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Alsie POV-

“Ok, everyone, we need a plan.” I said as I looked around the room.

“You got one?” Osiris asked, his turquoise eyes staring into my soul.

“Yep.”

Declan sighed from behind me, “Why do I already hate this plan?”

Declan is my newest mate, but not the father of any of my sons. Declan is the Lycan King. The Elders of his pack took a hit out on him while he was visiting my pack. Declan came here to see how our newly formed Council of Pack worked, and to see if it could eliminate his Elder Council. It can. It’s what helped us get rid of our Council of Elders. More on that a little bit later.

“Alright, Cupcake, spill it.” Dante said as he made his way over to us from the kitchen with five baby bottles, at the perfect temperature for our sons.

We are raising the boys under the umbrella of one mom and six dads, as of now. We haven’t worked out the new dynamic with Declan and Reilly.

Our sons are six months old and their names are: Ramses, Osiris is his biological father, twins Silas and LeStat, Kane is their father, and twins Elliott and Edward, Benji is their father. Right after I found out I was pregnant we decided to raise the pups collectively. At first, we didn’t want to know which person fathered which pup, but I had gotten sick and it almost cost me our pups. That was when we had to find out if Kane fathered any of the babies I was carrying. He did, so that changed my prenatal routine.

Declan and Reilly came into the picture after the pups were born.

“We know the Elders don’t know that their plan failed. We send Dante back to the Kingdom as a decoy. The Elders don’t know that Dante, Declan, and Reilly are my mates. We can’t send Reilly back, because the Elders still think he is Declan’s son. Once the Elders get word that Declan is “dead” and Reilly is detained in our cells, they will hold a meeting, and they have to elect Dante as the interim Lycan King. The Elders don’t have a choice, with Declan being so-called dead, and Reilly incarcerated, Dante is next in line to the throne. Dante can then imprison the Elders. Once the Elders are imprisoned, Declan, Reilly, and all of us return to the Kingdom and claim what is rightfully Declan’s.”

“Ours.” Declan said quietly.

“What?” I asked as I turned my head in his direction.

“You said, Declan can claim what is rightfully his, but it’s ours.” Declan said as he waved his hand in a circular motion encompassing all of us in the room.

“My guy, she does that all the time. She still says, “your pack, or your royal pack” when talking about the Alpha King throne and territory that is officially imbedded within these borders.” Benji said as he shook his head.

“Ok, I misspoke. It happens.” I countered.

“No, it’s not a misspeak, you do it a lot.” Benji doubled down on his claim, picking up LeStat and reaching for a bottle from Dante.

I picked up and cradled Ramses, I pulled my shirt up and unlatched the cup cover of my bra, letting Ramses latch and suckle. “I didn’t realize I do that. I guess it comes from…” I paused. “I don’t know where it comes from. I don’t mean it in a negative way. I also don’t want to group something in as “ours” if … fuck I don’t know.” I stammer, my face getting warm.

“Anyway, about the plan. Do you think it will work?” I ask, looking around the room, as I move Ramses to my other engorged breast. Again, I lift my shirt and unlatch the other side of my bra.

“Sweetness, Ramses needs his bottle, it has the extra cereal and vitamin supplement in it.” Evander reminds me, as he hands me the warmed bottle.

“Oh, sorry. I forgot, habit.” I said as I slid my finger between Ramses and my nipple breaking his suction and putting the bottle in his mouth. I reclasped the cups of my breast-feeding bra and fixed my shirt.

A few short minutes later the evening nannies came into the living room, retrieved the boys and their bottles from the arms of Osiris, Evander, Andrew, Kane, Reilly, and Benji. I watched as the three nannies worked together like a well-oiled machine.

“Luna, we’ll take over from here. After their feeding, we will bathe them and put them to bed. Would you like them brought back up here after their mid-evening feeding and changing?”

“Yes, thank you.” Declan responded before anyone else could.

Before I could turn my head in Declan’s direction, he was moving to sit down in front of me. “Look, I don’t know what’s going to happen in the next few days, or how this all going to work logistically, but this is where I belong, with you, with all of you, and those boys. You are my fated mate, and I have searched for you for hundreds of years. I wasn’t expecting a whole clan of mates and a bunch of pups, but I’m beyond happy that’s what the Moon Goddess blessed me with. I don’t know how this works, but those boys are mine too. Nothing will stop me from protecting them with my life.”

