LOGIN~ZAYDEN
"Mummy, are we going to our new house?" Ava asked, her tiny voice floating into my ears right from the back seat of the car."Yes, honey. We are," Dahlia responded.I glanced at the rearview mirror, but Dahlia wasn't looking at me. She was staring at her kids. And her son — our son — was not exactly pleased by everything that was going on.He folded his arms and looked out of the window, a pout on his lips. Dahlia sighed and reached out to pat hi~ZAYDENI watched as my mate's expression rippled, but it didn't take her long to settle on disgust. She crossed her arms over her chest and cocked her head to the side. "What's with her? Did she manage to outwit or seduce some poor warden who let her escape?" she asked, and there was a bite in Dahlia's voice. I ran a hand through my hair as I shook my head. "No, love. That's not it. Edda...Edda is dead. I just got the news."And like I hadn't been expecting the news when it was sprung on me, my mate clearly wasn't expecting it either. The disgust on her face morped into shock, and her jaw slightly hung open."That's...that's unexpected," she stated, shaking her head and visibly gathering her composure. "I know, right? It's weird. I mean, I forgot all about her and what she did to us. But I guess she didn't. Because the warden who called to give me the report said she was trying to escape, and was shot down during th
~DAHLIA"Promise not to shut me out again?" I asked before we left the dining table, our half eaten feast staring back at me. Zayden solemnly placed his hands on his chest as he responded. "Cross my heart. I will never do such a thing again, my love. I promise you."I nodded, satisfied with his response. Good. Now that that was out of the way, I waved him away and slowly stood up, afraid of tipping over from all the food he just fed me. "You have the kids. Deal with them. I am going back to sleep."I didn't wait for his response before I made my way out of the transformed living room, up the stairs, and into my room. As I plopped down on the bed, a satisfied, extremely contented smile slowly spread across my lips. After a million incidents and a thousand delays, Zayden and I were finally getting married. Again. For the last time, most definitely.There was no jealous best friend — read as Edda — t
~DAHLIA"Mummy! Come and see what daddy made for us," my kids yelled, and their extremely loud voices floated into my ears, jolting me out of my sleep. I frowned as my eyes fluttered open, a groan slipping past my lips. "What do you want, Ava?" I asked, since she was the one closest to me. Axel was busy jumping at the foot of the bed. My daughter grabbed my arm and yanked excitedly. "Daddy has a surprise for us. Come and see."My frown deepened further. Zayden had a surprise for them?What could it possibly be?After I walked out on him last night, I had been too devastated to even let myself think too much about him.I mean, I understood what he was going through, but that was no excuse for him to just zone us all out just like that. His actions hurt me more than he would ever know, and I was glad I was able to tell him as much last night. So what did he plan this early morning
~ZAYDENGrief was like a spectrum.There was days when I hated the world and hated myself for leaving my grandfather for so long, for not knowing that he was sick. For not knowing that he needed me. Those were the bad days. But I also had the good days. Days when I hated myself a little bit less, days when I was able to breath. Days when I was able to remind myself that grandfather would not want me to blame myself for his death. Days when I would remember that his death was not my fault, and that since the moon goddess was in charge of life and living, she knew that it was his time, and she took him away from us. From me. Those days, however, were few and far in between. It wasn't as though I had a choice though. I was the Alpha of my pack. The death of my grandfather was a sad incident, but it wasn't the end of the world. Unfortunately, life had to move on, no matter what. So it did. And I di
~ZAYDENI didn't know how I got through the next few days. It all passed in a blur, and I didn't remember most of it. But some moments stood out. Like the moment we burned Grandfather's body. I didn't recall how I managed to make decisions despite how foggy my brain was, but I knew I did. Because one moment, I was drowning in a sea of despair, crying in my mate's arms. And the next moment, I was standing with the rest of my pack members, watching as he burned. I didn't remember what happened after that, but I knew Dahlia was there. She held my hand through it. She didn't let me break down in front of all those people. After his body had been burned and his spirit released to start the afterlife journey, I fell back into the abyss. I didn't remember what happened again. Blurred days that passed too fast. Blurred nights that passed too slow, dragging on without an end. Then another day that stood out for me.
~DAHLIAI was still holding his hand when he died. My heart stopped in my chest as Grandfather's chest slowly stopped moving, and when he draw his last breath, I saw it.My heart pounded against my chest so hard that it was as if it wanted to escape, and rapid tears streamed down my face as my adoptive grandfather died. "He's dead. Zayden, grandfather is...he is dead." The words ripped out of me, moving around in the room like a ghost. All of a sudden, the temperature dropped, a rapid chill spreading across the room. Zayden knelt back down at the foot of the bed. I looked at my mate, unable to keep staring at the corpse of the man who raised me and took me away from that hellish orphanage home. The man I would forever be grateful to. And even though I felt like a coward for looking away from him, I did. I looked to my mate instead. And for the first time since I met Zayden, my mate was crying. Very slowly, he reac







