Evelyn POV
A few days have passed since I was released from hospital and approved for house recovery. Noah and I have been speaking on the mind-link a lot, fully aware that Reuben won’t like the idea of me returning to the Silver Moon pack. But it is my home, it is my pack and as the Alpha I have responsibilities to complete…recovering or not.
Noah and I were back in his old doctor’s office, the one that held so many strange memories from four years ago. In fact it looked the same as when we left, I don’t know if any other doctor has been assigned this room since.
“I’m happy to sign you off to return to Silver Moon, I would like to continue to monitor you back there…”
“I’m fine Noah, I feel fine.” I cut him off, there was so much to do I wanted to get involved in what Reuben and Pierce were working on. Whatever it was, they were remaining tight lipped about it. Pierce had been amazing, the kids adored him and he totally immersed himself into their daily lives as needed snaps every now and again. My wolf still struggling with her energy levels.
“You might not feel the same in two week’s time.” He sighs, looking down at my blood results. His glasses fall down his nose slightly, only for him to subtly push them back up.
“What do you mean?” I didn’t understand his comment, the poison was out of my body now and my heart was beating strong. Yes I had a scar on my chest and on my leg but that was nothing in the grand scheme of things.
“You’ve been marked…by an alpha…by an Alpha King.”
“Okay…”
“This has never happened before, I’ve been reading up but I can’t find any historical reference to an alpha marking an alpha.” I could tell he had been researching, between monitoring me and ensuring the safety of the Silver Moon pack and our family here, he was almost at exhaustion level. Noah always found it hard to step away and take a break. I suppose that’s why he was such a good doctor.
“Noah, Reuben and I have children, it’s not like… you know…that I’m a virgin.” This is really awkward, I could feel my face blushing, my cheeks becoming incredibly hot all of a sudden. Noah might be in doctor mode but he was still not. my best friend and beta, doctor or
“I just need you to be prepared. An alpha mark is notoriously the hardest one for the first heat…”
“When you haven’t got children already …honestly Noah I think you are worrying about something you don’t need to.” Reuben and I had already been together, had kids together…it’s not like I’m a Luna that’s just turned eighteen and being claimed by her alpha mate.
“Evelyn, he is your mate but I am your beta and best friend, I have a right to be worried. You really scared me…” He was right, I would feel the same if the tables were turned. He had always been in my life, that’s why when Odin and Vicky threatened to end it, I needed to protect him, I needed to keep him safe.
“Look if it makes you feel better, why don’t we return to Silver Moon but go to the Lake House first. I think the kids would like that break…a chance to press the reset button.
The kids can play with Reuben in the water, you can spend quality time with. Cassandra and I can rest. My favourite spot on the chair looking out at the lake, with a mug and book in hand. Sounds perfect to me. Just what the doctor ordered..”
“I am the Doctor!”
“Then order it.” I smile, chuckling with him. I think that is just what I needed, to go back to my restful place, the place I loved the most. The kids will love introducing it to Reuben and playing in the lake, while I heal my wolf.
It didn’t take long for Reuben to pack his bags and for us to drive to the Lake House. I felt better being nearby my pack but Reuben was right…I think long term we need to look at land in- between. We were both active alphas, we both needed to be on or near our pack…there just wasn’t any other way around it.
I invited Donnie and Harry to join us but they were desperate to get back to Beatrice, and quite rightly so. They had left her early in the morning to come to our aid.
I was sitting on one of the chairs looking out to the lake, a blanket wrapped around my legs and a cup of tea in my hand. The lake looked peaceful, it always did. The soft ripples forming each time a bird pecked underneath the water’s surface in search for fish only added to the tranquillity of this place.
“I’m all unpacked. Rex has said he wants to go swimming does he have a swimsuit?” Reuben breaks me out of my peaceful resting as he leans into my neck from behind me, placing a kiss on his mate mark. The kiss made me shiver with ecstasy again, a reaction he enjoyed watching first hand.
“Does it feel weird when I do that?”
“No, I like it…” I smile up at him.
“You like it?” He teases me with seductive eyes as he crouches down by my side. He tucks the blanket higher up my body, making sure I am safe and secure.
“When can I mark you?” It comes out like word vomit, I had been thinking about it over the past few days. How I could feel my wolf’s determination mixed with desperation in making him ours, in marking him in return.
