LiaSwitching back to focusing on the mating ceremony was a bit of a change, but I was relieved to do something on the normal side.Right now, Simone and I were sitting in my room. It was up to us to plan it. At least we were going to do the majority of the planning. I was ready, wanting to move forward with my mates.I twirled a loose thread from my sleeve between my fingers, barely able to contain my excitement as I turned to Simone. "So, I was thinking—end of the month. That’s when we should do it."Simone arched an eyebrow, a slow smirk creeping across her face. "Oh, we’re finally picking a date. I thought you were going to keep dancing around this forever."I rolled my eyes, but I couldn’t stop smiling. "I wasn’t dancing around it. I was just... waiting for the right moment. And now it feels right.""Mmhmm. And it has nothing to do with you just being super excited?" She nudged me with her elbow, her teasing tone unmistakable."Okay, maybe a little." I laughed, shaking my head. "
RainI was more than happy to offer my help to Simone and Lia. As her future full mates, we should be helping her plan the ceremony! The guys were more indifferent about it, adding to my frustration.It got the point where I forced them into the living room so we could talk.“Why are we here?” Matt asked. “We need to go to practice in twenty minutes.”I scowled. “No first we are going to talk about some things first, understand?”“I’ll allow it,” Colby said, gazing at me with a smile.Sometimes I forgot that he was the leader so I should run things by him but all I could do was remember occasionally. My eyes locked with Jesse who blinked.“What do you want Rain?”“I want us to help Lia plan the mating ceremony!” I exclaimed. “You know she’s planning it with Someone who a lot can be right?”I loved Simone. She had become like a sister to me and most of the time we were on the same wavelength but right now I didn’t want the mating ceremony to draw the attention of the entire state.With
ColbyWhen the guys and I were getting ready that day, we didn’t speak much. All of us were lost in our own thoughts. I was unable to believe we were finally going to be mated to Lia. Rain was walking back and forth, muttering under his breath.He was thrilled but nervous. Rain wore his heart on his sleeve. I saw flickers of fear flash in those brown eyes of his. When we would lock eyes, he’d smile and try to pretend he was all right, but I knew he was worried.“Rain, it’s going to be all right. You’re freaking out for nothing.”Rain grinned, but I swear his left eye was twitching.“I’m not freaking out. Colby, I am the epitome of cool, calm, and collected.”Matt, form where he was standing, turned around and burst out laughing. “Yeah you are calm right now and Jesse is going to break out into song any minute.”“No,” was all Jesse said, blinking slowly.Rain huffed. “You guys are so mean. Teasing me like this.”“We’re not teasing you,” I said, stifling a laugh. “Okay, we are totally t
MattThe second we were in the hotel room in the hotel across the street, it was like everything flew out the window. Gone were us being careful or controlling ourselves. Now we had a chance to mate with Lia and it was going to happen.For the first time, we could say that we were full mates. My heart was pounding. Colby looked over at me, chuckling.“Join me, Matt.”He had pulled Lia onto the bed first, making quick work of her dress. Colby was planting deep kisses up and down her neck.“What about you two?” I asked, looking at Rain and Jesse.Jesse blinked. “Go on. I’ll watch.”“Yeah, I’ll jump in when I see a good opportunity.”Lia whimpered. She was enjoying this, being the center of all our desires. Colby positioned his fangs on the left side of her neck, kicking me into high gear. I did the same with her right side, biting down into the soft flesh just after Colby did.She gasped, unable to move with her sandwiched between the two of us. I encouraged her to bite me after she bit
JesseIt was quite a sight to see Lia laying there, all tired out from our night. When she woke up, she decided she was going to take a shower. I also felt the same urge, so I agreed to join her.She flushed, but walked into the bathroom with me.It didn’t take long for our clothes to fly off and I pinned her against the shower. Moaning, she tilted her head to the side. I knew exactly which bite mark was mine. With a growl, I sunk my fangs into the soft flesh, reopening the wound.But there was no pain. My saliva acted as a bit of a salve, soothing any pain she might feel.Whimpering to herself, she wrapped her arms around me, rubbing against my erect cock. It was enough to make my growl.“Everyone is going to hear.”“It’s only three people,” I pointed out, grinding against her damp sex.Lia flushed. “I know but it’s still embarrassing.”Chuckling, I rubbed at her clit. She cried out, throwing her head back as I touched the swollen nub. Lia was losing it, begging me to slip inside her
LiaWhen I told my mates I was going to meet Simone, they didn’t seem so nervous because the threat was over. They had to go to the rugby field so they bid me goodbye, even dropping me off at the café. Simone would drop me back, enabling me to have a ride both ways.I barely sit down before Simone leans across the café table, eyes practically sparkling with mischief. “Okay. Spill. Right now.”I roll my eyes, taking a slow sip of my coffee. “Hi, Simone. How are you? How’s life?”She waves a hand. “My life is boring. Yours, however, is not. You are just fully mated with four alphas. FOUR. Do you even understand how ridiculous that is? I need details. Immediately.”I groan, rubbing my face. “Why did I agree to this?”“Because I’m your best friend, and you owe me.” She grins. “Now. Tell. Me. Everything.”I sigh, stirring my coffee just to have something to do with my hands. “It was… a lot.”Simone snorts. “No shit.”“I mean it.” I shift in my seat. “It was overwhelming, intense… kind of t
LiaShe nudges my arm. “You’re happy though, right?”I lift my head, meeting her gaze. The teasing is gone now, replaced with something softer.I hesitate, then nod. “Yeah.”She smiles. “Then that’s all that matters.”Michael walks back in, scowling. “Are you done?”Gabi grins. “Never.”He groans, pinching the bridge of his nose. “I hate both of you.”I smirk. “Love you too, big brother.”It was glad that Gabi was smiling and at ease now. She had suffered so much. Finally, she was starting to move on from the kidnapping, little by little.However, I was starting to realize that Simone was right. I did want to consider sharing a room with the four or having a room where we could spend our time together. Then we would all have our own spaces.There simply wasn’t enough room here—especially with my brother and Gabi here. Then there would be the pups! By the time the pups came, there wasn’t going to be any room.“We need to get a bigger house,” I blurted out after a while.Michael blinked.
