Chapter 47

Nash
I lift Aroura into my arms, sighing as she lays her head against my chest. We walk back into the nest, and she looks around, “Where’s the mess?” she whispers.
“I had the guys come clean it up. I thought maybe a fresh start would be better. I didn’t want you to feel guilty for how you feel. So we are going to start fresh okay baby girl.”
She wipes at her eyes and nods.
“Now how about we cuddle up here and put a movie on, we’ll get Kason to come in for a snuggle puddle.”
She lifts my shirt to her nose and inhales deeply before nodding, “I’d like that.”
I smile and kiss her forehead before easing her to the nest bed. I pulled my cell out of my pocket and sent out a text to my brothers to grab Kason and to come to the nest to watch movies.
“Would you like anything to drink or snack?” I ask before I send the message.
She swallows and looks down. “I haven’t been able to keep food down. Doc has me on nutritional drinks for now. And water. Lots of water.”
I smile and drop down beside her, pulling her to me as I type out the rest of my message and hit send.
I grab the remote from behind the cushion and lower the screen from the ceiling. Pulling up Disney plus because knowing Kason was coming, we were going to end up watching something from there.
“Mommy!” his little voice screeches as he runs into the room, before slowing down and wiggling between me and Aroura. She smiles down at him and kisses his face. Her face relaxed for the first time since we saved her. Since she woke up and realized what we did.
I hate to admit it, but Lucian was right. Letting her push herself away from us wasn’t what she needed. It was this. Us. All of us, our family to help bring her back to us. I didn’t want to imagine what would have happened if she had been alone.
“What do you want to watch little man?”
He looked at the options on the screen, “Encanto!”
I grinned and clicked over to the movie right as my brothers walked in carrying trays of snacks and drinks, Lucian handing a pink and black tumbler to Aroura, I look closer and see its textured and has black skulls and flower designed.
“Doc said it was okay to make the nutritional drink into a smoothie. Said it would taste better that way.” He said as she thanked him.
“Candy!” Kason said grabbing for Knights tray that was loaded down with different candies, popcorn, and chips. I also noticed that the tray was actually a box of pizza.
“Dude, did you leave anything in the kitchen at all?” I laugh.
Aroura looked up and smiled softly at Knight,
“Lena, wanted to send more so be glad we restrained her. She had like fifty premade tray full of meals between the two big freezers not including what she had us buy up at the store.”
“Yeah, Lena cooks when she is stressed.” Aroura whispered.
Kason hugs Arouras arm and nods then says, “I want to watch this movie!”
I laugh and lower the lights with one button before I push play, and we get lost in the world of Encanto.
My mind refusing to shut down as I think about what I had walked in on. How could I help her. I have never been in her shoes. We needed to push her to reach out to a therapist. We needed to get her to realize that none of this was ever her fault.
I could hear her softly breathing beside me, realizing that she had fallen asleep with Kason in her arms, her head on my arm. Knight at her back and Lucian laying with body between her legs, his head on her stomach. Kason was snoring softly. I turned off the movie and sighed, I couldn’t do anything right now. We already had multiple teams around the country taking down more of the organization.
My mind focused on what she had said earlier. She felt like she failed to keep our child safe. She was taking the blame on herself for what that monster had done to her.
We may have lost this precious life, but it wasn’t anyone’s fault. From what I’ve read miscarriages can happen to anyone, and with what Aroura had just experienced the trauma to her entire body there was just too much stress. I couldn’t focus on what could have been, what should have been. I needed to focus on getting her mental health back to where it needs to be. Nothing was more important that that right now.
I knew it was going to be an ongoing battle. That living with what had happened to her wasn’t just going to disappear because we wanted it to. We were going to have to do everything in our power to stand by her. To hold her when she needed us.

I close my eyes and drift off to sleep with my family surrounding us.
The next morning I woke up and immediately knew something was wrong. I lifted my head and found Lucian and Knight asleep beside me, Aroura and Kason weren’t here. I jumped up avoiding the guys as I ran out of the room. “Aroura!” I yelled out, I checked the bathroom then the pack room, not finding her I rushed through the house, finding it completely empty other than us. I pulled my phone and winced. We had been knocked out for two days. She had somehow drugged us. She was gone. My little omega had lied. She was going over my knee the minute I found her. She wasn't ready for the reckoning that was coming her way. I ran back to the nest and woke my brothers up, quickly telling them what happened. I then grabbed my laptop and started working. She better be prepared what was coming her way.