Chapter 1

Chapter 1

Seth’s POV….

(The Red Wolf–––––>) 

  I woke up to a loud banging noise, disoriented, I shot straight up in my bed and almost stumbled of the side of the mattress. Another bang shuddered through the walls of my family’s home. I heard a loud shriek from down the hall and I jumped out of bed and grabbed a pair of jeans from the floor and shrugged into them. I heard another commotion in hall outside my door a moment before my brother came bursting through my bedroom door in a panic.

 “Quick, put this on and get out the window!” Aaron instructed me as he anxiously grabbed my arm and physically forced me towards the window. I stumbled over my feet in confusion and fear.

 “Come on Seth, get out, and when you get outside get into the woods and run, remember that spot where we used to sit by the lake, go to that clearing there. Go there, but this time get in the water go through the waterfall, that is important make sure you go through the waterfall and hide in the cavern behind it. I will come for you. If you don’t see me by sunrise, go to this address.” He stated as he drew my unresponsive arms through the sleeves of my  jacket. He placed the paper in my pocket. He dropped my sneakers at my feet. There was another set of crashes and I could swear I heard growling coming from another part of the cabin. Then there was a ear splitting scream and Aaron froze for a moment, then he jumped into action. He literally picked me up and threw me out the window to the grass covered ground beneath it.

 “Run, Dammit, go now!” He said as he flapped his hands waving at me to get a move on. Something stirred deep with in me and it urged me to move. It felt like something or someone had taken control of my body and I found myself sprinting faster than I ever thought I could move through the dense blackness of the forest surrounding my home. I found it completely weird that in  almost pitch blackness I could see as if the sun was high over my head in the middle of the day. I didn’t spare a glance behind at my home for my entire twenty years on this earth. Something told me not to to keep going at all costs. I didn’t feel the slashes of the rough branches tearing my skin and clothes as I flashed by them. I wasn’t even panting as I continued on my way, getting to my destination was my only thought.

 My ears picked up the sound of pursuit behind me and fear pushed my feet to move faster, I dared not to look behind me, I could feel the warm breath of something bearing down on me. I hopped over fallen logs and sprinted through the brush, my eyes leaked tears of almost disabling fear. The clearing  was up ahead and I could hear the water of the waterfall as it cascaded into the lagoon it fed. I burst through a line of trees just as something large crashed into my back and I was thrown forward right into the muddy bank of the lagoon. I rolled over and came face to face with a blood red wolf. It’s stood over me and it’s stained teeth snapped in my face. This was no ordinary wolf, it was massive, it’s muscles strained as it towered over me, blood and saliva dripping from the sharp  fangs that were currently snapping in front of my face. I threw up my  hands to protect my face and the this burning tingling began in the palms of my hands, that was the only warning I got. Bright white light shot out from my palms and the wolf shrieked and jumped back. The same force propelling me through the forest caused me to jump to my feet, flinging out my hands shooting beam after beam from of searing light from my hands at the now circling beasts. One of the beams slammed into the flank of the red wolf and it howled in pain. It took off back in the forest, the other wolves following it’s lead disappearing into the thick foliage.

 I looked at my glowing hands with incredulity. The compelling need to follow my brothers instructions over took me and I lowered my hands and plunged into the lagoon. I stared up at the waterfall and prayed not to die and I plowed through the wall of water, the force of it almost knocking me off my feet. I was beginning to feel dizzy and nauseous. Coming out on the other side of the water I found myself in a large cavern. In all the times I have come here with Aaron, I never knew this place existed. I climbed out of the cold water onto a shelf of rock and dirt. I didn’t even register the cold as I sat there in the dark huddling from fear and now waning adrenaline rush of the wolf attack.

 The fright of wondering what was happened in my home that drove my brother to tell me to run, why didn’t they come with  me, why did I run away like a coward. I had no idea what was happening. What was going to happen if Aaron didn’t show up in the morning? I reached into my pocket and pulled out the soggy piece of paper and read the address scribbled in my brother’s messy handwriting. The name Stillwater Alpha was scribbled there as well, what kind of name was that? I folded the paper and put it back in my pocket and zipped it up. I laid down and cradled my head in the crook of my arm. My headache was now pounding and I willed my mind to stop running a mile a minute. I was just going to have to wait for Aaron to come for me.

 My eyelids fluttered open to bright beams of sunshine peeking through the holes in the ceiling of the cavern. I shifted my slender frame into a sitting position. I had no idea what time it was I was scared to go back outside in case those mutant wolves came back. My heart fluttered at the memory of those teeth snapping in my face. I shifted forward to edge of the water and took in my reflection the water, I critically studied my riot of dirty blond curls, my wide green eyes, and the little bow of my rose petal mouth. I barely stood 5’6 and Aaron has always felt the need to protect me, so had my father. They both stood well over six feet with an abundance of muscle. They constantly told me I took after my mother with her dainty frame. I hated it, I was always picked on. I stood up and began pacing as the time passed and still there was no sign of Aaron.

 When my stomach began to rumble with hunger and the sun changed position in the sky. I decided to make my way back home. I needed to see for myself what was happening. I was confused as to the feelings inside my head that carried me here. I remembered the burning feeling in my hands and the light shooting out of them scaring the wolves away. It freaked me out. I knew my mom was specia,l I always overheard Aaron and my dad talking about it, but they would shut up whenever I entered the room. Maybe when I get home I  can tell them what happened and they can explain what had happened to me.

 I scurried through the wall of water and I scanned the tree line the best I could before wading through the lagoon. Racing out of the water I shot into the trees. I quickly made my way through the  brush and this trip back was going alot slower than my flight through the same brush last night. I kept as quiet as I could and listened to every sound around me, from the chirping birds to the snap of twigs under my feet. I saw nor heard any signs of those mutant wolves. I finally cleared tree line behind my house. I stood there for a minute with my heart in my throat. Trepidation made sweat form and run down my spine. I tried to see if their was any movement around my house. I was so scared to go and see what awaited me in my childhood home. I jumped when I heard a snap behind me. I spun around and again that feeling of something taking over my senses surfaced and I scampered up the nearest tree. I sat on a high branch and  from this advantage point I was able to see  more clearly around the surrounding clearing of the house.

 I must of sat there for a few hours because the sun was on a slow decline in the horizon. I scanned the area again and I made my way down out of the tree. Quickly I made my way across the back of the house and I peered into the window by the kitchen. Through the doorway I saw upturned furniture and utter chaos. I swallowed the whimper building up in my throat. Making my way around the side of the house to the front door I gasped at the destruction. The front door was completely off the hinges. My body started to shake the closer I got to the door. I poked my head inside and I choked back a sob as the strong metallic stench of blood reached my nose. Closing my eyes I gathered my courage and stepped inside. I gingerly made my way over broken furniture and my mother’s  shattered crystal figurines. I got to the hallway and my world fell out from under me. My father’s body was sprawled out across the floor partially covering my mother. Deep gashes punctured her throat like something huge took a bite out of her. Bile choked me as I saw the blood trail from where my Dad must  have dragged himself to side, where he ultimately must have bled out, his blood and hers caused a large rancid puddle of deep red liquid to pool around their lifeless bodies.

 I bent over and vomited the bile that churned in my gut. Wiping a hand over my mouth I stumbled around them deeper into the house. Oh God, Aaron, where was he? I made my way through the house sobs wracking my body and salty hot tears blinding me. There was no sign of Aaron, it gave me hope that he may have survived. Maybe he was looking for me in the clearing. I ran to my room and I grabbed a bag. I threw some clothes in it, I went to my parents room and opened the safe. I grabbed all the cash in there and grabbed my dad’s cell phone that was still charging on the night stand. I picked up mine own cell phone and with one last look at my parents, I ran. I made a mad dash back to the clearing hoping against hope that Aaron was there. Please, please be there. I thought as I ran. Something shifted in the undergrowth and startled me. I weaved to the right and I lost my footing, my hands waved in the air trying desperately to find something to hang onto but my fingers grasped at nothing as my body hurled through space. My back hit something with a teeth jarring slam and I rolled and rolled, rocks cut and gnashed my skin and face as my body hurdled down the side of a ravine. My head smashed into a large rock protruding from the ground and the last thought running through my head was of Aaron, and how was I supposed to get to him now, then everything went black.

 I came to and felt like my body was floating. I was numb, I felt absolutely nothing. I was being carried but where and by whom I had no idea. I heard voices around me and I tried to open my eyes and look but my body was not responding to my brain. I willed myself to open my eyes and to actually register what was being said around me. My heart rate picked up when I felt something cold swipe over my face, with the ability to feel that all the pain and throbbing on my battered body was making themselves known and I groaned.  All the chattering around me stopped and finally, finally I was able to open my eyes. Once my eyes were able to focus, the first thing I saw was a set of gold eyes glittering right in front of my face, those eyes where attached to a huge black wolf. Fear clouded over my mind and I screamed shuffling away as fast as my injuries allowed. I watched in horror as the wolf shifted and the air around it seemed to bend and quiver and once where the wolf sat was now a man, with the same golden gaze. I whimpered as I felt the burning that was in my palms before gather over the entire surface of my body. My poor mind couldn’t register with what I just saw. There was no way a wolf just turned into a man. It didn’t register that my entire body was glowing bright white. The man made an attempt to approach the bed and I scampered back some more. I grunted as I fell off the bed and my body jolted, I didn’t register anything again after that because the blackness of oblivion reclaimed me.

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Carson POV…

(Carson’s Cabin———>)

I was lazing outside of my cabin relaxing in the afternoon sun, the rays warming my naked upper body.  My mind was clear and I was reaching out with my senses taking in the symphony of the surrounding forest. It was because I had my mind open did I register the faint sense of panic from the pack house, then there was scampering feet running through the brush. Dried leaves and twigs snapping under the person’s running feet. It was how I was aware of the person’s fear but determination to get to me, to deliver whatever decree I am sure my nephew had delegated the messenger with. I had come to terms long ago that my own pack feared me because of my abilities, no one has ever gone out of their way to interact with me ever since I almost killed a visiting Elder when I came into my powers and said Elder took to provoking me because of my age. Usually one did not gain the status of Elder until much later in life. I achieved that status in my early teens, therefore I was sequestered and revered, and most of all feared. Even my own family breathed a sigh of relief when my brother, the then Alpha sequestered me to my own cabin far enough from everyone but close enough to be guarded, not that I needed anyone to guard me. I could kill with just the touch of my hand and I render someone immobile with a glance.

 I listened as the Beta’s steps got closer and slower as the approached my home. Another sign of his fear. Did these people not know that they had nothing to fear from me. The  men of the pack, most of them blood related gave me a wide berth, only including me when they had to, the women well forget it. Either they threw themselves at my feet hoping to become a mate to a wolf of power or they ran the other way in fear. Stories, some true, but most made up of my brutality, my aggressive need to control and my heavy hand used to achieve that control. I laughed most at those. The few women I have had the opportunity to take to my bed could never complain that I was harsh to them, the only complaint is from me because they had bored me to tears, nothing was ever special about those encounters and they barely achieved the release I craved. The one experiment with a man died before it even began because his fear overtook everything else in the situation and I never tried again. No point really, so I gave up on that end, if I never found a mate I was alright with that.

 Getting up I picked my shirt up the balcony railing and slipped the soft cotton over my head just as my nephew’s Beta cleared the tree line.

 “Elder.” He greeted as he bowed at the waist showing his respect. “Alpha has asked me to fetch you, there is a situation. We found a young man in the woods and he had our pack name and address scribbled on a piece of paper in his pocket. He was unconscious when he arrived, then he came to, but when he saw Alpha in wolf form he freaked, when Peyton changed back he had already scuttled of the bed and now he is out cold again but no one can touch him.”

 I frowned at this information. “What do you mean, no one can touch him, Lucas. He is unconscious so therefore you all will just have to put him back to bed until he regains his senses again. Make sure everyone in that room is in human form when he does, Lucas.”

 Lucas looked left to right, anywhere but directly at me. “The problem is anyone who tries get hurt, either burned severely or they are physically thrown to the other side of the room. This kid’s entire body is glowing white, ever since he screamed and fell off the bed. No one can go anywhere near him. We have never seen anything like this. Alpha wants to see if you can compel the boy to calm down enough so we can help, he thinks it’s because the boy is afraid and this is some kind of defense mechanism to protect himself.” 

 I nodded my head in understanding. Peyton could be right with his assumptions. I sighed and stepped off the porch. I followed silently behind Lucas as he made his way through the path that led to the pack house. I didn’t even bother to look around to see who all was waiting for me to show up to work some kind of miracle. I had to see this though, this was something I have never heard of, at least not recently. Our ancestors have though, but how could this be possible now, there haven’t been any mixed breeding for decades amongst weres, vamps, and witches. Everyone has seemed to be keeping to their own species. I entered the house through the huge front doors and I climbed the ornate staircase to the second floor infirmary. Once I hit the landing I could see Peyton standing in front of an opened door pacing nervously in the hall. When he saw me approaching he threw his hands in the air. “Thank God, you are finally here. Last night late I received word from a member of the pack, Stephen. He stated that his family was under attack and he was sending us his children for safekeeping, but before anything more could be said the connection was lost. I tried but nothing. I believe him to be dead. I sent scouts this morning and instead of coming with news of Stephen they came back with this young man. I can smell he is a relation to Stephen but something is way off, then he comes to and just freaks like he saw the Devil himself, when I shifted back he looked so confused then he collapsed. His entire body started to glow and when Doc went to check his pulse he was thrown across the room by some unseen force. I tried, then and got burned if I wasn’t a were, my hand would probably be sporting third degree burns.” Peyton explained as he held his arm out to me, it was still an angry and blistered red.

 He ushered me into the room and shooed the nurses out into the hall. I walked around to the side of the bed and stopped mid stride. My wolf snapped his head up instantly and took notice of the slender young man glowing at my feet. He looked like a iridescent angel lying there bathed in white light.

“Mate, protect him, He is our MATE!!!!” 

My wolf demanded, and the next thing I knew was Peyton yelped and jumped out of my way as I released a feral growl so strong that it shook the windows of the house. I bent down and gathered the precious boy into my arms. His body immediately stopped glowing and he curled into my chest. I snapped at Peyton’s hand as he tried to reach out to me, he yanked it back to his body and I flashed out of the room. I ran through the forest past my cabin into the dense foliage deeper into the woods. I climbed the rocky pasage with ease and I came to my retreat. It was another cabin high up on the side of the mountain. I kicked the door open and I willed the fire to start in the huge fire place. I laid the boy on the soft animal skins adorning the couch and I pulled one over his slight body.

 He rolled over and nuzzled my hand with his face, and my wolf howled with joy and the feel of his smooth silky skin against my wrist. We took a minute to study him. He was absolutely beautiful. His hair was the color of dark honey, with curls everywhere. His complexion was smooth and creamy, absolutely flawless, his lips were pink and plump. That bottom lip looked soft and it just begged to be nibbled on. I could feel my cock’s rising approval at the sight of this beautiful boy. My wolf growled in disagreement when I rose from the side of the sofa. I sauntered into the kitchen. I mind linked with Peyton who was screaming profanities at me. He calmed immediately and seemed shocked when I said this young boy, my wolf recognized as my mate. I told him to leave it alone, whatever I find out I will relay to him, for him to just give me a minute to see what happened. He agreed, not that I gave him any other option. I cut the mind link and went about checking the provisions I kept stocked here. The canned and dried goods were intact and I stepped into the pantry and the deep freezer was still stocked with meat and game. I withdrew some packets of beef and I let my hand warm just enough to thaw the frozen beef so I could make my mate some stew.

 I grabbed the vegetables I would need and the dry seasonings. I rinsed the beef and added the spices to it. In the searing pot I added the meat and let them sizzle and fry until the gained a nice color. I added the rich broth I made from previous dishes and let the beef simmer and I went about chopping vegetables. Once that was done, I added the vegetables to the pot and turned down the heat to let everything simmer and cook. Grabbing a bottle of water I went back into the living room. I brushed his hair out of his gorgeous face. I will wait until he wakes up naturally. I won’t force it, his body and mind needed to heal, although I was more curious and impatient to find out his story.

 I spent my time checking on the stew and my mate. I went outside and I strecthed my limbs and opened my senses. There was nothing and no one for miles and miles. Just the way I liked it. A couple of hours have passed and the sun was setting over the mountain and with the absence of the sun, the cold weather began to seep in. I grabbed some more fire wood and carried it back inside. I made sure all the windows and doors where sealed. I went back to the kitchen and gave the stew once final stir before turning the heat off underneath it. Rinsing the spoon I set it back on the counter and went into the living room. I stopped in my tracks when I realized he was awake. His green gold eyes surveying me as I stood there frozen. He lifted his head and sniffed the air. I could tell he was picking up my scent, the scent of his mate. His eyes glazed over and he threw back the blankets covering him on the couch. The next thing I knew I had my arms full of slender muscles and a face was pressed against the skin of my neck. He was all but dry humping me on the spot. My wolf was writhing in pleasure causing my body to shiver, I just wanted to slam down and take him right there on the rug, but the logical side of my brain needed answers first. So wrapping my hands around his slender waist I managed to pull him from my body. But like glue he snapped back against me wrapping both arms and legs around me completely latching himself to my taller frame. My wolf growled and instructed me to leave him, to offer him comfort, so I moved to the couch and sat down, he cuddled into me and sighed.

 “It’s okay, alright, I am not going to hurt you, nor am I going to let anything or anyone else hurt you.” I said as I ran soothing circles over his slender back. He nodded then sank back on my lap staring at my face in confusion.

 “Why am I here and acting like this?” He asked as he tried to assimilate to his surroundings.

 “Do you remember anything if the last evening? Can you tell me what happened to you?” I asked as I watched his brow furrow as he tried to remember. He started to pick at his fingers as his agitation levels grew. I calmed him. “Okay, let’s just try for your name.” I said as his face closed off even more. I sighed and muttered soothing words to him, putting my hands over his to stop his nervous movement. “Let me try something okay, just close your eyes, I am not going to harm you.” I said as he looked warily at me, but then he closed his eyes and breathed through his pretty pink lips. I just wanted to devour him at this point but I reigned my desire in and concentrated. I opened my senses and with the help of my wolf I brushed his mind. He gasped as he felt me touch his senses. I continued to run my hands over him, petting him, and gentling him as I browsed his memories. I flinched when I got to the events of last night. My heart broke and I felt his fear through all of it. His grief on discovering his parents, and his hope to find his brother. I scanned him and I am sure he has no knowledge of what he is. His stupid family hid it from him. His mother was a witch and his father was a were. The previous Alpha, my brother had agreed to the mating and let them live apart from the pack, but they kept it from there youngest since he didn’t shift or show any signs of the change unlike his brother. Damn, it was going to be hard to explain it to him and now with his fear of wolves from the attack of a rival pack, he didn’t understand or trust weres. He didn’t even understand the warlock side of himself or that  it has been driving his protection and survival over the last twenty four hours.

 Against my better judgement I decided that it would be easier if I planted the knowledge of his history and knowledge of the supernatural into his mind. I slowly did this and I released him from the compulsion. He opened his beautiful hazel eyed and looked deeply into my aquamarine blue ones.

 “My name is Seth.” He whispered and he leaned in and placed his face back under my chin. “You are my mate.” I curled my arms around him and held him against the warmth of my body. I relayed all the information back to Peyton and I assured him I will be back in my house in a few days. I told him of the attack and Seth’s missing brother. I told him to look into it. He agreed and I closed the link. I got up taking Seth with me and made my way to the kitchen. I placed him on the chair, he reluctantly let me go, but he got a whiff of the stew and his stomach growled. Taking down some ceramic bowls, I gave him a hefty portion before serving myself. I sat down and over the meal I explained to him about weres, witches, and vampires, about what is going to happen from here. I told him about mates and completing the bond, but it was for him to decide and make sure. I told him about the Alpha and my place in the pack and what it means. He told me he understood and he asked about his brother and finding him. I promised him I would do my best about it and the Alpha is already on it. He finished his dinner and looked longly at the pot and I got up and served him some more.

 I watched him eat and I answered all his questions. I knew he would have more as time went by but he satisfied for now. He blushed and looked down at his fingers and asked about what mating  with him would entail. I explained as straight forward as I could about marking him, then having sexual intercourse to complete the process that the marking usually happened during sex. He blushed some more and my wolf growled shifting impatiently under my skin. He so wanted to claim his mate. Seth was nervous so I comforted him. I told him that it didn’t have to be today or even in the near future. He needed to understand the culture and to be honest I need to understand his capabilities between his warlock and were, and how is it he has not shifted into wolf form, something that should have happened in his preteen years. But, that was too much information to garner tonight. He helped me clean the kitchen and I guided him to the master bedroom in the cabin. I pulled out clean clothes and showed him how to work the shower. I told him to take his time, that I would wait fo rhim in the living room. He shyly smiled at me causing my blood to heat up again and I watched as he disappeared into the bathroom and closed the door. I sighed and shifted my erection in my pants as I made my way to choose a book to read while I waited for my mate, who was currently naked as water ran over every inch of his body. Groaning I chased the mental image out of my head and opened the book.

Chapter 3

Chapter 3

Seth’s POV…

(Mouthwatering Carson———>)

I finished using the towel to dry my ever unruly curly hair. I watched as the bounced on top my head, I didn’t have any of my hair products to calm them, so I just prayed that I didn’t look like a chia pet in front of that Sex God. I had never seen someone so dangerously sexy. He exuded this stay-away from-me aura, but it had the opposite effect for me. It drew me to him like a moth to a flame, even though he is stranger to me. He said we were Mates, and I sorta understood what it meant but it’s weird because I didn’t get the full impact of what it means. There is alot of information in my head that feels like I should have known something all my life but for some reason it felt so new. I was having a hard time processing anything in my mind and the closer I get to Carson, I get brain dead and my body takes over. I just want to be close to him, to smell his unique scent, I want to just rub myself all over him like a cat seeking warmth. Damn, I need to get a grip, as I felt my body heat up. I need answers, I need to know about my brother Aaron, and what happened to him.

 I could feel myself getting jumpy and my body began to tremble, something inside that weird voice again telling me to find my mate, to trust in him. So I scurried out of the bathroom and followed his earthy scent right into the living room. He was seated in a chair by the bookcase, a book in his lap. He glanced up at me when I came to a halt in the doorway. His piercing blue gaze locked on me. I tried to remember what I had dragged on before coming in here without being too obvious by looking down. I blushed instantly when it came to me. His huge shirt and nothing else, he was washing my clothes. An, “Eeepp.” escaped my lips and I turned on my heel and raced back to the bathroom. I dragged on the much too big sweatpants bottoms and rolled the waist a couple of times to get it to stay up.

 I slowly made my way back to the living room and Carson was sitting where I had left him in under the dull glow of the lamp he was using to read. Again he looked up when I came to a halt in the doorway of the room. He slowly closed the book and reached his long muscular arms out towards me and I scurried over and climbed into his lap. I settled down against his smooth chest and his big palms ran over my slender spine and I felt a soothing peace was over my frayed nerves. He nuzzled the side of my head inhaling my scent deep into his lungs. Fingers of heat shot through my body causing me to shudder in his embrace. “Tell me your story, Seth.” He whispered. His warm breath brushing over my cheek. The voice in my head sighed and urged me to trust him. It kept telling me this was my mate and I was now connected to him like none other in my life. I wanted to understand this new found voice and maybe Carson was the only person that could help me. I was so unsure of my future and that scared me to no end. I took a deep breath and told him everything, about my childhood, how close I was to my brother, that was now missing and I refused to believe that he was dead alongside with my parents. I told him the tragic events that brought me up unto this point. When I was done tears of uncertainty and fear were running down my face and Carson pulled me tighter against his chest like he was trying to take all my burdens from me and I loved it. 

 “Don’t worry baby, come morning we will go back to the pack house and speak with the Alpha. We will find your brother. He had instructed that you come here should anything happen, so naturally this would be the first place he would come looking for you.” He reassured me as his hands never paused in petting me, gentling me. But instead of feeling the soothing effects I was beginning to feel needy. I as getting hotter and hotter and his earthy masculine scent was seducing my senses like nothing else. I could feel the blood surging into my now erect cock and I couldn’t break my gaze away from his tempting lips. I actually whimpered and shifted in his lap. He took a deep breath and he went completely still. I watched as his beautiful blue eyes began to glow with an internal light and he growled in his throat. The next thing I knew I was slammed onto the plush rugs covering the hardwood floors. My arms pinned over my head and my legs wide open with a billion tons of turned on muscle of a man bearing down on me. I moaned as he ran his nose up the column of my neck.

 “I can smell your arousal my Mate. Do you want me? Is your blood running as hot as mine through your veins.” He purred, his voice had changed into a deeper, huskier baritone and I shivered as it ghosted over my skin. “Tell me, my Mate. I want to hear you say it.” He continued to whisper before running his tongue over my chin, following the line of jaw to nibble on my earlobe. I mewled in response and turned my head to give him greater access to my delicate skin. He ground his hips against me and that’s when I felt his huge hard cock against my thigh and the sexual fog cleared from my mind. Oh my God, he was huge. How was he supposed to fit inside of my virgin entrance. The thought cooled my desire some and I squirmed against him to try to free myself from his iron clad embrace. He was like a steel wall of muscle. He sensed my distress and eased off me somewhat. He closed his eyes and went completely still against me, after a few moments he opened them and they were no longer glowing. He smiled me and got up taking me with him. Carson sat me on the couch and I blushed a furious shade of red. I felt like my face was on fire. I didn’t mean for him to stop, I was just scared and confused. 

 Carson brought my head down to his massive chest and stroked through my curls. “Seth, I know this is all new territory for you and I am sorry to have pushed you just now. Let me try to explain some things for you, although this is new for me too. I never had a mate, never had the desire for one. I am and always will be feared by my own people because of my gifts and my knowledge. The same people and family that I am supposed to protect, heal, and help. No one has ever really seen me for a me, a man capable of feelings just like anyone else. So you have come along and awaken this need in me from I laid eyes on you. Feeling of possession and protection.  Feelings I have no name for. I want to mate with you, mark you as mine for all the world to know that you are mine and under my protection, to not even glance your way without my permission. But I will not rush you. There are somethings that we both have to understand and questions that need answering and unfortunately it seems that only your brother can answer those questions so we will put all of out energy to into finding him first.”

 I let his words sink in and my heart melted for him. I felt that voice again telling me.“ Mate him, take his mark of protection and ownership. Do it now!“ It wanted me to take his mark before going back to the pack house and so far, that voice has done nothing but protect me so far so even though I was apprehensive. I was going to listen to it. I placed my hands on his massive chest and leaned back gazing deep into his beautiful eyes. I climbed up unto my knees and lifted one leg over his and straddled him. I leaned forward and licked his lips, using the tip of my tongue to tease my way across the plump bottom lip begging him to open up to me, for me. His quick intake of air was all I needed to snake my tongue into the warm wet cavern of his mouth. I moaned at how delicious he tasted. I pulled back and whispered, “Mark me, please make me yours.”

   “Are you sure baby, there is no going back. In order to mark you to complete the bond, we have to have sex. are you ready for that?” He asked as his hands went to either side of my face. His deep blue eyes locked onto my lighter hazel green gaze, searching for any doubts that I may have. He was so breathtakingly gorgeous and the voice was now urging me on, telling me to go ahead and let this man claim me for eternity. I leaned forward and whispered against his lips. “Yes, make me yours.” That was all the encouragement he needed. He swooped me up into his arms and swiftly carried me down the hall to the master bedroom. My clothes went flying off my body and before I knew it I was completely naked in the middle of the bed. I had no desire what so ever to cover anything and my cock was so hard, it stood straight up in the air and pulsed for him as if beckoning him to it as his now glowing eyes raked over my body from head to toe. He licked his lips and he began to undress. 

 I laid there panting like a whore with each delicious expanse of skin that came into view and by the time he dropped his jeans along with his boxers. I groaned in my throat and my eyes took in his massive throbbing dick. The fear I expected to feel was no longer there. I wanted to touch, to taste it to feel the pulsing veins against my tongue. To know what the nectar dripping from the bulbous head tasted like. He joined me on the bed and my greedy hands reached for him. I didn’t know where this wonton eagerness came from but I went with it. It felt so right. His lips captured mine and his hands splayed over my hips bringing our erected members onto full contact and a conflagration of fire ran through my body. I rolled my hips and reveled in the spine tingling friction of heated skin against heated skin. 

 Carson devoured my mouth, tasting every molecule of it, his hands traveled over my body as I gyrated against him. Writhing like a whore, moaning and begging for his touch. His big palm found our erections and his hand closed into a tight fist around the heated flesh and he began to stroke them. The feeling was out of his world, I panted against his lips and my eyes rolled into the back of my head. Oh my, I was a mess of nerves and I could feel my balls drawing up. His sexy growls only added to my urgency to let go and let my orgasm carry me away, but I wanted him inside. I wanted him buried deep inside of me when I did, and I told him so, I pleaded for it. He leaned up and let go and I whimpered in protest although I begged for it. He gentled me with one hand while he used the other to reach into the nightstand. He came back with a little bottle of scented oil. He flipped the cap poured some into his palm and generously lathered his huge throbbing cock. He pored some more over his long fingers and made sure they were nice and slick.

 His lips once again captured my kiss swollen ones and I opened my legs wide, giving his wandering hands better access to my cock and taint. His oiled fingers slicked over my quivering balls. “Yes that’s it, baby, need me, want me. I want to feel this sexy little body tremble in heat for me.” He wickedly whispered. I moaned and panted as my body followed his instructions. When I felt a slick digit glide through the crease of my butt cheeks and press against my puckered ring of muscle and threw my head back and a long excruciating moan escaped from my lips. My hips began to rock,  pushing my entrance against the invading digit. “That’s it, baby..yeah want me like I want you” He purred. I made the mistake to look up into his face and I opened my mouth into a silent scream and his finger pushed past the ring of muscle and into my fluttering channel. He began to pump the slick finger in and out of me, the ring continued to relax and open for him. I screamed in delight when he added another finger and scissored me open. 

 “Please..oh..please. Carson, I..I n..need you inside….please.” I managed to stutter out and I felt him as his big body shifted over mine. He used his powerful thighs to spread my legs further apart and I threw them as wide as they could go. He eased his fingers out of me and before I could protest, I felt the hot blunt head of his lubed cock push against my quivering hole. He pushed in and I grabbed onto his shoulders digging my fingers into his skin holding on for dear life. The burn as he strecthed me was almost unbearable, he leaned forward and licked my tears away. He uncapped the lube and applied a generous amount around my strecthed entrance, rocking his hips back and forth so that his cock gently worked the oil into my skin. Just as I was going to tell him to take it out the head brushed against something deep inside me and I screamed. A pleasure so fierce rocked through my body several things happened at once. My breath whooshed out of me and my body opened up completely and sucked his entire length deep into my gut and my hips bucked begging for more. 

Carson stayed absolutely still and his eyes were glowing so bright I wasn’t able to look directly into them. I watched in fascination as his fangs dropped and he panted like he was running a marathon. The look on his face was so hot, I bucked my hips giving him the go ahead to move, and move he did. He threw my legs over his sculpted shoulders and pounded me into the mattress. I had to grab hold of his forearms in fear of bashing my head into the headboard. With every stroke my body writhed and shivered, the fire burning in me was almost too much and it singed through my veins and pooled in my balls. Carson was moaning my name like a mantra and he continued to thrust in and out of my body, driving him deeper and harder. My vision began to blur and my moans got louder and louder as my scrotum disappeared into my gut. I screamed out as I felt his teeth sink into the flesh between my neck and shoulder and his cock swelled and throbbed deep inside of me as it pulsed and jerked filling me with his scorching ejaculate. That did it, I came, it was a never ending jetstream of thick milky liquid as it pumped out of my dick, spraying in between our sweat slicked bodies. Carson grunted as my body locked down on his still throbbing cock in my ass. My toes curled and my vision went black. I wasn’t aware of anything after that.

 I came to I don’t know how maybe much later to Carson running a warm cloth over my body, cleaning the sweat and cum from my skin. He smiled at me and his gaze as so tender and loving I knew in my heart I had made the right decision. He ran his nose over his mark and my entire body shuddered in heat. “Hmmm…I like that very much. You smell like me now.” He stated and I batted him away. “I need to recover, I swear you were trying to kill me.” I pouted and he laughed getting up from the bed he carried the washcloths and threw them in the hamper. Climbing back into bed with me he snuggled into my side. “Do you want me to kiss it better?” He teased before a mighty yawn escaped him. I just shook my head and rolled into his warmth, content for once in my life.

Chapter 4

Chapter 4

Aaron’s POV…

(Demented Miles—–>)

 My whole body hurt as I came back to consciousness and realized that I was better off when I was unaware of what was happening to me. I tried to move by bound arms and pain shot through my shoulders instantly causing me to hiss as they throbbed in protest.

 “Well looky here, the half breed pup is finally awake.” Snarled a gravelly voice from somewhere behind me.

 I grunted as a fist hit me in the gut. I couldn’t move because my wrists where tied above my head with ropes from the ceiling and my ankles where chained, I could only cough and wheeze as I tried to drag air back into my lungs. I was shirtless and filthy. I tried to blink through the pain, trying in vain to get my bearings to see if I could figure out where the hell I was and with whom.

 “What? No answer, half breed.” The voice came again. This time a burly red headed man with ropes of thick muscle stepped into my line of sight. “Let me introduce myself. I am Miles, Alpha to the Fire pack, pup. Tell me, where is that pretty little brother of yours? I may let you live to see him again?” He snarled at me as he grabbed a fist full of my hair and roughly pulling it back once again causing pain to erupt from my straining shoulders as my head was dragged backwards.

  Even hurting as I was I tried to twist out of his grasp but it was ineffective. He was big, enormous, and he was letting me know that I was going nowhere unless he specifically wished it. “Speak up, boy. You are wearing my on the patience that I don’t have.”

 “What do you want with him?” I spoke, barely recognizing my own voice it was so raspy and thin as it gushed out of my bone dry throat.

 “That’s a good question, besides him being so pretty. I want to fuck every hole he has before I kill him.” He muttered viciously in my face as I shivered in disgust at his proximity. He just wreaked pain and havoc, it poured over his skin like sludge.

 “Why?” I gasped as his fist tightened in my hair causing my scalp to throb in protest.

 “Another good question, and to answer that, I will say is he can’t be allowed to fulfill his prophecy. I hate vamps and witches. They were not meant to muddy the pure blood of the werewolf, like your filthy parents did. I trusted a pretty vamp once and I sent him to kill your bitch of a mother when she was pregnant with your sweet little brother while my Beta was supposed to dispose of you. But the hungry bastard bit her instead of just doing his job, your father intervened and killed Xavier and my Beta before they could kill her or you and he used his own blood to heal her, but not before the vampire venom was absorbed by her fetus.

 It’s enough that he was half witch, but to add the genetic code of vampire as well created a being that prophecy states will bring peace to all species. He has the ability to generate life you see and whenever he mates and comes into his power by his twenty-first birthday he can be bred. Any birth of his offspring will bring peace to the species of were, witch and vampire alike, and half breed, I can’t have that. We weres are on the top of the food chain, all this peace shit will surely render us pets to those cocky sons of bitches. I was meant to lead not follow. Those betraying bastards always thinking they are better than us mere wolves.” He spat venomously at me.

  My eyes popped and all my discomfort disappeared as I took this information in.  Talking to parents over the years I already knew Seth was different, but they didn’t tell me why. My mother had taken me aside and began training me to use my warlock powers and swore me to secrecy not to tell dad because he would never allow me to be in harm’s way, even if it was to protect Seth. He felt that it was his sole responsibility. For the love and peace of my mom he left the pack to make life with her, so he was going to the man the protector of his family. My brain was working over time. I prayed that Seth made it the pack. He was always so fragile and delicate. No way would he survive this brute. He had no idea what he was. Maybe if I try to link with the Stillwater Alpha, they could help, but I didn’t want to tip off this asshole.

 “You don’t have to even worry about that, Seth doesn’t know any of this and he has no mate.” I spurted out in hopes that this information would steer this nutcase off his present course.

 He scoffed and threw my head back letting go my hair. “No matter, pup, one day he will have a mate, that is inevitable and since your old man separated from the pack and the Elders, he was never aware of the blasphemy had committed with mating a witch, why do you think your pack was so okay with letting go of a member to live practically in isolation from everyone and everything. They want this shit to happen and let me tell you over my dead damn body will I let it. So tell me where he is. I have waited and watched his pretty ass for too long, His birthday is in a matter of weeks, I am going to pop his sexy little ass then get rid of him.” He lamented with a demented sheen in his eyes. Fear shuddered down my spine.

 The big bastard stood there licking his thick lips and palming his rigid cock, with a sick twisted look on his face. It seems just the thought of my defenseless little brother brought lust to the pervert in front of me.

  All of a sudden he growled and he backhanded me across the face and screamed at be as blood poured out of my nose. “He is already coming into his powers. I almost had him by that little creek you guys used to play so sweetly at and the warlock in him took over his actions. Now tell me where he is. The scouts I have sent to spy on your pack came back empty. Their Elder has the place locked so tight outsiders have no chance to get near it.” He groused as he began pacing the dank little room. He rubbed his chin, deep in his manic mumblings.

