Stella POV.
Little one don’t do that, little one do as your told, little one get to fucking sleep…I was smart enough to say that he shouldn’t be swearing in front of me, I’m a little one after all, so I called Milo telling him on James, they have these parents behavior and dynamics.
‘Milo, James sworn at me,’ I whined through the bond all three of us share.
“Girl, if you don’t fall asleep, I’m going to shift into my wolf form and sit on top of you until you faint,” James threatens me, we’re both in my bed, trying to get me to sleep, we have a bedtime for me now, it’s not too far away from the time I usually sleep around, they gave me extra thirty minutes of awake time, but tonight was different, tonight I was very excited and that’s why I couldn’t just fall asleep.
“James, I’m not an egg and you’re not a chicken, I’m not going to hatch,” I say chuckling at his frown, making him mad makes me happy, I don’t know why I love teasing him.
He’s nothing like Milo, he would let me go with almost anything, he’d talk to me being all nice and sweet, while James would scold me and say hell no, and keep moving, or move it before I hand it to you. James isn’t the nicest daddy ever, he’s firm, but he’s stale, he’s everything I want him to be for me, he’s my perfect opposite.
“Princess, eyes closed, get to sleep or else,” James warn me.
“You’re not going to hit me, I’ll yell and dad would hear and he’ll shoot you,” I warn him, they’re going to have to wait until I’m old enough to move out, and then I wouldn’t be able to use the dad excuse anymore.
“I don’t hit you, and you were never hit before,” James says in a whisper yell tone, he was getting pissed, too pissed, I should probably pull back, I should stop before I get in actual troubles.
“My bum says otherwise,” I say with a big pout on my face.
“It was Milo, and he only spanked you twice for trying to steal his car, if it was me, you wouldn’t be able to sit for a week,” James says, the Christmas break is halfway through, and the reason I’m super excited is that tonight was Christmas eve, tomorrow, I’ll be getting to open my gifts, not just the ones in my parents home, but the ones in the pack house, a lot of the pack members have brought gifts for the future Luna and I’m very excited to see what everyone got me.
“You’re all threat,” I say with a shrug, he has threatened me more than ten times already, but he’d never do anything, not with Milo’s protection.
“So far I’m agreeing with Milo’s soft approach but keep it going and he’ll be the one giving you a proper punishment,” James warns me.
“He’ll never, he loves me too much,” I say with a big yawn, maybe it is time to fall asleep.
“And I love you too much, so get some sleep,” he orders me again, he didn’t have to say it, but lucky him, I’m too tired, all I wanna do is fall asleep, so I let it go this time and I don’t argue with him over it.
Lately, well since the day that Theo has left, I’ve been having weird dreams, it’s dreams about wolves, Theo’s wolf, James’s wolf, and Milo’s wolf, I could see them all in my dreams and some other wolf that I have never met before.
The new wolf scares me, the wolf is white and small, very small, maybe young even? In every dream I have that wolf would be looking at me with a raised brow, the wolf would be growling at me sometimes or wanting to play with me and it scares me, that wolf scares me a lot.
I woke up with a gasp, I was terrified, my last dream was one where the white wolf has jumped on top of me, the wolf had their teeth around my neck, and I felt death lurking too close to me.
“What’s wrong?” James asks me, he doesn’t sleep, whenever he sleeps over with me, he’s never asleep, he stays awake until the morning and then he leaves, I ask Milo about it and he assures me that he gets some sleep when he’s back at home.
“Why don’t you sleep?” I ask him, breathing hard, I couldn’t catch my breath, the fear having the best of me.
“I prefer being awake to keep you safe, it’s my job to protect you,” James says.
“I don’t need protection when I’m in my own bed,” I answer James who just shrugged he had some package still from the time he was back at his pack, when they all died, I knew that it was bad, and that he had to run, everyone was gone, but he never tells me any of the details, he keeps them all hidden.
“You never know what you might need protection from,” he answer me, hugging me tightly, playing with my hair, I have found out that this is James’s way of trying to trick me back to sleep.
Milo on the other hand would talk to me, he would talk and talk and talk, James says that he talks me into I get so bored that I fall asleep, but I loved hearing Milo talk, I love hearing his voice, it makes me feel very safe and then I’ll fall asleep with no troubles.
