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A Prince is born. “Lock down the pack grounds…get all warriors on the borders now, even if they aren’t on rota.” Lance commands to Mav whose eyes instantly glaze over to inform of the imminent arrival of the heirs. “Lance calm down.” Lorrel rushes over to us, as she places her hand into mine. “Aida are you okay?” “Yes…just a contraction.” I manage to reply as the pain stops. “We have plenty of time, you could even come back home and have a bath to ease some of the pain. Then we can decide on pain relief?” She’s my calm in the face of a storm, or the lycan males all staring at me. “This is so exciting…I’m going to be an auntie.” Blake sings out as I start to walk with Lance’s arm tightly secured around my waist. “Technically you are a cousin…” Jake starts at his little sister. “Aida is my best friend so I’m auntie…got it!” She growls. I feel another contraction spread across my tight tummy, like a wave that catches my breath. “Aida?” Brennan takes a step towards me, touching
A moon blessed Princess. “Hello Lex…” Lance smiles at his son, holding him to his chest. “He’s so tiny!” He traces his thumb around the back of his head. “They are early.” Brennan smiles as he starts to busy himself in preparing for baby number two. “Do you feel strong enough to feed him?” Brennan looks to me as he rips open some kind of sterile medical instruments. “Yes, I will try.” Brennan slowly takes Lex off Lance and places him on my chest. Before I know it Lex is trying to latch on and with an initial slightly painful motion, he is already feeding off me. “She needs to eat really.” I hear Brennan talk in the distance. I must be half way between sleep and awake. “I’ll see what I can find.” Lorrel offers as she leaves the room. “What time is it?” I manage to focus more on my consciousness and wake up to find Lex off me and dressed, sleeping in Lance’s arms. “It’s nearly 8pm. You fell asleep.” Lance can’t keep his eyes off Lex as he responds to me. “Is he milked out.” I
The new normal. “Get some sleep.” Lorrel says as she takes both babies off me. I had been stitched and told that I now couldn’t leave bed until at least lunch time. Leona was born at 12.02am, it would seem she wanted her own birthday after all. I would be forever be indebted to Brennan and Colette for all that they have done. Just as I start to drift off the door opens and her scent enters. My wolf, who was tired but she is more present now that we are no longer pregnant, growls as Felicity walks over to Leona. She watches her intently for a few moments before seemingly happy with what she sees. This tradition had to stop, what would they do if a baby wasn’t a lycan? Toss it out onto the streets, absolutely not! So what was this necessary. “A beautiful princess, congratulations my King and Queen….and a lycan she-wolf hybrid by the looks of things.” She nods having checked Leona’s eyes flash to that of her wolf’s. I noticed my daughter’s eyes as soon as I held her, bright blue ju
Gone back in her word. Trying to organise a moon blessing with a few hour’s notice wasn’t the easiest. Luckily the babies could be asleep under the night’s sky as the moon’s glow blessed them for their future to come. Lorrel had organised the canteen staff to put food together at short notice for our closest family and friends.I had invited Alpha Ray and Luna Rennie, Alpha Rory and Rowan along as Rafe. I didn’t care if I was accused of favouritism at this time, they had supported me from day one and I wanted them to be part of our twin’s future. Being at such short notice we just couldn’t invite everybody, like Valentina and Lance’s other cousins, Hong or Tate. But Colette, Mav, Rayna, Axel and a few Lycan council elders would be present. “Congratulations King Lance and Queen Aida.” Fern warmly sneaks a peek at the sleeping babies in the royal home garden. I had placed them in their Moses baskets on stands, wrapped in the wool blankets Luna Rennie had gifted them. “Thank you Fer
A High Priestess.“Axel, Brennan, watch the babies!” I order as I leap out of bed and rush out the bedroom door. I race along the hallway and down the stairs towards the living room. “Miss Aida!” She happily greets me as she is sitting in front of the television watching a princess film with Lorrel. “I just found her in here…” Lorrel shrugs until she takes in my appearance and stands up. “What’s is it?” “The witches are at war. Fern can’t protect Olivia anymore.” I whisper to her. “Goddess, where’s Fern?” “I don’t know, she’s just evaporated into thin air. I think she has sided with her sister.” My hand grips my forehead, a headache suddenly coming on from this unexpected change in events. “Let me call the high priestess Danika, she’ll give us a good indication of what has transpired.” “The child?” Lance’s voice enters my mind. “She’s fine, she’s watching television.” I respond through the mind-link as I hear Lance walk down the hallway. “Let’s not panic Lance until we know w
Visiting the Saunders Pack. “What the fuck does that mean?” Lance roars as he pushes the back of his chair out. His hand that was resting on my thigh is pulled abruptly and slammed on the table as he positions himself in an aggressive leaning forward posture. “She’s put a link in place….” Danika answers, keeping her chin high and not at all showing any fear of the alpha king in front of her. But I could hear her heart, we all could. “…I’m afraid she’ll always be able to find their location.” “Is there anything we can do? Anything that will help break the link?” I push my chair out and stand next to Lance. Adopting a strong posture, not as scary as Lance’s but sending a message all the same. She looks at me for a moment, was she trying to hide something? I could hear her trying to calm her quickening heartbeat. “No!” She responds without any tone as if it went against her better judgement to say that word. Why did Fern mention lavender? What was the significance of lavender. “So
Trying to get ready. His back straightens before his entire body stiffens, knowing my eyes are on him. He closes the bedroom door before turning to look at me. I meet his stare, I am no longer his little sister, I am his Queen. He doesn’t move from his spot and neither do I, until Olivia runs out and holds my hand. “Aida, I have a whole room to myself!” She beams up at me before looking at the person who has captured my interest. His eyes widen as his mate’s daughter holds her hand in mine. “Who is that?” She whispers to me and I just answer her with a small smile. What would I say? That is your mother’s mate, your stepfather? Lance steps outside of the room, carrying both Lex and Leona, who remain sleeping in his strong secure arms. Henri’s eyes drift down to the nephew and niece, the heirs, asleep in my mate’s arms. He takes a small step towards us and it is enough for Lance to order both myself and Olivia into our room and he closes the door behind him. “Just ignore him ang
Fireworks.We were placed at the front with Hong’s and Isla’s family. Not many alphas and lunas could boast of a King and Alpha Luna attending their ceremony. I had asked that Olivia stayed close to me for the evening, especially knowing my brother and Saskia were also guests here. Which meant we had somehow also adopted Jia for the evening. Her and Olivia had become inseparable. After the ceremony we were moved into a marquee for a sit down reception where the food was exquisite. Lance smirked at my hunger knowing full well our earlier activity had caused the need for extra calories. I was getting a few odd stairs for the lavender that had been moved from the cribs and now hung on the double pram, but I just made it seem the children liked the smell. The escalating witches war wasn’t common knowledge yet, especially as not all werewolf packs have dealings with the craft community. After dinner a band played some romantic songs and we watched as Hong and Isla danced alone on the