 He stopped and turned to me. “I give you until dawn to tell me where he is or I am going to get my pet to compel you to do so. The only reason I haven’t fried your brain is because I am going to need you to lure him to me, but you are leaving me no choice. Think on that, die alone crazed and pathetic and your precious little brother tortured beyond all endurance, because I will torture him mercilessly for your defiance. I will have him with or without your cooperation.” He warned then he left slamming the heavy door behind himself.

 I twisted my wrists in the bindings and hissed again. I looked up and saw the raw red flesh and my swollen fingers. This rope had silver in it. I quickly looked down at the shackles on my ankles. They were just pain rusted iron. I racked my brain trying to come up with some kind of plan. Shit, I couldn’t use my were strength the silver effectively bound them rendering them useless. I tried and tried to think of a way to get out of this and protect Seth at the same time, if he made it to the pack, which was my hope. I didn’t want to alert the Alpha yet not knowing where I even was. Miles had spies there and I didn’t want to alert them that anything out of the ordinary was going on.

 I tried to focus around the room, but it was too dark and again the silver rendered me almost human, my wolf sight was useless. I closed my eyes and groaned in frustration. I was bound, weak and hungry and so tired. Everything hurt and throbbed and my wrists were swollen and burned. I tried to keep as still as possible as my mind worked furiously. I quietly listened to my surroundings, I needed my wolf senses and the only way to get them back was to get away from this silver laced rope. Then the idea hit me like a freight train.

   Closing my eyes I silently chanted and invoked my inner warlock. I felt the energy release from my mind and heart. My skin began to faintly glow as I continued to chant. First one hand dropped as the rope sizzled from my now glowing limbs. My other hand was soon free and I concentrated on the shackles on my feet. I ignored the pain in my arms as I bent to catch the heavy iron chain as the cuffs popped open, preventing them from clattering against the stone floor. I didn’t know whom or what was outside of that door.

  I sat there huddled in the corner still chanting a spell of protection in case someone came inside while I was trying to recover my wolf from the binding of the silver. I needed those senses desperately. I needed to shift to get the hell out of here and the sense of smell to find my pack. I shivered in the corner in exhaustion and fright. I didn’t let it break my focus though as I felt my sense of hearing growing sharper. I could hear the rustle of the wind outside and the faint trickle of water, maybe a stream. I could now pick up on the conversations that close by but far enough away, I couldn’t make out what was being said. I listened more carefully wondering how many people there was out there. I looked up at the dull gray walls. No windows or anything. I sighed heavily trying to keep as quiet as possible, if I could hear them, they could certainly hear me.

  My eyesight grew sharper and I could clearly see now my surroundings, like the room was fully illuminated. It was a small, dank room, like a root cellar or something. Stone all the way around and steps that lead to the door the lunatic went through not too long ago. I just sat back and let myself recover. My wolf was awakened and growling. Whining to get out and free to hunt for Seth. I couldn’t even ponder the what ifs right now. I just needed to get out of here, to protect my little brother to find a way to get him far away from all this madness. If he was to find a mate it would only make it worse, this lunatic would chase after him to the end of his days. What I needed to do was get him to an Elder to find out more about this prophecy, but again to do that I needed out of here.

  I waited and waited until everything outside all conversation and movement, even the wind died down. It must be dusk or night time. I could hear the nocturnal creatures waking for the night and now was the time to get the hell out of dodge. I rose to my feet and placed my hands on the wall until my knees steadied themselves. I tip toed to the door and placed my ear against it listening for any sounds alerting me of any guards of what not. I heard nothing. I hoped and prayed and quietly turned the knob, when the door clicked it sounded like an explosion to me, although in reality in was a minute click. I placed my other palm flat on the panel and pushed and the door released to my ever loving joy.

 I stopped with the door opened only by a sliver and listened again to my surroundings. Not detecting any movements or any sounds I scurried out the door into an open field. I was right it was a root cellar. I looked around and noticed some cabins and a larger house further in the distance. It must be their pack compound. I committed the scents and surroundings to memory. I quickly made my way into the trees and as fast and as quietly as my recovering body would let me, I hurried away towards the sound of water. I needed to douse my scent and let my wolf free. I ghosted over the forest floor and stopped every now and then to listen and sniff the air. The smell of the Fire pack compound was dimming telling me I was going at least in the right direction to get away from their commune.

 I didn’t hear, see, or smell anything out of place so I quickly continued on my journey. My heart was beating a mile a minute, the nocturnal animals scurried under the brush and the sound of the water got closer and closer as I prayed for my luck to continue. Finally making it to the banks of a shallow stream, I almost dropped to my knees as I recognized my surroundings. I was about three miles from my home where I used to live with my parents. I hung my head for a minute closing my eyes willing the grief to hold on for a while so that I could focus on finding Seth. It was a good fifteen miles to my pack’s compound. I got to my feet and headed right into the freezing water. Lying down, I let the trickling water numb and cleanse my body. I chucked my jeans and wrapped them in a tight ball burying them under some rocks on the creek.

 My skin prickled and shredded as I called forth my wolf. My bones cracked and distorted as I landed on all fours, my muzzle formed and my fangs elongated. My sight became even more clear. I was now a large dark brown wolf. I sniffed the air and wasted no time in drenching my fur in the frigid water and mud. Hoping to mask my trail, staying in the water along the bank I took off letting my sense of smell carry me to my pack.

 I ran and ran, my breathe huffing through my nostrils and bursting out in plumes in the cold night air. As I passed where my home used to be, I smelled the faint scent of ashes and burnt wood and scorched earth. My pack burned my home along with my parent’s lifeless bodies. I am glad they were able to finish the death ritual, but everything I owned and that represented my family life was in that house. I understood though, because I was never going to able to go back there anyway. My wolf whined sensing my grief and tried to keep me on task. My stomach rumbled and I grew weaker from starvation. I didn’t have any idea how long I was with that Miles person, but it was obvious I was unconscious therefore unable to eat, not like he offered anything but torture and death anyway.

 I picked up the scent of my pack and the stronger it got the more I picked up on other wolves closing in on me. I wasn’t alarmed though because by their scent alone told me it was others from my pack. I treaded carefully because it was the war wolves that patrolled the perimeter of the compound, vicious beasts that will and could rip you to pieces before your heart could even stop beating.

 “Halt, go no further.” A voice boomed out of the darkness. “Who goes there, you  smell of the pack, but you are unknown.”

 I skidded to an unsteady stop and lowered my front legs showing my supplication and that I meant no harm. “My name is Aaron, son of Stephen; I need to see the Alpha as soon as I can. It is urgent.” I pleaded keeping my eyes down cast and I remained absolutely still. I heard a rustling noise and a huge man appeared in front of me. He motioned for me to change back to human form.  My body was tired and bruised. I knew if I changed back that I would not be able to call my wolf back until I got some rest and food. I was leaving myself vulnerable, but finding Seth was worth the risk. This was my pack; no harm will come to me here. I closed my eyes and felt the heat of the change. It took a longer in my weakened state but I managed it. I was still on my hands and knees and the big man leaned over and helped me to my feet.

 “Alpha Peyton will be glad to see you. He has been looking for you since your brother showed up a few days ago. He wants to know what is going on and our Elder has yet to share the details of his mate.” The big man said.

 I knew I had a total look of confusion on my face. “Elder and mate, what are you talking about? What has Seth have to do with that? Did he make it here then? I asked as the guy began to lead me towards a massive house in the clearing up ahead.

 The naked man looked at me as someone threw us some sweat pants. Handing one to me I pulled them on, he continued into the compound. “My name is Lucas. I am Beta to this pack. Come all will be explained once we get to Alpha Peyton.” He said as he led me through a massive set off double doors. People where all around the interior of the house but I didn’t see the one face I was looking for the most. If Seth made it here, where was he?

Chapter 5

Chapter 5

Carson’s POV…

(Little Seth–––––>)

 My eyes flashed open as I heard Peyton calling my name urgently through our mind link. I groaned and tried to turn over but I quickly realized that Seth was wrapped around me like second skin. I looked down at my sweet little mate curled up on my chest. His warm little body cuddled into my arms like a perfect fit. I smiled and brushed my fingers through his soft curls. Peyton’s bleating voice once again broke through my sleep addled brain and I snapped out an annoyed, “What?”

 I focused on his words and my heart rate picked up. Hmm, interesting the prodigal brother had arrived to the pack compound. As much as didn’t want the outside world intruding into our blissful one, I needed to get some answers to better protect my little one. He was now my anchor, the very reason I exist. I told Peyton that we would return shortly. I hated to disturb my mate, but I was anxious to get back and face his brother. I didn’t know what the outcome of this confrontation was going to yield, but I know one thing for damn sure, he better not try to come in between us.

 Running my hands gently over his elegant spine, I nudged him slightly trying to wake him as calmly as I could. I know the news of his brother’s arrival would ease the worry that has been plaguing him in regards to his sibling. He whimpered and snuggled down further into my chest. His rounded butt cheeks rubbing nicely against my morning hard on. A growl rumbled through my chest as it throbbed it’s appreciation at the delicious friction.

 “Little one, it’s time to get up. We have important business to see to this morning.” I whispered gently rocking his shoulders.

 “Mmm, no, comfy.” He whined and dug himself deeper into my heated body.

 I smiled at his cuteness. “Come on baby, it’s important. Your brother has arrived at the pack house early this morning. He is waiting for us.” I explained and I watched as his eyes popped open and he shot straight up. I had to bring my knees up to protect my tender parts from injury from his sudden movements.

 “Really, Aaron is here, is he alright, come on let’s go.” He rushed out as he scrambled off the bed effectively tangling himself in the comforter. I had to reach out and catch him in midair with my long arms and he careened off the side of the bed.

 “Whoa there, baby. Take it easy, I promise we will get there as quick as possible. You head for the bathroom and I will get your clothes.” I instructed him as he scurried happily off the do what I said. I just shook my head at his eagerness. The bathroom door clicked as he closed it behind himself and I palmed my pulsing cock. Just that glimpse of his naked skin had set my blood boiling in my veins. But now wasn’t the time to entertain those thoughts.

  I threw back the comforter and padded over to the wardrobe. I pulled out my jeans, boxers and long sleeved shirt. Pulling everything on I rooted around for some socks and pulled those on as well. My boots where in the kitchen and I made my way there, I picked up Seth’s now clean clothes and carried them to the bathroom. I added my hooded jacket on the way. It would warm up soon, but up here this far on the mountain, the temperatures where cooler.

 Knocking on the door I watched as he opened it with a toothbrush sticking out of  his mouth. I handed him his clothes and he winked at me before closing the door again. I decided not to make breakfast. I could feed him at the pack house, so I went back to the kitchen and turned off the unnecessary appliances and double checked the generators. I was tying the laces of my shoes when Seth joined me in the kitchen fully dressed and bundled up. I couldn’t help it, I stood up and gathered his excited body into my arms and pecked him softly on his sweet plump pink lips. He melted instantly against my much larger frame.

 “Come on beautiful, let’s get going.” I said as I led him down the hall to the front door, my hand resting on the base of his spine.

 He shivered as we stepped out into the frigid morning air. He inhaled deeply and turned to me. I picked him up easily and told him to close his eyes. It was going to be a quick rush down the mountain. He snuggled his face into the skin of my neck under my chin and I tightened my grip on him and set off. Trees flashed by and I opened my senses to scan the area. I alerted Peyton of our imminent arrival and he instructed me that he was in his office at the pack house. Continuing down the mountain quickly I didn’t register another soul for miles. I slowed down once we reached the path back to the compound.

 Seth popped his head out from under my chin as I carried him bridal style through the path. When we got to the clearing he wiggled and I knew he wanted me to let him down so I did, but he clung to my hand the closer we got to the house. The war wolves were discreetly protecting and shadowing our every step. I warned them to keep their distance. I absolutely didn’t want my mate upset. They cowered but complied willingly with my request. Seth started to shiver as we passed a few of the pack members. They were staring in awe at my mate. They had a lot of questions about this little man who managed to capture me, an Elder, when many have tried and failed. I could sense some malicious thoughts from some of the women there and I growled causing Seth to tense up and the envious bitches to cower and slink away.

 I turned and gathered his quivering limbs in mine and I soothingly rubbed his arms. I whispered to him and gentled him with my touch. Reassuring him that he was perfectly safe and that he had nothing to fear, that I wouldn’t leave his side not even for a minute. I nuzzled his soft cheek with my nose and grabbed his tiny hand in mine and led him into the house. People scurried out of the way because of the fierce scowl on my face. They knew not to attract my wrath today by ogling my mate. I walked down the hall my mate proudly at my side to Peyton’s office. I immediately picked up the scent of another pack coming from behind the double doors. I kept my growl of displeasure to myself. Seth was nervous enough and my protective wolf didn’t need to add to his stress levels.

 I didn’t even break stride as Peyton opened the doors and stepped aside as we glided past him. A cry escaped my sweet boy’s lips and he let go of my hand to my wolf’s dismay and threw himself at the young man standing in the middle of the room, reeking of another clan. I had to lock all my muscles in place to keep my possessiveness at bay; otherwise I would have run over there and snatched my mate back from his brother. Peyton placed a heavy hand on my tense shoulder in attempt to show his understanding in what I was feeling. He caught my eye in understanding, silently communicating to me to calm down. I closed my eyes and attempted to do just that.

 The brothers just stood there embracing one another. Aaron was running his hands over his back giving comfort to my mate as he cuddled him against his chest. You could see the love and affection between the two and I relaxed just a little, but my wolf was pacing, anxious to get our hands back on our mate and gather him to our side where he belonged.

 Aaron released his brother and asked him if he was alright. Seth just turned to me and waved me over, giving me a sweet smile that melted me, just a little bit. I strode over to his side keeping my wary gaze on his brother, his eyes got wider and wider and Seth snuggled into my chest before turning back to him. He introduced me to him and I watched Aaron’s body tense when he heard the word mate. He paled down to the color of chalk and attempted to snatch Seth out of arms. I threw Seth slender body behind me and my eyes shot blue fire as my fangs dropped and I snarled at him, daring him to take another step closer. My body crouched down into a fighting stance.

 Several things happened at once. Seth whimpered behind me his fingers clutching the back of my pants in hopes to stop me from lunging at his brother’s throat and both Peyton and Lucas made a mad scramble to intervene by placing their big bodies between me and the tense boy. He was scared but he was trying not to show it. Seth tried to come around to face me, but I wouldn’t let him.

 Aaron scoffed. “What do mean you are his mate?” He asked me warily eyeing my stance.

 “It’s exactly what it sounds like, you know what it means.” I snarled right back at him.

 “This can’t be happening.” He said as he gripped his hair with both fists. “His only survival is if he doesn’t fulfill the prophecy.” He mumbled and that caught my attention to the point I stood straight up with a frown, all thoughts of killing him vanished from me like vapor in the air.

 “What prophecy are you talking about, the only prophecy circling the packs is the Peacemaker Prophecy and there hasn’t been……” I stopped mid sentence as my mind went over the details of the story about the triple blood male wolf that carried the genes of the three great species. The creature would be able to carry, sustain, and finally give birth to a child that will bring unity among the clans. My eyes immediately went to my mate’s confused hazel gaze, as realization dawned on me, Seth was that person. They snapped back to Aaron and Peyton and Lucas flanked my sides. He motioned for everyone to have a seat. I sat in one of the wing back chairs and Seth immediately scrambled onto my lap, he was once again shaking in fear and confusion. I ran my hands over his back and shoulders attempting to soothe him even though my mind was furiously working over these turn of events. “Explain.” I decreed once everyone was seated.

 The more he talked was the tighter the knot in my chest became and the more rigid Seth became in my arms. Aaron explained what he knew about and from his parents. He explained what he learned in his captivity with the Fire pack and that explained the scent of others on his skin. His eyes pleaded with Seth’s shocked ones, begging his forgiveness for keeping this information from him. My heart shattered a little when his weak trembling voice pleaded with his brother for him not to be correct about what he was explaining. My arms tightened around him, but he shot up from my lap.

 “No way am I the one, no way. All of you are wrong. I can’t get pregnant for God sakes, I am a man. You are wrong!” He screamed at us, his features reflecting his distress. I got up to try to comfort him but he jumped back out of my arms reach. “No, if I am the one, I can’t be with you. I refuse to be some kind of freak.” He shouted at me and my wolf mewled in response. I tried again to reach for him and his hand shot out and a ball of white light shot from his palm, taking me totally by surprise as it hit my square in the middle of my chest throwing me backwards off my feet, and my body was slammed hard onto the floor. He turned and ran from the room and I laid there and watched heartbroken as my mate rejected me.

 I laid there almost catatonic as I watched my disappeared through the doors and sprinted away out of my sight taking my very soul with him as he ran from me. Aaron stood there for a half a second just gaping, then he scrambled out after his distraught brother, Lucas hot on his heels. My wolf keened and I howled in agony until my throat was raw. A single tear escaped my eye as Peyton slammed the door on the now curious onlookers gathering there allowing me to grief somewhat in the privacy of the room.

  Rolling over onto my side a sob almost escaped my throat as I gathered my limbs into my body curling up into a ball trying desperately to come to terms with the pain shredding through my heart. I didn’t register a word Peyton was saying to me as he leaned over my rocking form. What Gods did I piss off to deserve this kind of heart ache? How could the spirits after all my years of loneliness and solitude bring such a perfect creature into my life for mere days only to snatch him away? I wanted to wail and rant at the unfairness of it all, but I couldn’t muster the energy. I could feel my wolf as he became quiet. He was slipping into the dormant state rejected mates fell into. I couldn’t even muster the will to try to stop him. My eyes glazed over with a fresh set of hot tormented tears formed and dripped out of my eyes. I could hear Peyton calling my name. He began to vigorously shake my shoulders, screaming for me to focus on him and his words, but my wolf stubbornly refused.

 I tried to link with Seth through our mating bond, but the connection just quivered and nothing, no response, no feelings, and no shared thoughts. I didn’t know how long a stayed there like that just staring off into space. Peyton was really worried. I could still register his anxiety, but the vibes were getting weaker and weaker. I heard the door open and close several times. I barely recognized the voices of different people as they tried to urge me to do something, respond to anything, but my wolf was now depressed and dormant. He cut off the connection and left me floating in a sea of pain and torment.

 The pack Doctor, Heath, came and examined me. I vaguely heard him explain to Peyton what was happening to me and my wolf. He tried and tried to get some kind of response from me, but I just wanted to be left alone, I wanted to be numb, I wanted not to hurt as bad as I was hurting. Words couldn’t even describe the level of pain running through every cell in my body. I now understood first hand why rejected wolves killed themselves or quietly went insane in their world of dismal rejection and broken bonds.

 Everyone in the room was taking turns talking to me. Even Peyton’s wife got down on the floor with me trying in vain to capture my haunted gaze with her brilliant green ones. I didn’t respond to her. I didn’t respond to any of them. I just wanted my mate back, my heart, my life, my very soul. It just took a matter of days for him weave into every fiber of my heart and my mind. He was the very air that I needed to breathe, and he took it away. I couldn’t even find it in myself to be mad at him.

 I no longer paid any attention to what everyone in the room was saying. I could feel my eyelids getting heavier and heavier as some unknown force was pulling me towards a dark tunnel. My eyes slid closed and I was shaken even more. Both Peyton and the good Doctor screaming at me to stay conscious, but they didn’t understand. I wanted this peace, I wanted the beckoning solace to take this pain off my heart and settle my troubled mind. It was so very tempting as it lured me towards that tunnel. I had no will to fight it. I wanted the oblivion that the darkness promised so seductively and I released a sigh and gave in to. I let it wash over my agonizing senses, claiming me on a tide of utter nothingness. My last conscious thought of how much I already loved Seth and I would rather settle in the endless space of nothing than to live without him at my side.

 I didn’t register anything after that. Not the wailing cry of Chantal, Peyton’s mate, or the deeply troubled mutterings of Heath. I certainly did feel when Peyton and Rory picked up my limp body off the floor and carried me up the stairs under the shocked gazes of the entire pack. I didn’t feel as they stripped the ruined shirt from my body and pulled my jeans down my legs and off of me. I didn’t feel Chantal’s lips as they brushed my forehead or did I hear her muffled words of encouragement telling me to hang on, to have faith that my mate would once again make my world alright again. I just floated in the pain free space of nothingness and just let myself be, suspended in black space where there was no more excruciating pain.

Chapter 6

Chapter 6

Aaron’s POV….

(Luscious Lucas––––>)

 Running outside into the bright sunshine I caught sight of my little brother up ahead people where jumping out of his way as he sprinted into the line of trees, several burly men including the pack Beta, Lucas hot on his heels. I couldn’t wrap my mind about what was going on. In just a matter of days my parents were slaughtered by that savage Miles and his pack, and then my innocent little brother who didn’t have a clue as to his true nature found himself a mate, and it was a male, and not just any male, oh no it couldn’t have been that simple, his mate is Carson, damn it, the pack Elder everyone gives a wide berth to. Now said little brother rejected his mate and sent him onto a tail spin. Even if I didn’t agree with this mating, I had to do something before Carson loses his mind or his life. He is too important to this pack, and the only person capable of doing that is currently sprinting up ahead.

 I came to skidding halt right next to a growling Lucas. A woman had stopped Seth and was currently yelling at him. I listened to her ranting at him about being Carson’s mate and she was destined to be it, not a little fag boy like him. Lucas was getting ready to sprint forward when Seth red faced and trembling threw his arms out and in a flash of dazzling white light the woman was thrown across the forest and slammed into a tree. He sprinted over to her side and used his upturned arms to raise her bloodied body from the forest floor without even touching her. Her eyes widened and they registered her pain and fear.

 Seth in a voice I had never heard him use before said. “Weak woman, if you were his mate he would have claimed you. I am not someone to trifle with.” He stated and he dropped her like a sack of potatoes right on the ground. She whimpered and tried to scurry away but once again fell to the ground. Lucas ordered for her to be carried back to the house and to the pack doctor. Seth was now wringing his hands and turning around in slow circles. He seemed confused as to where to go and what to do. He didn’t even register the woman being carried away. Lucas stepped forward but I waylaid him with a hand on his arm. “Let me handle this.” I said and He nodded. “Give us a minute; I will try to see if I can calm him down.” I stated but Lucas just shook his head.

 “I can’t do that, we can’t do that. If so much as a hair is harmed on baby boy’s head, Carson will level this forest in a fit of rage that you have never seen the likes of. He maybe down now, but he has abilities and power even this little one can’t conceive and I for one do not welcome his wrath if his mate is harmed in any way.” He said as he stood his ground. I noticed that several of the war wolves were skirting the tree line keeping watch over my little brother.

 Seth whimpered and sat down holding his head, his body rocking back and forth. He must be feeling Carson’s pain at this point now that his emotions have cleared some. I made my way to his side and sat down next to him. When he didn’t protest I drew his shivering body into my arms. “Hey, buddy, calm down. I know you are upset and confused, but I will try to explain everything to you.” I said as I brushed his hair off his sweaty forehead.

 “I am a male, how can I get pregnant, why is that part of me? Why do I hurt so badly?” He asked his voice strained and heartbroken.

 “Ssh, baby brother; it is a part of what you are. It is said you are to bear a child that will be peace to the top clans when you reach twenty-one, but right now you don’t have to worry about that. What you have to worry about is your mate. He took your running away as rejection and he is hurting that is why you are hurting. If you continue this way he could die, therefore you will die. I don’t want to lose you too.” I said and if possible his slight body trembled even more in my arms.

 He looked up at me with concern etched into his features. “What do you mean he will die and he is in pain? Is what I am feeling coming from him?” He asked as he absently rubbed the area over his heart. Lucas stepped forward and spared me the explanation.

 “Mated wolves are one half of a whole, when one dies or one rejects the other, the surviving mate or mates becomes depressed, almost catatonic with it. They have no will to so anything, not even eat and they will starve to death or lose their minds are both. You are feeling Carson’s pain and distress. If you don’t go back we will lose him and you will soon follow. He can explain everything better than we can. After you left the pain of the bond snapping rendered him almost unconscious. Seth, you need to fix this. He is not just another wolf. He is our Elder.” Lucas pleaded with him and I watched the tears roll down his cheeks.

 I could see the emotion he held for his mate swimming in his eyes and I promised myself then and there I wouldn’t give him anymore grief about having a mate, especially not a powerful Elder to my pack. Seth eased out of my arms and stood up; he brushed off the leaves and dirt from the seat of jeans and turned to Lucas. “Please, I am sorry, please take me to my mate.” He whispered and Lucas smiled encouragingly at him and held out his hand.

 “This way then baby boy.” He aid and sprinted back towards the pack house the trip back went just as quickly as the trip away from it.

 Once we got there it seemed that everyone was milling about outside and around the house. Damn, news traveled fast around here. Seth drew back instantly at all the eyes trained on him. His skin began to glow and I knew it was his warlock going into protection mode. I stepped up to him and Lucas began clearing a path shouting for everyone to go back to what they were doing. Some obeyed but some looked on in contempt until Peyton burst through the front door and sent them scurrying on their way.

 “It’s alright Seth; no one is going to ever hurt you here. Come I will take you to your mate.” Peyton told him and he looked back at me for a moment. I nodded my head and shooed him inside. He stopped glowing and he sprinted up the steps taking the Alpha’s hand and was lead into the house.

 Lucas breathed a sigh of relief and turned to me. “Why the hell didn’t your parents and you keep this from him? If ya’ll had trained him it wouldn’t be like skirting a mine field every time he gets upset.” He stated looking right at me.

 “Whoa, it’s not my fault; it was my mother’s idea. Seth as always fragile, she didn’t know how he would take it and she never could have predicted this.” I pointed out trying to defend myself.

 He looked skeptically at me. “Well Carson sure has his hands full with that little powder keg; I so do not envy him. Come on, let baby boy straighten out his mate and I will show you were you can stay.” I looked back one more time at the pack house and then turned to follow Lucas to another path leading to the surrounding smaller cabins. I was bone tired and welcomed the idea of a warm bed and food. All this shit was draining the life out of me.

Seth’s POV….

 I followed the Alpha up the stairs and I whined in the back of my throat at the unbearable pain in my chest. He squeezed my hand as we continued down the hallway. He came to a stop in front a set of double doors. He smiled down at me and opened one of the panels and I took a deep breath and slipped into the room. The door clicked closed quietly behind me and after being outside in the bright sunshine it took a few seconds for my eyes to adjust to the darkened room.

 My eyes adjusted to the dim interior and I made out a massive bed in the middle of the room, Carson was lying the middle of it covered to the chin with blankets. I slowly made my way over to the bed and once there I whimpered at the sight of the tear stains running from his eyes into his hair line. Reaching out I tentatively touched his shoulder and was shocked at how cold his skin felt.  That voice in my head told me to undress and warm my mate. To talk to him, to bring him back from wherever his wolf carried him for protection. I listened to it and I quickly shed my clothes I was wearing, almost shredding them in my haste to get them off. Pulling back the covers and climbing next to my unconscious love.

 I called his name and shook his shoulder but there was no response other than his deep breaths brushing over my face. I climbed on top of him and rubbed every square inch if my skin against his and still nothing. I cuddled into his chest and ran my fingers through his hair. I talked to him, I pleaded with him, and I cried and slapped him but nothing. Damn, was I too late, did I snap the bond forever. How am I supposed to do this? I cried and continued to shake his massive shoulders. “Please, please I begged, wake up, I am so sorry, baby. I love you. I didn’t understand. I wasn’t breaking our bond. I just needed some space and some time to come to terms with all this, Baby please.” I begged him, desperate for him to open those ice blue eyes and fix them on me. I rested my forehead against his as the tears streamed down my face and off the tip of my nose onto his face.

 I just threw my arms around him and rocked his body from side to side willing him to wake up. The voice in my head came back and it was urging me to do something. I went quiet and listened.

“MARK HIM.”

It instructed and I was confused for a minute then it came to me, when Carson had explained mating to me in his cabin on the mountain. But, how was I supposed to do that. I didn’t have canines, and just as that thought settled into my head, I felt my gums tingling again like they did the other night. I closed my eyes and just rubbed my hands over his now warm skin. I pictured the moment of him marking me in my mind. The feeling of spectacular cock buried deep inside of my body, claiming me, the feel of his muscles rippling as his body had mated with mine long into the night. The sight and scent of him as he loved me, mated me and claimed me as his.

 I called forth on all the emotion I was feeling that night and my eyes flashed opened. I ran my tongue over the sharp fangs now protruding from my gums. Lowering my head I ran my nose along the sensitive skin of his neck, deeply inhaling his unique scent into my lungs. I licked a line from his jaw to his neck, tasting him, the blood in my body began to burn and I could feel my dick go completely hard. My mouth settled onto the fleshy spot right where his shoulder and neck met. I kissed and nibbled the spot and laved it over and over again with my tongue.  I opened my mouth and let my canines drag on the spot and his body twitched. Anxious to get more of a response from him, I did it again dragging my fangs against his skin a little harder this time and again he twitched. I smiled and opened my mouth and I bit down hard on that spot sinking my fangs deep into his flesh and OH My God.

 My eyes rolled into the back of my head and my body jerked as if I was being electrocuted. Several things happened at once. His blood spilled into my body and it tasted like nothing I have ever experienced before, his scent got stronger and leaked onto and into me, misting all over my skin like running into foggy meadow early in the morning. My body was so overwhelmed with ecstasy I came so hard and so long it almost hurt, it was so intense. The power and energy that soaked into me had me writhing and moaning, but I couldn’t let go, my fangs remained lodged firmly in place. I didn’t even register when his large hands clamped down on my hips, his fingers digging into my skin firmly holding me in place and he rubbed his rigid cock against mine. His cry of completion lost with the ringing in my ears. Finally my fangs retracted and I was left panting, my chest heaving in efforts to pull in the much needed oxygen to my depleted lungs.

 I looked up and was overjoyed to see those beautiful blue eyes staring back at me in wonder. He just threw his powerful arms around me and squished against his body and I didn’t mind in the least for I had a death grip on him myself.

 “I am so sorry, baby. I wasn’t rejecting you, never would I do that.” I whispered once I found my voice again. “I love you.”

 He just held me to him. He didn’t mutter a word and he ran his hands all over my body. It was like me was making sure I was really here in his arms and I almost burst into tears for doing this to him. Never, never again am I going to let my emotions rule my actions. In my stupidity I almost lost the most important thing to me. Carson, my love, and my life.  I could feel the mating bond as it wrapped even tighter around my soul, my very being. I could feel his very heartbeat beating in sync with mine. I could  hear his weeping in my mind and my heart burst, it wasn’t tears of grief or unhappiness. They were tears of joy and relief. I could feel the love he held for me, his fierce sense of protection and possessiveness. It was the most awesome feeling in the world to be this connected to him. I just laid there and basked in my man, I chided myself again to think that through my silliness I almost lost this, I almost lost him. Never again will I act before I think.

Chapter 7

Chapter 7

Carson’s POV…

(Pack Children playing––>)

 I sat on the steps of my cabin and watched my little mate’s as he interacted with his brother. It’s been a couple of days since our incident and I left the pack house with my mate to have some privacy and to make him feel more comfortable, I knew he hated all the attention  he garnered. I was going to have to deal with Clarissa when she is released from the infirmary, no one accosts my mate. Lucas had told me what she said to him and after years of dodging her misplaced attentions she has finally stepped out of bounds trying to harm Seth like that.

 Everyone was now more than informed that he was my mate and they knew I am unpredictable, even more so now with all my protectiveness and passiveness wrapped around my sweet boy. Miles and his pack of rabid dogs better beware. The politics involving my mate were serious. I have been thinking long and hard about his ability to reproduce, every time I brought the subject up with him, he shuts down on me, so I let it go for now. I had never given much thought to be a parent, of having pups. I never thought that was in the cards for me, but watching my mate as he frolicked with his brother, I tried to envision him ripe with my seed and just the thought had my dick twitching with joy at the prospect.

 I glanced up yet again at my flawless mate and watched as he shrugged out of his sweater leaving him in just a plain white t-shirt. He was wearing dark blue jeans that hugged his cute ass in the just the right way. His curls bounced all over the place and he was simply beautiful to me. His brother shifted into his wolf and chased him around the yard. I smirked at the sight. I decided to give my mate a little treat. I stood up and stepped down to the bottom step of the porch. I closed my eyes and called forth my energy.

 Raising my hands, I called for the element of wind, with my palms raised two swirling geysers of wind appeared in my hands, sensing the change in energy both boys stopped and stared in my direction. I shifted my hands and my eyes snapped open, I knew they were glowing bright blue. Even from the distance between us I heard Seth gasp as he watched the vortex of swirling wind dance and gyrate towards him. I watched his beautiful eyes go wide as I manipulated the vortex to twirl around his slender body. I had it lift him his feet and gently twirl him around the yard.

 Aaron shifted back and shuffled into his pants and watched in awe as his giggling brother danced around the yard, twirling and spinning in the middle of my gentle cyclone. I flicked my wrist and the other cyclone shrouded around him and he squeaked in surprise as he danced and twirled around his equally happy brother. I smiled and brought Seth over to me still twirling happily in the middle of the twister. I suspended him right there in front me and leaned in to give him a peck on his pretty pink lips, and when he went to reach out to me I flicked my wrist twirling him back across the yard and I smiled hearing him laugh out loud at my antics.

 With my senses opened I picked up on the rustling of the leaves and scampering feet. I listened closely and some of the pack children burst through the line of the trees on my property and upon seeing the twirling brothers, they rushed over to me overcoming the fear there parents instilled on them of me, I was a little shocked but they wanted to spin too as they babbled and jumped around at my feet. I gently set the brothers back on their feet and I flicked my wrists and several of them went squealing across the yard one way while I sent the others careening the other way.

 The little urchins giggled and danced as they were spun first one way then the other. I felt the brothers approaching me, they sat with silly grins on their faces and they watched the joy of the kids playing in the cyclones. A tiny little one, I thought was too small for all this spinning toddled over to Seth and immediately climbed onto his lap and latched his chubby little arms around his neck. Seth was surprised at first then he let go and cuddled the little one closer to his body. It took all my concentration not to drop the children. He looked so sweet cuddled with the fat little cherub on his lap.

 I wasn’t the only one watching him. The Alpha and the Luna appeared along with some of the other mothers and pack women in charge of caring for the pups along the tree line and watched the antics. I could feel the mother’s fear for their pups and I gently swirled the children in their direction so that they could see that I meant no harm to their young. This went on for a little while until I felt my energy begin to wane. Seth sensed it and stood with the now sleeping baby and took a step in my direction. I smiled at him to let him know I was okay. I set the children back on their feet and kept my energy going until they were steady on their little legs.

 They immediately ran over to me begging for more. They chirped and bounced around until the ladies took charge and calmed them a bit. Aaron came back outside from my cabin with a tray of juices and cut up apples piled onto a platter. He stepped down into the middle of the screaming kids and handed out the snacks. All the noise woke the little one in Seth’s arms and he took him over to get him something to eat. He handed the little one an apple and smiled as he put it into his mouth and happily chewed on it.

 “Well, well, Elder, this has to be a first.” Peyton commented as he came to a stop at my side to watch the children being fussed over by his mate and mine and the pack women.

 “Yes it is.” I replied and sat down on the steps. My eyes never leaving my mate, I watched as he laughed when offered a half eaten apple from a little fat fist.

 Peyton took a seat next to me. “I know you have felt like you have been an outcast to this pack ever since your early days as an Elder. That was never anyone’s intent. The things you are capable of are downright frightening, but we depend on you and although you never had the opportunity to feel, we love and respect you, but you have never made it easy for anyone to get close. I am glad you found your mate, but cousin I trust only you to find a mate in that little spitfire there, and not only that the legacy he carries with him. Other pack Elders have heard and are going to be showing up here, I have been contacted and asked permission.” He explained to me not taking his eyes from his own mate. Chantal was a beauty of our kind, her  hair glowing like spun gold in the sunshine, but with all her beauty she paled in comparison for me with my own mate standing there surrounded my kids looking like for all the world he belonged there just like that.

 “What did you say to them?” I asked feeling uneasy about other Elders coming here. I never liked them to begin with, some were nice to me, but there were others that felt I brandished too much power and that I was too young to achieve the powerful status of Elder, jealous pricks.

“I told them it was not my decision to make; I had to ask you seeing that this involves your mate. I have no say in that ,so you talk to your mate and let me know what you decide. Now I must get these little scamps off to their afternoon studies.” He said as he rose to his feet and began to roar. The children squealed and hightailed back into the forest heading to the pack house. The ladies shyly waved goodbye and Chantal managed to untangle the fat little cherub from around  my mate’s neck.

 Aaron carried everything back inside and Seth made his way over to me. I wrapped his slender body in my arms and kissed his soft lips. He leaned back and looked me in the eye before he shocked the hell out of me by saying, “I guess having your pups wouldn’t be so bad if I could manage giving birth.” Then he kissed me again before scampering into the house.

 You could have knocked me over with a feather, he left me standing there gaping like a fish. No he didn’t. I felt my wolf growl in need as a line of fire shot down my spine as his words sank into my heated brain. The only way for him to get pregnant was to have sex and my body and my wolf heated up with his surprising comment. Damn the fact that his brother was in there. I took the steps two at a time as I rushed after him. I skidded to a stop at the entrance to the kitchen, Aaron was there rinsing the platter and Seth was drinking juice by the fridge. He raised his head and sniffed the air and snapped his face towards me. “Yeah baby, smell my arousal.” I thought as I watched his eyes change from dark amber to bright gold.