“I’m not that weak you know, I can protect myself,” I say assuring him that I’m stronger than he can see and know.
“What scared you?” he asks me instead.
“Nothing,” I lied.
“Don’t lie to me, I’m not Milo and I’ll make sure to cover your mouth so you can’t yell to your father, so tell me, what got you so scared?” he asks me in a firm voice, I can’t tell him what’s going on, but I have to tell him, but what if he makes fun of me?
‘Want me to drop by?’ I heard Milo suddenly making me jump and look around for him.
“He’s not here, but he can come over if you need him to,” James says petting my hair again.
“Are you mad?” I ask him.
“Mad about what? I have a resting bitch face, so tell me what’s going on?” he asks me.
“Are you mad about me wanting Milo?” I ask him my whole face turning red, would he be mad that I need Milo too? Want him?
“Hell no, I’d love to have him over, he’s your other wolf and my mate, I love spending time with them both,” James assures me.
“You sure you’re not mad?” I ask him again just to be sure.
“Never call Milo, tell him to get his ass here, maybe you’d tell him what got you so scared,” James whispers back to me, it’s dark and late, and although mom and dad have went down after drinking a whole bottle of wine, they probably won’t hear a thing, but better be safe than sorry.
“James,” I whisper back with a pout.
“Yes?” he says with a raised brow at me.
“I don’t know how to call Milo,” I say blushing, I wasn’t good with using the bond yet.
“You think of him,” James says starting to coach me through, and that’s very easy, I love James, and I still care about Theo, but Milo might be my forever favourite.
“Now imagine the words, ‘get your ass here’ and he’ll be here,” James says making me chuckle, but I did as he told me to, I tried to think of Milo, and then finally my window was opened letting in freezing cold air to get in the room making me tremble with cold, James hugged me tighter, helping the cold a bit.
“You called?” he asks, coming toward the bed, they squished me in the middle of them, I was warm again, and that was a good point, I was ready to get back to sleep, I closed my eyes and sighed with relief.
“Hey, don’t fall asleep on us, we need to know what’s up with you, what got you so scared?” James says waking me.
“I learned how to call you, what did my words said?” I ask Milo instead, and he sighs.
“You were calling to me even before, I guess while you were sleeping, and then you and James were talking and he scared you, so you called me like ‘Milo, I’m terrified, save me!’, and then finally I heard you repeating what James told you to,” Milo answers me.
“How do you know everything I’m feeling?” I ask him curiously.
“You’re my soul, and we’re connected it’s normal to feel you, you project almost every feeling toward me and I never push you out,” Milo answers me.
“Do you feel me too?” I say repeating Milo’s words.
“Not really, I push you out when I’m not in the mood to hear you, Milo loves listening,” James says making me pout.
“Hey, not fair,” I say, does he not like me? He doesn’t want me, and I’m just the annoying little who he wants to get rid of.
“Stop with the bad thoughts,” Milo scold me, that wasn’t fair, no one wants me, Theo doesn’t want me, and James doesn’t want me, and soon Milo won’t want me anymore.
“Hey, I’m sorry, I don’t mean it like that, I mean that I’m not very good with emotions, I don’t listen to yours, I prefer to give you your privacy, but if you’re thinking of me, and you want me to hear something, I’ll listen to you and I’ll answer you,” James explains to me.
“That makes me the bad guy,” Milo groans.
“Nah, she loves your attention, and she knows that we both care too much, now stop with the drama, confess, what got you so scared?” James says reading straight through my act.
“I keep dreaming of this wolf, it’s a different one, one that I don’t know, not one of the pack, a small white wolf, and in the dreams sometimes the wolf is happy and jumping around, other the wolf is very mad or angry, but tonight the dream was different the wolf attacked me, it tried to bite my neck off,” I finally confess.
“Is that wolf big or small?” James asks me.
“Small, smaller than the one I saw in the pack and between you guys,” I answer him.
“Stella…” James says and then shares a look with Milo.
“Lil-Star, your wolf is finally connecting to you,” Milo says, I smiled a big real smile, she’s finally trying to talk to me! We’ve been trying so hard, but she’s been ignoring me, unlike Finn’s inner wolf who answered right away.