CONNOR KINCAIDMy kids. My triplets.My dad was a piece of shit and I vowed not to fall in the same caliber yet here is fate and it bit me in the ass big time in the father department.Callum, I think. I don’t even know their names, or their expressions or the type of thing they like to do for fun.Callum spent all night sleeping on my arm.I didn’t sleep a wink. From the surprise, from the surge of happiness and pride filling my heart to the brim? I have no idea.All I knew was I couldn’t blame her.She was banished, they rejected her. What was she supposed to do?I spent all night watching them like a hawk, watching my mate slip into the bed with a paper-thin night dress that had me and Killian going all sorts of crazy.I watched as she fell asleep and the loyal of the bunch, Niko hug her all night.Then there was the girl. My baby girl. My little princess. My Sadie.Goddess, I had missed so much.But I made her a promise.I would leave the next morning so as not to startle the kids
SHANE KINCAIDThe bartender slims his eyes at me, wiping the clear pale glass with a rag that looks like it’s been years since it has touched any water or soap.He masks it all with concern as he asks the same question he has been asking me for three years.“Are you sure you haven’t had too many?”I look at him and I answer the same way I’ve always answered.“No.”The same drill occurs.He pours me another glass of this filthy establishment’s alcohol, topping my glass and asking himself whether I’m not going to die one of these days.I can’t die though. Not the way I want to anyway so I stay.I visit the same bar, spend a decent amount of my day time here while the other amount of time I spend in my office, brooding, signing treaties, acting like I’m content with life and it’s the same without…her.The small glass feels miniscule as I take it in my hands, swirling the brown liquid like it somehow holds the answer to everything.It doesn’t have the answers though.The answer itself is
NEO KINCAIDFive years and counting since we last saw her and now, she is here, carrying her…our children.I got the call in my office.Three words. I found River.And from henceforth I hopped into my bike, beating traffic like a mad man to get here.I didn’t realize I’d find a crowd; that I’d find children clinging to River’s safety.That’s not the only thing I found though. Her displeasure and her resentment towards me bore her eyes like a suit of armor.I probably deserved her bile and more but that didn’t mean it stung a little less when the same disdainful eyes she had used to look at me turned soft when she stared at Connor.Five years, River.Five years and I thought I lost you.“Are they…mine?”That semblance of peace that was hanging in the air minutes ago, crashes down and splinters on the ground.River’s mask is back on. Her kids hug her tight.My fists curl at Shane’s words.Yeah, real original, Shane.Shane takes the sight in front of him a little hard and River, ooh she
RIVER BROWN“Mommy, I don’t like it here”, Sadie speaks, her little eyes on me searching on whether I share the same sentiment.What am I supposed to tell her? That I don’t like it here too?That the same bed we are sleeping in has so many memories of me and them, memories of my babies being made right here, memories that ache so bad.“I know, baby. Go to sleep.”I nudge. Niko and Cal snore their way into the night, Sadie still holds onto me scared out of her mind.“We’ll go home tomorrow?”“Yes.”After Levi Shaw is out of the picture, we’ll go back to our normal human lives.“With Cal and Niko?”“Yes.”“And Meemaw?”“Of course”, I chuckle.“Can Aunty Brit come too?”“I love you princess but you have to sleep, please.”Her eyes shutter close and after a few minutes her snores litter the room and I slowly unwrap her hands from around me getting out of bed.The night has been too overwhelming than the whole journey of coming back to this world, to this realm.Then it became harder when
NEO KINCAID“You asked me to help you forget her. Two years ago, you said you couldn’t forget her. A year ago, you told me your wolf doesn’t speak to you regularly and now you?”“Want her back”, I voice, my teeth grinding.“You said she came back because she wants to protect her children--.”“Our children”, I correct.“Right, your children. But she hasn’t spoken to you and your brother, has she?”“No and it pisses me off.”“Is that why you are here?”“I’m here for you to help me get her back!”“Neo--.”“I’ve been coming to therapy since she left, trying to kill the insanity inside me and it has not worked so advise me on what to do not to fuck up so I can get her back.”“Do you want her back?”“What’s that supposed to mean?”“I have our therapy sessions, Neo and in one of them you confessed that you were holding yourself back when you guys were in a relationship. You were hiding a part of you from her.”“She’s not into domination, I couldn’t even give a fuck about that because I want
RIVER BROWNCall it being in heat or his eyes looking at me like they would burn the world for me the minute he said ‘frisky’.Either way, I don’t know when I jumped into his arms.I don’t know when I ran my hands in his hair trying to teach me and Gypsy that Connor was here and he wasn’t leaving us any time soon.I would never allow him to leave us again.Was he surprised for a minute? Yes.But when that surprise melted away, his lips came down on me hard, yanking my feet up his waist, his hands holding my waist, careful not to drop me.We treaded up the stairs careful not to wake anyone up and most especially the kids.I would get one passionate kiss from Connor and go back to the kids.That was the deal.Except…“I’ve missed this tight pussy, hear how she welcomes me home?”“C—Connor—Oh--Goddess!”“Not Goddess, princess. She’s not the one you are dripping for, River. She’s not the one filling this cunt.”He curls his fingers, the lapping sounds of us connecting splicing the air in
SHANE KINCAIDShe has done one thing since we got reunited.And that’s put me in my place.Brutally. Devastatingly.Hit after hit. I’m surprised I’m not rotting in some shallow muddy grave.I deserve it but still. I can’t take anymore hits, not with Sage breathing down my back and certainly not with the overwhelming pressure to find this Levi Shaw guy.Part of me wishes to find the bastard, kill him secretly and lie to River that we are still looking so she won’t leave us and go back to her human world.She’s dead wrong if she thinks she’s leaving me again.Cry and insult me, but don’t leave baby.Hate me, but don’t leave.“Do you love her?”The woman standing next to me on the other side of the house asks.I gaze out to the patio, out to my own backyard and watch River run around with our kids laughing and smiling so much than I’ve seen her in days.“Yes.”I mutter.Iridian looks at her daughter through the glass floor-ceiling window and smiles a little.“You hurt her; you know? Whe
RIVER BROWN“You want that one?” The heavy timbre of his voice contrasts to the situation.Shane points at a puppy that looks too sad and wounded to be adopted by Niko.Niko is a menace, if that puppy lands in his hands, he will torture it.Kneeling on the ground, the material stretching over his muscles in a way that makes even the woman who owns this shelter fan her face every five minutes, Shane Kincaid looks delectable.Delectable enough to kill though.It’s not like he was staring at me the whole ride here and I could tell he wanted me to jump in his lap while he drove.Just like old times. Except this would never be like old times.“Mommy?” Niko asks me.Shane’s eyes fall on me and I huff.“Fine but if anything, and I repeat anything happens to it, you will be responsible young man”, I scold.Niko grins.Shane still gazes at me and I fix him with a glare.“Alright then, you can have Bolt. He’s a bit shy but all he needs is a home”, the woman with the name tag ‘Hannah’ says openi