 I growled and Aaron raised his head and looked between his brother and myself, he snapped the faucet off and muttered a quick later before scurrying out the front door. I heard the door close and Seth placed the glass of juice on the table. He stepped cautiously to the side towards the back door with me stalking his every step, my eyes now glowing giving off its indigo light, clearing warning him of the extent of my aroused state. My wolf panted in anticipation as Seth inched closer and closer to the door. He practically whined at the thought of giving chase to our sexy little devil. I could already feel my skin prickling at the thought, and my vision glazed over focusing on him alone as I slowly continued stalking his every step.

 Seth got closer to the door and then he lunged, opening the door and hitting the ground on a full out run. I growled on triumph and felt my body shift mid air and landed an all four paws as I pounded after him into the dense forest. I could hear his giggles up ahead and he zig zagged his way through the foliage. “Here wolfy, wolfy.” He taunted as he sprinted at an amazing speed the trees. This just amped me up even more. I could feel the blood boiling through my veins and my wolf roared in the face of his blatant challenge.

 He continued at a swift pace, but it was no match for mine as I over powered him just as he reached the clearing before the river. I pounced on him and took him down. He laughed as my tongue lapped over his face, tasting the sweetness of his skin.

 “That tickles.” He gasped as I continued to taste and lick him. I used my claws and practically ripped his shirt from his chest wanting more access to his delectable skin. I used my rough tongue and lapped his nipples and chest, licking repeating until he was writhing underneath my pure white wolf. He gasped when my muzzle nuzzled his hard on through his jeans inhaling the scent of his arousal deep into my lungs. I lapped him through the denim and he moaned and arched his elegant spine his fingers entangling themselves in my fur. I shifted back to my human form and laid myself fully on top of him capturing his bottom lip between my teeth and nibbling on the soft flesh.

 He open his legs wider cradling me in between his thighs and I moaned and leaked precum as my hard cock rubbed against his rigid denim covered one. His jeans had to go and I fumbled with the clasp my desire for him so bad that it made my hands shake. I peeled him out of his jeans taking a minute only to pull of his boots and socks before sliding them off his slender legs. All of a sudden her reared up and knocked me onto my back. He scampered over my body straddling me. His sweet ass rested right over my throbbing dick. I groaned as he licked my lips and wiggled his ass along the length of my hard on.

 He continued to  plunder my mouth with his little tongue as he ground his hips, working my dick into the warm crease of his ass cheeks. He squeezed his cheek muscles along the length of my cock, causing me to moan deep in the back of my throat. I attempted to flip him over but he shook his head no  and he proceeded to trail his lips and tongue down the length of my chest and abdomen. My cock twitched with swayed with anticipation as if calling his attention to it. I cried out when his lips wrapped around the bulbous head giving it an opened moth wet kiss. He flicked his tongue over it then drew it back into his mouth. His little fingers wrapping around my girth and he began to pump my shaft and he sucked and laved the sensitive purple head.

 I threw my head back and my fingers wrapped themselves in his curls as he worked me with his luscious mouth. I tried my best not the thrust forward and fuck his face. I whined as he released my cock but I shut the hell up quick when he spit on the head and positioned himself over it. I had to close my eyes from the sight as he lowered himself onto my aching cock. The breath in my body his out and his velvet sheath drew me deep into his body. I made the mistake by opening my eyes to look at him there on top me and I was struck dumb by the beauty of his delectable body poised over mine. His eyes clamped shut and his mouth opened in a silent scream as he adjusted to me buried inside his core.

 I panted as I waited for him to adjust, I watched as his body quivered and a sheen of sweat appeared on his creamy skin. I held still then a shudder racked me from head to toe when he began to move. I held his hips loosely to let him find his pace. He started to main and his fingers dug into my Pecs as he began to ride me in earnest. With every one of his downward thrusts, I pushed upwards as he bobbed up and down on my dick. I took his beautiful cock in my fist and started to pump him. He was mumbling nonsense words and moaning my name. I felt his stride getting choppier and choppier and my balls quivered and drew up, getting nice and tight against my body.

 He screamed as my fist pumped him over and over, up and down as I continued to pound into his fluttering ass. I was completely lost as I felt his hot cum spray across my abdomen and chest. I continued to pump him as I thrust a few more times and the clenching of his chute set me off. My entire body jerked as I pumped him full of my essence, it was like a never ending orgasm and I clenched my jaw and rode it out. Seth slumped forward and collapsed on my chest, effectively causing me to slide out of him with a wet pop. Both our chest were heaving from the exertion.

 “You are going to get me pregnant.” He mumbled under my neck. His body completely relaxed so I knew he wasn’t as adverse to it as before.

 “It can’t happen until after you are twenty one, which is not for another couple of weeks, and if you want I will wear protection.” I said, soothing him by running my palms n slow circles over his back.

 “We will see…too tired to talk.” He mumbled quietly before his breathing deepened as he fell asleep.

 I managed to get up and cradled his body against me to keep the heat up, I carried him back to the cabin and laid him in the middle of our bed. I cleaned him up and then myself before climbing into the bed with him, my heart lighter in my chest as he curled into my side. Yes for once I was completely happy and I savored the moment.

Chapter 8

Chapter 8

Seth’s POV…

(Aaron’s Delicious Mate––>)

 Sitting in the clearing behind Carson’s cabin or I should say our cabin along with Aaron sitting Indian style on the ground across from me. I really was trying to pay attention to what he was instructing me to do. We were working on controlling my warlock powers, but I felt so restless and agitated, my senses were open and I could hear and smell everything around me even more acutely than before. My gums had been hurting me since this morning, and every time I breathed my throat burned. When I woke up Carson was already gone, but he had left me a note to inform that he was spending most of the day at the pack house dealing with the other Elder’s that he had finally allowed to come visit. I knew for a fact that they were not getting anywhere near me until he felt comfortable about their intentions. He did ask me how I felt about it and I told him as long as they try to dominate me or scare me that I was fine with it.

 My possessive mate had just grunted and went back to spoiling me by making sure I had the most succulent parts of the stew that he had prepared. At first I was confused about this mating thing and I was surely upset about the fact that me, a guy, can apparently get pregnant. How the hell was I supposed to give birth, I mean where was the baby supposed to come out of?  Carson had once again stepped in and informed me that he had been studying the ancients texts and the prophecy had described surgical removal of the child. Okay, if I must get pregnant and give birth then I can deal with that, I guess. I had wound up molesting my mate at the mere thought of him breeding me. It wasn’t supposed to happen until my birthday and guess what, it was two days away.

 “Come on Seth, you are not focusing. Have you heard a word I have said in the last ten minutes?” Aaron whined with a frustrated look on his face.

 I ducked my head and mumbled. “Sorry.” I was saved from further comments when suddenly a man appeared in the clearing. I couldn’t have told you what had governed my actions in what had happened next, that inner voice in my head went on red alert. Aaron had tried but he didn’t succeed because whatever part of my species took me over at that time, absolutely hated the person. It was like I was outside myself looking in. I flew up from where I was sitting, fangs bared and claws descended as I took off after the stranger. His eyes had gotten wide and he had attempted to sprint away into the line of the trees but I wasn’t having that. My claws slashed the back of his legs, tearing bloodily through ligaments and muscles there effectively handicapping the man. Aaron just gazed on frozen in shock as I stalked around the now screaming man.

 Several things happened at once, his screams had attracted the war wolves as well as the Alpha, my mate, and the other Elders. Everyone seemed to have burst into the clearing at the same time, coming to an abrupt halt when they took in the scene with man uselessly flopping on the ground as he writhed in pain from the injuries I had inflicted.

 “Jesus Christ.” One of the Elders muttered as he took in my appearance. I didn’t know what he saw when he looked at me but whatever it was they were staring at me in awe. Carson had later told me that my eyes had turned blood red, there was no irises or pupils, the entire eyeballs was red and my vampire fangs had lengthened long, sharp and deadly. My nails were now pinpoint claws and my hands were covered in my victim’s blood. My skin was iridescent as it glowed brightly white. My wolf and warlock check into the foray as well.

 A voice I couldn’t recognized as my own cut through the now silent clearing. “How is it, mongrel that you happened on pack land and got past the war wolves when you are obviously a traitor to this pack?” I asked the mewling mess of a man at my feet.

 He didn’t get a chance to answer because a surprised Peyton stepped forward. “Seth, calm down, he is a pack member. He is the son of one of the fallen war wolves. His name is Thomas.” He said as he walked towards me his hands up in front of him signaling his intent not to harm me.

 I just smirked at him. “You may think he is pack, but I smell nothing but his traitorous heart. He wants you to think he is one with us, but he pledged himself to that Red wolf, I can smell his influence all over him. Tell me why I should let him go when he is part of who harmed my family?” I asked as I snatched my hand back and slapped Thomas with enough force to shove his body across the ground, his nose snapping and spewing blood as he choked and gurgled on it. I was getting ready to sink my nails into his throat when my body was suddenly suspended in mid air and I felt like warm water cascaded over me, calming me, soothing my vampire and I sighed now coming to recognize my mate’s energy. My eyes flashed towards him and I saw that he was casually holding up a hand and his beautiful eyes were glowing that shimmering indigo blue.

 I was in awe of his power; he was effortlessly corralling my powers and controlling the situation. “Baby, calm yourself and explain, come back to me. You are safe I will not let anything or anyone harm you.” He whispered in my mind. I was shocked because I was looking right at him and his lips didn’t move and he didn’t speak out loud, hell true mate, I thought and I was so happy with that level of connection to him that I instantly reverted back to myself, and when Carson saw this he waved his hand and brought me to his side. When he set me back on my feet I happily jumped on him wrapping my legs around his waist and my arms around his wide shoulders and I buried my face under his chin in front of everyone standing there staring at me in stunned silence.

 “You know Carson, I said it before and I am going to say it again. I do not envy you your little spitfire of a mate.” Peyton said shaking his head and even the other Elder’s chuckled but they got serious real quick when their attentions turned back to the piece of shit I had left in the dirt. His wounds began to heal and he was able to sit up and glare hatefully at me.

 Carson growled and hissed. “Watch yourself pup, because what he did is nothing compared to the pain and suffering you will endure at my hands if you continue to glare at my mate. Explain yourself.”

 The coward looked at all of us turning his head from side to side before he bowed his head and stubbornly refused to answer. Peyton sighed heavily before he threw his hat in the ring. “Thomas, we are trying to understand what it is you are being accused of, a traitor, really. Your father served this pack until his dying day, what have you been up to?” He gently asked the petulant boy.

 He jumped to his feet and Lucas stepped forward with all his bulk and growled. Thomas stepped back distancing himself from him then he turned and pointed at me. “You are going to believe this faggot over me, like you said, my father……..” He didn’t get a chance to finished his sentence because his body flew through the air and was slammed and pinned to the tree by Peyton’s thick forearm. His feet dangling high off the ground.

 “I suggest you watch your mouth and this is the last warning you will receive. Carson will make sure you will regret the insult to his mate. Take him and chain him, we need to get some answers before night fall and you are going to provide them.” He regally stated as Lucas and another war wolf stepped forward and dragged him to his feet from where he had collapsed. He was unceremoniously dragged away and Aaron just scrubbed a hand over his face and laughed out loud. He was getting ready turn when I noticed that he stopped in his tracks and turned his face up in the air and sniffed.

  I watched in awe as he gaze zeroed in on a huge guy standing behind Lucas, he was huge and his half naked torso was on stunning display, muscles bulging as they flexed, his massive pecs and shoulders showed just how fit he was. I was surprised when Aaron just stepped up to him and gazed up into his face muttering the word, “mate”. I loudly squealed with glee and hopped off Carson and plowed directly into my brothers back effectively shoving the both of us into the giant standing in front of him. He wrapped his large arms around the both of us to steady our stumbling stance after the force of my hit. He was gazing at my brother like he was the most spectacular being ever created. Lucas and Tim just chuckled and hauled Thomas away.

 Peyton and Carson walked over to where we were still huddled against the gentle giant. “Ahh, I see love is once again in the air. Aaron let me do the honors of introducing you to Ben, he is one of my most seasoned war wolves, and Ben this is Aaron.” Peyton said as he introduced them. Ben had yet to remove his gaze from my siblings face. Carson stepped up and growled a little at the other man’s contact with me. He gently extracted me from them and I watched happily as Aaron rubbed his face into that powerful chest and mumbled a shy, “Hello.”

 Big Ben smiled gently and ran his huge paw over Aaron’s hair and answered in a deep baritone when he said. “Hi.”

 I was practically bouncing on my feet with excitement of my brother finding his mate, and a handsome one at that. He stood at least 6’6 and towered over Aaron, his brown hair was cut short and he had a slight five o’ clock shadow and he was fit, his muscles looked like they were carved out of marble. Carson was more bulky and hands down he was more handsome to me, but Ben seemed to be the total package for my brother, seeing how he hasn’t stopped rubbing himself all over the man like he was marking his territory. I felt Carson big warm hands running up and down my spine and my face almost split in two by my happy smile.

 Someone cleared their throat garnering our attention. One of the Elders stepped forward and just looked at me with interest. “Perhaps now would not be a good time to get to know your mate, Elder. We shall retire to the pack house and spend the night, hopefully in the morning you would do us the honor of a formal introduction to your remarkable mate.” He said and Carson just nodded, I could tell from the tensing of his arms holding me against his chest that he was not happy, so I just ran my hands over his rippling biceps to sooth him. He was so protective of me and I loved it.

 I let them work out the details and I went back to happily perving on my older brother and his mate. It was getting kind of heated over there because I could know scent there arousals and my gums went to tingling again. I quickly went to pull out of Carson’s arms because his scent was now getting stronger and my eyes kept going to the spot of flesh where his neck curved into his shoulder.

 Ben managed to tear his gaze away from Aaron and mumbled a quick, “goodbye,” before taking Aaron’s hand and led him away towards the trees and into the forest. The Elders had long since departed and I was staring helplessly at my mate’s delicious skin. My gums prickled as my fangs descended and I leaned forward and sniffed him. His scent was now permeating the clearing and drugging my senses. I have never felt this before; I mean when I marked him it was completely different. Now my throat felt as if it was on fire and I could hear his heart beating in his chest. The warmth of his blood running through his veins called to me.

 Carson sensed my focus and he stepped back and looked into my yearning face. I felt like I was flushed with fever. I whimpered and reached for him. He captured my hands in his and pulled me into the protective shelter of his broad chest. I buried my face in his neck and fought the overwhelming urge to lick his skin over and over again. I wanted to bite him, to taste his luscious blood as it filled and flowed into my mouth. My fingers dug into his hard shoulders and my entire body undulated against his much taller one.

 “Ssh baby, it’s okay your heat is starting and you  are beginning to feel the pull, this is the time you need to tell me what you want, because you and I know your birthday is just days away, and if we mate you will, without a doubt become pregnant. Think about it; seriously give it some thought because I know for damn sure I will not be able to hold back. I can feel your body’s needs and the pull is going to get stronger and harder to resist. Make your decision now while your mind is still clear.” He said to me then he kissed on the forehead and in an instant I found myself on our front porch alone, there was no sign of him in the clearing and I could no longer pick up his scent. I sighed heavily and made my way inside. I’m in heat, just great, how manly was that?

Chapter 9

Chapter 9

Carson POV…

(Carson and Seth’s Bedroom—>)

 Seth’s birthday was three days ago and we gave him such an elaborate party that people were still eating leftovers and the children were still bouncing balloons all over the clearing and the pack house where I have firmly encased myself for as long as possible during the days before going home well after dark in hopes that my tempting mate was sleeping when I got home. Every brush of his skin against mine and every sound that he made, everything about him, his scent, his lips, and his sexy little body were calling out for me to take him, to ravish him, and ride him so hard that we both will be incapable of walking for days. I was a walking talking hard on. My balls were about to explode and it made me cranky as hell; so much so, that people generally scrambled out of my way when they saw me coming.

 So here I am in the middle of the morning in a foul mood slumped into one of the chairs in Peyton’s office in the pack house as he performed his daily routines of calls and pack business. Lucas and the other war wolves were out patrolling and the other Elders were currently at my house observing my mate. Aaron and Ben were there standing guard over my beautiful boy, so I wasn’t too concerned about his well being, although my wolf was disgruntled and wanted to be as close as he possibly could to Seth. I wanted that too, but I knew the minute I let go of my control I was going to take him, and in doing so I was going to breed him. I knew it, my wolf knew it, and so did the other Elders. I didn’t mind, but I wasn’t the one that was going to carry our offspring and even though Seth seemed okay with the idea, I knew he still had some uncertainties, so until he gave me the green light I was going to have blue balls.

 I groaned and shuffled yet again in my seat and Peyton lifted his head and smirked at me. “Man, I feel so sorry for you.” He chuckled and threw his pen down before clamping his hand behind his head, the action showing off his massive pecs and bulging biceps. I just grunted at him and he chuckled again and went back to the computer screen on his desk. Not long after Lucas came inside and reported that everything was alright on the borders. They were going to question Thomas again today and Peyton didn’t want me involved yet given his father’s loyalty to the pack, but if he continued to be uncooperative I was going to have to step in and the little shit wasn’t going to like it because this situation involved my mate’s well being.

 Lucas was saying something else but I didn’t hear what it was because a flash of searing heat tore through my body, it was so raw and intense it threw me physically out of the chair and onto the floor. A pained growl escaped my chest as my skin ripped and fur sprouted, my wolf was called forth and with the snapping of bones I changed unwillingly for the first time ever. The scent of my mate shrouded my senses and everything blacked out of my vision. Peyton shot to his feet and hollered for Lucas to open the office door and clear everyone out of my way, he continued to tell him to clear my house of everyone but my mate. Lucas shot forward and as he opened the door to follow the Alphas orders my wolf shot past him, his sole purpose was to find our mate.

 My paws pounded across the ground and my breath released in plumes as I covered the distance to my cabin. Lucas and a few of the war wolves were hot on my tail, but in my determination to reach my mate I didn’t stop to engage them. I burst through the clearing and Seth’s scent caused my eyes to roll into the back of my head and a whine to escape from deep within me. I snapped when a powerful force stopped me in my tracks. Disorientated my eyes flashed around trying to find the source of power preventing me from locating Seth. I growled with menace and my eyes began to glow calling forth my energy.

 “Calm yourself, we are just giving them time to clear the children. Your mate in heat wolf and it has summoned you; we have him safely inside your home, so control yourself until the young ones are sent on their way.” The voice penetrated the fog of lust clouding my senses. I looked to the line of gathered Elders; it took all their combined powers to hold me as they stood in a line with their hands in front of them directing their energies to keep me immobile. The women and the war wolves with the Beta’s help steered the children from the clearing where they gathered daily to play and exercise with Seth, they disappeared through the lines of the trees back towards the pack house. The Elders still holding me as they made their way to the path as well, I felt their energy field drop and I rushed to the house.

 I bounded up the steps and through the open front door. My mate’s scent brought me to the living room and Aaron and Ben were there blocking my view and I growled at them, Ben took Aarons hand and slowly moved out of my way and the sight that greeted made me whimper and change instantly back into my human form. Seth was crying, huddled into a ball on the couch. His little whimpers shot straight into my heart and I quickly made my way to his side. His beautiful golden eyes fluttered open and when he saw it was me he threw himself from the couch and latched onto me, his legs around my waist and his slender arms wrapped around my neck.

 I didn’t even register the sound of the front door closing as Ben and Aaron vacated our house. Heat simmered between us and he mewled as I carried him to the bedroom. I tried to lay him down on the bed but he refused to let me go so I went down with him. My cock was throbbing and leaking all over the front of his jeans. I could feel his erection pushing against my hip and I called forth all of my will power to go slow and take my time with him. “Baby, listen to me carefully, can you do that?” I asked him as his body continued to tremble under mine.

 He nodded his head against my neck in understanding. And I rubbed my hands over his sides trying to soothe him. I wanted him to understand fully that if we do this what the consequences were.

 “Baby, listen, if we mate now I will breed you, you will get pregnant; we discussed this, I am trying here but you are hard to resist and the mating heat is making it impossible to resist.” I said and he undulated against me releasing another searing bolt of heat that had me arching my back and rubbing myself even more firmly against him. He moaned and held on tighter.

 “Carson, I understand, I can’t do anything about it if it is destined. I just need your support I’m scared.” He whispered against my skin and the soft brush of his lips on my neck almost made me cum right there.

 “Shh baby, I will always be here by your side even in death.” I promised him because it was the plain truth. I eased back as much as he would allow and my shaking fingers found the hem of his shirt. And began lifting it over his stomach, he brought his cute little face from the shelter of my neck and raised his arms above his head for me to remove the shirt. They instantly wrapped back around me and I couldn’t help it, I had to taste him. I dipped my head and brushed his sweet lips with mine. He sighed into the cavern of my mouth as my tongue delved through his parted lips and into his mouth and I groaned deep in my chest as his taste swamped my senses.

 His fingers dug into my shoulders as raised his hips off the bed, grinding his jean covered erection against my naked one. My hands flew to the snaps of his jeans as blistering heat seared its way through my veins lighting all of my nerve endings on fire making them sensitive even to the briefest touch. Seth continued the writhe underneath me as I dragged his pants and his underwear down his thighs. He took only enough time to toe his shoes off as I finished stripping him, bearing every delectable inch of his creamy skin to my hungry gaze. My cock twitched with appreciation at the sight. It down right wept when I felt his warm little hand wrap around my shaft. My hips took on a mind of their own and they thrust forward and I fucked his fist.

 He was now sucking on my tongue and I could feel that feral side of me clawing to be free, I tried to contain it, but the beast wanted out, and another shockwave of his heat hit me and an inhuman growl escaped my lips. My hands grabbed each of his legs and threw them wide opening him up for me. I leaned over with one hand and fumbled in the nightstand while I ran my tongue and teeth over a pebbled nipple. Seth was a panting moaning mess, chanting my name incoherently, begging and pleading for more. My fingers finally closed around the little bottle was looking for and using my thumb I flipped the top open. I poured a generous amount over his balls, letting the slick fluid leak into the crease of his ass and his exposed entrance.

 I threw the bottle on the ground and continued to tongue my way across his chest to the other nipple. One hand I used to take his oil slicked dick in my hand and the other I guided to his entrance, I worked the oil around the puckered ring and gently eased the digit inside of him. He shuddered and keened as his fluttering entrance sucked my finger deeper into his silky warmth. I stroked him deeper and deeper with the digit and then I slipped another finger inside. His hips were now moving, rotating himself on my hand and I finger fucked him. I continued to pump his cock and he was babbling nonsense and clutching my shoulders hanging on for dear life.

 I scissored him open and the tense muscles relaxed around my invasion. He cried out in protest when I removed my fingers but he inhaled when he felt the spongy head of cock probe his opening. My entire body was shaking with raw need and I clenched my teeth and focused my control as I slid oh so slowly into his quivering flesh. His velvety heat seared my shaft as I pushed deeper and deeper until I was firmly seated inside him, my balls pressed against his ass cheeks. He was sobbing at this point and his muscles spasmsed around me. I withdrew in tiny increments and thrust forward just the same until I built up a steady rhythm and pounded into him.

 His words and sexy little sounds urged me on and I threw my weight into each thrust. I was fucking him so hard and he took everything that I was giving him and directing back towards me as he met me thrust for thrust; my name on his lips telling me that I owned him, mind, body, and soul. The words just inflamed me more and every muscle in my body burned as I drove him to the brink, I was chasing it right behind him and my balls were quivering, swollen with the need for release. He rolled his hips with every one of my downwards thrusts and I growled and when I felt his canines scrape across my shoulder to that sensitive spot of my neck, a tight hot ball of fire skittered down my spine and swirled in my balls.

 I wrapped my fist around his cock and pumped him shaft from root to tip in time with my hips thrusting over and over again. His teeth sank into my flesh and his cock jerked and he released drawn own groan and he came, shooting all over my abdomen and hand. The scent of his release triggered something deep inside of me and with every pull of his delicate mouth on my neck, my cock hardened even more. I grunted and stars burst before my eyes as my body seized and I emptied myself deep inside of his body. I was so deep my balls were pressed almost inside of him. He cried out, his voice was hoarse from all his screaming.

 Our chest heaved with exertion and my jaws were clamped so tight I was concerned for my molars. Never in my life has my orgasm been so intense or have I released so much in volume. There was no way in hell that he wouldn’t breed from this coupling. Some part of me felt immense satisfaction with that knowledge, but another part of me worried about it too. But right know with my perfect mate in arms, sweaty, sated, and looking so absolutely gorgeous; I was on top of the world, the rest I will worry about later.

 I slowly eased myself from his tight little body and slid off the bed. His eyes were already fluttering closed. He fought to keep them open but I ran my hand through his hair and soothed him some more. His body was going to feel the after affects of that hard ride in a few hours and I wanted him to rest. I collected a warm cloth from the bathroom and cleaned him up before pulling the blankets up over his lean body to keep him warm. I showered quickly and climbed back into the bed drawing him into the protective shelter of my arms. I loved him with everything that was inside of me and I couldn’t wait to see what the morning would bring. I just prayed that whatever came along that my mate will be happy.

Chapter 10

Chapter 10

Seth’s POV…

(Carson’s Wolf––>)

 

My eyes popped open and I don’t know what it was that woke me up. I turned my head to look out the window of our bedroom and from the faint glow and the still damp dew of night clinging to everything told me that it was still really early in the morning that magical moment right before daybreak where the shadows of night slowly eased away to welcome in the brilliance of a new day. I felt two large hands on my body as they spread across my abdomen traveling to my hips and  they gently drew me back across the mattress and I was wrapped in heat as my back came into contact with a very naked and very hard, warm chest. Two very muscular arms wrapped around my waist and I sighed and snuggled into the heat radiating off my gorgeous mate.

 His big hands kept circling my lower abdomen in gentle circles and I wondered why he was doing that. I turned to look at him thinking he was awake but he wasn’t, he was doing it unconsciously. Then, the thought hot me like a light bulb going off over my head, the reason for him doing that was the fact that we mated last night several times and his energy may be picking up the fact that of what I was somewhat dreading on one level but excited about on another. I was pregnant. Shit, is it true and could I tell so soon, I mean merely hours after…yeah, doing the deed. I closed my eyes like Aaron taught me and called forth my energy; I felt it running through me like little sparks of electricity. The added warmth of Carson’s palms over my abdomen helped me focus and I looked within myself and took stock of my life force. I directed that energy to my belly and the white light there was blaring bright, but I focused to see three small orbs of light floating there under the blue energy of Carson’s power, it was like they were pushing towards the warmth that his hands were creating.

 I felt tears pooling in my eyes, oh my God it’s true. I can bring forth life and from what I just witnessed I am pregnant and not just with one but with three, triplets. (Shit!) I shot up into a sitting position and groaned as I got light headed from the sudden movement. I unceremoniously slapped Carson on his shoulder and he hissed as he eyes popped open in surprise and blinked to try to focus his stunning cerulean eyes on me, instantly alert. I was pouting with my arms folded across my chest with my eyebrow raised at him. He sat up and tried to gather me into his arms but I slapped his hands away.

 With a look of confusion on his face and his hair sticking up all over his head, he looked absolutely mouthwatering but the pouting expression never left my face. “What’s the matter baby? Are you sore?” He asked and come to think of it yeah I was but that was the least of my concerns right now. I rolled my eyes at him and I took his hand. I called forth my energy again, and my skin began took on a faint white glow, but I was shocked to see it alter and shimmer with blue, the same exact essence that made up Carson’s power. I heard him gasp as he studied me with wonder in his eyes; I placed his hand over my abdomen and watched as comprehension dawned on his features. He closed his eyes and pressed his palm gently on my stomach, I felt the warmth of his energy tingle across my skin and I knew the moment he saw his babies, yes, all three of their life energy floating around like little stars in my belly. He gasped and his eyes snapped open.

 He looked at me with so much wonder on his face, I could tell he was trying to guess my feelings about it and I couldn’t keep him in suspense any longer so let the big grin I was holding back spread across my face and I threw my arms around his neck and buried my face under it, nuzzling the soft skin there. I wasn’t going to lie. I was scared shitless but it didn’t deter me from the happiness I felt deep down in my soul from the thought that from our love we created life, and that I was carrying my mate’s children under my heart. I felt warm drops of something splashing on my shoulder and I leaned back and my heart fluttered in my chest. Carson’s beautiful eyes shimmered with his tears of joy and I raised my hand to wipe away the ones that leaked out onto his beautifully chiseled cheeks.

 We settled back down under the warmth and comfort of the blankets on the bed and shared a few sweet bone melting kisses, I snuggled into his chest as he big hands glided over my body constantly finding my abdomen and rubbing over it in soothing circles. We drifted in and out of sleep until the sun was shining bright through the windows and patio door of the bedroom. Carson shifted up leaning on one elbow over me. “Come on, baby, time to feed you and my babies.” He crooned as he nuzzled my cheek with his nose. I giggled and sat up. I went to stand but a wave of dizziness overtook me and I stumbled a little. Carson was instantly at my side, his big hands under my elbows with a concerned frown on his face. “Are you alright?”

 I patted his shoulder in reassurance. “I am ok, babe, just moved too quick.” I said and I stood up straight to show him I was steady on my feet, but he wasn’t having any of it. He bent down and swooped me off my feet. I yelped in surprise and latched onto his powerful shoulders as he carried me into the bathroom. He sat me on the side of the tub and he turned on the shower and adjusted the temperature of the water. Seeing that we didn’t bother to get dressed again in the early morning hours after our lovemaking, there were no clothes to get out of. Once he was satisfied with the water he picked me up and climbed into the stall setting me on my feet in front of him. I knew better to argue with him, this was his way of caring for me and his pups, so I just let him have his way. Arguing with Carson is like arguing with yourself, he gets his way regardless, he is like this immovable force. I just hope he doesn’t go berserk on anyone during this pregnancy.

 As he washed my body from head to toe, my mind ran over the facts he had shared about the prophecy that they were now researching in detail. It never mentioned triplets but it did mention that like human gestation, mine would be the customary 40 weeks in length; I would have to deliver via caesarean section, seeing I didn’t have a birthing canal or such. My babies would bring peace and unity to the three species, Vampire, Warlock, and Shifters. I sent up to the heavens a silent prayer for health and strength, my pregnancy was unheard of and with any pregnancy there were going to be risks. I prayed for the endurance and wisdom to bring my children into this world healthy and strong. The other Elders along with my mate have been looking deep into the prophecy to figure out everything that it fore told.

 Carson turned off the faucets and handed me out of the tub like I was the most fragile thing in the world. I knew at some point that it was going to get on my nerves, but I let him have his for now. I kinda liked the way he was pampering me. We got dried off and dressed, he wanted to go and see Peyton and he wanted me to get looked over by the pack doctor. I watched from the stool where he had sat me down as he began putting our breakfast together. The smell of bacon and frying eggs were making my mouth water. No sooner had he placed a heaping plate of scrambled eggs and bacon in front of me that I tucked into my food and practically inhaled it, Carson watched dumbfounded as I guzzled the glass of milk and polished off three slices of buttery toast.

 “Wha?” I mumbled wide eyed and cheeks full of food.

 “Nothing, I guess the babies are already making themselves known with the amount of food you just packed away.” He chuckled at me and I just rolled my eyes and got up to carry my dishes to the sink, but of course, he beat me to it and I found myself glaring at him, he just blew me a kiss and cleared away the remnants of our breakfast. I did manage to beat him to the punch by tying my own shoes. He opened the front door and waved me through; I stepped out onto the porch into the bright morning sunshine. The air held a cool crispness to it promising colder weather would soon to come. There was a warm flash and a blur of blue light behind me and I turned around to see that Carson had shifted to his wolf, and now that he was free he bounded over to me joyously and nuzzled my abdomen, letting off a happy whine before licking my fingers. I giggled and patted his head. He waited until I stepped off the bottom step and he lifted his massive head to sniff the air.

 Carson in wolf form was a picture to behold, he was a massive with snow white fur, he stood above my waist and his eyes were the same brilliant blue as in his human form, he was strong, his muscles toned and cut, also like his human form. He was a gentle giant with me, but you could clearly see the power shimmering through him. He was breathtakingly magnificent. He nudged my leg and glanced in the direction of the pack house. I rubbed his shoulder feeling the muscles flexing there under his fur. I set off in that direction as he strutted by my side. The closer we got to the main house the more we began to see more and more of the pack members. They scurried out of the way as they spied the massive wolf leading me to the house like a centennial guard. The menace oozing from him was warning enough, absolutely no one was going to be getting close to me today or anytime soon for that matter, he was not only protecting me but his pups as well.

 By the time we made it to the clearing surrounding that pack house, Peyton and the other Elders were standing on the front porch. People took notice and began to loosely gather around trying to figure out what was going on. Even the children stopped chasing each other and focused their attentions towards us. I could feel the flush of embarrassment wash over my face at all the eyes now focused on me. I started to fidget and Carson took a stance in front of me, his wolf sensing my discomfort and growled deep in his throat, all at once several people went back to what they were doing dragging their kids behind them. I ran my hand over his spine in attempt to soothe him. No need for the pack to fear him anymore than they already do.

 We continued towards the steps of the house and Peyton stepped off the front porch carefully giving Carson a wide berth and coming to a stop several feet in front of me.”Okay little man, I am just going to have a wild guess since your mate here has his fur up in dander that you have some news.” He said as he chuckled at Carson’s wolfy huff of indignation.

 “Can we not broadcast this out in the open for \ and sundry?” I said fighting the blush that was threatening to spread over my cheeks. Just then Aaron came barreling through the line of the trees into the clearing. Ben was not far behind him in his wolf form. “Perfect, you guys are right on time.” Peyton said and he turned and led the way back into the house. We all followed and filed into his study, the Elders, my brother and his mate, and of course Chantal was already there fussing over a tray of refreshments. I saw the fat pastries filled with crème cheese and fruits and even though I just had breakfast I gravitated towards it and plucked one off and onto a dainty napkin she provided, she looked at me and handed me another pastry like she knew already about my appetite increase and I happily perched on the loveseat with my goodies.

 Carson was at my side the entire time and before I could lift a piece of the confection to my lips he sniffed at it before allowing me to so, and like I said I just let him have his way or else his over protectiveness could turn into a serious argument real quick. Peyton closed the door after the pack doctor who was the last to enter the room. I guessed that Carson had linked with Peyton earlier to set up this little meeting. I just mentally shrugged and tucked into my yummy pastry.

 “So I take it you have happy news.” Peyton said and I felt another shimmer of warm energy as Carson shifted back and sat down next to putting a comforting arm across my shoulder. “Triplets.” He simply stated and the Elders gasped but that was nothing compared to Chantal, she jumped up and let out an ear piercing squeal and clapped her hands together. “Oh My God, come on Seth, I have so many ideas and an attic full of brand new baby stuff that the other mothers didn’t even get a chance to use since there is always so much stuff gifted and bought with each new pup. We can plan your nursery.” She babbled as she grabbed my hand and led me from the room. I could feel Carson’s apprehension with having me out of his sight but Peyton waved him off and sent silent Ben with us as guard.

 I knew they all were going to discuss my pregnancy in length and pour over the old books of Elders of the past that documented out history and blood line and such. I wasn’t concerned too much about that because at some point everyone was going to know I am carrying my pups, I wasn’t going to have this flat tummy for much longer and could care less, I was carrying Carson’s babies and I dutifully let Chantal shuffle me through the house and up the stairs to the attic, she picked a few more ladies on the way and poor Ben followed like a stoic solider amongst the excited women chirping sway about baby clothes and blankets and the bottles for feeding and such, I really needed to pay attention.

 By the time we reached the attic and Ben and now Lucas were shifting through the heavier boxes following Chantal’s directions, we had picked up several of the newly mated women and more than a few of the mothers, I almost felt like I should have a notebook to write down all the advice I was getting. My head was spinning but I was happy to let all the women flutter on around me, I did manage to look at Lucas’ pained expression as, Maya, one of the newly mated women used his massive chest to showcase a little dainty onesie that had “puppy luv” written across the front and I awed right along with everyone as he stood there like a trooper, being a living mannequin. 

 What seemed like hours later my head was floating with nothing but baby information as I made it the  infirmary to see the doctor to get my check up. The pregnancy was confirmed by ultrasound, we got to see our little ones while I laid there on the examination table in the infirmary, I was shirtless and I didn’t even register the cold gel on my belly while the doctor ran the wand over my belly pausing to show us our babies on the screen in front of us.  The other Elders were in attendance too but I didn’t feel funny because they were all twittering a flustering like proud grandparents at the sight of the little pea pods in my belly. Carson was at a loss for words and Chantal couldn’t sit still to save her life.

 Afterwards, I was unceremoniously shuffled to the kitchen and the Chef, her name was Annette, provided with enough food to send me into a coma. Aaron was by my side for the remainder of the afternoon with Ben and Lucas not far away as we sunned ourselves outside lying on several blankets spread across the grass as we watched over the toddlers as they wobbled across the yard attempting to play with a huge beach ball. I reached for Aaron’s hand and held it tightly, I was so happy, never in my life had I been this happy and I had my gorgeous mate, my ever loyal big brother and my silent protective brother-in-law, and now my entire and the Elders and my pack to share it with, for me right now life couldn’t get any better.

