Addy’s POV
“Addy Wake up! It’s just a nightmare little moon!” I am woken up with Tristan shaking me in his arms. I look at him and I know I must have been screaming in my sleep.
He looks down at me and wipes the tears from my face. I am looking around wildly trying to figure out where I am. I was stuck in my nightmare again.
“Hey, little moon. Look at me.” Tristan grabs my face with both hands and looks me into the eyes.
“Hey, you are safe, you are okay little moon. Talk to me, what was going on?” He wipes the tears that are still falling down my face.
“Look at me Addy, you are safe. Do you hear me?” I look into his eyes and shake my head. “I am safe.” I respond weakly.
“Addy, how long have you been having nightmares.” Tristan asks as he releases my face and pulls away a little bit so we can talk.“Since dad died.” I respond quietly.
“What are you seeing in your nightmares?” He asks.
“The moment I get taken away from dad,” I respond. I have never told anyone about that night, and what I witnessed, about dad’s words and the way he looked at me.
“Addy tell me what happened.” Tristan said has he ran his fingers through my hair and down my back.
I take a deep breath, and realize, I need to tell him. Maybe it will help the nightmares.
“We were both running out of the house, and he was telling me to go to the packhouse lockdown room. I yelled at him while we ran that I didn’t want to leave him. The rouges were getting closer to us. He commanded me to go and pushed me towards the pack house. He turned around and started right towards the fight. I was running toward the packhouse, but a rouge cut me off. Dad came out of no where and tackled the rouge down and ripped his throat out. I looked around us, and saw more rouges headed towards us.”
I stopped as I felt Tristan wipe tears from my face. I didn’t even know I was crying. I took a deep breath and continued.
“Dad got between me and the rouges and then several other warriors built a barrier between the rouges and me. Dad turned to Gamma Blake and said, “take the Luna to the packhouse now.” I looked around for Luna Maria, but I didn’t see her anywhere. He was looking at me when he yelled that at Gamma Blake, and the look in his eyes, it just…I don’t know, it was weird. Like he was trying to tell me something.”
I shook my head. “Anyways, Gamma Blake threw me over his shoulder and carried me to the packhouse. I looked back and I saw Dad get surrounded by rouges. I was so scared and so confused. Dad told him to get the Luna, but he grabbed me. When we got the lockdown room at the packhouse, I realized that Luna Maria was already there. I figured she must have ran ahead of us and Gamma Blake just grabbed me instead. I was so confused and scared.”
Tristan just looked at me with wide eyes. “Addy, Luna Maria was in the lockdown room as soon as we were notified of the attack.”
I just looked at him with a confused eye, not really sure what to say. “I guess…maybe dad misspoke... or maybe he thought he saw Luna Maria. I don’t know.”
Tristan wrapped his arms around me tighter, and just mumbles, “I don’t know either.” He holds me for a while and wipes the tear stains from my face and smiles.
“Why don’t you get up and get dressed. I will cook us breakfast. I have to go to the packhouse this morning to go over a few things, but then remember we are going to Jimmy’s for lunch and then we will come back and cook good cookies” he smirks at me, “and deliver the grief baskets together. How does that sound?”
“I like that plan,” I tell him as I give him a tight hug. We both get up and he heads out of my room, before shutting the door he looks back at me and smiles softly. “I love you little moon.” “I love you to big bro.” I reply with a smile of my own as I head to the bathroom. I shower and get dressed and then head down to the kitchen. Tristan is there finishing up breakfast and hands me a plate at the counter as I sit down. “Thanks,” I reply as he hands me a cup of coffee.
“So, Braxton is headed over.” I tensed up at his words, and I think Tristan noticed because he stopped his words and looked over me weirdly. “He wanted to check in with you. Are you alright Addy?”
I look up trying to cover my discomfort, “Yeah, yeah I am fine.” He continues to look at me weird and I can tell he is about to ask me about it, when we hear the knock on the back door and footsteps.
I sense Braxton enter from the back. Tristan shakes his head and looks up to see Braxton walk into the kitchen. “Good morning, Tristan.” Braxton stops near the bar not far from me, “Addy”.
“Morning man, so I have to run up and get dressed because I did almost as bad of a job of making pancakes as Addy did cooking cookies yesterday,” Tristan says as I covered my face in shame as both the boys laughed in my expense.
“Enjoy the laughter now, because I am not going to save any cookies for you.” I say with a playful glare at Tristan.
His laughter stops and he puts his hands up in surrender with a huge smile across his face, “I take it all back sis. You are amazing.”
I roll my eyes at him playfully and mumble, “suck up.”
He laughs and kisses the top of my head on his way up the stairs. “I will be back in a little bit” he says, with a stern look towards Braxton. Braxton just nods at him, while looking down with his hands in his pocket.