I leaned forward and gently kissed Declan’s soft, plump, warm lips. “Thank you.”

“Next issue, since I’m supposed to be dead, we can’t have a marking ceremony. I know you and I are already marked and mated. I know all of the original six are cross marked and mated. I wear the marks of a few of you on my neck as well. I want to finish the process. I want to do it before we start to execute the plan. I don’t want to go into what maybe the biggest battle of our lives not fully connected to every person in this room.” Declan declared with a tinge of panic in his voice.

“Ok.” I said, quietly. “What about you, Reilly?” I asked as I pulled my gaze away from Declan.

“100% the same answer.” Reilly confirmed.

“You don’t even have to ask us, Baby-Girl.” Benji replied before I could ask the question, with a big ole grin on his face.

“When? You know it’s going to take some time to accomplish?” I ask everyone in the room. This is going to be wonderful but very taxing on me. I know my body can handle it, the Moon Goddess wouldn’t give me more than I can physically handle, but eight multiple markings meant a combination of 64 different scenarios in which my body had to be the vessel.

Andrew shrugged his shoulders, “Do we game plan it?”

I laughed, “Do we game plan fucking and marking each other?” I asked I between laughs.

“Yea, that’s what I’m asking. We’ve never done it all at once, even ours was over a period of a few days, with Evander and Kane being first. I know you have to be involved in every single marking. I also understand that even though some of us are already marked and mated to each other we have to do it again to fully complete the circle since we are adding two new mates.” Andrew said as he paced the length of the living room.

[Natalie, can you set up the backyard fire pit area as a mini marking ceremony site?] I mind-linked Natalie our head house Omega and friend

[I sure can Luna, when?] Natalie immediately mind-linked me back.

[Tomorrow night, when the moon is highest.] I respond.

[Consider it done.] Natalie said then she closed the link.

“Natalie will have the backyard fire pit area set up as a mini marking ceremony site tomorrow night, when the moon is highest. I know it’s not a full moon, but it is a ¾ moon and since this isn’t for an actual ceremony but for us, it will do.” I said as I stood up.

“Thank you, Luna.” Declan said, as he stood up from his sitting position.

“Don’t call me that. Please, not in our home. That title is for pack members and formal settings, in this house, or anywhere it is just us, you call me whatever pet name you want or your wife, never Luna.” I say not turning around to face Declan.

I walked to the bathroom to get ready for bed.

“Told you.” Andrew said to Declan and Reilly.

“Why?” Declan asked everyone in the room.

“We don’t know.” Kane answered, looking in the direction of the bathroom. “I think it’s her way of separating the outside world from this one small place that is ours and ours alone. I think it’s a way of protecting herself, protecting the person she was  just a few months ago.”

“I like it.” Benji said as he moved to the large couch. “It takes the politics out of our home life.”

[Kane.]

[On my way, Love.]

“Lucky!” Osiris blurted out as he turned on the TV.

A horrified look passed across Declan’s face, “Is that how this works? She just beckons which ever one of us she wants to fuck and we go?”

Andrew started laughing at Declan’s expense, “No. She’s still breast feeding and pumping, so every few days she needs to drink from Kane to keep her strength and to make sure Silas and LeStat are getting the proper nutrients, they are vampires.”

“Wait the pups have different dads?”

“Yes, Declan. Ramses is Osiris’s biological son, Silas and LeStat are twins and Kane is their father, Edward and Elliott are Benji’s.” Andrew said, still laughing as he explained the pup situation.

“But… Wait…Ok…Then how come…Never mind.” Declan said flustered.

Shaking his head, Osiris decided to break the whole thing down to Declan, “We decided to raise them as one before we knew who fathered who. During the pregnancy Alsie got really sick, we had to know why. Rana told us it was because Kane fathered two of the babies. We all decided and we asked Rana who fathered which pup, Rana told us. That was also when we learned of the dormant pregnancy. That pregnancy has six pups, and those pups were fathered by Dante, Evander, and Andrew.”

“But they’ll be raised the same?” Declan asked, hoping for reassurance.

“Yes.”

“Man, everyday it’s a lot around here.” Declan said as he shook his head and plopped down in a recliner.