Love Times Four My Stepbrothers Are My Mates (Alayah) novel Chapter 169

Chapter 169 Gravestone

Benjamin’s P.O.V.

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Rain had organized the ball from her bed as she was half way through her pregnancy and her hopes were high on carrying full–term. Daniel had linked me in a total panic while I was on my way back from the training grounds.

I had rushed back, unable to make sense of anything he had said. Jayce and Jax had tried to stop me, but no one would have been able to and the scene in front of me had made me crumble.

Rain lying on the bed with her wrists slit, a silver knife still in her hand and I knew no one could have done anything. What broke me completely was seeing Daniel in the doorframe of the bathroom with a little bundle in his arms, tears streaming down his face.

Reginald and I had felt a searing pain during training, but we had chalked it up to the punches we received. Looking back we both knew what that pain had been and we had howled in pain when Daniel held my stillborn Pup in front of us.

We buried Rain next to Sarah, Daniel had taken care of everything for me as I had done for him when Sarah had died. I was standing at the graveside with a blank expression on my face, feeling numb on the inside and I thought I had no more tears to shed.

Justin proved me wrong when he carried the little casket, with my little girl in it, to an altar and placed it next to Rain’s casket. My knees had buckled and if Jax and Jayce hadn’t been standing next to me, I would have crashed to the ground.

Everything after that was still a blur, I had just stared at both caskets. Unable to pull myself out of the darkness with everything I ever loved gone, no longer a part of my life.

Daniel and the boys were the ones to pull me out of the darkness, forcing me to get out of bed every single day. They forced me to have breakfast, lunch and dinner in the main dining–hall, Daniel would have me go over reports in the morning and one of the boys would keep me occupied in the afternoon.

It took them a few months, but eventually I started to function again and I even started enjoying life again. It wasn’t what I had had, but it was enough for me to realize that I still had my Son and Grandsons to life for.

When Daniel told me he was ready for a second chance Mate, I was happy for him and told him that I hoped he would find her soon. I want to see them happy, all of them and recently I started thinking if I should look for a second chance Mate too.

I know that Rain wants me to be happy, but it took me and Reginald a long time to come to terms with it ourselves. Just as it had taken Daniel a long time to figure out that Sarah didn’t want him to be alone the rest of his life.

We are both able to find our second chance Mate at any time and Daniel told me that was the reason he accepted so many of the Council’s assignments. Those assignments sent him everywhere and with that he would increase his chances of finding her.

I can’t wait for the day that Daniel calls me to tell me that he found her. Even though the boys are all

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grown up and don’t need someone to raise them, they still need a Mother–figure to figuratively kick their asses from time to time.

I decide to head to the Palace a little early and pay the graves of my three females a visit. I always go to their graves after the Harvest Moon, still not being comforteble with visiting them on the day itself.

Instead of taking my car I walk to the Palace, it gives me time to think, it gives me time to enjoy the little things in life. The closer I get to the cemetery the stranger I feel and it is Reginald that points out that we haven’t seen Vincent.

Vincent is the Palace Gardener and he always walks with me to the cemetery, picking the flowers I will leave on the gravestone. For some reason he is not here today and I wonder if maybe he found his Mate and is absent for that reason.

The gravestone was made of ruby red granite and was engraved with three open books, surrounded by floral engravings. At the head of the grave stood a blue pearl granite headstone with a Wolf howling at the moon engraved on it.

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