Chapter 149
Annette PoV
“He has no wolf. How long do you think it will take him to heal?” We were hoping for a guesstimate of how much time we had.
“I would say half the human time is my best guess,” Simon attempted shrugging his shoulder knowing we gave him an impossible question.
“From what you tell me, you definitely broke some of his ribs and gave him a concussion, from what I heard,”
“So we have at least a month at most two?” Grayson pressed.
“I would be conservative and say a month,” Simon warned us.
“A month it is,” my husband agreed.
He was healing at a much faster rate than his father would be. He had pure alpha blood and his wolf to help him. He came to meet black and blue when I shut from being punched so many times. As furious as I was to see him in that state, he still was the far more fearsome of us two, when he saw the bullet wound on my arm.
“how dare he. How dare he do this to you,”
“It'll be gone by the end of the week, other than that I’m fine,” I reminded him, but he ran his thumb over my bandage and dark mist covered his eyes.
We took it slow that week showing up our defenses we stopped shaking in rogues as we realized that was how they got in. We had enough people at that point and we needed to make sure that they were ready.
Ordered up all the silver arrows that he could, ordering in oil, drums, and silver knives and swords. They would be much more modern than we were, but still, I had faith. It wasn’t going to be a long-range assault for long.
We have plans of our own to try and get the upper hand on him for once. All of the lying and cheating can only get you so far before you run out of the same old tactics.
It Was different this time, we knew the battle was coming, so we took our time. My husband and I are finding more and more reasons to be next to each other, not often leaving each other's company, basking in the other's voice.
The sun seemed to shine on us, so everybody else had a cloud hanging over their heads. We were in a grace period before the firestorm hit. We had to try and pull ourselves together and get all that we could get done before he came.
My mind didn’t wanna be bothered by that, it would be tormented when it happened why drag it out this long?
And I started taking walks together, holding our son, and watching as he stumbled stand on his own. I hope we can see him take his first steps, and that he will have more siblings to join him.
God gave us one grace time and I was not pregnant. My heart had come and gone not leaving me with another child in this mess. For that, I would be eternally grateful.
“ When this is all over We should go on a trip just us. A Weekend away,” he suggested.
I didn’t know how we would manage and find the time considering how busy we were without a war, and it would be foolish to leave just after defeating our enemies but still, I said yes.
“I would love that,” I told him.
I was desperate for that, for a moment, just us three. No threat loomed overhead, haunting us as we walked our steps. My parents are not breathing down his neck to keep me safe. My brothers not watching him to make sure he's still who says he is.
Our lives had become so very cramped in this short period of time. I wanted nothing more than for us to go back to the way it was when it was just us our space and our people. When our biggest problem was his trust issues.
It was a foreign thought thinking that this would all end soon, that we wouldn’t have to live like there was no tomorrow, we could have plans, have hopes again.
Perhaps maybe one day I would find myself back to the way I was or at least some form of her. Where I was a romantic, and all I thought about was my husband and babies. My worries were my people and providing for them, not praying they made it through the day.
what a beautiful thing that would be.
I didn’t let myself think about it too much because if I lost that image in my head if I actually let myself believe it could happen and it slipped through our fingers, I think I’d shatter.
I couldn’t let myself do that, we had our son he needed us. so we spent our time in the sun enjoying it and playing pretend, Letting this small respite save us.
I spent my days watching those around me and I saw James sit and chat with our warriors. He had found his place among them, and I thought to myself what a horrible thing it would be if he had to go home after this. I don’t think it was where he belonged anymore. If he survived this I wanted to ask him to stay.
“Do you think we have a shot?” I asked my husband as I lay in his arms one night.
“I hope we do but that’s all I can do,” he kissed my forehead and ran his fingers up and down my back.
“I can’t let myself think too much of what we stand to lose,”
Made me smile in those moments, the small ones where we revealed just how similar we were. I wish we weren’t so that these thoughts that flooded my head day in and day out didn’t plague him as well, but we had each other.
“ I don’t think I should leave our bed for at least three days if we make it out of this alive,” he kissed my naval as we lay there in the morning light.
“That's highly unproductive of you Alpha,” I chuckled trying to picture my ever-moving partner that still and lazy.
I think he would actually implode if he sat in one place that long.
“It will be my reward for keeping you safe to have you all to myself that long,”
“Greedy man, what about our child,” I scolded him jokingly as he laid his head on my belly and played with his hair.
“It’ll be for him, he needs siblings after all,” his deep chuckle vibrated on my body and warmed me from the inside out.
I laughed merrily. He was far too consumed with me and I was far too consumed with him. We were focused on each other avoiding our fate as we waited for our enemy to lick his wounds but I didn’t care I felt we deserved it after all we’d endured and all that was coming our way.
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