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Three months later
To say that being a father has changed my life would be an understatement. You don’t know how much you can love another person until you hold your child in your arms for the first time and your heart aches because it’s so full of love. The mate bond is one thing, that is a gift given by the Moon Goddess and nothing could ever compare to that. But being a father feels like the greatest achievement of my life.
My son is perfect, of course. All ten fingers, all ten toes. He was born with soft fuzz for hair that has started to grow in now and he definitely got my golden, curly locks. However, every time I look into his gray eyes, I see his mother. Angel says his eyes are the only thing he got from her and that we’ll have a mini-me walking around very soon.
Works for me. I figure our little girl will look just like her mother. I hope so, it means she’ll be beautiful. Yes, it means I’ll have to go all Alpha on any male that looks at her but having a miniature version of Angel walking around sounds perfect to me.
And yes, I got my sweet little mate pregnant almost immediately after Richie’s birth. It’s not my fault that she’s so perfect that I can’t keep my hands and other body parts off of her. She did ask me to fill the packhouse with the evidence of our love and who am I to deny my Luna anything.
So today, Richie and I are at the office in the human town while my sweet mate gets some much needed rest. This pregnancy, while not problematic, is causing her more fatigue than Rich’s. The doctor says it’s because I didn’t give her enough time to heal in between, but Angel just laughs at that. ‘Advanced healing ‘, she tells the doctor every time.
Either way, it’s a great excuse for me to have alone time with my son and give my mate a chance to nap without interruption.
My office has been renovated to include everything for a baby now, so working from here and bringing my son is no problem.
Dustin joins me in my office, taking every opportunity to hold and feed Richie that he can get. He even changes diapers on occasion. I know it’s a struggle for him. He and Sarah have been unable to have pups. They are still trying, but with her scarring from years of abuse, it hasn’t happened yet.
“We’re thinking of adopting.” He says, out of the blue while he’s feeding my son.
He looks up at me before looking back down at Richie.
There are several orphans from the war, children who lost both of their parents. We would have adopted anyway, but we were waiting to see if we would get pregnant first, knowing that Sarah will probably have a difficult pregnancy.”
Sarah and Angel set up a section of the first floor of the packhouse for the pups. that lost their parents during the war. Some lost both parents in the battle and some lost one in the battle and one when they couldn’t survive after the death of their mate.
“I think there are still five pups that need homes.” I tell him.
“Sarah has gotten attached to a little girl. She’s two and struggles a lot with the loss of her parents. Sarah spends a lot of time with her and has even brought her up to our rooms, with Angel’s permission of course.”
“I know you two would make excellent parents. We’ll go through the proper procedures, but I have no concern about you adopting one of the pups.” I tell him.
He surprises me by handing me the application. It’s been filled out and already signed by him, Sarah and Angel. My signature is the only one required for make it official.
I sign the document and stand, going to my friend. “Here, let me have my son, you take this to your mate and let her know that you are officially parents, starting today. If you need anything at all for your little girl, just let me know.”
His smile is as bright as the sun. “Thank you, Liam. This means a lot to both of us.”
I take my son from him and give him a slap on the back. “Go, I’ll finish up here and we’ll celebrate later when I’m back.”
“Great, see you soon Alpha!” He turns and practically runs to the elevator in his excitement to get to his mate and let her know.
I finish up my work, getting with George and my assistant giving instructions for the next week while I work from the packhouse. By the time I’m done packing up my son to leave, I’m the last person in the office.
“Let’s turn off all the lights so we can go home and see mommy, what do you say?” I ask my son. I don’t care what anyone says, my son is brilliant and. understands every word I’m saying. Even if he doesn’t, he looks at me like he does, so I’m assuming he does. Angel just laughs at me when I tell her he understands me.
“He chews on his toes too, Liam. Is that also a show of his intelligence?” Hey, he’s still a baby, he does baby things, too. I didn’t say that he’s coordinated yet. That will probably come next month.
As we’re walking toward the elevator, I hear it ding and the elevator doors start opening. I immediately push my son in his car seat behind a desk and take a defensive stance. No one should be coming up here this late in the evening.
When the doors open, I’m stunned at what I see. It’s Audra, but the difference in her from when I saw her months ago to now, is shocking. Back then, she was one of the most beautiful and exotic women I’d ever seen. Now, she is bone-thin, her hair is missing in chunks and she looks nearly dead.
“Audra!” I grab her before she falls.
When she sees me, there are tears in her eyes, her eyes are bloodshot. Or no, not bloodshot, more like the blood vessels in her eyes have burst. She looks terrible. “Liam. They are coming. They are coming for them.”
I pick her up, bringing to a chair. “Who is coming Audra? Who did this to you?”
She grabs the front of my shirt. “The hunters. They know about the Guardians, and they are coming, Liam.”
