The defiant mate by Fennifer Francis novel Chapter 21

Jay-ła POV

Nate woke her, her eyes opened and she was staring right at his face. It was barely an inch from hers, his big bright green eyes held a question in them, he was worried about something she could sense it. See it actually, it was written all over his beautiful face.

“What’s wrong baby?” she asked and then yanked him into. the bed for a cuddle.

“You didn’t come home,…on time.

“Long night, is all. l am fine. she hugged him reassuringly, not that she actually felt it.

“Suzzy just left.”

“Okay. How about we just get away for the day…go to the beach. Winter is almost here. It might be our last chance to get there for awhile.” She really did just want to forget everything that happened last night, even if it was just for a few hours, could they just be a normal happy family unit fora few measly hours, she knew the kids could be, but could she? She didn’t know, but would definitely try.

“Yay.” he practically screamed in excitement and started to struggle to get up and out of her arms “I’ll tell the girls.”

Jay-la let him get outof her arms, she sat herself up. Her eyes burned with not enough sleep, she really did need this.

Last night had drained both her and Kora completely. Kora was still settled in the back of her mind, she would not wake her.

Poor wolf had been through so much in just a short amount of time.

Jay-la had never felt so much fury come from her wolf as she did last night. Pure instinctual rage and aggression, the primal need to fight for her pups had completely taken over her and nothing, not even an Alpha wolf, was going to take her away from her pups.

If there had been an actual fight last night, Jay-la knew that Kora would have been fighting with everything she had, with every ounce of goddess-gifted strength and aggression she had been gifted with. Jay-la had always known Kora was a strong, tough wolf, but they had never had the need to use all of her abilities, til now that was.

It would have been a fight to the death. There would have been no stopping her once it started.

She got up out of her bed and yawned, could hear her children yelling and talking to each other all excitedly, getting everything they needed ready for the trip to the beach.

Goddess knew they all needed a good bit of stress relief.

Winter Moon Pack would be steeped in snoW very soon and the kids would get their first taste of a white winter, she and Kora were sure her own grandmother would help them build their first snowman and have their first snowball fight.

She was actually looking forward to it. If all went well, she would not be coming back to the human world. That might tick Eric off, but he would just have to understand. She would be safe from Nathan there and that was what was best for her children and herself. She hoped he wouldn’t be to pissed off.

She would have to give up all her clients, they would be upset or angry with her but she would recommend them to other lawyers that would suit their needs.

The actual thought of belonging to a pack was a little overwhelming she had been alone to long she guessed, might take some getting used to, or she might just be able to relax and fit right in, she had no idea at this point, not after last nights revelation about her own emotional state.

She and the triplets all flopped down on their towels after a good hour of running around laughing and having fun, actual fun somewhere along the way she did actually forget about her fears, it was nice.

She bought them ice cream from the surf club shop, and got herself a strawberry milkshake, they all argued playfully over what to have for lunch and ended up with burgers and fries.

They ate out, a nice little cafe not that far from the beach. And then returned to the apartment to let the triplets spend the afternoon watching movies, while she caught up on the house work.

She sat them down and told them about their up coming trip to her grandmothers next weekend, she saw they were all shocked, she had never mentioned any family to them before, but they seemed excited about the trip and the prospect that it might already be snowing there.