“Whenever you like. Maybe we should have a ceremony? It would help join the two alliances, I know I took your choice away but I had no choice and I don’t regret it at all.”
“I know, its just…” A frown forms upon my face, I didn’t expect a ceremony. That might take months to organise a suitable date and location. Especially under the current high alert security detail he and Noah are running between them.
“What… What do you want Evelyn?” He gently asks, a man wanting the best for his mate. I take in his charming smirk… oh he knows what I want. He stands up, pulling something up with him that had been by his side. How did I not notice it?
“What is that doing here?” I ask, looking down at the royal sword with disdain for what it represents to me.
“I’ve ordered for all my warriors to have them on person, as part of their armour….what?” Reuben’s thought process was innocent but it couldn’t stop the anger rising in the back of my throat.
“Evelyn?” He shouts after me as I pick up the sword and walk towards the lake, dragging it on the ground as I moved.
Shit, it was surprisingly heavy. Or maybe I wasn’t as healed yet as I had thought. With a swing and a scream, I toss the sword with all my might into the lake.
I can’t, I won’t have that thing in my eyesight, on my property. I just can’t. Its represents pure evil to me.
“Evelyn, what the hell?” He roars at me from the decking of the lake house as I start to walk back to my peaceful, or what was peaceful sitting place.
“I can’t have that thing on my property Reuben!”
“Evelyn…I..”
But I couldn’t concentrate on what he was saying. A pack link had just formed into place, I needed to get back home. A pack baby had been born..
Reuben POV
I took me a few hours to make peace with Evelyn, she was stubborn as hell, we both were. To me it was a sword, a weapon but to here it represented something else…so I swallowed my pride and ensured my men were disarmed when around her…just to be sure.
I couldn’t have her flipping out at my warriors and waving a sword at them. She wouldn’t, but she was anything but predictable.
I can see why she loved being at the lake house, it was picturesque and the perfect place to have a break. But Evelyn seemed keen to return and after a private mind-link conversation between herself and Noah, something that she clearly was too pissed off at me to discuss openly, he agreed. Thankfully she had calmed down on the car drive, my hand placed on her thigh drawing soothing circles. I could feel her now, start to feel her emotions more, feel her wolf more. And I loved it.
We hadn’t been back long, we were talking in her office when the front door went, followed by an excitable squeal from Elspeth. I watch Evelyn walk out into the hallway followed by a gasp as she places her hands to her mouth.
“Oh Beatrice…I felt her birth and we came back as soon as possible.” Evelyn walks over to Beatrice and takes a peak at the baby resting in her arms. So that’s the reason we came back earlier than planned, and for Noah and Evelyn’s private mind-lonks. Although I still think she was angry at me over the sword debacle.
“Thank you Alpha, Donnie and Harry made it back just in time. We’ve named her Harper.”
“Oh, she is just adorable… Reuben come and look..” Evelyn’s eyes search behind for me, as she places her hand out to pull me to her. In this moment I want her to be that happy, for us to share that moment together ourselves. That I want to have more pups with her.
“Congratulations.” I take a peak at the baby adorned with pink baby clothing, a mother to a boy already making the most in the change in gender this time around.
“Excuse me, I’ve got to take this…” I make my apologies from my ringing mobile phone in my trouser pocket.
“Nate?” I had ordered Nate to stay back at Red Stone but to report any findings from his research as well as Pierce’s to me immediately.
“Alpha, Alpha Pierce is on speakerphone with me.”
“Reuben, you won’t believe this…. we’ve found the secret person. The person your Father has been hiding.” Pierce doesn’t even give me a chance to greet him before he starts giving me information.
“Oh? And?” I ask, my intrigue getting the better of me.
“We found his apartment and hacked the CCTV cameras. The guard that escaped with Vicky from the cells…do you remember?” Nate continues. The bastard that betrayed me, leading to me being shot and left for dead. Him …yes him I remember.
“He’s on CCTV running out of the apartment block with a young woman. We are tracing her now, but Reuben…”
“There’s more?” I chuckle maybe not the most appropriate time but when Nate had something bit between his teeth he really went all out.
“I’ve seen her face…She’s the spitting image of you.”
“I wouldn’t say that, she’s beautiful.” I can hear Pierce scoff in the background.
“What does that mean?” My eyebrows furrowing, what was he getting at.
“Reuben, we think you have a sister…”
