Lacking Humanity | Moon Ridge

Chapter Three

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Sage had sat right beside Luke and held his hand tightly, promising that she'd heal him soon—But realistically, at the thought that she is pregnant, Luke said he was feeling a lot better than he had in the beginning.

His immortal wound starting to ease up and become a natural part of his day, but Sage still felt immensely guilty. Just like she did with everything else.

She had checked in with those outside, explaining that meals were well on the way. But as of right now, they were just thankful that there was a bathroom and shower that was at their disposal, and better yet—The basement was enough for a good dozen to be comfortable.

"There's plenty of bedrooms in the house, your Beta and your Beta female can take the guest room and that Viking fellow can sleep in my office upstairs," Remus offered, until his eyes landed on Sage.

Where would she sleep?

It was wrong for him to just assume that she'd go straight back into bed with her. "I'll take any couch down here." Andrew claimed, but Remus quickly shook his head to deny it.

"No, Sage's bedroom is upstairs—You two can stay up there. If she is pregnant, I don't think you'll want to be that far away from her." Sage's eyes flickered up towards Luke, it was clear that he didn't agree with the choices she's made, but watching her look between ether males with the same amount of love and protection was starting to dawn on him.

This turned out to be much more than he could ever dream of dealing with when he had taken to looking at her like a sister.

To segway this, Sage turned to Luke with her chin propped up onto his shoulder. "So you're a papa now too?" She said, and the male laughed.

"Yep, and she's a lil spitfire." He said with a slight nudge to his sister, however, Sage's eyes had gone wide. Who would've thought that Luke's firstborn would be a girl?

Elenor quickly excused herself to go and get their daughter, and Leo couldn't help but lean back at the idea of the family becoming complete once again.
While he had been gifted a granddaughter, nothing was more heartwarming and heart-wrenching than having his adoptive daughter return after being pronounced dead.

"How mad is papa Hayes?" Sage questioned, and that caused either male beside her to shift uncomfortably, even Andrew seemed to be a little worried on that front.

"Depends who's his target. He'll probably start off with Remus all over again, lead it to Andrew—And can't forget Eli." Luke dwelled, which only led to more questions on Sage's behalf.
"What did Eli do? Blake looks mad at him."

"Oh he is, little flower, but your father will probably kill me if he isn't the one to explain it. And besides, you just focus on meeting the twins, yeah? All the heavy stuff can wait." It was now Leo who spoke, and sure it aided her to start feeling calmer, the sudden movement of Remus taking hold of her hand and rubbing his thumb into her skin caused her an abrupt feeling of relaxation.

His touch was similar to Andrew's and it was beyond confusing to both her and her wolf that she could only sit in a slight bit of discomfort, luckily it took her thoughts away from the looming danger that came with meeting her father again.

The silence dwelled for a moment, only for Andrew to catch Remus' tattoo clearly on the side of his arm.
Sage didn't lie about that, and sure enough, it caused him to laugh.

"I thought she was kidding about the matching tattoos." He said through his teasing laugh and Remus blew into his coffee with pure annoyance.

"Yeah? What else did she tell you?"
"That you had a girlfriend before she came, any chance I'd remember the name?" This caused Remus to flicker his attention off towards Sage, but she seemed relatively impassive at the moment.