Chapter 61

Two Years Later

Scott's POV

I turned back around unsure if I should leave. What if she needed me? She was still getting over the flu she got from Tyler last week. We were only here for another few days before we left to go back to the Kingdom in Fance.

I only came back here for the anniversary.

And Rosalie's birthday.

The thought of my little two year old opening all of her birthday gifts tommorrow made my heart swell with happieness and excitment for the day she will have tommorrow.

"Scott, I have her go on and have fun." Penelope, Rosalie's aunty smiles at me as she holds my look-alike in her arms. Her brown eyes twinkling in the sun as I stared at her little face.

After Felicity attacked Brooklyn, Wyatt had her dragged to the cells. Penelope honestly did nothing wrong and was just a innocent bystander, caught by Zena's wrath.

Felicity has been since been stripped of her status and made a Omega after Penelope told the council everything that happened that night in Ryan's apartment. How her sister admitted to finding out that Ryan was her mate after his family brought him back from the dead, and recorded the violent attack then had it sent to Brooklyn. After hearing everything, even the details that we knew happened durring their marrage, Clara helped alot because of her gift with her visions. So all of that just helped the case.

The council cleared both Brooklyn and Penelope. However had Ryan lived he would have been put to death for the things he did, and if Brooklyn was still alive I think her wolf may have been dosed with silver to keep from ever retuning.

I'm just sad to say that Brooklyn never got to see justice served to the ones who hurt her. She slipped into a coma and was deemed brain dead. We kept her on life support long enough so that Rosalie could be delivered via cesarean section.

I introduced my daughter to her mother and said goodbye to her moments later. I don't think I ever felt as broken as I did when I heard that machine flatline and not register her heart beat.

The six pound, nine ounce baby bundled in a pink blanket needed me. So for her I lived. My daughter is the reason I fight, why still keep going today.

"Alright. But call me please if she becomes an issue." I urged her. I didn't like leaving my baby with anybody, even though she enjoyed being around all of her cousins and grandparents. But she adored Penelope and her mate.

They had a newborn, and with Rosalie getting over the flu I didn't want to bring her over but Kendrick told me it would be alright even though i was just trying to keep their son from getting sick.

Her parents have just been waiting for her to find her fated mate so she could take the role as Beta/Beta Female. Her younger brother never wanted the spot because he never got the Beta genes his family had, but even though it was offered to change his status he still didn't want it.

Speaking of Penelope's parents. The council gave some leniency to them because they were the packs Beta's. They may have stripped Felicity, but they allowed her to remain inside the pack. But because it was an open trial and the whole pack was in attendance, everybody knows what she did.

So she keeps to herself, hidden away because she knows she is the reson why my mate and my child's mother is dead.

Getting back to my baby girl. Her uncle's? Well they spoil the crap out of her when she is here. Her favorite one being Jordan, and it urkes Zachary and Levi to no end. Bailey however being her only aunt has a different kind of thing with her. She has Tyler and Rosalie likes being there because he's only three and half years older than her and he will share his toys with her when no one else will.

All her other cousins are younger except for Tyler and ge is the sweetest to her. I think it's because of her eyes, he will sometimes tell me that he misses his aunt when he looks at his cousin and I can't help but feel sad when he does.

I gave Rosalie a thumbs up, if she gave me one back I was good to go, and if she smiled with it then she was golden. She removed her thumb from her mouth and stuck it high in the air with and giggle.

"Daddy," she giggled my name and I smiled at her. I shook my nerves off now that my daughter has given me the all clear for the evening. She told me that daddy was good to go and have some fun with her uncles.

I went and jumped into my truck. I waved at Penelope as I drove out of her driveway, her and Rosalie waving at me in return as I left.

Arriving at the bar, I pull my phone out and open up the text I got. I smile at the photo Penelope tagged me in on social media, Rosalie was eating ice cream and had it on her nose with a cheeky grin, her eyes closed as she smiled for the camera.

My daughter was a photogenic little princess. And she knew it.

I grabbed my wallet and keys and got out of my truck. I walked into the bar and scanned the bar for my family. Spotting them i went over and sat down between Leroy and Zachary.

