Alpha's Regret-My Luna Has A Son novel Chapter 49

Alpha’s Regret-My Luna Has A Son by Jessicahall Chapter 49

Everly POV

I woke up to pee during the night and realized Valarian was in my bed. However, it was the body beside him that made me tense. No wonder my back was killing with Valarian’s butt resting in the center of my back.

Shaking my head, I quickly raced to the bathroom. I never usually woke up of a night and would remain asleep until my alarm woke me. So I was a little disorientated as I walked back to the room. Glancing at the alarm clock that resided on the bedside table. I noted that it was a little after 3 AM. Why was I awake? In the pit of my stomach, I knew it was the bond, the dull throbbing ache of him being around for so long and the bond trying to pull me nearer and wanting me to seek him out.

I even took one of my pills, hoping the incessant niggling pains would dissipate. I knew they would come on, they always did after seeing him, even if it was only for a few minutes, plus I was worried I would sleepwalk and crawl into wherever he slept. The ache and need to see your mate was ridiculous.

Bonds were far from a blessing. I would consider the bond to be more of a curse. It was irrational and illogical. Damn, Moon Goddess really screwed werewolves over with that inbuilt setting in our DNA, as if breaking every bone in our body to shift wasn’t bad enough, we didn’t even get a say in who our mates were, and we are as good as dead if we didn’t accept them. Valen was turned facing Valarian, Valerian’s head resting on his arm next to Valen’s face.

I carefully pulled the blanket back up as I climbed back into bed, not wanting to disturb them. They both looked pretty peaceful.

I eventually drifted back off, but not for long when I felt the bed move. I jolted upright, still caught in my dream of forsaken taking Valarian from me. I try to shake the remnants of the dream away to look over a t the clock and see I had only been asleep for twenty minutes. What the fuck. Movement makes me look over at Valarian to see he had climbed out of bed.

“What’s wrong? Are you okay?” Valen asks as Valarian climbs over him to get out of bed.

“I’m just using the bathroom, ” Valerian mumbles, half asleep before walking out of the room. My dream was still fresh. I found myself following him, now paranoid about the forsaken getting in my house and stealing him. He shuts the door, and I lean on the wall yawning. Why couldn’t I sleep? I have to do a double tomorrow; I need to sleep.

I debated whether or not it would be worth taking another pill, but they also gave me terrible heartburn for the first half an hour after taking

them; the wolfsbane was not a pleasant ingredient in them.

I hear the toilet flush, and Valarian opens the door rubbing his eyes and yawning before walking off in the opposite direction toward his room. ” Val? ” he stops and looks up at me through his half-lidded eyes. He was not coherent at all as he yawned.

” Don’t you want to sleep in my room? ” I ask him, knowing his father was in there.

“No, you keep kicking me,” he mumbles, turning around, walking into his room, and climbing in his bed.

I tuck him in, tucking the surrounding blankets over him before kissing his head. I didn’t know what to do with myself now. I checked all the windows and locks before rechecking them to ensure I didn’t imagine checking them, anxiety at its finest. I debated what to do. I could climb in with Valarian, but he said I woke him from kicking him.

I sighed before heading back out to the hall. I paused as I went to head out to the couch. Every part of my body told me I was going in the wrong direction.

Trying to lead me back to my bed where Valen was. I knew the bond would get stronger, now I marked him, but this was ridiculous, making me wonder what would happen tomorrow when he wasn’t here. Would it get worse with him further away? Would the pain get worse?

My mind and body fought against one another before my body won, my feet carrying me back to my room while I mentally scolded myself for letting them. Valen had moved, now more in the center of the bed where Valarian was.

“I can sleep on the couch if Valarian isn’t coming back in. Is that why you were pacing in the hall, or did you go retake one of your pills?” Valen said while yawning. Pacing? I didn’t realize I was pacing. I felt like I was losing my damn mind. I swallowed. I knew I should tell him to go sleep on the couch.

“Everly?”

“No, it’s fine, ” I mutter.

