All Chapters of Elding: Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

I wasn’t overly worried about what Malcolm Walker could do to me. I was more concerned about breaking into his house one night and just shooting him and letting the chips fall where they may. I couldn’t do that though, because fingers would be pointed at me.I was beyond pissed off that he’d touched my wife, bruised her abdomen and put my baby’s life at risk, that I was slowly going insane. Jo was more forgiving than I was and my finger itched to put a bullet in his head.It was 1 AM when my phone rang and I had just switched off the lamp on my desk. I was tired, but not so tired that I wanted to sleep yet. My mind was tired. I looked at the name flashing on the screen of my phone and answered.“Matthew.”“I’m really sorry to bother you at this time of the night, Alex, but we’re heading to your den with a little gift,” he said. I could hear the amusement and excitement in his voice.Matthew was human but a familial to the pack. He was part of a group of men that rode together on the w

“Alex!” Jo called from the top of the stairs.“What?” I yelled back from the office.“I think you should call your mom!” she yelled.“Why?” I asked her as I walked out of the office and stood at the bottom of the stairs.“Because my water broke…” I stood there looking at her in shock. “Alex!” I took the stairs two at a time and had my phone out at the same time as I snapped back to reality.“Let me take you to the hospital,” I said to her.“You didn’t let me finish, the baby’s coming now,” she said and turned around. I picked her up and carried her to our bedroom. I put her down on the bed and she gritted her teeth as a contraction started.“Mom!” I yelled at her as she answered the phone. “Jo’s… the baby…”“I’m on my way,” Thalia said and ended the call.“Whoa, is that the head?” I yelled at her. “Don’t push, don’t push!”“I can’t help it!” she yelled at me and then screamed in pain. I sat in front of her and Jo pushed again.“It’s coming out!” I said loudly and I heard the front doo

We spent a week in Seward and Kiran and I wrapped up all the requests we had received at the meeting and sent out the responses to the various Alphas. It was a nice break and I saw another side of Adara than I had the first time I’d gone to Seward.She was caring and a great hostess, she made us feel welcome but there was something else hidden in her soul. Fear ate away at her too, fear for Kiran, fear for Kai, but she loved them with everything in her, I could see that too.“Hey, Alex,” Kiran answered the phone.“I need to talk to you and you might get mad, but don’t,” I said to him.“Okay, no promises though,” he said and I laughed.“It’s about Adara,” I said to him.“What about her?” he asked, his voice guarded and I smiled.“You should spend more time with her, look after her, she has a lot of fear in her soul,” I said to him.“Fear? Why?” he asked.“That you’ll die, I saw it, Kiran,” I said to him and he was quiet for a long time.“She definitely didn’t hit the jackpot with me,”

I woke up at 9 AM and I went downstairs as I walked through the quiet house. This would be my life without my kids, a quiet and empty house. I made coffee and looked at the note Jo had left on the kitchen counter.She was at the safehouse and Levi would bring the children home just before their afternoon nap. I logged into the camera system at the safehouse and I watched her as she walked down the hallway to her office and closed the door.I opened my text messages on my phone and started typing a message to her.Alex: Are you going to see Noah today?Jo: No.Alex: Have you called him?Jo: I thought you would’ve checked already.Alex: I’m hoping that you’ll be honest with me.Jo: I haven’t called or texted him.Jo went offline and I closed the message app on my phone. It rang almost immediately and I answered it quickly.“Hey, Kiran,” I said.“Are you okay?” he asked me.“I’m still in limbo here but you were right about one thing,” I said to him.“I’m always right, which thing?” he as

I placed pillows on either side of Regen and went downstairs to the kitchen. I felt helpless as I switched the kettle on. I made coffee for myself and I wondered what was keeping her so long. She had told me that she would be back but now I was imagining the worst outcome.Jo hadn’t called or texted and she’d been gone for nearly six hours. I checked the tracking on her car and saw that she had stopped at her father’s house and her car was still there. I had promised myself that I wouldn’t check up on her, but I couldn’t help it. I spent the afternoon with the kids and by 5 PM I started dinner when Regen complained that he was hungry. I fed them and bath time took longer than usual because Jo usually did that and Regen was playing as I sat on the floor with my back against the wall and watched him. My phone pinged in the bedroom and I got up quicker than I ever had before in my life. I grabbed a towel from the railing and pulled the plug from the tub. Regen looked up at me with a fr