"l always assumed that you and Robert would get engaged before Archie and I. I mean, you two have been together forever, it just makes sense. Do you think he'll propose soon?" She lets out a sigh. "I don't know. I'm hoping that seeing his best friend get engaged will resonate with him, but I don't know if it will. We've talked about it before and he seems open to the idea, but I think our age has a lot to do with why he hasn't popped thequestion. He just thinks we're so young.""But come on, you two already know you'll be together forever since you're mates, so you're going to get engaged eventually, why not just do it now? I mean, it's his choice, but if you know that you'll be with someone forever, don't you want to just promise that to each other as soon as possible?"Jenny nods her head. "Yeah, that's my thinking too, but he just doesn't think that's a good idea. He still wants to wait, most likely, which is alright, I guess. It just means I'll have to be open to the idea of wai

I know he's just trying to keep everyone calm, but I can tell that he's also trying to get the best out of the time we have in case something bad happens during the rogue raid. I look around to see everyone nodding, agreeing with what he was saying. Lila stands up, pulling her shirt down. "That sounds like a wonderful idea. Let's leave in two hours, so everyone go get ready, maybe talk through some things if you need, and then we'll get going."We all get up to go to our own rooms and I just hope that Robert and Jenny work through their problems because I can tell how much stress all of this is putting on their relationship. When Archie and l's bedroom door closes, he turns to me, grabbing the collar of my shirt to pull me into a passionate kiss. I take a step backwards as he pushes me against the wall and I can feel the need in his actions as he grabs my waist. I place my hands on his chest, lightly pushing him away.As soon as I look at his face, I see the tears falling down his fac

"Henry, I'm so sorry, but we have to go, Lila whispers, running her hands over my shoulders. I hated my thoughts at the moment because all I could think was that Jenny and Lila had so much time with their mates and I felt like I hadn't had any. I just wanted to go away somewhere and hold him in my arms forever. I wanted to live my life with him by my side where something like this would never, ever happen. I wanted to grow old,watching our kids shift into little wolves for the first time. I just wanted him forever. I felt myself being pulled off of Archie and I couldn't hold in my breakdown anymore.I turned in Lila's arms, crying into her shoulder. She holds me tight as I hear footsteps behind me, telling me that they are leaving. Jenny set her hand on my back, ushering us out of the house and into the car so we could go to the hotel. I sat in the back with Jenny, laying my head in her lap as I held her hand in silent support.Once we got to the hotel, we went up to the room since m

I smile, holding the letter to my chest as my eyes start to get watery again at the idea that I'm marrying my best friend in, like, two hours. I hid the paper on the bedside table before starting to get dressed. I put on the dark grey pants first, loving how slimming they made me look. I slip on the white button-up shirt before tying the maroon tie around my neck, securing it with a silver tie clip that my dad wore when he married my mom.I decided to do the whole "something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue" thing because it's supposed to bring good luck. My dad's tie clip was then something borrowed, then something old was a book that Elder Collins will be using for the ceremony that the elders have been using for centuries, which changed every few years to accommodate the change of time. The new thing was me changing my last name to Brooks-Henry since I didn't think I could part with my last name. My mom said that I had to incorporate the name somewhere, so the

I was woken up by my husband , but l turned onto my stomach, not wanting to deal with his hard dick since that was usually what he woke me up for in the middle of the night. I was shaken again, still ignoring it since he usually gave up eventually. "Henry, I know you don't want to get up, but Jelilah just called and she's in labor so we gotta go to the hospital."I immediately shoot up in bed as he tells me the news and I'm instantly way too excited now that I knew that my baby boy is coming today in possibly just a few hours. Archie chuckles, throwing a pair of sweatpants and a t-shirt at me as he changed into real people clothes for the first time in a few days since we've just been relaxing before we were elbows deep in diapers and formula. "Is she already at the hospital?"He nods his head. "Yeah, it took awhile for me to answer my phone because I was dead asleep. She's been there for about an hour already." I nod my head, way too excited to even be mad that she's already been th