Thank you to everyone for being patient over the last few days as I have mourned a loved one and celebrated the 'mating' of another loved one. It has been a hectic few days, but I am happy to be bringing Baylor and his friends back to you. Thanks for reading! -A :)
Baylor POV I went back to the pack house to grab a quick shower before the unification of the pack. I didn’t really have special occasion clothing, but I figured I should at least be clean and presentable for the event. ‘Delania?’ I mind-linked. ‘Yes Baylor?’ she replied. ‘What are you wearing for the ceremony?’ ‘I have one kinda simple dress, hopefully it isn’t too plain.’ ‘Can’t be any worse than my clean pair of jeans and a button up shirt.’ ‘Actually, I think it suits us just fine Baylor. We aren’t fancy people and the whole pack has very little, so I think dressy would be too much.’ ‘You’re probably right. I guess I might be overthinking it. I just don’t want our people to think this isn’t important to us.’ ‘Our people already love you, Baylor. You’re fair, kind and take care of their basic needs. I think they will be thrilled with the fact that the ceremony is happening.’ ‘You’re perfect. You know that, right?’ ‘Well if that’s true, can your perfect mate wash your back for you
Siobhan POV I am slightly terrified of completing the bond, not that I don’t want to complete it, but my experience with intimate encounters is none. The only sexual encounter I have experienced was by force. Machieste has not even suggested completing the bond, but I can sense that he wants to. I can already see that he is a kind and gentle man just by how he is with the pups. I can’t really imagine how he feels about everything either. He went from fighting for his, Luna Emilia’s and Marlon’s lives, to a coma, to waking up to the pull of the mate bond. That has to be confusing at best; So glad you’re alive and awake, by the way here’s your mate and 2 pups to care for. The Moon Goddess surely has a warped sense of humor. I left the pack unification ceremony with the intent of at least cleaning myself up since there is really nothing very sexy about my post pregnancy body and clothing choices. But now that I am here in the bathroom trying to prepare myself for my mate, I feel inadeq
Baylor POV Can I tell you a secret? Siobhan is my hero, this whole taking care of pups thing is crazy. Last night was quite possibly the longest night of my life. At the end of the unification celebration Delania and I brought Connie and Marlon home to the packhouse and up to our suite. At first it was all ‘They're so cute and they make funny sounds in their sleep.’ Then all hell broke loose. If one woke hungry the other woke hungry too. Then if you feed them, you inevitably have to change their nappy too. Is something that small supposed to shit that much? Just as we would get the pups settled in to sleep, Delania would try to crawl into bed as well. I swear to Selene the second I would lay my head on the pillow one of them would wake and the whole damn circus would start all over. At this point, if Delania even looks at my dick again it will be too soon. Oh and if all that wasn’t enough, my clever little Luna left me holding the bag. “Baylor, I have to run down to the kitchen and
Baylor POV Not gonna lie, my ass is dragging today. One thing I know for sure is that I am in no way shape or form or fashion ready for pups of my own. I realize that I wouldn’t be in this alone just as we haven’t left Siobhan to figure things out , but the truth of the matter is at the end of the day the pup or pups would be my responsibility along with Delania. That shit is hard and I will continue to support Siobhan in any way possible, because Marlon is my responsibility too. I decided that I was going to do some laps since I missed training this morning and oddly enough exercise is energizing or at least it gets the brain functioning correctly. After the laps I will head over to the building site to check the four original structures as we should be able to let pack members move in today . Then after I check those I will make my way over to where the training gym is being built. I want to keep things on track for completion, because I get this strange feeling that all of this h
Mitchum POV Umm do the words instant wood mean anything to you, because this girl is smokin hot. Like holy shit, I just want to put my lips all over her. That shirt she has on does nothing to disguise those perky little breasts or nipples for that matter. “My eyes are up here Gamma,” Dara said. I couldn’t help but rake my eyes down then up to meet hers. “Mit, and sorry you do have beautiful blue eyes to go with the rest of your body,” I blurted and instantly felt like an idiot. “Well that’s good to know, that my eyes go with my body,” she giggled. Great now she’s laughing at me and probably thinks I am stupid. “Nice hair, it goes with your head,” Dara teased and laid a hand on my arm. “Sorry, just been a while since I have seen a really pretty girl, didn’t mean to make you feel awkward or anything,” I muttered, hanging my head. “I accomplished that myself by asking your Alpha who the tasty morsel was,” she confided. Now I laughed, “Tasty morsel, eh? That’s cool. Listen I would love t
Mitchum POV She cleared her throat causing me to look over at her, “Is that an offer then Gamma?” What the fuck was she even saying? “Yeah right.” I said and stalked off towards the kitchen wondering if there were any apples in the fruit bin. I could hear that she moved to the dining area, “You aren’t interested in ‘Enjoying the fun life’ Gamma Mitchum?” she said and I’ll be damned if the sultry sound in her voice didn’t turn me on. I adjusted my jeans and grabbed a green apple out of the bin before replying, “Not even if there were two of you standing there half naked and willing.” This chick was fucking crazy, I have only ever respected one thing wholly in my entire life and that was the mate bond. I can’t really say why, but I did. I leaned back against the counter top and bit into the apple. It was tart and crisp and very juicy. As I slurped at the juices and licked what had run down my arm, I couldn’t help but think how I should see if Debbie was up for another roll. Sure Deb
Baylor POV I never thought the day would come that I would be the ‘principal’ and still have animosity about being called to the ‘office.’ Alpha Colin and I were in the middle of helping several of the others hoist one of the side walls for the new training center into place when I got the mind-link from Machieste requesting my presence at the training grounds to handle an issue that required not only me but the entirety of the leadership. I quickly told Alpha Collin that we needed to go and the mind-linked Delania, Kenneth, Phoebe, Clive, Fiadh, and I tried Mitchum, but he had me blocked. I had no idea what kind of problem would require us all, but rushed to the scene of the chaos. When I got to the training grounds it was kind of comical really. Okay totally not comical if you’re in the situation but being young myself, I recognize Big Ball Syndrome when I see it. This is the time of day when the junior warriors train and apparently today is apparently the day for big egos. Nine,
Baylor POV I expected Siobhan to be pissed, I even expected her to take a swing at me but I didn’t expect full blown rage. “YOU’RE PLANNING TO USE MY CHILDREN AS BAIT?” she screeched as she shoved me back. “Listen Siobhan, I…” CRUNCH! I saw stars as her fist plowed into my nose and I felt the blood begin to trickle down onto my lip. I hear footsteps running in our direction and vaguely see that Dane is running to my aid. ‘Stop!’ I mind-link him as Siobhan plants her fist in my gut. If I had eaten lunch before this, I am fairly certain it would have made an appearance. I doubled over and tried again, “Listen Siobhan, I would never put the pups in danger. You know that,” I growled through gritted teeth. “You want to use my children as an educational tool!” she growled back. I stood up and looked her dead in the eye, ‘Marlon is my responsibility too and if you think I would jeopardize another pack by harming their Alpha, then we don’t know each other at all.’ “I’ll be back in a few m