The driver took us straight to the town hall, where the meeting was still ongoing. Through the external sound system, I could still hear Asher's voice booking, and I bit my tongue to stop the blush from overcoming my face. “Should we go in or wait here?” asked Dante, turning to me.“Let's go in, I want to sit at the back and listen to Asher.”“Sure,” he said, pushing open the door. Once out, he held out a hand to me and I took it, getting down with his assistance. Once I was out, I headed into the hall while he stayed back to shut the door, coming after me. Together, we went into the hall, and I spotted Asher the instant we came in. As I took a seat at the back, he realized his head and smiled into his speech, spotting me. Elbowing Dante, I asked, “how did he know that we were here?” “We're mates, we can kind of sense you, all the time. Regardless of where you are, we can feel you, but when you're near, it's like the air gets charged.”Nodding solemnly, I gave Asher a little wave,
An hour later, we returned to the mansion with Bella in my thighs, exhausted from the day's trip. Asher and I had remained silent after the hug. He had not known what to do when I launched myself at him, and as a result, he had awkwardly pulled me in. We had almost kissed, and now that the car was rumbling slowly on the way to the mansion, I kept on replaying it over and over in my head. If I had leaned forward by an inch, we would definitely have kissed. I placed a finger in my lips and thought back to the last kiss I had, wishing that I had actually kissed him. The healed had given Bella a stocky leaf soup that had made her feel better and handed us a jar of it to give to her the next morning. He assured us that if she took tomorrow's dose faithfully, she would be healed in no time, which made me happy, because I had come to think of her as a friend. The car rolled to a stop in the driveway, and almost immediately, we were ambushed by Dante and some concerned maids who helped Bel
An arm tightened around my waist and my eyes snapped open. Disoriented, I attempted to sit up and found that I was being held in place by a strong, hairy hand. Tracing the hand back to its sources, I found Dante, and quickly, the events of last night rushed into my brain. “Oh god, what have I done?” I asked, making attempts to untangle myself from the knot of limbs. Yet, it seemed that with every attempt I made to remove herself from in between their limbs, the tighter their grip got. Soon, the struggle seemed futile, and I sank into bed with them, deciding to get comfortable. Minutes after, Dante's eyes snapped open and he turned me to face him, planting a kiss on her cheek. ”Good morning beautiful,” he said, bringing an easy smile to my face. I hated how truly easy it was for him to get a smile out of me, but what could I do? Now awake, he planted a kiss on my forehead and shook Asher awake. Asher also planted a kiss on my forehead and left the room, both of them leaving me spent
A week later, Bella was feeling better, and it seemed like my friendship with her had grown into something beautiful. I had gotten used to doing most things by myself within the time that she was sick, so when she came back, she would often complain that I would do things without her. A few weeks more, and she had adjusted very well to the changes of being more of a friend than a maid, and my relationship with Asher and Dante had flourished. We regularly spent nights falling asleep in each other's arms, and they were both so sweet. I had not even devotion to someone as great as what they showed me since my parents died, and it made me miss them while also making me so unbelievably happy at the same time. They would bring me so many flowers that my room was covered with enough flowers to become a florist's shop, and when they had to be Oiza they would bring me mementos and even looped Bella in on their plans to woo me. I would get flowers sent to my room and cookies in the shape of h
I carried her atop my back and took her back to the shift gathering, noting that the only people who had remained were Bella, my mates and their own mate. On spotting the fact that I was carrying an injured person on my back, all of them stopped looking at me and helped me get her off my back. Turning to me Dante asked me where I had found her and why I had brought her back to our gathering. “Do you have any idea who she is ? She doesn't even look like one of us? And here she is, you have brought her here into our pack.” “Please, she's hurt,” I pleaded, placing two hands together. Wordlessly, they agreed and started to lift her out of the field, where I had set her down. Dante was the stronger of the two Alphas, so he morphed into his wolf form and carried her on his back, adjusting to her weight, while Asher went ahead of him to prepare a room for her to stay in. I was more than confident that at least one of the maids in the mansion would know a little bit about healing, and I d
Over the next few weeks, Asher and Dante got busier with the pack. They had decided to finally erect a perimeter around the pack, like a wall so incidents like what had happened during the shift never happened again, yet they wanted to make sure they didn't obstruct any major paths, which was the main reason it was taking so long. They had taken to spending only nights with me; they would get back, we would share the table at dinner and then proceed to one of our rooms, where we would then excite each other until we had to sleep. It was a nice routine for me, and I found that I rather liked the company of Bella and Andrea. I had decided to tell Bella that I was pregnant, since she was the one who dressed me everyday. As soon as she knew, she became more careful with my outfit choices, which helped me conceal my pregnancy from my mates. Sometimes, Dante would ask if I was putting on weight, and I would jokingly wave it off as me eating way too much food since I had first met them, an
That morning, before heading out, both Asher and Dante came into the kitchen. With wide smiles, they kissed me, Andrea and Alec goodbye. Smiling, I headed to the living room so I could have breakfast there. Toasting and buttering a few slices of bread, Andrea took her time, asking me to please come get Alec.Grateful for the opportunity to be around him for a while longer than I had thought, I nodded and then realized she couldn't see me, coming to pick Alec from the kitchen counter where he was perched.“Hi Alec!” I cooed, smiling at him. Clapping his hands together, he squealed, and I pulled the precious boy towards me.“Would you like to eat some eggs? They're really good!”Nodding his head, he attempted to wriggle out of my arms and onto the floor, so I set him down, watching as he jumped out of my arms and onto the floor.Crawling towards the plate, he picked up a morsel of egg and put it into his mouth, chewing noisily on it. He made a curious face first and then ended up with a
Gushing, I pulled him closer to me and attempted to teach him more words.He seemed to have had ebought of that and instead squirmed out of my arms, so I left him alone to play, knowing that that maids would be watching him like a hawk to make sure that he was okay. Pulling Andrea out in the hallway, we walked to her room, Andrea squirming under the strength of her grip.“Olivia, what is wrong with you?” she yelled as soon as the door was shut. Pacing on the floor, I tried to recound the things that Dante had said in the kitchen earlier.I sat down on the bed, and concerned, she took a seat right beside me. “Come on, you can tell me. What's going on?”“I think they know. And if they don't know, then they suspect.” I said, squeezing my fingers into a ball. “Know what? Suspect what?” spluttered Andrea, rubbing her arms against her forearms where I had grabbed her. Apologizing, I got up.“I am so sorry about your arm. I kind of panicked and I went all crazy. I didn't mean to hurt you-