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“I think you look gorgeous with them,” said Targon as he hugged me from behind to kiss my cheek.

“Admittedly, I’m biased. But still. Gorgeous.”

Targon Alonius had saved my life with a couple discs of glass and wire frames. The eyeglasses had honed my vision and revealed the third eye implanted by the High Council. The moment I found out about it, all the memories of Orion and what he’d allowed them to do had come flooding back. In minutes, I’d blocked every vision that could be sent to the scrying device.

I’d expected an attack from the High Council because of that and had even warned Malachi to prepare, but to our mutual shock, nobody came. Everything in Brightsky had been quiet. Stable.

For the first time in years, I’d allowed myself to entertain the idea that I could be happy with a partner who didn’t try to use me for his own gain. Targon and I had fallen for each other hard and fast…but I wasn’t complaining. I’d learned that life was too short to waste.

“Grammy.” Alaina tugged my sleeve. “Daddy.”Startled, I shook my head. “Honey, this is Dr. Alonius, remember?”

Alaina burst into laughter, shaking her head. She pointed toward the living room. “No! Daddy!”

I turned with a gasp of surprise. “Xander!”

My boy had come home. Until I had my arms around him, or at least as much around him as I could get, I couldn’t believe that he was real. He lifted me off my feet, squeezing the breath out of me, and twirled me around.

All of them had come home. I hugged them each in turn. We laughed and cried with joy as the twins greeted their parents and their sister. And then I introduced them to Targon, and although Xander–

grumbled, he also shook the doctor’s hand.

The door flew open, and we all turned toward it. Malachi flew toward Lanie and grabbed her up to fly her around the room so fast they both became a blur. She staggered, laughing breathlessly when he put her down. The Ancient vampire hugged her, then held her off at arm’s length.

“Welcome home,” he said. “By the Sun’s golden mantle, I thought for sure all of you were dead.”

Within minutes, he was calling for a celebration throughout the entire enclave. We had so much to celebrate, the festivities would last for days. The whirlwind of our reunion finally simmered down when Malachi left us alone once again.

The twins were sleepy eyed despite the excitement, and Stella took them off to bed with the promise of a bedtime story. Nothing too scary. My heart swelled with gratitude as I looked at my family, returned to me. We had so much to talk about…but in the end there was one ending to the story that they all expected and I couldn’t provide.

“We’re leaving the enclave,” Xander said. “This isn’t the place for us anymore. We can go after the parties are over.”“No. Not me.” I said to each of them, meeting their gazes one at a time. “I’m going to stay here. This is where I belong.”

Lanie–

The celebrations weren’t over, and they wouldn’t be for a long time. But I was bone-tired and ready for some quiet time with my children and my mates. A hot shower. A warm, soft bed.

We weren’t going to stay here in Brightsky. As wonderful a place as it was, it still wasn’t home. And while there might always be a need for some to seek sanctuary behind its gates, we, the wolves of Constantine, no longer needed it.

The High Council’s utter destruction had left a void in the world of wolves. There’d been talk of having Xander step in to fill at least some of it, but he wasn’t sure he wanted to. Definitely not alone, and the idea of co-Alphas was new and strange. He and Mason had talked about it long into the past few nights, but I wasn’t sure what they would decide. Whatever it was, Zane and I would support them.

For now, I was happy enough that our little pack was going to have some time alone before we hit the road at the end of the week. Malachi had asked us to stay at least that long to finish out all the celebrations and give all the Brightsky residents a chance to thank us. He had other reasons, too.

Gifts to present to us, including the transfer of large sums of money that would do a lot to help rebuilding Constantine. So, even though I was itching to get on the road, I’d agreed that we would stay a little longer.

I couldn’t hide my yawn, though. My grandfather caught it, even when I hid it behind my hand. He leaned over to me and spoke in a low voice I could still hear over the sounds of the music, singing, and dancing.

“You don’t have to sit here all night. I can tell you’d rather be alone with your mates. And they alone with you, I rather suspect.” He chuckled. “You wolves don’t have the stamina of us vampires. Wecan party all night.”

“But we can party in the sunshine,” I told him without malice.

He guffawed. “True, true. Ah, granddaughter. Are you sure I can’t convince you to stay here? I’m going to miss you. There’s still so much you have to learn.”

“You’re welcome to visit us any time you want to in Constantine. I’ll be busy helping repair and rebuild, but I guess I could make some time for my Ancient grandfather.” I leaned against him for a second before sitting up straight again in my chair. “If I can tear my mates away from the buffet, I’m going to take them back to our quarters. We’ve been running on fumes for days. They need their rest.”

“You are truly a genuine Luna.” Malachi shook his head gently. “Your care, concern, and consideration are beyond compare. Even if you can’t manage all your talents…All right! Apologies!”

He ducked away from my playful swat.

I kissed his cheek before I wove my way through the crowd toward my three mates. Each had piled their plates high with food, but they were starting to slow down. Even their massive appetites were being sated, and I knew what that meant. Soon they’d be hungry for something other than food.

The thought made me grin. I was definitely looking forward to having some time alone with my three men. Alone, in our own home, the one we would spend our time building together.

For a moment, I pressed both hands to my belly. Maybe there would be more pups. Maybe, I thought as I caught sight of Stella across the room, there might even be grandpups.

