“I would suggest you stop being an arsehole before I can't calm him down anymore. His Lycan likes to play with his food. Now, narrow it down? No, I don’t think I need to do that, because I want to know why you did it all to me! Why did you cheat with Lochlynn, why didn’t you tell me about your mate, what made you shift into the horrible person that you ended up being when I got back?”
He starts laughing. I am on the verge of tears, but I can't let him see that, I need to be strong. I need to get this shat over with so I can move on with my life, as facked up as it is.
“You want to know why... well... where do I start? I thought you were an annoying little twit growing up.”
Seriously? This goes all the way back to when we were kids? How did I not see it? Ash starts rubbing my back, he knows that I am now the one who needs to be calmed, and he knows that will help. That must be the mate bond working.
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“Mmhmm”I hum as I steal a piece of marble cheese right off the block. Ash squeezes my thigh and chuckles.“Oh, I can guarantee it is not going to inconvenience them one bit! Get me the information and I will get them to go before they come back Sunday afternoon.”“You sure they won't mind?”He gives a hearty laugh as he goes back to focus on the eggs and toast.“Trust me, the Beta and Gamma females will be MORE than happy to spend time in a bakery!”“Wait, what’s this about a bakery?”Austin calls out as he, and Grant, walk into the kitchen.“Ooh, are those your famous special eggs?”“Grant! Forget the food on the counter, focus man! Our mates, going into a bakery...”“Oh, SHAT! Why are you sending them into a bloody bakery?!”Ash is laughing so hard he’s crying, I’m completely lost as to what
Ashton POVI grabbed a pair of shorts and some clean clothes, from my closet, and toiletries, from my bathroom, and head across the hall. I can hear the shower turning on, and then singing. Alaina has an amazing voice, maybe she will sing for me one day.I shower, put my shorts on, and head back out to the kitchen to clean up the dishes. As I am putting the last of the utensils into the dishwasher, I feel her arms wrap around my waist. I stand up and turn around to face her, pulling her into a hug. That’s when I noticed...“HEY!”She looks up at me with big doe eyes.“Is that MY sweater?”She laughs and tries to squirm out of my arms.“Maybe”She finally manages to get free, by putting her arms up and just dropping to the ground, then runs around the island, keeping it between us.“Give. Me. Back. My. Sweaterrrr!”“Make me!”HA, I love th
She doesn’t say anything, we just stand there holding each other.“Al? Love? What do you want right now?”“I don’t know...”She was so quiet that I pulled her back to check on her and find that she's crying. I bend over a little, so I am at eye level with her, and wipe the tears from her cheeks.“Alaina, why are you crying?”“Because I don’t know what I want. I want you to ask me what I want, and I want to tell you what I want, but I DONT KNOW WHAT I want.”“With what?”“Everything! I don’t know what I want to wear tomorrow, I don’t know where I want to sleep, or where I want YOU to sleep, I don’t know if I want to go talk to Fin again to try and get more information, I don’t know if I want different furniture in here...”Whoa! Okay, well, that’s a lot to take in, but I have to stop her and get her to focus a
Alaina POVI wake up to Ash gently shaking my shoulder calling my name.“Alaina, dear, I need you to get up, love.”“Noooooo… 5 more minutes.”“No, I’m sorry Al, it needs to be now.’“Whhhhyyyyyyyyyyyyyy???”He’s silent for a bit.“Um, well...”I roll over to face him, just as I start to turn, he calls out.“NO! Don't do that! Just slide out of the bed on your side love.”“Ashton... why? Why are you being like this?”I can hear him breathing heavily before a sharp exhale.“I need to change the sheets.”“Huh?”“I, had a dream”“OK?”“A good dream...”“OK?”Ummmm Al, I would stop the questioning, HAHATY!?!?!?! The one and only!I AM SOO
Ashton POV Tyche came back! Janus and I are elated! There’s an issue though, at least Janus thinks so. Ash, Ty… she isn’t Ty. She is but she isn’t You are not making any sense. UGH Seriously! OK, I can feel, and talk to, Ty through the bond… right?! I internally roll my eyes, getting annoyed with him She sounds like Ty, and knows everything Ty knows, but there’s something off, something dark. Dark? Again, not making sense. &n
Alaina POVWhen Ash said that he sent some people to grab me somethings that I may need I didn’t think that they were going to bring this much back! Walking into our room there was a literal path from the door, to the bed, then the bathroom, then the huge walk-in closet. Bags everywhere, some boxes of stuff, and garment bags hung on the closet doors. “I don’t know what all is here, or what all they bought, but I CAN tell you that there will be deliveries throughout the week of what Austin called ‘stuff’”He air quotes the stuff part, which I barely caught because my eyes are bugging out of my head, jaw on the floor, in utter disbelief with the sheer amount of what is here. I slowly turn my head to look at Ash, jaw still on the floor, and he lets out a small chuckle. 
Ashton POVFinlay, she wants to go see Finlay? Why does she want to go see Finlay? She has made so much progress over the last 2 months and I don’t want her to have any setbacks. She can clearly see that written all over my face though, as she sighs. “Alexia says that it would be good for me to confront him. If that’s an issue with you, that’s fine, she said it might be, and that I should offer for you to join in my next session to talk about it.”At least this has been planned out, I don’t like it but I can see the validity in confronting her tormenter. I try to figure out how to word what I want to say without sounding like an overbearing arsehole. “I am not going to hold you confronting Finlay hostage, so you seeing hi
Alaina POV Telling Ash, I needed to see Finlay was an anxiety ridden moment, but it surprisingly he didn’t really fight me on it. “Alexia says that it would be good for me to confront him. If that’s an issue with you, that’s fine, she said it might be, and that I should offer for you to join in my next session to talk about it.” During our sessions Alexia made it very clear that getting the answers to, at least, some of my questions could help in my ability to heal from the trauma that Finlay put me though. The idea of even seeing him again made my anxiety go through the roof and I wanted to throw up just talking about it, but I had to at least try. “I am not going to hold you confronting Finlay hostage, so you seeing him is not dependent on my joining a session with you. I WOULD like to join a session with you though.” He wants a joint session, ok, I did offer for him to come, but I didn’t really think that he would take m up on that offer. He wants to help us; he wants to be