"But why does it have to be now?" Lori asked as she folded Emilia's clothes. God she was so exhausted. Elliot shrugged. "Will you go with me or not? You seem pretty hesitant."Lori sighed. Well she was hesitant! Because he was pressuring her to go out with him while she had mentally checked out for the day. "I want to! But I'm tired, besides who's going to watch the baby? Gabriel's not home and Grace just left."She said and Elliot sighed. "Jenny can watch her. Or Sylvia. Please, just do this for me! Once."Lori paused as she massaged her temple. Ugh. He could be so persistent when he wanted to. She was tired and it had been a very long day, especially with Emilia's appointment at the doctor's place. Now Elliot wanted to drag her with him to get a birthday present for this new girl he claimed to be seeing. "Okay. Okay."She said as she dropped the yellow onesie with ducks she was holding back into the basket. Elliot sighed in relief. "Good. Go get changed, I'll bring the car a

Lori was roaringly drunk. That was all she could remember as she roused from her sleep. The light from the blinds was so bright that she had to shield her sensitive eyes. Just how long had she been sleeping? She wondered. She didn't remember much, just that Elliot had asked her to drink with him. Some stupid drink game. She agreed and they started drinking. What Lori had forgot was her low alcohol tolerance and the pink cocktails she actually thought were harmless did more harm than she thought they would. Then she decided to try the shots and it loosened her up a lot more. The last thing she could remember was her dancing on the dancefloor and Elliot worrying about the keys or something. She woke up with a huge hangover. And she got up really late too. So when she woke up she was surprised to still see Gabriel at home. He walked into the room barely moments after she woke up with a tray in his hand. He was dressed in casual clothes, like he wasn't going to work and he smiled when

The wait for Gabriel to come home was long and uncomfortable. Lori moved back upstairs to stay in the nursery. Kate Caddel kept demanding for stuff, most of which included more sparkling water and seeing the baby. Lori had outrightly refused claiming that Emilia was napping and would get fussy if she was disturbed. Elliot left the main house when he was tired. Lori stayed in the nursery with the door locked and her eyes outside the window. Waiting for the gates to open and for Gabriel to come home.He didn't.She was finally forced to call him. He picked up the second time. “Hello? Lori I’m sorry I’m not home yet.”"Gabriel? What's going on? Are you coming home today?"She asked and he sighed."No. No I don't think so. There's been a situation.""What? What happened?"She asked and he sighed."Tony's missing. I have my men out looking for him. We don't know where he is and I think he can be in some kind of danger...""Danger?! Oh my God!"She didn't notice it but it was kind of od

Gabriel had sent eight werewolves. No ordinary werewolves, eight of his personal army. Elliot had never personally met any of them, they spent most of their time up in the hills or at the pack house. They trained a lot, that much Elliot knew. Their wolf form was terrifying enough to see and their human form too. They were also more wolf than human too, it was so easy to see in their mannerisms. The way they growled, the way they could talk to each other with just a few grunts or howls. Elliot both feared and revered them but then they came with bad news. Tony’s dead body had been found. Killed with a silver bullet. His mate too. Elliot knew what that meant. It was obvious someone was out to get them. And his mind shuddered at the thought of the person being his own brother. He didn’t want to believe that Lyle would take such a stupid risk. It was very stupid and it sounded extremely comical to say the least. Except Lyle had found support from some external forces, Lyle didn’t have i

If someone had met her, at least two years ago and told her that she was going to get pregnant, lose the baby, become a nanny while meeting a werewolf who also happened to be an alpha she would have run away from the person and called them batshit crazy. In fact, she knew exactly how fast she would run. She could almost imagine it, running across the street from the maniac who was predicting what sounded impossible. To make matters much worse, if the same person had run after her and told her that she herself might not be human and there was a possibility of her being supernatural too she might have called the cops on them. Sitting there and watching Gabriel narrate everything to her, it almost felt like she was in some long never ending fever dream. It reminded her of those kind of movies where the best friend slash sidekick gets to know their friend has superpowers and finds it cool. Except Lori was different. Did she find it cool? She couldn’t tell, it was all too much for her