Sophia’s POV“Elvenia is Fae. When she was helping us, she left me a parting gift that I can sense and feel all the emotions of anyone that is near me. It is all new to me, but Alaric showed me how to block it out if I needed to.” I explained to Tim.“I think your Fae friend may have just gifted you with more than the ability to feel what others are feeling, Sophia. This would explain why your twins are growing at such a fast rate.” “Oh.” I didn’t know what else to say to this. It was all happening so fast, but I knew I would protect my little bumpkins with all that I had.“Alaric, did you know about this?” I asked him in my head, like he had told me to do. But he was quiet. There was no reply. “Ok, now you need to take this herbal mix every morning at the same time. I expect to see you every day for a scan. I will see what info I can gather on Fae gifting the magic of child birth. Although I don’t like my chances, because in all my years as a doctor, I have never heard of them gift
Sophia’s POV“Alaric, you’re here.” I smiled when I heard his voice. I was beginning to become attached to this vampire. He just seemed to pop in whenever he was needed. “Sorry I missed you before Soph, but I was with our friend Elvenia, finding out more about the gift that she gave you. It seems that she also bestowed the gift of having a baby.” There was no hint of panic in his voice, which made me relax.“We have twins. They are bigger than they should be and we heard one of them say Mum.” I explained to him.“Well, this doesn’t surprise me. The gift of the Fae is not to be taken lightly. It seems that you have a very strong blood line if it caused you to become pregnant with twins. Sophia, Derek, when people find out about this, you are going to be in a lot of danger. I am going to need to hide you all.” “This is what we were thinking. Zac and Lars have just shown what they think of me being pregnant. They told me that I was not their Queen and didn’t want me here. Derek command
Sophia’s POVI was glad that Alaric turned up when he did or I wouldn’t know about the council or my family.“Tell me everything, please.” I told Derek and there was a hint of a warning in there because if I found out that he was hiding anything else, well lets just say I was going to hold back on the sex for a week, well maybe a few days because I don’t know if I could handle going that long without him inside of me.“Ok, so we sent someone out when you first got here to see if they could find out anything about you and your family. Well, what we found out was the werewolf council member had a falling out with your great Aunty Sara. Now it turns out that they were fated mates. But Sara had already mated with another. She refused to reject the man she had chosen since she was pregnant with his pup. She rejected Zakari on the spot without knowing who he was.” Shit, I could already tell where this was going. “Zakari couldn’t handle the fact that his mate, who he had been waiting years
Dereks POVSeeing Sophia like this made my heart ache. I could feel that she was thinking about her father and how this was going to be the closest thing that she would ever get. We were in such a shit situation with this. All of our parents were dead, and it is moments like this that I know I wish I had Mom here to hug her. Alaric pulled away from Soph.“OK, it is time that I do some work. The both of you need to be ready. I want you rested and fed. Because tomorrow night is going to be the last night you spend here. Now pack what you must, but remember you need to pack light.” “We will only pack what we have to.” I told him.“Derek, there is a box that your Mom kept in the basement. She packed it for this reason. If anything was to happen, she filled it with memories and papers that might need.” How did he know about that? I had actually found that box many years ago after Dad had died. I went looking for Mom and she was in the basement, putting some of his things into the box. I
Sophia's POV“Soph, did you just feel that?” Bria was on high alert.“I did, but what was it?” I asked her.“Someone wants to hurt us, but they need us alive. We need to always be at arm’s length to these guys, just like Asher told us.” She was right. There was no way that we were going to be out of their sight. Automatically placing my hands on my stomach, I felt one of my baby's move towards my hand. “They love us all so much already Soph, but they are growing at a rate of three times quicker than a normal pup would. I would honestly guess we have less than a month before they will be here, so we must do everything they tell us tonight.” Bria commanded me this time. The way she was worried had me worrying, too. Both Derek and Asher were watching me with concerned looks on their faces.“Soph, what is it?” Derek asked me. He really was in tune with us ever since he had woken up from the despair that he had been in.“Let’s just say it is a feeling, but someone wants to hurt me, but th
Sophias POV“You already know about this, don’t you?” There was no point beating around the bush.“Know about what, child?” He looked at me, confused.“He doesn’t know Soph, I am the only one that does. Although I suspect that Asher’s beast knows about it, but he hasn’t told Asher yet.” Bria confirmed with me.“Sorry Alaric, seems you don’t know, but I think you need to know because I need you to look out for my babies.” My voice sounded firm even to me. My strength was building, and I had a feeling that my babies were going to be here soon, so I needed to start putting plans into place.“What are you talking about, Sophia? Something is changing in you. I can sense it. What is happening?” He sounded concerned, which in all honesty he should be, because I had just accepted my fate that I have to die.“Alaric, I have to die.” I stated to him.“No, you don’t. We are putting plans in place so that nothing will happen to you.” “No, Alaric, that is not what I mean. My fate has been set, a
Derek’s POVWhen Asher told me to get Tim because the babies needed to get out, I don’t think I have ever moved faster in my life. Within minutes, we were back in my office carrying all the equipment that Tim required. She was in pain. I could feel it, but again she was blocking it through the mate bond, trying to save us from pain.“Soph, baby, let the pain through. We can help you take it.” I tried to explain to her, but she screamed, the pain in her voice causing me to fall to my knees. She was going to die and I wouldn’t be far behind her. The babies would have Asher. I just can’t be in a world which she isn’t part of. Jerek had heard Soph and Bria talking about what has happened in their other lives and there is no way that I was going to let her go through this shit by herself. We had to keep it to ourselves because I know she would make us swear to stay with the kids, but I wouldn’t leave her again.Asher backed away to let me in to take her hand. He had every right to be here
Asher’s POVKnowing what Derek was asking me to do was taking me away from our plans to stop this. But I couldn’t bring myself to leave. Sophia had suffered some much pain in her life times. And I couldn’t be the cause of more pain to her.“We need to stay with our mates and babies, Asher. If our mate has to die and all we can do is to be there for her, spending the time that she has left to make her happy, then that is what we will do.” Ivar ordered me.“I know, but the pain is too much, Ivar. How are we meant to keep going with knowing what is going to happen? And we know that Derek will do whatever he can to die as well after she does. I can feel it Ivar, he is not going to stay here on this earth if she isn’t here. This is why I am scared to finish forming the mate bond with her. We can’t afford to do that. We have to be the strong ones here for the sake of the twins. They are going to need us. We are their family.” Ivar was right, he always was, but I couldn’t help but feel I was