After we hear Tristan close his door, I notice Braxton stepping closer to me. “Hey” he says softly. “Hey” I reply in a barely hearable voice. I am uncomfortable now alone with Braxton, I don’t know why, I have never felt this way before, but I feel my body heating under his gaze and my body tenses.
“Addy, I just wanted to say…umm…” He stepped beside me and turned my body on the swivel chair to look at him. He is now standing directly in front of me. My knees are touching his thighs, the heat keeps rising and my heartbeat is picking up. Crap, this isn’t good.
I can’t let him know he affects me like this. “It’s all good, I say.”
As I push him away a little bit from me. I get to stand up from my chair and my foot catches on the bottom rung. I fall forward off the chair right into his arms. He catches me and I quickly try to gain my footing only to realize my foot his truly caught.
I look back at my foot and I feel him shift me in his arms to one side while he reaches down with the other arm to lift my foot off the rung of the chair. My skin burns in a good way where he touches my leg. I turn quickly towards him to gain my balance and push away only to come face to face with him.
I can feel his warm breath fan across my face, and it’s like we are both lost in each other’s eyes. I feel his arms move down around my waist and pull me up towards him.
I watch his eyes move from my eyes down to my lips, and back up again. I subconsciously lick my lips, with the thought of actually kissing him. His eyes snap down to my lips when I do that, and I feel him coming closer stopping right as his lips are almost touching mine.
We stand there and staring into each other’s eyes, shifting our eyes from lips to eyes and back again. I bite my lip, trying to fight the urge to close the space between us and feel the softness of his lips on mine. He looks down and sees my lip between my teeth, and I feel him start to harden against my stomach.
He reaches up, and right before he touches my lip with his thumb, we hear my brother’s door open. My eyes shoot open wide, and I push him away, and turn on my heels quickly.
I am walking around the corner of the kitchen counter towards the sink, when I hear Tristan come into the kitchen. I don’t look up from the sink and start washing my dishes. I feel Tristan walking towards me, so I take a deep breath and pull myself together when I look up at him and smile.
“I will be back soon, remember we have a date to Jimmy’s, okay kiddo.” He says with a smile as he wraps me into a hug.
“Yeah, I am holding you to that, Jimmy’s sounds amazing.” I say with a smile of my own. He kisses my forehead and walks out.
“Bye little moon!” he yells as he and Braxton walks out.
“Bye!” I yell back as I hear the door shut behind them.
I finish up with my dishes and put them in the drying rack.
What the actual fuck just happened?
I walk up to my room and lay down on my bed to get myself back together. This can’t be happening. I cannot be getting involved with my brother’s best friend, my future alpha. I turn 18 soon and I will find my mate and will forget all about him. Yeah, that’s what is going to happen. I am going to forget all about him once I find my mate, I just need to keep distance between us until then.
Braxton’s POV I found an excuse to come over to Tristan’s and Addy’s house this morning. I kept telling myself not to, but I had to see her. I am now standing in the kitchen a little bit a way from Addy as Tristan makes his way upstairs. As soon as I hear him shut his bedroom door. I turn to Addy, taking a deep breath. I try to get out my words. I spent all morning trying to find the right words to say to her, so things aren’t awkward between us, but that is exactly what it is right now. Awkward. “Hey” I said softly. As I moved closer to her. “Hey” she whispers, I am not sure I would have even heard it if I didn’t have my werewolf hearing. I can see how tense her body is, and I know I am making her uncomfortable. I hate that. I look her body up and down. I can’t help but notice how sexy she is and think about how bad I want her. “Addy, I just wanted to say…umm…” She wouldn’t look at me, and I needed to see those beautiful blue eyes. I stepped closer to her and turne
Alpha Jack POVAs Tristan explained what Addy remembered I started to realize that we would not be able to withhold this information from him and Braxton much longer. They take over as Alpha and Beta next week. We always agreed we would wait until Addy turned 18 which is in six weeks, and they would all learn the truth. Maybe we needed to divulge a little bit more information before then though. I need to talk to Maria and Blake before I make this decision on my own. With Andrew gone, I am not sure how to keep Addy as safe unless the boys know. I stand up as Tristan finishes up his story and walk over placing my hand on his shoulder. I know it’s been hard after the loss of his father. It has hurt us all, Andrew was not just my Beta but my best friend. We had been close since pups, just like our kids are now. “Tristan, your father is a hero. He sacrificed himself, to protect the life of our future. I know you boys don’t understand everything I am saying right now, but you
