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Chapter 0641

All my guys shift one at a time around me, moving faster with the strength and speed of their wolves. No one is getting anywhere near me with the three of them standing guard so I start working through my magic. Adrielle has been a step or several ahead of us for far too long. I know the grimoire was planted in the Alpha suite, I wonder what else was there? I wonder if she was able to make some other kind of connection to me or the guys or even Ava.

***"Bitty, Babe. Whatever you're thinking, you need to do it now. These wolves are not staying down. Even the dead ones. We need to do some kind of magic to break the spell keeping them animated, even when their heads have been broken a hundred and eighty degrees."

"***

I need to know if she has some kind of connection or spell tying us to her somehow. We can't risk killing her if it will also kill us too. I need to get closer to her, make contact. I have no idea how I know this, it's just a gut feeling, but my mates will never allow that, unless we are fighting. I just move, no thoughts, explanations or second guessing. She wasn't prepared for me, but she is faster than she appears. I jump up aiming to get a hit in, backed by my wolf's strength. She places her hands up in a shield-like posture and I hit an invisible forcefield. Then she takes a wild swing at me. So we are at least evenly matched. She's not great with hand to hand and I'm not great with casting. She thrusts her hands forward and I go flying back only to be caught by two strong hands.

"End this, Skylar. For all of us." My eyes flick up. My dad has me cradled in his arms. He's looking down at me with no more emotion than he has ever shown me. But, he spoke to me, used my name and asked me to help the pack. My chest is heaving with shallow breaths. It's the first time he's spoken to me without hate or disgust in my life. He sets me down gently, looks at me for a brief second and then returns to the fight, staying close to Elena.

I turn my head back to Adrielle, only to see a green ball of light flying at me. I put up both my hands to block it. I watch the blast explode in front of me hitting my own invisible shield. I thank both of the goddesses for allowing my magic to be intuitive.

There is still so much chaos going on around us, I keep throwing whatever my magic thinks is right at Adrielle only for her to block and throw it away like the spells are annoying little gnats. Nothing I am doing is working. What if she's right and I can't do this?

***"She's not right and you damn

well know it. What she and you both need to get is that your mates are the lunch pin. You need them to be strong enough. That's why you

magic was shared amongst the four

of you."***

***"They don't know any more than I do. They are just going to get hurt being in the line of fire. I can't let that happen. I can't lose them."***

***" And they can't lose you and that

is exactly what is going to happen if you try to stay separate from them. Adrielle was never going to be strong enough for this magic, because it's about trust and using it together. She never trusted

mate. Hell, she didn't even her

own kid. Let them help you or we are

all going to die."***

***"Gentry, Elena. Can you cover us?"***

They both shout yes, not even questioning what I am asking for.

***"Guys, I need you with me. It's time, we need to take her out together."***

I know they aren't far from me and I

can feel then all make contact before I have even finished my sentence I can feel the magic

radiating through us like we are a connected vein. None of us are sure about anything, but if this is the last thing we do, it will be together.

 

 

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I take a deep breath in and I can feel the blue magic swirl around us, bolstering my confidence. Everything feels so much better with the three of them close like this. The flow of magic is less muddy. It's a fine wisp swirling between the four of us, playful and happy even in this situation. Their fur is crackling with the magic they possess.

We move forward as a unit, she is throwing blast after blast of magic at us. So far nothing has hit us, but I think that is more Gentry and Elena than us. I know they can only help us for a short period of time, bu I will take all that we can get right now. I am finding that my magic is speaking to me, guiding me as my arms start to move of their own accord. I am sending out all sorts of different colors from my fingers and hands. I can recognize what is an attack spell and what is a protection spell at least. Some are aimed at Adrielle and others are towards rogue wolves attacking near us.

"Aaagghh!" Frustrated, Adrielle screams and this time the surge of power she sends knocks me back into Dakota's wolf behind me. That little stumble was the invitation she needed. She jumps forward, dodging Cam's wolf and swipes at my face with her nails. No, not nails, claws. What the f*ck?

***"Where the hell did she get claws from?"*** I ask my mates still dodging swings and countering with my own. My mates are snapping at her with their massive jaws, but her magic is more advanced than ours and she's keeping them far enough away that they can't harm her. I can feel warm liquid run down my cheek and can only hope that the wound heals properly. She's trying to separate us, but they are staying close, something she can't seem to counter with her powers. The closeness works for the magic, but not for the fighting.

She finally lands a kick to Oliver's side knocking him away from me. I am able to get in a full swing that she doesn't anticipate though. The force I put behind it after she harmed Oliver was enough to send her flying back ten feet and landing on her ass. I'm sure he was barely phased by the hit, but watching him take any kind of hit set my wolf off. She doesn't stay down for more than a minute though.

As she barrels back to us she is throwing spells from each hand. To her right she is keeping Oliver busy and to her left Cam, while still sending shots towards Dakota and I. I start towards her too, hoping to distract her from my mates and maybe they can come at her from behind. I'm not as fast as normal though and the sluggishness is pissing me off.

I can still hear the grunting and groaning of the fight around us. I can't tell who is winning, but I haven't felt any of our pack member's link break. That has to be a good sign. Then I hear humming in my ears. Adrielle starts to invoke a spell. It sounds beautiful and calming, but the earth begins to shake as chunks of dirt begin to rise from the ground around us, vibrating with her words the dirt is suspended in the air. Her movements are slow and methodical.

