12 months later continued… Listening to Esme panic rushing around the house, I am wondering why we offered to hold a get-together at our house for our friends. We should have let it be at Lilah and Knox’s like normal. Damn me trying to be clever and be a better host than Knox. “Have we got enough drinks in? What about snacks?” I hear Esme ask for about the tenth time in about half an hour. She is dashing between the kitchen and the lounge, trying to make sure everything is tidy, when I know my friends really could not care less, and within ten minutes of them being here the house will look a mess, especially when Finn and Kai are toddling around looking for things to mess with. Thankfully, Dan and Indie’s youngest, Wren, is not at the age where she can toddle very well just yet. Though she is just as much of a mischief as her big brother, so that was only a matter of time. “Mi Amor, it is fine” I tell her the same thing I have every ither time she asked. Not that she wil
Another family BBQ, another few hours of chaos. I love this crazy lot but jeez I get a headache when they are all together! The fact now many of my cousins have found their fated mates means there are more of us, as there are more pups running around too. So even more chaos to enjoy. And for some reason I seem to get roped into playing with the kids. Perhaps it’s because I never fully grew up….. Though does any man? Still have the mind of a child, and the sense of humour too. Makes life more fun that way. “Gabriel! Chico, are you even listening to me?!” My Grandmothers says to me sternly. I see Manuel, my cousin grin at me. To be fair, I switched off about ten minutes ago, she has been wittering on at me and him about our friends, the Alpha and Luna, Knox and Lilah and their new little boy Kai. My Grandmother has a habit of talking a lot, plus I am sure she is just being nosey to find out if there is any gossip she can share with her friends. I often switch
Seeing Gabe struggling with being asked about mates rings true to me too. He is not the only one. Our family is so big, and with that means there is a lot of support and love, but also it can mean there is a lot of family members to interrogate you, harass you about if you found your mate yet. Give you tips on how to find them. It gets irritating after a while. I am the quieter of the two of us, so I sit there and don’t say much about it, not out loud anyway, just inside my head I am going crazy, getting frustrated, Sick to death of being asked if I found my mate yet. They think if I had I wouldn’t have been telling the entire world by now?! I swear each time they ask I wonder just how stupid my family actually are. Or if they actually have any thought for my feelings. Though they have their mates so they won’t even consider that part of it. Gabe generally says what he is feeling and I don’t blame him. he has never been one for holding back. Sometimes I wish I was more
After spending a few hours at the family BBQ I had headed home, and now was I wandering from my home, over to Knox and Lilah’s. We spent as much time there as we did in our own homes now. I had my own home built on the lake alongside the family homes of Knox and Dan in the last year, it was finally finished a month ago. And while I may not have a family to put it in as yet, I am so glad I did it. Gabe and Jake had done the same thing despite them too not having met their mate or having a family, but having their own homes built alongside the lake near our friends. So we had our own little community for our group of friends within the packlands of Midnight Forest Pack, that were still close enough to the pack house for us to get to quickly when needed. The evening was warm, so I would guess it could well be another BBQ in their garden, which likely meant I would be roped into cooking. Not that I minded. Seeing Lilah smile like she did was worth it. She had become one of my cl
I can hear the chattering in the house before I get to the door. Another of our weekly get togethers. I am happier to be here than I was at the family BBQ earlier, getting sick of being harassed in the end….. It works out so well having the houses nearby, as we literally pop in and out of one another’s homes, or gardens. A little community of our own which is what we had wanted with us all being so close. So as we have kids they grow up together. Not that there is kids on my horizon anytime soon. Jeez, the noise and smells that come from Indie and Dan’s and Knox and Lilah’s kids, they can keep them! They are cute, don’t get me wrong but fucking hell they are noisy! And sometimes there is no pleasing them. You feed them, they still cry. You change them, they still cry. It’s like well what else can I do for you? If I do find my mate and have kids, I hope some paternal instinct will appear as right now I am more a fun uncle type that they can have a laugh with and I get dist
I had found University such a drain on my brain today, but one I was eternally grateful for. Anything was better than being back at our pack. Five years into my medical degree now, and two years left before I was fully fledged Dr, then all the pain and suffering and long days would finally be worth it.The fact that after my training shift at the hospital I was collecting my cousin was just a stark reminder of the realities of the hells that remained at our pack on a daily basis. But I was not going to complain about seeing my little Lola. My best friend since we were pups, her visits were one of the highlights of my months when her Mum and Dad managed to sneak them in. It was a true shame she did not live closer. Both of us 24 this year, and as close as sisters rather than cousins. Lola and I had been the best of friends from being tiny, and I know she found it so difficult me being away at University. But then at the same time she was so supportive of me, and she loved her
I sit surrounded by our friends, Knox by my side, where he has been since we became mates, well probably before that really. He was just more discreet in it. Now he is openly there, affectionate and sweet as ever, the big bad Alpha he likes to call himself, though that may have initially been my wording he now chooses to use as joke, yet to me he is the sweetest and kindest guy. And the best Daddy to our little guy. Kai had been an unexpected surprise, but one now I cannot imagine life without. We had not planned a baby, not even spoken about one, but when we found out we were pregnant we both got swept away in the excitement of it all. It distracted me from the other stuff going on too, all the difficult stuff we had to face. It gave me a positive to focus on. Anya, had been trialled at my former pack, River Ash Pack, for the torture, bullying and abuse she had put me through for the year or so after she found she was mates with our then up and coming Alpha, my then boyf
We are all lazed around the lounge, eating pizza, Kai and Finn now fast asleep, curled up together on one of the recliners, bless them. There may be 18 month between them but they are already pretty close, though Finn is a little devil in disguise, so I can see him teaching Kai how to get up to stuff he shouldn’t as he gets older, goddess help us! But hard to believe the chances are that in front of us, curled up on the recliner is Midnight Forest Packs future Gamma and Alpha bless them. Makes me smile to think of them like that. I see Lilah watching them, smiling, I wonder if she is thinking the same as me. She looks tired, though Kai was up early again, She swears her son is a vampire as well as a werewolf pup, he sure seems to prefer the night hours! I will definitely be trying to get rid of our friends early so she can have a bath and get to bed early, she deserves a rest. I hope Knox can see to Kai tonight so she can sleep too. So much for the promises of him starting t