Epilogue - Mia


    I don’t know how long I’ve beenughing for, but I can no longer feel my cheeks. My sides ache from


    trying to breathe whileughing, one side of my face is smeared with frosting and the glitter bombs they


    shoot at me have my hair all tangled up.


    Doubled over, full of cake, andughing at Niko looking confused at the sight in front of him.


    It’s the afternoon of the autumnal Equinox, and I along with the Pente brides have decided to get to


    know each other better. They’ve moved onto the packnds and are staying in the mansion with us


    until they’re married to their partners.


    Maxim still hasn’t returned after going out to look for his missing bride, but Niko doesn’t seem worried


    about it. Me, on the other hand, I am not sure if I’m worried about the bride or Maxim himself.


    I get up and walk towards him, throwing my arms around his neck. “Hello, my love,” I greet him in a


    cheery voice. “I didn’t expect you back untilter this evening.”


    “The meetings wrapped up sooner than expected,” he says, frowning at the giggling women behind


    him. “Am I missing something?”


    “Nope! We’re just getting to know each other better,” I say, turning back to look at them.


    Just a few days ago they were terrified littlembs, now they’ve rxed some. Well, I suppose the


    champagne is helping quite a bit.


    “Hmm, well I’ll leave you to it; when you’re done,e to my office, I have something to show you,” he


    says and presses a kiss to my forehead before walking back to the mansion. “Enjoy,dies.”


    I watch as he walks away with a squeezing heart, then I turn back to women who have gone quiet.


    They look up at me expectantly, but I have no idea why until I sit down next to Gianna and she takes


    my hand in hers.


    “Luna, how…” she starts, blushing. “How did you get someone as scary as the Alpha to fall in love with


    you?”


    I blink and turn to look at their faces shining with the same curious look present on Gianna’s face. That


    question makes me think a bit, because there’s no way you can get Niko to do anything he doesn’t


    want to do.


    “How did I get Niko to fall in love with me?” I sit back in the wrought-iron chair and cross my arms. “I


    don’t think I did anything of the sort.”


    Eden rolls her eyes. “Yeah and my father isn’t a cold as fuck asshole who sells off his daughters,” she


    says, scoffing. “You’ve got the second most powerful Alpha wrapped around your little finger, Luna.


    Spill your secrets so we know what we need to do about our situations.”


    I frown at this. “Situations? Are the Gammas-”


    “Cold? Ignores us? Never talks? Yeah, pretty much,” Eden interjects, then she sighs. “We’ll be here for


    a while and know what’s expected of us. But…how do we do that when our husbands are literal walls


    of stone?”


    Oh…The Gammas can be quite intimidating. I remember how much they scared me when I first met


    them in Sin City - I can’t imagine spending a lot of time with them. Then again, Niko was the same.


    I look at each of their faces; Gianna with her kind blue eyes, Eden with the defiance lingering in her


    green ones, Noelle and Demi and their unreadable hazel color, and Alessia with her distant gray eyes.


    These women wille to be my family soon; they’ll be the sisters I never had and since I am their


    Luna, I feel a responsibility to them.


    Sighing, I offer them a small smile. “All I did was be myself; I did nothing different. I didn’t push, didn’t


    pry, didn’t force him to love me. One thing I did wrong was lying to him when I should have just told him


    the truth, and that was the worst mistake I ever made.” I say, cringing at the memory of running away


    from the pack house.


    Alessia sits forward and narrows her eyes at me. “So, just be as we are? Nothing over the top to try


    and break the ice?”


    I nod. “Youdies need to remember that the Gammas are battle ready and hardened from years of


    fighting. Alpha Nikos trained them and honed their skills to the best of his ability, so they’re always


    primed for war. Thest thing they will want is to fight a war with their partners at home,” I say, thinking


    back to Divan’s words.


    “Be yourselves. Be the kind women I see today. Apart from me and the Alpha, the Gammas have never


    experienced true kindness; kindness that doesn’t hide ulterior motives. The only advice I can give you


    today is to not push things with these soldiers, give them and yourselves the time to adjust to things.”