Chapter 11

Chapter 11 

Carson’s POV… 

(Yummy Raphael––––>)

Four months, it has been four long months since I found out that my beautiful  mate was pregnant and not with one but with three babies, therefore proving the Peacemaker Prophecy correct so far, and let me tell you a lot has happened in these four months. The first thing that happened was that the Seers from the Warlock clan arrived and requested to see if it was true that the peacemaker was indeed alive and pregnant. Peyton, myself, the war wolves, and the other Elders spoke with them at length before I felt comfortable enough to let them even get a glimpse my mate, I was in wolf form the whole time and Aaron and the Elders had a protective spell casted around him for the entire length of the meeting. It wasn’t long after the Seers were totally charmed by my little mate did the remainder of the clan begin to arrive. They used their combined magic to erect homes and cabins to accommodate our new family.

The next event that occurred was the arrival of the Vampire Council, you can see where this is going right. That meeting was a little more hostile because the Warlocks and the Vampires really didn’t care for each other, they was a superiority issue going on there and Gregori from the Seers and Raphael from the Coven almost decapitated each other in the yard in front of the pack house, they succeeded in upsetting Seth, which set my wolf off into a fit of rage and I instantly shifted, my wolf almost ripping their throats out until Seth placed a calming hand into my fur and pulled me away from them. Needless to say I told everyone that if they even so much as to make my mate frown that I would fry them where they stood; and truly I didn’t have to worry because both the Clan and the Coven adored and doted on Seth to no end, there was not a thing that he needed or wanted that he didn’t receive from me or anyone else.

My wolf was still restless though and I found I couldn’t help myself, he compelled me to stay in wolf form most of the time. I could better sense and smell anything that maybe wrong with my mate or my pups. I found myself either at his feet or by his side. I sniffed everything that may pass his lips and I was just generally overprotective. I didn’t like anyone near them and it showed. I almost snapped off Peyton’s hand the other day when he tried to touch Seth’s distended abdomen. I mean he was four months along but he looked more like six months. He was sweetly round now, but let me tell you as this pregnancy wore on that was the only thing sweet about him sometimes.

Now with all the pack, the clans, and the covens congregating in one place another phenomena started to take place. All the newly mated and even the long time mated females started turning up pregnant. It was like mass conception going on and it would have been a joyous occurrence except for the main fact that having that many pregnant hormonal women in one place was the most painful experience I have ever encountered in my life. The Seers, Elders, and Council leaders did not make the situation any easier for us to understand and deal with, they laughed at our discomfort at being the targets of our mate’s emotional roller coaster.

Let me give you an example, Ben came running up to me early one morning as I stretched my legs in the clearing behind my house before making Seth breakfast. The gentle giant was almost in a panic. I asked him what was wrong and he informed me that Aaron was pregnant. As it seemed Aaron carried the trait as well with the ability for a male to bring forth life, much to our surprise and when I used my energy to examine him, he was only carrying one baby and the poor thing was shell shocked. Ben didn’t know head from his ass and took to staring off into space and mumbling off about nothing until Lucas got fed up of trying to get his attention so he had balled up his fist and reared back and clocked Ben one good one on his jaw effectively bringing him out of his daze, but Aaron almost had a heart attack and of course I was blamed by my mate for his brother getting upset because I didn’t handle the situation properly. I wound up apologizing and groveling much to the amusement of the other Elders with Peyton, Lucas, Raphael, and Gregori snickering right along with them.

But I got my own sweet revenge though, because  I wasn’t the only one with an emotionally unstable pregnant mate. It was Peyton’s turn and let me say that Chantal made my day when she decided that he wasn’t being courteous enough to her needs and her mother and half the pregnant women stepped in and cornered him in his own house. They told him that he should be ashamed of himself seeing that he was the Alpha that he should provide a better example for the other expectant father’s on how to take proper care of his pregnant mate and unborn pup.

You should have seen the 6’6, 250 pound plus giant cowering in the corner as he was dressed down by several petite women more than half his size, the enforcers and some of the war wolves decided to be brave and tried to extract him from the mob only to get snapped at and the hardened warriors scattered like roaches and left their fearless leader to his demise. It was Declan, one of the Council members that came up with the brilliant plan to entice the ladies away from the traumatized leader with an ice cream social event  they had promptly put together in the courtyard for everyone. The thought of ice cream and all the toppings had the ladies outside in no time flat leaving the relieved Alpha alone still standing in a protective stance in the corner of the room.

The next unfortunate victim was Lucas, he had managed to find his mate amongst the Warlock clan, a beautiful little thing by the name of Nyla, she was sweet with a calming quality about her; perfect for the outgoing, outspoken Lucas. Well one beautiful day Lucas decided to hang out longer than usual at the pack house after all day of making rounds to the pack land perimeter as was his duty. Nyla felt that he should have been rushing home to her when his call of duty was done for the day, not hanging out shooting the breeze with his single friends at the pack house, she had specifically told him that she was keeping dinner for him but he genuinely forgot, but try passing that excuse over on your spouse, especially a hormonal one.

Let’s just say that Lucas spent half the night begging to a locked front door and the other half lounged on the front porch because he didn’t want it said that after being locked out that he abandoned Nyla all together by spending the night elsewhere. So when he did manage to drift off in the lounge chair on the porch you can only picture it and how uncomfortable it must of been for the bulky warrior to fit onto the small outdoor chaise and sleep comfortably. When he woke with sun shining directly in his face in the morning it was to the snickering faces of the Elders out for their morning walk.

The stories of the unfortunate husbands could go on and on, where there wasn’t a nauseous or vomiting mate, there were irritable and emotional ones. Then there was the food issue and the cravings that was another story. There were and still is several nights some of us have met up on each other in the isle of the closest grocery store at three in the morning looking for some exotic treat that our mates seemed to must have at that ungodly hour of the morning. We got so tired of making the trek back and forth to the supermarket or corner stores so Peyton had several freezers and food storage facilities built on the pack compound, we now practically had our own grocery store that was replenished on a weekly basis by everyone. We even took to ordering the more exotic things over the internet, I mean where the hell were we supposed to find dragon fruit in the middle of the forest. Raphael had to send a messenger, thank God for the vampire ability to materialize and dematerialize anywhere they wished.

The next headache came in the form of the Doctors, Healers, and Bloodletters from the different clans clashing about the best way to deal with what was going to be an exhausting epic event of birthing babies come springtime. They clashed over equipment and techniques, seeing that the Warlock Healers believed in the more naturalistic methods, and our pack Doctor was all for the surgical method, and the Coven Bloodletter believed in both methods so he was neutral, the only thing that they did agree on was all of them being there for the birth of my babies; and they knew from my demeanor that they better do everything the can to make sure both my mate and my babies survived the process because there is no other alternative for me, I refused for any other outcome to occur.

There was not only negatives concerning all the pregnancies, there were a lot of positives as well; the biggest one was the unity of all the clans living in one place. All the hot headed, macho males working together for the common goal of the health and happiness of their mates and their clans. Another was the gift of life and the bond and love between family getting stronger. We all considered ourselves family and a lot of wolves found their mates amongst the warlocks and some even with the Vampires, most of them were half breeds of either species making them compatible.

There was still a shadow over my head because there were packs and covens out there that didn’t agree with the mingling and unity of the three dominant species and Thomas was a direct remainder of that. He was tortured, beaten, and threatened and still he refused to give up his information as to why and who was trying to harm my mate. I finally got pissed off and went to question him myself. It had gotten really ugly and my wolf decided that drastic measures where needed so I had called forth my energy and probed his memory, now let me explain, in doing this I literally have to take over and tear apart your brain especially if you are unwilling to consciously let go and let me take what I need which was the case with dear old Thomas. He struggled for the best part of an hour before I found several images and conversations with the Red Wolf and I felt the flash burn of my fury spike and unfortunately for Thomas that flare up cost him his life. For my energy fried his brain and he fell to the floor in a lifeless lump. The Seers had managed to safely project the same images I extracted from his brain to Peyton, the war wolves, the enforcers, and the coven guards. The Elders disposed of Thomas’ traitorous body by disintegrating it and it disappeared into ether.

Security to the pack compound was increased and sentinels were sent out to spy and recover the location of Red Wolf and his pack. I was more than concerned because all the males were involved with the pregnant mates, including myself, our Alpha, Gregori the leader of Warlocks and Gregori one of the Coven leaders. We were all too preoccupied to focus on anything other than our mates. so the Elders, Council Members, the Seers and any single war wolf and enforcer took charge of compound security. Peyton still manage to devote his time to pack business with Chantal firmly at his side. Me on the other hand refused to leave my mate’s side. I knew he was more than exasperated with my over protectiveness sometimes but I couldn’t help myself, my wolf was more powerful than ever and his instincts to protect and provide for his mate and pups overrode everything else.

At one point the Elders, Seers, and Council decided to take pity on us younger ones and they gathered all of us one evening the clearing outside the pack house. They got tired of seeing us either locked out, cornered, groveling or sleep deprived at different times of the day and night.  So they gathered the seasoned veteran father’s to give us sound advice on what to expect and how best to handle the mood swings and hormonal imbalances.

We were educated about the different trimesters of pregnancy and we were entering the second one, where things got better in regards to their emotions. Since they had to go through the mental and chemical as well as physical adjustments of their condition the last thing on their mind was sex but all of that will change and it will change soon. They advised us to be patient and loving with our mates. It was sound advice and they did manage to get a laugh in at our expense by telling us all to eat heartily and keep our energy levels up because our mates were going to wear us out in the next few months before they deliver, and they all departed cackling as they went.

I just managed to scratch my head and let all the advice sink in. I mean how much worse can it be than I mean the chance to finally get some sexual action after months of literally living in abstinence sounded good to me. Yeah, I should have known it wouldn’t have been so easy. After about three more weeks Seth began attacking me the minute I walked through the front door. I don’t think I have any clothes left, they all got shredded by my mate in his haste to ravish my body. You would think he would be sore with all the extra activity but no, I was the one that has taken to wearing the softest material of sweatpants I could find because he has managed to fuck my poor cock raw, but I can tell you this I would gladly endure the cravings, the mood swings, and the endless sex  time and time again to make him happy, to feel my children grow inside the safety of his body until they are strong enough to come into the world. I would gladly lay down and let him walk all over me to feel the awesome connection when I let my energy flow into him and my pups providing them the extra strength and energy to grow and ease the added burden on my mates body as our children grow heavier and heavier. I found that my wolf favorite position now was laying my head on our mates tummy and listen to our pups interact with each other. I could do this for hours on end. I let all the anxiety of finding the Red Wolf go and just be one with my cute little mate and our babies.

Chapter 12

Chapter 12

 

Seth’s POV…

 

(Sexy Carson––––>)

 

Using both hands to rub my protruding belly, I was trying to soothe my babies into settling down and stop trying to kick their way out of  my extended abdomen. I was now seven months into my pregnancy but I looked like I was about to pop open at any moment. Currently I was sitting around the island counter in the kitchen with Aaron and Chantal, our mates were sitting in my living room right along with the other Elders, Seers, and Coven Leaders. They were discussing all the political affairs of the family; as they now referred to all three species now living together here on the ever growing compound. They were talking and laughing it up like they were the God’s of the universe and I was uncomfortable enough and disgruntled enough to go in there and growl at Carson just because I felt like it.

For the past couple of days I there has been something that I needed but I don’t know what it was. I went from hot to cold, I went from wanting my mate to him totally turning me off and regular intervals during the day or night. He has become so careful with me and I can’t even tell when the last time we had sex. I can’t even wrap my arms around him anymore. My belly got in the way and I almost knocked him off his feet the other day when he helped me get up from the couch. I couldn’t even tell when was the last time, other than looking in the mirror,  that I saw my own poor neglected penis; and let me tell you I was so unhappy about that event alone.

I watched as Chantal buzzed around the kitchen putting together ice cream floats and sundaes for everyone. I must say that they did look good and I was finding myself getting excited for a vanilla ice cream float. Aaron was currently stuffing his face with almost every piece of fruit in the house. His tummy was a normal basketball size at compared to my mammoth double wide load.

Peyton came in and smiled at us while helping Chantal and Aaron with the trays of treats to carry them into the living room for our guests, Lucas and Ben followed not far behind with the platters of pastries, I could see it now, everyone was going to be suffering from a severe case of sugar high, all the men have used the excuse of pregnancies and their mate’s cravings to eat whatever they wanted and cheat on their own diets; but unlike us they didn’t gain not one pound. Lucas shuffled my hair in passing and I crossed my arms and pouted. Everyone always wanted me to take it easy to not move around so much and blah, blah, didn’t they understand that I have to move around or else my legs will go numb or my back will start hurting, Carson irritated me the most but at the same time it melted my heart the way he took such impeccable care of me. You see what I mean when I talk about my seesawing emotions.

Chantal waddled back into the kitchen and we started talking about the usual, our babies. She had practically decorated all the Nurseries so far and we could have put all the baby stores from here to the next three counties out of business. I mean when we say there are enough diapers, baby bottles, little onesies, and other baby paraphernalia all over the compound to cover these babies until they are at least five years old.

She passed around our floats and she took a seat on the stool next to me. “Whew guys, my feet are killing me.” She said as she drew the heavy tumbler of frothy goodness over to her and took a sip.

“Who are you telling, I can’t wait to get my body and my emotions back to myself.” I said as Aaron nodded in agreement with me. We sat there sipping on our floats when Carson made an appearance in the doorway to the kitchen. He peered inside like he was being careful because he didn’t know what he was walking into, like he was gauging our mood and  he was more than ready to get the hell out of dodge if we were upset or disgruntled. All the husbands took to doing this and I found it extremely funny to see all these huge manly beasts walk on eggshells under the watchful glares of their pregnant mates. You could usually find them either a step behind their prospective mates or hiding out in the clearing or in the main house. The Elders took great pleasure in razzing on them all the time too.

Carson sighed happily when he saw that we were laughing and giggling so he braved it and came into the kitchen with the empty ice cream dishes and platters, he even rinsed them and put them in the dishwasher. Good boy, I smiled at him as he sauntered over to me and the smile wiped right off my face when I caught his scent, for some reason it seemed more potent to me at that moment and I felt the tingle of heat shoot through my veins and twitch in my now semi erect penis. I wanted to scramble off this chair and devour him right here on the kitchen floor. He must have picked up on it because he eyes glinted and flashed that mouthwatering blue letting me know that he was responding to my elevated hormones.

From my peripheral vision I saw both Chantal and Aaron slide off their stools and Chantal carried their glasses to the sink. They have obviously picked up on my elevated scent and they were discreetly making their exit. Carson kissed me on the side of my head and literally ran out of the kitchen, and damn it, he wasn’t going to get away with it tonight, no way was he going to give me the “being careful” speech. By this point I could feel my cock slowly filling with even more blood that was now pumping through my veins heading straight for my dick.

“Would you look at the time, come on Chantal I am tired how about you, let’s go get our men and get that foot rub we were talking about.” Aaron said as he not so subtly shuffled himself and Chantal out of the kitchen towards the living room while waving a hasty goodbye at me.

I smiled and waved back and I sat back and waited, giving them a few minutes to get their mates and to make small talk before I cornered my man. I listened as Peyton and Ben said their goodbyes, and they barely had the chance to wave to me as they passed the kitchen being dragged out the front door my the love of their lives.  Lucas was next to leave and some of the other expectant dads that were using the excuse of this family meeting to hide from their wives were soon to follow.

The Elders were dragging their feet and the longer Carson was stalling and not sending them on their way, caused me to get even more pissed off the longer it took for me to get my mate alone; so I took matters into my own hands and I got up and took it upon myself to kindly usher our guests out the front door. I gingerly slid my butt off the stool and straightened Carson’s shirt over my belly. I have taken to wearing his sweat pants and shirts because my clothes no longer had any hope of fitting me anymore with my distended abdomen. I cradled my stomach with my hands and waddled my way into the living room and I guessed that the minute I stepped into the room they picked up on my mood and my scent because they immediately started smirking at Carson and they stood as one and wished me a pleasant good evening. Some of them sighing about young love as they made their way out the front door.

Once the room was empty and the front door closed behind the last person I turned my full attention onto my mate. He held up his hands and opened his mouth to say something but I cut him off.

“All three of the pack doctors, the healers from the Warlocks, and the bloodletters from the Coven have all stated that it was okay for me to have sexual intercourse as long as we don’t put any weight on my abdomen. You were there when they said it, so please spare me the long extended speech about being careful. I mean we haven’t done anything in months and I understand that I haven’t really been in the mood, but that has changed over the last month and you still haven’t touched me in that way. Am I so repugnant or something now that I am fat?” I babbled as I could feel yet another mood shift coming on as my bottom lip wobbled and my eyes got misty. Did he really think that I was unattractive now that I am so big, he didn’t say anything he just sat there blinking at me like I was some kind of alien or something and a sob escaped my throat; and I turned and attempted to waddle as quick as I could down the hall to our room but large warm hands wrapped around my waist and gently pulled me back into a massive hard hot chest.

I whimpered and sniffled, my body tense despite the warmth radiating off his naked chest. He used his big hands to rub soothing circles over the thin barrier of flesh and skin protecting his babies, and for once this evening they settled down under their father’s touch, it was like they knew his caress different from mine.

“Baby, how could you doubt me like that, do you know how hard it has been for him figuratively and literally speaking not to touch you, not to strip you naked anytime you caught my eye and bury myself to the hilt in your luscious body? Do you know how turned on I get watching you grow ripe and round with our babies, knowing how and when I planted my seed deep inside of you, it just makes me want to do it over and over again. You are the sexiest thing I have ever laid my eyes on and it’s been torture for me to lay next to you night after night and during your nap times and not touch you. I had to mask the scent of me wanting you so terribly and I have rubbed the skin of my cock raw jacking off to the image of your delicious body that has forever imprinted itself on my brain.” He purred as he nuzzled the sensitive skin behind my ear and I melted into his chest and strong arms. The cadence of his voice, the raw sincerity and huskiness making my cock throb and pump out a pool of precum into my boxers.

I turned into his embrace and his eyes were glowing a bright indigo fire as he studied my face. He leaned down and captured my lips into a searing kiss and I forgot what is was that I was going to say to him, Hell, I even forgot my own damn name by this point.

He tasted like vanilla and his own unique flavor. I released as shameful moan of pure lust as his soft beautiful lips worked over mine, the tip of his tongue glided over my bottom lip and I immediately allowed him entrance into my mouth and gave up complete control and he mastered the kiss sending my blood boiling through my veins and pool into my groin, my cock pulsing and dripping at a steady pace soaking the front of my pants.

“Please Carson, baby, I need you. Please.” I managed to gasp out once I dragged my lips away from his hungry mouth.

He gazed down at me, his beautiful eyes glowing, the heat from his hands burning through the thin fabric of his shirt. I was flush up against his body and I could feel his cock poking me in my lower abdomen, throbbing like it had a heartbeat of it’s own; and God, that sent a shiver of awareness sapping down the length of my spine. My already fluttering heart kicked up a notch when he started backing me up down the hallway slowly towards our bedroom. His lips once again claiming mine as he nibbled and ate at my mouth, dragging my bottom lip between his teeth and giving gentle pulls on the abused flesh causing me to whimper into his mouth and he swallowed my sounds happily.

When the back of my knees hit the bed I was literally panting with anticipation, my hands fumbled the with snap of his cargo shorts but he brought his hand down to stop my fumbling progress and I groaned out my frustration.

“Ssh, I know baby, I am going to take care good care of you but we are not going to rush; we are going to go nice and slow, I don’t want to fuck you, I want to make love to you. I want you and our babies to absolutely fine before, during , and after I take you.” He whispered as his lips skimmed and fluttered over the sensitive skin of my throat, and my knees gave out and Carson gently lowered me to the sit on the end of the bed.

My love knelt at my feet and stared up at me like I was a God or something. His big hands snaked under the hem of my shirt and he caressed my swollen stomach before whipping the material over my head. He leaned forward and placed a gentle kiss on my bulging abdomen and I watched as he released some of his energy, it shimmered all around us as he whispered to his sons to be gentle and quiet and go to sleep. My eyes misted over as he sent soothing warmth to them to aide them in calming down and resting peacefully against each other, snuggled together in my tummy.

His fingers found the waist of my pants and he slid them down and I lifted my butt to help him slide them further down my thighs and then completely off my body. I released a jagged breath now that I was naked and on full display, you could see the skin of my stomach stretched so tight over the babies that you could see the blue veins underneath the pale skin sticking out so prominently, right along with my belly button, it was now an extreme outie when it used to be an innie.

But Carson didn’t seem to care as he worshipped my body like a temple. He kissed and licked over every square inch of my already over sensitized skin and I became completely mindless as I writhed and moaned under his skilled hands and mouth; and when he took a minute to retrieve the lube from the nightstand I was more than ready to feel him slide into my body. I no longer desired to be taken hard and fast, he had me on a gradual burn, I wanted it to  last, I wanted to be held and stroked and petted. I wanted by the time he slipped into me, for him to claim me, to renew and make me his all over again.

He helped me slide towards the headboard of our bed, my back was to his chest. He eased me up on my knees and he situated himself to where he was sitting with his back leaning against the headboard and his legs in between my parted ones. My hands clenched on his knees as I hovered over him, my fingers digging into his skin when I felt the cold lube on his fingers as he slathered up and down the crease of my ass, he poured a copious amount all over his cock, lubing himself more than he normally does.

I shuddered with anticipation as he used one hand on my hip and the other on his well endowed rock hard dick to guide himself to my entrance.He used the bulbous head to massage and tease my quivering hole, never adding enough pressure to penetrate it just to only tease me a little. I was incoherently begging and mewling at him by this point, totally lost in a world of swirling desire and need. He took mercy on me and lined himself up to my entrance and eased his way past the fluttering ring of muscle until the head popped in courtesy of all the lubricant applied to our areas. I had to release my grip on his knees as he brought me up, my back now flush up against the heated skin of his chest.

His hands splayed under my belly and they supported the weight of his children as he rocked his hips back and forth, thrusting and withdrawing, in and out at a spine tingling pace. I threw my head back on his shoulder and listened as he whispered to me, it was so sexy how he told me how beautiful I was, how sexy and hot I looked riding him, how perfect I felt as my ass swallowed his dick over and over again. He seduced me with his voice while he pleasured me with his magnificent body. I felt cherished, I felt special, and I could feel his love for me with every word, with every touch, and I sobbed unable to control myself any longer.

The balls drew up and quivered as the heat of my orgasm poured over my body as tears of utter amazement and joy poured down my cheeks. I was totally overwhelmed by the emotions and my love for this man, my mate, my husband, and the father of my children, which in itself was a miracle; he was a miracle, and I cried out when my completion burned through my shaft and pumped out the head of my cock coating my abdomen and his hands. He thrust one final time driving himself deep inside of me and he released a groan so sexy that it set me off again spiraling into another soul shattering orgasm.

My body slumped against his and Carson swiped my sweat damp hair out of my face as he planted a kiss on my shoulder. He waited a few moments before he slid from my body, I didn’t even have the energy to groan and I fell asleep long before my head hit the pillow, but my love laid me down gently on my side before leaving the bed to to get a warm wet washcloth and he cleaned me up and then himself. He propped the dozens of pillows around my body and belly just the way I liked them before curling his big frame protectively around me and played with my curls until he gave himself over to sleep as well.

Chapter 13

Chapter 13

 

Aaron’s POV…

 

(Aaron’s Baby Bump—–>)

 

My eyes fluttered open to streams of brilliant sunshine filtering through the bedroom windows. My daughter  was making herself known by bouncing on my bladder like it was a trampoline. Pouting I gently rolled over as much as much as my girth would allow and shook Ben’s shoulder.

“I’m up, I’m up strawberry or vanilla, babe?” He mumbled as he stumbled out of bed his eyes not quite yet open and his thick black hair sticking out adorably every which way.

I had to chuckle at the picture he made, the poor thing. He’s had to endure all of  my mood swings and cravings, and he has done it admirably. “No baby, help me up my bladder is screaming at me,please.” I said as I  held up my arms to him.

Ben’s beautiful lips curved up into a smile as he ignored my arms and scooped me up with a flourish that had me giggling at his antics. He dramatically set me on my feet and I leaned up and pecked him on his cheek, thanking him for his gallantry before scurrying off the the bathroom. “You really got to quit with the somersaults on my bladder kid, it’s not a pillow or trampoline.” I muttered as I rubbed my little princess. I winced as she gave me a healthy kick as if she was answering me. I finished my business and flushed and waddled over to the sink to wash my hands, our daughter kicking me the whole way. God she was active, especially in the mornings.

Ben entered the bathroom and wrapped his long arms around my bulging middle and rubbed his warm palms all over my belly and immediately the little bugger stopped her feild goal worth kicking, but she followed his father’s hands like she was mesmerized by his touch.

Ben leaned over and placed a kiss next to my belly button. “Rest little one, sleep for your daddy and let him rest. He will need all his energy to bring you into the world sweet baby, ssh… and relax.” He whispered to my bump and I found myself getting a little misty eyed.

I loved Ben with every cell in my body, I ran my fingers through his hair as he continued to quietly croon to our child. I jumped when I heard banging on the front door and Ben straightened up with a curious scowl on his face.

We both exited the bathroom and went to answer the front door,  Ben reached out and opened it to see a heavily pregnant Seth standing there frowning as his slender arms held the weight of his enormous stomach; concerned I reached out and ushered him inside. “What are you doing walking the path from your house to here?” I scolded him, not failing to see the escort of war wolves holding sentinel off in the trees where the guarded his every step when Carson as not with him.

He huffed as Ben  helped him ease down onto the sofa. “He left early this morning to give his wolf a run, Peyton was there and thought it was a good idea to hunt while they were at it, and Raphael decided to boost them up even more and they all left along with Lucas to chase deer or whatever. Lucas said he would link with you once he figured you were awake, it seems you are on guard duty today brother-in-law.” Seth explained and I watched amused as he pouted and he crossed his arms over his belly.

“Come on Seth stop being so disgruntled, you know no one has really given their Wolf, Warlock, or Vampire free reign in the past few months because they are busy catering to us. So I say let them blow off a little steam.” I encouraged as I took a seat next to him. Ben had quietly disappeared to the kitchen to put the cinnamon buns in the oven that requested for breakfast from last night.

Seth just rolled his eyes and I recognized that he was in a mood. I know this has been a lot for him, everyone treating him like he was the next Messiah or something and the fact that all  of this happened within a space of a few months. I scooted over as I watched his bottom lip wobble a little, he was and will always will be my little baby brother and I wanted to carry his burdens for him and wrap him in cotton so he wouldn’t get hurt at any time.

He leaned his head on my shoulder and his curls brushed against my cheek. I picked up Carson’s spicy woodsy scent all over him and I smiled. Carson took great pride in rubbing every inch of his body all over Seth’s skin every chance he got. It was the same with Ben and my grin got a little wider.

“What are you grinning about?” He asked still sounding a little disgruntled and I let it go, he was really missing his mate, that was the root cause of this little display. I asked him what he thought about our mates and the situation we have found ourselves in and he laughed too, we sat there and talked about everything, the prophecy, our feelings about being pregnant, our luck in finding our mates, and we even touched on the thing that scaring the both of us, delivering our babies. We were scared but we were looking forward to it. The actual delivery of our children. I didn’t want to admit how scared I was for him, he was carrying three and he was going to be the first to actually go into labour seeing he was the first one pregnant before it spread like wildfire throughout the compound.

We all also knew that Carson was trying to be strong in front of him but he was scared shitless too for his mate as well as his babies, all of this was so not normal but we are are not human, so nothing for us was ever normal. I had researched the prophecy extensively on my own as well as with the other family leaders, especially when I found myself pregnant as well. I refused to tell him until he has come through the birth of  his children that this is not a one time thing for us, as long as we are mated to our true mates, we will always have the capability to conceive a child and carry a pregnancy safely within our bodies until it was time to deliver and since we were werewolves we will heal completely from the cesarean section, there won’t even be a scar from the incision, but now was not the time. Carson had made me swear not to tell Seth anything that could raise his stress levels.

My beautiful Ben had patiently served us breakfast and even went back and served us seconds and catered to all our whims, he pulled us up and helped us down. He followed behind Seth and made sure he wobbled up and down the hallway to the  bathroom safely, because if Seth so much as got a hair out of place when Carson returned it would be like world war three around the compound by the time he calmed down. He has already taken out one of the storage buildings in a fit of rage when Seth almost slipped on a patch of wet grass last week and bruised his elbow on a tree, it healed instantly but that was not good enough for Carson. One of the Elders had to step in and freeze him in tracks suspending him in thin air until he calmed. Carson was powerful enough to break free but he chose that the timeout was best.

I watched as his eyes began to droop and I motioned for Ben, he came over and smiled at the adorable picture Seth made as he snuggled under my chin and his breath puffed out through his parted lips as he drifted off into his midday nap. Ben went to pick him up when all of a sudden he went ramrod straight and a whine of distress escaped his mouth.

“Stay inside, the war wolves have got the cabin on lock down, do not go outside for any reason.” He barked and disappeared before I could even open my mouth to question him.

I heard the front door slam and I saw the huge war wolves, it looked like Tyson and Cain as they took a menacing stance in front of the patio doors. I was sure the cabin was surrounded by them and I wondered what the hell was going on. I tried to link with Ben and even Carson, but they were closed off to me and feeling of trepidation shivered down my spine.

Seth snuffled and snuggled deeper into my side and I eased us both into a more comfortable position. I had no idea what was happening but, there was no way I was going to wake him up anytime soon. I waited and waited until my own eyes started to get droopy, but I had no chance of going to sleep when Seth screamed and started thrashing. I tried my best to get a hold of his flailing arms but the bulk of my own stomach was getting in the way. I screamed out for Tyson who came bursting through the glass doors responding to the distress in my voice.

He helped me get a solid hold on Seth, he seemed to still be fast asleep but he was incoherently  mumbling something and the only thing I understood was Carson’s name. Between the both of us we couldn’t get him to calm down, he kept crying out like he was in pain. “Quick Ty, carry him to the pack doctor. I am coming.” I huffed as I tried to catch my breath.

Quick as a flash Ty picked up my wriggling little brother, we wrapped him him a blanket to try to control his limbs. I prayed he wasn’t hurting himself or my nephews as wild as he was. Tyson flashed out the door and a minute later Cain helped me up the path at a much slower pace, worry creasing his brow. We all had a reason to worry, Carson is unstable at most and like I said if anything happened to Seth, life as we know it would change drastically depending on what and who he decided to unleash all that power on, the Elders have been trying to figure out ways to contain him should anything happen heaven forbid, but they couldn’t come up with anything.

Carson’s powers have morphed and have become stronger since he found his true mate, and not just any mate, one that shares magic as well it made him all the stronger. Carson was well aware of it and he downplayed it for Seth’s benefit all the time, in hopes not to scare my little brother and/or just to make him  happy.

The closer we got to the pack house the more people we ran into, something was going on. People were standing in the courtyard looking towards the house like they were waiting for news or something.

“What’s going on?” I asked the closest person to me, another one of the expectant Mothers. I think her name was Anne.

 “The hunting party ran into a rival pack and a fight ensued and someone was hurt and Elder Carson stepped in and overpowered the Red Wolf he was about to go in for the kill when he was jumped by the rival pack’s Betas and the Red Wolf got away. They are trying to calm him to heal him, the rival Betas used some kind of toxin.” She said and I turned to Cain. He understood what I wanted a he gently plowed through the crowd  clearing a path for me until we got to the front door of the pack house.

He opened the door and I barely managed to fit into the entryway. It felt like everyone was in here, Ben saw me and shuffled through the crowd, not a second later I heard Peyton shouting for everyone to get back to their posts and back to guarding the perimeter. Cain literally picked me up and handed me into Ben’s waiting arms to avoid the stampede of people scurrying under the fierceness of their Alpha’s voice.

Ben carried me to the room were several of the Doctors were trying to subdue Seth. His skin was beginning to take on the luminescent glow showing that his power was beginning to make an appearance. I struggled out of Ben’s arms, he finally put me on my feet. “Where is Carson?” I asked looking around the room waiting for someone to answer me. Chantal was sitting at the side of the bed. Looking but not touching my thrashing brother.

“He is in the next room.” One of the harried Doctors said as he once again tried to get a hold of Seth’s arm but he got flung across the room instead. He hit the wall with a thud and Ben rushed over to his side. Chantal had her hand over her mouth her eyes wide as Seth began to full out glow bright white. The only color was over his abdomen where it glowed and iridescent blue, the same color as Carson’s energy.

“Get Carson and lay him next to his mate, right now!” One of the Elders that was watching the proceeds from the door growled and Lucas and Peyton who must have been the the hall scrambled to do what he said. All of the Elders were now in the house and they all gathered by the bedside trying to send healing energy to Seth but his own energy as well as what seemed to be the babie’s energy threw it off like a ball bouncing off a wall. We all stood there stunned as we watched the by play.

I got out of the way as they helped Carson to the bed, he looked like he was in great pain and the wound at his side was still bleeding soaking the fresh bandages there. “His eyes flew to Seth writhing on the bed and his eyes immediately flashed indigo fire  and Peyton and Lucas jumped away from him like they just got burned.

Those glowing orbs flashed to one of the Doctors who was wringing his hands helplessly at the side of Seth’s bed. “What happened to him?” He growled and the Doctor whimpered shaking his head.

I stepped forward. “About an hour this started, I am thinking right around when you were probably hurt. He never woke up but he started screaming and calling your name.” I explained and with a look of extreme worry he studied his mate. I watched as he exhaled and hobbled towards the bed. He climbed into it and settled next to my little brother and his mate.

We stood there transfixed as a look of extreme peace floated over both their features and the white glow surrounding Seth expanded to include Carson as well. Mesmerized we watched as Carson’s shimmering blue energy mixed and swirled with Seth’s pure white, they both relaxed immediately and Carson closed his eyes on a contented sigh and gathered Seth close to his chest where immediately settled down and relaxed. There glow gently eased and both were soon fast asleep in each others arms.

“Amazing,” One of the Elders muttered as Chantal drew a blanket over both the sleeping forms.

Ben eased me into a chair he had brought into the room for me and placed it right at their bedside. The Elders filed out of the room  promising to check back later and Peyton kissed Chantal on her forehead before following them out of the room leaving us to keep vigil over the resting couple. Ben volunteered to go get us something to eat, while Lucas stood outside the door and threatening presence guarding us until such time they decided to come out of the slumber to tell us what happened.

Chapter 14

Chapter 14

Seth’s POV…

(Tada..Carson and Seth’s Babies––>)

 I wasn’t feeling myself today; it’s been a few days since the hunting expedition where Carson was attacked by the Red Wolf. I had felt it through our mated bond and now we came to the understanding that we have been unconsciously sharing and mixing our powers and our energies too, and it was through all of that I had come to realize that I had reacted to the exact moment he was harmed and when he had tapped into his energy to kill the Red Wolf; but he was ambushed by their Beta’s and they attempted to poison my mate. His babies didn’t help the situation either, because they panicked just as much as I did; so now here I am stuck in the medical infirmary that now took over the entire second floor of the pack house.

 No medical facility in the State could rival ours. Peyton went all out under the guidance of the Pack Doctor’s, the Seers, and the Coven Healers. I am afraid that Carson scared the living shit out of everyone, more so than usual. Even when he was hurt his wolf fought to get to me and neither of us would settle until he were skin to skin, the Elders had finally realized this and with Peyton ad Ben’s help they had literally dragged him into the bed with me, it was then and only then that I, along with his babies had calmed down.

 Once we woke up Aaron and Ben had released a sigh of relief and Carson had managed to explain what happened while he shoveled food into my mouth and rubbed my belly further soothing his little ones. It was uncanny how they responded to his touch and the sound of his voice. You could actually see them move under my skin following his hands whenever he rubbed my overly extended abdomen.

 Chantal was in her nurturing element with me now firmly ensconced in the infirmary. She coddled me to death right alongside my mate, and Lucas and Ben took turns as my own personal guard whenever Carson was out with Peyton doing whatever it is that they were doing and they were keeping from me. I know that they have increased security along the perimeter to the compound and the war wolves are on high alert, and every time I ask how things are, Peyton, Lucas, Cason, or Ben just told me that everything is alright and not to worry myself.

 The Elders are another thing too, the bigger my belly got and the further into my pregnancy I got was the more anxious they became. I even overheard them worrying about my delivery, not because they feared for me; they feared Carson and his wolf. It seemed that with our sharing of powers and the true mate bond, Carson has become even more powerful and mixed with that his wolf’s natural instinct to protect his pups and mate. They feared he was going to go berserk when I go into labor and that would trigger my Warlock powers and therefore no one other than Carson would be able touch me, which means the Doctors wouldn’t be able to deliver my babies safely.

 Thinking about that I knew I would have to talk to Carson about it because they were absolutely right, Carson seemed to lose his common sense and the ability to see reason when it comes to our safety. I sighed again and rubbed my tummy, the babies were not so active today and the stabbing pain in my back was getting stronger but I didn’t say anything to Chantal or the Nurse in the room. I just chalked it up to not moving around as much I usually would be if I was at home. I have been put to bed and ordered to stay there by the Doctors and most importantly Carson. He freaked anytime he came in and I was vertical, so in order to keep the peace I just resigned myself to be on my butt for the remainder of my pregnancy.

