Lahat ng Kabanata ng Once Rejected, Twice Desired: Kabanata 131 - Kabanata 140

Alexi POVIt was finally time to head outside and start the ceremony, and I had butterflies in my stomach that would not stop. This was it. I was marrying my Angel. Xander and I walked out to the altar and stood on the right-hand side, shoulder to shoulder. The music started to play, and soon Aaron and Jordyn walked out arm in arm. Then Kade and Cassie, followed by Matt and Kimmy. It seemed like it took forever for them to make it down the aisle to their places, or maybe I was just feeling impatient. I expected Alaia to be next, but it was little Sophie as the flower girl. She was enjoying her time in the spotlight and took her time setting each petal down. I heard chuckles from the small crowd of guests who were looking on. She was cute, she was stalling, but at least she was cute. Finally, she finished, and the music changed, signaling the bride's entrance. Everyone stood to their feet as Alaia and her dad walked out of the house and made their way towards the altar. Everything

Alaia POVThree hours later, I was just at five centimeters. “Agh! Why is this taking so fucking long?!”“It will take as long as it takes, Luna. The babies aren’t in any distress, so we just need to let your body do its job.”“But I’M in distress!”“Do you want the pain meds, Angel?”I did, I really, really did. But I also wanted to experience this the way I was meant to. So I did the only logical thing I could think of. I started bawling my eyes out. “I don’t know what I want! I’m a terrible mom already; I can’t even make a simple decision. And I want them out! And I really need to pee...”They took off some of my monitors and walked me to the bathroom. Afterwards, I decided to stand and walk awhile; sitting in that bed was making me crazy. While I was pacing the floor, I thought that we could use this time for something productive. Xayden and his brother were taking their time in there, and I needed to make the most of it. Wait...I also needed to stop calling baby #2 “Xayden’s

Alaia POVKatherine and Kimmy decided that they would come and watch the babies while Xander, Alexi, and I went out for the night. We didn’t get to have a honeymoon, and things at the house had been less than romantic with all the plotting to kill Vincent. I decided that I wanted to have a laid-back kind of date. I didn’t need anything fancy; I just wanted to spend some quiet time. So we did dinner and a movie. We found a small diner outside of Jade City that was said to have some of the best burgers in the area. Luckily, the place was small and relatively empty. The looks we got when we walked in were comical. They didn’t know what to make of me showing up draped across two tall, gorgeous men, but we didn’t care. We picked a booth at the back corner and settled in. The waitress came over and immediately started giving the guys “the eye,” but instead of being sexy, she looked like she was having a stroke. She leaned over the table towards Xander before saying, "I’m Trina, your ser

Alexi POV “So we’ve got it now. We’ll strike Vincent tomorrow after nightfall. We will have all those who are unable to fight protected down in the tunnels until we return. Alaia and the twins will be among them.”Alaia had sat in on the meeting and when she heard the plan she shot up from her chair. “What kind of plan is that, Alexi? Sending all of the pack into a fight? They will die, maybe not all of them but enough will.”“Angel, this is how these things go. No member of this pack is unwilling to die for the life of their Luna. We aren’t doing anything out of the ordinary.”She looked around for a moment, then turned to Xander and me. “And Aaron? Is he coming along, too, or will he just send extra guys over to us?”I knew just what she was getting at. But I also promised to never lie to her. “He is coming. Jordyn will stay home but he wants to personally make sure Vincent dies.”She then turned to look at Matt. “You just found your mate, Matt. Doesn’t that matter? Taylor may

FOUR MONTHS LATERAlexi POVI felt myself tossing and turning in bed. I was having the same dream that had kept me up for months. I thought it was behind me and behind us, but I was wrong. She had gone to Vincent. He had drained her. She was gone. My heart beat erratically in my chest; these memories were going to kill me. I shot up in bed, my clothes clung to my soaking wet frame. I looked around, and it was still dark out. My phone on the table read 3:07 AM. I still slept in the room that we shared with Alaia. I could not bring myself to leave it, not when everything still smelled like her. But maybe it was those scents that lead my mind down the rabbit hole each and every night. “I’ll never get back to sleep. Maybe I just need a run,” I said as I slipped out of bed.I pulled on some sweats and went down to the gym and hopped on the treadmill. This had been my ritual for months now; the insomnia was impossible to contend with, so I had to run out all my energy if I had any cha