Eve’s povZayn and I slept like een blok [a block or two logs] and woke up around lunch time. I never slept in, but we must have needed the sleep.Zayn looked at me with such love when we woke up, and I wish I could wake up like that every day. I didn’t want to go too fast and push Zayn away, so I was allowing Zayn to set the pace.I got dressed while Zayn freshened up and joined him in the bathroom to brush my teeth and put some make-up on."You know you’re just as beautiful without make-up." Zayn said."Would you prefer if I didn’t wear makeup?" I asked, applying my mascara."Habib albi, I would never tell you what to do with your own body. You enjoy putting on makeup, right? It makes you feel good?"I nodded, smiling at mijn held in the mirror. "I do. It's fun and it makes me feel pretty.""Well, then I won’t stop you. I will not control you, like Lex did. Unless you ask me to take control." He said the last part huskily, and I knew exactly what he meant.I trusted Zayn, but I don’t

Aeryn’s pov I stared at my mate, who refused to stay behind for this meeting. Storm felt like he needed to be here, to see if this guy was any different than his dickhead father. To be honest, it was kind of nice to do something else than breastfeed and sleep, which is what I’ve been doing mostly. I fucking missed Nivia the moment I stepped out of the room, though. Soon I’d start training to become an Alpha again, but right now I wanted to be there for Nivia all the fucking time. I would never get those first weeks with her back. Thankfully Storm felt the same and we had become an amazing tag team. When we’d be sleeping and Nivia woke up, Storm would take her to me, I’d breastfeed her and he’d burp her and change her diaper. Than she got the other boob and she would sleep for a couple of hours. He would shower while I breastfed, I would shower while he walked with her or did tummy time and I just realized this was the first time either of us had been in the same room together with

Elora’s povWhile it was really nice to be invited to be a bridesmaid for Eve, I wasn’t as close to her as Aeryn was. I wasn’t as close as any of them were, actually. For Aeryn, it had been easy to fall back into the role of being dad and mom’s daughter, and she was already a sister to me, so becoming a sister to Airk and Argo wasn’t as hard either. She was perfect. Aeryn was like a mother to me, a sister, and a friend. She protected me and made sure my life was better than hers. But there was one thing she couldn’t give me, and that was my own memories of my family.She shared her memories with me, and they painted a perfect picture. When I was little, the image that I had of my parents was like something out of a fairy tale. They were like gods to me—the Alpha and Luna that would come rescue us. Like the moon goddess, perfect and unattainable. I knew they were out there, just like the moon goddess, but I didn’t know them personally. All I knew was that they would come for us because

Elora’s pov"I just loved the wedding of Eve so fucking much, but on the other hand, I always wanted a huge fucking wedding with the whole pack here. Like a big ass party.""Mom?" I asked, trying to find the right words. I didn't want to hurt her feelings, but I didn't see why it was taking years for her to get married. "Why did you want to get married? And why did it take so long?"Mom shrugged, "it’s not that fucking long."I raised my eyebrow. She didn't tell me why she wanted to get married, but I always suspected it had something to do with me and Aeryn being gone. I heard their relationship wasn't always as good as it is now. "You and dad have been together before Aeryn was born; she is almost twenty now, so...."Mom growled softly, "you’re making it sound like we’re fucking old! Eve and Zayn are much older!"Argo came from behind me, having heard most of our conversation. "Actually, Eve is only a few years older than dad. But Zayn is older, yes.""Whatever. I waited because I wa

Darian’s povSeeing Eli with Elora every day made my skin crawl, especially knowing it was my own fault.For months, I had tried to stay away from Elora after she said she couldn’t be tied to the Goldacre name in any way. She had her childhood stolen, and my father was mostly responsible. While I hoped people would be able to view me as separate from my father, with my last name and my job, it was impossible.Even though I had no part in the School or whatever happened there, everything I owned was made with money that came from selling girls and women. I had debated dismantling the entire company, but there were thousands of people working for us. The School was just part of our business; we had factories and other businesses all over different parts of the country. That’s why I joined forces with Rain, hoping that his company could take over my father’s company in time and that I’d be just someone working there.Being the boss wasn’t something I had ever wanted to be, but I had no ch