Filed To Story: Secret with Betas Daughter: Skylar Story Series
I nod, “Alright give us ten, unless you want to help.”
I give him a rye smile. I’ve seen him play with the kids at training, but this is completely different. 2
He surprises me though and walks right over and gives Ronan a little shake.
“Hey, bud let’s go get you checked out okay? The healers want to make sure you’re nice and strong for the next battle.”
Ronan blinks a few times and then nods and crawls off the bed to stand next to him. “Give me your little clinger.”
He points to Lily. “I’ll carry her down. She wouldn’t leave you last night. It was hard to get the two of you out of those secret tunnels of yours. Even with both of you being small.”
He tries to pin me with a look and Lily didn’t hesitate to go to him and wrap her tiny arms around his neck
“Like I told Mateo, that was the point. You ready?” I look at Stephanie then back at Jena who was finally able to get Sebastian up and off of her. Juliana holding her other hand.
They are all still really little. I think Ronan is the oldest at five. They are all first born kids of warriors explaining why they have no siblings yet.
We walk out into the hallway and Cam is waiting for us.”
You’re awake! Let’s go, Lenny wants to make sure she gets to feed you some food before it’s all gone. The warriors have been eyeing your pancakes all morning. He reaches down and picks up Ronan, giving him a toss before moving him to his back.
“Can I have a ride too?” Sebastian asks, looking at everyone.
“Gotcha!” Mateo snatches him up and flips him over his shoulder, Sebastian squealing in delight.
We all head down and into the open living room where there are three mobile cots set up and various medical equipment, tape, garbage, herbs, slaves, creams, you name it, are strewn about.
“Oh! Well isn’t this a sight?” Luna Ava stops in her tracks looking at us, her hand on her chest.
“Wha..? Huh? Oh. I see.”
Alpha Lucas walks in behind her, a huge smile breaking across his face.
I’m not sure if any of my other friends caught the conversation before Luna Ava got our attention. “Let’s get you all checked then we can have breakfast on the patio. Lenny makes the best pancakes.”
The check-ups went as expected. The kids were more anxious about the ‘bad guys’ and if they would be coming back and how soon their parents could come and get them.
Most of the pups were able to go with their parents right away which was comforting. The warriors live close so no damage was done to their properties and most of them were healed of their injuries by the end of the day.
Lily stayed with me overnight. Her dad took a nasty bite from one of the rogues and it was taking time to heal all the torn muscle tissue. They recommended that his mate stay with him to speed up the process, but she didn’t want Lily to see her dad like that so we are having a sleepover.
Jena and Lil kept her busy playing in the back yard all day, training to be as strong as her parents. Luna Ava was even able to get the pool cleaned and heated for all the kids to swim and wear themselves out. I gave her a bath in my small pool’ bathtub and Sierra was now combing her hair while we all watched some kids show I have never heard of.
Lily has one of my t-shirts on and for the first time ever, something of mine is big on someone. She crawls onto my bed and curls up next to me under the covers. I don’t think either of us made it five minutes before we were asleep.
I woke up at my usual early time, Lily still curled into my side, everyone else gone. The side of her face that was in contact with me is sweaty and a few of her soft locks are plastered to her forehead. I brush them away before I move to use the bathroom, which is what woke me in the first place.
When I got back, Lily was sitting in the middle of my bed, tears streaming down her face, looking terrified. I ran to her immediately.
“Hey, I’m right here. Are you okay?” I whisper to her.
“The window… The window… It made some noises and you was gone.”
She huffs in a big breath as I pull her into me and look out my window.
“Is anyone patrolling around the packhouse?” I have no idea what time it is or if everyone is asleep, but she’s too little to make anything up and I can’t leave her alone to go look.
As expected, all my guys responded. What I didn’t expect was for them to come bursting into my room, further scaring this child. She screams and buries her head in my neck. I hold her tight whispering that it’s okay in her ears. The boys are here to check out what she heard. While I am also giving them a look of irritation for not using their common sense.
“What’s up Tiny?”
Why are they all panting? “Lily heard something rattle the window and it scared her. I was in the bathroom. I just wanted to know if it was possibly a patrol or something.”
Even though we are on the third floor and a patrol wolf would have had to climb up here to mess with the window. I’m still hopeful it can be explained.
They all move as a unit. Sam and Mateo leave out my bedroom door, Oliver comes to the side of my bed between us and the window and the twins approach the window with caution, taking in everything they can. I can tell they are linking with each other and leaving me out purposely. But, I only have eyes for Lily right now and she is trembling in my arms.
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