Before I can ask what she's doing. The small shards shoot randomly through the air, parallel to the ground like small daggars. We dodge them easily, but it hits me what she's doing when one of our warrior's wolves howls in pain and drops to the ground. He is surrounded by crimson almost immediately.

***"NO!"*** Oliver shouts over the link. He runs to the warrior, shifting to human mid stride. Another of our warriors joins them. Standing over the fallen warrior Oliver starts waving his arms and the clods of dirt heading in his direction fall to the ground. His magic is scattered with his emotions. Similar to mine with the storm. The warrior tends to our fallen and I try to think of how to fix this.

The storm! I can use the storm, my storm. I have to get Oliver on track. I've never seen him this emotional, ever.

***"Oliver! He's weak, but alive for now. Help me trap her. The storm is mine. We need to use it to capture her. Dakota, can you help Oliver with the dirt?"***

Oliver moves back to me schooling

his face and rounding up the flying particles as he goes. They follow him like a magnet. I can feel his anger radiating off of him. He is angry that he didn't protect a pack member, a warrior that is under his protection. Adrielle keeps throwing the dirt shards our way, but nothing touches us. Dakota has shifted and is moving his hands causing the dirt surrounding Oliver to swirl back towards Adrielle. Her look of shock

is something I will never forget.

She begins throwing more and more earth at us. Rocks now join the debris, but Oliver is a force of his own right now stopping the motion and putting the projectiles in Dakota's path to circle back to her. They are trapping her in the tornado of her own design.

Cam shifts next to me and directs

the rain from my storm into the chaos we are creating around Adrielle. She has her hands up protectively, keeping the shards from harming her, but that is all she can do. Her eyes are wild with fear and determination. I wonder if she's ever had a real opponent? The water is mixing with the dirt and the mud is beginning to splatter through her barrier, soaking every part of her. The ornate dress is becoming heavy with water and mud and weighing her down causing her to stumble. Her arrogance is part of her downfall.

The guys add more and more until all that can be seen is a deep brown

sphere surrounding her. I step forward and let my fire consume me. Welcoming the protection and safety it provides my pack, my mates and I. Cam stops the rain and stands behind me. His strong hands on my waist, lending me his energy. Dakota and Oliver close the sphere in as tight to her as it can go and I encase the whole thing infire. The sphere heats to a bright orange, like clay in a kiln, but I don't stop there. I want to guarantee she can't hurt anyone else ever again. She can go back to her goddess and be dealt with. Oliver and Dakota each touch a shoulder and I can feel their energy blending with mine. The flame coming off of us is white hot. Then the sphere bursts into millions of tiny little pieces.

I wonder for only a brief second if we actually got rid of her or if she somehow escaped in the moments we couldn't see her, until rogue wolves started dropping left and right. The dead ones stayed dead now.

My mates and I immediately shift and jump in to fight those rogues that still think they have a chance. These assholes chose to fight with her for power and they are not leaving here alive tonight.

 

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I let my wolf unleash her wrath on these morons, she hasn't been able to fight much today, knowing the magic side of me was needed more to deal with Adrielle. Right now she is living her best life tearing through the wolves who have decided to fight for this useless cause until the end. My mates never stray too far and each of their wolves find mine to rub against us as often as possible as we weed through the rogues.

Once we have dispatched all the rogue wolves back to the Goddess, everyone helps to take the bodies to the compound we found outside our pack lands. We set them up in rows and light a pyre. These wolves will get a chance to meet the Goddess and she can decide if they were working of their own accord or if their human was forcing them to go against our kind. We also took the time to search the compound buildings. I'm amazed at what we found. The space must have held hundreds of wolves as farm animals. There are no facilities here at all. No beds, no bathrooms, no kitchens, nothing. I'm sure the only reason it doesn't smell like a toilet is because she kept them in their wolf forms and they had a whole forest to use. She really didn't give a sh*t about these wolves that were following her and Vincent thinking they would have a better life. They weren't cared for at all. Maybe that's why they fought so hard, they felt like they needed to prove themselves for her to give them affection or they felt stuck and betrayed. Either way they were angry and our pack was the only place to take out that anger.

Oliver, Cam, Kota and I all climb in the truck together. I lean my forehead on the cool window. The exhaustion hit me all at once. "I need to check on Sierra and Jena and we should probably check in quickly with everyone, but I just want to be with you guys right now. Is that bad?"

"No, Sweetness, it's not. I just want you right now too. But I guess I can share you with these two if I have to." Dakota pretends to huff and it makes me smile. "I was not done with you in the greenhouse when we were so rudely interrupted."

"Oh, Sh*t! The greenhouse, the packhouse, all of our memories. They're gone." I didn't even think about that until now. The entire ranked street was completely demolished with the attack. Tears fill my eyes at the loss.

Oliver wraps an arm around me and slides into the center of the bench seat. "Don't worry, Babe. We'll make new memories and I'm sure there's things that are salvageable."

"And besides," Cam looks at us from the rear view mirror. "We can do what we always joked about with mom."

I tilt my head in confusion. "What's that?"

Dakota laughs' "I forgot about that! It would be perfect. Especially now."

"What are you two talking about?" I turn to Oliver, when they say nothing. "What are they talking about?" He just shrugs and now I know they are up to something. Oliver can't lie to me, so saying nothing at all is his way of keeping their secret.

Cam cleverly changes the subject. "So did I hear you right? Jena is pregnant too?"

