, and I did exactly what Lucas once told me that their mate would be able to do. I made love with one of them, then rolled across the bed to the other. I hate to say, even though we had been spending weekends together I was still worried about what they were going to think. But now there are no worries. The bond that I had formed with Reed and Lucas had always been strong and scary when we were younger. Being able to pick up on some of their feelings even when I shouldn’t have been able to, felt wrong, but now it’s even stronger than before and nowhere near half as scary if that makes any sense. The strength of it now... wow. The love that I feel pouring off of these two is something else. The only other love that was this strong was my parents. I spent a lazy morning in bed with my mates showing me many ways that they love me, then a long shower where they showed me some more. It was almost noon when we made our way up to
Lucas POV I woke to the sun shining through the small gap that was in the curtains. It was casting a glow across the face of the beautiful woman who was using my bicep as a pillow. I can see Reed’s mark because of the way that she is sleeping, but I know that mine, the mirror image, is just as prominent on her other side. I’ve never heard of markings like the ones we have. They are very unusual and beautiful. I have heard about when witches mark their partners, but it’s still different from this from what I understand. So I don’t know if it’s because Reed and I are twins. I don’t know if a double-mate mark is different from a single-mate mark. But I think that it has something to do with the fact that Heather is the first of her kind. This would also explain why Reed’s and mine are so different from others we’ve seen. I keep thinking of all the things that led us to this point. Heather has been through hell ever since she met me and Reed. The stuff with Keegan and finding out about h
Possible Trauma Triggers Keegan POV Carter had ended up having to sedate Sophie. The bastard had taken over her body and tried to convince the guards to open the door, then went on to demand it. Then, when begging and pleading to let her go and see her daughter didn’t work, he tried to use Sophie’s wolf’s claw to slit her wrist. The guard that had been assigned to watch her acted quickly, using the tranquillizer gun and sedating her before any real damage was done. I had a feeling that this bastard would consider Sophie expendable. After that, Carter decided that it was best to just sedate us in case next time the guard wasn’t able to react as quickly. I rolled over, reaching for my phone that I had set on the stool that was beside the bed. I feel the drowsiness of the drugs that are still in my system and a wave of dizziness hits me as I sit up. Glancing at the phone, I see it’s just before three in the morning. I was just about to stand when I was hit with an immense pain that sho
Heather POV Reed, Lucas and I started towards the cabin. I slowed, allowing the guys to get a little ahead of me. I wanted to talk to them about what they had been discussing earlier. It may not be common nowadays, but I do know that in our culture it is more accepted. I’m thinking that I would like to take Mona’s approach. If it happens, it happens. Reed and Lucas turn as they reach the door, noticing that I wasn’t right behind them. “Is everything OK M’eudail?” Reed asks before opening the door and holding it for me. I walked in and stood in the middle of the room. “Do you not want to do this? Because we will wait if that is what you want, Mo leannan.” Lucas adds. I smiled at them and shook my head. “No, I don’t want to wait.” They both walked towards me, taking my hands and holding them to their chests. “I heard what the two of you were talking about earlier in the clearing just after I shifted. I don’t want to worry about protection either. “Are you sure M’eudail?” Reed asks, k
Heather POV Slowly the pain reseeded and I could hear Indigo calling me. ‘Heather it’s over.’ I could smell... fire, wood smoke. It reminded me of the campfires that I used to have with my family where I would sit and drink mint hot chocolate. ‘Mates’ Indigo said quietly. ‘Was that the other scent I was picking up on from the guys?’ I asked her. ‘Yes, our mates’ scents. They smell...’ ‘Like home.’ I finished for her. I could feel tingles spreading from behind Indigo’s ear as Lucas sat with her head in his lap. “If Heather agrees, I don't want to worry about protection.” He suddenly says. I feel tingles along my neck as Reed runs his fingers through Indigo’s fur. “Are you sure?” He asks. “Because I was thinking the same thing.” I was just about to ask Indigo what she thought when she suddenly jumped up. I watched through Indigo’s eyes as Reed and Lucas stood and walked towards us. “Are you ready for a run, Beautiful, because we have two very impatient wolves who want to be with y
Reed POV While Mom and the rest of the women went to talk to Heather, Lucas and I stayed with Dad, Gavin, and Alpha Sean. I was nervous, I didn’t know if Heather’s shift was going to be the same as ours or different because of being a hybrid. I was pacing along the edge of the path that led to the clearing we were going to later. Then the question that Lucas asked about us being ready to be parents, was going through my mind too. Was I ready at twenty to be a Dad? Was Heather ready to be a Mom at eighteen? What happens if she’s not ready, and we forget, are we going to spend the rest of our lives together with her resenting us? I felt a hand land on my shoulder and I looked to see Dad staring at me with worry. “What is going around in that head of yours, you look like you’re about to spill your guts, and I don’t mean verbally.” I walked over and sat on the log at the side of the path. Letting out an exhausted sigh, I confided in Dad. “I'm scared that something is going to go wrong.”