ELLIE
I swallowed as he told me her name. The name of the person who had been forcing him to make me suffer and I was in shock.
I never thought the person who had once saved me would be the one now making me suffer. I wish I knew what I had to make her hate me so much and then I could work to fix it. But she didn't bother talking to me, she simply went after the people who mean the most to me before going after me personally.
I had been trying to contact Blake since I got here but I had been unsuccessful in all attempts but I didn't think there was any harm in trying again. I just wanted him to know what I was alive and I also wanted him to know who was really behind what was happening - it was probably stupid telling him but I knew he would go crazier if I didn't tell him that I was alive.
Blake? I called out and hoped that he would answer me. I just wanted to hear his voice again. I wanted to know that he was coping and
JACKSON I don't even know why the hell I thought trying to calm Blake down was a good idea but it needed to be done. He needed to stop before he did some serious damage - and I'm not talking about simply throwing a sofa through the window or putting his fist into a wall. I put my hands on his shoulders and I could feel him physically shaking as he eyed Nicole up and down. Jayson seemed to have done enough damage for now if the smell of blood was anything to go by. "Blake," I pushed him backwards as he made another attempt at Nicole and Jayson. I may not have trusted Jayson but he was still my friend and I knew he would never let anything happen to Ellie. He was the one who saved her and allowed me to speak with her. He was the one who lost his temper with her when she admitted that she didn't want Blake because he didn't like the idea of his best friend hurting. He was the one who came back here and asked for Ellie's help
ELLIE "-But I don't really remember all that much about my mother. She wasn't my father's real mate and he banished her from the pack once she had done her job of raising me," Bradley sighed. He had successfully managed to get out us out of the cellar I was being held in and had spent the last forty-five minutes telling me about his family. He had tried to assure me that his father and sister hadn't always been ruthless and he remembers a time when they both actually loved him. I knew he was kidding himself and that he wanted to remember that side for his own benefit but I wasn't going to tell him that, instead settling for smiling and nodding whenever he spoke. "What about you? Do you remember anything about your family?" Bradley asked curiously. "Not really. I didn't even know I had a twin until she turned up but my brother does make an appearance in my dreams every so often," I smiled as I remembered the
ELLIE "I don't want to cause you problems in your pack Ellie. I would rather run the risk it going alone than put a rift between you and the people who care about you," Bradley finally said. We had been sitting in my office in total silence for twenty minutes now because I didn't know what to say to him. I didn't think there was anything to be said. I knew my pack were going to hate him and they were never going to accept him as a member of the pack but that didn't give them the right to make attempts on his life every thirty seconds. If he really did want to kill me, if he was the one who thought of the entire plan he was carrying out, I would have been dead the moment we were out of the cellar. He would have taken the opportunity to do it while we were alone and there was no one to prove he was the one who had murdered me. "No. I'm not giving them what they want. It's happened for too long now and it's time they remembe
"The same pain you feel?" Jackson enquired. "My mate. She's dead. She killed herself after she lost our pup for the seventh time," Bradley whispered the words as he sat back down in his chair and sunk backwards with tears in his eyes. Daniel, being the kind and caring little boy he was, moved himself from Luca's lap and walked over to Bradley before Luca could stop his son. He climbed onto Bradley's lap and wrapped his arms around his neck. "Elliot makes some awesome cookies. They always make me happy when I'm sad. Do you want some?" "She does make some badass cookies. You really have to try them," Michael grinned from beside his father. Luca's look was undefined and I didn't know what was going to do when Michael moved from the side of his father to stand beside Bradley. He took hold of Bradley's hand and pulled him from his seat. "I don't think that's a good idea," Bradley muttered without moving his eyes from the boys in front of him. "No.
ELLIE I looked at the three of them and they all looked at me in shock. I folded my hands on my desk and continued to glare at them as I thought of how I was going to put into words what I wanted to tell them. I didn't want them to hate me but I also didn't need them acting like they were better than me. I could treat them like my equals, I was more than happy to do that, but I was tired of being treated like I didn't matter and with people hating me for things I didn't even know had happened. It was honestly tiring and I had had enough of it all. "I don't know. Where do you want to begin?" Luca asked sharply. "Firstly, there is the issue with the way you keep talking to me, you act like you're better than me and you constantly treat me like you know so much better. And I am tired of it, Luca, I am tired of you treating me like I'm stupid and you telling me everything I do is wrong. You're my best friend and I don't want
The introduction of the twins to the pack was for myself but it was also for the pack itself. I wanted to show them that I was thinking of their future and, everything I did, I did to keep them safe not because I wanted to change them into something they're not. My family would always come first but my pack would always be right below that with every decision I made. "Baby. How about you go and see what those boys are up to? I bet they've eaten all those cookies and are waiting for some more," Jackson smiled at his mate with a kiss on her cheek. "I should never have told them it was me who baked them cookies. Now they're never going to leave me alone," Elliot joked. "You love it. And you love those boys. You'll do anything as long as they say please and give you a huge, cheesy grin," Jackson chuckled. Elliot stood up from his lap and put her own kiss on her cheek as she walked out of the room with a shrug of her shoulders. She didn't speak another word when s
BLAKE I looked down at the twins who were sleeping in their cots and I couldn't help but feel a sting of pain right through my heart. I thought I had lost Ellie. I thought that she was dead and that I was going to have to do this all on my own. I haven't got a bloody clue what I'm doing and I certainly proved that when I ended up hitting Michael; now neither of the boys want to speak to me and Jayson is still in the hospital. I am a terrible friend and I would have been an even worse father if I was left to do this alone. I need Ellie by my side but she keeps doing things which are going to get her killed one day and, when that day comes, I don't know what the hell I am going to do with my life - she was only gone nine days this time around and I could barely cope without her. I loved both the twins. I really did love them and being a father is a dream come true.
ELLIE I walked into the cells where I had been told Nicole was being kept and I didn't miss the way in which she looked at me as I grabbed a chair from against the wall and sat directly in front of her. This was the last place I wanted to be and this was the last thing I wanted to be doing but it needed to be done. I needed to understand what had made her hate me so much that she wanted me dead. I needed her to tell me for herself why she wanted to take me away from my whole family and why she so desperately wanted to break my mate; a man who had never done anything to her and had always been there for her son. "You will be pleased to know that I have been informed Jayson is going to make a full recovery," I told her as I remembered the mind link I had received from the pack doctor on my way down here. Jayson was going to have a couple of scars which would never heal and he was going to have to remain in hospital for a co