 Chantal was busy stitching a baby blanket and the Nurse was buzzing around the room, fluffing this and that, and making sure I had everything I wanted. She was currently helping me ease onto my side when I felt a sharp pain sear through the muscles of my back and left a trail of fire shooting across my abdomen. It was so sharp I gasped and tears gathered in my eyes. Chantal got up and opened her mouth to say something but squealed instead when the door crashed open and a huge white wolf flashed into the room and jumped on the bed standing directly over my body and growled at the occupants in the room.

 I whimpered as another stab of pain writhed over my lower back and belly. Carson’s wolf whined and nudged the blankets off my belly and his broad coarse tongue licked my belly before his cold nose nuzzled against it. I lifted my hand and ran it through his soft ivory fur in hopes to soothe his beast.

 The doorway filled with Peyton and the Elders who took one look at my pain riddled features and told the Nurse to gather the Doctors immediately and I clenched my eyes shut and the breath whooshed out of my lungs as even a stronger jab of pain shot through my body, this one felt like someone was twisting my insides in a vice and not letting go.

 “Come on, Seth pant and breathe through it. You are having contractions love.” Chantal cajoled trying to get past Carson who was still standing over my inert body licking and nudging my now stiffening belly.

 “Carson, buddy, we need you in human form, Seth and the babies need you now.” Peyton tried but as he set one foot into the room and Carson’s wolf lifted his head and snapped a furious growl, baring those razor sharp teeth at him. His stance over my body was protective and I knew no one was going to be coming within a yard of my body unless he stopped.

 “Baby, calm down, I need them to come in, the babies want to come out now.” I panted through the fire burning in my lower abdomen. God, I have never experience anything before that has hurt as much as this. I continued to run my fingers through his fur and I could feel those powerful muscles begin to unlock and relax.

 The Doctors, consisting of two Wolves, two Seers, and three Healers came into the room. Carson began to get tense again and Peyton called for Ben and Lucas. He eyed Carson warily thinking that he may need the muscle in the form of his two heavily muscled Betas’. He didn’t see the plan of sedating him working for the main fact that he knew no one wanted to get that close and Carson’s wolf wouldn’t let anyone get that close. Everyone here wanted to keep their limbs as well as their throats intact.

   I gasped as another contraction peaked and Carson’s wolf whined and looked towards the Doctors standing cautiously to the side. He jumped off the bed and stepped back into the corner with his eyes trained on my face allowing them access to me. I tried to smile reassuringly at him but he lay down and covered his muzzle with his front paws and watched as the Nurses stepped up and attached the fetal monitors locating the babies and their heartbeats. Soon the room was filled with multiple beats and whooshes of my babies’ heartbeats.

 I winced as the doctors started IV’s, one in each arm and I jumped a little when someone’s hand grasped mine. I looked up into Carson’s worried Cerulean gaze. I smiled at him and he in return smiled back, but it was the anxiety in his eyes that he couldn’t help and I couldn’t alleviate because I was just as scared. This was it; I was going to see my babies before the end of the day. I was excited but my nerves about the unknown were showing, all the possible outcomes flew through my mind but I refused to be anything but positive. In just hours or less I will have my little ones in my arms. I hoped they would be as healthy and as gorgeous as their Daddy.

 Aaron came waddling around the corner and into the room as quickly as he bulging belly allowed, Ben immediately cleared the way for him to get to my bedside. He started breathing with me, so did Chantal. The Elders which now included the other Warlocks and Coven Leaders were off to the other side of the room shuffling around like nervous grandparents to be, which technically they were.

 After being asked how I felt and my temperature was taken and the steady beats of my babies’ hearts, letting me know that they were okay. I eased through my contractions. Carson’s warm hands never left mine and he was kneeling on the floor whispering how much he loved me and how beautiful I was. He placed little kisses on my nose and lips when a contraction hit and I could feel the warmth of his energy wash over me taking away the sharpness of the pain. He was better than any medicine they could provide. He ran his fingers through my curls, his attention focused solely on me and no one else.

 “It’s time to move him to the surgical suite.” The lead Doctor told us and Carson looked up at him and tensed. I breathed through another bout of pain, this one causing sheen of sweat of develop over my aching body.

 Carson stood and nodded still holding my hand firmly in his own and he refused to let go and the Nurses didn’t even bother to try as they buzzed around me. Chantal and Aaron stepped back into the protective arms of their mates and I was stripped of my sweat pants and gowned in the loose fitting green open back hospital gown. Carson bent down and picked me up and cuddled me into his arms as he carried me down the hall to the sterile Operating Room. He placed me on the surgical table and stepped to the side still with my hand in his own. A Nurse came and he managed to shrug into a set of green scrubs and a protective mask and hat over his nose and hair.

 Another hat was placed over my hair and the Anesthesiologist stepped up and placed an oxygen mask over my face and I inhaled the cool oxygen being pumped from the wall fixture. He explained that he was going to inject some medicine into my IV and I won’t feel any pain, but I would be awake through the Cesarean Section. I nodded my understanding as I panted through another tightening pain. I grew concerned at the amount of energy Carson was using to take the sharp edges of my pain, but he just smiled and kept whispering words of encouragement to me.

 My arms were placed stretched out at either side of my body and a Blue Drape was hung up above my chest, I turned my head and watched as the Nurses and other Doctors set up three incubators along the far wall in my line of vision so that we could watch our babies care when they were born. My eyes flew to Carson’s and he just winked at me, but I could tell he was just as nervous as I was, if not more.

 I could also feel Aaron’s and Chantal’s anxiety out in the hall where everyone was gathered and waiting. It was only the Doctors, Nurses, and Carson in the pristine sterile room with me and I was glad. I didn’t want to be the freak show on display. The same Anesthesiologist stepped up with a hypodermic needle and injected medicine into my IV. Slowly the pain and the tingling in my belly and legs went away. I felt him run something across my stomach and asked me if it hurt. I shook my head no and I felt another swipe along the bottom of my foot and again I shook my head no to his question.

 “Okay then let’s begin.” One of the Surgeons stated and I blew out a shaky breath as three of them stepped up to the table in Surgical gear, their sterile gloves on their hands held up at chest level so they didn’t touch anything. A Nurse also in surgical gear handed a sharp scalpel to the Doctor on my right and they all disappeared behind the Drape and my watery eyes flew to Carson’s anxious gaze.

 I felt a tug and pull along my lower abdomen between my hips, I felt wetness and some pressure but I didn’t feel any pain. Soon I felt even more pressure and some movement and tugging in my insides and my eyes grew wide. They were inside my body which meant they were taking the babies. I heard Carson telling me to breath, I didn’t even realize I was holding my breath. Air gushed out of my mouth and one of the baby Doctors stepped up with a Nurse holding a sterile blue blanket just as my Surgeon said, “Baby Boy A.” He held up the most perfect baby I have ever laid eyes on. They used a suction thing and put it in his mouth and cleared it and then his nose.

 His little arms flailed and his legs kicked out before he took a deep breath and let it out in and ear piercing wail, letting us know he was fine but unhappy at the change of his environment. He continued to squall as both Carson and I watched in total awe as he was handed to the Nurse who immediately swaddled him and carried him off to the incubators after bending to show us his little red face still scrunched and crying.

 “Wolf.” Carson whispered and I looked over at him. He squeezed my hand and his tearful gaze met my own watery ones.

 “Dominic.” I said and he nodded at me and brushed a tear from my cheek.

 I felt some more pressure and again Carson had to tell me to breathe. It was getting tedious and I was feeling tired but I steadfastly willed my eyes to stay open. The Nurse reached over and increased my oxygen and patted me on the shoulder telling me I was doing just fine. Then another Doctor and Nurse Team stepped forward and Baby Boy B was announced and presented. The suctioning routine was repeated and more wailing ensued. I just stared at my beautiful boy and looked over to where his brother was getting his first bath. His little arms and legs flailing, he was not happy either with his change in circumstance and I felt Carson shudder as he gazed adoringly at his second son.

 He looked at me and whispered. “Warlock.”

 “Trenton.” I said and watched as he too was swaddled and carried off.

 My body felt heavy and my arms tingled, Carson’s fingers felt warm and I heard him sigh; his energy now split between me and his sons at the other side of the room. I squeezed his fingers as the pressure and tugging increased and then finally I heard Baby Boy C, and my third and final son was brought into the world, and he was suctioned and presented.  He wailed the loudest and squirmed he most as he was carried off to be tended to. The Doctors made quick work of sewing me up and I was injected with something else. I panicked as I felt my eyes getting heavy. I wanted to see my sons. I fought the medicine.

 “Our last one, Vampire.” Carson said as he watched as his son’s were bathed and diapered and examined.

 “Sebastian.” I slurred and felt my eyes close. I couldn’t fight the medicine and the Doctor told Carson I needed to sleep to begin the healing process, but I didn’t want to, I wanted to hold my babies, but I had no choice so I gave myself up and let darkness claim me.

 The next time I opened my eyes I was in a darkened room. Everything felt heavy, and my limbs and my head throbbed. I slowly turned my head and looked around the room. I was in another suite in the infirmary. This one was decorated in delicate pastels and I found it very soothing. I saw Aaron curled up on the sofa with Ben underneath making for a nice body pillow. Peyton and Chantal occupied the chaise lounge, everyone was fast asleep. Lucas, ever the sentinel was seated by the door. He caught my gaze and held a finger to his lips and pointed to the other side of my bed.

 I turned my gaze and a smile of wonder spread over my face. Carson was lying in the reclining chair fast asleep, three empty bassinets in front of him. Our sons were swaddled together in a soft fluffy receiving blanket and they were sleeping contentedly right on their father’s massive corded chest, tucked protectively under his chin. It was the cutest thing I have ever seen. Just then a Nurse quietly entered the room. She handed me a glass of water and a packet of pictures. They must have taken pictures while I was out of it.  With one last loving glance at my sleeping family I gazed one by one through the pictures of my sons. They were the spitting image of Carson. Especially, our little wolf, Dominic right down to his jet black hair. Trenton, our little warlock, was more me with my coloring to his little tuffs of curls in the top of his head. Sebastian was a mix, and we could tell already he was going to be the most dramatic of the bunch with his thick head of black hair that already had streaks of my golden tresses mixed in. Other than that they were all Carson.

 Putting the pictures on the table I turned to watch my mate and my babies sleep, this was the happiest day of my entire life. Tears formed I couldn’t wait to hold them to smell them and feel their little bodies against me. I ran my hands over my now flat abdomen and I missed feeling them inside of me. I sighed and waited for them to wake up. The most perfect things to ever come into creation. My mate and my sons.

Chapter 15

Chapter 15

Carson’s POV…

(Sebastian and William—–>)

I was currently sitting on the side of our bed in our dimly lit bedroom watching my stunning mate and my beautiful babies as they took their afternoon nap. Our little hellions were now two weeks old, the compound has become a virtual baby haven, everywhere you looked there was a couple with a newborn. A few days after my sons were born, Aaron went into labor at about two a.m. in the morning and poor Ben lost his ever loving mind. Chantal bless her heart as big and round, heavy in the final days of her own pregnancy volunteered to watch over our babies so that both Seth and I could be there for our niece’s birth.

I had to be there for the main fact that no one was able to contain Ben through all his worrying and hysterics. He had managed to make it into the Operating Room but the minute the doctor made the incision under Aaron’s swollen abdomen, he made the mistake of peeking over the tarp and passed out right there onto the floor. Aaron was so pissed he cursed his mate as they carried his inert form from the room. Seth was the one that joined him at his bedside as his daughter came screaming like the vibrant little ray of sunshine that she was.

Ben had come to just in time to see his daughter open the most brightest cornflower blue eyes at him and hold out her little arms like she knew exactly who  he was, and that was all it took for that little girl to capture her father’s heart and wrap him around her little finger. They named her Ailis, pronounced like Alice, which in Gaelic meant sun or light of the sun, which we all found very fitting for her.

The Elders were having a field day as the oohed and ahhed over all the darling little ones. They really were like doting Grandparents as they made their rounds from home to home checking on all the little ones and passing them from one to the other. It really was a happy time in the compound, so far I hoped and prayed and sent energy and strength to all the birthing moms as they went through their time. I refused to lose not one infant or mother to childbirth.

The closest we came to it though was when Chantal’s turn came about, we were more than shocked when all the Doctors ran into problems in the early stages of her labor, during her entire pregnancy and prenatal care they only suspected one fetus but now they were picking up three separate heartbeats fully indicating that she was carrying triplets. Not even Peyton had picked up on it, and neither did I, or the Elders. Peyton turned every shade of green there was before his skin tone finally settled on gray and when the Doctors had to rush her for a Cesarean Section his wolf took over and the Elders had to suspend him, wrapped him up tightly in midair in order to keep him in line. Once again Seth took up residence as birthing partner in the O.R. while Aaron kept an eye on our brood.

Chantal gave birth to three strapping children, two boys and one girl. The minute I saw them I knew for some reason they were destined for my sons, because Chantal, like Seth carried one of each species, Her first born, Joshua, is a werewolf and toe head blonde with incredibly big blue eyes. Zoe her second, is a witch, she has raven black  hair and emerald green eyes, and then last but not least , is the fragile little William, he was a Vampire runt, a little bit of a thing with curly curly brown hair and wide innocent chocolate eyes. The first thought through my head was when Sebastian laid eyes on his fragile little mate every volatile protective and possessive instinct he contained was going to be triggered. Sebastian was already a handful at two weeks, the strongest and most stubborn one, the hellraiser that always set off his brothers as well.

All of the Elders including myself went back to the ancient texts, we all thought that my son’s mates would come from the leaders of the covens offspring but it was not so, Chantal was deemed mother of all when she took everyone into her home and her pregnancy evolved to create the matching mates for my sons. Gregori, leader of the Seers,  and his mate gave birth to a bouncing baby girl and Raphael, leader to the Vampires, mate gave birth to another strapping son as well, just hours apart, and for some reason both to Ben’s and Aaron’s dismay they both seemed destined for Ailis.

There was a lot of parents noticing pairing amongst the children of the different covens and I sat amazed as how the Peacemaker prophecy was working out. The were a lot, about 75 % of the matches made within the same species but 25% involved intermingling amongst the three, and that was simply fine and accepted by all.

I watched as Sebastian began to wiggle and stick out his little tongue like he was tasting his surroundings. Raphael had been helping me with this headstrong little one since his feeding consisted of blood as well as formula. Raphael had set up a whole building that housed blood, human blood, conveniently presented in blood donor bags for those vampires who were not yet mated. Mated vampires tended to feed off each other or use the donated blood because they choose not to hunt humans for fear of exposure and as it seems it was explained to me that feeding is usually a very sexual interaction. So along with regular diet of formula of which he really didn’t care for but will tolerate only for Seth, as  for me I wind up wearing it most times.

So, I picked him up and rocked him before he had the opportunity to fully wake up and wail on the top of his lungs demanding his food or diaper change. The Elders had finally given the go ahead and were present when we let our babies and Peyton and Chantal’s babies meet, and let me tell you that was a brilliant idea; the minute they laid eyes on one another that was it; you could feel the connection between them. I thought Sebastian was going to go into fits the way he cried and wiggled his tiny body, it wasn’t until Chantal laid fragile little William next to him did he immediately calm down and William immediately sparked to life and became more interactive and bright eyed. They managed to wiggle and shove until they were close enough to wrap their little fingers around each other pinkies, it was the same for Dominic and Joshua and Trenton and Zoe.

Seth sat there for hours and watched the babies interact with one another. The babies refused to be separated for almost two days and let me tell you, it was nerve wracking to even try. Even at this young age Sebastian little fangs had descended, Dominic’s wolf glowed in his eyes, and swirls of mist generated around Trenton. The Elders had a field day with those early signs of their chosen gifts, but I knew my boys didn’t fall far from the tree, and with both my powers and Seth’s, I feared for them. I didn’t want them to be feared or become social outcasts like I did because people were afraid of the level of power I was born with.

They were adored now, but what will happen in the future, they were already barely here and they were manifesting their talents, it wasn’t at all  like me, my powers came when I shifted to my wolf for the first time. They were exhibiting theirs already, even if it was to protect and mark their mates at this early stage. We were going to have to keep strict guards on all of them because to lose any of them to our enemies would be devastating all around. I shook the dark thoughts off and Sebastian once again garnered all my attention. He was happily sucking away on a bottle of O Negative. Thank God his father had the foresight to get the non see through type bottles.

I was rocking little man, when my beautiful mate walked into the room holding each of my boys cradled in his slender arms flush against his body where they were happiest, that is next to being beside their mates. I mean they calmed for me and they followed my voice and everything, but they adored their father, I was daddy, the one they bonded with by voice and energy until they were born; but Seth was their father, the one that carried them under his heart inside his body, he sustained them 24/7 for nine months and they bonded from day one. My love for my mate just grew and grew, it had no bounds and sometimes I felt like my heart was going to burst. I watched him as he cared for our little ones. He was so good with them, so patient and loving, no matter what, he was always calm, whether he got puked on, peed on, gnawed on, or anything else our busy little bunch came up with. God help us when they become mobile.

We switch out babies as I handed him a full and contented Sebastian and took Dominic from him, his bottle was ready to pop right into his hungry little mouth. It amused me how their little pink lips searched and found the nipple of the bottle and once they latched on the hoover suction begins, their fat little cheeks working. Seth took a seat and had Trenton across his lap while he burped Sebastian. Dominic happily sucked on his bottle until I felt his butt suddenly rumble under my palm as he passed a burst of gas, it happened so quick that he stopped sucking and his bottom lip started to tremble letting me know his ear piercing wail was imminent. I quickly placed him on my shoulder and used one hand to rub his entire back, he hiccuped and then release a blech worthy enough for poker night at Peyton’s.

Seth just giggled and waved me over. Sebastian was now resting in the cradle of Seth’s crossed legs on the verge of sleeping and he was holding a whimpering Trenton. We switched off our cherubs and again as soon as the bottle touched Trents bottom lip, it was a go on sucking. I watched my son eat and I had to take a minute and look at my precious mate and my two other boys. I thanked the spirits that they were here, healthy and hale. There was nothing I wouldn’t do for my family, absolutely nothing.

Seth came into my life a little over a year ago, and in that time frame he has given me absolutely everything; a life, love, and even a family I never thought I was going to have. My God, what could I possibly give him that could compare to that?

 Holding the now sleeping Trenton to my chest, I walked over to my mate and gently scooped up Dominic while Seth picked up Sebastian. We quietly walked to the nursery and we placed each of them in their perspective cribs, we learned really quick that these three were horrible when placed in one crib together. A lot of that went solely to Sebastian and his awful temperament.

Finally, all babies were full and dry and now it was time for me to take care of my baby. It was hard to believe that it has been a just a mere two weeks and almost all of the expectant couples have delivered. We were only awaiting Lucas’ precious bundle. He was next in line, but I have a feeling that Lucas will keep it together better than the rest of us. We had to give the crown to Ben though, for his awesome nosedive onto the operating room floor.

I picked up my adorable mate and carried him across the hall into our bedroom. I laid him on the bed and stretched out next to him almost blanketing his smaller body with my own larger frame.

“You need some more rest, baby. I can feel your energy and it is at an all time low, it has only been two weeks since you have brought our children into the world, and other than me you refuse to let anyone help out. The girls in the pack would take it as an extreme honor to look after the little ones for an hour or two a day.” I coaxed him while nuzzling his cheek with my nose.

He giggled and tried to bat me away. “It’s not that baby, it’s just that our babies are unique and the pack is already scared shitless of you, they may see it as an honor but imagine your wolf’s reaction if one of your pups are injured on someone elses watch, or they decide to be naughty and conjure up something, didn’t you see what Trenton trying to do with the bubbles of his bath the other day. I just want them safe and I feel the that we are what’s best for them right now until they learn to control themselves.” He stated and I could really see his point, but I didn’t want them to be isolated like I was. Seth turned his head and looked at me with those mesmerizing eyes of his. “I know, baby and they won’t more than half of this family has given birth to the next generation in a matter of weeks, they won’t have time to be isolated or lonely. Trust me on this.” He said like he was reading my mind and brought his hand up to his mouth to cover yet another yawn.

Leaning over I placed a kiss on his forehead. “Sleep baby, I got them if they should wake up.” I whispered and watched his beautiful eyes flutter closed and those pretty lips part and he gave himself up to sleep.

I just laid there and watched him. I made sure the safeguards I have implemented around the house where still in place and strong. What I have yet to tell my mate, is that I have a bad feeling that with all this happiness there is bound to be some drama. I couldn’t shake the feeling of foreboding, a dark cloud was skirting on the edges of our sunshine. Raphael, Gregori , Peyton, and the Elders have felt it too and I was going to make damn sure that nothing happened to my family, anyone attempting such a thing will have marked themselves for death. The power I wielded within me now will ask for nothing less.  Some days I can barely contain it, it is Seth touch and only his touch is the only thing that soothes it, but I have a sinking feeling in the pit of my gut that soon and very soon I am going to unleash this beast for the purpose of protecting our way of life, and I just hoped when it is all  said and done, and Seth sees the beast that lurks within me and the true reason I am so feared by my own pack, that he will still love me and trust me as he does with our sons.

 I listened to our sons as the snuffled and slept on. I closed my eyes and wrapped my love up in a tighter hold as he snuggled into my chest. His scent lulling me into a peaceful slumber. I cherished these moments and committed them to memory, because I was sure the future was going to hold some changes for me, and I prayed to the spirits that they will continue to be for the better.

Chapter 16

Chapter 16

Seth’s POV…

(The Triplets at six months—–>)

 

 That’s it; my house has been taken over my babies. There were new bottles and cartons of diapers and baby clothes, more packages burp cloths, and toys. Peyton really needed to take his credit card away from Chantal. She needs rehab or something for her shopping. The babies are never going to wear half this stuff and we have what’s called unused reuse going on where we spread the wealth and give over what we are not using to other families and vice versa. At six months, my boys were big boys, sturdy chubby little things and they were already wearing 8-12 months size in clothes.

 Trenton and Dominic were doing the shuffling on the tummies and going up on all fours, only to plop back onto their tummies, any day now they were going to be off and running, now their brother Sebastian, that little devil was more and more like his daddy everyday and he was already mobile, he spent his time urging his brothers on. The only time he was calm and well behaved is when little William was over and he stuck to his side like glue. The same went for his brothers with their mates. Chantal and I could watch them for hours playing with each other it was so sweet to watch.

  Currently the babies were outside with Carson, so that I could make the attempt to get the house into some kind of order. The baby’s room was already filled to the brim with stuff so I made room in the storage room for the rest of these things. I placed the last supersized packages of diapers against the wall and made my way back to my bedroom. I walked in and was pleasantly surprised that the only baby paraphernalia in here was their bottles from this morning’s feedings.  I gathered them along with some of Carson’s shirts that needed to wash and carried them through to the kitchen. Placing the bottles in the sink, I went through to the laundry room to start a load of never ending clothes and went back into the kitchen.

  Rinsing bottles and placing them in the sterilizer I was happy to see Aaron saunter into the kitchen. “Hey buddy.’ He said in greeting as he took a seat at the counter and picked a ripe plum from the fruit basket there.

 “Hey, where are Ailis and Ben?” I asked as I dried my hands off on a dish towel and turned off the water taps.

 “They are outside with our men and your adorable little ones.” He said before taking a bite of the fruit.

 I wanted to ask how things were going with Ben, but I didn’t want to seem nosey. I mean, it has been six months and we were still getting settled into a routine with our sons, but Carson and I haven’t had the chance for any kind of intimacy what so ever. The Elders were constantly visiting, especially Nassine, she comes with the others, but recently she has been visiting on her own and I made sure Carson was home when she does, her interest in the babies kind of gave me the creeps and when I mentioned it to Carson, he just says he doesn’t feel any threatening vibes from her, but I feel it my gut that something is not right with her and my boys don’t like her. That was enough to get my hackles up and I told her that her visits were appreciated but I would like alone time with my kids.

 She didn’t take that little bit of news well and went on to spew garbage about them being special so I was going to have to get used to the attention on my kids. Of which, I replied the key term was “my kids” and as their father, I choose who and when they have people gawking at them and I politely asked her leave. She tried to get Carson on her side and she was warped if she thought that he would go against my wishes. So, she left in an indignant huff and I haven’t seen her since and good riddance. Carson said I most likely hurt her feelings but I didn’t care, she caused my children distress with her presence and therefore she could bawl a river and she still wouldn’t be welcomed around them.

 I had Chantal speak with the Elders and although they came every now and again they have decreased their visits. My children were special yes, but they were not some sort of show piece, and who didn’t like it could take a flying leap off of a cliff. It was either that or I was going to lose my patience and fry them to a burning crisp, and Carson, bless his tired little heart knew to stay the hell out of my way. The quickest way to have my powers ramped up and for me to do some damage was disturbing my babies.

 Aaron got up to throw away the seed of his fruit and to wash his hands, when he was done he turned to me and leaned his hip against the counter, and folded his arms over his chest. “So what’s on your mind little brother?” He inquired with a knowing look on his face.

 I didn’t even bother to deny that I had something on my mind. Aaron always had the ability to read me like a book, so why bother? “Um… I wanted to ask how things with you and your mate are, now that you have to split your time between him and your child.” I mumbled while willing myself not to blush.

 Aaron paled and I immediately regretted bringing the subject up. I stepped forward ready to apologize, but he stopped me by holding up his hand.

 “Have you and Carson been together since the birth of the triplets?” He asked as his green eyes so much like my own stared intensely back at me.

 I felt the flush of embarrassment skate over my skin as I answered with a quiet, “No,” and confused, I watched as he released a deep breath and his shoulders sagged with what looked like relief.

 “Why, is there something wrong, why do you seem so relieved?” I asked as my guard went up, I felt like there was something I should know and no one was telling me what it was.

 Aaron broke eye contact with me and started to fidget a little as I narrowed my eyes at him. “Um…you should talk to Carson, as a matter of fact, I will take my nephews for the evening, you look like could use some alone time with your man. I already have everything over there and I am an old hand at preparing Sebastian’s special bottles, no clear ones. Yep, I am going to give you guys some much needed bonding time.” He said before he scurried out the door before I could even draw my next breath.

 I walked over to the window and watched as he pulled Carson aside while Ben gathered the children. How he managed to scoop up those wiggling little bodies and hold on to them, two in each arm was beyond me. But, Ben was massive, with long arms that were probably each the size of my torso. He was just slightly bulkier than Carson, but he was a war wolf so that was the norm for all of them, tall and wide as a house. I continued to watch as Carson helped to gather up the blankets and such as three war wolves in wolf form appeared to escort Aaron and Ben along with the children back to their home. I ran outside because I couldn’t let my sons go without kissing and smelling them, this was going to be my first time without my babies glued to my side.

 I kissed and coddled each one of them before handing them back to Ben, they were happily playing patty cake with his huge biceps and Trenton was trying to gnaw on his thumb. I admit that I had a hard time watching them leave, but I felt Carson’s arms go around my waist and he nuzzled the back of my neck and just like that a shiver of awareness tingled down my spine and I recalled Aaron’s words in the kitchen.

 “Come on, big boy, we have to talk.” I said as I turned in his arms and gave him my serious face.

 He just studied me for a minute with those gorgeous indigo eyes of his and I felt my knees wobble a little bit and my heart picked up speed in my chest. This man will always have the ability to render me speechless with desire with just one glance from those beautiful eyes. My mate was sex incarnate and he didn’t even know it. He turned and led me by hand into our house. He went directly into the living room and sat down drawing me down into his lap, where I didn’t mind at all to be.

 “What’s up, baby? Aaron said you wanted to talk to me and that he was taking the boys for the evening so that we could.” He said as he rubbed his hands down my arms.

 I settled into his chest and tried to think of the best way to bring up the subject and not embarrass myself totally in the process, and I decided to just come out and say it. He was my mate, my other half, and the last person I should feel embarrassed to broach any subject with. I could feel the heat coming off of his big body and I had to ignore my body’s response to his, so hard and strong underneath my much smaller frame.

 “We haven’t had much time for each other personally since the babies arrived and I understand why, but when I asked Aaron his opinion this afternoon he paled down like something was wrong about us mating again and I asked why, and he said to ask you. He seemed pretty relieved that we haven’t done anything and I want you to tell me right now what it is that he knows that I don’t. It’s getting real tired to always be the last to know about things concerning me.” I stated, letting him know by my expression alone that I will not be placated with some half ass answer.

 Carson stopped rubbing my arms and he literally picked me up and settled me back down, I was now face to face with him straddling his lap. In this position I couldn’t help but feel his rock hard erection under my ass and I almost whimpered in heat. “Baby, I don’t want you to freak out and I was going to talk to about it when I thought the time was right, as you can feel, it is a constant challenge for me not to ravish you on a daily basis, but the fact is, if we have sex, unprotected sex, there is a chance that you could get pregnant again. It is not a onetime thing as we originally thought.” He said and I felt my eyes widen at that little bit of news.

 I have never even given the subject of getting pregnant again a serious thought, and now he was telling me that I could have more children and I didn’t know how to react to that. I sat back and looked at my beautiful man. “What do you think about the idea of more children?” I asked and watched the devious smile split his across his face.

 He leaned forward and ran his big hands down my back until his fingers pushed into the back of my jeans and he hauled me closer into his chest.  My breathing hitched and my heart began to pound away in my chest. He released a deep rumbling growl and I was instantly hard, my cock pulsed to life in my pants, pushing almost painfully against my zipper.

 “You are asking me how I feel about planting my seed deep inside of you and watch you get ripe and round with my child?” He purred and captured my bottom lip with his teeth and gave it a tug before sucking it into his mouth and I released the pent up groan and arched my back, rubbing myself against my sexy beast. “I would love it, I would do it as often as I can, I would keep you in my bed for all eternity and worship you like you were meant to be worshipped and our children would be a testament of how I love you and how you love me. I would cherish each and every one of them because they would be part of you.” He continued and the deep sultry cadence of his voice causing desire to simmer through in my blood.

 I felt light headed, like I was high and I was, totally intoxicated on my man. The months of not feeling his hands roaming freely over my body with the intent of bringing me to the peaks of unimaginable pleasure made it almost too much. His hand went further into my pants until I felt a long finger bury itself in my crease and skated over my fluttering entrance. I lost it at this point and smashed my mouth against his and tried to devour him. He tasted even better than I remembered and I wound my hands around his neck and held on for dear life. If my man wanted more children then I would gladly give him more.

 He abruptly stood up and walked to our bedroom with me still clinging to his chest and my legs wrapped firmly around his waist. We landed on the huge bed in a tangle of arms and legs. Carson wasted no time as he ripped my shirt from my body and he unbuckled my pants and hauled it and underwear down my legs and then completely off leaving me quivering with anticipation under his burning gaze, his eyes were now glowing bright blue. I had to lick my suddenly dry lips as he removed the remainder of his clothes; my eyes followed him as he moved to his nightstand and opened the draw. He pulled out a pack of condoms and I felt my face light up with a furious blush.

 He settled back on the bed next to me, stretching out his powerful body along the length of mine. “Just because I want more, doesn’t mean we are ready yet for more.” He said as he opened the pack and handed me a single foil packet and silently asked for me to do the honors of rolling it onto his impressive length. So, with shaking hands I performed the task and my mate pulled me on top of his muscular body and brought my mouth down towards his. My weeping erection made contact with his awesome abs and I couldn’t stop my hips from thrusting forward giving me the friction I needed to send me into bliss.

 Carson popped the cap of the lube and drenched his hands in slippery fluid before sliding his now slick palms over the cheeks of my ass. He rubbed and kneaded them before a finger slid into my crease and circled my entrance. I writhed on top of him, a mewling whimpering mess as I continued to rut against the ridges of his abdominal muscles; the pre-cum leaking from the blunt tip of my member easing the glide on his skin. I pushed out as his finger pushed against the ring of muscle at my hole, and it popped inside. I gasped he began moving it in and out of my body, causing me to arch my back and moan for more.

 I shuddered when the tip of that penetrating digit brushed the quivering mass of my prostate, I almost came right there. Carson peppered my neck and chest with kisses as he added another finger. “So beautiful.” He whispered against my skin as I grinded against his hand. After a few minutes of preparing me, I groaned as his fingers left my body and my thighs clamped against his side as he positioned the thick tip of cock against my hole and he pushed in, pushing his way past the ring of nerves there; and helping him I leaned forward taking the rest of length deep inside my body and I threw my head back and began to ride him. His hands went to my hips as he controlled the pace of my movements.

 My mate didn’t go for a quick mind numbing fuck; he was making love to me instead. His hands, his mouth, and every square inch of his body worshipped mine. He loved me senseless and I just floated on the sensations. A sheen of sweat covered my entire body and my hands dug into his sides and I rocked up and down and back and forth on his rigid shaft. The whole time he praised me and encouraged me to keep going. It wasn’t until his large fist wrapped around my own pulsing shaft and he began pumping me did I break stride, he movement underneath me became choppy and I closed my eyes as my balls drew up into my body and I moaned long and loud as I felt my orgasm flow over me, overpowering me and carrying me away on a tide that was all my mate.

 Carson held my hips tighter and he thrust upwards deeper and faster into my body before he gasped and threw his head back into the pillows and cried out his release. I felt the warm spurts of his semen as it was captured by the thin layer of the condom and I slumped forward onto his heaving chest as we both gasped for air. “I love you, baby, you are my whole world.” He whispered as my eyes fluttered closed.

 “I love you, too” I mumbled from my position under his chin and let myself drift off more content than ever in my life, right here with my mate and my children not far away.

Chapter 17

Chapter 17

Carson’s POV…

(Sexy Carson––––>)

 My senses were on high alert for some reason today and although I tried to play it off with my little angel, he still picked up on my vibes and therefore kept our precious little ones close to his side all day. I didn’t have the need or the urge to see or talk to anyone today, so I had just sent a quick mind link to Peyton, Lucas, and Ben to keep a closer than usual eye out with the security of the compound. They in turn put the war wolves on high alert and Rafael, Gregori, and the other Elders took note to do so too. 

 The perimeter to the compound was all but impenetrable, and I took to scanning the elements to check for any changes in the surrounding forest, another gift that no one knew that I had the capability of. I was already a mark because I was deemed too powerful, a prize for any rival pack or coven to single out and take down. It has made my life a living hell, more so now that I had a mate that was my very life and my pups that were a living breathing part of me. I feared that anyone or anything stupid enough to threaten them would unleash everything in me that I have forced into being dormant and to awaken that part of me would not be pretty.

 Laying back on the sofa I was trying to ease my mind by catching up on a novel I started but never got to finish, that was when I heard a whole lot of splashing and a deep frustrated sigh and I looked up just in time to see three little wet cherubs sliding past the living room entrance in the hallway followed by their very annoyed father chasing behind them with a large towel in his hands. I smiled and stepped into the hallway and nabbed Sebastian’s slippery little body just as he went to slide in between my legs. I grabbed Trenton with the other hand and held them like footballs while they giggled and squirmed in my arms. Dominic was currently being cornered and scooped up with peals of laughter escaping his little mouth and Seth blew bubbles on his fat little tummy.

“Hmm…bath time I see.” I said as I walked over and pecked my mate on his forehead. He blew his curls out of his eyes and tilted his pretty little face up at me and smirked at me.

 “Your children are going to cut my life span in half.” He said and continued to hold onto the wiggling little beast in his arms.

 We headed back down the hall to the nursery. “How come when they are mine when they are misbehaving, but yours when they perfect angels?” I asked heaving my sturdy boys a bit more firmly up under my arms.

 My beautiful mate snorted. “Because they got all their bad habits from you, my love,” and he led the way into the nursery.

 Between the two of us we managed to diaper, powder, dress, and feed our little ones. I loved participating in all aspects of their care. I never imagined that this would have been my life, that I would have so much love and emotion brought into my bleak existence, because I wasn’t living until my beautiful angel came into my life. I thanked he spirits everyday for blessing me with my little love and my pups. With my sons happy, clean, and settled I took my mate by the hand and we quietly made our way out of the nursery. I led him to our bedroom and turned him around and brought him into the circle of my arms.

 “Did I tell you that I love you today?” I asked as I pecked him on his pretty pink lips.

He smiled coyly at me and blushed so prettily. I could feel my cock wake up and take notice. “No, but thank you baby, I love you too.” He whispered and I could feel the pride at hearing those words shiver through my body. I pulled him closer and ran my nose along the line of his elegant neck. His scent and our mating scent combined caused delicious tingles to shoot over my skin and it unleashed my wolf.  With a rumbling growl and a little yelp from my precious little one, I picked him up and tossed him onto our huge bed and quickly covered his slender body with my much larger frame.

 I buried my nose under his chin and nuzzled the soft skin of his neck and licked his pulse point, he shuddered underneath me and released a sexy whimper that vibrated straight to my rock hard dick. I settled my lower body in between his bare thighs. My canines descended and I used them to scrape the sweet skin where his neck met his shoulder directly over my previous mating mark. I opened my mouth and sank my fangs deep into the flesh there and let the flavor of my love wash over my tongue and his sweet blood trickled down my throat. My eyes rolled into the back of my head and his hips bucked as he grinded his rigid erection against mine. I released my essence into his bloodstream giving him another dose of everything that was me.

