**Emmett Pov**I helped Charlie settle herself on the examination table for her first sonogram."Comfortable?" I asked her as Titan was happily prancing around my mind at the close proximity of Charlie and our pup."For now yea but you best be ready with that werewolf strength to pull me back up." She laughed. "Or failing that a crane" she added. I smirked as Dr Teller entered. "Your beautiful." I muttered for her to hear only. She visibly relaxed her body language. "Good morning Alpha Emmett" he added. "Miss Charlie, I am Dr Teller its amazing to meet you" he gushed holding out his hand. Charlie gingerly took it and shook it. "I am the pack Doctor and I'm going to look after you and your pup if that's ok?" He asked. Charlie silently nodded. "Right let's have a look at the packs future" he keenly added shaking a bottle of ultra sound gel. "Little cold" he smiled as he squirted the gel on her exposed stomach.Everyone was silent as he ran the ultra sound wand over her stomach. He
**Charlie POV**On entering I spotted Emmett's parents Luna Catherine and Alpha Williams sitting with my father and grandfather."Go sit, I'll get you some lunch." Emmett gestured toward the seat next to his mother. I gingerly approached the indicated seat I could feel the eyes of others in the dinning room burning a hole in me. The chit chat of conversations also had silenced. Luna Catherine looked around sensing the change in atmosphere her eyes met mine."Ah Luna Charlie." She loudly beamed as she stood and walked towards me. She gave a little curtsey before embracing me. "Please join me." She added loudly before whispering "Ignore them pack instinct is to observe and scent out strangers." She linked me and walked me to the table her warm welcome seemed to seal my acceptance and the noise in the room began to return as the occupants returned to their own conversations. She held out the chair next to hers and I sat down thankful to be out of the lime light."Emmett was always privat
*** Charlie POV***Once finished being fitted for my match ball dress I excused myself from Luna Catherine's company and went in search of Sasha or Emmett anyone who could make me feel normal again. I wandered toward the grand staircase and in the direction of where I thought the pack common areas where as I reached the dining hall I spotted Sasha. Two young women walked past me both did a curtsey and softly muttered."Luna" with bowed heads. Sasha spotted me in that same moment and darted toward me. Copying the young women she cutsied and smugly gestured with bowed head."Luna"I grabbed her arm and straightened her up"Oh stop it." I hissed as I linked her and we walked back toward the grand stair case and out side."I need some air" I added as I dragged her toward the lake.Sensing my unease Sasha's demeanour became more serious. At the bank of the lake I let go her arm and she spoke."Okay, you need to take a breath." She told me feeling my overwhelmed emotions."I can't do this.
**Sasha pov**Another dark jet black wolf sprung from nowhere, colliding with Charlie mid air as they both forcefully crashed into the lake. Both were submerged under the water. I held me breath waiting for Charlie to surface, when there seemed to be a hesitation I began to wade into the lake. Suddenly Emmett burst to the surface in human form cradling Charlie to his chest. I continued to wade out toward them."She's burning up." He yelled."Keep her in the cold water" I gasped reaching them both."Danny go get the pack Doctor now." He roared as Danny took off in the direct of the pack hospital."What the hell happened?" Emmett turned to me."We were hanging out and just laying on the lakes edge and then they showed up." I responded watching Charlie's face contort in discomfort."They?""Shadow people." I replied. "Lost souls that live in the shadows or walk the ghost roads.""Why...." Emmett began but was cut off by a groan from Charlie, his attention switched to Charlie. "Shhhh its
**Sasha POv*My stomach churned and I hadn't been able to sleep at all , my eyes were burning in my head from exhaustion. Danny silently sat next to me and gave me a knowing smile as he squeezed my hand before digging into a plate piled high with breakfast foods."How can you eat?" I muttered. She smiled at me his cheeks puffed out with the scrambled egg he had shovelled in."Nothing comes between a werewolf and food." He smirked.I returned to picking at the plate of pancakes in front of me when I felt the tone of the pack dining room change. Glancing up I spotted Charlie enter with Emmett she spotted me and waved cheerfully. After briefly conversing with Emmett she approached me where I sat with Danny. Those she passed bowed their heads slightly some offering "Good morning Luna" greetings as she passed. Charlie smiled and responded to them all before sitting into the chair opposite me."Morning." She smiled cheerfullyI dropped my fork in disbelief She looked amazing. Her face and s
**Charlie POV**I wandered a little aimlessly around the large private wing Emmett had in the pack house trying to entertain myself having got the all clear from Dr Teller and convincing Emmett I was fine alone so he could help his parents meet the pack members and get ready for the match ball that night. I finally was thankfully to see the seamstresses who arrived with my dress for my last fitting for the Match ball gown Luna Catherine had provided me with. The housekeeper then informed me someone would call to my master suite at five to help me with hair make up and dressing and I thanked her. Feeling alone suddenly despite being surrounded by everyone in the pack house I decided to find Sasha. I wandered up to the room she had been allocated in the guest wing along side Danny, my father and Grandfather. I flung open the door to her room only to walk in on Sasha in a naked passionate embrace with someone on her bed. Sasha and her suitor both taken by surprise looked at me and it was
**Charlie POV*I watched in a mixture of embarrassment and amusement as Emmett physically removed his mother and Sasha from the room. He wandered back to the bed but we both knew the passionate moment had passed."Well that was awkward." I giggled."I can't believe they didn't knock." Emmett grumbled."So tell me Little Tudor how did you awaken your wolf." Emmett asked sitting back against the bed headboard a genuine look of interest on his face."I don't know. I was getting ready for the mate ball and I was talking to the twins and suddenly she spoke." I replied moving slightly closer to him. Sensing my need to be close to him Emmett picked me up placing me in his lap and an embarrassed flushed passed over my face."It's a mate bond thing. The need you feel now to be near me is heightened because you're pregnant. Our presence calms each other. What were you talking to the twins about?" He murmured his face buried in my hair"Just how strange it was that their Mama was a Luna of the C
*Charlie POV*I could feel Emmett's rage. I could also sense the guy with his arm around me was not going to relent his deluded claim on me."he's going to shift." She informed me."no he can't Emmett could get hurt." I panickedSoairse smirked "unlikely but I liked this dress and something tells me Titan is about to get it covered in this fools blood""Titan?"soairse purred "Emmett's wolf my amazing mate Titan"Now I was super panicked I couldn't let this happen. I could feel something change in me. A green orb appeared in my free hand Soairse knew what to do she rose to my surface i felt slightly like I could see everything but was no longer in charge of my movements."I said let me go." my voice came from my mouth. The man who had his arms on me let me go as if I was fire and jumped back. I stepped towards him."I don't believe we have met I am Charlie Tudor Luna of the the Celtic Crescent Moon Pack and I think its time you left." I added as I raised my hand and he rose off the fl