I roll my eyes, but give in, if it was really important they would say. They'll tell me when they are ready. "I think so, but I have no idea for sure. The Moon Goddess talked to me and suggested heavily that they both might be and I should be careful with them. Sierra thought so before I said anything, but it is really early. Her scent has changed though, at least I can smell a change. As far as Jena, who knows and her scent is the same. We weren't even sure if she would be able to carry pups because of Mike. He was rough with her, it was aweful. I really hope so though. They all deserve this good news after everything we have gone through."

"What about you Bitty?"

"What about me?"

"What kind of news would be good news for you after all of this?" Oliver laces his fingers with mine.

I look over at him and every

hormone in my body lights up

suddenly. "Right in this moment a shower and the three of you naked would make me very happy." My boldness is new and it shows on his face, but I can't take them for granted anymore. We have all been too close to death too many times to not say what we want and need from each other.

Without warning he pulls me into his lap and I can hear Cam and Kota groan from the front seat when I kiss him. I run my fingers through his gritty mess of hair and deepen the kiss. There is just something se hot about the fact that they are all covered in dirt and grime and whatever else because they were helping to keep the pack safe. I pull back and look into his eyes, the four colors swirling together, but his chocolate brown is most prominent. I am so lucky to have the three of them. He grips my hips tighter and pulls my whole body closer to him. I can feel every hard line in his body.

"We might not get to the shower part if you keep looking at me like that, Babe."

"Is that so? What about if I do this?" I lean back and reach for Kota's shirt, pulling him sideways.

"Mmmmm." Kota melts into the kiss, cupping the back of my head and exploring my mouth gently with his tongue.

"Definitely not showering before we take you. You might not make it out of this truck." Oliver grinds me into him again and a small whimper escapes my lips.

"Somebody tell me why I always have to drive?" Cam complains behind me, making me giggle into Dakota's lips.

"Because you are what we lovingly call a control freak, bro." Kota says against my lips. "But we shouldn't leave him out Sweetness." He places sweet feather light kisses in between each word.

I shift and turn in Oliver's lap to face the driver's side and kiss the stubble on the edge of Cam's jaw and keep kissing until I get to his chin and then reverse my path back up to his ear. "Does that make you feel better Cameron?"

"If you keep that up we won't make it home safely." He clears his throat, but doesn't move away from me.

"Well, we can't have that. I need you all in one piece." I kiss him again and then move off of Oliver and back to my own seat behind Dakota, smiling to myself. I like teasing them, sof change topics like I'm not a horny mess. "Do we know where everyone is staying? I know there are a few houses still intact and I feel bad but I also want to be a little selfish and have one for ourselves."

"First, c*ckblock much man!" Oliver groans and adjusts himself. "Second, It's not selfish, it's practical. As much as people would love to have us all with them at the gym while we figure this out. They also would never leave us alone."

 

 

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"We would have to be 'on' all the time. That's why mom and dad had the rules about who could be on which floors at the packhouse and keeping the greenhouse completely private. It was so they could have moments away from everyone, even if they were only small bits of time." Dakota's tone is just as strained as Oliver's but they are both trying to reign it in. It makes me smile.

"Alright, I just want time alone with you guys, whatever that means." I say as we pull up. "But first..." I practically jump from the truck before it's in park as Oliver tries to grab me. I use Sierra running at us as a distraction. She launches herself into my arms, which is a sight, I'm sure.

"Oh wow, you and your mates need to go find a dark corner for all of that s*xual tension." She giggles in my ear making a point to take a deep breath in.

I ignore her comment and look at her closely like I should be able to detect a change in her after being apart. "How are you feeling?"

She laughs. "Not much different than a few hours ago. You're going to be as bad as Sam aren't you?"

"And all the rest of the guys!" I giggle at her. "This is so exciting!" It feels so good to have something to smile about.

"I'm fine. I was able to get in touch with Mom. Her and Dad will be here in a few days and will more than likely overstay their welcome." She playfully rolls her eyes. I know how close she is with them and they are amazing. I wouldn't want anyone else here with her and Jena.

"Can you blame them though? This is so exciting!" I pull her in for another hug.

"Well it won't be just me for long with the way your mates are looking at you right now."

She looks pointedly over my shoulder and I follow. They look like Alphas observing a scene, but to those of us who really know them, they are wound up tight. I don't know why I am in a teasing mood all of a sudden, but making them wait a little longer seems like the best course of action right now.

"Stop! I haven't even had my heat yet and for once I would really like something about me to be normal and not happen early." I bury my face in my hands feeling bad about feeling so selfish. I want kids, but not yet. I feel like we haven't stopped to breathe since we have been here. There is so much more we still need to do to put the pack back together.

"What about you is normal?" Jena asks as her and Lil walk up and hug us both. "Cause from where I'm standing 'normal' isn't even in your vocabulary."

"I told her her mates look like they want nothing more than to knock her up, but she doesn't want to hear that yet."

"Yeah, you have three of them. That's three times the chances. I'm surprised you aren't pregnant now." Lil bumps my shoulder with a big sh*t eating grin. "Everything else happened early, why not your heat? And aren't you like part witch? They don't need to go into heat, remember?" Jena shrugs.

I grimace. "So not helping."

Oliver comes up behind me and wraps his arms around my shoulders. "Why are you giving Bitty a panic attack? What are you four up to?" Just his smell has me relaxing.

Jena waves her hand in front of my flat stomach. "We're taking bets on when the future alpha will be conceived. It's making her squirm." They all giggle. So much for girls sticking together.

