Chapter 52

Knight

I can’t help the bark of a laugh that escapes at her words. Oh shit indeed. No matter how fucking badly I wanted to just draw her into my arms and never let her go, I knew we needed to go through everything that had changed in the last year. We also needed to not jump our omega, throw her into the bed and not let her up for the next month, no matter how much my cock thought otherwise.
“We’ve got to get them on the plane back home. Then we will sit and discuss everything and come up with a plan to take down our grandfather.” I start.
She looks over at me, her bright green eyes locked onto mine. She bites her lips and nods before getting to her feet, bending and lifting Kason into her arms.
Nash smacked her on the ass and took him from her. Glaring at her, “You know better than to carry anything around us, even if it is Kason.”
She rolled her eyes and exited the nest, her chest rubbing against mine where I refused to step back. I saw her eyes shut and she took a deep breath, breathing in my scent. I felt her whole-body shudder before she continued on her way.
I smirked over at my brothers as we followed her down, Lucian holding baby Kara and Nash carrying a sleeping Kason. I took in our omega as she walked down the stairs in front of us. She had lost weight. Her hair slightly greasy like she hadn’t been taking care of herself recently. Her smell was slightly off, I wondered what was going on. She had chosen this path, surely, she had been prepared for the consequences of being away from us.
The only reason the three of us hadn’t broke was because we worked out every single day together, we had each other, we supported each other in every way, Aroura hadn’t had that. Yeah, she had Kason, Jaxon and Lena, but she didn’t have her mates. When you separated an Omega from her mates, especially one who was as injured as she had been when she took off, we were lucky to even find her alive.
She pointed to the kitchen, “we will feed everyone before we send them home. Kason has been wanting to see you. I am not going to let him down. I am not going lie to him.”
I glowered, “You mean like you lied to us, when you told us we would face everything together. That we were a team, like you drugged us and ran away, and it took us a damn year to find you again?”
She swung herself around and planted her finger against my chest, “You listen to me Knight Wolfe, I am no longer the sweet little Omega that you lost. I am no longer the broken Omega needing to be saved. If you don’t like what I had to do to fix myself, to save myself,” She points her other hand toward the door as she lashes out, “then there’s the door, don’t let it hit you where the good lord split you.” She turned back around and stomped toward the door. Leaving me standing there speechless.
“You couldn’t give us five fucking minutes of peace before you started on her?” Nash growls.
“What the hell Nash, she left us, am I supposed to baby her…” I start.
Lucian growls at me, “No what you are supposed to do is try to see it from her side of things. Either be the man that I know you can be or get the fuck out so we can take care of her. We will help her get what she needs to be able to come home, but when we come back and you walk away, don’t be there when we get back. Because she doesn’t need a coward or some one who is only there for himself to be waiting.”
I took a step back, shocked. “That isn’t what I meant.”
“Well you can’t blame her for taking the time for fixing what we couldn’t protect her from. Either shut up and listen to her or leave. I for one, am staying with my mate, and going to do whatever it fucking takes to give her what she needs.”
I watched as Nash and Lucian walked away from me carrying the kids. Were they right. Was I lashing out at her like a little bitch just because it had hurt me when she walked away. I was a grown man; I had had my brothers by my side this entire time. She was alone. She had to focus on healing from being shot, then assaulted, losing our child, a massive surgery that took a lung and a kidney. She had felt alone. Lost. Those last days when she was home, she had been so beyond us with her anger and depression that just bogged her down.
Was I being a douche by being upset by seeing all that she had accomplished without me.
Yes, yes, I was. I wasn’t thinking about her. I was thinking of my own pain. Was I allowed this pain, hell yeah. Yet I also needed to be the man that she had chosen as her mate.
I took a deep breath and walked toward the kitchen. I couldn’t let my pain hold me back from her. I loved her. I couldn’t live another day without her. Even if my palm was itching to spank her ass for running from us, instead of to us.
I couldn’t help but smile as I heard Kason’s voice as he talked a mile a minute to the guys.
“KNIGHT!” he yelled, jumping from his chair and launching himself at me. I dropped to my knees and wrapped my arms around his little body. I tucked my face against his little shoulder and just breathed him in. Fuck I had missed this little guy. It felt like he had grown a foot since we had last seen him. Yet, as if he hadn’t changed at all. I pulled back and smiled at him and saw his gap-toothed smile. Fuck he had lost some teeth in the last year.
I tried to ignore the anger I felt for what we had missed. It was honestly one of the hardest things I’ve ever done.
Aroura ignored me as I lifted him into my arms and walked back to the island. I pressed a kiss to Kara’s head and watched Aroura fluttered around the kitchen. As if she couldn’t stand still while we were close to her.
“So, the plan for now is, getting these cuties home and settled in. We are hoping to follow within the month.” She says as she makes sandwiches for everyone. Warming a bottle for Kara, she hands it to Lucian.
He grins and starts to feed her. “Why so long?” he asks.
She looks up at him, “I’m hoping I am overestimating how long it will take. However, Dr. Gwen is worried that being back around you guys will trigger another heat, especially since I haven’t had one since I left, and I wasn’t near you three until now. She wants to play on the safe side.”
I cough and look up at her, “and if you do go into heat? Can your body handle it?”
She glared at me, “Yes, my body still works just as normal as it did before.”
I raised my hands in surrender. She pushed a plate to Kason and the others and left mine near the trash bin. I rolled my eyes and stood up and walked around the island and cornered her in.
She stiffened for a moment then lifted her head up and glared at me, “Don’t make me put you all the list of people I want revenge against. You broke me before when we were kids. I may have forgiven doesn’t mean I forgot. You are on my shitlist.”
I dipped my head down to her ear, “You can’t be mad at me for being hurt.”
She pulled back and glared, “I can, because I would have never spoke to you the way you spoke to me earlier. If you can’t handle this please walk now, because I don’t want you back in my life if you are going to treat me like shit.”
I pulled her tightly against me, lowing my lips to hover over hers. “I am not going no fucking where. You are mine.”