*** Vision Continued *** “Raven it is enough I let you name our son after my bastard of a brother, get your ass over to the table and eat before I call Jonathan in here to force you,” Orin snarls in my ear with his fingers digging into my shoulders while tears stream down my face. “After you killed him for trying to save me from you. Call Jonathan in here, he can’t make me do anything and you know it,” I look him dead in the eye knowing he has hardly anything to bargain with anymore. “Fine if Jonathan can’t get you to eat then you can stay in this tower away from our son and daughters, and I’ll put your pet out in the cold cells and let him freeze,” Orin chuckles turning away from me. I grow tense hearing his shoes on the stone floor knowing I’ll have to give in. I might hate him and what he’s done to me and my family, but I can’t turn my back on my children, and I will do what I can to protect the two mates I have. “I’ll eat, but he and Jonathan stay in the tower,” I look over i
“Jonathan, Raven, look at me,” I hear Embry’s near frantic voice, when I hear a soft sob coming from someone near me.“It’s ok Phoenix, it’s not real, it never happened,” Embry’s voice continues to pull me out of the vision and back to my current surroundings.I’m still sitting with Jonathan while Phoenix sobs into Embry’s shoulder, with a death grip on him.“You, never apologize for what you did again,” I hug Jonathan as tight as I can wanting to be in the arms of all my mates.“I won’t,” his voice comes out rough, like he has been crying.Osric’s arms warp around us making me wonder who has Roan and Gunnar.“I can’t lose any of you,” I whisper, letting their scents relax me when I feel Phoenix’s little hands pulling at my arm.“Come here, I’m ok,” I reassure, feeling that she is upset and anxious from seeing me so broken in the vision.“I sowy Raben, I saw it bad. I didn’t knows it be dat bad, pwease don’t let the weally bad man win. If he wins it eben worse,” Phoenix sobs into my
“Alpha Oswic can I hold Gunnar?” Phoenix asks watching Osric take a drink of a beer with Gunnar laying against his chest.“If you sit down with you dads,” Osric answers while walking over to them as Phoenix situates herself on her dads laps sitting on each of their legs.“Mine,” she giggles while reaching up for Gunnar, making my mates chuckle at how obsessed she is with him.“He’s not yours, he is theirs,” Benjamin chuckles, brushing her hair from her face and she shakes her head letting out a growl as she pulls Gunnar closer when he hits her lap.“No, he mine! They hers, Daddy yours,” Phoenix scolds Benjamin, making Ares snort and cover his mouth to avoid laughing. Phoenix continues to let out a low grow as she shakes her head, giving Benjamin a dirty look that would frighten just about anyone if they didn’t know better.“Gunnar is your mate?” Ares questions, making Benjamin’s brows shoot up into his dark hair line.I nod my head as Osric sits next to Jonathan, who is sitting closes
“Come here sit and I’ll braid your hair for tonight,” Embry sits on Jonathan who grunts, since he is already sitting at the head of the bed. “You could give me some warning before you sit,” Jonathan groans, adjusting where Embry’s ass sits making me giggle as Osric lays me in front of them. “I could but I didn’t want to, Osric can you grab the brush and the box of hair ties?” Embry asks while grabbing my hips pulling me to where I’m sitting in front of him. “Do you need anything else?” Osric asks while standing at the bathroom door watching me, as I lean back against Embry. “A comb,” Embry answers, making Osric nod as he goes into the bathroom to grab everything. “I like I when you do my hair,” I yawn, looking up at Jonathan and Embry making them smile. “I know, I’m sorry we weren’t here to protect you,” Embry softly speaks, kissing my forehead, as Jonathan gently caresses my cheek. “We should have been with you, I’m sorry I couldn’t get us out sooner,” Jonathan apologizes, rest
Liliana’s POV “Is Raven, ok?” Freya questions, putting Aiden down as we sit in the living room where Kitty is talking to Alpha Benjamin and his mate Ares. “She’ll be ok, she’s having a hard time after losing he baby and seeing her mates die, she felt their bonds break,” I answer, letting Freya take my beautiful Anarchy as I continue to hold my beautiful niece, Roan. “I’ve only just found you and Ryder, and I can’t imagine losing either of you. I would raise hell to save you,” Freya admits making me blush and rest my head against hers. “You won’t have to worry about losing us, I know you would and Raven nearly did. She let her rage take over and killed every enemy warrior there without thinking, I’m not sure what would have happened if I couldn’t get through to her,” I confess while looking down at Roan, as she starts babbling. “I’m so glad I wasn’t there I would have lost my mind seeing you that close to Raven when she was like that. I can feel the power coming from you and her, I
“So Ares, Embry says you and Benjamin are having trouble with your Elders and making you Luna of Silver Moon?” Raven questions as she cuts up some onions for soup. “Yes, they don’t like that he doesn’t have a proper Luna to give him an heir,” Ares answers while looking back at the couch towards Benjamin and Phoenix, making my heart clench feeling sad for him. “Can’t Benjamin override the Elders since he’s Alpha and a Lycan Alpha?” Freya questions, making Raven and I both shake our heads. “No Osric had the same problem with Embry before I was found. It’s actually how Eya was born,” Raven answers before I get the chance, making Kitty roll her eyes clearly not agreeing with the policy. “I don’t care how smart these Elders think they are, they have no business questioning my mate bonds. No one would make a better Luna to rule by Alpha Benjamins side than you Ares,” Mummo adds her two cents, making Raven giggle as my brow furrows. “Your mate bonds?” I ask, not quite sure what she means
“Daddy,” Phoenix wanders into the kitchen after about an hour and tugs on the hem of Ares’ shirt as he sits on a stool across from me wrapping dumplings. “Yes Gongju, do you need something?” Ares asks while wiping his hands, as I watch with a smile as Phoenix wipes the sleep from her eyes. “I hungwy and fersty,” she quietly speaks while looking up at him as her bright green eyes darken a little and glow, meaning she needs to feed. “Ok, come here Gongju, we’ll get you taken care of,” Ares goes to the sink to wash his hands before picking her up. “Sit and let her feed, I’ll fry up some dumplings,” I suggest while getting up from my seat and take a plate of wrapped dumplings and smile to see Mum putting a pan on the burner with a lid next to it. “Thank you, it’ll be an adjustment knowing what she needs,” Ares admits while sitting down with Phoenix, who buries her face into his chest being bashful. “What… what is what is Gong dju?” Phoenix questions making us laugh at her making it t
Maturity Warning: Sexual Content, MFF, GLRyder’s POV“Freya, what’s wrong?” I ask, reaching out and pulling her to my arms as she seems dazed.“I just didn’t expect my father or mother to have so many secrets, I had a half-brother and Phoenix is my niece, my brother is dead,” Freya quietly answers while burying her face in my chest, as Liliana takes Anarchy to Jonathan with Aiden following.“Come here, I’ve got you,” I hold Freya tighter, realizing how fragile she feels through our bond.“You’re not alone in this. Family secrets are hard and it doesn’t help you are royalty,” I softly speak before kissing the top of her head, feeling her tremble in my arms.I gently rub her back doing my best to comfort her the same I would do Liliana. Right now, Freya needs to know, despite her lack of biological family, she does have Liliana, our pups, and me.“I don’t care that Orin kept secrets, I just wish I knew I had family… maybe if I knew my half-brother, I could have helped him instead of my