 Seth writhed underneath me and all of a sudden he keened and I felt warm spurts of his release against my naked abdomen. I lifted my head and licked the wounds closed. The next thing I knew I was flat on my back and my mate was straddling my hips, his golden eyes glowing bright with desire and burning lust. His luscious lips wet and slightly parted as he stared down at me, he licked his bottom lip and his fangs made themselves known as they glistened in the late afternoon sunlight.

 “Hmm…my sweet mate, do you want a taste of me?” I taunted seductively as I watched his eyes get brighter. His gaze was now focused on my neck and I leaned my head to the side to expose my throat, silently offering and daring at the same time for him to mark me. I knew he was satisfying both of his species, his Vampire and his Wolf. It’s been awhile since he has done that and I craved his bite. He rolled his hips his firm ass cheeks and rubbed them so nicely over my cock and it throbbed and pulsed underneath him. He leaned forward and licked me from my chin to my shoulder and actually purred his delight at my taste. The tip of tongue tormented and tickled its way to my pulse and he quietly and sweetly buried his fangs into my flesh.

 And when his warm soft lips began to pull my very life blood into his mouth, my whole body convulsed and I moaned my back arching clear off the bed. This was bliss, this was euphoria, and this was my mate taking from me what he needed and I was happy to provide it. My hips pumped away frantically as I rubbed and chased my release against his rounded ass. With every pull of his mouth I could feel my completion boiling in my balls as they drew up tight into my groin. I was a quivering mess and I panted as I felt the impossible burn of my orgasm rush through my shaft and explode through the pulsing head of my cock. I spilled everything as my nuts churned out load after load of hot semen into my pants.

 I felt Seth’s hips buck and he grunted as he came yet again, he licked his bite wounds on my neck effectively closing them and cuddled into my chest. We were both sticky but we didn’t care at the moment as we just basked in our post coital glow and reaffirmation of our mating bond. I opened my senses and let my energy wash over him and aide his healing. I felt his energy mingle with mine and heat into a blanket of warmth and love as it surrounded us. I once again sent my thanks to the spirits as we dozed off for the remainder of the afternoon.

 The next time I opened my eyes it was to cacophony of what sounded like banging pots and baby giggles. Groaning out of my delicious slumber I rolled over to the side of the bed and sat up having no doubt my mate was in the kitchen with our pups. I dragged myself into our en-suite bathroom and peeled out of my soiled sweats and grabbed a quick shower. When I got out I dried off and pulled on another pair of sweat pants and a tee shirt. It was suspiciously quiet and I felt every nerve in me go on high alert and I flashed into the kitchen and to my surprise the children were encased in some kind of bubble, they were happily banging away on the pots still but you couldn’t hear a sound.  The protective bubble had Seth’s energy simmering all over the surface of it and I let a sigh of relief and added my own energy so the sphere shimmered gold and iridescent blue. My babies just smiled at me as I passed by them looking for their father.

 I stepped out onto the patio and there in the clearing I found my mate and he was glowing an illuminating white as he stared down Nassine, several war wolves have gathered including Lucas and Ben. Nassine had a self righteous smirk on her face and Seth was practically quivering with rage. I moaned low in my throat, this woman had no idea what she was up against and she kept picking at Seth about the seeing the babies, even after he practically told her to get lost. She had come harping to me, but I told her that her presence upset my kids which in turn upset their father and I asked her to chill, but here she was pissing off my man and I had a good mind to let her get a taste of his powers. But I was afraid he would kill her, and with her being an Elder that would create another range of problems I didn’t want to have to deal with.

 Stepping off the porch and into the yard I sent a mind link to Peyton and the other Council Elders asking them to come quickly, and within a few minutes I heard the rustling of leaves and the flashes of Council as they appeared in the clearing. I kept a close eye on my mate as he continued to gather energy.

 “I told you that you are not welcome here Nassine, why do you insist to be where you are not welcomed?” He growled at her. His small hands fisted at his sides.

 “What is happening here?” Peyton voice boomed over the clearing as we continued to draw an audience of the inhabitants of the compound.

 Nassine regally stepped forward and pronounced like she was the innocent party here. “He refuses to let anyone check on the well being of the little ones. I don’t see what his problem is. Those children are special and they need not to coddled and hidden away from those of us who wish to study them.” She groused and I could feel the cackle of heat shimmer over Seth skin.

 “My children are not your science experiment, Nassine and my mate has asked you kindly to respect his wishes in this matter.” I said as I stepped up to my amped up mate, my energy feeding off of his angst and I could feel my eyes take on their indigo glow.

 Peyton recognized the fact that Seth and my powers were coalescing into one and he held his hands up and tried to calm the potential explosive situation. “Now let’s calm down here, Nassine just cool it. I understand your interest in the children, the Council has stepped back to let their parents care for them as they should and when they feel comfortable to let us observe how special they are they will, now please stop and return to the house.” He stated and the Council nodded their agreement.

 “Absolutely not, these kids should be brought to the Council and we should observe and guide their powers….” And her statement ended in a blood curdling scream. I rushed forward and tried to grab Seth, but the blast from his powers knocked me off my feet and propelled me into the trees, Aaron went skidding by me as he tried to get to his brother but he was flung away as well. Nassine writhed and fell to ground screaming in agony.

 “I am not the one you can dictate to over my children. Once again they are mine and not to be studied like some kind of freak show and you will not come anywhere near them.” He commanded as he sent another wave of burning light into her and she wailed in pain.

 I came rushing back into the clearing and Peyton, Ben and Lucas were now circling Seth, trying to look for an opening to take him down. One of the Council members lifted his arms to call his energy and I saw red. No one threatens my love and I felt it, the snap inside of me came and I roared as my wolf took over. I charged the line of Elders my fur glowing iridescent blue and they shrieked and jumped out of my way.

 Aaron stepped up behind Seth, now glowing as well, the only one that could because his energy was the same as his sibling’s, not as strong but the same. Nassine was now lying motionless and I scanned her to make sure she was still alive, and in doing so I was able to read her now that she couldn’t hide her mind behind her powers and what I discovered had me charging her. Seth was so surprised as my wolf jumped at her my jaws snapping as I went for her throat. Peyton cursed and immediately shifted into his huge black wolf and charged me, knocking me sideways before I could rip the woman to shreds. He picked up on my thoughts and my discovery of her intentions and he immediately called for the war wolves to remove her and lock her up in the pack house holding area.

 I jumped to my feet in protest and attempted to follow but I felt the energy seep out of my mate and I shifted and ran over to catch him before he hit the ground. “Go check on our children.” I barked at Aaron and he and Ben took off for my house. I processed what Peyton was telling me through our link and just nodded as I hefted my mate into my arms. With the amount of power he used to slowly strip Nassine of hers he passed out cold now that he wasn’t ramped up.

 I turned to the shocked Council. “She is a traitor to the pack and therefore I am going to deal with her accordingly. None of you are to approach my mate or my children without my permission and you need to convince her to talk and reveal everything she knows, it is the only thing that is keeping her alive, and if I find out that anyone else here is involved in this plot to kidnap my mate and my children they will die by my hand immediately.” I said and I turned to carry my precious mate into my house. Peyton warned everyone adding his piece before following me inside.

 The rage that was boiling inside of me knew no bounds. I laid my mate on our bed and covered him with a light sheet; I closed my eyes and sent a wave of safe guards around my house. This is it, this is the last straw, and no one threatens my family. No one and Nassine was going to feel my wrath, but I had to care for my family first. I sent wave after wave of healing light over my love and when he was resting peacefully I made my way to go check on my children.

 Aaron had them settled and completely unaware of the events with their parents. I stepped forward and Aaron handed me Trent and Dominic and Ben stepped up with Sebastian, a held bottle firmly between his little red lips as he sucked happily away on the mixture of blood and nutrients that made up his special formula. I just held the two I had and leaned over and kissed Sebastian’s dark curls as he happily fed himself in his Uncle’s arms.

 Peyton came up behind me and clapped a hand on my shoulder. “Carson, don’t worry we will deal with this, we are all family and what happens to one, happens to all of us. Pack code. I just need for you to keep you head buddy.” He cautioned and I just barely managed to nod at him. I watched as Aaron went to check on Seth and Ben and Peyton sat with me while I tried to calm my nerves and played with my precious pups.

Chapter 18

Chapter 18

Seth’s POV…

(Carson’s Wolf—–>)

There is a warning for this chapter…nuff said. Enjoy

I felt like I was rising up out of the fog, all floating and disoriented like as I slowly regained consciousness and became aware of my surroundings. When I finally managed to open my eyes, it was to a darkened room and my mate and my children where all on the bed with me. Sebastian was on his father’s chest, while Dominic and Trenton were cuddled so far underneath me that I was almost laying on top of them. And Carson’s fingers were tangled in my curls and Sebastian’s little hand held the sleeve of my shirt.

 I laid back on my pillow and tried to recall my day. It was nothing new to have my entire family in the bed, but I felt like there was something I was forgetting, something important. I ground my teeth and tried to will myself to remember what it was. I raised a hand and brushed my hair out of my face when my fingers came into contact with Carson’s, so I decided to tap into his essence to see if I could remember my day through his memory. It was something we were working on since we discovered that our powers, through the mating bond, seemed to be melding together.

 I closed my eyes and concentrated, I detected anger and rage, I detected a fierce and deep root need of his protectiveness towards us, and confused I dug deeper and like a movie the scene with Nassine and I in the clearing played out right up to the point where I had stripped her of her powers and she couldn’t shield her thoughts anymore.

 My eyes popped open and a gasped with the realization of what really drove her interest in my children and the plans she had in order to get her hands on them, and I almost puked right there and then. As quietly as I could, I disentangled myself from my mate and my children. I was livid; I was way, way beyond pissed. My entire body vibrated with the need to get to this woman. Elder or no. and remove her from this earthly plain. She dared to threaten me and mine and for what, for whom?

 She was going to answer those damn questions if it was that last thing she would ever utter from her lips and they just might be. I saw Carson’s plan for her and it was too fucking merciful. I am tired of being left out and being treated like the little woman at home, the one that needed to be protected. I am the chosen one damn it, my powers differed from Carson’s but they were just as powerful.

 My whole life everyone around me has coddled me, but it ends here. No one absolutely no one will cause any kind of harm to my mate and my children and simply get away with being banished. No, that Bitch needed to die, and die a painful horrid death. How can someone look at innocent little children with the intent to do them harm.

 Fuck that, the men were gearing up to be politically correct and I don’t give a shit, this involved my kids and damn all that pack politics. I quickly safeguarded my children and mate, in addition to the magic Carson had weaved around our home and family. I added an extra hint of a sleep spell because I knew the minute I ramped up my energy, Carson as well as Aaron was going to sense it and come running. But I was hoping that Bitch would be dead by the time they reached me.

 I cloaked myself in silence and flitted through the forest slipping by the war wolves undetected. Another trick that the pack wasn’t aware of, I wondered if they knew the extent of our powers combined would the Elders try to put us down, because with our mating and bonding between Carson and I, we have combined and increased our powers to the point that I am truly scared of Carson’s volatile side being set free. That is another reason; I wanted to deal with Nassine myself. Because if he found out something that set him off I am afraid the aftermath of his wake would be like after the Hiroshima bomb hit.

 I made it right up to the steps of the main house and I continued on around to the back f the house and I peered through the basement windows in efforts to try to find her that way, but I couldn’t see anything. “Damn, they must have her further underground.” I thought as I made my way to the root cellar door.

 Lucas was standing there along with another one of the huge war wolves in wolf form. I think his name is Wyatt or something like that. Beside them casually hovering next to the doors was one of Vampire guards, Rogan, and he was currently laughing with a Warlock sentinel by the name of Thaddeus. So I knew this must be where they were keeping her. She was heavily guarded, but they were no obstacle for me. I felt a twinge of guilt but it quickly passed when the picture of my cherub’s faces swam before my eyes.

 I stood tall and dropped the cloaking spell as I called forth my energy, I let my eyes roll into the back of my head and I chanted the words that would call forth the magic I needed. When my eyes rolled forward I held my breath and clapped my hands once and threw my arms open. The spell I called forth spread from my palms like a ball of fire. I shot that energy straight out towards the four men doing their duty and they could even look up they all fell like rocks to the ground with a silent thud.

 I mumbled a quiet apology as I skirted past their fallen forms. I made sure that they were comfortable and that they weren’t in any awkward positions or lying on top of any objects that might cause them any harm or discomfort by the time they woke up. I got to the cellar door when I realized that they had enchanted them, damn this made it almost one hundred percent harder to get into the cellar. I stood up and paced for a minute cursing as I tried to read the essence of the spell weavers. I detected Carson and all of the other Elders and the Warlock’s energy on the binding lock. Damn, if it wouldn’t wake everyone in the house I would have screamed in outrage.

To Hell with it, I will just blow the damn door off its hinges. I raised my hand and called my energy, when all of a sudden I was spun around and slammed into the concrete wall right next to the cellar’s entrance. I gazed in shock as the massive pure white wolf slid his huge paws from my shoulders and he settled back onto all fours. He released a harsh menacing growl as if to tell me not to move an inch, as if I could. I was so shocked that he got to me so fast. I watched as my mate shifted and those gorgeous blue eyes focused directly on me, burning with a fire I never ever wanted directed at me and I almost whimpered and dropped to my knees in front of him.

  He stalked over to me and put a huge hand on either side if my head while his gaze swept the immediate area and took in the fallen guards. He smirked then he returned that piercing gaze on my face. He was barely containing himself. I could feel his entire body vibrating with fury and I knew I was the cause, but I wasn’t going to back down from this fight.

 “Tell me why am I standing out here in the middle of the night trying to stop you from doing something foolish? Instead of reading my thoughts and going off half cocked, you should have woken me up and talked to me.” He calmly pointed out which effectively took the winds out of myself righteous sails completely.

 “She deserves to die.” I stated my point, and my only point in this entire situation.

 “And if that is what will come out of the hearing in the end then that is what will happen, there are rules to the ways we do things in a pack and now among the entire family. If you had gone in there and killed her before we could find out her motives, or be placed on trial for her actions. You would be seen as a murderer, a life taker, and totally disregarding pack rules. You could be banished or worse sentenced to die yourself and where would that leave us, and our children.” He snapped and slapped the wall next to my head with enough force to crack the cement.

 “You would have defied so many laws and you need to grow the hell up and realize that you are not alone, and sometimes things are kept from you for a purpose. Stop this behavior; it has been driving me nuts.” He stated and stomped away from me. I could feel the tears gathering in my eyes and remorse almost choked me. I stepped forward to try to touch him, but he spun and growled at me and I immediately flinched back into the wall. I have never seen him this pissed before and especially not at me. I knew he was right, I should have woken him up with my concerns, but all I could think about at the time was for the safety of my kids and the fact that I am not some weakling.

 I was beginning to seriously detest the fact that I grew up outside of the pack, therefore I didn’t know pack dynamics, or pack law. And I do have a tendency to act before thinking about things and I had nothing to utter in my own defense. He was right. All I knew now was how was I going to calm him down. I could feel his energy and it was like a white hot cloak simmering on low heat around his body. And the perverted part of my brain could offer nothing but the fact that he looked hot as hell ramped up like this.

 My mate finally stopped his agitated pacing and turned to me. “Shift now and don’t you move a muscle until I say so.” He barked the order and wide eyed I just nodded my compliance and began to strip out of my clothing. I rolled them into a ball to make them easier for my wolf to carry. It has been so long since I shifted I knew it was going to hurt to some degree, but my man said shift and in his present frame of mind that was exactly what I did. My blond wolf whined with trepidation, he sensed our mate’s mood and cowered away from it.

 Through my wolfy eyes I watched as he snapped his fingers and the guards began shuffling before all four jumped to their feet in fighting stance. They were totally confused as to what was going on here and I didn’t blame them. My wolf hung his head even more in shame of our actions. Carson pulled Wyatt aside and had a brief word with him, and I watched as the war wolf’s head snapped into my direction and I just prayed for the ground to open and eat me. They held the conversation a little longer and I was practically lying on the ground in mortification. Finally, Carson shifted into his impressive wolf and padded over to me. I picked up my bundle of clothes with my sharp teeth and he nudged my flank and that was the only order I needed to get moving.

 I raced through the trees towards our home, absolutely aware of my mate pacing right behind me. Our war wolf escorts picked us up and followed us at a discreet distance right to the line of trees to our home. I burst through the tree line and headed straight to the porch where I immediately shifted and opened the front door. I turned and waited apprehensively for my disgruntled mate, only to see him standing in his wolf form, his cerulean eyes glowing eerily bright in the darkened room. My only thought was to back away from him; he needed to cool down for a minute. I knew he was incapable of hurting me, but he was pissed off to the tenth degree.

 My only thought at the moment was to create some space between us and to check on our children. Still naked, I spun on my heels and raced down the hallway to our bedroom. I came to a complete stop in the doorway when I realized the room was empty. My heart flew into my throat when I felt the full force of the massive wolf crashing into my back taking me down onto the hard surface of the floor. My breath whooshed out of lungs and I was unceremoniously flipped over onto my back. My arms were immediately pinned above my head and I felt the heated change of fur changing into warm flesh slide over every inch of my body and I released a helpless whimper.

 I took the chance to look up into the face of my mate, and my love that I have severely disappointed with my bratty actions and I gasped at the heated indigo gaze staring back at me. I felt like trapped prey. Something to be devoured and I felt my cock get instantly and painfully hard as it pressed against his hip between us. I couldn’t look away from his intense scrutiny. I was well and indeed trapped in every way.

 “The children are with your brother and will remain there until you are reminded of your place and who you are mated to.” He whispered mere inches away from my lips, and my breath stuttered through my chest at the sight of his sharp canines that were still very prominent between his plump pink lips.

“I am your mate, your other half, your love, your Elder, and most of your MAN! You will stop defying me, and second guessing what you don’t have the full knowledge of. You will begin pack training with the betas, and you will not go half cocked. You will submit and talk to me about anything and everything. Do you understand me?” He growled and I felt the rumble of it throughout my entire body and I swear my eyes almost rolled into the back of my head. “Answer me.” He snapped and I could do no other than vigorously nod my head at him.

 In the next moment I felt myself being dragged up off of the floor. He literally flung me onto the bed and told me not to move a muscle, and I stayed in the same position I landed in. Splayed out on my back, and I watched as he made his way across the room. His energy was leaking off of him like visible clothing around his body. The sheer power radiating off him called to me in such a primal and carnal way that all of my species we awake and riding just under the surface of my skin, reaching out to his energy, dying for his touch and his attentions.

 Wide-eyed and turned on beyond belief, I watched as he turned fully facing me, his monster cock on full display to my hungry gaze. He slipped a condom onto his impressive erection and generously covered it with slick lube. I felt every muscle in my body quiver with reaction when those glowing blue orbs landed directly on my non-blinking stare. He crossed the room in seconds, but to me it felt like he was moving in slow motion.  I yelped when his warm hands grabbed my ankles and he flipped me over onto my stomach and pulled me down the mattress so my feet were spread wide open and my toes were barely touched the floor.

 My mate’s fist clenched into the curls on top of my head and he pulled my head back and to the side and God help me, I moaned like a wanton whore. His mouthwatering hard muscled body covered my more slender form completely and my entrance clenched as the bulbous head of his dick slicked right over it.

 Carson rolled his hips and I released the air that I was holding inside of my screaming lungs as he teased my entrance with the tip of his cock as my neck was bared for him in his unrelenting grip. “Who am I?” He whispered the question just as he penetrated the tight ring of muscle, the slicked up head of his shaft slipping into me, and I hissed at the burn of his entry.

 My mate with drew back almost completely, and then he snapped his hips forward burying himself to the hilt, his balls slapped against mine and I screamed. My entire body tensed at the sudden invasion. He held me locked completely underneath his hard frame. “Who am I?” He asked again and I had to catch my sobbing breaths.

 “M…my…ma…mate.” I managed to stutter out the words just to scream on the top of my lungs as he withdrew and slammed back into me with such force and if he wasn’t holding me, pinning me down with his hands and body, I would have flew off the other side of the bed. He began to pound me into the mattress. I could do nothing but hold on, my fists clenched into the sheets and with every powerful, bone jarring thrust he asked me the same question. I answered him the best I could and finally when the words, “my man,” made passed my whimpering and mewling was when he withdrew from me completely.

 Carson flipped me over onto my back and threw my legs over his wide shoulders. He bent in literally in two and thrust himself back inside of me. My back arched off the bed, and I screamed to the high heavens as he repeatedly stabbed that gland deep inside of me. I felt the burn of my release flash down my spine and swim in my balls. And then he pulled me head to the side and with one quick move, he sank his canines deep into the muscle and tissues of my neck and I was done. 

 My orgasm jarred through me like a wrecking ball, my vision went black, and my body went limp as I completely resubmitted myself to his mating bite. I felt him emptying himself into me, his semen hot and thick deep inside of my body and his very essences flowing into my bloodstream reclaiming me, remarking me to let me and the whole world know to who I belonged to and who was my man. And I had no complaints; I only hoped I redeemed myself in my mate’s eyes.

 And by the gentle way he extracted both his teeth and his member from my body, and the way he gently cared for me afterwards let me know that I did. I felt our connection reawaken, and I felt bonded all over again. I loved him and he was right and I was going to tell him so the minute I was able to function again, but right now I just basked in his heat and his energy. I was where I was supposed to be and that was the final truth for me.

Chapter 19

Chapter 19

**  I dedicate this chapter to an avis fan and friend of mine, Dr. Gigglez, I hope you enjoy your day darling this update is for you.**

Carson’s POV…

(The goregous Justin Gatson representing Raphael––>)

Rubbing a tired hand over my face, I watched as my despondent mate settled the last of our little ones to bed for the evening. I felt like the scourge of the earth for treating him the way I did last night. I literally forced myself on him and took away his choice. I treated him like a possession and not as my mate, my other half, and the very reason for my existence. All that he was trying to do was protect our pups and me. I own up to the fact that I was petrified when I woke up and he wasn’t here, and when I felt the surge in his powers I was almost catatonic with the dread that overwhelmed me. If I lost him my pups and I would be rudderless, but instead of listening to him. I let my wolf’s aggression take over completely and it dominated and subdued him, and now he won’t even look me in the eye.

Every attempt that I have made trying to get close to him today has resulted in him shying away from me, and my heart broke with the realization that I did this. I was the cause of his depression and sadness, and my wolf was dormant lying deep inside my conscience, hiding in shame. I couldn’t let this go on.

Getting up, I made my way into the kitchen and cleaned up the baby’s bottles from their last feeding for the night. Once that was done, I didn’t see Seth come back into the living room so I went to go find him. He wasn’t in the nursery and our babies were sleeping sweetly tucked in with their little blankets.

I quietly pulled up the door and crossed the hall to our darkened bedroom. I saw Seth seated on the side of the bed staring out the window with a pillow in his lap. Even his aura was sorrowful and it stabbed me in my chest. I made my way into the room and sat down next to him on the bed  “Baby, I am so sorry. I was just scared that something was going to happen to you. I woke up and you were gone, and I was wrong to treat you like that. Please forgive me. I can’t take seeing you like this. I feel like you have drawn away from me. I can’t lose you. I was wrong and I am sorry. Please talk to me.” I begged turning my full attention to his beautiful face. God, the spirits blessed me with such an amazing mate and here I am fucking it up.

Seth looked up at me with those big baleful eyes and he stared at me as if I was looking directly into my soul. “Carson, I am your mate, your equal, we are supposed to be the other half of each other. But you treat as if I am inferior, like I am weak and in need of protection all the time. I am not saying that I am strong as you but I want to be treated like I matter. You hide things from me and you purposely keep out of the loop. All I want is for the threat to our children to be removed. You haven’t shared what is happening with me, so how was I supposed to know?” He stated and I felt even smaller because he was right. As good as we were together, our communication sucked and it’s mostly my fault.

“Tell me baby, what do you want, my job is protecting you as my mate and love, and our babies until I draw my last breath. I try to make you happy to keep unnecessary hurt and pain away from you. I hate it if you are scared or unsure.” I whispered as I took his little hands in mine.

He gave me a squeeze then he replied. “Everyone all my life, my parents, my brother, and now you have kept very important details about myself from me all in the name of protection. Try to see things from my point of view. If my parents had faced up to what I was I would have a better understanding of myself, my powers, and our way of life. I would have a clear understanding of me and know exactly what I am capable of. I wouldn’t fly off the deep end all the time. I am an adult; I don’t need you to shield me from everything. I understand the sentiment, but you are leaving me ignorant and therefore blind when I walk into a situation and that will do harm than good. Think about it. That’s what I want, for you to be open and honest with me through the good and the bad. Help me work with you and the others to keep us all safe and comfortable. Stop treating me like I am going to break and that all I’m good for is to be a submissive mate and to roll over when you have a need.”

His beautiful eyes were earnest as they pleaded with me to understand where he was coming from, and the more I thought about and let his words sink in was the more I came to realize it was exactly as he said. So I made him a solemn promise to open up and discuss things with him. I began by telling him about myself and my childhood and all the angst and fear that my own people had for me and how it made me feel. We must have sat there for hours and I quietly told him everything and anything about me, the pack, and my feelings on a multitude of subjects. I told him of my plans for Nassine, and he in turn told me about his life growing up in ignorant bliss about what he really was. He told me about the frightening flight from the only home he had known and about the red wolf and how his powers manifested themselves for the first time helping him get away.

We had wound up lying down face to face as we conversed well into the night. It wasn’t until the sun started peeking through the curtains that I realized we stayed up so long. I heard the wiggling of our little ones and I knew we didn’t have long before all three would wake up and demand attention. Seth made to get up and I pulled him back down and wrapped my arms around his slender waist. It was then that I made a promise to him, to open up to him and let him know what I was thinking and I promised to stop shielding him from everything. He leaned over and gave me one of the sweetest kisses that I have ever received, just as Sebastian cranked up and let out an imperial shriek as usual the first one to stir up his brothers.

“That is your son.” Seth said to me and climbed over my body and headed for our en-suite bathroom and firmly closed the door leaving me to deal with a brood this morning. I just sighed and pushed myself off the bed and towards the nursery.

And of course, Sebastian was sitting up in the middle of his crib howling bloody murder while his brothers twitched at the sound but they were not yet awake. So I quickly snatched him up and literally ran out of the room. Then I noticed Sebastian was rooting at my neck and I stopped and pulled him away to look at his face and to my surprise his eyes had changed, they went completely black. I used my finger and gently peeled back his top lip and saw two little incisors bursting through his gum.

Hmm…It seems that my little one was coming into his own. And I couldn’t help the feeling of pride that swamped through my chest. “Okay Big Boy, let’s get your dad to see to your brothers and we are going to visit your Uncle Raphael at the Coven House.” I told him. And I turned around and peeked into the baby’s room to make sure Trenton and Dominic were still fast asleep. I went into my room just as Seth emerged from the bathroom still damp and wearing only a towel. And if it wasn’t for the fact that I was currently holding our child that towel would have been replaced by my body.

Seth looked up at me and smiled and blew kisses at Sebastian and my beautiful boy giggled and wiggled his little body in efforts to get to his Dad. I couldn’t help but smile at his antics.

“I am going to take Sebastian over to the Coven House. It seems that our little one here is tapping into his Vampire. He wants to bite.” I explained and watched Seth’s eyes go round.

“They are growing so fast, you need to make them stop it.” He pouted then  he blew more kisses at our pretty baby.

I just chuckled and kissed him on his forehead. I wrapped Sebastian in a blanket and kissed Seth again before leaving the house. My foot barely touched the bottom step before our war wolves appeared in the clearing, and I nodded my greeting to them and set out at a brisk walk. I watched my son’s face as he took in the sights of the forest and the early morning sunshine filtering through the trees. His eyes followed the butterflies and the little hummingbirds as they set about their daily routines. It wasn’t long before I felt Lucas’ presence as he escorted me through the path to the Vampire’s Coven.

Clearing the tree line, I spied the main house where Raphael housed his family. I climbed up the steps and knocked on the door. It was answered by one of the servants and I was ushered inside. The windows had a special film over them protecting the inhabitants from direct sunlight, but the house was by no means dark.

“Carson, my friend, to what do I owe the pleasure of your company and oh look my handsome nephew too?” Raphael came walking down the hall towards us. He held out his arms and Sebastian squealed and pitched his little body forward and I handed him over to his doting Uncle. “That’s my boy.” The large Vampire exclaimed as he snuggled my boy against his massive chest.

All of a sudden Raphael went completely stiff and I leaned over to see what caused his distress. Sebastian bit him and was currently feeding on the Leader of the Coven’s blood, and alarmed I went to pull him off but Raphael stopped me.

“It’s okay my friend, he recognizes me as kind and gave in to his nature. My blood is the best thing for him for his first live encounter with feeding, but I must warn you. He is going to be a little more aggressive for the next few days. Please have his mate close to him. That will be his only sense of calm as his body assimilates to both his human and Vampire genes.” He explained as he cradled Sebastian for a few more minutes before easing my son away and the bite marks immediately healed.

Raphael held him up and studied his face and a huge smile spread across his features. “This one is a leader through and through, and he is going to be a very volatile one too. You are going need to speak with your mate and let Bastian here begin to spend the weekend with his Coven.” Raphael said as he guided me into the kitchen.

We sat down and I asked him a few questions as to how to deal with my son and this side of him. I expressed my concerns for his safety and Raphael assured me that with the power that my son holds, it is no doubt that he will be next in line, even if his mate produces a son for the leadership of the Coven. And as such each member will die before a brisk wind could even blow on the boy.

Sebastian had fallen asleep in his Uncle’s huge arms and we performed the perfect handoff as I rewrapped Sebastian in his blanket. He was out for the count and Raphael said that he would sleep for most of the day and not to worry. He will check on him later and continue to feed him his special formula. I told him to come by and explain it all again for Seth and he assured me he would before I made the short walk home.

I sensed them long before I reached the clearing to my house. When I cleared the tree line I saw Peyton and the Elders standing there. I walked past them and straight into my house. Seth was cleaning away the children’s breakfast. He took the sleeping Sebastian from me and disappeared down the hall. I turned to Peyton who was standing in the doorway.

“They fear your mate and your reaction to your mate distress that’s why they won’t come any closer, but we have to discuss what to do about Nassine.” Peyton stated as he leaned against the counter and plucked a grape from the bowl of fruit there.

“We are not going to do anything to her at the moment, whoever she is helping or in contact with in regards to the abduction of my children is going to expect her to check in at some point. And since the band of brotherhood out there gets their feathers ruffled when anyone exhibits more power than they do. I am not going to tell how I will know when they reach out to her.” I deadpanned and Peyton drew in a tired breath.

“You do understand that when you so things like this why everyone fears you right?” Peyton asked, not unkindly but just stating a point.

“And for once, I don’t give a shit. This is my family, my life, and I am going to put an end to any threat to them for once and for all. Go, fear me, run away from me. I don’t care. Everything I want and need is right here in this house.” I stated as I looked him directly in the eye.

Seth chose this exact moment to reappear and he stepped up to my side and wrapped his arms around my waist. “Peyton, you and the Elders need to let us handle this, we have promised not to eliminate one of their own even though she deserves it. I will leave that up to them. But we need to find out as much as we can about the threat to my kids, and I am sure you and Chantal would do the same. So I am begging you to do your thing and smooth things over until we have more information.” He said as he shuffled our industrious Alpha towards the front door and scooted him through it.

Seth smiled sweetly and closed the door in Peyton’s shocked face and turned to me like he didn’t just kick the Alpha out of our house. I couldn’t help the guffaw that bubbled out my throat and Seth just rolled his eyes and grabbed my hand and led me down the hall to our room. He peeked into the children’s room and came scurrying back to me and the next thing that I knew I had my arms full of my mate, and said little mate unceremoniously opened his mouth and sank his fangs deep into the muscle and sinew where my neck met my shoulder and fuck, my whole body shuddered and I was instantly hard and leaking in my pants.

His strong slender legs were wrapped around my waist and his arms around my shoulders, and his soft warm lips pulled greedily at my flesh as he drank from me. My wolf howled and clawed for me to unleash my beast. I knew my eyes were glowing and I was second away from slamming him against the wall. Sweat misted over every inch of my body as he continued to suckle me. Fire burned from his bite and it spread over every single inch of my skin. I was literally fighting myself for control.

I snapped when Seth lifted his head after sealing his bite with a lap of his little pink tongue. He lifted his gaze to mine and his eyes glowed pure gold. He looked positively sinful with his pretty pink lips parted and wet, and the naked desire on his face did for me. I felt the snap and with a rumbling growl and covered the space and slammed him into the wall. My claws descended and I ripped away his clothing baring his perfect body to my hungry gaze. He reveled in the force that I was showing as he whimpered and dragged my shirt over my head, like he couldn’t wait to get to my skin.

“Mmm…little mate, tell me what you want.” I purred in his ear and I felt him shiver against my chest. “Yes, I love it when you shake for me, show me how much you want my touch.” I said as I licked a line up his neck to his delectable ear. I nipped the lobe and continued to seduce him with words. “Do you want my fingers?” I asked as I dug my fingers into the rounded globes of his perfect ass, and his resulting groan shot straight to my pulsing cock. “Or, do you want my mouth?” I asked as I sucked his soft bit of flesh that was his earlobe into my mouth. He whimpered again and I reached over and snatched the bottle of lube of the top of the dresser.

I continued to distract him with my mouth and words until he was undulating and mindless against me, as hot and dazed for me as I was for him. His cock hard and leaking, smearing pre-cum all over my abdomen. He grunted as my slicked up fingers found his entrance and I circled his hot little hole and felt it kiss my fingers as he clenched and released the muscles there.

“Come on, baby. Let me in.” I whispered as I massaged the ring of muscle and nerves into submission. And my baby threw his head back and moaned long and loud and my finger breached his entrance and sank deep into his silky chute that immediately clenched around my digit.

“That’s it, love. Feel me inside of you. Is this what my needy baby wanted?” I asked but I didn’t give him a chance to answer as I claimed plump pink his lips. I licked my way into his delicious mouth and sucked his tongue into mine. I released another growl as his taste exploded over my tongue and the scent of his arousal intoxicated my senses. I devoured him as I worked up to three fingers into him, preparing him to take me, to be one with me.

Withdrawing my fingers I immediately replaced them with the head of my dripping cock, my precum and the lube eased my entry into his burning entrance and with a snap of my hips and buried myself balls deep into his luscious body and I threw back my head and snapped my jaw shut to prevent myself from howling at the top of my lungs and waking our children.

Seth clawed at my shoulders and used his arms to lever himself up and down on my throbbing cock. Damn, he was so hot and so tight as his channel mercilessly milked my shaft. I slammed him against the wall again and I threaded my arms under his knees as I pounded into him. I took him like this was the last time that I was ever going to be able to have him. He was my meal and I was the starving man and I took what he so readily offered and gave him everything that was inside of me. I couldn’t hold it anymore as my release burned through my balls and as soon as felt him clamp down on my dick, I knew he was right there so I leaned forward and sank my canines deep into his shoulder and Seth keened and bucked as he shot his released high into the air between our bodies. The feel and the sight of it tripped my own orgasm from me and I groaned long and loud and I poured myself deep into him, my cock jerking with the force of my repeated ejaculations. It felt so damn good that it was almost painful.

Our chests were covered in sweat and semen as we struggled to catch our breaths. I gently lowered Seth’s feet to the ground and my cock slid out of his ass with a wet pop. And with that sound that caused us both snapped to attention. Oh shit…our eyes locked as reality dawned on us. We didn’t use a condom.

Chapter 20

Chapter 20

Seth’s POV…

(The Red Wolf–––––>)

I felt something cold and wet nudging my balls and I tried to close my legs but my thighs came into contact with soft warm fur and my eyes snapped open. I looked down to see two glowing blue orbs staring back at me. Carson’s huge white wolf was lying on his stomach fully ablaze in his iridescent blue aura and he was currently fascinated with my abdomen and groin. I giggled as he nuzzled me again, and then the events from the previous evening brought be crashing back to reality. I quickly closed my eyes and called my energy and I scanned my body. I saw nothing out of the ordinary and I breathed a sigh of relief. The last time I got pregnant, we knew almost immediately when I conceived the boys. Carson jumped up and the bed dipped under his tremendous weight and I couldn’t help but roll to the side and I almost fell off the mattress.

In a flash, the white wolf’s body shuddered and my nude mate was kneeling on the floor at the side of the bed grinning like a loon at me. “You are not pregnant.” He smiled as the stated the obvious.

“And for that you need to be eternally grateful, because if I was your life would have become a living misery.  Since I am not, I will let you off the hook seeing we were both responsible for not taking the time to use the proper precautions. I need to talk to Aaron though. I am happy not to be with child so soon after our boy’s births, but he was amandant that I would be if we ever had unprotected sex again.” I said as I sat up and ran my fingers through his midnight black tresses.

“I have spent half the morning reading your body my love and it seems you have cycles of fertility almost like a female but without the menstrual cycle.” He stated and immediately my face flushed bright red. He was basically telling me I ovulated like a woman…ugh. Carson chuckled and kissed the tip of my nose. I tried pushing him away but he pounced on me and pinned me to the bed with my arms above my head. He brought one muscular thigh in between my legs and I felt the tell tale twinge of desire as he pressed up against my balls.

