Midnight Blue

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     'I can smell our mate.' Azul chanted.
Curiously Amari looked out the window. Damon was talking to a tall, light brown haired man.
He must be the visiting Alpha, she thought.
She made sure the curtain was closed when the alpha's green eyes looked over to the window. So she walked out the door casually and toward Damon and the Alpha.
     "Who's this Damon?" Amari asked. That was when the smells hit her.
It was the type of scent you'd smell when running through the woods, and if you came across a stream.
     'He is our mate!' Azul yipped happily. She almost sounded like a love sick pup.
The man wouldn't take his eyes away from her.
      "This is-" Damon started.
     "I'd like to know the pretty girl's name first." He still didn't brake eye contact.
     "This is Amari. Amari, this is Alpha Barron." Oddly after Damon introduced the two, he left. Barron must have asked him through mind link.
And just like that. Her heart sank.
     "You." Amari growled.
     "Whoa whoa whoa. Before you start with this, I was only trying to keep him out of the other territory"
     "By coming on to his?" There was a chill in the air as it started to snow. Amari didn't have much of a coat on since she didn't see herself being out there for too long, so she shivered. Barron slipped his own coat off and before Amari could reject the offer, it was draped around her shoulders. And just as quickly as she had gotten angered, she calmed down.
     "Now, let's go inside. Please." So Amari let Barron gently lead her into the house.
     "Thank you." She told him when they were at the door.
     "Anything for my lovely mate." He grinned as he shut it behind him and Amari blushed.
If she only knew Clayton had been watching.
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And so the years passed. The midnight blue pact for Clayton to repay Amari grew, as she helped his butt out of trouble a ment times. But eventually Clayton went off to Alpha school , and Nicole found her own mate. Amari in that time became Luna to the GreatRiver pack and had two sons. The eldest was Carter, his younger brother named Beau, and there was one more sibling on the way. Carter and Beau were hardly even a year apart, but would be nine  and eight years older than their new coming brother.
Amari had told Clayton he could come visit anytime if he could escape from school or just come for a visit.

When he did, he was surprised with the fact his old friend was pregnant with her third child. Carter and Beau were with their father when Clayton came. But he was shown a picture of Amari's boys nonetheless. They smiled and laughed at old times. Before they knew it Barron and the boys had returned from 'Alpha buisness'. Amari and Barron introduced their boys to their 'uncle' Clayton after the two Alpha's shook hands.

     "Have you found your mate yet?" Amari asked curiously.
     Clayton shook his head and rubbed the back of his neck. "No, I haven't. But I'll be able to return to the pack in two days."
     "Tell everyone I said Hi."
     "I will. You and the kids should come over for a visit sometime. Well, when this one decides to make an appearance." Amari smiled at her old friend as she walked him to the door. Barron had already asked if he had wanted to stay the night, but Clayton turned it down. Clayton hugged Amari goodbye, and she kissed his cheek.
     "Thank you Clayton. I really needed this." She smiled.
     "There's one more thing I came here for."
     "What is it?" She asked slightly confused.
     "I got a call from our Beta, Damon. There was a wolf going around asking for you." Instantly Amari growled thinking it could be a member of the pack that destroyed her's. But then a familiar scent hit her nose. That sent her running out the door and into the yard.
     "Cody!" She called before throwing herself into the man's arms. "I thought you were dead." She cried into his shoulder.
He had soft brown hair and chocolate eyes to match. Cody wore a necklace much like Amari, nut his had a sparkly black moon instead of blue.
     "Amari." Cody spoke, separating them slightly so he could look his little sister in the eye. "It really is you." And he few rapped his arms around her. "They told me  no one else survived. I dint believe them. I didn't. I remembered seeing you run off with dad, and I couldn't believe you were dead." Cody paused, looking around. "Where is dad?"
     Amari pulled back as her mate and pups walked out the door to see what the commotion was all about. "Cody. Dad's gone. He died from his injuries. He... He used his last breath to tell me to keep running. A...and so I did. If it wasn't for the GreyCrescent pack and Clayton's father. I wouldn't be alive." Tears streamed down Amari and her brother's face. Cody held this little sister against him.
     Barron stepped forward. "Amari honey, who is this?" Barron knew about her past, but Amari never liked to talk about her real family besides Clayton, Nicole, and their pack. Amari wiped away her tears and faced her husband.
     "Barron, Clayton.... Everyone.. This is my brother Cody.. Cody. There is my husband Barron and our pack. The man who brought you here is Clayton, soon to be Alpha of the GreyCrescent pack."
     Cody kept an arm around his little sister as he approached the two men to shake their hands. "Thank you so much for all you've done for Amari. It really means the world to me."
     Carter and Beau decided then to poke their heads out from behind their father's legs. "Oh. Carter, Beau. This is your uncle Cody." And she told her brother her boy's names. "And there's still one on the way." Amari smiled.