“It’s fine? ” Valen says, sitting up on one elbow and looking at me. I pull the blanket back, climbing back into the bed. My entire body was awake now, every part of me twitchy and antsy. I clench my hands into fists and place them under my ass to stop myself from trying to touch him. What is wrong with me? The pain I was used to but feeling him so near was making my heart rate increase, my breathing faster as I soaked up his scent that perfumed the room.

I feel him lay back down, getting comfortable behind me. He sighed loudly.

“Valarian told me what those pills were you were taking, ” I say nothing and look at the ceiling. That kid was far too observant for his age; he is like a sponge absorbing everything he sees and hears.

“Why did you take them, Valerian said for pain, but I am not sleeping with anyone. Are you addicted to them? ” Did he seriously just ask me that? I haven’t got time to scratch my ass half the time, let alone time to have an addiction on top of my never-ending responsibilities.

“I’m not addicted to them,” I answer.

“Are you sure we can get you help? I am not judging if you are, “

“Valen, I am not addicted to them; I don’t take them all the time, only when you… well, you know, and lately when I see you,”

“What do you mean?”

“The bond..” I didn’t want to give more reason to be around or use it as an excuse.

“Are you going to finish what you were going to say? ” I rub a hand down my face.

“When I see you, it’s worse than when I don’t. The bond recognizes you, tells me to claim you so you can’t be with them,”

“But you have claimed me now, Everly, “

“Yes, and now the urge to be near you is even worse, and it hasn’t even been it hours, ” my tone came out harsher than I intended. But thinking the words and saying them were vastly different. Saying them made anger burn in me at how weak I sounded. I wasn’t weak.

“And that’s it, that is the only reason?”

“Yes, Valen. I am not addicted to my pills; you don’t- ” I squeaked when he moved and grabbed me,

rolling me as he slid his arm under my head and pulled me closer.

His scent invades my nostrils before I feel him rest his chin on my head. I inhaled his scent, the dull ache instantly stamped down, and I felt my body

relax, almost going utterly limp in his arms. I press my nose into the base of his throat. His stubble brushed my forehead, and a rather embarrassing noise left my lips that resembled a purring moan.

“Better?” he asked, and I froze mid sniff. He chuckles, his chest rumbling, and I go to pull my face from his neck, and he growls.

“I asked if it was better, didn’t ask you to move, Everly, ” he whispered, tugging me closer. Within seconds I was asleep when he started purring, lulling my waking mind into blissful contentedness.

Valen POV

I got up to the sounds of Zoe getting the kids ready for school. I went to sit up and slide out from under Everly when Valarian came bounding into the room excitedly. Zoe was hot on his heels as she tried to stop him.

“Valarian, no mummy is sleeping, ” Zoe whispered yelled, but it was too late as the door smacked into the wall with a loud bang. Everly, however, did not wake up. I twisted out from under her, and Valarian seeing me moving, raced over while Zoe blinked at me.

“You’re in bed; I thought you left,”

“Very observant, and yes, I am still here,” I tell her as Valarian climbs in my lap before I even have a chance to get up.

“Are you taking me to school?”

I looked over at Everly, still passed out as she moved closer in her sleep, burying her face in the pillow I was using.

“No, Valerian, your father isn’t dressed, and we are running late,” Zoe says, coming over and plucking him off my lap. I glance at the clock on the bedside table, and so does Valarian; he would be nearly an hour early.

“We don’t need to leave until it says eight, three, zero, Zoe,” He says, his brows furrowing.

“We will be late to get breakfast on the way from Mcdonalds if we don’ t leave now,” She says, hauling him out. Zoe winks at me, and I scrub a hand down my face, trying to wake up.

” Shit _! ” I curse under my breath. Was it weird I cleaned her place? Would she find it insulting, would Zoe? I pull a chair out from under the table, attempting to make a slight mess so it doesn’t look so clean, but all I could smell was bleach, taste it in the back of my mouth. The washing machine makes a noise singing loudly as the spin cycle finishes, and I walk away to put it in the dryer before stopping. I needed to put the damn chair back straight.