Celestial Bodies: of Runts and Lycans의 모든 챕터: 챕터 61 - 챕터 70

Zay's POV"And how is baby doing?" My hands rest on either side of Lesa's protruding stomach, pressing every here and there."Minus the fact that he always wants to kick my bladder after midnight, I think he's doing good." Lesa sighs, leaning back into the exam chair."Movement is good. His way of telling you hi and that he's almost ready to meet you. Unfortunately, he doesn't understand time yet nor does he realize it's your bladder he's kicking." She chuckles.I pull back, walking to the ultrasound machine. "Are you ready to see him?" She nods, an eager smile on her face. I apply the gel and plug in the wand, moving it to her stomach. I turn it until baby shows properly on the monitor. She gasps. "He's so big!"I chuckle. "Yup. And he's going to continue to grow until he's ready." I snap a shot of the current placement to print for Lesa. I clean off the gel, taking a seat in front of the girl I've known my entire life. Lesa is only a year younger than me but I've always seen her as

Lycer's POVEvery day. Every goddamn day.I'll have just got Celestial back to me. Every day, she comes back to me with a slur in her words and a nausea I try to get her to breathe through. It doesn't always work; the smell of vomit and bile fills the air around us. We get maybe several statements out between the two of us before Malum and Christopher waltz through the door to the cell block. Christopher occasionally seems gleeful to do his assigned task. Celestial often cries. She always begs for him not to. For him to let her go. Sometimes he seems annoyed, angered even. He'll make quick work of extracting the wolfsbane and injecting her. In those times, he always grab her roughly. I can see the bruises formed on her arms from those moments, the exact shape of his hand in shades of browns and yellows.I have a feeling he and Malum don't hold the best working relationship. In his moments of rushed anger, Christopher will blow past him. Malum occasionally gives it no mind but I can so

Third Person POVThe wolf named Christopher paced. He was getting antsy. His current line of actions felt repetitive and performative. Performative for an applause he would never receive. Of course, Christopher didn't want applause. He wanted his mate and his child back with him; his child, he realized, more than his mate. After months without her, he wasn't sure if he ever really loved her or merely the power her position in the pack allowed him. He still felt vast promise in his child. To love or to merely raise in his image, he wasn't quite sure. More so than a reflection of past love, he felt hatred. Hatred for a woman who so easily rejected him. Hatred for her brother, the Alpha of the Paramount Pack who was ready to kill him on words of a bitch. Hatred for that bitch who he ultimately felt ruined the life he had so carefully crafted for himself.When he asked Malum when he intended to retrieve his mate, having now retrieved the girl with the information he gave, the man's respon

Lycer's POVMy eyes were red, I could feel it. The first day or so I cried. At this point, I'm worried she's dead. I don't know how long it's been now. Several days? A week? I don't know.I don't even understand what happened. One minute, Christopher and Malum were here. It was the usual and I wanted it to end. Then, she was convulsing and practically foaming at the mouth. I could feel my heart in my throat as I yelled for answers that never came. Malum yelled at Christopher, or at least his voice felt loud to my ears. Then Christopher was gone and Celestial was in Malum's arms. I felt my throat go raw at my many attempts to ask what was happening. Then she was gone.I tried to remember reading that book in my father's office as a kid. I tried to remember if I would be able to tell if she died. If our bond would snap at all.The door creaks open. I throw myself to the bars, ready to scream at whoever came in. But in comes Ian, looking terrible. His right eye is bruised and swollen. A

Xavier's POVNoon doesn't come quick enough. My wolf howls and whines, telling me to leave ahead of the group and find Celeste as soon as possible. I was tempted but knew I would be outnumbered the minute I got close to the mountains. We've sent scouts to wander through the mountains, hoping to get a trace, but something tells me - if I go sniffing around, trying to find an entrance, they would be set off. No, it needs to be so many of us that they're overwhelmed. The guys were right with thirty not being enough. The minute we split up to try to find the entrance, they could have easily taken us down. The warriors waiting for me are already shifted when I reach the border. Josh and I stride together to the front of the group. "Thank you all for joining me. As everyone is aware, our Luna was taken from us several weeks ago." Growls fill the air. "This morning, she was able to link me. We now know that she is in the west mountains. We are going to retrieve her. We are relying on an in