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That night is one of the longest of my life. I don’t want to bother Clint, knowing he’s fighting, but I can’t help reaching out to him periodically, just to feel his presence, I make sure not to interrupt him or push too hard. My amazing mate, while he doesn’t speak, will open his mind for a second when I push, just to let me know he’s okay.
Calista and I are sitting side by side on a makeshift bed, holding each other as we both worry about the fate of our mates, our pack and our friends. At some point, I finally fall asleep.
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Ijott awake when I hear the door to the safe room unlocking. I jump up and stand in front of Calista. I may be pregnant, but I’m still her Guardian. When the door opens, the first person I see Is Clint and I rush into his arms. He is covered in blood and gore, but I don’t care. As soon as his arms wrap around me, I begin to sob. I was so worried that he wouldn’t come home, and I realized, I can’t survive without my mate. He is my everything. There is no life for me without him.
“Shhh. Lily bud. I’m here. I’ve got you.”
I hear others in the room or those that have moved out of the room crying, happy to see their mates alive and well.
“Are you hurt?” I ask stepping back and wiping my eyes. I look over my mate. I can’t tell if any of the blood is his. He has so many scents on him.
“Nothing that won’t heal.”
“Clint. Go shower. Meet me in my room in 30 minutes.” Anders directs, holding a stoic Cali.
Clint nods before wrapping his arm around me and guiding me to our room. He immediately goes to the shower, and I grab him some clothes.
“Was it Alpha Jerome?”
“Yes. He’s dead. Leander killed him.”
“Well thank the goddess for that. I can’t help but be angry that the elder council didn’t move faster. This could all have been avoided. Did they lose a lot of warriors?”
Clint looks at me for a moment. “Anders will give you and Calista an update at the same time. Come on, let’s go to their room.”
My heart rate immediately spikes. I know my mate. If he’s not telling me something, it’s because it’s bad. If they are telling us together, they are concerned that what they are going to tell us will affect us enough to impact our babies.
Anders lets us into their room and Clint walks me to sit on the love seat next to Calista. Clint sits beside me and Anders bring him a glass of amber liquid that smells like bourbon. Clint downs it in one go.
I look at Calista and she looks at me. We both know we aren’t going to like this news.
*Just tell us. Anders.” She says quietly.
He pulls up a chair and sits in front of Calista, taking her hand as Clint reaches out and takes mine. wrapping his arm around my shoulders.
“Luna Estella is dead.”
My stomach clenches, my whole body goes rigid and my eyes fill with burning tears as Clint’s arm tightens around me. Calista’s free hand flies to her mouth. “Dead?” She whispers, blinking back her own tears.
“I’m sorry love. I know all of you were close. I’m not sure I believe the story of what happened. It was a war, after all. But you’ll hear it, so it’s better that you hear it from me. They say they found her dead body in the arms of Eli Gunnar, the boy that Alpha Jerome banished nearly a year ago.”
I feel like I’m in shock. “What about Liam?” I ask.
“He’s okay, Lily bud.” Clint says, pulling me into his lap. His hands go to my stomach. He begins rubbing circles on my stomach, easing the tension I was feeling.
“How is Leander?”
“He’s alive, but barely. Leander’s Beta is watching over Liam. He knows he can call on us if he needs any assistance.”
“Did we lose any warriors?” I ask. No one in our safe room lost a mate, or we would have known, but there are multiple safe rooms.
“No. Having us join the fight tipped the scales. Many of Jerome’s pack members got away, so we’ll have to be extra careful, and I’ll be doubling the patrols. Leander lost some of his pack members. Once they have their dead ready to send to the Moon Goddess, I’ll go back and stand in as Alpha if Leander isn’t capable.”
“Liam’s going to need you now, Anders.” I tell him.
“And I’ll be there for him as much as I can be. He’s only six. For now, the biggest thing I can do is help keep his pack from being taken from him.”
The Shadow Falls pack laid their dead to rest. Anders was there acting as Alpha, speaking over their dead and attempting to calm the pack and support those that lost their mates.
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Luna Estella had her own funeral. Clint brought me and Call to her services. Anders presided over her funeral while Leander and Liam sat in the front row. Leander looked like a body that was empty of it’s soul, Liam cried silently.
When it was over, I was watching Liam and so I saw when he quietly left the room. I followed him, wanting to make sure he was as okay as he could be. I found him in a library, curled up in a corner. sobbing.
I went and sat beside him, putting my arm around him. He immediately stiffened, his head shooting up as he wiped his tears from his face.
“Guardian Lily. I apologize. I know Alphas aren’t supposed to cry.”
“Who told you that?” I ask him softly, helping him to wipe his eyes.
“My father.”
“Well how about we make this our little secret. I won’t tell if you won’t. And you can cry until you’re done. What do you say?”
He nods his head before the tears start to fall again. I pull him against my side, wrapping my arms around him and rocking him as his tears fell. When he finally finished and pulled away, he looked at me.
“Thank you, Guardian.”
“Call me Lily. And if you ever need anything at all, Liam, just call me. Do you have a phone?”
He nods again.
I get up, finding a pen and a scrap piece of paper and write my number down. “Any time, Liam. If you need to talk, want to cry or just need a friend, you call me. I’ll always answer.”
“Thank you, Lily.”
Over the next several years, Liam would call me off and on. I always answered and usually he just needed a friend. I realized quickly how lonely he was. Leander never recovered from Estella’s death and the only person Liam had in his life was his father’s Beta who was busy running the pack and the Beta’s son who was several years younger than him. Some days, I was all he had.
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