Three years later
It’s amazing how much changes in three years. Two days after Sarah and Dustin officially adopted Sienna, Sarah found out she was pregnant. It worked out okay because her pregnancy was very difficult. As expected, she was on bed rest for most of her pregnancy. Dustin would take Sienna with him to his office or I would keep her with me, having set up a kid’s play area in my office. Sometimes, Dustin would carry Sarah to her desk when she got too stir-crazy and needed a break from sitting in her bed all day. At least being in the packhouse, he and I were always close and could monitor her.
The doctor told her she’d have to have a C-Section because her internal scarring was too severe to allow for a baby to pass through the birthing canal. And five months after adopting Sienna, they welcomed baby Jackson Dustin Roberts into the world. They named him after our previous Gamma, since he had given his life protecting Sarah and the others who were in the bunker that day.
Cara and Rik finally had their second baby. I know Cara was frustrated with Rik’s unwillingness to have a second child. After everything that she went through with Lily, it was amazing how simple her second pregnancy was. After delivering a healthy baby boy, Cohen Donovan Forte, a year ago, they are due to deliver their third child, another boy, any day now.
Rik finally had a talk with Aolis after becoming uncomfortable with his fascination with Lily. Aolis told him that he is Lily’s mate and he’s been visiting the pack regularly ever since. At first, I think they were concerned, but seeing Aolis interact with Lily, it’s obvious that he feels the mate bond. Everything he does is to make Lily happy. He will spend hours with her and never become bored or irritated with her, even though she is ten years younger than he is. The mate bond between them makes sense. His father, Ailduin, was mated to a Guardian. years ago. Lily is showing signs of being a Guardian already even though she hasn’t gotten her wolf. This time, there is no concern that she will be taken from Aolis. Rik and Cara have no problem with their daughter being mated to Fae royalty, but they are adamant that Lily will have to agree with the mate bond and choose Aolis as her mate.
We finally connected with Clint and Donovan’s Guardian spirit. To say she’s a spitfire would be an understatement. Cara and I loved her immediately. She brings a whole new level to the Guardians and our continued work together has increased our power and strength.With that strength has come a new responsibility. It started almost a year ago, after the war with the hunters. Audra had given us warning that the hunters were coming, but it was almost another year before we finally had the hunter war. Liam brought Audra to the pack and gave her a place to stay while she recovered. She stayed mostly to herself and then one day not long after we defeated the hunters, she just vanished. I guess as a panther, being a solitary creature, she struggled having the pack around all the time.
The war with the hunters showcased our strength as Guardians to all the supernaturals. It was after the war that the requests for our interventions started to come in. Ailduin had been correct in his prediction. We were being asked to pass judgement on issues between the supernatural species.
So, we set up a council. There is always two of the three Guardians required on the council, but we also have included an appointee from the vampire, fae and shifter communities. More recently, we’ve been petitioned to include a siren and a dragon but so far, they’ve been included in the shifter community, although their needs are different from the average shifter. We’ve also been petitioned to include a representative from the angel and demon communities. If I’m being honest, I had no clue that there were so many different types of supernaturals out there. All of these petitions are under review and will be voted on at the next council meeting.
And then, there’s me and Liam. We had four children back-to-back. First was our son, Richard Clint, then only six months later we welcomed our daughter, Leana Estella, named after Liam’s parents. It worked out that I was in between pregnancies for the hunter war. There’s no way Liam would have let me fight if I was pregnant. But, we needed all three Guardians, so thankfully, it worked out. Six months after the hunter war, we welcomed our second son, Alexander Conal and seven months after that, we welcomed our third son, Cayden Andrew. Some people might say that we were having children too quickly and too close together. Perhaps there is some validity to that. The doctors sure gave Liam and I a hard time about it. After our fourth child, we were both tired. It’s a lot to take care of four children two years old and younger. For over a year, I was nursing two children at the same time.
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But you will never hear me complain. I asked Liam to fill the packhouse with our children and he’s doing his best to oblige me. I love that three and a half years later, I still can’t get enough of my mate, and he can’t get enough of me. No matter how tired we are, he still shows me in little ways every day how much he loves and appreciates me. And at night, he always shows me in the best way, although we’ve learned that I have to be quiet or we’ll wake the kids. That’s become his new favorite game, how far can he push me before I’m too loud. It’s a fun game to play with the love of my life.
Because our children were so close together for the first two years, I never went into heat. But after our fourth, and at the doctor’s insistence, we took a break from getting pregnant. Maybe because I was nursing, or maybe because I’d been pregnant so many times, but it took months for me to go into heat.
I’m not sure Liam believed Rik when he warned him that my heat would nearly kill him or that he’d hope his penis would fall off, but that’s exactly what happened. Thank goodness for Sarah and Dustin. They looked after our children, made sure we had food, lots of water and that no one came into the packhouse for a week.
When it finally ended, Liam and I were in the shower, washing away the sweat and the smell of sex when he looked down at himself. “Baby girl, I think you broke my dick.”
I just laughed at him, leaning against him and kissing him until I felt it working. Doesn’t feel like it.”
“You will never hear me say this again, but please, tell me you don’t want to go another round.”
I laughed even harder. “No, I’m pretty sure even my advanced healing is fried. right now. I can barely walk I’m so sore.”