DUSK TIL DAWN

Chapter Twelve

Grayson's pov

My wife is amazing I thought to myself as she is sitting there in her hospital bed rubbing her belly thinking to herself which she has done a lot since she got pregnant. As I stop thinking to myself the doctor walks in and says, "well by looking at the monitor now and yesterday babies heart rate has picked up and your contractions have slowed down to the point where we could look at sending you home and just be careful." My wife looks happy and I smile, then my wife speaks up and says " what do you mean by being careful we still have to finish setting up the nursery and I have washing to do for the pack house etc." and the doctor looks shocked and says " well if you are going to be doing all that then you're going to need some help because I don't want you doing any sort of heavy lifting and I don't want you doing too much physical activity." I look at my wife as she says that, and my wife was not happy because they are her duties and she doesn't want to be dead weight to the pack. I can understand that feeling more than anyone that we know because I am alpha, I know this.

We start to pack everything up and my wife gets up to help me pack everything and I give her this look and she knows what I was going to say. She looks at me and goes "I can't just sit around and do nothing like im going to go crazy" and I just laughed at that because what she doesn't realise is that I can find things for her to do. We were driving home and she was sitting there in the passenger seat watching the trees zoom pass the window it seemed like she was enjoying the view so I decided to take a detour to my favourite spot in the woods near home and we pull up at a little bench with a beautiful view of the lake and trees and mountains, it was completely breath taking. I stepped out of the car and went around to the other side of the car and help my heavily pregnant wife out of the car because I know that one wrong move and she can go back into early labor. Knowing that she is a werewolf gives me some form of strength to keep moving forward.

Olivia's POV

As I watch my loving husband help me from the car I can see that he is lost in thought but I have no idea what he is thinking, he helped me from the car to the bench that was sitting there with a picnic on the ground and I look at him and say " hey darling can you help me sit on the ground so that I can enjoy the picnic you made" he looks at me and smiles then nods while helping me to sit on the blanket. But then we both realise that how are we to get me up off the floor, but then we look at each other than laugh because we both know that my husband I strong enough to lift me so I should be ok I trust him with my life.

We are sitting there eating the picnic that my lovely husband has put together for us and all, then suddenly he gets a phone call from his beta, and I have no idea what this phone call was about but deep in my gut something was wrong, and I have no idea what is going down. I try to use my werewolf hearing to figure out what the hell they were talking about but by the time I figured anything out they were saying their goodbyes and hanging up on each other. I look at my fiancé and asked him what the hell was going on and all he says to me is that we must pack this up and we will have to do this again another time there has been some things that have gone down that I must take care of.

I look at him and realise it is something important and while he was packing up the food I use the bench to try and get myself of the ground and he comes running over and says "don't work too hard I don't need going back into early labor ok bubs needs to stay in there for a minimum of two more weeks or more" as he was helping me off the ground and walk me to the car. Once I am seated in the car and packs everything else into the car and he jumps in the driver's seat chucks me the iPod that's in the car for music and goes put anything you want to listen to on, so I scrolled through the music and he was driving the hour and half so left before we got home, I picked the song I had some help by Post Malone and Morgan Wallen, Grayson looked at me like I picked the perfect song he was driving at a hundred and ten miles an hour down this freeway to get home he turned the volume up to twenty five and when he felt comfortable he put his hand on my belly and said that "he loved me a lot". The way he was behaving reminded me of a song my brother used to play when I was younger, it was called all that really matters I have no idea who it was by, but I realised why he liked that song now. By the time I had snapped out of my thoughts we had pulled up in our driveway and he touches my arm and asks me if im ok. I said, "I was ok" and then I go to open the door and get out my brother Connor comes running out and helps me out of the then looks up at Grayson and says, "I'll look after her go deal with whatever you need to deal with". But then this dreaded look on his face comes out and I look at Connor like Oh shit what happened why does he look sad and concerned at the same time.

Grayson's POV

Im looking at the person I love, and I have no idea how to give her the most terrible news ever so im looking at them both hurt and completely unsure how to tell her that her parents have escaped from their cell. I turn to Connor and say "Can you please take Olivia up to my office please I need to speak to you both and im being serious" the looks on their face were terrified, and I never meant to scare them at all. So im following them up to my office and Connor give Olivia the only spare chair in my office other than mine and I go and sit in my chair I take a massive deep breath and think this is going to shatter whatever safety they felt like had. They are looking at me waiting to find out what I am about to say and, in my brain, im running around screaming because Connor has just become comfortable being here and I don't want him to go back to hiding in the woods. I took a very big deep breath, and I said "don't be alarmed but on the way home I received news that your parents have escaped their cell while we were away"

Connor's POV

I wasn't sure if I heard Grayson right, but I think my brain just turned to mush and my world has completely frozen then I look down at my sister who looks like she is almost in tears that's when I realised that I can leave even if I wanted to she needs me and I can't just abandon her when she needs me the most. Both Grayson and I move to Olivia and just wrap our arms around her and try our best to comfort her, but she is completely shattered by what Grayson said, she looks up at Grayson and asks, "two questions have long have they been missing and how did they get out?" Grayson then replies with "well they were there at dinner last night and missed breakfast this morning and we haven't found how they got out it looks they used magic to get out or something scouts have been made aware and same with neighbouring packs that align with us". I look at my sister and I can see that she has clenched her belly a little and some of the peace that was in her eyes has disappeared and that makes me sad because I love the fact that she had finally found peace, and now that her parents are free some of that peace and comfort has been taken away. We have no idea how much of her peace is broken we are just going to have to watch her carefully because the stress of this may cause her to go back into early labor and if that happens again, we may not be able to stop it this time. So, between me and Grayson we must always keep an eye on her.