Addy’s POVTristan came home early today, said his meetings were done quickly, and he had missed me. Tristan and I have always been close, but since losing dad, our bond has grown even deeper. We had spent the morning chilling on the couch and having a movie day. Tristan decided we should cook the cookies first and then have Jimmy’s. I was surprised by his change of plans, but more so because he seemed like he was up something.We had spent our time baking laughing and singing along with the music on his playlist. I was pulling out the last batch of cookies, when I turned around and caught him grabbing a cookie off the cooling rack.“Tristan! I told you no cookies until we have them all packed up!” I yelled at him. He dodged away from me when I tried grabbing the cookie from him. I maybe the younger sister, but I can pack a punch. I have socked him and Braxton several times before for being jerks.“Oh, come on! It’s one cookie Addy. I couldn’t wait.” He takes a bite and groa
Braxton’s POVI was finishing up in my office when Baylee walks in. I look up annoyed, “Baylee how many times have I asked you to knock before coming in?”She walks over and leans over my desk, pushing her breast up to show off more cleavage. “I just wanted to come and check to see if you need a stress relief.”I rubbed my temple in annoyance, I was not in the mood to deal with Baylee right now. “No Baylee, I am good right now.” I said trying not to show my complete annoyance. “Then maybe you would be willing to take me out to lunch, Alpha.” Baylee says with a sickening sweet voice. “as friends,” She finished. I looked up at her. I was hungry, and Baylee was a friend, I guess, before we started fucking. She has comforted me lately, so maybe taking her out wouldn’t be terrible.“Okay, I will take you out to lunch, as friends.” I say, emphasizing as friends at the end.“Yeah!” She jumped up and clapped like a small child and cheered. What happened to not giving her any ideas? B
Addy’s POVGabby, Lizzy, and I pull up the lake in Tristan’s truck. We jump out and pull down the tail gate, so we had somewhere to throw off our shirts and shoes.As we strip down to our bikini tops, we look around. Several grills were set up where some of the guys would grill meat later at the top of the hill. There are several pre shifters here, all of which are from my senior class and pack.“Okay Ladies, let’s go find some hunks to hang out with.” Gabby says while rubbing her hands together.“Gabs you look like you are getting ready to eat.” I laugh at her. She shrugs her shoulders at me, and smirks, “Well we are about to give the guys around here a feast for their eyes.” Lizzy and I both laugh at her, as we walk down closer to the beath. “I think I found one to ogle at while we are here,” Lizzy says while she stares off towards the volleyball court where a game had already started. “Yeah, Greg does have the abs that’s for sure,” Gabby said in response. I looked over at Li
Braxton’s POVAaron, Tristan, and I were all hanging out in the lounge at the packhouse playing video games. Aaron has been away at training for the last month and man have we missed him. He’s the goofball of the bunch. He always has us rolling with laughter, and we have seriously needed some more laughter after this last week. Tristan and I had already asked him to be our Gamma. We will have an official meeting on Monday with my dad and Gamma Blake, but we are already preparing for him to swear in on Saturday right along with Tristan and I. “We should have gone out to the lake and crashed the littles party, man. Torture them a little bit before we have to take on more serious rolls as ‘leaders of the pack’” Aaron says with a dramatically deep voice at the end.Tristan and I laugh at his imitation. “Nah man, Addy needed this. She needs time away to let loose and be with the girls. It’s been a rough week for her.”“Oh, she’s not only with the girls” Aaron says looking towards
Alpha Jack’s POVMaria, Gamma Blake, and I all met in my office after we were assured by the doctor that Addy would be okay. This was the second rouge attack in two weeks. They are coming for Addy, and we needed to think this through.“All three of the boys are going to be staying there until she gets out. You know they won’t leave her side. They don’t know why yet, but you can already see the pull they all feel for her.” Maria said as she sat on the couch curled up next to me.“It will help her heal if they stay, especially Braxton. I know they don’t feel the full effect of the mate bond, but it will help her.” Blake said while sitting across from us in the side chair.I hear a chuckle out of Maria and look down. “What my love?”“They don’t even know their mates, but their pull is so strong. Brax is already in love with her. Did you see the way he looked, and he would have killed that young pup if you didn’t pull him off.” Maria responded to me.“Brax has been in love with her
Addy’s POVIt’s dark. I feel like my body is so heavy and I can’t move my arms or legs. Am I dead? I remember I was fighting some rouges so my friends could get away. The last thing I remember was…Brax, well Blaze. He came to save me.I try moving my hands, but they are stuck, it’s like something is holding them down. I try moving my legs and they feel the same, it’s like a heavy weight is across my legs. Why can’t I move? I try opening my eyes. They feel so heavy, almost like they are glued shut. I try again and a little light starts slipping through my eye lids. The room is dark. I’m not really sure where I am. I look around the room and notice the medical machines beeping next to me. I realize I am in the hospital. He saved me.I look down at my right hand and I see Tristan holding one hand while his head is down on the bed beside it asleep. I look over to my left and see Braxton holding onto my hand, with his head laid down by my shoulder asleep. I smile as I look o