Bronx POVI woke up to the sound of snoring from my little mate and I couldn't help but smile. For a tiny little thing she sure could snore like a bandsaw. It was cute and just another thing that I loved about her. I couldn’t believe she had said it back to us. We had felt the mate bond for three years now, so it was to be expected our feelings with her would be so strong but it was a shock to hear her say it to us. I had never felt more content than I did right now and I knew Benji and Baylor felt the same way. Now all we needed to do was make sure that we all got out of this alive. In reality, our lives didn’t matter much; she was most precious thing to us in the world.As I sat and watched her sleep, her face looked so peaceful and happy and my heart filled with joy that we contributed to that. I trailed my fingers from her knee all the way up to her thigh and up her ribs rubbing their slightly. The sexist moan escaped her lips and immediately I was aroused. I knew this would never

Ellie POV I sat shocked looking at the triplets at the current turn of events. “Two weeks? I was out for almost two whole weeks?!” I asked harshly, worried what had happened after that bitch Dina pushed me down the stairs. At the sound of my voice, Nat, Vince and Cailee came rushing into the room. “Geez, Princess, we really need to stop seeing each other like this,” Vince joked. I couldn’t help but chuckle right along with him since in the last few weeks I had been seriously injured twice and it seemed like drama was my current best friend. “Ellie, it’s so good to see you awake,” Cailee said with tears in her eyes. “DO NOT scare us like that again!” she chastised, further making me laugh given the situation in which my body took a tumble down the stairs. “No offense, chica, but I don’t think I’m going to NOT be in danger for the foreseeable future,” I giggled, “It’s kind of in my job description now. Speaking of which, Nat, am I okay?”

Bronx POVHer screams jolted me up from my seat. None of us had fallen asleep yet; too wired, all of the Guardian Knights stood watch in the next room over with Pearl. For hours now, I had to watch as Vince and Cailee cuddled and I swallowed down my jealousy that I wasn’t with my mate also. We didn’t want to take the chance of something happening so close to her shift. Hearing her screams, Bullet, Blaze and Banshee were on immediate high alert, hating the sound of our mate in pain. Baylor and Benji met my eyes in a panic, subtly looking for my directions despite having gone over the plan already almost fifty times.“The time has come,” Pearl whispered with a pained voice. While all first shifts are painful, the sound coming out of Ellie’s room was something out of a horror film. I knew Grams hadn’t told us everything, probably trying to protect us since there wouldn’t be much we could do to help our mate as she made her transition.“You know what to do,” I growled to all of the Guardia