I could only shake my head with laughter at the thought of it. Me, a grandmother? It would hardly be the strangest thing our family had weathered.Stella saw me looking and waved for me to join her. I pushed through the crowd of people dancing and singing to get to her. She grinned and hugged me.

“Having fun, little star?”

“Everyone is so happy,” she said. “It’s filling me up with all of their joy. It’s almost overwhelming…but I love it.”

“They’re grateful to you,” I told her as people swirled around us, smiling and gesturing their gratitude.

Stella ducked her head. “I know. But all I did was…”

“All you did was save them all. And probably the world as we know it,” I told her firmly. “No false modesty, little star. Without you, none of us would still be here. You deserve to take pride in that.”

“Umm, Stella? I was wondering, hoping, I mean, if you’d maybe like to dance with me?”

We both turned to see a handsome young warlock. He blushed, but boldly held out his hand to her.

After a moment, she did.

“Go on,” I told her. “Your fathers and I will be waiting for you back at the apartment. Enjoy tonight.

Tomorrow, we head back to Constantine.”

I watched her walk away with her admirer and sent a mind link to my mates that I’d be waiting for them at home. In bed. Naked.

They all chimed in at once to say they were hot on my heels.

“Mother!”

I turned as Stella ran to hug me.“I won’t be out late. I want to get an early start tomorrow. I can’t wait to get to Constantine. I think it’s where I’ll finally be able to discover my true purpose as a Celestial.”

“All in good time, little star,” I told her. “Everything will happen exactly as it’s meant to.”

All of us would find our purpose.

We were finally going home…for good.

Lanie–

It felt strange to be back in Constantine.

I hadn’t lived in the mansion very long, and so I’d never really managed to think of the big house as “home.” There were a lot of memories here, for sure, and they weren’t all good. I’d entered the mansion mated to Xander and Zane when they were in love with another woman, and none of us had been happy at first.

But we were happy now. I rolled over to quietly get out of the bed that would need to be replaced as soon as possible, since it was way too small for the four of us. My three mates were still snoring away like they didn’t have a care in the world, and I paused to look them over. My heart stilled as I pressed a hand over it, and my eyes filled with tears of joy to see them all asleep. Without worry and fear for the first time in so long I couldn’t recall just how long it had been.

The household staff was already bustling in the kitchen when I went down to see if I could grab a cup of coffee before I had to face the day. No enclavian spiders to lead my way this time. I had to follow the scent of freshly baked bread and other delicious smells. The Constantine mansion wasn’t nearly as big as the enclave had been, but it was still enormous, with multiple branching wings, and I took a few wrong turns before I ended up where I wanted to be.

“Luna,” the cook greeted me with a hint of surprise in her voice. “It’s an honor to have you here. Are you looking to inspect the kitchen?”

I laughed, shaking my head. “Oh, Goddess, no. I just desperately need some coffee and maybe a piece of whatever smells so good. Cinnamon?”“Cinnamon buns,” the older woman said proudly and also sounding a bit shy. “I’m happy to serve you one. They just came out of the oven.”

“And coffee’s here,” said another staff member from across the kitchen. “I’d be happy to pour you a mug. Do you want to take it in the dining room? We’re setting up the breakfast buffet. And…Luna…”

I waited, watching the young woman’s eyes light up as she clearly struggled with what she wanted to say.

“Luna, we are so happy that you’ve all returned to Constantine!” Her voice rose into a squeak, and she blushed so fiercely I could almost feel the heat in her cheeks from all the way across the room.

My own flush warmed my throat and face. It was going to take some time for me to get used to being called Luna with such respect and admiration—and that little touch of intimidation. All of this was going to take some time to get used to…for everyone.

“I’m sure I speak for my family and not only myself when I say that we are all very, very happy to be back.” I tried to sound gracious and also approachable, the way Gabriela had always sounded.

She’d had years to perfect her Luna attitude, though. It was going to take me some time to get it just right.

The staff didn’t seem to mind. The cook and the maid both grinned at me and bustled around serving me up a cinnamon bun the size of my head and an oversized mug of coffee. In the dining room, I wasn’t sure where to sit. The long table had seats for twenty, more if people squeezed in.

Nobody else was in there yet.

“Traditionally, if this was a formal dinner, you’d be at that end.” The maid from the kitchen cast her voice low and pointed. “The Alpha would be here.” She touched the tall, throne-like chair at this end of the table. “But you’re of course welcome to sit wherever you like, Luna.”“Thank you…what’s your name?”

“Karys, Ma’am.”

“Thank you, Karys.”

She beamed. “Will you be wanting to set up a meeting with the staff today, Ma’am? Or will you be settling in first? We’re all pretty eager to find out about any changes you’ll be making to the household operations.”

Changes? Household operations? All of that, I guessed, was going to fall under my control now. As the Luna Constantine, I’d have to oversee the running of this entire mansion.

A chill, anxious sweat trickled down my spine. I’d survived multiple attacks on my life, fled more times than I could count, discovered I was a hybrid, gained and loved three mates, and gave birth to extraordinary children, all while serving the Moon Goddess, and this was what made me want to bite my nails? I had to laugh, and Karys looked at me curiously.

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