LiaIt’s hard to believe how much things can change in just a small amount of time.A year. It’s been a year since all that shit happened with the Rosewater coven. We’ve been able to put it behind us and are finally moving forward with our lives.I am still in school, working towards getting my teaching license. The guys are still on the rugby team, bringing their win, and after the win, my brother working as a coach full-time now. Gabi is working in the medical field, something she loves.Then there are the twins.Yes, twins.One boy and one girl. Mikayla and Gavin. They were the most adorable children I had ever seen in my entire life. I loved them so much and was proud to be their aunt.Mikayla is the one who is very outgoing, always babbling and wanting to be around people. Meanwhile, Gavin is the one who is on the quiet side. He reminds me of when I was a child.Right now, Gabi had a bad night with the twins. They didn’t sleep very well and she looks like she didn’t sleep well at
LiaBefore we got there, Matt shifted into a wolf.I stared at him.“Matt what the fuck.”Colby blinked. “Yeah seriously what the fuck.”“It’s a way to show that we mean business,” Matt said, snapping his teeth to make a point.I pinched the bridge of my nose.Matt was pretty intimidating in his wolf form, his black coat reflecting off the sunlight. His tail was lowered, ears flattened down onto his skull to show he meant business. Or he further meant business.I wanted to shame him, to tell him that we couldn’t do this. It was a bad idea to go in there guns blazing so to speak or for us to be shifted in our wolf forms. What it was going to do was make everyone look at us like we were going to lash out at them.“Matt, please shift back. As your omega and mother of your twins, I am asking you. Don’t you think you can do that for me?”Colby stifled a laugh. “Oh, that’s good. Use the fact that you are our omega. I think it would break even Jesse.”I looked at Jesse. He didn’t say anythin
RainIt was safe to say shit was getting real.I hated saying that shit was going to get real but this was what was happening.How was I not screaming, running back and forth, ready to pull my hair out with frustration? I didn’t know what to do. But I had to stay calm, especially with me being home with the kids right now.I was staying back with the twins while Matt, Jesse, Colby, and Lia went to talk with the coven. It had been my decision to stay back with the twins because I loved being around them.But it was also more than that. I couldn’t imagine myself stepping away from them while all this shit was going on. What kind of father would I be?No, I didn’t want to say that. That made it sound like the rest of the pack were bad parents for going. And that wasn’t fair. They were doing what needed to be done for all of us. For the kids, too.Still, I couldn’t help but feel this heavy weight in my chest at the thought of leaving them, even for a few hours. Every time I looked at Rowa
JesseWhen I got up that morning, something strange happened.I noticed Lia sitting there at the table with her scrying crystal and a map of the area spread out in front of her. Her fingers hovered over the glass like she’d been there for a while, focused, tense.“Lia, what are you doing?”“Nothing.”I sighed. “Are you seriously going to sit there and tell me that you are doing nothing when you are doing something?”Lia dropped the crystal so loudly that it clattered onto the table.“Fuck, Jesse. I’m trying to scry for the Rosewater Coven.”There was a name I hadn’t heard in a while. And one I wished had stayed buried.The mention of the Rosewater Coven was still a little raw for me. I kept thinking about what they had done and how they had nearly fucked over our pack. But everything was fine now.Mostly.It didn’t mean I could let go of this one specific grudge. Usually, I was able to. I could shrug things off, move forward. But not this time. Not with them.“Why the hell are you loo
MattIt was one of those days were we were out and trying to pretend everything was all right.This was easier said than done. Rain was currently becoming more of a vampire. We had his blood tested and it proved that this was true.No one knew why it was kicking in all of a sudden. This just seemed to be happening for some reason.The doctors couldn’t explain it, the elders, scientists, or anyone.My theory was that it was tied to the twins. Perhaps Rowan, being a vampire, had helped bring out more of Rain’s vampire senses because he wanted to protect him. But I hadn’t shared this theory with anyone, afraid that it might be wrong.Honestly no one fucking knew and all we had were theories.The best thing we could do was just deal with it.But right now, we were going ot be having a break.Simone had agreed to watch the twins, which made Lia nervous. When Simone first offered, I saw the look of panic flash across her face.“I don’t know,” Lia whispered. “I don’t want to leave the twins
