Epilogue 4
Annette POV:
We hadn’t meant to, not with four nearly grown children. Jamie was the youngest, at 10. Christian was 17 Eleanor 14, and Ben 13. I don’t think they expected the news either.
Still, here I was the fifth time around and Grayson was by my side.
“How could you be pregnant again, mom?” Ellie had whined when I told her.
She knew how it worked of course but I don’t think she realized how much restraint it took especially with a soulmate bond.
I didn’t want her to know that yet quite frankly, I’m sure if I tried to explain it to her my teenage daughter would scream at me from embarrassment.
My water broke late last night, luckily, I’ve been able to sleep a little bit. Grayson on the other hand, still acted like it was our first. He didn’t sleep a wink. He was constantly checking up on me not to mention looking at the security cameras.
He was caring and wanted me to feel safe. I didn’t blame him, considering the things we had survived, but I thought after this long time he would calm down a little.
I was thankful for him, beyond thankful. He never left me, always there ready to massage my back if I needed it, put me in the tub if I needed it, any snack that I wanted, any drink he had on hand.
Every birth my husband was by my side, prepared was an understatement to the efforts he took to keep me comfortable.
I sucked in a breath and the cramping pain pulled at me again. And I let it out with a slow groan.
“That’s it darling there you go,” he rubbed my back.
I was braced against the bed, they were getting closer together, but I still had time after four kids, I knew that much.
Christian had just looked between his father and me in astonishment when we told him. Then he nodded and said. “I shouldn’t be surprised,”
He loved being a big brother, always playing with his younger siblings, constantly making up some ridiculous quest for them to partake in.
I remember when we found out that we were pregnant with Jamie. My eldest jumped up and down screaming with delight at another baby brother a maniacal laugh rang out of him.
My house has been torn apart this way and that over the years. Pillow fights, water balloon wars, paintball guns, and a dirtbike on my dining table.
We let our children enjoy themselves but still they were aware of the world outside our gates. The rogues we brought in were a great help in explaining the darkness out there. The stories they brought, the rampage some packs raught out there none of it was like the life we had here and there was no way for them to understand that unless they saw the difference.
I wouldn’t tell a soul but there was a rouge girl, the daughter of a beta her father forced her to flee after her hand had been offered to stave off war. She came here he was a friend of Amaria. She was 16 but now I saw the way he looked at her, she was the timid girl who’d come here and he was in awe of her.
I know he wanted to ask her but he was giving her space and time. Still, I didn’t miss the way she’d glance at him, or the red rush in her cheeks.
It felt like a lifetime ago that I felt that way about my husband. Now here we were our fifth baby, a happy peppering pack, and a love that’s lasted wars and separation.
How luckier could I be? I remember the days where I thought myself forsaken where I thought I was a martyr to the goddess.
Now here I am the luckiest woman I made it out and I survived and here I am back where it all started bringing another little life into the world.
I pushed another deep breath as Grayson rubbed my back. It would happen soon, and they would start to become one on top of the other.
“You ready?” He asked, kneeling beside me.
“Of course,” I kissed him and giggled for a second at how ridiculous we were.
“Laughing at me, how rude,” he kissed my cheek.
“Laughing at us, we’re beyond our child having years yet here we are,” I gave him a smirk.
“You were the one who said she didn’t have any wolf dreams,” he reminded me.
That was true, this baby was nothing short of a surprise. They didn’t give me any hint of their arrival and we had come to depend on that.
I heaved another great breath as another contraction gripped me. I was a seasoned vet at this point used to the pain I had to endure to meet my children.
“I worry what troublemaker you're bringing into the world to hide from us,” he brushed my hair out of my face and rubbed my back again.
“Oh the worst one yet for sure,” I finished with a deep groan.
I felt panicked and knew I was close. It was time. “Call Simon in,” I told him. He opened the door and ushered in the doctor.
Simon had found better uses for his skills in helping heal the people of this pack. He came in and looked over at me again with the same look of disbelief that we were here again.
“Ready Luna?” He had a pinched smirk.
“I believe so,” he nodded and gave me a quick look and I was right. I decided to stay squatting. I remembered the last time it helped, Grayson helped hold me up and I grit down once then twice. Push, breathe, push, breathe.
Only 15 minutes of this and then there he was another baby boy….
“It’s a girl,” Simon announced.
My husband and I snapped our heads up at him. He had to be confused. There was no way we had been blessed with two daughters.
“You’re joking,” Grayson strained to look over at our new baby.
We hadn’t ever heard of two daughters to an alpha it’s rare for one but two. Two.
Grayson helped me get onto the bed and the girl was laid onto my chest and I looked down at her screaming face.
“Shhhh, shhhh,” I brushed her hair.
We had another daughter. I felt fear grip me it was terrifying to imagine what Eleanor would go through but now we had another daughter to worry about. What daemon would come for them?
“Don’t panic,” Grayson kissed my head. “It will all work out.
*it’ll all work out
We got her wrapped up and she laid on my chest I pulled myself together and after a couple of hours in the new baby bubble, it was time to let the hoard in.
The door creaked open and Christian popped his head in first. “All good?” He asked and we nodded.
He led his siblings into the room all four of them moving slowly over to see the newest member of their mayhem.
“He’s so small,” Jamie giggled.
“She,”
“She,”
We stayed matter of fact and Ellie gasped. “What?” She was shocked and stepped forward to see her sister.
She began to tear up and looked at me, her eyes asking to hold her sister. I handed over the bundle and my girls fit together perfectly.
I realized then how happy I was now, my daughters had each other. I would have given anything to have someone to relate to and here they were together. 14 years apart but they had each other, what more could I ask for?
This was everything I ever needed.
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