“Go home, tell your friends and families what happened here today. Today, you shall mourn your fallen alpha but tomorrow, you are part of my pack. Go on now.” Xander says and the warriors all shift in to their wolves, putting alpha Neil’s body on one warrior’s back as they make their way back to their pack.
Xander and I made our way back to our pack with the rest of the pack following. When we made it to the pack house, I rushed to my apartment to clean up before I went to get my son. I took a very hot shower and scrubbed myself numb and red.
I put on some denim shorts and a basic white shirt. I walk out barefoot and bumped in to Lucas.
“Ah, I was about to get you. Thought you might need some help getting to the bunker.” He says and I smile.
“Thank you.” I say and he just smiles, leading the way to my son. He knew I’d get lost.
When we get to the bunker, we find everything in order and I take Adrastos, a sleeping Adrastos from Jill, relaying many thanks to her and the guards that I manipulated in to guarding my son with their lives.
When Dorothy and I got back to the apartment, we sat down so I could tell her what transpired between the two packs. She got up to go make dinner as Xander walked in.
He was all clean and smelling of his signature shower gel. He plops himself right beside me and rests his head on my lap. I start to massage his head, occasionally using my claws to gently scratch his scalp.
He hummed in enjoyment before sleep took over him.
(I like to imagine Theo James as Xander but like I said before, you can imagine him however you want.)
One thing I like about Xander is, he doesn’t snore. He grunts sometimes when he tosses and turns but that’s it. With a wolf’s super hearing, it helps not to have a snoring dog in your ear.
I picked up my phone and decided to call Josey. She declined my call and decided to Facetime me instead.
I answered, hiding Xander as I placed my phone on his head.
“Hey doll. Gosh I’ve missed you. So much has happened and I have a lot to tell you.” I say and Josey smiles.
“You look happy.” She says to me and I smile back at her.
“I am. I got to kill new uncle. Josey, I was able to finally put that dog down.” I say and she chuckles.
“Well that’s great. I mean, I would’ve preferred it if you had killed him then but you and your mercy.” Josey jokes. We share some laughs and Josey fills me in on the family.
Dad’s been drinking himself to oblivion and blaming himself for not being able to see that I was unhappy. It broke my heart.
Since I’m no longer in hiding, I can go visit them. With Xander.
“Anyway, Max called me. Wants to win you back and all. I just told him to right his Wrongs. I still hate him though. Please tell me you won’t take him back?” Josey asks. I feel Xander’s body tense and I start massaging him again.
I press the button that changes from selfie cam to the back of the phone cam and show Josey a sleeping Xander. Josey being Josey, squeals in delight, waking Xander and having miss Dorothy run in to the lounge to check on us.
I flip the phone back to me and shoot daggers at Josey. Who giggles and mouths an ‘I’m sorry’ before bombarding me with questions about Xander.
She ends up talking to Xander, getting to know each other and I leave them to it to go help Dorothy with the cooking.
Once we’re done cooking, Dorothy’s family walk in and we all have dinner together. They were not expecting to share dinner with the alpha so it was a little awkward at first but once Margot and I got talking, everyone chimed in eventually and my apartment was filled with laughter.
It made me miss my family. We couldn’t be happy before when my child was born and be one big happy family, no thanks to Max but now maybe that was possible.
Xander, who was seated at the head of the table, grabbed my hand gently and squeezed it pulling me out of my thoughts.
“You okay?” He asks, still holding my hand and I nod my head.
He wipes his mouth and stands up, glass of wine in hand,
“Tomorrow we can finally have a ceremony to welcome Sabrina in to our pack. Tomorrow, she officially becomes one of us.” Xander says raising his glass high and everyone follows his actions.
He looks at me, gesturing me to do the same. I raise my glass and they all cheer.
After dinner, Margot and I cleaned up as Xander and the men sat around talking about what happened today.
“Soooooo Luna…” Margot says to me and I chuckle.
“You know, Xander and I have not had this conversation before. It’s important I join the pack officially so I can link all of you but not yet as your Luna.” I say taking out the last plate from the dishwasher and handing it to Margot to wipe and put away.
“Would it be so bad? I mean we all thought Xander would never take a chosen mate until Jade but even then we were a little unsure and then you show up and change things. Now, the pack is absolutely sure he’s going to take you as his chosen.” Margot tells me and I just smile.
We finish up in the kitchen and head out to find Margot’s family getting ready to leave. We all say our goodbyes and finally, it’s just Xander and I. Well, Adrastos was just bathed, fed and put to bed so we have plus minus three hours to ourselves.
“Would it be so bad if Tomorrow was your Luna ceremony?” Xander says as he pulls me closer to him, his nose on my neck, taking in my scent. He was clearly listening in on my conversation with Margot.
“No, I’m not against it. I just wanted to talk to you first.” I say pulling his head away from my neck to look at me.
“Today, after the fight, when I looked at you, I just knew. I knew then that I wanted to be with you. It felt right, you feel right and I won’t fight it anymore.” I say to Xander sincerely.
“You know, when I looked at you, I knew then that today I’d make you mine. Seeing you at your strongest, using your human hands to split that wolf in to two, was the hottest thing I’ve ever seen. You are a magnificent woman Sabrina.” He says cupping my cheeks and pulling me in for a soft kiss.
“I know this wasn’t exactly waiting. I didn’t give you the year I thought I would.” Xander says to me.
“No. This isn’t waiting but I’m not pushing you away, am I? I want this as much as you. I want to love again Xander, I want to love you. I want to be able to call this place home, call you home. I already feel so much peace just being here. You’ve been my rock in this little short time and maybe we are moving too fast, maybe waiting wasn’t such a bad idea but here we are.” I say to him, putting my hands around his neck.
“Then I have a surprise for you. Follow me.” He says grabbing my hand and leading me out as Jill walks in pointing at the door to the nursery.