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*Six years later*
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I sat on the porch of our mansion, rocking my chair back and forth as I stared into the woods up ahead, watching three distant figures move through the trees: Kasan and the twins.
It’s pretty windy outdoors and the breeze has basically messed up every strand atop my head despite having just gotten here.
It’s the perfect time for a run, but sadly, I can’t. Not while I’m like this…
I glanced down at my protruding belly, smiling. Its funny how six years ago I never wanted to have any wolfy powers, but now when I’m not allowed to shift, I begin to miss it every passing day. Speaking of that, ever since the twins, Kiara has been behaving. She’s snappy, but she doesn’t try to force control anymore. I think we’ve formed some sort of truce?
“Clara!” The door swung open from the inside and a fuming Ash stepped out, glaring daggers at me, “Where’d you hide the Nutella?!”
I rolled my eyes, “Unless, it’s for my cute little nephew, go buy your own. I told you to stop raiding my fridge.”
“You’ve become stingy. No, you’ve always been stingy! But for your information, I have my own shit. I’m kindly helping you finish yours. Now where is it?!”
I scowled. She’s as annoying as ever, but…I think we’re pretty chill with each other. She’s the only female I actually like.
“Tell me where it is before I k—”
“Ash, keep quiet.” Lucas stepped out behind her and meanwhile one arm wrapped around her waist, the other kept a cute little figure attached to his hip.
Seth; my cutie nephew!
His clothes was drowning in paint and his messy black hair atop his head was no different. Even one of his shoe was nowhere to be seen. All of which, was none other than Kasan’s fault.
“Are you leaving? Is he still sleeping? I didn’t even get to say goodbye.”
“We’re literally right next door.” Ash pointed out, folding her arms over her chest.
“Whatever. Lucky him. I’ve been trying to sleep for an hour and I gave up.”
With Seth sleeping, and the kids playing in the woods, strangely, it’s hard to sleep in this big ole silent mansion. I’ve become so used to constant screaming and shouting that it unsettles me when it’s quiet.
And the rest of the pack doesn’t lounge around in the house anymore, so it’s even extra quiet. We had moved to a larger place with multiple houses over the land, but with little distance between each one in case anything happened. Me, Kasan and the kids have been staying here, meanwhile the others scattered in the rest.
“We’re going,” Lucas told me, smiling as he moved off while pulling a still frowning Ash by his side. A nice smile like that luckily hasn’t been a rarity the past few years. It’s been hard, nonetheless, we’ve managed to move out of the past. And now, his life thankfully doesn’t revolve around taking care of me all the time. In fact, he’s been so engrossed in his family that I barely see him. I’m glad.
“Okay.” I returned his smile.
“Mommy!”
A loud shout came from the distance and I turned my head, watching as Kasan finally moved back towards the house with our two little troublemakers on either side of him.
With brown hair, pretty ebony eyes and chubby cheeks, the twins looked absolutely nothing like me. Rather, they’re the spitting image of their father.
“Kasan, you’re gonna clean up all that, right? Even Seth was covered, I can’t believe you.” I examined them with a frown, as they neared me. All three were soaking in paint and had leaves stuck all over, hair, clothes, everywhere. Believe it or not, inside the house was even worse at the moment. All because of their father who thought it would be fun to play around with paint. He’s more of a child than they are.
“I will, don’t worry.” He walked over, setting a kiss on my forehead before stooping in front of me, pressing his cheek against my belly.
I raked my fingers through his hair, “You’re getting paint all over me.” I grumbled.
“Mommy, did your tummy move again?! I want to touch it! Can I?” Kyla ran over first, holding her little Barbie doll in one hand while the other stretched up to press against my belly. She was a bit shorter than her brother, but its almost unnoticeable.
“Me too! Daddy’s always the one who gets to do it!” Kain raced behind her, mirroring her actions.
“Nope.” I shook my head, “My tummy won’t move unless you’re all clean.”
They pouted, quickly looking to Kasan.
“Daddy, let’s get clean!”
“Daddy!”
They each clutched a handful of his shirt, tugging on it.
“Nuh uh. I’m sleeping.” Kasan closed his eyes, wrapping his arms around me.
Seriously?
“Get off me before I smack you.” I pushed at his shoulders and he groaned, reluctantly raising head off my belly and dropping his hands. He frowned but stood to his feet, pushing his unruly strands to the back then grasping their little hands in his.
“Fine. Fine. Who goes first?”
“Me!”
“Me!”
“Alright, here’s how it’s gonna go. Whoever gets there first, goes first… But if I win, I get that tummy all for myself. Fair enough?”
A laugh instantly slipped past my lips, “Kasan, seriously? How cruel can you be?”
“I’m not.” He grinned, “I won’t even put in an ounce of effort, I promise.”
But contrary to his words, as soon as the door opened, he was the first to take off, reaching the bathroom before either of them could even touch the stairs.
And following that, double crying started up.
Smiling, I pushed myself up from the chair and walked inside, taking the twins by the hand as snot and tears ran down their faces.
“Daddy’s too fast!”
“He’s mean!”
Their sobs got louder, filling the entire house.
“Yeah, he’s mean. I’ll teach him a lesson.”
Its always chaos in this house-no, in this whole pack altogether…but life is good. I wouldn’t change a thing.
And honestly, I never thought Kasan would be such a great father, of all people. It’s actually astonishing. He runs around doing childish shit and wreaking more havoc than the kids, but they legit can’t go a day without him. They’re inseparable.
To think this is the same man who’s the Alpha of a pack of savages and a Devil in the eyes of humans. I guess, he’s our devil? Yeah, our devil.
I remember how clumsy we were when we had the twins. Mom and dad had to help us out with every thing, literally monitoring us 24/7. The memories of me and Kasan struggling to do the most basic things are still fresh in my mind. It’s embarrassing.
I can’t believe it’s already been six years, it barely feels like any time has passed. But I look forward to the future…
…with Kasan, the kids, Lucas…this whole pack.