Derek’s POV Jerek shifted in his beast form, taking a stance. Someone lunged at him, but he snapped the lycans neck in his mouth, almost ripping the beast’s head off. Asher was in a dance with his father, but neither was attacking the other. Zac and Lars had taken out a few lycans already. “Back up towards Asher. We need to make sure they don’t attack him from behind.” I ordered them through the link. Within a few seconds, we had our stance around Asher. There was no way anyone was going to get him. They outnumbered us. It seemed his father had a bigger following than Asher thought. “BACK DOWN FATHER, BEFORE YOUR THROAT IS RIPPED OUT.” Asher’s Lycan roared. “You think you can take me? Your out numbered. The others that took off are about to be caught.” His father's beast laughed. What the fuck was he talking about? “Derek, you need to leave me and save Sophia.” Asher linked me. “No way in hell. I trust Brooke and Alaric. She is safe with them. What is the plan here?” I linked him
I could sense that Asher was staring at Derek, guessing that he was warning him. Asher truly was special. He was nothing like we all thought he was. The saying don’t judge a book by its cover came straight to mind. He was warm and caring. I know what he has had to sacrifice, and it was truly not fair. Every part of me was aching, but I was putting on a front. Everyone had been strong for me and now I needed to do the same for them. Looking down at Brooke's body, my heart missed a beat. My best friend had died trying to save my sorry ass. How the fuck was I meant to live with that? Her scream had awoken me from the cage that I had been caught in for nearly a year, a prisoner in my own body and mind.“Asher, if you need any help to clean this up or handling anything, please let me know. But I would like to take my best friend back home and plan her funeral with the Queens.” I said to him. Honestly, I didn’t want to leave him alone with what had just happened, but Brooke deserved to be b
“Soph, we have heard some much about you. We will get to know each other soon, but I would really like to get my mate home. From the looks of it, they are all in shock. Do you mind if I pop over tonight?” Lar’s mate said to me, I could feel the hurt she was holding back trying to be strong for her mate. That was something that we were all doing at the moment.“Of course, our door is always open for you.” I said to them as they wrapped their arms around their mates, pulling them away to take them home. Which left Tim taking Brooke’s body away. Derek stood there watching as his friend's body was being taken away. Before I could stop him, he shifted, giving Jerek full control.“Jerek stop.” I begged him, but it was too late. He had Tim by the throat, growling at him like he was about to rip his throat out.“Sophia, it's ok. Don’t move or say anything. He will calm down, just give him a second.” Tim’s voice said in my head. Doing exactly what Tim told me to do, I didn’t move.“Where are yo
Sophia’s POVI wasn’t sure how many hours had passed, but Derek had finally fallen asleep, my broken mate in my arms like a little child every time I thought about our son it made me sad, but I knew that he was with the Moon Goddess. “Brooke.” I heard Derek whisper again. He was dreaming about her again. I wasn’t sure if this should be upsetting me, but Brooke had been my friend as well. She had died trying to save me. Now her mate was never going to know her. That was going to have to change. I would tell him everything about her and let the others tell him everything that he might want to know as well.“You weren’t meant to go, Brooke. You were going to help me with the wedding and be her bridesmaid.” He whimpered.“See, he does love us, Bria.” She hadn’t said a word to me in hours.“I know he does, but what about Jerek? Derek has locked him away where I can’t reach him and I don’t know if I want to reach him?” We were both so torn about what had happened. But at the end of the day
Sophia’s POVDerek was sound asleep, but I was still feeling restless. My stomach had been doing flips all night, and I felt like I was going to throw up again. Shifting out from the arms of my mate was going to be a problem, because every time I moved, he would grab me tighter.“Baby, where are you going?” He whispered as I pried his arms off my waist.“I need to go to the bathroom.” I told him. He sighed, then rolled back over and was asleep in a second. How he could do that I couldn’t understand?As I made my way to the bathroom, my head started to spin. I rushed to the door to hold myself up so I wouldn’t fall down and wake Derek up. He really did need to sleep, opening up a mind link to Tim. I think we needed to have that talk.“Tim.” I said to him. Even my voice sounded weak.“Sophia, my queen, are you ok? You don’t sound too well.” His voice was alert.“Um, not sure. My stomach has been doing flips for hours now, and I nearly fall over from being dizzy. Do you think we can have
There was no way what I heard was right. Tim told her it was impossible for her to become pregnant. This was going to be some type of sick payback. They were dishing out on me for the behaviour of bloody Jerek. Moaning in the back of my head, I locked him out of my head again. He still couldn’t see what he did was wrong. Sophia’s gasp brought me out of my shock. Running into the room, I looked at the scene before me. Sophia was crying, but the look on her face was shock and happiness.“Soph?” my voice came out so weak I wasn’t sure if she had heard it or not.“Derek, come and look.” I couldn’t bring myself to move. If it was their way of getting back at me, I didn’t want to get my hopes up because it would be the last blow I could take. She was holding out her hand.“Baby, it’s not a trick. Come and look.” She whispered again.“Derek, it’s true.” Tim confirmed it, slowly moving towards the bed, grabbing her hand. Feeling nothing but the sparks of the mate bond course through my body,
Sophia’s POV“Elvenia is Fae. When she was helping us, she left me a parting gift that I can sense and feel all the emotions of anyone that is near me. It is all new to me, but Alaric showed me how to block it out if I needed to.” I explained to Tim.“I think your Fae friend may have just gifted you with more than the ability to feel what others are feeling, Sophia. This would explain why your twins are growing at such a fast rate.” “Oh.” I didn’t know what else to say to this. It was all happening so fast, but I knew I would protect my little bumpkins with all that I had.“Alaric, did you know about this?” I asked him in my head, like he had told me to do. But he was quiet. There was no reply. “Ok, now you need to take this herbal mix every morning at the same time. I expect to see you every day for a scan. I will see what info I can gather on Fae gifting the magic of child birth. Although I don’t like my chances, because in all my years as a doctor, I have never heard of them gift
Sophia’s POV“Alaric, you’re here.” I smiled when I heard his voice. I was beginning to become attached to this vampire. He just seemed to pop in whenever he was needed. “Sorry I missed you before Soph, but I was with our friend Elvenia, finding out more about the gift that she gave you. It seems that she also bestowed the gift of having a baby.” There was no hint of panic in his voice, which made me relax.“We have twins. They are bigger than they should be and we heard one of them say Mum.” I explained to him.“Well, this doesn’t surprise me. The gift of the Fae is not to be taken lightly. It seems that you have a very strong blood line if it caused you to become pregnant with twins. Sophia, Derek, when people find out about this, you are going to be in a lot of danger. I am going to need to hide you all.” “This is what we were thinking. Zac and Lars have just shown what they think of me being pregnant. They told me that I was not their Queen and didn’t want me here. Derek command