LOGIN“Fuck!”I quickly began to dig the den out carefully. I stopped when I felt the still-warm body of an animal. I carefully removed it. Shit. It was Bella. I flipped her over and saw her stomach and chest moving. My gaze traveled lower and I saw the cub that was stuck half in her birth canal. I looked
Minor Trigger WarningGerald“DADDDY! DADDDY! WHERE ARE YOU?” Annie screamed as she ran down the hallway, crying.I jumped to my feet and rushed out of the room. “Annie? What’s wrong?”She waved some papers in the air. “Gerry, look.”She handed me the crumpled papers, and I smoothed them out so I co
ToyaI smiled at Hannah as Mom and Grandma got us ready. Tonight our daddies were going to go with us to the daddy-daughter dance and we were so excited. Elena and Priscilla had already gone to their dance with their daddies. It was our turn now. I twirled in front of the mirror and giggled when my
ElenaI threw the door to Annie and Hannah’s room open. I grinned at them.“I have a cookie for the one that irritates Osprey and Gerald the most.”Annie giggled and shoved Hanna. “That cookie is mine.”Hannah eyed me. “What kind of cookie?”Toya poked her head from around my back before hiding back
“Scarlett?” my brother said as he walked in to sit next to me on the bed. He put his hand on my back. “Do you want to talk about it?”I rolled over to look at him before sitting up and wrapping my arms around my legs. “Why does he have to have a mate? Can’t he just stay my best friend forever?” I wh
Epilogue (One year later)ScarlettI smiled when Osprey flung the door open. I held up the plate of peanut butter cookies I had made with him in mind.“I made cookies for dessert,” I murmured, looking down at the ground.He took the plate from me and his hands slid over mine. My eyes shot up to his
“No, baby. It was the single hardest thing I have ever done. I was going to come back. I was always going to come back to you. That’s why I was in the cave. I was trying to be close to you without disrupting your life. I missed you so much today and all I wanted to do was hold you.”I stared at him.
TashaI woke to shouts of laughter passing by my room. I rolled over to face the door to see Raul and Lee swinging my son between them as they walked down the hall. I smiled softly at the happiness on his face. Almost two years had gone by since Falcon had passed and I couldn’t be more grateful for
Tasha (6 months later)Maddy walked through the forest, following closely behind Osprey through the forest. She kept pace with him every time he took off. We had come to really enjoy our runs in the woods with our son. He had blossomed so much in his ability to kind of hunt and had gotten so big tha
They all softened immediately. “Ok. Take a gun with you.”“I will. I promised.”I finished my breakfast and Jamie got Osprey cleaned up. Lee smiled at him as he knelt in front of him to tie his shoe.“Promise to protect Mommy?,” Tony said and he nodded eagerly. Tony chucked his chin. “Good boy. You







