Epilogue
**A/N-well my darlings here is the epilogue, this will answer some of your questions so read carefully. Thank you all for your continued support, you guys are awesome, xoxo Dianna
Kai...2 years later
(Sephia's baby bump)
"Sephia, for all that is holy, will you please sit down before you tip over, my gosh all your pacing is making me dizzy." I grabbed her by the hand and gently pulled her over towards the kitchen table and helped her sit down. I made sure to stuff a pillow behind her back for her to rest her back. I had first hand knowledge what it is like to carry a baby for these strapping men that we are mated to. Soon my tummy will be increasing again thanks to my lusty mate. The good Spirits knows that the plum tree orchard wasn't meant for the activities my mate tended to carry on with if he catches in there by myself. If those trees could talk they could tell scandalous tales.
"I am just worried about all them out there running around in the dark of the night and for what, some antiquated hunting ritual like some cavemen. Me man, you woman, me feed." She grunted what batting her fist against her chest. I could help the giggles that burst out of my mouth.
"You know it's more than that, it's Raven and Kenya's first real run with the pack since they are fully in control of shifting into their wolves. Zay is just making it a real show out of it for his pups to feel extra special, but he doesn't want them to know this run was specifically organized for them. So he has everyone talking about a hunting run so they wouldn't get suspicious of his motives, they are forever complaining that everyone coddles them too much. You would think they would be grateful that they have an entire pack wanting to make sure that they are safe and happy. Huh, kids now a days I tell ya." I set a bowl of ice cream in front of her and I had to quickly snatch my hand away for fear that she was going to rip it off with the almost rabid way she snatched up the bowl.
I watched her practically tip the bowl to her mouth and scoop the soft serve pralines and cream down her throat. "Um...Hungry much?"
Sephia's spoon paused mid air with a healthy glob of dripping ice cream on it. "Sorry, you know this is my go to since ya'lls Beta knocked me up." She grinned before stuffing the spoon in her mouth and I just shook my head at her and set about straightening up my mess. Cook was out running with the pack and she'd skin me alive if I left her domain a mess.
My thoughts drifted and I thought how far the both of us have come since Sephia risked her life to get away from our previous Alpha. My sister was the strongest person I know, she had bundled me up that night and traveled a great distance as hurt as she was to get us onto Blood Rhage's pack land. Once we set foot in their territory we were immediately greeted by Zay's war wolves and taken to what they called the holding cottage. A heavily guarded cottage where rogues are housed until Zay and his trusted enforcers held a hearing to hear their requests to join his pack.
As I scrubbed the already immaculate countertop and I recalled the events of the asylum hearing like it was yesterday. I was so scared, I had never spent anytime outside of our old house before, but yet, there I was not even remotely close to home and my sister on the verge of collapse from Gerrard's brutal assault the same night we ran way. The least I could do was be strong for her, be a man for once during our bid for help.
Then Zayev's scent had hit me right in the face and I had no choice but to see who that mouth watering scent belonged to. I wasn't disappointed by the tall mountain of muscle that had tried to make himself as unthreatening as possible. The huge delicious shifter had sensed my fear and he did everything he could. Zay had even tried to make himself smaller by sitting on the floor with me to put me at ease.
Zay had fulfilled several dreams for me in one setting, he had taken me to his plum orchard, and I had been in a state of euphoria surrounded by my an unlimited supply of my favorite treat. He had talked to me and explained that he was the Alpha of Blood Rhage and that I was his destined mate, the one he was meant to bond with for life and he asked me for my consent to belong to him. I had happily given it to him and that loving man had never made me regret it. He loves me and as sure as the sun rises everyday, he makes it his duty to let me know that he is mine and I am his.
I heard the spoon scraping against the bottom of the bowl and I quickly replaced it with the already prepared bowl in the freezer. Sephia's cravings and her impatience to have what she wanted almost instantly has become legendary within the pack. Poor Devon could be seen stalking the kitchen like a thief in the night. I am not sure who will be relieved when she delivers their pup, her or her mate.
Placing the dish towel I was using to dry over the lip of one of the deep sinks, I turned to my sister and studied her as she enjoyed her treat. As smooth as my mating went and the bond that developed between Zay and I. It was the complete opposite and it was a rough road for Sephia and Devon, and the Spirits bless him. Devon had been so patient and attentive with her. He knew the trauma that she had suffered for my sake. Devon knew it would take a gentle hand and an open heart to see her through the nightmare of putting her life back together again. I had tried to help as much as I could, but she had needed time for herself, to be herself, and not my constant protector.
I think that her closure came when Gerrard and his Betas were captured and brought to face their come uppance at my mates feet. The Betas were quickly disposed of by our pack members and Gerrard's accomplice was beheaded by my mate. He was about to deliver a death blow to the sniveling Alpha but Sephia had quietly left me and my newborn pups napping and had one of the war wolves standing guard at the door. She calmly went into the clearing to ask Zayev for her right to seek retribution against the idiot Alpha.Only Zayev, Malik, and Devon had been privy to the details of what happened at the hands of Sephia in the days he had spent in the cells below the enforcers house. Pack members who dared to be nosy and approach the enforcer's cabin during the instances my mate escorted my sister there, it was said you could hear Gerrard's blood curdling screams in the hours that Sephia had spent down there with the horrendous man.
It was only recently that she shared with me that she had just heaped on him the same severe beating he used to heap on her as punishment for not being me, that confession had nearly gutted me, and after that I didn't want to hear anymore. I just hugged her and poured out my heartfelt thanks and my undying love for her right then and there.
