Ashton POVI grabbed a pair of shorts and some clean clothes, from my closet, and toiletries, from my bathroom, and head across the hall. I can hear the shower turning on, and then singing. Alaina has an amazing voice, maybe she will sing for me one day.I shower, put my shorts on, and head back out to the kitchen to clean up the dishes. As I am putting the last of the utensils into the dishwasher, I feel her arms wrap around my waist. I stand up and turn around to face her, pulling her into a hug. That’s when I noticed...“HEY!”She looks up at me with big doe eyes.“Is that MY sweater?”She laughs and tries to squirm out of my arms.“Maybe”She finally manages to get free, by putting her arms up and just dropping to the ground, then runs around the island, keeping it between us.“Give. Me. Back. My. Sweaterrrr!”“Make me!”HA, I love th

Alaina POVI wake up to Ash gently shaking my shoulder calling my name.“Alaina, dear, I need you to get up, love.”“Noooooo… 5 more minutes.”“No, I’m sorry Al, it needs to be now.’“Whhhhyyyyyyyyyyyyyy???”He’s silent for a bit.“Um, well...”I roll over to face him, just as I start to turn, he calls out.“NO! Don't do that! Just slide out of the bed on your side love.”“Ashton... why? Why are you being like this?”I can hear him breathing heavily before a sharp exhale.“I need to change the sheets.”“Huh?”“I, had a dream”“OK?”“A good dream...”“OK?”Ummmm Al, I would stop the questioning, HAHATY!?!?!?! The one and only!I AM SOO

Alaina POV         When Ash said that he sent some people to grab me somethings that I may need I didn’t think that they were going to bring this much back! Walking into our room there was a literal path from the door, to the bed, then the bathroom, then the huge walk-in closet. Bags everywhere, some boxes of stuff, and garment bags hung on the closet doors.                “I don’t know what all is here, or what all they bought, but I CAN tell you that there will be deliveries throughout the week of what Austin called ‘stuff’”He air quotes the stuff part, which I barely caught because my eyes are bugging out of my head, jaw on the floor, in utter disbelief with the sheer amount of what is here. I slowly turn my head to look at Ash, jaw still on the floor, and he lets out a small chuckle.  

Alaina POV Telling Ash, I needed to see Finlay was an anxiety ridden moment, but it surprisingly he didn’t really fight me on it. “Alexia says that it would be good for me to confront him. If that’s an issue with you, that’s fine, she said it might be, and that I should offer for you to join in my next session to talk about it.” During our sessions Alexia made it very clear that getting the answers to, at least, some of my questions could help in my ability to heal from the trauma that Finlay put me though. The idea of even seeing him again made my anxiety go through the roof and I wanted to throw up just talking about it, but I had to at least try. “I am not going to hold you confronting Finlay hostage, so you seeing him is not dependent on my joining a session with you. I WOULD like to join a session with you though.” He wants a joint session, ok, I did offer for him to come, but I didn’t really think that he would take m up on that offer. He wants to help us; he wants to be

I want to greatly apologize. While going back through the chapters I notice that the delineation between mind link and conversations between the wolves did not translate through on the app. I will be slowly working my way through to fix that. Mind links will be denoted with an asterix (*) on either end, and conversations with the wolves will have an apostrophe (') on either end. Again, I am very sorry, this is 100% my fault for not double checking before hand. While I try, very hard, to proof read my work I am not perfect, and will likely have errors. I am doing my best and, as I go through fixing the formating I will also be going through and making sure the spelling and grammar are up to par. Thank you for your patince and understanding. Annie