LOGINGRACE’S POVI looked at Declan absolutely incredulous.No words.For the first time in my life I was totally fucking flabbergasted.“Say something Angel,” he said then he let out a nervous laugh. “I mean you are kind of making me nervous here,” he said, eyes darting around the room.“You are telling me that instead of you to have a serious talk with that teacher about encouraging violence, you ended up inviting him to fucking dinner?” I asked.He had this sheepish look on his face as he rubbed the back of his neck. “I really don’t think he is that bad Grace-”I threw my hands up in the air and looked at Rhys who was just watching the drama from the living room couch.There was that small smile on his face, showing that he was thoroughly enjoying himself.“Rhys seriously, back me up here,” I said.He stood up and engulfed me in a hug from behind, and I immediately sank into him, allowing myself to be enveloped by his warmth. He dropped a kiss on the side of my head before facing his br
DECLAN’S POV“So, your name is Silas right?”It had been bothering me for a while now, the fact that I had not yet gotten to the bottom of this mysterious new teacher that had suddenly started teaching at the pack.More so after I found out that he was encouraging violence with Otto.To me, that was enough to ring all of the necessary alarm bells, and so the very second that I had the chance to pick up the kids from school, I insisted that they take me to meet this new teacher.I was holding Faith in one arm, and Otto insisted on standing beside me, since he was quote on quote not a baby. I swear to the goddess, this boy only ever allowed his mother to lift him.That was it.The list was never going to get longer than that.Faith on the other hand enjoyed being lifted and coddled, and I was not complaining one bit. She rested her tiny head against my shoulder, happily playing with the collar of my shirt while humming some little tune that only she seemed to understand.Otto puffed out
GRACE“Are you alright?”I asked Otto, he did not look at me, just folded his arms and looked away from me “I am fine mummy”My frown only got tighter.Not much had happened this past week, ever since I had that talk with Declan and Rhys. If possible we had somehow gotten even closer. I could not go anywhere without one or the other shadowing after me like they were my very own bodyguards. It was nice, but that was not the issue today.In this same week, we had also gotten not one, but two calls from the school about Otto getting in fights with his peers.And this time he even went as far as knocking out someone’s teeth.“If you’re so alright then why you not look at me please?”Ever since he was little, Otto was always one to confide in me. And the one thing that I always took great pride in was that my children were more reasonable than people their age.So this time, I was really struggling to understand what the matter was.I stared at him expectantly, waiting for an explanation
RHYSI was so angry that I could feel my temperature rising.Who was this person that hurt Grace’s mind so much that even after she had been through the worst possible treatment in the hands of a fucking diabolical psychopath, she still carried out the fear that we would hate her for this.How on earth would we hate her?This was not her fucking fault.And to think that that bastard went as far as to hurt our children. Now I was filled with an endless fire to hunt to until the ends of the earth and find out whoever that ‘S’ was and treat him to a fate that was a million times worse than death.It seemed like Grace had seen the clear angry expression on my face and automatically assumed that I was angry with her.She quickly grabbed my hand “please Rhys I am sorry, I shouldn’t have left I-”I leaned in and placed a soft kiss on her lips effectively cutting her off while trying to soothe her at the same time.I gently caressed her neck and my wolf calmed only a fraction once she leaned
GRACE“You can take your time, love,” Rhys said.That was good. The fact that neither Declan nor Rhys had stopped holding me, because right now their presence was the only thing stopping me from completely losing my mind. If either of them let go, I was certain I would shatter into a million tiny pieces.I swallowed around the painful lump in my throat.“You know that morning, when I ran away...” I started quietly. “I felt so fucking scared.”Neither of them interrupted.“I was just a nineteen-year-old with no clue how the world outside of the pack was.” I laughed bitterly through my tears. “I thought I knew everything back then... but I knew absolutely nothing. I was terrified of leaving, but I was even more terrified of what would happen if I stayed here... and so...” My voice cracked again. “I made the worst mistake of my life.”Declan tightened his arms around me, pulling me closer until my forehead rested against his chest.His heartbeat was calm.But I knew him more than anyone,
DECLAN’S POV“What the fuck happened to her?” Rhys asked, pacing outside the room like a caged animal.His footsteps echoed through the hallway, each turn sharper than the last. His hands kept clenching into fists before relaxing again, only for the cycle to repeat. I knew exactly what was going through his head because it was the same thing tearing through mine.I was barely trying to keep it together myself.“I don’t know, brother... I don’t know.”The words felt useless the second they left my mouth.This was not the first time something like this had happened.We had stood outside this room before, waiting for Jonathan to finish examining Grace while we held our damn breaths and silently prayed to the Moon Goddess that this wouldn't be the time we lost her. You would think that it would eventually become easier.It never did.Every single time felt like someone had reached into my chest and wrapped a hand around my heart, squeezing tighter and tighter until I could barely breathe.
GraceOtto and Faith were asleep as the plane took its landing.The morning had been very emotional for them when they realized that Rakkel would not be coming with us.I wanted her to come with I really did bu tour pack did not do well with humans, the last thing I want was for her to get ripped
Grace“You have to go back Grace… it is the only way, you know it is”I looked at Rakkel like I wanted to argue, the goddess knows I did… to much time had passed, too many things had happened. A lot had happened to me in the course of running away, form the pack.Did I make all of that sacrifice ju
RhysWhy on earth did she have to come back?That was the same question that I had been asking myself ever since I forced that unfamiliar scented wolf to shift.So much had changed about her, but at the same time she was still completely the same.For starters she was no longer the little girl tha
Declan“That woman, why did you let her into the house?”I could understand why Rhys was like this. He was hurt the most by when she ran away and left us. I mean I was hurt too because she was our mate, and she left us. But for Rhys, it was much more than that.They were best friends and she still







