Chapter 26-

Lucas:
I have never felt the amount of complete horror and desperation that I feel now. I’m holding Embers beautiful yet lifeless, bloody body while watching my brother tear Ian into pieces. Literal pieces, he slumped down dead after James tore his throat out but ending him wasn’t enough for my brother. He has lost his hold on his humanity and turned savage seeing our mate bloody and broken. We were following Ian’s rank trail close to the river when we both felt the terror and rage that came barreling through the bond from Ember. The panic she was feeling was unbearable, we knew we had to get to her right away. I hate that we played right into his hand, being lead away from Ember so that he could hurt us in the worst way possible. Looking back knowing what I know now I wish that I would have killed him the first time he touched Ember, when he tried to break such a giving and loving person. I look down at Embers beautiful face brushing her red wild hair back and cradle her to my chest wetting her cut face with my tears of agony. I begin to quietly plead with our deity to spare our beautiful phoenix, the woman who has ensnared both my brother and I and brought hope to our pack. There are still so many things she wants to accomplish this can’t be her fate. I almost don’t hear the small sob and the quiet “Lucas” that follows from my loves mouth. “James! We need to get Ember to the clinic quick she’s breathing!” He sprints across the room grabbing Ember from my trembling arms and tears out of the room. Neither of us waste anytime running our mate to the pack doctor’s office, hoping that she will make it long enough to fight to stay alive. I need her with every part of me. I don’t think that I can go on if she leaves us. Wherever my love goes I will follow even if that is into the arms of my goddess. After Tanner our pack doctor and his assistant take her to a room that they can work on her and send us out here where we will be out of the way we wait for what feels like hours pacing back and forth the small sitting area waiting for news on Ember’s condition. When we brought her to the clinic she was barely breathing and mostly unconscious. Tanner and his assistant took her back into the exam room to give her a blood transfusion and to check her over for internal bleeding and other serious injuries. She looked beat to hell and so weak on that table. The waiting makes me feel hopeful, if I’m waiting out here then that means she is alive, but the other side of that coin is at any minute my longtime friend and our pack doctor could come out of that room and end forever any happiness I’ve found. I want nothing more than to resurrect Ian so that I can kill him again. Both James and I pause when Tanner comes out his smock covered in my mates’ blood. “Our Luna is alive and stable. She thankfully didn’t suffer any internal injuries and she doesn’t seem to be suffering any memory loss. She does have quite the concussion and we had to stitch her up in multiple places, some of the wounds were quite deep. We will have to be careful to make sure we keep her free from infection, but as long as she receives proper care and doesn’t suffer anymore head trauma she should recover. I am also hopeful that she will regain full eyesight in her left eye although scaring will be significant. The pups heart rates are in perfectly normal range and when we did the ultrasound, they both looked perfectly healthy.” My brother holds up his hand interrupting the doctor. “Did you just say pups? Ember is pregnant?” “Oh, I’m sorry Alpha I shouldn’t have assumed you knew. I only thought you already knew because when Ember woke up, she asked if her babies were okay.” James and I share a look of confusion. I know she didn’t say anything to me about being pregnant before her attack. Tanner continues his update on my mate while I try and process the whirlwind that I feel trapped in. “The Luna is carrying two pups: twins. The scans showed that she is about eight weeks along. Congratulations!” In shock we both sit down letting all the information settle and taking a breath for the first time knowing our girl is going to be okay. I lock eyes with my James my Alpha, my best friend and my brother and I am about a thousand percent sure we are both thinking the same thing. Which of us is the father of those babies?