All Chapters of Hide and Seek: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

It’s getting closer to the time that we have to leave and I’m not sure how to handle it. How can you get this attached to someone in less than 24 hours? How can you yearn for someone who knows so little about your actual day to day life, but you feel like they know you better than anyone? How do you leave behind the person that you feel this kind of deep connection with? Because I’m struggling with it. Hard. There have been so many times over the last few hours that I want to say, “Fuck it!” and tell him exactly who I am. To have him come home and stay there with me, build a life with me. Because I can see it so clearly. I can see the happiness that we could give each other. But that isn’t fair. To so many people that isn’t fair. Esteban turns 21 in a few days and still hasn’t found his mate. What if she’s out there, just waiting for him? What if my mate is waiting for me back home? That’s three other people that would be unfairly affected by my choice to selfishly k

Staring at my face in the mirror, I carefully run the straight-edge razor along my jawline, scraping off the last of the beard that I have there. I’d been growing it out for the past few months and enjoyed the fuller, more rugged look that it gave to my face. Brandon also seemed to enjoy the feeling of the hairs running along his skin whenever I kissed him or…did other things. However, this morning I found two gray hairs in it and it has to go. I wouldn’t normally say that I was vain, but Goddess, I'm only 42 years old. Surely that’s too young to have gray hairs! Devin, who’s here for the ceremony, laughed his ass off about it and has teased me mercilessly about it all day. So it’s coming off before Chris and her friends get here. Of course, we know Fati and JoJo, being extremely close friends with their parents, Gael, Meredith, and Hakeem. And Summer has spent time with us throughout her entire life, Chris and Jared spending time with her and her mother as well. Charlie di

I knew, I just knew the second that I saw Zak, Brandon, and Kayla react to each other exactly what was going to happen. Brian and Charlie had told us. They had given Arya and I letters just for this occasion. We’ve got to calm them down and let them know that it’s ok for them to move on. That they have their first mates’ blessings and that Brian and Charlie are ok and happy where they are. I quickly mindlink Alexander. I need you to get the letters from Summer’s dad and Auntie Charlie from our suitcases. We have them in the front flap of the big one your mother insists on bringing. Pop, I’m a little busy at the moment. Alexander mindlinks me back and he sounds a bit out of breath. I quickly give him the images of what is happening right now in the packhouse foyer. Shit, I’ll be right there. Alexander cuts the link. I turn to Arya. “Let’s go.” She nods and the two of us head towards our friends. After we had met Brian in Selene’s realm, the two of us made it a poi

I had never really given much thought to having a second-chance mate. Brian had been my world. He was everything to me for the years that we were together. I didn’t want another mate. But the second that I opened the car door and smelled the co-mingling of leather and clove along with maple and moss, my wolf sat up at attention inside my head. And the two of them are so fucking sexy. I’ve always thought that when we FaceTimed each other, but seeing them in person is something else all together. Both males are well muscled, tall, and extremely tan from being outside often. Zak has short brown hair, dark chocolate brown eyes, and a clean-shaven face. Brandon has the bluest cerulean eyes that I have ever seen, close-cropped, blonde hair, and is also clean-shaven. They’re like the light and dark versions of every woman’s sex fantasy and they are all mine. Now they are standing in front of me, completely naked and aroused. They both have giant cocks, befitting an alpha and be

I’m in the air on my laptop when I get a call from Summer. “Hey love! What’s going on? Did you all get there ok? How’s Mama Kayla?” I ask the second I pull up the FaceTime call. I work on mirroring the call onto the big screen TV that my dads insisted that the jet needed, along with all the other techie bells and whistles. “OMG, Chris! You have missed everything! I hope to hell that you are sitting down, because I have sooooo much tea to spill!” Summer squeals. “Wait! Don’t start without us!” Fati squeals as she and JoJo walk into the room where Summer is. “I can’t start yet anyway. I have to get Jared on the call, too,” Summer says, excitedly tapping at her phone. “Mirror it to that big ass TV. I wanna see their faces when we tell them!” Fati demands, giddy with whatever news she has. “You enjoy people’s pain way too much,” JoJo mutters to her sister. “It’s not pain. They won’t be in pain. Just deeply, deeply uncomfortable. Maybe a little disgusted. And a wh