    I don’t know if I’m getting through to them at all, but from the looks on their faces, I don’t think they


    expected this advice. But truth be told, there’s no easy way to get through to a warrior who only knows


    violence.


    As much as people think I worked magic, I didn’t tame Nikos, not in the slightest. The cold Alpha is


    still there; he just reserves the sweet part for me.


    After a few minutes, I think the lesson has stuck because the looks on their faces are all different. The


    determination to get through to their partners is there, but now it seems like there’s some renewed


    motivation.


    I hope this is a good thing.


    The afternoon draws to a close when I tell them I need to head up to feed Ares. My breasts are full and


    hard, so that gives me all the indication that my son will be waking up soon. After I say goodbye, they


    still stay in the back garden to sip on their champagne; I didn’t indulge for obvious reasons.


    Like clockwork, Ariadne has Ares in her arms and he’s already starting to get niggly. “He just woke up,”


    she says with a smile as she hands him to me. “Something tells me the beasty is starving.”


    When she says this, I look down to see the wet spots on my blouse and chuckle. It’s only been a short


    while since I gave birth, but Ares is already looking more and more like Niko. From the proud nose, to


    the constant scowl on his little face.


    I have a sneaky suspicion that he’ll be a formidable Alpha like his father, too.


    After feeding and burping him, I express the rest, clean up and change into a fresh shirt and sports bra.


    Then I head to the nursery and smile at what I see.


    “Are you certain you’re okay to still watch him?” I ask Ariadne as she settles into her chair by the


    window in the nursery. “I could call the minders?”


    She makes a dismissive noise and waves me away. “He’s my only great-grandchild; I would like to


    spend every waking moment with him,” she says with a warm smile.


    I walk over to her and give her a hug. “Thank you,” is all I manage to say, but I am certain she knows


    how much I mean it. Grandmothers are a blessing; great-grandmothers are even more so.


    Kissing her silver hair, I walk out of the nursery towards Niko’s office. He mentioned needing to show


    me something, but it didn’t seem like bad news.


    He’s sifting through some paperwork and looks up when I enter, a small smile tugging at his lips. “Did


    you have fun today?”


    I nod and walk around his desk to sit on hisp. “I did; the brides wanted some advice from me seeing


    as I tamed the SilverCrest Alpha.”


    His eyebrow lifts and amusement fills those gorgeous green eyes. “Oh, did you? And what advice did


    you give them?” he asks as he leans back in his chair to look at me properly.


    I ce my arms around his neck and sigh. “I told them to just be themselves and not hide anything


    from their partners. Thest thing they want is a war inside their own homes aftering back from


    fighting one.”


    “That is good advice; well done, Luna,” he says, pressing his lips to mine in a chaste kiss. “Now, I have


    a surprise for you.”


    I hardly ever get excited or curious anymore, but those feelings are gnawing at my stomach right now.


    He reaches down and unlocks the bottom drawer of his desk, then hands me a brown envelope.


    “Go ahead, open it,” he says as he ces the envelope in my hands and kisses my fingers.


    Swallowing hard as a frown marrs my eyebrows, I take it from him and open it with shaky hands. That


    frown deepens when I pull out the official-looking papers and when I start to read them, my heart drops.


    “I thought it was fitting,” he says, wrapping his arms around my waist and kissing the side of my head.


    “Wouldn’t you say?”


    Warm tears cascade down my cheeks as I re-read the words in front of me; my name is Mia Ioannides,


    married to Nikos Ioannides since the 16th of December - the day I ran into him in that alley.


    “I finally managed to recover your hidden files and had a few things changed including the identity of


    your real father. Giovanni will not have a hold on you anymore, Mia, you’re finally free of him.” He


    whispers into my ear as my tears continue to fall down.


    I put the papers down and throw my arms around him in an embrace, sobbing at yet another kindness


    Niko has shown me. My life changed when I ran into him in that alley, and since then it has been for the


    better.


    “Thank you, Nikos,” I murmured past the tears. “Thank you for everything.”


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    “You’ve given me a reason to breathe, kardia mou; this is the least I could do,” he says, stroking my


    hair as I continue to cry. “I should be the one thanking you.”