At a choking sound behind me, I look up. I don't know if I've ever seen Oliver's face go slack. As the realization dawns on him. I couldn't help but laugh. He's not ready for any of this either, good. "Come on big guy, let's go get everyone settled." Then I need a shower and a nap, I think.

The rest of the day was a blur of moving people into the homes that were still standing. We did our best to cluster everyone for now. I'm just so glad that we didn't have pups and our older members to deal with. They were all still safe in the Alpha King's care, but that was going to be my next project. We need to bring our pack members home. This war zone needs to be turned back into a home...

"We will do all of those things Tiny. But first you said you wanted a bath and a nap."

I slapped my hand over my mouth. "Did I say that out loud? We need to do one more check, to make sure everyone is covered..."

Dakota pinches my lips with his

fingers. "Enough, you have done enough. We are not under any imminent threat. All your warriors are fed and happy. All of your friends have left to go take a well earned break. You have been switched to 'fight mode' for too long, don't think you even know where the 'off' switch is. Let's go."

He tries to turn me around. "But..."

Cam throws me over his shoulder. "No 'buts' Skylar. You are ours for the rest of the night. And let's be honest all day tomorrow." "But..." I try again, propping my hands on Cam's butt to push myself up.

CRACK!

"OWW..What the hell." I squeal. I can't see who smacked my ass but all three of them are laughing. "That might actually leave a mark." "For about five minutes, you're an Alpha."

"It's still my favorite sight." Oliver groans and I roll my eyes, just before I am thrown back in the truck.

"Wait, where are we going? All the houses are within walking distance."

"Not ours. We told you, boundaries are really important. This is one we are making and you are not getting a choice in."

Why is Cam's assertiveness giving me goosebumps down my arms? "Okay. So where exactly is our place?" I am ignored.

We are driving through the

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wilderness. I love our pack lands. We have so much area that is protected and won't ever be built on, it just lives in its natural state. Not manicured and trimmed up to fit the public demands. I lean on Oliver's shoulder and let myself drift off. It's finally over.

 

 

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It's been twenty minutes and no one will answer my question. We have talked about all kinds of things, just not our destination. We have talked about finding a time to see Mina, Xander and Oscar and their new pup. Because in all reality we can't leave until our pack is put back together. We talked about improvements that we want to make since we are building so many things from the ground up. They did finally let me in on their plan for the packhouse.

When they were younger they used to joke with Ava and Lucas about making one giant house for all of them to live in together since they were together all the time anyway. They would spend at least four nights a week at the pack house. They want to do just that, turn our street into one massive packhouse with all of the ranked families getting an area to themselves and also having a place for visiting guests. They were more excited about the idea of lots of pups running around together than I ever would have thought boys could be. It just made me smile. I'm still not interested in being a mom at seventeen, but it doesn't scare me with the three of them.

I really need to talk to Alpha Reggie about that whole thing too. I'm hoping that Elena will be a big part of helping me through having pups. It's so weird to think that I will have a mother figure now. I wonder if she wants kids of her own. I wonder if dad will be around more now that he has a mate again. I don't know if that makes me happy or sad.

Before I get too lost in my thoughts Cam pulls up to this cabin right on the edge of our land. I can see the ocean just beyond. It must be set into the beach.

I climb out of the truck slowly. I am too in awe, it is so simple and beautiful here. "What is this place? I don't think I have ever seen it running loops around the pack borders."

Cam slides behind me, wrapping me in his arms and whispering in my ear. "This is the most Eastern point of the territory. The border patrols usually don't come down this far since the ridge back there gives us a better vantage point." He points behind him to the elevation we just came down. "This is another perk of being a ranked member of the pack. Our parents would sneak out here to hang out. Sometimes all together, sometimes just as couples. This is another one of those places where no one else is allowed and for the foreseeable future it is our home."

Oliver and Dakota each lace their fingers into mine. They all give me time to take in this incredible sight. This lightwood cabin is almost all windows, the wood is really just the skeleton framing in the massive glass. All the lights are on meaning Lenny or Martha or both were here to set this up for us. I can see straight through from the front walls to the ocean, there is no hindrance to the view, It is incredible. THe main floor has an open concept kitchen and living room with a large staircase going up to a landing in the center. Under the staircase seems to lead out to a back deck. The upper level has complete walls, which must mean a bedroom.

"Are you just going to stare all night or are you going to finally put us out of our misery Smalls? I would really like to repeat the kiss in the truck and finish up what you started."

I just giggle and take off. I'm not headed for the house though, I'm headed for the beach. I want to see if I can get to the water before they catch me. I start throwing my clothes off as I go. I could just shift, but I don't even know if I remember how to shred my clothes shifting or not. I can hear them laughing as I throw the different things their way. I let all my insecurities go and tear my sports bra off and then my panties. The satisfying groan I hear and the faster steps I hear behind me tell me they are all in to have some fun in the water.

I get about three steps into the water when I am scooped up, but we don't stop. I am hauled in, clinging to Oliver's arms.

"You can't outrun us for long Baby. You gave us that superpower." The deep throaty growl in my ear sends a shiver down my spine.

He turns quickly and I am faced with a very naked Dakota and Cameron. Oliver squeezes my back tight to his bare chest, I can feel his arousal poking me in the ass. And It only gets harder as Cameron takes my mouth with a bruising kiss. Oliver joins him, nipping at my neck. I reach out for Dakota blindly, but he knows what I want. I need contact with all three of them right now.

"You are perfect Sweetness." He coos, bringing my knuckles to his lips, Then kissing up my arm to my shoulder. "Do you want us to take you here?"