“Carson.” I whined as I wiggled underneath him. We had just missed the proverbial bullet so to speak and here he was starting stuff again. The man had the ability to make me absolutely stupid with just one look much or less his touch. He ran his nose up the side of my neck and placed a kiss on my chin before he heaved himself from the bed and pulled me up with him.

“Time to begin the day. Nassine still refuses to say a word to anyone; the other Elders have been trying to interrogate her to see if she will confess before I get the chance to talk to her.” He stated as he walked over to the dresser and pulled clean clothes out of the drawer. I could feel my blood heating up; I hated those interfering old coots. They needed a good dose of reality. The Elders may be wise and all powerful and stuff, but their beliefs were becoming antiquated. They resented to new alliances between the species. They felt that they were diminished in the eyes of the pack with the addition of the Coven Ancients, and the Warlock Seers. And they all blamed me for it; to them I was the abomination that brought on all these changes. I had developed mind reading skills of my own as I adapted to sharing my mate’s powers and I saw way more than they thought I did.

“It’s not true, what they think and you know that. This was bound to happen. We were bound to happen. You were meant to come into my life and change it for the better. You have blessed me with three miraculous children and you have made me stronger.” My mate stated as he gathered me into his massive arms and I happily cuddled into his chest. I was where I was supposed to be but I felt like we had so much to contend with.

The Red Wolf challenging Carson’s claim on me. Nassine and some unknown entity trying to kidnap my children, and then my children themselves coming into their own powers. I didn’t know where to begin. But I had complete faith in my mate. He was so much more than anyone had any idea about. I could feel the power of his energy when our auras mixed, and to be honest, I am scared for him to ever unleash the full strength of it. He was more powerful than the combined councils and I feared that they would want to destroy him for that reason alone.

My arms tightened protectively around him even more and I tried my best to push those morbid thoughts out of my mind. “You know what? It’s been too gloomy around here lately. We should have a family fun day with everyone. The weather is perfect outside and the families are completely protected in the compound.” I suggested and wiggled out of Carson’s arms. I didn’t wait for him to answer as I sprinted out of the room and quietly peeked into the boy’s room to make sure that they were alright. I knew I had a limited window of time before they were going to be wide awake and demanding their breakfast.

By the time I hung up the phone with Chantal, I was more than excited for the day’s upcoming events. If anyone can pull it off the Alpha’s mate could. Carson came into the kitchen carrying all the babies. Sebastian required a little bit more attention because his Vampire emotions and needs were special compared to his siblings. We had to be careful of his bloodlust and his instinct to bite. I needed to find out from Rafael if feeding from me would be okay.

After I closed the toddler’s safety gate that cutting them off from the open patio door, Carson set the boys down on the floor. Dominic immediately made his way over to me and wrapped his chubby little arms around my leg. He was my clinging baby boy, while Trenton and Sebastian were more independent as they toddled over to their bin of toys I always kept in the kitchen to keep them occupied. Carson helped me dish up their warm cereal and put the little wiggling terrors into the high chairs. It took the two of us to make sure at least most of their banana cereal made into their mouths and not on their faces, the floor, or on us.

My wonderful mate was the taste tester this morning, meaning he had to swallow mouthfuls if the baby mush and pretend it was the best thing he has ever eaten…poor thing, better him than me I sucked at acting. We were wiping my sweet boy’s sticky faces when all of a sudden Carson went completely still and his eyes flared brilliant blue. Then before I could blink he rushed from the room and out the open patio doors. The children started to fuss with the suddenness of their father’s disappearance and I had to concentrate in keeping them calm. I flicked my wrist and closed and locked the patio doors just in case, and I made sure the safeguard spells were woven around the house.

I herded my sons towards their room, a quick bath and then playtime to keep them entertained. I was more than curious to know what the hell was going on. I was dying to link to Carson and see for myself. But my concern right now was our babies. It took a little longer to bathe the little wiggling monsters. I noticed that Sebastian mood was quickly deteriorating as he slipped into his bloodlust and I guess it was time for his other feeding. I made a mental note to call Rafael when I am done. I dressed the boys and carried them into the living room, but just as I entered the room I spotted movement in the clearing beyond the glass door and I gasped and clutched the boys tighter to my body. They sensed the change in my mood and the must have picked up on my distress because they went completely still their auras sparked and surrounded them in protection.  

Standing in the clearing just on the edge of our safeguards was Miles, his fur was flaming red in the bright sunshine and he was huge…His feral black gaze burning as he stared straight at me. I slowly began to back out of the room. I wanted to confront the son of a bitch but my children’s safety came first. How the hell did he make it onto the compound? Miles stepped back and circled the edge of the clearing. It was like he knew the spell was there and that made my skin prickle, no one other than Carson, Aaron, or I should have been able to sense our energy field. I refused to take my eyes from him as he circled once more, and then his head snapped up.

He seemed to sniff the air and then he took off at a dead run disappearing through the trees. With my arms full of my babies, I quickly linked my thoughts to those of my mates. I didn’t have to wonder where he was because soon I saw him flash by the clearing and tore into the trees where Miles had disappeared, and a few seconds later several of the war wolves followed him into the forest. Shit, my heart rate spiked and I hurried down the hall to the nursery. I placed the children in their playpen and cast an extra protection spell on all the windows in the room.

Taking a seat in the rocking chair, I opened my senses and I ran right along with my mate in his mind. His was furious and his thoughts were jumbled so I couldn’t make sense of what he was thinking. I only felt his anger and his need to rend Miles limb from limb. They were following his scent, and as quick as the war wolves and Carson were they still lost his scent at the creek at the edge of the pack’s property. Carson skidded to a stop right at the edge of the water line and threw back his head and howled in frustration. I sent soothing waves of energy through our link hoping to calm him and he at least stopped his agitated pacing.

The war wolves stayed well away from Carson in the current state that he was in. He swung his head and barked once before he turned and made his way back to the house. I let the connection dwindle knowing he was safely on his way home and turned my attention back to our children. And God bless my little ones, they remained silent and watchful in order to let me do what I had needed to do. I could feel the hunger radiating off of Sebastian and I picked him up and tried to soothe him a bit. I felt the shift of the safeguard spell surrounding the house a second before Carson’s huge wolf padded down the hall. He used his massive head to push the door open wider and he walked into the room. He immediately went to the playpen and our babies giggled and cooed as they were sniffed and nuzzled all over by their father. Carson repeated the action with me and a very disgruntled Sebastian before trotting out of the room.

I was about to head through to the living room to call Raphael when I felt another shimmer behind me. I scented Raphael before I even turned. Sebastian let out an excited squeal and twisted his little body towards his Uncle.

“Hey little man.” Raphael stated as he took the baby from me swung the giggling boy around before settling him on his shoulder. My son immediately began rooting at his Uncle’s thick neck and I just shoved the Vampire and his nephew towards the nursery. He might as well make himself useful and watch his other nephews as well while I tried to find out how and why Miles made it almost to my front door.

I found Carson in our bedroom; his back was facing towards me. He was only wearing a worn out pair of sweatpants, and his heavily muscled arms were perched up against the window frame as he looked out into the late morning sunshine.

“Someone on the inside of the compound is involved with this morning’s breach of security. It’s not just Nassine. Everyone is now a suspect. Miles just waltzed into the compound and I am going to find out how. He came straight to you.” He growled and I quickly crossed the floor and wrapped my arms around him from behind. I could feel that he barely had control of himself and that was not good at all.

“You need to calm down baby before you decide what it is you are going to do.” I whispered as I slowly rubbed over the ridges of his tummy. The heat of his energy was burning bright just below the surface of his skin and I desperately needed him calm down. “Baby, he didn’t get to us, he knew the shield was there and the babies and I were well protected. You will figure this out, we will figure this out. But if you go off half cocked and let your anger rule your actions, nothing will be accomplished.” I leaned forward and placed a gentle kiss on the back of his neck. My palms rose and fell with the deep sigh he released and I felt some of the tension ease out of his stiff shoulders.

He slowly turned towards me and wrapped his arms around me and pulled me into his chest. “I am sorry baby but the family day you had planned for today is not happening, it’s too dangerous for you and the children out in the open. Peyton, Lucas, Ben, and some of the Seers and Ancients will be here as per my request. The Elders were occupied with Nassine and questioning her at the time so I don’t feel they had a hand in this, but I am not ruling them out. I will deal with them later.” He said as he nuzzled me under the chin and I ran my fingers through his hair trying to soothe him some more.

“Come on, Raphael is here tending to Sebastian and spoiling your children rotten, you can fill him in until the others get here. I am going to ask Ben to escort Aaron and Alis over when he is coming over. Can you ask Peyton to bring Chantal and the babies; your sons can do with the presence of their mates around them today.” I said and tried to pull him into the hall but he didn’t budge and he stood there just staring at my face.

“Miles came way too close for my comfort today. I don’t want you to feel threatened or unprotected. Someone is going to answer for this shit. He practically came to my front door and if I had caught the bastard; today would have been the last day he saw sunlight. I don’t want you to worry about it either.” He said as he ran a gentle finger across my cheek.

“Baby, the only thing I am worried about is you, we can hold our own. Even your children’s energy manifests itself and shields them when they feel threatened. We talked about this, and I trust you implicitly to keep us from harm.” I said as I nudged him again and this time he came with me. I hoped we figure out this shit soon, this was getting to Carson and he is like a walking, talking ticking volatile time bomb.

Chapter 21

Chapter 21

Aaron’s POV…

(Adorable little William, Sebastian’s mate—–>)

The entire compound was on lockdown and the family was wary of Carson’s foul mood. Even Peyton was walking on eggshells around him and the pack Elders have made themselves as scarce as possible. I know in my gut that someone in their mists were responsible for Miles’ breach in security. Nassine wasn’t in this by herself and I hated the stress this placed on Seth. Everyone was moved to the houses surrounding the main house and all the leading head of the families into the pack house for safety, since Miles’ appearance at Seth and Carson’s home.

 I was currently in the nursery at the pack house with the children, Ailis was dozing off on my shoulder and Chantal was sitting on the large play mat with my all the babies. It was absolutely adorable to watch my nephews interact with their mates. Sebastian would toddle over to the play chest in the corner and drag out all the toys and place them at William’s feet, or how he would sit and next to little mate and make sure that his brothers and their mates didn’t get too close or too rough in playing with the shy little cherub.

 Chantal was a true mother hen and she showered all the kids with love and attention. But don’t downplay her sweet caring nature. Her wolf was a consummate protector when it came to not only her children but the entire compound of children. No one messed with our babies if she had anything to say about it. Little Dominic and his mate Joshua were busy rolling around wrestling and playing like the playful pups that they are, and Trenton was currently fascinated with Zoe’s bright pink hair ribbons in her lustrous black curls. It was a delight to watch the rapt attention my nephews as they interacted with their mates. Sebastian more so than the others because he was so gentle with waif like little William, whereas he was so aggressive with anyone else.

 Ben and I have noticed ever since everyone was currently under the same roof of the pack house that it seems that Raphael’s little boy,  Jayson as well as Gregori’s daughter, Pilar were Ailis’s mates. They all shared magic and Gregori’s mate, Skylar was thrilled and so was I. Ben went into protective daddy mode and gave Gregori and Raphael the what for when he found out that little bit of news. It took all that we had for all of us to not bust up laughing at his ruffled feathers, and Gregori god bless him kept a straight face and humored my overprotective mate. Then there was Raphael who merely shrugged it off because he was busy teaching Sebastian and now William too about their Vampire urges. He was providing blood for the both of them, and since Seth shared the Vampire gene as well. Sebastian alternated between Raphael’s powerful pureblood and the mixed blood of his father. As a matter of fact, Seth’s mixed blood actually calmed Sebastian’s Vampire aggressive urges, but Raphael’s blood was still his main source since his was pureblood and stronger.

 The only other tension in the house, other than Carson’s volatile temper was the extreme dislike between Raphael’s mate, Tendra and Lucas’ mate, Kamali. Both women have had some bad blood going between the two of them since the birth of their children. Both of their children were born on the same day and almost at the same time. One Vampire and one Werewolf and both are destined to be mates by the look of it. It was another unexplained bond and mixing of species. It caused a strain on Lucas’s and Raphael’s working and social relationship to have to be constantly soothing their upset mates.

 I have never said anything to Seth or Carson because I didn’t want to cause a rift in the family. But Tendra was power hungry bitch that felt that her offspring, her daughter should be the next rightful leader of their coven, seeing that she was pureblood and Raphael’s first born child. Although she was much weaker than Sebastian and definitely not holding the power he was going to grow into. I heard her talk about myself when she was talking to the other pretentious women in her coven. And Kamali wasn’t any better, Lucas held the First Beta position and was also leader of the war wolves, directly under Peyton and she had wanted her son to be Dominic’s mate, she wanted so much to be in the inner circle of Carson’s direct line. That much was clear and she was one of those wolves that believed that species should not mix; she didn’t originate from this pack but one of the outside ones. She was fake and unfortunately with everything that had been going on, no one really paid any attention to either of them, much to their detriment.

 I heard Kamali call Seth an abomination one time and it was only my respect for Lucas that kept me from frying her where she stood. It was another incident that I kept to myself and I wondered about the wisdom of that decision. Maybe I should have said something seeing that there was someone was behind the security breach on the compound. Carson was practically chomping at the bit to interview Nassine, but in his present frame of mind Peyton had refused him until he calmed down. Seth had fully agreed with Peyton so Carson was currently trying to control himself and it didn’t help that Nassine was in this very building in the dungeons below the basement.

 The babies were getting tired and Chantal and I were busy putting them down for their afternoon naps. Chantal had offered the remaining cribs to Tendra and Kamali but they chose to keep their children with them, the snobs. They were trying to deny the mating bond between their children which was just hurtful and stupid. I was going to have to have a word with Ben to let him know about this, but I hate adding to the already stressful situation in the house.

 Chantal as always volunteered to have first watch over the babies while they slept, so I gathered up the toys and straightened the room. I kissed her cheek before leaving the room to carry the children’s snacks and juice boxes to the kitchen for disposal. One of Peyton’s kitchen staff took everything from me and waved me out of the busy kitchen. They were in the middle of lunch prep with so many people in the house they were constantly busy. Peyton had decreed for the all the leaders and main families to be in the pack house and the remainder of the family move into the temporary houses that surrounded the main house. All of the houses on the outskirts of the tree line were evacuated so everyone was within a mile perimeter of each other for safety and patrolling issues. The alarms and sensors on the empty family homes were set and they were being monitored from the security room house in the main house.

 There was a feeling of anticipation in the air and Carson spent a majority of his time outside. Seth had pulled me aside and quietly explained that he was reading the elements. Something which I thought was unheard of, but he had informed to keep that bit of information to myself. It had peaked my curiosity and under the guise of bumping into my brother-in-law in the hallway I was able to read him by skin to skin contact. His eyes had flared indigo and I knew he knew what I did, but he had let it go. But in that mere amount of seconds, I had garnered enough to know that the power shimmering within Carson was way more powerful than anyone knew about, even the other Elders. And again I feared for my little brother until it dawned on me that they shared magic as true bonded mates and it was actually Seth that made the strength of Carson’s energy and power  make an atomic bomb look like a simple firecracker.

 Then I began to wonder how my brother and his magic fared from his mating and it didn’t surprise me in the least that his energy far surpassed mine, but where we can both call upon our magic at will. Seth’s magic was also tied to his emotions. That was made plain when Carson had been hurt that one time fighting with Miles’ Betas when Seth was pregnant and we had to rush him to the infirmary and nothing calmed him until his mate was skin to skin with him.

 Seth had told me about their little slip up and I was happy that Carson didn’t breed him again because his wolf would have went insane with his protection of his pregnant mate. Nassine would have been toast and he would have most likely leveled the forest in search of Miles. All of them weren’t sure what Miles was after but I knew what Miles wanted, and it was my little brother. He wanted him more than anything else for whatever sick twisted perverted fixation he had on Seth. I had to go to them and really explain to them about what I learned during my time that I was held captive by the psychopath. I had to tell Carson that Miles was sexually obsessed with his mate and how in the hell was I going to break this little bit of news to not only him, but Peyton, Lucas, Raphael, Gregori, and most of all my mate who has always tried to get me to talk about my mad dash from Miles’ pack after being kidnapped and held for days after he murdered my family trying to get his hands on Seth.

 I shuddered just thinking about that dark little hut and the pain I went through at their hands when they had held me captive and the totally crazed look in Miles’ eyes as he talked about getting his hands on my brother. I just wanted to forget it all in hopes that Miles’ had the sense enough to leave Seth alone since he was mated one of the most powerful wolves there was out there, but no, I should have known his demented asshole wouldn’t give  up. So now here I was shaking in my proverbial boots to have to go into that library and confess all of my sordid story to my ticking time bomb of a brother-in-law, my doting husband, my Alpha, and my clueless little brother, crap I didn’t want to do this at all, but I had no choice now, so I was going to have to suck it up and pray that Carson kept it together.

Chapter 22

Chapter 22

Seth’s POV…

(Serious little Sebasian––––>)

We all sat in the pack house living room and watched Aaron fidget, and we all listened to his tale of his days spent in captivity on Miles’ pack compound. It was a good thing I was sitting on Carson’s lap, because he was strung tighter than a violin string, and the longer he listened to the demented words and poisonous venom Miles had spewed to my brother about me was the tighter those muscles became. Ben was sitting at my inconsolable brother’s side, and he was gently rubbing his back offering what comfort he could as my brother relived the atrocities that happened to him. Between our parent’s murders and his treatment in the hands of a madman. It was a wonder he had escaped as easily as he did, but Miles didn’t seem to be the smartest cookie on the block.

 I wanted to get up and wrap my brother in my arms, but I could feel the heat of my mate’s outrage burning against my skin. The little spikes of magic that were tingling across my awareness told me that he was not necessarily keeping it together.

  “So you are telling me that Miles, the sick fuck that he is, has been after Seth this whole time. He waited until Seth was close to his 21st birthday to kill your entire family to make sure the prophecy wasn’t fulfilled?” Peyton summed up the entire tale in a few short sentences.

  “Yes, it seems he was in cahoots with rogue Vampires, and he learned of the prophecy through them, and they had somehow figured out that Seth was the one. They started watching our family and even kidnapped my mother when she carried Seth, she got bitten and my father managed to rescue her, and the rest was history. Miles had stayed in the background and watched Seth from afar, until the day he had decided to make his move and slaughter our folks, but I managed to get Seth into our hiding place with the information on how to get to this pack just in case something happened to me.” Aaron explained. “Miles is more than capable of being behind this whole thing with Nassine, and the attempted abduction of my nephews. God only knows what else, and I have witnessed discord here in the camp too, and I am sorry to say it’s between Kamali and Tendra. I have witnessed both women saying some inappropriate things in regards to who should be the next leader of the Coven, and who should mated to whom. They are both firm believers in keeping the species pure blood and undiluted. I am not accusing them of anything, but in order to keep the entire family safe at this junction, we need to have the full picture and explore all possibilities.’ Aaron explained himself as he turned his apologetic gaze first to Raphael and then to Lucas. And both men just nodded their heads at him, but they both looked sort of deflated.

  It wasn’t news to anyone about those two bitchy females. They always acted polite to me but their eyes would shoot daggers of disgust whenever I glanced at them unawares. I had no doubt whatsoever that they hated the very air I breathed, but they feared my mate too much to make it obvious. What those hags didn’t know was that they should fear the hell out of me as well. No one knew what I was capable of either, and I wanted to keep it that way. But all this bullshit was beginning to get on my last nerves, and if anyone dared to threaten my children. I would end their very existence.

  Ben leaned over and whispered something in Aaron’s ear and my brother tiredly bobbed his head to whatever he was told. Ben stood and helped Aaron to his feet and he excused themselves for the remainder of the evening. Peyton,Carson, and the other family heads agreed to meet in Peyton’s office later on to discuss the revelations of the day. We filed out of the living room behind everyone else. I refused to let go of Carson’s hand. He was too keyed up for my liking, and he needed to calm down and quickly too. I dragged him upstairs towards the nursery to check on the children. Chantal was overseeing their care with a few of the pack women. I knew they were safe with those that were hand picked by the over protective mother herself.

  “Baby,  I can feel you simmering to a boil under your skin, will you please settle down.” I said as I lead him down the hall towards where the merry giggles of children at play could be heard. My mate just grunted and let me pull him along behind me. We walked through the opened double doors of the huge room that housed the play area for the children, and it was a busy room. A majority if the kids were toddlers, seeing how they were all born within weeks of each other. You would think there would be chaos with as many little ones we had running around in the room, but the women had them under control. They had them in group activities to keep them busy. We spied our little ones as usual right at their little mate’s sides. Sebastian glared at anyone who dared to get too close to his William, and I had to slap my hand over my mouth because he looked so much like his father at that moment, scowl and all. Boy that apple didn’t fall far from the tree at all. I backed out of the room before our brood could see  us, because if they did we would never be able to leave. The children remembered Carson’s little trick with the wind and spinning all over the courtyard and they constantly bugged him for a repeat performance.

  I barely set foot in the hallway before my back was slammed against the wall. Carson shoved a thick thigh between my legs and pressed my balls up into my body. “Ugh.” I grunted as my man ran his nose up the column of my throat.

  “I can smell you baby, you are ripe for breeding again.” He purred against the skin of my neck and my cock got instantly hard. Damn, what this man could do to me with his words alone.

  “Hmm… I don’t think we are ready for that yet.” I managed to choke out as I felt his rock hard member twitch against my hip.

  “Your scent is calling to me, and my wolf is bound and determined to mark his mate now more than ever with all this foolishness going on.” He whispered against my ear. I shivered as his lips brushed against the sensitive lobe before he pulled the bit of flesh in between his sharp teeth and nibbled on it. And God, my cock pulsed out a fountain of precum in my shorts.

  I struggled ineffectively against his muscled chest, trying to get free of his powerful sexual magnetism. “Carson, this is neither the place or the time. We are in a house full of children, and other supernatural beings with excellent hearing.” I whined and he just ignored me and continued to lick and suck on my flesh, and sweet Jesus, he found my spot and literally attacked it. His canines grazed over his mating bite and my eyes rolled into the back of my head as a mewl escaped my lips. It was like all of my nerve endings were set on fire and I could feel the heat of desire rising in my blood.

  I yelped as Carson unceremoniously picked me up, threw me over his shoulder, and made a mad dash up the last flight of stairs. Our rooms were at the end of the hall on the third floor and he rushed us through the doorway and kicked it closed. He threw me on the bed where I landed with a little bounce. And before I could scrabble off the other side he was on top me. I could feel every inch of his delicious body as he settled himself between my parted thighs.

  “Please don’t fight me love, you are mine, and I need to mark you, my wolf needs it, I need it. Your scent, and everything about you calms my beast, and he is extremely needy right now.” My mate’s voice growled against my throat and I just relaxed and gave in, no way was I going to win this when my body was shouting, “yes, yes, give him whatever he needs.”

  Carson felt my acceptance as my body went lax underneath his and he smashed his lips to mine, I immediately opened up and let his tongue slide into my mouth. The warm wet muscle brushed against mine and rubbed me in the right way. My hands flew up to his broad shoulders as I was swept away on a wave of heat and lust. He began to roll his hips, rubbing his impressive erection against mine through our clothes. And…mmm…it felt so good. My fingers found the hem of his shirt and I wasted no time in pulling the material over his head and throwing it somewhere in the room. With every piece of clothing I removed from that delectable body, he repeated the action with my own.

  Soon we were both naked, flushed, and writhing against one another. Carson reached over to the nightstand and pulled out the lube and yes, I made sure a condom. He deposited them on the bed next to my head and he continued to ravish my mouth, his tongue dominated mine as he seemed to drink my very soul through my mouth. His lips trailed down the edge of my jaw and he pecked his way down to my neck. I was moaning and whimpering, totally incoherent as he worshipped my body. He rubbed himself all over me as I shuddered against his undulating form.

  Anticipation strummed through my veins, and the worries of the outside world disappeared and it was only me and my mate here in this room. I desperately wanted to feel the burning stretch of his entry and the heart stopping fullness that only he could provide. An in that instant I pushed him and rolled the both of us over, so that I was now sitting on top of him straddling his hips. I knew my fangs had descended and I am sure my naked yearning for him was clear on my face as I gazed down into his heated blue eyes. “I want you.” I purred and licked my top lip and watched his cerulean gaze follow the movement. I felt his steel rod throb against my but cheek and I rolled my hips to give him a little friction. He hissed as his big hands found my slender hips. He reared up and planted a opened mouth, dirty kiss on my parted lips. He sucked the plump bottom one into his mouth and nibbled on it before releasing the abused flesh.

  “Then take me.” He growled and thrust the lube into my hand.

  I didn’t have to be told twice. I got an idea and I turned around with a lascivious smile on my face. I dropped the lube between his legs and reached for the condom. I ripped it open with my teeth and took his gorgeous cock in my hands and rolled the thin layer of latex onto it. His hips bucked and he groaned again from behind me. I twisted around and gave him a naughty wink before bending over at the waist. My ass was now in the air spread wide for him to see my hole winking at him, and I heard the muttered, “Fuck me.”  Escape from him. I knew he was enjoying the view, and I was going to make it so much better for him.

  I picked up the lube and generously coated my fingers with it. I could feel his large callous hands as he massaged my ass, spreading and closing the cheeks like he was playing peek a boo with my entrance. He moved his hands and groaned when my slick fingers slowly slid up and down my crease. I found my puckered star and slipped the tip of my finger inside and moaned like a wanton slut just for his benefit. He liked it when I was vocal with my pleasure. And since he started this, I was damn sure going to finish it. I worked myself with my fingers. I now had up to three stretching my entrance and from the way Carson was wriggling underneath me, I had his full attention.

   I pulled my fingers from my quivering chute and positioned myself right over his thick dick. He held it place as I slowly skewered myself in it, and yes…the burn of being stretched and filled almost made me swallow my tongue. I pushed out and breathed at the same time taking all of him until but butt cheeks touched his pelvis and his fingers dug into my hips.

  “God, you feel so hot and tight, I fucking love it.” He growled from behind me and I got a good grip on his thighs and eased myself off that fat shaft and abruptly sat down again. I heard him curse and I let go. I started bouncing up and down on the long thick length of him, and the faster I went was the more he cursed. I felt nothing but him, I smelt nothing but him, he surround my every conscious thought, and he dominated all my senses. I rode him like he was a thoroughbred horse, spurring him on towards the finish line. I wrapped my own fingers around my dripping shaft and jerked myself off as his big hands helped me bob up and down faster and faster on top of him.

  I felt his cock thickened even more and his movements became choppy and he chanted my name, and yes. I could feel the tingle of my release at the base of my spine my balls tightly drew up into my gut, and trembled with their imminent release. Carson hands tightened on my hips and he nearly lifted me off his cock altogether before he brought be back down thrusting his hips up at the same time and buried himself deeper into my spasming channel. It felt like he punched straight through to my heart, and I lost it. My cock exploded, I threw my head back, and screamed with the aching intensity of the non stop pulsing as my semen shot out of my penis Line after line of the thick milky fluid splashed all over the bedding and my hands. I felt Carson’s shaft throb as the heat of his cum as it pumped into the condom buried deep inside my body.

I drew one last ragged breath and went limp, but it seemed that my mate had other ideas. He pulled out of my aching ass with a hiss. He adjusted my body and I was now lying on top of him. And Carson’s thick fingers turned my head to the side. That was all the warning I got before he sank his teeth deep into my neck right at his mating mark. A full body orgasm suddenly flashed through my entire body and my back arched completely off of him, my hands fisted in the sheets, and my eyes rolled  into the back of my head. I felt his lips pulling my blood into his mouth, and I shuddered and collapsed into darkness, it was too much pleasure for my tired blissed out body to take. But yes, we were both calmer for it. I could feel the warm satisfaction radiating from his wolf as sleep claimed me and dragged me under, “God this man is my all,” was my last conscious thought as I snuggled against his warmth and napped  for the remainder of the evening.

Chapter 23

Chapter 23

Carson POV…

(Carson’s Feral Indigo Eyes———>)

Something was in the air, something raw and potent. It felt like my wolf was in a constant state of anticipation. Something akin to fire was on a slow burn beneath my skin, and living in the pack house with so many people around was grating on my nerves. I could hear the low murmurs of the ladies as they settled the children down for the night, and my restlessness was growing as the evening wore on little by little. Our scouts have yet to come up with any clues as to where the red wolf and his pack of filth were hiding. And my wolf didn’t like it, not one bit. I still have yet to interrogate Nassine and Peyton was walking on thin ice if he didn’t let me have access to her soon. The underlying noises were settling down in the house and I could smell Seth, his scent for the last couple of days have been driving my wolf into a frenzy. I had promised him that I would behave, but he was entering his heat and it was getting harder and harder  for me to keep my promise.

My legs were bouncing impatiently up and down as I sat in the den with Peyton, Lucas, Ben, Raphael, and Gregori. I was bored with the topic of the distention between Raphael’s mate and Lucas’ mate. Those women brought new meaning to the word nagging. I do not envy them in any way. It was worse now that everyone was now under the same roof. So the women had no choice but to be in close quarters with each other. Seth had already mentioned it to me that Kamali has been shadowing his every step, and he found it creepy. And as impatient as I have been, I had wound up growling at her and of course Lucas stepped in to protect his mate. So now she was wailing about people ganging up on her, and how she wasn’t welcomed within her own pack. Nothing could have me any happier when Chantal had stepped in and promptly told her to stop being so dramatic, and to shut up. Well, that caused  her to run upstairs in hysterics with a tired looking Lucas trudging behind her at a much slower pace.

Then if that was enough, Tendra had witnessed the entire situation and had the nerve to scoff out loud about it, but Raphael  immediately stepped in and made sure she saw his displeasure. Tendra had wound up stalking off upstairs as well. When Lucas returned looking even more dejected, Peyton laid down the law. He stated that if either woman could not get over their pettiness, and if they continue to beinf the cause of added stress over the house then they would be asked to leave the pack. I was about to speak up at the stricken looks on their mates faces, but Peyton waved me off. He explained that he was tired of the constant squabbling, it is causing a division in the family and the whole purpose all along has been unity of the species and he wouldn’t let two women with high aspirations ruin it for everyone. And I fully understood then where he was coming from, and sadly so did Lucas and Raphael, they quietly excused themselves from the room not long after and went to their mates. I didn’t relish witnessing those conversations at all.

Peyton went back to discussing everything but what I wanted to hear, and that was when I was going to get the chance to interrogate Nassine. I felt my wolf stir  again and he began scratching just below the surface of my skin in agitation,  and I anxiously changed positions in my seat. Peyton shot a concerned glance towards me before continuing with his conversation that I was no longer paying any attention to. Then, it felt like switch had was flipped in my brain. My eyes flashed, and my vision cleared, letting me know that my wolf has partially taken over. I released a deep guttural growl before jumping to my feet. Ben immediately realised what was wrong with me and he threw  the door to the study door open since he was closest one to it. Peyton quickly eased himself out of the way as I flashed right by him. The last time this occurred, my wolf took over entirely and carried me straight to my mate’s side, but this time I didn’t need to shift in order to do that, Seth was right here in the house. People still scurried out of my way, I knew my eyes were glowing bright blue as my determined steps carried me to our rooms.

Aaron was just exiting our bedroom and his eyes widened when he saw me coming up the hall, he took a protective stance in front of the door and my wolf growled a warning at him. My blood was literally simmering in my veins, and the potent aroma of my mate’s arousal caused saliva to pool in my mouth. “Aaron, move…Please I am barely hanging on, I do not want to hurt you.”

“You know if you he can become pregnant again Carson, I am scared for him.” Aaron bravely stood  his ground, but it pissed me off a little that he had so little faith in me and my wolf, that we didn’t know what was best for Seth.

 I felt Aaron’s smaller body shudder as I got right up in his face and growled again. He sighed and quickly stepped out of my way. I wasted no time as I swept past him and into my darkened bedroom. My eyes immediately found Seth curled up into a tight ball on the bed, and the scent that was radiating off his body was strong enough to let me know that he was beginning to feel the burn of his heat. He released a little whimper as he registered the fact that I was in the room with him. His head shot up and his blond curls bounced as he swung his head to look in my direction. I immediately made my way to his side and gathered his trembling body into my arms. And God Damn, he immediately twisted his sexy slender body around until he was straddling my lap. He buried his fingers in my hair and wrapped those creamy thighs around my waist and locked his ankles at the small of my back.  My cock instantly stood up, harder than a flag post as his little pink tongue snaked past his lips and he slowly licked me from my chin up along my jawline to my ear.  His teeth nipped the fleshy part of my earlobe before he sucked it into his hot little mouth.

“Baby, I am trying to keep my  head here.” I warned as his hips began a slow grind in my lap. I could feel the length of his shaft press against my abs. He moaned into my mouth and his  fingers tightened in my hair as he kissed his way across my cheek. “I need to feel you, I want you inside of me stretching me. I want his fast, hard, and dirty.” He purred before taking my bottom lip in betwen his teeth and sucking it into his mouth. He sucked on the sensitive flesh like he was sucking on the head of my dick. My shaft pulsed painfully underneath his delectable ass and spewed a copious amount of pre-ejaculate in my shorts. “Seth, we need condoms.” I tried to be the voice of reason, but he jsut continued to grind against me, getting lost in the friction he was creating for himself against my stomach.

“No condoms, I want to feel it when you come. I want you to mark me inside and out.” He hissed in my ear before sliding seductively off my lap.

I had to clench my hands into fists at my side to prevent myself from snatching him up and throwing him onto the bed. His beautiful eyes blazed bright yellow as he started a tantalizing strip tease right there in front me. When he got his shirt off, he spun around, his hands going to the snap of his jeans. I heard the slide of his zipper a second before he wiggled that sweetly rounded ass and shimmed out of his pants.  My mate is so fucking beautiful . I almost swallowed my tongue when he slowly turned back around and I let my eyes travel the length of his body. My gaze came to an abrupt halt at the waistband of his tight boxer briefs. The blushing head of his cock peeked out of the waistband  of those snug boxers as daring me to come and get it. I continued to watch as his little hand as he began a hypnotic show of rubbing his chest before his busy digits continued their journey south. His  fingers slipped even lower into his underwear and he  threw his head back and moaned so deliciously as he stroked himself from root to tip.

I sat there totally transfixed by the sensuous movements of his hand as he slowly jacked himself off. I tried desperately  to hang onto my control, I really did. But Seth ripped it from me when he dropped his drawers altogether and kicked them aside. One of his fingers went into his mouth and the other hand reclaimed his grip on his shaft. And a pearlescent drop of precome leaked from the slit of the mushroomed head. His finger popped out of his pretty pouty lips, it swirled in his fluids, and he popped right back into his mouth and that was when I lost it. I heard the feral growl as it bubbled up out of my chest and I guess Seth heard it too, because he began to backing away from me, but his actions just enticed the beast that he set free even more.

I pounced on him, and none too gently either. I grasped him around the waist spun on my heels and threw him face first onto our bed. And before he could scurry off the other side of the mattress, I whipped my sweatpants off and  pinned him with the entire length of my body. I ground my dripping cock into the crease of his firm butt cheeks. “I was trying to be a gentleman.” I licked his ear before giving a sharp nip on the sensitive lobe. Using my knees I spread his thighs apart, and I grasped his wrist  and held them above his head with one hand. “Now, I am going to give you exactly what you asked for and more.” Seth groaned out loud and the sound caused my cock to jerk against the smooth skin of his luscious ass. I reached over to the nightstand with my free hand and snatched up the small bottle of lube. “You say you want my inside you? Well, I am going to bury myself so deep inside this sweet hot tunnel of yours, that you will feel me under your heart. Isn’t that what you want babe?”

I flipped the cap open one handed and just turned it upside down. I liberally coated my dick and his curvaceous ass with the viscous fluid. I continued to roll my hips and used my rock hard length to spread it all over his butt cheeks and eventually into the crease of his ass. I kept working my engorged cock deeper and deeper into him until the ultra sensitive head bumped against his quivering entrance. “Fuck baby, you feel so warm and inviting, and I know just how tight you are going to feel around me when I finally enter you. That sweet chute is going to milk me dry and I am going to love every minute of it. I am going to fuck you unconscious baby. Are you ready for me, my sweet mate?” I lasciviously licked across his cheek as his breath panted between his wet parted lips. Seth just whimpered and arched his ass into my groin, silently let me know that he was ready for everything that I said I was going to do him. Seth wanted our mating to be hard, fast, and dirty. And he was going to give it to him.

Seth buried his face into the bedding to muffle his screams as I unceremoniously thrust myself balls deep into that hot tight channel. His outer ring of nerves shuddered and twitched around the girth of my shaft. I had to clamp my jaw shut and every  muscle in my body strained with exertsion in order to keep my orgasm from erupting like a super volcano. I gave only a few minutes to assimilate to my hard entry before I took a deep calming breath and sent a punishing pace. I withdrew almost all the way out of him, leaving only the wide flushed head of my dick in his quivering chute before plunging myself all the way until my balls slapped against his ass. My fangs descend and my wolf howled in triumph in my head and I continued to ride him. He was a writhing incoherent mess as I continued to pummel in and out of his channel. “Yeah, baby, that’s it. You feel so fucking good my love.” I scraped my lengthened incisors against his shoulder as my hips pistoned on. Seth’s chute spasmed and milked the length of my shaft so hard  my balls drew up. I could feel my release churning  inside of them, causing them to swell and quiver some more.