    Niko dries my tears after a few minutes and cups my face in his hands. “Let’s have dinner, then


    afterward I would like to fully appreciate my wife,” he says with a mischievous smirk.


    That’s when I remember that we’re legally married now and a shy smile tugs at my lips. “I think I like


    that idea,” I say and I stand up. Heces his hands with mine and walks me out of his office to our first


    official dinner as husband and wife.


    ***


    I wake up with a start, an odd feeling wing at my chest. Turning my head, I see Niko is still fast


    asleep and tiptoe to the bathroom to ssh my face. Something feels off, it has since after we made


    love this evening.


    Breathing out a sigh, I walk over to the floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the back garden and I feel


    Star stirring. She seems restless, pacing up and down before settling - then doing the same thing


    again.


    What’s going on? Why do I feel like my whole body is on fire?


    I look up at the full moon, noticing its cresting, and exhale again. Looking up at it seems to ease me a


    bit, so I level my breathing in an attempt to calm my nerves and the prickling of my skin.


    Strong arms wrap around my body and Niko’s scent fills my nose. “Can’t sleep?”


    I shake my head. “I was sleeping and woke up feeling…weird,” I say as I lean back onto his bare chest.


    His heart is beating just as fast as mine, and I sense the same unease in him as well.


    He walks around and tilts my chin up to face him…that’s when the ufortable feeling immediately


    goes away. Our eyes widen at the same time, our hearts beating in time and the connection we’ve


    always shared feels solidified - like a barrel bolt lock sliding into ce.


    “MATE…” we say in unison, but where I whisper the word, Niko growls it.


    He pulls me closer and meets my mouth in a rough kiss, iming me not only as his wife but now as


    his mate. Was this the uneasy feeling my wolf’s way of saying I was close to my mate and needed to


    be imed?


    Star must have been as clueless as me because she looks shocked as she sees Niko’srge Lycan


    beast looking at her as if he wants to devour her. We never expected to meet our mate since it’s so


    rare, but now something is clear.


    You can only meet your mate at the Equinox.


    He picks me up and carries me back to our bed, ripping off my flimsy nightdress and peppering chaste


    kisses all over my chest.


    “Mate,” he growls again, nipping at my skin as he dives between my legs. My eyes shoot open and I


    look down, but there’s no hesitation in Niko’s scent when henguidly slides his tongue between my


    folds.


    In our time together, Niko has never done this; he always used to freeze up. But as his tongue works


    delicious circles around my oversensitive clit and his ws dig into my thighs, I have a feeling he’s no


    longer terrified of initiating intimacy.


    My mind is delirious with want as Niko takes me higher and higher, finally letting me down to crash into


    tiny little pieces around him. I grip his head with my thighs, pulling on his hair and he growls while I ride


    out my orgasm.


    I’m still in a haze when I feel hisrge body covers me and when I open my eyes, his crimson Alpha


    ones are staring right into mine. His hand goes to the back of my head, into my hair and my thighs


    wrap around my waist before he sinks into me in one swift motion.


    I cry out, tears springing into my eyes not simply because of the overwhelming emotion of Niko


    iming me under the full moon, but because Niko initiated this. He didn’t freeze, he didn’t stop or have


    a panic attack!


    “Vasílissa mou,” he calls me his queen while thrusting slowly and hard inside of me. “I love you; fuck, I


    love you so much.”


    Our bodies are flush against each other, and he’s looking at me as if I’m precious. “I love you too,


    Nikos,” I murmur through tears, and when we finally reach our climax and I feel his knot growing.


    We fall apart together, out of breath but not letting go. He lifts his head and looks into my eyes, the


    crimson gone and reced with his lovely green color. His bottom lip trembles and he draws his


    forehead to mine.


    “You were always the silver lining in the mushroom cloud of my fucked up existence,” he whispers in a


    shaky voice. “Now I know why.”


    When his tears hit my cheek, my heart constricts and I hold him close, neither of us saying a thing. I


    know now that it was the Goddess giving me strength that night I escaped from Mikhail and ran into


    Niko’s arms. She led me here to find him…


    Nikos Ioannides, the broken man I helped heal; my husband, my Alpha, and now, my mate.