My voice is barely a whisper. "Yes, please."

Oliver's hand slides down between my legs, making small circles around my cl*t. His other hand takes my arm not being devoured by Dakota and brings it up to hook around his neck. Just as I wonder what they are doing, Cam lifts my hips up as I lean back on Oliver. I'm suspended between the two of them, my legs over Cam's shoulders, my head back on Oliver's shoulder.

"Perfect! A buffet of Sweetness laid out just for me." Kota sucks one of my n*pples in his mouth just as Cam licks my slit slowly and Oliver bites down on their marks.

"Holy F*ck!" They feast on me until I am a mumbling mess, but they won't let me come. It's payback for teasing them earlier. They circled me, each taking a turn lapping at the different parts of my body. "Please! I need you. All of you right now."

I'm so horny and my brain is fried, I just need release, and I need it now. My vision is blurry and the ocean is making it hard to tell them by scent. I've lost track of who is where and the unknown is kind of exciting.

"I want her on the couch, now!" Oliver's growl. "We are going to take you from every possible angle and then on every surface of this cabin."

"Yes." I wrap my legs around Dakota, who is in front of me and we all move out of the water. I get chills as the wind blows across my wet skin, but I'm far from being cold.

He walks me up the short flight of stairs to the back deck and we walk past Cameron holding the door open for us and straight to the large couch set in the middle of the main level. He pauses for only a moment when we get to the couch. When he turns me, Oliver is sitting with his arms open ready for me to straddle his lap.

I take the invitation and slide down

to him, hovering just over his massive erection. He slides down the couch so his head is resting just below the top and I can brace myself on either side of his head. He lines himself up and wastes no time thrusting up into me making me cry out. It is pure heaven. The slight burn and stretch has become one of my favorite feelings ever. He continues at a quick, deep pace and my org*sm follows quickly. I wasn't sure why until he pulls out and I am impaled deep from behind. Dakota has a firm grim on my hips and the slapping of our skin has me panting again. While they are bounding around in his face, Oliver alternates between my tits, giving them each soft loving attention mixed with sharp little nips that are making me crazy. Just as I feel the first flutters of my second release. Cam walks up behind the couch fisting himself. The sight does me in and I come

hard all over Dakota.

Dakota continues to slowly slide in and out of me as Cam approaches. "Can you take all three of us Love? Are you ready?" I nod, still panting. I want all three of them like I need to breathe. "I need your words, Love, we've talked about this."

"Uh, yes." It takes a couple more breaths to get the sentence out. "I want all three of you in me...now!"

Dakota pulls out of me and glides his fingers through all of my juices, smearing them all along my back entrance. Oliver positions me on top of him and glides in easily, then Dakota lines up my ass and enters slowly, inch by glorious inch. Once they are both seated completely they start to rock in a slow rhythm. I look up to Cam and lick my lips, I'm just missing one mate now. He saunters closer and I instinctively open my mouth for him. He matches the pace of my two other boys and the sensation is so mind blowing, Cam doesn't get very many thrusts in before I am humming and gagging through my org*sm. It feels like it lasts forever which is amazing. They continue to thrust until they all come grunting and panting at the same time.

I am dozing off as they take me up and clean me off in the shower. One is working on my hair while another is gently rubbing a cloth along every inch of my body as the third is holding me up. I can't even tell whose hands are where. They are one unit working in tandem to take care of me. I don't know how I got so lucky. I am wrapped in a towel and my hair is dried in another. Then we are all bundled in the massive bed. I am out before my head hit the pillow.

They did not lie. I think I have been laid out across every surface in the beachhouse. The left me alone long enough to eat and nap, but even then someone was touching me at all times. For the first time though, I don't mind their hovering at all.

 

 

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We spend the next several weeks helping everyone get settled and then making plans. Alpha Reggie and Luna Anne came out to help and I couldn't have been more excited to see anyone. He brought the same contractors that worked on the Castle improvements. We came up with plans and they toured the territory. We actually found out that Adrielle targeted the central part of the pack, knowing where the packhouse was located thanks to Kevin. There was definitely a path of destruction that we needed to fix, but not as much damage as we feared. The guys and I decided to divide the planning so more got done.

Lil, Sam, Sierra and I were in charge of the school and training grounds. We decided on a dorm like the one we had at Elite training attached to the training grounds. We want the trials to continue here and to be an outpost for training warriors. That is one thing that I thank the Goddess every day for. Our warriors have always been well trained and we have always required everyone to have basic defensive skills in their human form and when they get their wolves they train too. I have also been in close contact with Olympia, who happened to get lumped in with our warriors during the fight and managed to not get harmed. She is determined to do better than her father with her pack.

I think I had more fun redesigning the pups training grounds. I wanted them to have their own place after all of the traumatic events they went through with our last one. I may have added more obstacles for them to have to get past in our games. I also made plans to have a dorm for any of the pups of warriors who lost their parents in this fight or have parents out on a mission. Losing pack members is hard, but warriors put their lives on the line to keep the pack safe and their pups are sometimes left to their own devices. They were some of the most disadvantaged before. When Ava and Lucas were in charge there was a home for them if a family member wasn't available to take them in, but they had the bare minimum and I only found out recently it was Kevin who was in charge of taking care of their needs, meaning he gave them nothing and pocketed any other funds that were meant to help. That will never happen again on my watch. They will be loved by the pack their parents are protecting.

