Leah’s POV “There is no use in blaming yourself.” Sebastian’s voice drifted through the mind link. “If you ran, Eli would have kept coming after you.” He was right … That made me wonder how often he heard my thoughts. “Often enough,” He smiled at me as he walked through the front door. “We need to talk about you and your previous life.” He mind linked me and I looked around wondering who else heard it! “Just me.” His arm slipped around my waist and he pulled me closer, breathing in my scent as he nuzzled his nose into my neck. “Thank the goddess.” I sighed, feeling myself calm down. I closed my eyes and just stayed in the moment for a second. “Why didn’t you tell me you heard my thoughts?” I asked him through the mind link and our eyes made contact. “I didn’t want you to think I was invading your privacy. At first, I thought I was imagining what I heard, but you think about your past life a lot, and then I heard you thinking about two lifetimes with all of us in it. What happened?”
Leah’s POV I breathed yet another sigh of relief as my fingers slipped over the soft satin of my pure white dress. So far there had been no sign of Eli or his pack and although Emily wasn’t happy about our plan, she had no other choice but to agree that it was our only option. So, the time had come for Sebastian and me to be officially mated in front of the entire pack. It was a bigger thing to me than I let on and while we were busy making all sorts of plans it was easy to avoid the enormity of it all, but looking at myself in the mirror, all dressed up in my wedding dress, I couldn’t stop the tears from forming. “Wow!” Emily’s voice echoed throughout the room and I turned to smile at her. “Our parents would have been so proud to have you as their daughter.” She hugged me and I couldn’t help but feel a little sad that I didn’t have either dad here to walk me down the aisle, but Emily volunteered and that was good enough for me. We walked out of the lift and I could hear the people e
Leah’s POV To be honest, I’d almost forgotten about the human woman who took pictures of Sebastian and his men that night when he found me. At one point, I thought that he wanted to hand her over to the vampires, but he never did and she’d been kept safely locked away since then. The room was lighter than I expected. She had her own bathroom and it was clear that Sebastian made sure she was taken care of. A slight pang of jealousy stabbed into my heart and I stood a little closer to him, making him smile. I could see the girl trying to hide her fear, but it was true what they said about being able to smell it, and it smelled delicious! “Miss Witherspoon. I’ve come to give you a proposal.” Sebastian kept his distance, which I appreciated. “I’m not interested in anything you have to say!” She spat venom and I fought back the urge to laugh. I felt sad for her that she got dragged into all of this because of Eli, but if I were in her position, I would do whatever it took to get me out o
Leah’s POV It was strange to think back at how horrified I felt when Sebastian killed Eli in our first life, compared to the amount of hate I currently felt towards Eli. I would probably be the first one to not just strangle him right now, but to rip him to shreds for what he has done to everyone around us. The first bond I felt towards him was long gone now. I realized that I didn’t even feel sad about it anymore. Whatever there was between us, Eli had killed. I would never admit it out loud, but I was grateful that things didn’t work out between us. No matter which way I tried to imagine things, it always seemed to come back to one thing. The moon goddess intervening. I could just imagine her making sure that Sebastian and I met even if I didn’t run away from Eli. It made me wonder again why she mated me with Eli in the first place, but in the end, none of it really mattered since none of it happened. We got word that Eli’s mate had died and my eyes flew to Sebastian as fear raced
Leah’s POV We weren’t really using protection and I wasn’t on anything, and worst of all, we hadn’t really discussed children, but we were busy every chance we got, so it was very possible that I could be pregnant already. I pushed the thought to the back of my mind as we stood back and looked at our finished project. Everything had really come together so damn nice and I couldn’t understand why the first Luna couldn’t get it done faster. What was she doing that I’m not or was it the other way around? Was I doing things she didn’t? Sebastian slipped his arm around my waist and smiled as we looked at the colourful, freshly painted building in front of us. “You did good.” He dropped a kiss on top of my head and I grinned. I really did do well. Emily had a group of young adults together that were going to move in and help with the children and the air was electric with excitement. Sebastian suggested a barbeque to celebrate our achievement and whoops went up all around us. Everybody dis
Eli’s POV I had enough of watching these bastards and was on my way to call my warriors when my new beta rushed into my office looking as if he had seen a ghost. He almost pushed me out of the way as he grabbed hold of my TV remote and searched for a channel. As soon as the face came up, I felt my heart sink! The headline read “Werewolves and Vampires” and the reporter was the girl I sent after Sebastian! She had footage of me shifting in the city! How on earth did she get that? She also had footage of me walking out of the club where I met Nathaniel! That BASTARD! The only way she could have gotten her hands on that was if Sebastian had helped her! “These creatures are living among us. They could be your neighbour or even your closest friend and you wouldn’t know it until it’s too late. We want to caution everybody that should you come across one of them, you shouldn’t try to take them down yourself …” I didn’t even listen to the rest as I lowered my head into my hands. My phone ran
Leah’s POVMy heart went out to the girl and Eli, but for once, I didn’t feel the need to interfere. My own life depended on this plan working. I was furious at Sebastian when we drove here and he explained what he was planning, but my fury died as soon as he told me that he was going to use this plan to get Nathaniel out of our lives for good. At first, I didn’t think that Nathaniel would fall for it but watching his face when Sebastian explained to him how Eli had been dealing with the reporter this entire time and how he planned to bring down not just our pack but the entire vampire community. I felt that it was a huge reach, but Nathaniel seemed to believe Sebastian, and as soon as Eli arrived it was all over for him.I didn’t want to think about what would happen to him and the girl. I just breathed a sigh of relief when Eli walked through the door and I realized that Nathaniel shook Sebastian’s hand. Th
Leah’s POVSeeing Sebastian handing out the toys to the children, convinced me that we needed to have a child. I wished we could take all the children home from the orphanage because I couldn’t begin to imagine taking just one of them and having to leave the others behind. What were they going to think after we leave them behind? I started to wonder if adopting was such a good idea and when I felt Sebastian’s arms circle around me, I breathed in his scent and felt my wolf calm down instantly.“What’s up, buttercup?” He sat down on the floor behind me as I pulled little Elana into my arms and handed her the blocks she’d been playing with.“I can’t do this.” I turned my head toward him and spoke softly.“Do what?” He frowned, smiling.“This,” I looked at the other children. “I can’t ima