Alpha Maximus：The last lycan novel Chapter 31

　　Hope

　　My father returns as Alpha of the Dark Moon pack after staying with us a few months. All the peace treaties are signed by the remaining packs, and new laws allow any species to mate.

　　Dad returns just in time, when I’m giving birth to my first child. Everyone is in the house, excited, waiting around for the doctor and Maximus to give them good news. I spend hours screaming, in labour, and then go quiet. Maximus leaves me to announce the birth of our new little boy; the future Alpha and Prince of Blood Moon.

　　Everyone cheers and roars, delighted by the news, and then goes quiet when I start screaming again, clearly needing to push out a second baby. Max runs back to me, worried, and shuts the door behind him.

　　I continue to scream and push for a few more minutes, before the doctor catches our second baby boy. Max wipes his tears away with the back of his hand, and leaves me, to give everyone the good news again. I can hear everything through the door.

　　‘There’s another one. We have twins! A boy!’ Max announces, overjoyed.

　　‘Seriously? Twin boys? I have two grandsons!’ Dad declares, delighted.

　　‘Hope did so well. She is exhausted, but she will be fine,’ Maximus says. Everyone celebrates the births of the twin alphas.

　　Maximus comes back to me, sits in the chair next to me, and accepts the second baby boy the doctor hands to him to hold. I’m holding our first son on my chest.

　　We look at each other, smiling, in disbelief, at our perfect little twin boys.

　　‘I never thought I'd have the chance to be a father. She-wolves didn't want to go near me,’ Maximus confesses, and I scoff.

　　‘I’m glad they didn't, because you’re mine and mine only!’ I say, smirking. Maximus chuckles.

　　‘So, what are we going to name our sons?’ Maximus asks.

　　'Well, I’m thinking we could name one after your father,’ I say.

　　‘Theo?’ Maximus asks and I nod. ‘And the other?’ He asks.

　　‘I’m thinking Leo. It rhymes with Theo, and I like the sound of Leo the Lycan,’ I say, chuckling, and Maximus smiles.

　　‘I like it too. Theo and Leo, it is!’ He says, proudly.

　　The next day I’m well enough to leave the room with the twins. Everyone loves their names, especially Dad.

　　He is very protective of his grandsons, telling everyone to keep back. He hogs the babies. And if other pack members have held them for too long, he simply takes them back into his arms. It’s sweet how protective he is of them.

　　A few years pass, and I give birth to another baby. Little Lyla. Theo and Leo look exactly like Max, but little Lyla has my white hair and silver and blue eyes.

　　When Lyla is a few days old, we receive an unexpected visitor. Her name is Lea. She has travelled from the other side of the world to be with us. She is the witch who organised my parents’ sacred love ritual.

　　‘I need to speak with your father. It's about the ritual. There’s something he needs to know,’ she says, guiltily.

　　‘My father arrived here last week, so he could be here for the birth of his granddaughter,’ I tell her. ‘Please come in. I’ll take you to him,’ I smile.

　　‘I can't believe how much you look like your mother,’ Lea says, looking me up and down.

　　‘So I'm regularly told,’ I smile.

　　Lea follows me inside the castle and I take her to Dad, where they both smile and hug each other; happy to see each other.

　　‘I didn’t think I'd see you again Lea. It’s so good to see you,’ he says, embracing her.

　　‘I'm here, because, I haven't been able to sleep at night. For years, now. The guilt has been eating me up. And I was too afraid to come back, because I helped Anna escape. I thought I’d be sentenced to death if I returned.

　　Recently, I found out that Alpha Cal is dead, and that the laws have changed. So, I’ve come back here straight away to make things right,’ Lea explains.

　　‘Everything is right, Lea. My daughter is happy, a mother of three and a Luna. What more could I ask for?’ He asks.

　　Lea looks into his eyes.

　　‘Anna. Anna Glint,’ she says, and Dad steps back from her.

　　‘Lea, she is dead. Alpha Cal burned her twenty-one years ago,’ he whispers, sadly.

　　‘That's why I’m here, Alpha Levi. There is something I need to tell you. Anna has never fully been gone. She has always been here,’ Lea says.