I am still waiting to hear the final list of warriors lost. Several took hard hits and bites that were magically enhanced and their healing time is much longer than it should have been. Elena and Gentry have been helping our healers while teaching me some basic healing skills. I hope I will have very little use for them in the future, but there is always some threat lurking so it's good to have. And let's be honest, my friends and I aren't exactly careful when we train. Just the thought of getting back to training after years of torment and the hijacking of lives gives me the chills.

Mateo and Oliver take the northern half of the territory. More homes are on this side of the land. The elevation in the center of the pack gives us an easy divide. It is cooler on the Northern side, so it's better for homes than crops. Dakota and Cam take the southern half, where our crops and farms are more plentiful. We work as a leadership group in the evenings designing the pack center on the plateau of the central elevation of the pack. I am hoping that we can bring back pack members by the end of the month. I have this need for everyone to be home and safe. Ava laughed at me when I asked her about that. Like having the pack divided up is making my skin crawl.

"Oh, Sweet Girl. You may be an alpha, but you are this pack's Luna too. You have a connection to them the boys never will. They have an innate need to protect everyone, but you, you will feel everyone. All their emotions, their happiness and sorrow. You are the light that holds the pack together. That is why the Luna is so important."

"How can she be both an Alpha and a Luna?" Lil asks across the table. We are having a rare girls' day. Our boys are working with Alpha Reggie, Osiston and Nickolas getting supplies in and organized. Sam and Mateo have figured out that their now showing mates won't stay out of anything unless all the girls are forced to sit on the sidelines too. So here we are. It is so cute to see the little bumps in their stomachs start to develop and no matter how many looks people give me when I get excited for my friends, I am still hoping to have some more time to be just me.

Ava pulls me from my thoughts.

"How has she been able to do anything in her life? She's special, that's how. She's both a wolf and a witch. She's a leader and a team player. She is an Alpha and she is a Luna. Speaking of which, I think we should do a Luna ceremony when everyone gets back. I know that your alpha aura is the strongest, but it will bond the pack after all of this. So much has happened since we sent everyone away. We lost Lucas and gained four Alphas in the process. They will be so excited you have joined the boys."

"Yes! I want you in a dress... FINALLY!" Sierra claps her hands.

"I have been in a dress. You missed out because I was on assignment." I point at her.

"Yeah, but those pictures and the guys' reactions were epic! I would like to see a live reaction."

"Wait! How do you know what their reactions were?" I have my hand halfway to my mouth, suspending a chip with salsa dangerously over my lap.

"I may have snuck into their camp. It was not new or an unusual thing actually. They all snuck around like any other large mass of teenagers would. We were just hanging out actually and a text came through to Mateo, because Xander is not su cidal. Now, the reactions make total sense. Then, it was,

because they were so extreme

towards someone they claimed was 'just a friend' or 'a beta, so you're close."

"What did they do?" Jena leans forward eating this gossip up. "I've only known them since we got back and anyone with eyes could see all three of them were in love with her."

"Honestly, it was pretty much the same before, but everyone was so young and all of them were scared of the 'mate' word. Our little Sky here had all of them wrapped around her finger the minute she bested them on the training field." We all start laughing.

 

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"They didn't even notice me before you showed up. It's all your fault." I threw my napkin at her.

"Nah, they would have caught on eventually. It just happened a little faster with me. I still watch the videos of your birthday when we went shopping. I thought your head was going to explode when I brought out the first hideous dress. It was so big and poofy you looked like a porcelain doll." She scrolls her phone and starts handing it around. I haven't forgotten this day, but I don't remember their reactions being this dramatic.

She takes her phone back and flips to something else and then hands it around. It's a video from the lake at the Alpha King's castle. They are all just goofing around when Mateo gets a message. He stares at the screen then almost drops the phone as he scrolls. "What the f*ck?!" He asks the air, which gets the attention of the others, who huddle around him. All their faces go slack, then Sam's glowing smile breaks across his face. "Yes! Go Little Bit. You guys are f*cked. She looks like that around all those hoity rich bastards. She's never coming back. They know she can fight, they know she's smart and now," He whistles. "She's a prize. At least she's with Xander. They look good together." I can tell by the look on his face that he is messing with them, but the rest of them are so serious. Mateo looks like he might puke. Oliver went completely rigid behind him. Dakota has his jaw on the floor and looks like he might cry and Cam is pissed. If he were a dragon, there would be flames shooting out of his nose. "I'm going to kill him if he lays a hand on her." Cam growls and Sam slaps his shoulder. "Hate to break it to you, but that's his hand around her waist, holding her real tight, and if she's meant to stay close to him all night, then that is probably going to be what you will see in every picture. You should have grown a set when she was still with us." There's more, but I pause it.

I look up at Sierra. "What the hell is this? Why have I never seen this before?"

"First, don't shoot the messenger. And second, you cannot be that blind. They were all in love with you, even Sam. But we are not talking about that because he is mine and my wolf is already territorial about him, this kid is making it worse. I'm so glad it's quick though. I was talking to Elena and humans take like a whole year to grow a baby. Bleh. I'm two months into my six month stint, I can't imagine all these hormones for a year."

Jena threw a cucumber in her

mouth. "Yeah, I about ripped Mateo's head off this morning for putting a glass down too loud on the counter and then cried for thirty minutes for yelling at him. He thinks it's hilarious, which makes me want to punch him even more. I am less emotional I

around you all." We all start laughing again. We were all over the moon when the pack doctor confirmed that she is pregnant and everything looks healthy and completely normal.

