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“Then he is no longer your brother, nor deserving of such loyalty,” Galen shrugged.
I should have known that would be his answer. I couldn’t even deny it, after everything with Elias and now Silas, it was hard to imagine that my brother was innocent, but I had to believe it.
I had trusted him again, let him in again. I had to hope that meant something to him, if not for me, then for Mom.
“Let’s give Lorelai and the alphas some space,” Galen said, and my alphas sank onto the bed with me as everyone left the room.
“I thought I would have turned by now?” I asked, but Cain shook his head.
“You have toxin residue in you. It’s a small amount, but the shadows are letting it through. It’ll work slow, but it will turn you.
“If you want to speed up the process then your alphas can bite you,” Cain said with a small smile. “Congratulations, Alphas, Luna.” He walked out, shutting the door behind him.
As soon as it clicked shut, I turned to them with a grin. Each of them kissed me slow and tender before we shared our babies around, each having a cuddle against our chest.
I sat up, leaning against Derik as Kai and Brax held the babies. Derik caressed along my skin, his fingers dragging over my healed stomach, my shoulders, my arms.
I closed my eyes at his touch, my shadows and magic making me feel full.
“I have names for them. I don’t know why they are the names, but they feel strong.
And powerful. Like they whispered them to me and I’m only just remembering,” I said, and my alphas waited.
“Our son, Zale. Because he’s strong, keeping his sister alive and protected that whole time, taking enough for them both.
“And Enzi for our girl because if she’s got shadows anything like mine, she’s going to be powerful,” I explained, hoping they agreed because they were the only ones that felt right.
“Zale and Enzi. The new winter born alpha heirs of our world,” Kai said before kissing Enzi’s head.
“They’re perfect, beautiful,” Derik said softly against my ear before kissing my cheek, holding me tighter.
I smiled and looked at Brax.
“Zale. It’s a name my pack attributes to the water, having power over it like we do,”
he said, looking at Zale with such awe it brought tears to my eyes.
He looked back at me. “It’s his name,” he said, and I grinned.
I didn’t know how we got to have this moment, but it was worth all the pain. And I knew it wouldn’t last long.
“What happens now?” I asked, scared to take away the moment but terrified of the vampires being on our doorstep.
“Cain is getting the humans healed, the ones he can, and then him and Vaughn are going to go to the other villages, the ones that didn’t join your father’s crusade or the wolves. They’ll look for humans there.
“Most of them are in hiding, but now that the vampires are a threat, we have to bring them back to the city for protection. We’ll start teaching them with the other humans here,” Derik said, and I nodded.
“And we’ll start making preparations for the vampires. We’ll need stakes, sharp swords for beheading, grow garlic bulbs along the fence line to slow them down, put patrols on,” Brax explained.
“And we need Tabby. We need her recipe for the human drink. It doesn’t kill a vampire, but it will make the humans taste like shit,” Kai added in.
Brax bristled but said nothing.
“And the human scent that will draw the vamps here?”
“We’re working on that. How much magic is in you? Can it comfortably keep us turning through winter?” Derik asked.
It seemed like he was ashamed to have me do anything to help, but I wanted to. I had my shadows back, I had border magic in me that was on my team.
“Definitely,” I said.
“Good. If the wolves can keep turning, they’ll have better control. We’re going to start pairing the humans up with them. Two humans, one wolf. It’ll mask their scent.
“We’ll have the humans train with the wolves too, then the speed of a vampire won’t be as big of a shock to the system.”
“They’ll be safe to do that?” I checked, and Derik nodded.
“Yes. The vampires are our problem now, beautiful, the humans are not. They have proven themselves worthy by fighting for the city, for you, for themselves.
“It’s created a respect in the wolves that not even I expected to be there.” He smiled, and I grinned.
“Good. And they’ll be allowed in the city then?”
“I’ve already made plans with some of the wolves to start helping build the human homes within the city,” he said.
Just the idea that he had been working not only on helping the humans and wolves reunite but giving them a home, not just a place to wait out the war, had me grinning, turning into him, kissing his waiting lips.
He kissed me back, holding my face to his as a different kind of warmth filled me.
They had a few scratches and bruises, but they were okay. I had survived the birth, we had everything, and I was so scared it was going to get ripped away from us like Adrenna had promised.
I pulled back, then turned to Kai, who was bringing me a fussing Enzi.
“I think she’s hungry,” he said, grinning as she tried to suck on his shoulder.
“Do you need your mom? She might be more help with this?” Derik asked, and I nodded.
“Please,” I said, and Brax went to get her.
She came back, and my alphas went to get us food while Mom taught me what I needed to know, holding the other twin that wasn’t feeding, tears in her eyes.
She smiled. “Zale and Enzi are perfect for them. Will they carry Brax’s last name?”
she asked.
I hadn’t actually thought about it. They should, to carry on his pack’s name and to link his legacy to them, but they weren’t just his. They were mine too.
“I want them to have my last name, our last name. I don’t want my father to be our legacy, and if they share mine, then they belong to us all, Kai and Derik too.
“But I don’t know how they’ll feel about that,” I said, and she nodded, tapping Enzi’s back to bring up her wind as I breastfed Zale.
He was a hungry little thing, taking every last drop that Enzi had left him, and I smiled as his eyes started to close during his feed.
We got the babies to sleep, and my mom helped me bathe and braided my hair, finishing moments before my alphas came back in with food.
“Zale and Enzi Valarian,” Brax said as he came in, bending down to kiss me, then his son on the forehead.
“You’re okay with that?”
“My family legacy isn’t that great anyway,” he said, and I scoffed.
“Neither is mine though. It’s technically my father’s name.”
“No, it’s not,” Mom interrupted, and I frowned.
“But he is Valarian too?”
“Because my family had more power in their status than his when we married. My grandmother was mayor for a long time until the current mayors took over.
“Their condition to handing over some of that control was that he take my name instead.”
“Oh.” I blinked, much happier that I was giving my children my mother’s legacy attached to ours.
“Valarian it is then.” Derik smiled warmly, then took Enzi from my mother.
Kai put the food down and grinned at me. “Come with us, Little Human, we have something to show you,” he said, then came forward and helped me up.
I was healed, but it still took a bit to stand, repositioning a sleeping Zale in my arms and stretching out my stiff body at the same time.
I followed my alphas out of our room and down to the next door.
“Your mom helped us. We were a little out of our depth, but we got it done in time.
We hope you like it, Spitfire,” Brax grinned, then opened the door to our twins’
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