“We aren’t sure, we think it was some mutated gene of your own blood, but your father got him. The Crescent Pack are helping your father move him to their cells for questioning.”
The Crescent Pack, that was a name I hadn’t heard in years, no one really had an alliance with them, they tended to stick to themselves. I wondered why they suddenly wanted to help.
“Let’s get you home,” he said, picking me up. I started to get feeling back in my legs when we got to the car, but nausea rolled over me, and Reid helped me manoeuvre, so I didn’t throw up all over him, instead emptying the contents of my stomach next to the car.
“Better?”
“A little,” My gums tingled and my fangs protruded.
“Where’s Lily?”
“Already in the car with David. Zane has Wendy and Amber in the other car.”
He pulled me into the back, so I was sitting across his lap. Lily touched my back softly with her small hand. I managed to turn my head, getting enough mobility back to turn slightly. Reid, seeing I wanted to turn to face the front, placed me on his lap, my back pressing against his chest. I felt his hand go to my stomach before going underneath my shirt and rubbing my belly. His hand felt warm on my stomach as he rubbed my belly in circles.
We drove back to our Pack house. By the time we got back, I had full movement back. Whatever he gave me must have been a dud luckily, maybe the Moon Goddess was watching over us after all.
The drive home was quiet but peaceful. It was so strange sitting in a car with David in comfortable silence. Going back to when we were still part of the Black Moon Pack, I would have laughed if someone told me Lily would have her father back wanting to parent and that we would all become a family again. Seeing it with my own eyes now, I knew things were going to be good between us, we just have to mourn those we lost first and rebuild our Packs, but I had no doubt that David was going to step up for his daughter and be the father she deserved all along.
I looked at Lily and smiled sadly. Her blue and yellow eyes looking back at me. I was so proud of her, and I knew that Lily was strong enough to endure it no matter what happens in the future, strong enough to move past what happened and any new challenges. Which I knew we would have them, because her wolf and her had been altered and I could tell it was permanent. But we would get over these obstacles too when they arise. We finally made it home, it was a sombre feeling as we all got out of the cars. Not all of us made it back and the weight of that hung heavily in the air.
Epilogue
Lily’s POV
Nearly 12 years later
I watched as my sister chased after the kids. She was an excellent mother, a little overbearing at times and always so watchful of everything they did, including me. I couldn’t get anything past her. When she had her firstborn, a inlittle boy, they named him Ryker. I could tell her life was moving on for the better. When the twins came along, Arial and Lana, I was ten and decided to move back in with my father. Aria had enough on her plate with running the Pack and looking after the kids.
I often felt guilty about her being forced to raise me, but at the same time, I’m glad she did. I knew I never would have made it to adulthood without her. My father and I have now built a bond the way it should have been in the beginning, although I also class Reid as my father, giving me two.
When the twins were born, I felt a little out of place. Life moved on, yet I stayed the same, only growing older. My life has been thrown into chaos since my wolf and I never had a chance to bond, having been forced to shift so young.
For years Aria, my father, and Reid tried to help me learn how to control her, but nothing we did worked, and eventually, we gave up trying. When she had control, it was hard taking it back from her. My wolf was completely altered, and I don’t think I will ever be able to let her out willingly. She can’t be trusted.
I knew I was a danger to my nieces and nephew, so I made the decision to leave. It was safer that way. Aria and Reid tried to get me to stay, but I couldn’t put that burden and worry on them. Aria thinks she owes it to me to fix me, but she doesn’t realise she doesn’t actually owe me anything, if anything, I owe her for throwing her life away for me. For everything she has done. I still occasionally stay with them. Still see them almost daily, I just hate not being at home.
Most of the wolves of my father’s Pack house are older, and if I lose control, I know they can take me down if needed. I won’t risk that here with the kids present. I would never forgive myself if I hurt one of them.
As I walked through the clearing towards where Aria was playing on the swings with the kids, she looked up, a smile lighting up her face. I waved heading toward them.
Ryker, seeing me, jumped off the swing mid-air running towards me despite the panicked look his mother gave him. He was eleven now and looked so much like his father with his black hair and silver eyes. The girls had black curly hair, but their mother’s amber eyes. Ryker threw himself into my arms. Catching him, we tumbled backwards onto the grass.
“Aunty, Aunty,” he squealed. I hugged him tight, smelling his hair. He always smelt of cinnamon. Aria comes over, standing over the pair of us looking down at the pair of us on the grass.
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