We walk down to dinner later that night and I sit between Issac and Gunner. Lily somehow wins her way to be sitting beside Dean, and I already know this isn’t going to go well.I can feel it in my soul. My stomach churning making it impossible to eat.Gunner looks at me, “Eat, Peaches.” He tells me and I shake my head. “I’m not hungry.” I tell him, and Sophia speaks up. “Oh, Goddess. I hope you’re not getting sick.” She says looking at me worried.I shake my head, “I’m fine.” I tell her and she continues to look at me worried.I sense Dean getting annoyed and my eyes go over to him.His hand is under the table, and he looks like he’s moving it around. My eyes narrow on him when I see Lily’s hands under the table as well.“Lily.” Dean says quietly but sternly at her, then he stands up quickly.When he stands up, I see Lily’s hand fall off his thigh, and my blood runs cold. I can’t see straight as I stand from my chair.Orla takes over automatically, my body shifting into a wolf and she
We walk back into the dining room, to meet up with everyone and shockingly Lily is here too, a little too close to my mate. “Lily, I don’t care about your picture. Please just stop.” Dean begs, him and Lily’s back to me.I walk over and lean over to see the picture she’s trying to show him. I see a picture of Gunner pressed up on me against the wall. Lily finally sees me and pulls the phone away, glaring at me. Then she looks back at Dean. “You said you didn’t want to share a mate. Clearly, their doing things behind your back.” She says, like she has any idea what she’s talking about.Dean stands up and glares at Lily, while Lux comes to stand behind her, “Dean.” Lux says sternly and Dean barely spares him a glance. “Lily, you’re about to make me do something I regret. She’s my mate and we need you to accept that.” Dean says, and I watch as tears start to fill her eyes.She pulls her phone back up, “But she’s…” Lily’s cut off by Dean, “She’s my, Gunner, and Issac’s mate, Lily. And you
Cameron finishes the tour in the living room, where we find Evan and Sophia waiting. They look like they’re whisper fighting, but they stop when they hear us.Evan gives us a big smile and stands from the couch, “How’d it go?” He asks me and I smile and nod my head. Sophia walks up behind him and places a hand on his shoulder blade. “You guys must be hungry. We have food laid out in the dining room.” She says softly, like I might flip out and yell at her for offering us food.I nod with a smile again and start walking the direction that Cameron showed us. ‘Peaches, I need you to breath.’ Gunner says in my head, and I glance over at him. ‘I can’t’ I whisper back, and he immediately grabs me and starts walking away from the group.He leads me outside on the balcony and sets me on the floor. “Peaches.” He whispers, grabbing my chin and forcing me to look at him.I shake my head, as I try to erase the tears, now that I’m having to face them. “I don’t even know what’s wrong. I don’t even u
We finally make it to the top of the steps after what feels like years. Jordan finally stops singing once we get closer to Evan and Sophia, and glances back at me. I fake a smile and look over at my siblings.Lily watches me and I grimace when I see the face she’s giving me. Yep. Dean being one of my mates is going to be a problem.Then I look at Cameron, he was born after I was taken. I’ve never met him before, not that I remember knowing any of them, but I didn’t even get the chance with him. He’s only twelve and is already starting to catch up in height to Lux. He looks sweet, smiling at all of us, but maybe that’s a royal thing. Hopefully I can at least make one of them like me.We stop walking and Sophia walks over to me, pulling me in for a hug and smiling. I return her hug awkwardly, still not completely over how she treated me. She pulls away from me, but still keeps her hands on my arms, “We’re so glad you’ve come. Come on, let me introduce you to your siblings.” She says and
We take the four-hour drive to the palace the next day. I’m so nervous, it’s ridiculous. It’s not like it should matter if they like me or not, but it’s bothering me that my siblings might not. The triplets keep telling me everything will be fine, but that’s easy for them to say, they’ve met them before.We get to the huge palace, and they’re standing in front of it like a picture-perfect family. “They all look so… Right.” I whisper, and Issac grabs my hand. “You’re apart of them, Sunshine.” My face screws up.They’ve all grown up without me. The only one that might remember me is Lux and he was five when I left. He didn’t really remember me, just the idea of me.“Am I?” I ask and Issac gives me a small smile. “We’ll be with you the whole time. There is one thing we should probably warn you about though.” Issac says, now… Now that we’re sitting in front of the palace. “Issac.” Dean says sternly and I look between them. “What?” Dean’s jaw ticks and now I’m
We head back to the triplets house the next day. When we get out of the suv, Lexi comes running out of the house to greet us. She runs right passed the triplets and pulls me in for a huge hug. “I missed you, dear!” She exclaims and I fall into the motherly hug, soaking it up, because I can.I’m marked by her sons; I’m technically her daughter in law now.I hear the triplets grumbling about something, when I look up, I see William walk passed them too, to join my and Lexi’s hug. I laugh when he picks us both up and twirls us around. “We’re so happy you’re staying with us, Grace.” He says and I smile. “Thanks. And thanks for letting me stay.” I tell him and Lexi fake smacks me on the arm. “Pish posh, we wouldn’t want it any other way.” She says and I chuckle.Jordan and Cole walk up, “Would it pull you away from your daughter in law to give me a hug, if I told you she’s making all of us leave this week to go to the palace?” Jordan asks and I gape at him.Lexi pulls both my arms and make