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
I was there for Nicole as she was there for me when I was a child. I did everything she asked of me when she wanted to find her son and I was the one she spoke to when we discovered Sean's body in the forests around our territory line. I was her Alpha and I was her friend at the same time but apparently that means nothing because Blake and the twins have been dragged through hell. "Because you have everything I don't anymore. Once you accepted Blake, it felt like you had taken him away from me, and then when Jayson disappeared, all I wanted to do was blame you for what had happened. And then Sean died so I had no one. I was all alone while your family seemed to continue growing," Nicole was holding back her tears as she spoke and I almost felt sorry for her. But then I remembered what she had done to me and I didn't feel as sorry for her anymore. "I named my daughter after you. Now, when she asks where her name came from, I can't tell her that it came from the woman
LUCA "Why are we dressed like this daddy?" Daniel asked for the thousandth time. Jamie had decided that the theme for the twins' welcome party was going to be Disney and that meant we were all supposed to dress up as our favourite character. I was never going to do that though because I wasn't one for dressing up. "You can blame Jamie. It was her decision," I muttered in reply as I fastened the button at the back of the shirt he was wearing. I had asked him who he wanted to be dressed as and he had picked Peter Pan, which was simple enough and he was easily pleased, Michael on the other hand wasn't as easy to please. He didn't want to dress up as anything. He wanted to be the one who turned up in his jeans and shirt but Jamie insisted that all the children came dressed as someone from a Disney film and I didn't really want to be the one who argued with her when one of my boys turned up
LUCA I had managed to avoid pretty much everyone for the entire duration of the party. I had remained hidden in the corner and watched as everyone conversed with each other, the excitement from the pack of meeting their future Alpha was obvious from the way everyone crowded around Maxwell and Ellie. They all spoke about how cute he was and how proud they were of their Alpha and her mate for producing such a gorgeous looking child. The younger ones were especially enthralled with the prospect of meeting Maxwell because he was going to be their Alpha around the time they became important to the pack while not many people were interested in meeting Nicole. I hadn't seen her either. I had been looking out for Blake but he seemed to be hiding out of sight with his daughter. But I did want to see her just to see what she had been dressed in for the occasion and I also wanted to see Blake's outfit because Ellie's comment had me intrigue