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When Hunter left, I felt the shift in the pack. They feel safe with Hunter here. They know that they
are protected. With him gone and war pending, it makes them nervous.
Kinsley and I spent the better part of the afternoon checking with pack members. We still worked on
the safe rooms, but we needed to make sure the pack was calm and rxed. Nervous wolves do
spontaneous things, like start fights.
Lucas was great as I knew he would be. He was out with the patrols, making sure they saw his
face, that they knew that he was in charge and was confident in that role. He’s truly an incredible
Beta.
I put my own fear and worry aside and focus on the pack. The day goes by very quickly, but after
dinner, when I go to our room alone, time begins to slow to a snail’s pace. I look at the clock every
five minutes, unable to sleep, worrying about my mate.
Every once in a while, I’ll hear a wolf howl in the distance. Sometimes Hedda would feel the pull and
other times she wouldn’t. I knew that Hunter and the other Alphas were letting us, their pack and
family, know that they were okay. I was d for it, but I wanted him home.
I’m not sure when I finally fell asleep, or when I felt the warmth of my mate slide into bed behind me,
but I felt a peace flow through me when he did.
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“You’re home,” I say, my voice heavy with sleep as start to turn to curl up with him.
Instead, he pulls my body against his, curling up around me, cocooning me in the protection of his
arms and body, burying his face in my hair.
“I missed you,” he mumbles and within a minute, he’s sound asleep. I snuggle closer to my mate,
feeling his arms tighten around me in his sleep before falling back to sleep with him.
The next morning, I wake up, still happily snuggled against my mate: As much as I just want to stay
here and enjoy this moment, I know that he needs more sleep and I have work to do to get ready.
I carefully disengage myself from his arms, and quietly walk to the closet to get dressed. When I
suffering the broken mate bonds from when they attacked us. We can’t afford to put any of our
warriors in that pack because we’re nning for a three- pronged attack.”
“You think they’ll all attack at once?” I ask.
“Not at once. We think they’ll attack us first, and when we call Kayce and your father toe help,
the second wave will attack Robin and Dutton’s pack, making the support they receive weaker.”
“What are we going to do?” I ask.
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“We developed a n, but the biggest issue is getting the families out of Owen’s old pack. We’re
going to try and split them between us, Kayce, and Robin, so we don’t overwhelm our safe rooms.
But you need to n to have close to fifty more. women and children in our safe rooms, Sophie.”
“FIFTY!” I exim. Kinsley and I would have probably said we could handle twenty, but not fifty.
“Kayce and Robin’s packs are smaller than ours, so I offered to take the most. We need to look at
our injured and see who might be able to fight rather than go into a safe room. Some young
mothers may be willing to fight if we have a n to watch their pups.”
“I hate that idea, Hunter. What if something happens to them and we end up with parentless pups?”
“This is war, Sophie. If you weren’t pregnant, I’d have to ept that you’d be on that battlefield as
well. We can’t lose this fight, Soph. I know that means that we’ll lose some wolves and I hate that as
much as you do. But we can’t go back to how things. were. We need to make a stand. We have to
fight for what we believe in and that time to fight hase. There is always a price to pay for that,
and it makes me sick to think that something could happen to you, but the alternative isn’t the life
that I promised you and like you said before, I’ve always kept my promises to you. We have to fight
Sophie and we have to win. Our future, the future of our pups, depends on us winning this war.”
The weight of what my mate is saying, of what we have to do, falls heavily on my shoulders. I knew
war wasing, I knew we’d have a battle, just like we did with Owen, but this is bigger,
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and that’s not an option.
Iy down beside my mate, his arming around me, my head on his chest, listening to the
sound of his heart, strong and sure.
“I didn’t truly understand until this moment, Hunter. I didn’t realize what this would truly mean, but I
do now.” I pause, letting my tearse here, in the privacy of our room with only my mate to see.
“I’m scared, Hunter.”
He kisses the top of my head, wrapping his arm around me more tightly. “I am too. But I would
rather die fighting for what I believe in, fighting for a better future for our pups, than to do nothing at
all. We may not survive this Sophie, others that we’re close to may not survive this, but we have to
fight.”
Wey there, just holding each other until the sun begins to rise.
My mate rolls over me and makes love to me, slow and beautiful, his eyes never leaving mine as he
slides in and out of me. I gasp, holding on to him tightly as he brings me up and over before finally
allowing himself to release inside me.
He holds me while we bothe down and this, more than anything makes me realize how much
we have to lose, how much I have to lose. My mate is willing to give his life to win this battle. I’m not
sure that I can say the same. I’m carrying his pup and I’m not willing to give up what could be the
last piece of him. that I will ever have.
“I’m going to shower,” he says, finally sliding out of me and kissing me once more before he heads
to the bathroom. I watch him, thinking about everything that he said, thinking about everything that
I’m feeling from him through the bond.
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When I sit up, I know what I have to do.
I’m the f**g Legend and it’s about time I started acting like it.