LiaRain seemed to be going through something.He wasn’t his usual cheery self, which made me realize it could be tied to all this craziness. Our twins were acting strange, dealing with this curse, and that strange vision I had. So far, nothing else had happened, but I was on edge. I was constantly on edge regarding this situation.But Rain? His behavior was making me feel even worse because I wasn’t sure how to handle it. There was already the blood issue. He was drinking more blood, much more than normal.I already confronted him about it, but he brushed it off as nothing.Or tried to anyway.He’d laughed it off, called it “a phase,” but I could see the tension in his jaw, the flicker of something unreadable in his eyes.After our conversation, I brought this up with the rest of the pack—or more specifically, my mates. They should know what was going on with Rain.“It’s like he is becoming more of a vampire than a wolf,” Matt said out loud during our conversation.Everyone, includin
LiaIt was another prophecy. I knew it. How did I know it? Well, I just felt it in my bones.And then I had a dream. Well, not a dream, but it was a vision. I hadn’t gotten a vision in a long time. By this point in my life, I was thinking that I was incapable of having them.But that night, they came back full force.I’m walking through the house. I am cleaning and just taking care of things. The house is quiet, but it’s late, so this is normal.When I hear a noise from upstairs, I run upstairs, taking two at a time. The noise came from the direction of the twins’ room, so I wanted ot make sure I could get to them to see what was happening.I walk inside, the two still in their little beds, fast asleep. Their chests are rising and falling, eyes completely closed. The twins are fine, fast asleep, and sleeping the night away.But what had that noise been?Swallowing, I stood there for a while, but finally managed to talk myself into leaving. I turned around and left, only to stumble upo
RainIt was difficult to pretend nothing was wrong. I tried my best, especially when I was in the presence of the twins.They were pretty perceptive for almost three years old. In two days, they would be three years old, and I was trying to be happy over their upcoming birthday, but I couldn’t deny that something strange was going on.The twins had always acted strangely. They didn’t cry that much compared to other children I had been around. But I always chalked it up to them being intelligent and hyperperceptive compared to other children out there.Now I was wondering if there was more to it.I was bathing the twins right now, helping them wash up and get ready for tonight. The twins were playing in the water, splashing one another. Everything was normal until they looked at me.“Daddy Rain?” Rowan asked, tilting his head to the side.I grinned. It was always great when the kids called me daddy. They called all of us daddy, followed by our names. This was the best way for Gemma and
JesseWhen Lia came to us the next night and said she caught the twins saying they were hearing strange whispers, I didn’t know what to think. She said that it either sounded like someone was saying the twins were cursed or someone was in the process of cursing them.This just begged the question—who the fuck was trying to curse our twins. It pissed me off to think that they would dare to do such a thing. Who would curse children? They weren’t even three years old. Yet. Soon they would be three years old, but it didn’t matter.Either way, no matter which way you sliced it, they were children. Children didn’t deserve this. Why would they curse children?It did fill me with anger, making me punch the wall. Lia happened to walk into the room, eyeing me.“Why did you punch the wall?I sighed. “Why do you think I punched the wall? Our twins are being targeted, but this begs the question: Why are they being targeted? It makes no fucking sense.”Lia sighed softly, taking a seat at the kitche
LiaThe next step was to get the kids tested. We always wanted to do it after the kids were born to figure out who the kids were biologically related to, but things always got pushed off.To be frank, Rowan and Gemma were being raised by all of us. It didn’t matter who their biological fathers were, but now it was important to find out.With a simple test, we found out that Rain was the father of Rain while Gemma was biologically Jesse’s. No one reacted because we were all raising the kids together, so it didn’t matter. Except, Rain being Rowan’s biological father made things complicated.“Oddly, he is showing more vampire traits than wolf,” I muttered one night while sitting around the living room with my mates. “Gemma has shifted into a wolf many times—including yesterday when she chased around a stray cat from inside the house.”Rain laughed. “Gottta love that kid.”“Rain,” Matt muttered, giving him a look. “Now is not the time.”I pinched the bridge of my nose, trying to calm myse