"That is the female bond you have. Everyone here has the capacity to go through pregnancy and hormones the way you are right now. Your wolves are very close well. The female wolves will always protect and help their pregnant pack members. They are carrying the future." Ava looking at each of us. "All your children will be close too. Look at the boys and Sky" She looks at me and wiggles her eyebrows.

"Oh, no you don't. We are not talking about this. First Sierra what's to play dress up and then you are trying to get me pregnant. I'm sure you can find other ways to torture me." They are all laughing again.

"We know you're not ready, Sweet Girl. But that doesn't mean that I'm not ready. And I will never stop asking. I hope you have a dozen." She rubs her hands together, like a cartoon villain. I about choked on my water. She has lost her f*cking mind.

She did let the subject go after that, thankfully. And just to make sure it didn't come up again I mindlinked Gentry and Elena to train with me so I would have an excuse to leave. All the girls complained when I got up to go, butas the resident workaholic, they all know I can only sit still for so long. We did actually work though. I am learning nature magic and how to feel through the grass and dirt. I can actually hear the trees communicate even from the center of the pack all the way out to the mainland. It is so cool, but takes a lot of concentration, which is hard right now having so many decisions needing to be made. I think this will be one of my favorite ways to meditate and relax though.

 

 

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It only took a few weeks to get enough housing done in the southern part of the pack for the agriculture omegas to move in and begin tending to the damaged lands our produce grows in. The rogues that came through here were focused on getting rid of our food supplies, not the places where wolves who grew the food lived. Nothing is growing yet, that just takes time, but the sight of cleared farmland brings hope to everyone. We also brought in pack members who had any skills in building so the projects could go faster. It's been great getting a few trucks of members arriving every week or so. We are becoming whole again, piece by piece.

We still don't have the pups here, but Gwen checked in with Kyle yesterday and said they were training hard, keeping the warriors on their toes and are ready to prove they can come home and help keep the pack safe. It made us laugh to hear some of the things that they are getting up to. I miss all of the little voices playing, yelling and just consuming the pack in their laughter. We finished the dorms first since it is the most centrally located, it's housing everyone who is working for us and we can feed and care for them more easily. It was also the most simple to build and furnish. Martha has returned to her diner which is surprisingly, still standing. She won't let any of us in yet, not even to help. She wants to wait until the 'whole pack has returned.' We just laugh at her, but no one messes with or crosses Martha. It's fun to see the pack returning to life.

After a long day of building and moving more people into their new homes I showered and changed into comfortable clothes. Waiting for my mates to get back from the jobs they have all taken on, I am just lounging in the hammock that Oliver set up for me on the beach staring out at the water. He built it big enough so I could lay out here by myself, but more importantly, with any one of them and they would fit much better than 'the tiny little one' I had in Ava's garden.

I am totally in love with this beach house. I don't think I am going to share it with anyone but my mates when everything is all said and done. It's only downside is also it's upside. It is so far from everyone else. love having the guys all to myself and the sound of the ocean in the background is perfect. It helps me feel calm when my mind starts to wander and I remember I am only seventeen, just a kid. Some of these pack members were around when I was born and now I have to help lead them and keep them safe and happy. I am supposed to help teach and guide these people, help make decisions that affect all of them, and that is a scary thought. Am I ready? Are any of us ready?

I rub my eyes. This pup thing is going to make me a little bit crazy too. I know that my friends are just giving me a hard time, but the rest of the pack members that are here just assume that since I am mated to the guys that we will start popping out kids any day now. I have had to get creative with diverting those conversations when they come up. What they don't know is my family's history with pregnancy and how really very serious and scary it is. I need to have a good long conversation with Uncle Reggie about it, but that just seems super weird. So, Elena and Gentry have been my go between with him so far which makes the conversations about pregnancy and delivery so much less awkward. It will need to happen eventually. I need to know firsthand what to expect so I can prepare. That seems to be the consensus in the women who lived through the delivery. The witches are coming up with a plan that sounds completely plausible with spells and herbs. But I haven't even had my heat yet and I hope the Moon Goddess hears me and will just let me be for a little while longer. After all the recent problems and what happened to my mom, I think Mateo is just as afraid of me having pups as my mates are. They still don't like to talk about what the first female goes through.

"What are you thinking about so hard out here, Bitty?" I heard his footsteps, but he still manages to startle me.

"Can you hear my inner thoughts

going crazy as much as my emotions?" I giggle as Oliver picks

me up and lays in the hammock with me sprawled on his chest.

"You have a look, that's for sure, but sometimes your more intrusive thoughts reach out to me. What's up?"

I rest my stacked hands on his

chest, propping my chin on the

backs looking up at him. "I was just

thinking about how young we are and we are supposed to be responsible for all of these people. And wondering if we are ready?] leave out the part about having pups. He gets quiet for days when we talk about the risks. It has also been a huge topic with Jena and Sierra running around hormonal and showing. Any pack member

anywhere will talk about pups all day long if you let them.

"I don't know if anyone is ready for this, really. Even if you are born into it like Cam and Kota. At least they knew what the expectation was. I know I was planning on being the next Gamma, protecting the Luna and maybe, hopefully, becoming one of her best friends. I didn't plan on falling in love with her and then getting lucky enough to be one of her mates."

My breath caught. "You were in love with me before we were mates?"