Quickly, I reached under Seth to clasp his shaft and stroke him into completion, but my hand met a soft dick. And for a second or two, I wondered if I was hurting him more than I was giving him pleasure. That was until I went to move my hand away and my fingers made contact with a cooling puddle of his release. And holy hell, and just the thought of him shooting off without any added stimulation had my eyes rolling into the back of my head. My balls immediately emptied and I groaned and undulated my entire body from head to toe with the force of my never ending release. I came so long and so hard that with each thrust my fluids leaked out of his channel and coated my still rigid shaft.

“Bite me, claim me my mate.” Seth whispered breathlessly and I complied with one swift neat bite. My fangs sank deep into his willing flesh, and his sweet blood spilled into my mouth. I drank deep and my chest puffed up with pride when I heard his satisfied sigh.  I made sure not to take too much because although I tried, I knew I failed horrendously to control myself. I also knew without a doubt that we created a life tonight  with this mating. And to be honest I have no regrets about it whatsoever. After I closed the puncture wounds at the junction of his neck and shoulder. We both simultaneously hissed as I withdrew from his well used entrance. It took a few more moments for me to catch my breath before I got up to get him a warm washcloth. I wiped him free of our sweat, and my excess come from his spent body. I climbed back in bed and gathered him close. And with ym last remaining energy I checked on our children in the other room before drifting off to sleep, utterly exhausted but extremely contented.

Chapter 24

Chapter 24

 

Aaron’s POV…

(Meadow behind the pack house—––>)

 

 I knew it, I absolutely knew it. The minute Seth went into heat and Carson took one good whiff of his mate. He was going to loose his self control and Seth was going to get pregnant again, like it or not. I knew my brother wasn’t against to the idea of being pregnant again, but I was. The delivery of his triplets nearly killed him. Seth had been so pale and so weak afterwards, and Carson may have forgotten that my little brother’s heart had almost stopped after the last baby was removed from his womb, but I haven’t. I couldn’t bare to lose my baby brother, especially after the traumatic loss of our my parents. But here Seth was, bright as a morning daisy and positively pregnant again. He still looked so innocent and so sweet as he sat there in the clearing with the golden rays of sunlight shining down on him and accecenting his creamy skin. His son’s were waddling around with the other children on their fat little legs, while my Ailis was queening it up as her mate brought her boquets pretty wild flowers he plucked from bushels scattered throughout the meadow. The war wolves and the enforcers were close by while our mate’s were busy being manly protectors of the pack.

Ben, bless his sweet little heart, couldn’t keep anything to himself, especially with a little bit of loving persuasion to loosen his tongue. So I knew that Peyton was going to let Carson finally have the opportunity to try to get information from Nassine. The other Elders were going to be present as witnesses. But I still had this nagging feeling in my gut that something was going to happen. I hated  the suspense more than anything else when I got these vague premonitions. I had spent half the morning using my third eye trying to see what was coming, but  all I got was a raging headache for my efforts. And now here my little brother sat glowing brighter than the sun itself. Well at least he was happy about it, and I am sure once Carson is free, he was going to be right under Seth’s feet. It will be funny to watch him,  now that he has some experience, on how he was going to handle my sweet sibling’s mood swings?

“Hey Aaron, come here for a second.” Seth called out to me and I moved away from the refreshment table to join him on the blanket where he was sitting.

“What’s up.” I sank down next to him.

Seth sighed and brushed a stray curl out of his face. “Is it me, or have you been getting warning signs all day?”

“It’s not only you bro, my internal warning system has definitely been making itself known. If it wasn’t for the fact that the kids were going bat shit crazy being locked up in the house for the past couple of days. I wouldn’t have you or any of the children out here. Everyone seems to forget that you are the main target for Miles crazy ass.” I grumbled and Seth immediately picked up on my underlying fear and leaned over and bumped my shoulder with his own as if to reassure me.

“What could possibly happen out here with so many damn guardian wolves scattered throughout the clearing?”  He leaned away to snatch Dominic up and blow a bubble on his round little tummy before setting him back on his pudgy feet.  The sound of his little giggles made me smile.  And then the pup was off again trying to catch up with his brothers. That was until Chantal joined the group and set her little ones free. And of course Sebastian glowered at everyone before making a beeline straight for William,  taking  his mate’s little hand in his, and leading him to the blanket well out of the rambunctious children’s way. It was the sweetest thing ever to watch those two together.

“You know  being Alpha mate sometimes is for the birds.” Chantal groused as she plopped down on the blanket and leaned back and crossed her long legs at the ankles. “I just spent the first part of my morning listening to Clarissa snivel on about not being allowed any freedom or anywhere near the pack house. She keeps going on about she over Carson, and blah , blah. So, I asked her if she was so over him. Why does she want in so bad? Did she forget that she physically attacked you and in order for her to remain amongst the living, she had to keep her distance? Wellshe promptly shut up and finally went away, but there is something about her motives I don’t quite trust.”

And both Seth and I nodded in agreement with her, I knew if given the opportunity, my brother-in-law would have ended Clarissa a long time ago just for putting her hands on Seth. It was only Seth’s bleeding heart and his pleas that has kept her alive. We were all lost in our own thoughts and watching the children play when all of a sudden chaos ensued. The war wolves came crashing through the brush and Lucas quickly shifted and shouted for us to gather the children and get into the house. Several of the enforcers shifted and helped coral the now screaming children. I swept around the clearing doing a head count as children were hoisted up and bundled in the women’s arms.

I could see Chantal’s blond hair flying behind her as she ran up ahead grabbing up some of the  the babies and heading towards the house. I didn’t dare look behind me as the sounds of snarling and snapping got louder and louder. I saw several guards from the coven and flash down the stairs as we ran up them and into the house. Peyton and Ben were next to go by in wolf form to join the obvious invasion on our pack lands. I thought I saw a flash of white as Carson, also in wolf form, cleared the top railing and bounded into the melee.

We all headed for the safe room in the basement and I got there with my arms full of children. I came to a skidding to a halt when I noticed that my nephews were gathered in a tight circle and they were holding hands. Each of their eyes were unblinking and  glowing, and I could feel the energy they were generating. Their skin was also glowing an iridescent blue. I set down the kids I was holding in my arms, and I double checked to make sure I saw Ailis sitting with her arms held out away from her body and her eyes were closed but she glowed as well. Their mates sat quietly by like they were willing their own strength into their other half. And dread immediately filled me, my head snapped around and my heart plummeted and I dropped to my knees. “Where is Seth?”  I shouted and all the movement and noise instantly stopped as all the adults did a head count and indeed my little brother was missing.

I jumped to my feet and charged back up the stairs, and I found I couldn’t get out. Not with the time lock or two bulky enforcers blocking my way. “Sorry Sir, Alpha’s orders, no opening the door until he gives the all clear.”

I tried to push past him with no avail. “You don’t understand, Seth didn’t make it inside with us. And I have got to find him. You know, Carson’s mate.” I screamed at him, and his only response was to flinch at the mention of Carson’s name, but he still refused to budge. It took Chantal and a couple of the others to drag me back downstairs. The children were still interlocked and I wondered what the hell they were doing. Everyone was giving them a wide berth although they  curiously watched wide eyed to see what was happening. I stepped up to their little circle and opened my senses. And oh my God, the children linked together were using their parents’ inherited magic to track their father.

The picture in my mind was blurry like I was seeing out of someone else’s eyes. My  heart  rate  picked  up and began to pound in my chest with fear and worry. My mind kept blanking out as if I was trying to stay awake, but blackness was closing in.  Bile rose up in my throat as I saw the flash of red fur and my knees once agin gave out. I hit the floor with Chantal rushing to my side. Sweet Jesus, everything went black and my head felt like it was splitting in two, but I rushed to my wailing nephews. Seth had been kidnapped and they had immediately sensed that something wasn’t right and attempted to connect with their parent. Between Chantal, their mates, and I, we managed to calm them down enough so that they were not wailing anymore.

Glaring at our guards, I closed my eyes to try to see if I could connect with Carson. I am not sure how much he knew, or if he sensed that Seth was no longer on pack grounds. The answer came when the enforcers at the door barely managed to scramble out of the way when the boor burst open with such force, one side of the panel came completely off the stainless steel hinge. Carson’s indigo eyes quickly scanned the room before they came to a rest on his children. People scattered out of his way, some ran straight up stairs, and others flattened themselves against the wall, scared, but curious to see what the hell was going on.

The pups ran to their father and Carson scooped his children up and held them to his chest. He was visibly shaking and the other Elders attempted to touch him and my mouth dropped open in complete shock as Carson’s skin seemed to shimmer and his eyes went completely black. Their was a collective gasp in the room and the spectators that where left, quickly made their way to the exit. But I stayed rooted to the spot  where I was crouched. Chantal motioned for one of the women to remove the children and Peyton and Raphael came rushing through the door with Gregori not far behind them.

“Step away from him and his pups.” Peyton barked at the Elders and the coven guardians. And they quickly obeyed.

Ben almost ran to my side, but Lucas snatched his arm to keep him from doing so as Carson approached me. “Take my children, and keep them safe.” His rough voice was barely recognizable. I was scared shitless, it was like this entity in front of me lookedd like Carson, but he was not. His midnight black eyes were bottomless, like you could stare into them forever and never find anything, not an emotion or a soul. And this was what really had the hair on the back of my neck standing up. Carson, handed me the children and his cold flesh brushed across mine and I felt the rage that shimmered just below the surface, and the fear for the life of his mate and unborn pup. This was so not going to go well for the red wolf and his pack when Carson caught up to them.

He bent and kissed his whimpering children before he stepped back and quickly shifted into his huge menacing wolf. Peyton stepped forward and blocked his way. “You do not need to do this alone, you have an entire family willing to help you reclaim your ma…..”

Peyton didn’t get to finish his words before a Carson’s very human and very naked form had him dangling by his throat and pinned against the wall, the betas and the war wolves rushed to intervene, but a blast of shimmering blue energy shot out from Carson’s very skin, and they went airborne. Rory landed with a loud painful sounding grunt at my feet. I wanted to take the children upstairs. But I couldn’t move, my brother-in-law was radiating such overwhelming power. I just knew that nothing was going to stop him until he got to Seth. I feared the level of his power and the strength of his energy. I just realized just how tight of a control he had been holding over himself and his magic, but no more. Miles had no idea what he has unleashed onto the shifter world by taking this man’s reason for living all  because of some stupid vendetta.

“You speak of family and help, but someone here betrayed the family, someone here betrayed Seth. And someone let that pathetic excuse of a wolf in here and has given him the opportunity to drug my mate and dragging him away with the intent of harming him.  My mate is pregnant with my pup, so it’s life is at stake as well. You speak of family, someone in this family has committed the ultimate sin in my eyes. So no, nephew, I do not need any help. As long as my mate’s heart is beating I will find him.”

I watched helplessly as Carson dropped Peyton and flashed out of the room. Peyton coughed and rubbed his neck. He looked at Raphael and Gregori and I saw each leader nod at their prospective warriors, and I breathed a sigh of relief as they disappeared as a unit after Carson. My volatile brother-in-law may not want the help, but he was going to get it regardless. Ben stopped and jogged back towards me, he kissed me on the lips and ran his fingers over the children’s cheeks before following after Lucas, Rory, Michael, James, and Terrin. The most trusted enforcers and betas amongst the species. This was not going to be good, Peyton looked he aged ten years as my feet finally decided to cooperate with me. I made my way upstairs and all of a sudden the children went wild in my arms.

Once again they held each others hand and a bright shot of energy radiated from them and it shot out across the room. Someone screamed and my head snapped up as I looked in the direction where the sound came from, only to see Clarissa writhing on the floor as if she was in excruiating pain. Sebastian surprised me by slithering through my loose grasp and he gracefully landed on his feet. I went to grab him but Raphael snatched my arm back. “Let him be and watch, my protege is going to show you first hand what vampires are capable of, his aura is stronger because of his mixed magic.” The vampire leader explained  with his eyes riveted on his little successor.

Both of Sebastian’s siblings slipped out of my arms, but Trenton and Dominic remained at my side as Sebastian stopped directly in front of the writhing woman. It was insane, the moment she caught his gaze, she went silent and stopped moving altogether. Sebastian tilted his head to the side and Clarissa’s face went blank and she began to speak in a flat trance like voice. The leaders stepped forward and listened to what she had to say. The Elder’s came forward too as she explained of  how she had aided Miles in his campaign to get his hands on Seth ever since the young man was claimed by the one she has lusted after for so long.  She even went in to explain Nassine’s role as the person that was supposed to bind Seth’s powers so that Miles can do whatever he wished to Seth with out having to worry about being fried by his magic in the process.

The more she talked was the more my temper boiled. I stepped around the children intent on doing harm to this insipid woman, but as quick as a flash Sebastian little arm shot out and I had to blink to make sure that I was seeing right. My three year nephew just  grabbed the shifter by the hair and as fast as a flash of light, he twitsed the woman head clean around almost severing her neck from her body before letting go and toddling back over to his siblings like nothing happened. Clarissa’s lifeless body fell backwards wit a sickening thud. I looked up in shock along with more than half the stunned pack in the room at Raphael. He just shrugged his broad shoulders, and Peyton ordered for Clarissa’s body to be removed and buried out in the woods.

“I have to send a message to see if I can connect with Carson or at least with my betas following him to let him know of this new outcome.“He turned to the Elder’s. “I think we have a few more questions for Nassine before she forfeits her life.” He stated and they nodded in agreement.  The women jumped to attention and they quickly herded the remaining children upstairs to the nursery and Chantal and I was left in the front room. We didn’t have the first idea of what to do, but  we silently  agreed  that all we could do was wait and hope for the best.

Chapter 25

Chapter 25

  A/N- Once again I thank you all, this is the last Chapter before the epilogue and again I am humbled by the comments, votes and praise from all of you my wonderful fans. Another journey completed and I love you guys, Seth and Carson will be missed but look out for Sebastian and William’s story…Carnal Lover in the near future. Thank you, all of you, xoxo

Seth’s POV…

(Carson wolf as he rescued Seth———>)

 

My entire body felt like it weighed a ton,  something was very wrong, and my senses weren’t reacting properly enough to tell me what was going on. And that scared me shitless, but I refused to panic. The last thing I remembered was the enforcers crashing through the trees and Lucas yelling at us to take the children inside. I went to grab William and Sebastian but  I felt something sharp jab me in my neck, and then everything went dark.  Now, my senses were slowly but surely coming back to me and the first thing that hit me was the different scents surrounding me. I wasn’t on pack lands anymore, of that I was sure. I tried to wipe my face and I hissed as a white hot pain seared through my wrist. I couldn’t quite reach my face and my eyes popped open only to see pure silver shackles around both of my wrists.

“Well, well, look who is finally awake. Hey there, beautiful.”  Miles greeted me from the chair he was seated on across the room from where I was lying on a huge silk covered mattress.

My feet and my hands restrained to the bed posts. And my eyes flashed to the owner of that deep throaty voice. My gaze locked onto Miles forest green orbs. He wore a lecherous grin on his face and my blood began to boil. How dare this sorry excuse for a wolf attack my home and remove me from my love and my children, the fucking nerve of this bastard. “I suggest you let me go and give up this stupid plot of yours.” I managed to croak through my bone dry throat. I knew without a doubt that Carson is coming for me. As a matter of fact I could feel his energy. I didn’t know where I was at or how far away I was from the pack lands, but to feel such power coming from him meant that he was pissed as hell. I just hoped and prayed that when he found me I would be able to get through to him.  

“Why would I do that after I went to such trouble to get you exactly where I want you?” He purred and he got up and slowly stalked his way across the room to my side. He sank his large body unto the bed by my hip and I didn’t make him any wiser to the folly of that  move.

If he tried to touch me, I was going to give him enough of a jolt  to stop his heart and get rid of the fucker once and for all. “I know you know who I am mated to, he will come for me, and when he does, I doubt that you and entire pack will survive the experience.” I forewarned and shook my head as he continued to sneer at me. I realized that Miles must not have the good sense the spirits gifted us with, it’s either that or he was very poorly informed by his spies.  But when you think about it, I never really Nassine or anyone other than my immediate family close enough to know anything about me and my powers, and everyone had very limited knowledge to the magic that was flowing through my mate’s vein.

“Huh, you mean your Elder, the all powerful Carson.” He sneered and continued, “ He is probably lying dead in that precious little clearing filled with flowers as we speak. In fact your entire pack really. My rogues are a blood thirsty bunch and I have a very powerful vampire aiding my efforts right inside of your  former household. So how smart is he if he couldn’t even pick up on a traitor living right under his nose. But don’t worry little one. I am sure those bastard children of yours didn’t suffer as my wolves ripped them apart. They were of no consequence anyway. I have plans for you and this delectable body of yours. You, my love are going to breed for me and only me, all this peacemaker crap is bullshit.“ He snapped and moved away and reclaimed his seat across the room from me to my utter disappointment.

I tried not react to his words, my mind knew that what he said wasn’t true, but even with that knowledge, my heart still skipped a beat. I closed my eyes and open my senses, and yes I felt my babies and they were using their magic as well. I could feel the love and support they were channeling towards me. I could feel my niece as well, Ailis’ magic was different from my children and held more of Aaron’s magic as she should. But what soothed the most was the throbbing power of Carson’s energy pulsing like  a life form within me. He was getting closer and I opened my mind and connected with him. I gasped as the sheer force of his fury washed over me. My mate was no longer coherent and he was beyond the point of fury. I can’t even name the emotion churning through him. His power was completely unleashed and I immediately tried to soothe him by letting him know I am unharmed and that his pup was safe within my womb, but he snarled in my head so I decided to try get Miles talking instead. He said a vampire in our own house was in on his silly plot as well. And I wondered who the hell it could be although I had my own thoughts on who the person was.

But Miles’ voice interrupted my mental musings by continuing to ramble on with his foolishness. “Don’’t be upset baby, just accept your fate right now and everything will be so much easier. It’s a pity Nassine overstepped her bounds and showed her hand before she could bind your powers or else you would be writhing in ecstasy under me right now as we speak. Even with the pup you are carrying. But I can wait, once  you deliver that whelp that same pup is going to suffer painfully if you don’t cooperate with me. Taking that sweet….”

I felt the surge of Carson’s energy just seconds before the lights went out in the room, and we were instantly surrounded by absolute darkeness. I immediately began chanting a protection spell to surround those in the immediate area that I held near and dear. I sent my energy out into the atmosphere and I became conscious of the guardians Peyton sent to follow Carson. My magic surrounded them with protection and I felt another surge power from my mate followed almost immediately by complete and total silence. It was eerie how quiet it became, I could only hear Miles’ agitated breathing as he shuffled his across the room. I called upon my magic and my vision cleared. I could see him working a key into the lock on the door, he threw it open only to be met with a dark hallway. He opened his mouth as if he was going to say something but all of a sudden a huge glowing wolf blocked the entire doorway.

A shocked gasp squeaked out of my throat as my gaze zeroed in on my mate. Carson’s fur was no longer  the pristine white I was accustomed to, it was now pitch black. And in the darkness, the only thing you could really see of him was the burning blue flames shooting from his eyes as he stalked a stumbling Miles further into the room. Sweet spirits, he was even bigger than his white wolf . My extremities tingled as the shackles holding my limbs down snapped open and fell away from me. I sat up to get a better view of what was happening in with my mate. It looked like Miles was at a lost for words as he gaped at the horrific sight in front of him. Carson’s canines were bared and literally dripping with saliva as he continued to growl threateningly in Miles’ face. He snapped his powerful jaws once and advanced on Miles’s, and the coward that he was cowered and fell to the ground throwing his hands over his head as if to protect himself.

Galvanized into action, I scooted off the bed and stepped between my mate and the petrified wolf. “As you can see dumb ass, my mate is very much alive and he is beyond pissed. You and your merry band of idiots have no idea who the hell you are dealing with. The peacemaker prophecy is very much true, and those sorry excuses for wolves you sent to my home to kill my children are long dead, as are the ones that were supposed to guard this little hideout of yours. Now I am going to ask you one question and how quickly you accept your fate and answer it will determine how painful your demise will be.” I repeated his words back to him and for good measure and much to Carson’s huff of disapproval behind me. I reached out and gave Miles a nice satisfying little jolt of electricity from the palm of my hand. The bastard I wanted to do so much more but I needed the name of the traitor. “The name of the vampire helping you, I want  it now.”

Miles just stared behind me as if the sight of my mate captivated him, he didn’t even acknowledge me as I snapped my fingers in front of  his blank face. That was when I realized that Carson was running this show completely. I rolled my eyes and placed a protective hand on my stomach to soothe our daughter and I stepped aside to let my mate have his way. I linked my mind to his and I just smirked with the knowledge that Carson was already fully aware of  the identity traitor amongst us, but seeing who the person was, he was trying to give them a chance to redeem themselves. But I wasn’t inclined to do the same, this person had smiled in my face and literally tried to stab me in my back. They almost brought death to my children, my mate, and the rest of my pack, my family. This I cannot forgive. “Carson, my love, hurry  up and do what you are doing. I want to go home.”  And with that parting statement, I stepped out of the room and into the hallway. I didn’t need to witness what our mind link had allowed me to see coming, and I closed my eyes when the flash of bright blue light mushroomed out of the entrance of the room. My nose twitched at the smell of burning flesh but the scent of my mate overpowered the acrid smell as I was gathered against a huge warm chest.

I leaned back and looked up into Carson’s face, and I knew his emotions where still out of control because his gorgeous indigo eyes were still midnight black. I used my thumbs to rub soothing circles over his sculpted cheekbones. “We are safe baby, alive and well. Nothing happened so please calm down and let’s finish this.” I whispered and got up on my tip toes and pecked him on those plumb lips of his. I felt the whoosh of his warm breath against my lips as I sank back down on my feet and I shivered as I delivered a shot of warm energy towards him. And the love of my life just smiled at me and took me by the hand and led me outside into the cool air. I tried not to pay attention to our guardians as they threw the burnt bodies of wolves and men alike into one large mass grave as Carson led me past them. He walked me through the woods like we were taking a Sunday stroll, and I just smiled as I felt him calming down bit by bit. I knew he was having a telepathic conversation with Peyton, but at this point all of the adrenaline that had kept me going abruptly wore off and I was left feeling tired as hell.

The other wolves and coven guards that accompanied Carson to bring me back home had finally caught up with us just as we cleared the treeline to the pack house. Aaron came bursting through the front door and down the steps, he rushed me but my still riled up mate growled a warning and Aaron slowed his headlong rush into  a wary gait. His eyes shimmered with tears as he gathered me into his arms and  hugged me like I gone for years instead of hours. I let go of Aaron and Carson reclaimed my hand, and instead of heading up the stairs and into the house. Carson walked the path around the side of the house and continued into the woods just outside of the clearing. I wasn’t surprised to see all that was gathered there. Raphael’s face was devoid of any emotion as he stared straight ahead as Tendra thrashed in agony at his feet. She was wrapped in a mesh made of pure silver, and it seared skin everywhere it touched.  Peyton looked torn as he took his stance next to Raphael and his coven advisors.

Carson kissed my hand and seated me down next to Aaron, I tried to catch Lucas’ gaze but he steadfastly stared at his feet while Kamali looked on nervously, her flashing over the gathered crowd. One would have expected her to be smug about her nemesis being sentenced to death for betraying the family. Hell people would have even understood if she sympathized with Raphael for loosing his chosen mate, but her wariness gave her guilt away. In fact she was in cahoots with Miles and Tendra, but only after she felt rejected by me. Her eyes locked onto mine and I held my breath to see what she was going to do.

 “This all your fault, why the hell did you have to show up here with this crap of bringing these inferior species into our homes and our lives as if they have some kind if right to be there?” She suddenly screeched and every eye in the clearing turned to her in shock and surprise as Kamali lunged at me. My skin began to glow in anticipation of her attack and I could hear Carson’s warning growl behind me. Her crazed expression told me she didn’t see the warning sign of my glowing skin before she tried to wrap her slender fingers around my throat, but my magic gave her a powerful shock. One that sent her flying backwards and into Lucas,and her mate caught her midair. He flashed me a sorrowful glance before his large hands snapped her neck like a twig, her body went completely limp in his arms.

Tears of regret and sorrow for my gentle giant flowed down my cheeks as Lucas walked away from us with his dead mate cradled in his arms. No one uttered one as Raphael raised his arm and brought the sword he was holding in his hand down in a swift arch. He quickly severed Tendra head from her body and she immediately turned to ash.  He threw the sword to the ground and walked away,  disappearing into the shadows of the trees. Peyton ran a tired hand over his face and just turned and slowly started making his way towards the house like the weight of the world was on his shoulders. All this was such a waste, poor Raphael, and my gosh…My heart was breaking for Lucas. Kamali was his true mate.

Even as exhausted as I was, I managed to siphon some of Carson’s energy and he let me knowing full well what I intended to do. I mumbled the words, casting a healing spell over Lucas and I hoped it was enough to ease the maddening grief gripping his emotions right now. We couldn’t afford to lose our loving beta and my personal guardian like that, and his now motherless pup will need him more than ever as well. Exhaustion and heartache gripped me and my knees gave out, but Carson swooped me up into his strong arms, and slowly and lovingly carried me home to our house. I simply  c ouldn’t bare the crowded pack house at the moment.

By the time Carson stepped up onto the front porch, Aaron had the front door open and waiting for us. He kissed me on  my head before stepping out of our way and pulled the door closed  behind us and  headed home to his mate. Carson carried me through to our room and I couldn’t help but smile as I  saw our children sweetly curled up in the middle of our bed. He carried me through to our bathroom and we quickly stripped out of our clothes and took an even faster shower. Nothing compared to the relief and the sheer feeling of utter happiness as we climbed into our bed and snuggled up to our babies. I sighed and rubbed my still flat tummy, our little girl was going to join us in a few months and add to our happy little family. We were just going to have to extend our love and support to those in the family that weren’t fortunate enough to have the love and unity that Carson and I were so blessed with. The last thing I saw before I sank into a contented sleep was the brilliant blue eyes of my love, my mate and the protector of my mind, body, and soul staring back at me with a look of love and possession so intense I felt deep in the very core of my body,  and I knew this is my fate, I am exactly where I am supposed to be.

The End

Epilogue

Epilogue

  **A/N- well my loves, we say see you later to Seth and Carson. But you will see them again in the sequel Carnal Lover that will be mostly Sebastian’s story but of course his siblings will be involved. Thank you again for all your support, it’s been a two year journey for this story and now it’s complete. Now I have to decide what story I am going to work on next, but I may just give you all a treat and update everything except the coming soon stories. We will see. I love all you and until next time, stay well and happy reading.  xoxo Dianna

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Carson’s POV…

(Carson with his little princess—––>)

 

9 months later…

 

“Carson, I love you and respect you as my Elder and my uncle, but you are going to have to go home and face your mate at some point.” Peyton chuckled and I just shot him an evil glare. I couldn’t wait until Chantal gave home the happy news that she was expecting again, let’s see how the smug bastard took that little bit of news. I sighed and shook my head, this pregnancy was completely different from the first one. Gone was my cute little mate and in his place was this emotional harridan that cries at the drop of a hat, and screams in a blink of an eye. I rubbed my hand over my still healing shoulder. I was almost electrocuted by the love of my life this morning because I smelt like honey for some reason, and Seth didn’t seem to like the smell of honey today. Although just yesterday he was drowning his strawberries in the stuff and stuffing them in his mouth. He had even got the children sticky sharing the drenched fruit with them and their little mates. It took at least three bath to get them clean, and I am not sure if Chantal had  managed to get it out of Williams curls.

“Fine, whatever. If Seth asks, you haven’t seen me.” I muttered as I got to my feet. I was immediately thinking if who to visit next in order to avoid going to the emotional battlefield that my house, when my wonderful nephew blurted out. “No way, you are not putting me in the line of fire. If Seth asks me , I am going to tell him everything, right down to what you ate while you were here.”

I rolled my eyes, “Chicken shit.”

“Yeah, that may be, but at least I will be an alive and whole, not extra crispy and smoky chicken shit, thank you very much.” He barked behind me and I just kept walking.

Raphael’s house was next on my list of possible hideouts, even if the man and his mate were still in that damn honeymoon phase, and if they got any sweeter to one another, I was going to vomit. But to be honest, I was worried about my friend there for a minute after Tendra’s betrayal. Raphael never showed it, it wasn’t a vamptire’s nature to wear the heart on their sleeve, but we all knew he was suffering the loss of his mate. Who would have thought that one of the visiting seers from Gregori’s clan, Grace, a lovely little thing, would turn out to be big vampire’s life mate. But what was even more shocking to all of us, was the fact that she had her twin brother accompanying her. And at first everyone thought that Lucas was going to kill the sarcastic little whelp when the first met, but it turned out that Garrett had been being extra naughty and annoying to catch the wolf’s attention. Now, he still is a handful, and he sure knew how to keep our gentle giant on his toes. It was also sweet to see how Lucas’ son took to Garrett, they were inseparable. It was great, and everyone was happy.

Well almost happy, I mean was anxious for my princess to be born. I wanted this pregnancy to hurry up and be over with, for the main fact that I wanted to hold her already. The boys were getting too big and too mischievous to cuddle and love up on anymore. They needed a firm hand in order not to get out of hand. They had a hard enough time controlling the level of power they could generate amongst the three of them without being total hellions on top of it all. Sebastian was the worst though, especially after feeding from his Uncle Rafe. On those days we have to have William with us because, that quiet little one was the only person that could  keep Sebastian in line and calm enough to function sensibly. Dominic and Trenton were a handful as well constantly pranking their brother’s trying to see who can get a rise out of who the quickest. They tried to run circles around Seth but they quickly learned that they would get a tiny little shock for their efforts. With me they didn’t even try, much to Seth’s consternation.

I went to tap on Raphael’s front door but with my sensitive hearing, I picked up on the unmistakable sounds of heavy breathing and feminine sighs of pleasure right behind the door. I mean Rafe really, up against the front door.  I couldn’t blame the happy bastard though. Door sex was the best, and just like that my mood dipped with the reminder of sex. I couldn’t tell you when last I had it. With the triplets, Seth couldn’t get enough of me, but with this pregnancy, it scared me to do anything more than relieve Seth by hand or with a nice blowjob. We had quickly discovered that penetrative sex caused him to bleed, and although he wouldn’t admit it, iintercourse was painful for him. So let me tell you, cold showers and bottles of lube for self pleasuring has become a routine in my life.

Trudging back the way I came, I felt my wolf prickle beneath my skin. And I immediately opened my senses and reached out to my loved ones. An excited gasp left my lips a second before I shifted to my wolf, four legs moved faster than two. I dashed through the trees, heading right back to the main house.  Thank the spirits for Ben and the fact that he has become a real professional at handling emergencies, instead of losing his shit  when it came to dealing with pregnant mates, seeing that  Aaron was now quite round as he entered his seventh month of gestation.  Ben had efficiently gotten my disgruntled mate to the pack healers. My anxiety level spiked through the roof when the thought of Seth having a difficult delivery this time around. The possibility if having a hard time was mentioned by the team of doctors months ago when we discovered Seth’s problems after sexual intercourse. They were planning  to immediately deliver  our daughter and promptly remove Seth’s uterus as we discussed. It was weakening and with each pregnancy it will eventually put him at risk of bleeding out, even with his ability to heal quickly.

Clearing the tree line, I headed straight for the front door and Lucas threw the door open for me, ever our  observant guardian. I bounded up the stairs hearing Seth swearing long before I even made it into the room.

“Shift, you know better.” Chantal barked at me from where she was perched at  Seth’s side as she held his hand and had him breathe through another contraction.

I caught the pair of sweats Aaron threw in my direction and slipped into them before climbing onto the bed with my writhing mate. I immediately called my energy and my entire body was awash with my magic as i gathered Seth into my arms and channeled most of his pain. I sent soothing waves of comfort to our child as my love settled in my arms. Now that he was calm, I felt his magic connect with mine and I couldn’t help but kiss the tip of his cute little nose. He went to protest when another contraction gripped the the muscles of his abdomen and I again channeled the pain into myself. I shook my head at him as a fine sheen of sweat flushed across my skin as I absorbed his pain. I held great respect for women who have gone through natural childbirth. The is no pain that can even compare to that of labor pains. I have shouldered Seth’s pains with both pregnancies and the  spirits knew that if he was a woman and had to go through labor and delivery I wouldn’t be able to take it.

So when the healers sent word that they were ready for us in the operating room, I breathed a sigh of relief. Seth brushed his dainty little hand over my cheek and pecked me on my lips to show his gratitude and my heart melted all over for him again. I sent a silent prayer up to the heavens to protect my love, the very reason I breathe safe during the delivery of our child. I already knew our daughter was healthy and whole, I just hoped that it wasn’t going to be too much for him. I opened my eyes and my gaze collided with Aaron’s petrified gaze and I willed a soothing wave of energy his way.

He followed us as far as the doorway where he couldn’t enter unless he was sterile, they pushed Seth bed through those doors and I followed letting the nurses pull me into a prep area to get dressed and washed to go to my love’s side in the delivery room. I was too busy willing all my energy into Seth and our daughter to realize it right away until I felt him slip away from me as the anesthesia given to him pulled him into an oblivious slumber. My nerves spiked yet again, this is it. I released even more of my magic and the nurses gasped and stepped away from my glowing body, but their sensibilities were the least of my concerns. I refused to loose the one person I have waited for, and would have waited the rest of my life for. They kept a wide berth from me but they showed me to the operating room, and showed me exactly where to sit as the doctors prepared to cut into Seth’s womb to remove our child. 

Seth was positioned on his back with and he was facing me, he had a tube in his mouth and it was taped to his face, they had explained that he was on a breathing machine called a ventilator to protect his airway while he was sedated during the surgery. They would remove it when they woke him up after the operation. I closed my eyes and held his cold little fingers in my hand and focused completely on him. The doctors made quick work of slicing him open, the gently removed our baby from his body. I heard her healthy wail of indignation as she loudly protested her change of environment, and i had to smile before returning all my healing magic back to her father. They removed his and cauterized the veins and  whatever else they needed to, and  rinsed the cavity to make sure there wasn’t any bleeding before neatly sewing him back up.

I continued to sit at the head of the operating table as the doctor slowly reduced the medicine that was keeping him sedated and after another minute or two, he removed the tube and Seth was breathing on his own. And I breathed a sigh of relief, now all that was left was for him to open his gorgeous hazel eyes and let me know that he was alright. The nurse came up and placed a swaddling bundle in my arms and I looked down into a set of eyes that were the exact replica of Seth’s, and used a finger and gently lifted the little cap to see a shocking head full of midnight black locks. She blinked up at me before releasing a mighty yawn for her little self and promptly closed her eyes and went to sleep.

“Annalisa.” I heard the quiet whisper and my eyes shot to Seth’s sleepy looking ones, and I felt like the weight of the world was suddenly taken off my shoulders. I hunkered down and leaned to the side so that he could get a good look at our precious little princess, and he gasped and his eyes went wide. I immediately scanned him to make sure he was alright  and then Annalisa since he was staring at her in shock. Then I saw what he did, and I just shrugged. Whatever else, our family was never going to be a normal one. Seth looked up at me and I leaned over to kiss those pretty pink lips. Our little Annalisa took not only her eyes from her father but his exact genetic make up as well, she carried all the genes for the three species. I couldn’t wait to see which one was her dominant one. Would it be her witch like her father, or her wolf or vampire?

We finally got back to the room where Seth was going to recover after his surgery. Our son’s along with the rest of our immediate family were packed into the room.  The adults waited until our boys clambered up onto their father’s bed to get a good look at their little sister. They all stared at her in awe before one by one they leaned over and gently kissed her chubby little cheek. They all settled down and refused to be coaxed away from Annalisa’s side, so the grown ups had to ooh and aah from a distance. It was the cutest thing, until Chantal and Raphael had to bribe them with cookies to get them to leave her side. I also laid it on pretty thick about their daddy needing to rest and they left without much of a fight. My love laid our sleeping daughter into the bassinet at the side of the bed and I managed to feed him some soup before his eyes began to droop with exhaustion. He released a contented sign and soon fell into a deep sleep.

Slowly I made my way around to the others side of the bed and I sat in front of Annalisa’s bed and I had a good view to watch both of them sleep. And i sat there late into the night watching them take their every breath and I knew I was extremely blessed. I had a mate, and I had pups. And I had an entire pack of not just wolves, but warlocks, and vampires living all together as one huge family. Yes, I was blessed the very day this sweet young whelp walked into my life, and I was going to spend the rest of my days showing him and our children just how much they mean to me. They were mine to love and to protect . Seth sighed and my eyes flashed to his gorgeous face. His eyes were wide open and they were filled with so much love as he gazed at me, I had to climb into his bed with him and gently take him into my arms. He ran his fingers through my hair and I just whispered, “I love you.” and before I drifted off, I heard him whisper the words right back at me and I was happy and content in the arms of my lover and my mate.