"About time, what took you so long?" Jordan asked me.

"I didn't want to leave Rosa!" I smiled as her face popped into my head. Her face was always there, from the time my eyes opened to the time I went to sleep.

"Well we haven't seen you in six months. Let's have just one night without worring about kids alright?" Evan said and Baliey lifted up her glass of beer. "Amen to that honey."

"Arent you guys trying for another one?" Levi asked them downing his shot.

"Yes we are. But it don't mean we can't complain while having fun while trying for baby number two. Isn't that right Caleb?" Bailey smirked as her cousin her chuckled.

"We tried too hard." He sipped his beer leaning back in his seat "Got two the first time. Tried again for one and got two damn more." He shook his head. "Amiee, won't even look at me." Their twins were only just over a year. A boy and girl, four under two. I can hardly handle Rosalie sometimes. I don't think I could do four.

"Hey my mom had triplets, fully expecting twins." Jordan piped up like that mattered at all right now, so we all laughed at him.

"Yeah, you were just the stowaway who got lost in the baggage claim." Zachary chuckled, Jordan threw something at him and Zachary just barely moved out of the way to avoid it.

As we all laughed and mingled with one another. I got a whif of a scent i thought died a long time ago. I glanced around confused but not seeing anything but people in the bar having fun and others setting up the speakers for the karaoke station. I let it go thinking it was in my head. My phone rang and I looked down at it. It was Penelope. It was a video call.

"I'll be right back." I said getting up from the seat i was in.

I walked out of the bar and called Penelope back. She answered it instantly. Her's and Rosalie's face popped up on the screen. I smiled immediately seeing my daughter's face.

"Hi baby girl, are you having fun with aunt Penny?" I cooed at my baby.

Her face I could tell was still sticky with ice cream. "Scott she asked me to call you. Said she had to tell you something. That it was a big secret!" Penelope whispered i to the phone, acting like she was keeping it from Kendrick and Blake, her newborn son who I could see in his rocker in the background asleep.

"Really, then it must be big if only me and you know what it is, Rosa! Tell daddy this secret." I whispered back like we were all some type of secret agent or a spy.

Rosalie giggled mischievously and cupped her mouth with her hands as she whispered. "Mommy told me to tell you, that she misses you too." I blinked at the phone not knowing how to respond to that. Penelope was also a little speechless.

I've been very open with Rosalie about her mother. I have told her that she was no longer here with us like her cousin's mothers are, I just told her that her magic hurt her and others around her and that is why she isn't here anymore. I left all the horrible things out. I know she is envious when she comes back here and wants a mothers love more when she sees her aunts with their kids, but they give her just as much attention if not more because she isn't around as often.

Brooklyn's grandma Robin passed a year ago peacefully in her sleep. Noah's dad did a few months after too along with Samuel, he got into an accident that tore his heart into two and he died before getting to the hospital. I was here visiting when he died.

I came back for Dan and Robin's funeral, I also try to come and see them every holiday, and if not then then atleast on Rosalie's birthday.  If i trusted myself to let them take her with them for a few weeks then I would allow them, but my heart wouldn't dare let me do that.

I snapped out of it and gave my daughter a bright smile. She must have been thinking about her mom and wanted to make me feel better. She knkws how much i miss her. "Thank you princess. Daddy will see you tomorrow for your birthday okay. Be a good girl for aunty Penelope and uncle Kendrick alright?" She nodded her head vigorously.

"Go on and play with the tea set Kenny set up." Penelope rushed Rosalie away. After she was off Penelope looked back at me with a sympathetic gaze.

"I'm sorry, I had no clue. I thought she just wanted to tell you how much fun she was having and that I let her feed Blake and-"

"It's alright Penelope. She is two, she don't know what tommorrow means for us. Only that it is her birthday, let's leave it at that. She didn't mean any harm." She really didn't. It actually warmed my heart a little and lifted some weight off my shoulders.

Tommorrow marks two years since my angel left me to be with the Goddess. But in her lassing she gave me something I wish we could have raised together. I know she didn't want her, but I just know someplace deep down inside, she did.

"Have agood night, Penny." I smiled and ended the call.