 

 

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His rumbling laugh shook my whole body. "According to everyone else it was obvious. Apparently I was only good at hiding it from you. I thought you might be mated to the twins, that match seemed pretty cut and dry. So I figured when I found my mate it wouldn't be a problem because that part of my focus would belong to her. Turns out the Moon Goddess likes me a little and gave me to you along with the twins." He wrapped his big arms around my waist, holding me close.

"When did you know you had feelings for me?" It's been years and he never said a thing. I guess I understand why, kind of.

"We all thought that maybe the attraction was because you were the only other female in our group since Sam and Sierra hit it off immediately. You were one of us, it wasn't about status for you. Then the trials came and that was seriously the second worst experience of my life. I broke one of the chair handles in the Alpha's box."

"What?! What do you mean?""

He laughed again. "Yeah, none of us did well watching you go through trials even though we knew what was going to happen. Lucas gave us a heads up right before the trial started. Now, I think it was to keep us in our seats and not to try and jump in to save you. Then the threat came and you had that scare in Ava's room. I knew the moment I kissed you I was f*cked. There was going to be no other girl for me." His stormy eyes swirled with emotion, looking at me but not seeing me. "Then the night of the mating ball happened. That was the absolute worst moment for me, for all of us really, but I got to you first." He took another deep slow breath and it shuddered out, but didn't look away from me. "You couldn't open your eyes and there was blood everywhere and you told me... told me to... to just let you die..." tears rolled out of his eyes as he took a shuddering breath under me. "I almost didn't get to you in time." He squeezed my hips and pressed me tighter to him, like he was back in that moment and couldn't let me go.

I sat up quickly, straddling his torso. Cupping both of his cheeks in my hands, I forced him to look at me. "What was your response to that?" I raised my eyebrows.

"Never." It was almost a whisper.

"You did get to me in time and you are the reason I am still here." I give him a gentle kiss putting all of my feelings for him into it. But I don't linger, he needs to process this too.

He growls low, pulls me back in, and he deepens the kiss, but it isn't hurried or dominating like usual. I want him to feel what I feel for him through this kiss. I have no idea how he feels my emotions, but I think about opening that pathway and my wolf is reaching out to his, strengthening their bond. Soon the kiss turns from sweet to needy.

My hands rake through his thick hair as his hands run under my shirt up my back. I gasp and pull away. I can't help it. My scars are a part of me. I'm not ashamed of them anymore, but something about them being touched pulls me out of whatever moment I am in. Then a thought dawns on me.

"Why did you never know what Kaley was doing to me? Since you seem to be in tune with my more extreme emotions." He doesn't pull away or drop his hands. He actually starts to trace them more. "Actually, I did, but I didn't know what was going on at the time. Do you know why I started getting tattoos in the first place?"

I hesitate. "No."

"Shortly after we shifted for the first time, I got these. I never knew why. I think I do now."

"What are you talking about?" He takes my hand and places it on his bicep where an ornate tribal tattoo wraps around. He continues to glide his other hand up and down my back.

"This one," He moves my finger so it traces over a triangular shaped scar toward the back of his arm, while he finds a similar pattern on my back. "Came first. Then this one," He traces two identical lines that have slight curve, both with my hand on his arm and his other hand on my back. "Showed up a few days later. And then these were the last." Six little jagged slashes about two inches long each. I remember this one, because it felt like they used a barbed tip on the end of the whip that time.

How is it possible you have these and I never noticed before?"

"I covered them with tattoos almost immediately and the silver in the tattoo ink can leave some small scarring giving me the excuse I needed. I thought they were some kind of result of shifting and that maybe something went wrong or it was a sign that I was a gamma. But, just like the asthma attack I got when you were in Lucas' office hearing about going to warrior training or when you stopped breathing when Ava told you about the threat made to the pack, it was a sign that you needed me and I wasn't where I needed to be." His eyes start to fill up again. He keeps tracing my scars. "If I had paid better attention to the gifts the Goddess gave me, maybe you wouldn't have gone through the things you did." He closes his eyes and lets the tears fall.

"Hey, hey. Look at me." I keep my voice gentle, but it's a fight. Even dead, Kaley is causing me problems with my mate. "Stop. Now. You were exactly where you were supposed to be, just like me. As much as it

sucked and I would never wish to go I through it again, had I not, I never would have ended up here with you now. We all had to go through everything we did so we could take out Adrielle and Vincent. There was no way around the life experience that we had to have to do that and we all had to walk our own paths.

You are perfect for me, just like this."

I let go of him to take off my shirt. I have stopped wearing underwear and bras when I am here. I'm tired of them getting ripped off by them being too in a hurry to do it right. His throat closes audibly and he chokes for a second. "All of this is just for you and Cameron and Dakota. There is no other way we would be all together. Now kiss me before I slap you silly."

He does not hesitate to follow instructions.

 

 

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I'm not really sure what happened but there has been a formatting error on several chapters. I didn't realize it until now. My author page looks completely different. I'm in the process of fixing the abrupt cutoff when they first reach the beach house. There are about 6 paragraphs are missing And I don't typically re-use chapter content. I am working my way through from there to fix any other errors that have come to my attention.

I apologize for that. I write everyday in the time I have. The end of the school year is busy as a teacher. I do post on my Facebook page regularly. That is the best place to let me know of any errors you catch in my work, ask questions and in genreal interact with me. I actually don't have access to respond to comments here, outside of these author notes.

As for chapter length, that is also out of my control. That is a general GN formatting set-up that I cannot change. This keeps the chapters more similar in length for Premium subscribers.

Thank you for following along in Sky's journey so far. We are so close to the end!