Devon had gotten his pound of flesh literally by ripping the man privates balls and all right off his body and stuffed the flesh into the man's screaming mouth before Sephia ended his life. Gerrard's corpse wasn't even buried, it was burned, and the ashes scattered, according to the old tales, that is the ultimate dishonor a shifter can receive. For we are beings of nature, of the land and life around us. As we came from the earth so we shall return to the earth.
Sephia let out a deep sated sigh as he placed her spoon into the now empty bowl. I walked over and picked it up to rinse it out. "Girl, if you keep eating like that, you belly isn't the only thing that's going to get bigger." I chuckled and she sucked her teeth at me before she giggled too.
I was about to say something else when all of a sudden she gasped and bent over as far as her distended abdomen would allow. I rushed forwards and dropped to my knees in front of her. "Sephie, what's wrong?"
"Baby boy, use your bond link and have Zayev get Devon and the healers back here or else you are going to see a whole lot more of me than you want to...AGH FOR FUCK SAKES!" She panted and twisted in the chair as another contraction wracked her body. I held her hands or rather she had mine in an iron grip, and thank goodness I am a shifter or else my poor hands would never recover from this abuse. I winced but I closed my eyes and opened my mind to my mate, I could feel the joy racing through his blood and the pride he felt as he watched his pups dashing through the forest in front of him. He immediately focused on me once he felt me with him and I hastily conveyed what was happening here on the home front and told him to hurry home. I broke the connection when he alerted everyone to return home.
"Sephie, can you move. I want to get you into a bed, I doubt you are going to make it all the way upstairs to your suite so we have to use one of the empty guest rooms down here." I said as I continued to hold her hands as she panted through her pain.
It took a few minutes for her to answer me but she nodded and gave me a wobbly smile, and like the true warrior that my sister is, she pushed herself to her feet and went to take a step but the back door crashed open and a frantic Devon burst into the room naked as the day he was born. Goodness, I rushed over to the box of gym pants we keep all over the place and began throwing sweatpants in the general direction of the naked men.
Devon barely managed to step into his clothes before he swept my gasping sister up in his massive arms and sprint upstairs, taking the steps two at a time with the healers rushing behind him.
My children and my mate were now dressed as Malik casually pulled up his pants and mumbled, "I better get up there before Devon pops a coronary." He chuckled as he just casually sauntered out of the room and followed in his best friends wake.
"Okay you guys go on up and shower, Daddy will be up to read you a story." I instructed my pups as they nodded at me and ran off to do what I said. I couldn't help but smile fondly at them as the bounced up the stairs holding hands. They are so precious, I thought as I felt two thick arms wrap around my still slender waist.
"All I can say is at least you wanted until they had their shifting down before you got me pregnant again." I teased as he chuckled. I gasped as he turned his head and licked my mating mark sending shivers through my entire body.
"Baby, if I had my way you would be barefoot and pregnant all the time." He purred against my skin of my throat as his big warm hands ran down the line of my abdomen. I knew just where those naughty hands were going and I stopped them in there tracks. If he started his naughtiness right now then I will never make it to see my niece or nephew come into the world.
I was about to open my mouth to chastise him but the wail of an angry infant cut through the air and I gave my mate a glowering look for making me miss the birth of my sister's pup before I sprinted up the stairs. I burst through Sephie's suite door to see a healer swadling the screaming child and take it over to the care area on the opposite side of the room. Another healer was waving something under a sprawled and unconscious Devon's nose, and Malik was sitting in the corner observing the baby being attended to.
I ran over to Sephie's side and she smiled, she was actually glowing. "A boy." She announced as she was gently turned one way and then the other as the bed and linens were changed. I moved out of the way so that she could be cleaned and redressed. Once she was settled with her pup in her arms, I sat back down at her side. My mate and Malik had long since dragged the now conscious Devon off the floor and threw him onto the bed next to his mate where he was currently staring at his pup in awe.
Malik was the first to say his goodnights chuckling the whole way out, poor Devy was never going to hear the end of his face planting tale. I cooed and admired my nephew until Sephie's eyes began to droop and I took the baby and gently placed him in his crib. Devon helped her get comfortable amongst the pillows and we said our goodbyes and left to give the happy couple some privacy with their baby. There will be time enough tomorrow to question what they're going to name that beautiful boy, and there will more than enough time for us to enjoy everything and everyone in our lives.
I looked up at my mate and he gave me one of his devastating smiles, one of those that always made me weak in the knees. We stopped in the darkened doorway of our pups bedroom to see that they were already fast asleep still holding each other hands. I thought it was so precious how they did that all the time. It must be a twin thing.
Zay quietly pulled the door up almost closing it before he led us through the adjoining door into our bedroom. He stopped in the middle of the room and promptly whipped my shirt over my head and stepped back to lean against the dresser. His heated eyes traveled up and down my body, his sizzling gaze was enough to have my slick leaking like a faulty pipe. He crossed his arms and released one of his sexier than hell growls, it rumbled through his chest, traveled over space and time, and pooled right into my throbbing member.
My Alpha was letting me know he was large and in charge, and he expected me to finish stripping for him and I found that so flipping hot. Who was I to deny him anything? My hands flew to the waist of my pants to instantly obey my man. I am his Omega after all and it was my pleasure to make sure than my man and my Alpha was happy in every way, as happy and complete as he makes me.