Chapter 191
I watched as my wife’s face went from full of happiness to closed down and scared in a blink of an eye and I didn’t need to turn around to know why.
Megan had stepped into the doorway. Making herself known even when I had told her to stay in the hallway.
Turning on my heel I glowered at her.
Catching my look Megan smiled. It wasn’t the same kind of smile as she used to wear back when I thought she was my mate and tried to trap me. That was the old Megan and she wasn’t the same woman anymore. I knew that but Cassie didn’t.
She looked at the blonde she wolf and saw her enemy and a rival to my affections. And back five years ago maybe that had been true , but it wasn’t true now. Megan had come clean, and she had grown as a person because of it.
There was no baby between me and Megan. She had made the whole thing up. Mental illness and jealousy had made her do some unspeakable things but we had worked through it and come out the other side closer friends than I had ever imagined.
“It’s ok.” She said , her eyes glued to mine and a soft smile on her face. “I’ll be right outside if you need me.” Lifting her eyes to Cassie who was still as still as a board, she nodded her head in a show of submission.
“It’s good to see you awake your highness.” There was submission in her voice as well. “Boys you be good for your mama and papa.” She said with a wink.
“We will aunty Megan.” They chorused back.
Again her eyes met mine. “I’ll be right outside if you need me Julian.” Another smile and she closed the door softly behind her. Only her scent remained, perfuming the sterile hospital room with its floral scent.
“Noah,” I scooped up one of my children and then the other in my arms and stood awkwardly at the side of Cassie’s bed. “Niall, this is your mama.”
Both boys went still as they stared down at the woman who had given birth to them but didn’t know them.
“Hi.” Cassie said in a tear tinged whisper. She hadn’t moved on the bed, but one glance down and I could see her gripping the sheets over her in rhythmic bursts.
“You’re a pretty mama.” Noah said.
“Like sleeping beauty.” Niall added. “We did it in school.”
“Prince had to kiss the pretty lady.” Noah continued. “Did daddy kiss you or-“ he lifted his face to mine. His eyes narrowed in a question. “We are princes and we kissed her. Did we wake mama up?”
I shot a look in her direction and watched as her face softened. A warm genuine smile spread across her face.
“You sure did. My handsome little princes.” Her eyes darted from one to the other and her smile grew. “Do
You think you could tell me that story? It’s been a long time since I heard it.”
“Sure.” Niall reached down, asking her to grab him and I raised an eyebrow. That’s all it took, there was no awkwardness between them. They might not have actually met before but they weren’t strangers.
I couldn’t help but smile as I placed a twin on either side of her.
“Try not to wear mama out ok?” Taking a step back I stood next to the doctor.
“Are you tired?” Noah asked, reaching for her face with his little hand. He smoothed his hand down her cheek like he was trying to memorise it.
“A middle, baby.” She admitted.
“We can tell you all the good bedtime stories like papa does for us.” Niall clapped his hands loudly. I expected Cassie to wince back but she didn’t.
“I would like that very much if you can remember them all.” Cassie said softly.
Noah started talking first , interrupted incessantly by his brother until the story was a jumbled mess of words that didn’t really make sense to even me and I was used to their storytelling but Cassie didn’t take her eyes from them as they chatted on.
She didn’t look at me once. All of her attention was on her boys and I couldn’t be prouder.
“She’s magnificent.” I whispered half to myself.
Next to me doctor Howard nodded. “She always has been. You’re a very lucky man Julian.”
Mutely I nodded. I was a lucky man that she was my wife, no matter what I had thought at the start of our marriage.
“I’m not sure If I’m lucky enough to get her to forgive me though.” I muttered. And there it was. The truth.
How could I make it up to her and make things right between us when all she remembered was the bad and then a made up version of our lives?
Doctor Howard turned her head sharply to look at me. Catching her look I stared back. “I’ll do what I can to make her, though.” I added ,quickly. “Seeing her with our boys, seeing her smile -“ I drifted off my eyes full of tears as I watched her smile at the boys on either side of her.
I had been such a fool.
Mate
The word rumbled through me, chased by so many feelings of loss and love that I took an involuntary step backwards before I could help myself.
Cassie was my mate. She had always been my mate. I’d struggled against those feeling for so long. Refused to see her for the woman in the hospital that had saved me and given me her love without asking any question.
I had known that woman was my fated mate but I had refused to believe it was Cassie. I had been too angry at the world back then and too blinded by other things.
It had taken almost losing her to make me see.
I wasn’t blind to it anymore.
Cassie was my mate and I was going to do everything I could to make it up to her.
Almost like she could hear my thoughts or maybe feel the spark that had just ignited between us, Cassie finally lifted her head to me. Her hands stroking over as she caressed the boys silky hair.
Mate.
It roared again in my head.
For a second Cassie looked confused and then she smiled at me and my heart exploded with happiness.
Log in with Google Account
Chapters
Favorite
Settings
