Theo's POVLilith's bad dream is one of many that I've relieved with her in recent months. They all start out the same. Damian sits across from her, and they are enjoying a meal or watching the tv. Mundane things we do to pass our time here on earth. Then he snaps, seemingly out of nowhere.He becomes crazed and violent before locking her down into the darkness, where she sits alone for however long he deems necessary.To say it is unsettling to watch what she went through would be an understatement.How any man could do those things to a child, or more than one child, infringes on humanity. I'm unable to get back to sleep like the pair of them, so I roll onto my side, staring at Lilith's now serene sleeping form and then at Khai's constantly troubled expression. Even in sleep, he is unable to school his emotions. I suppose one would claim he wears his heart on his sleeve, you know, because his emotion is unmistakable.The night passes by whilst I look to the ceiling for an answer

Celeste's POV"Where is Theseus?" Zeus bellows towards me as I walk the grand hall of his house. He hasn't seen me yet, but he knows Theseus chose to stay. I've put off coming home long enough. I left it to the last minute, which was the worst thing to do, but I had to bide myself some time to think about how I handled this inevitable meeting.I failed his assignment and was unable to bring my wayward husband home, yet in the face of it, Theseus is doing the right thing.Lilith has long since needed one of us to stand up and be the parents we agreed to be the day we laid down in my bed to make her. In life, there are many contracts you'll sign. Physical ones where your name is on the dotted line, and Proverbial ones where you talk about doing something that makes you stick out like a sore thumb. And then there are the genetic ones, the ones that many people do not think about until they have that damn little baby in their hands. They realise they've just signed their life away whils

Ten Years AgoDamian's POVLilith loves running through the grass.She holds her hands out beside her as she lets the long tendrils brush her palms. I think she enjoys the sensation of the grass blades, but I cannot be totally sure because she is rather stoic with her emotions.She's nine now, and tonight we will be visiting the witch's hut out in the wooded area on the east-facing borders where I allow the coven to live.Her wolf is waking up, and I need to prevent her from coming forward for a bit longer. Lilith is destined for many things, including living a gifted life, but I need her under my control, under Onyx's control, so that he doesn't kill her during a raging fit when she inevitably finds her mate.I had hoped that it might have been me, that the weird sense of belonging whenever I am around would have been because of a mate bond, but she is not my mate... I killed me, mate.I am hoping her mate doesn't live here in this pack. It would be unlikely, considering she doesn't

Lilith's POVI wake to movement inside of me. A little knock against my lower stomach and a slither up top. My stomach rippling as the child within me moves around.The alarm clock reads five-forty am.Today is the day we go to the pack doctors to see this little one to make sure she is okay and growing as expected. Apparently, they have a special scanner that enables them to see the baby or pup, as Calley calls it.I'm excited, nervous... anticipation churning in my gut, causing me not to sleep all night soundly despite being safe and in between my boys. I'm still so unused to the idea of having a being growing within me, yet I can feel the warm love that our child has for me and hear the odd occasion musing of love and contentment. Khai and Theo are both lying beside me, sleeping soundly.Khai's hand resting on my thigh that's between his legs, and Theo's face in the crook of my neck as he breaths softly against the skin there.We'd made love two more times in the waterfall before

Khai's POVI knew, even before the doctor asked if we wanted to see the sex of our child, what she was. Lilith is holding our daughter. The cursed child.I had tried to avoid this, tried to keep away from Lilith in Damian's pack.I guess you could say his presence made that easier. His distaste for our mated bond scared me into not touching her or consummating our bond sooner. Though the fate was always to have a fated tri-child.Tri, a triple genetic child, would be the first of her kind. You see, although some have been fated to more than one, none have ever survived the intensity of a jealous craze that ends up killing the less dominant lover. Maybe that's where Theo and I get along. He wants Lilith, and for her to be happy, I feel guilty about wanting Lilith and ultimately wanting her to be happy. So there's our medium, our get-out. I'll admit, when I feel the pair of them together, I do get jealous but not the raging ordering jealous. The jealous where I want to join in, li