Mag-log inVIVIAN"Mmh, I missed you so bad, my love.” Valentine growls softly, running his nose down my neck. "I needed you.""I needed you too,” I laughed softly. I can feel how much he really did need me. His anxiety seems to be melting away at my touch.I walked back to his office with him, leaving Marvel with Max, who was more than willing to babysit. Valentine had to get ready to go retrieve his mom and Eric from the vampire coven, and I could tell that he was having a hard time.He may not have had the best relationship with his mom, but she still loved and raised him. I can't imagine the conflicting feelings stirring inside of him. What she did was horrible, and if Marvel gets hurt because of her decisions, I pray my egg donor's vampire bite kills her like Simone and Carli explained to me it could. That doesn't change the fact that she is his mother, though.Through all her faults, she raised him, and from the stories I heard from everyone before we found out about what she did, I truly
PARKERStephan passes me the keys to the car as I carry my pain-in-the-ass mate, literally gripping her ass, to the car. Simone linked me to tell me she and Court could be on baby duty, and to not let her off easy.I don't plan to."You're in so much trouble," I growled at her, opening the passenger door."No I'm not," she growls back."Oh, just wait." I shut the door on her before she could open that smart mouth of hers and quickly walked around to the driver's side, ignoring her yelling profanities. She is really going to be yelling in a minute.She goes quiet when I open the door and slide in, readjusting the seat. My legs are much longer than Stephan's.I back out and start making my way out of the pack. I saw a dirt-road turn-off about 2 or 3 miles back."You can go ahead and start pleading your case, because when this car stops, your ass is mine. Literally.""Not if I take your ass first," she grumbles, crossing her arms over her chest. So cute."You ran away without telling me
VIVIANI just watch as carli takes a deep breath, and I take a long sip of my iced tea. I'm not one to drink, but Carli definitely is. She has been keeping the drinks flowing since this morning, and Grandma was more than happy to have her 'guards' start whipping up margaritas and other concoctions.Dusty and Chris seem more than willing to obey anything Grandma tells them to do. Max, the big pushover, probably ordered them to keep her calm and happy. I'm just glad she hasn't told them to work with their shirts off or anything embarrassing like that.She is ornery now that she is in a place where she can relax. I will forever be grateful to the pack, my mate, and Max for that.I sit back in my chair, sipping my drink, and listen intently as Carli begins to tell me about her mom."My mom didn't abandon me like yours did, per se. No. Unlike you, I had the misfortune of having to grow up under my neglectful and abusive mom. I was raised as the alpha's daughter, and I always thought that
Vivian POVI woke up to an army of people in our living room. Literally an army. I even had a few warriors standing guard in the hallway, scaring the hell out of me when I came out.Valentine wasn't in bed, and the sheets next to me were cold. When I asked where he was, everyone just looked around at each other like they were hoping someone else would tell me."Mommy! I got new friends again!" Marvel grins while sitting on a woman's lap who I hadn't met before."That's great, sweetie, but where is your daddy?"He shrugs, then looks up at the new woman's face. "Do you know where my daddy is?""Eh..." she makes a hesitant face.Max, who was leaning back against the counter drinking coffee, pushes away and walks over to me. "Vivian, I don't want you to freak out. We were hoping that son of mine would be back here by the time you woke up to be the one to tell you this.""Tell me what?" I demanded."Well..." He scratches the back of his head nervously."Vivian, we just heard!" Carli, Court
VALENTINE“Ooh God, you knew for a week, an entire week that I was being deceived, but you kept it from me?” Katherine sneers at Antonio after he explained how my mother and Eric came to his pack and asked Katherine for help to get Vivian away from me.It's sick, hearing how far my mother and Eric were willing to go to split us apart. For what reason? Stephanie was released from the command. She accepted her mate, and I accepted mine. How would this benefit them at all?What was more f****d up is the way my mother lied to Katherine about my father. My dad never wanted Vivian's mom for himself. He just wanted her to get better and be reunited with her mother and daughter. He knew she was a junkie. He thought that she was being sired and was her new addiction. He didn't know that they were mates, or imprinted, whatever the correct term is.That was the time when I was really young and my mom started to act irrational. My parents were never close. She probably didn't know why my dad was
ADDISONStephanie is lying in my lap, scrolling through her phone as I run my fingers through her silkyred hair.I love her hair. It fits her fiery personality. Now that she was able to mark me, the bond I had from imprinting on her is so much stronger.We can finally be together. After so many years, she and I can finally live in peace, free from the burden of both ours.My father isn't oppressive, as hers is, but being his daughter, I had certain expectations placed on me. My mother was not immortal or a first generation like my father is. My power as his daughter was limited because of that.Finding Steph and imprinting on her was my miracle. I thought I had finally found my reason to leave the coven, and someone I could build my life with, My father and the wolves never got along, thanks to Rina and her bullshit, but as long as I had Steph, that didn't matter to me.That was until Steph disappeared from my life after worrying and thinking the worst had happened to her, I snuck in







