Semua Bab Once Rejected, Twice Desired: Bab 111 - Bab 120

Alaia POV I had no idea what was going on, but I needed to find out. As quickly as I could, I swung my legs out of bed and pushed myself up. I made it to the stairs before I remembered my shitty balance and decided to sit and scoot down. Three flights of stairs. By the time I reached the second floor, my ass was beyond sore. I was giving up. Matt, could you come help me, please? I’m on the second-floor landing. A couple of minutes later, Matt was racing up the stairs with a look of panic on his face. “I’m fine. I didn’t fall, and I didn’t exactly ‘walk’ down either, so there’s no need-”“I just got off the phone with Xander. Come on, we’re going up to his office.”He scooped me up and raced back up all those stairs I had worked so hard to get down in record time. When we reached the office, he sat me on the couch, then went behind the desk and pressed the panic button, completely locking the room down. “Uhhh, Matt? Is all this really necessary? We don’t even know who the guy i

Alaia POVWhen I woke up that next morning, I was all alone in our huge bed. Both spots had gone cold, so I knew the guys had been gone for a while. I sat up and grabbed my phone from the nightstand, and saw that it was 6:15 AM. They would likely be at training, getting everything situated with the patrols.I decided to take a shower before they came back so I could be ready when it was time to go into their office. I was excited to see where they worked, and to get out of the house for a bit. It seemed like all I did these days was nap, and it was getting boring.Twenty minutes later, I was freshly cleaned and in my closet searching through the mountains of clothes when they both came walking in together. If the look on their faces was any indication, they were indeed training. They were covered from head to toe in blood, sweat, and dirt.Why were they always so dirty afterwards? Did they just roll around on the ground for the hell of it? Anyway, they were sweaty and dirty, and Alexi

Alaia POV Arriving back at home was interesting to say the least. The usually quiet house was buzzing with activity, and warriors from both packs could be seen everywhere I looked. This seemed like overkill in my opinion, but I knew it made the guys feel safer, so I let it go. Matt came and snatched Xander as soon as he was through the front door, so I opted to head up to the room for a nice soak in the tub. I could tell that Alexi was torn. He wanted to go and see what was happening with the rogues downstairs, but then he also wanted to come with me upstairs. “Babe, how about you help me up to the room, then get changed and go see what’s happening? You won’t be able to relax until you see for yourself, and I just plan to sit in the tub until I’m a shriveled prune anyway.” “Are you sure you don’t need me?” “I always need you, Alexi. But I want you to go and satisfy your curiosity. You deserve to know why there are rogues at our home just as much as anyone else.” He smil

Alexi POVWe had been going for weeks trying to find out all we could about Vincent and his family’s claim to Alaia, but we continuously came up empty. It was like he was a ghost, or a phantom. The only people who had ever heard of him only heard rumors or far-fetched stories that never panned out. We were three weeks from Alaia’s due date and were becoming more and more worried.There were no more rogue sightings on our territory, but they were still out there. When the time came for Vincent to make his move, he would do it through the rogues, of this much we were sure.It was around 3:00 AM, and we were five hours into a strategy meeting. Everyone was exhausted, and the ideas we were coming up with were increasingly worse than the ones before them. Kade was standing and looking at the territory map, trying to explain some trap door idea he had. It sounded insane.Out of nowhere, it hit me.Alaia!I shot up from my chair, which caused the room to turn in my direction.“Sorry, Kade,

Alexi POV I can’t say for sure why, but I’d left Xander without an answer on the adviser position for over three weeks. I’d thought it over and gone back and forth on my decision, but I felt like it was finally time to let him know. I found him in the nursery hanging curtains while Alaia supervised. These were the fourth set of curtains to be put up in the room; the other three “didn’t work” for her once they were in place, so they were promptly replaced. When he was done, he stepped back and looked over at Alaia, who was gliding in the rocker with her eyes closed. “Babe, what do you think?” he asked. She opened her eyes and looked over the entire space. When she crunched her nose and tilted her head to the side, we both held our breath; this wasn’t a good sign. But then she smiled her brightest smile and began to bounce on her toes. “These are perfect! I knew we’d get it eventually.”Xander let out his breath and bent down to clean up the packaging that was left behind. The nu