Future

Chapter 35

*Rocky's POV*

Everyone was so happy to have me back. I was in quite a state when they all saw me. I was a bag of bones with matted and dirty fur. Once Katie tended to my head injury, I was able to come home. Lexi carried me, wrapped up in a ton of blankets. She had Zuma and Chase on either side of her, looking up happily. Chase had his brother back and Zuma had his mate. Katie said that I would definitely need some mental and physical assistance and rehabilitation from Lexi and she said that she would be happy to help me.

Marshall, Everest, Chase and Skye warned their pups to be gentle when I first came back but I must have looked so different and sick that it scared them a little. They cowered behind their parents and looked at me who to them was now a stranger. I assured them that i didn't take it personally and understood that it'd be strange for them.

Marshall walked into Lexi's room and saw her sat on her bed with me. Just the two of us - Zuma was out on a mission, much to his, and my, dismay. Lexi was helping me eat, tearing up small pieces of meat and giving them to me. It reminded me of when she helped get Marshall and Everest's twins used to solid food.
"Lexi?"
"Yes Marshall." The girl looked at the dally but kept her hand still so I could snatch the piece of ham in her palm eagerly.
"Can you help me get the pups in the bath?" He asked. Samson and Aiyana were always playing tricks on their father. Once he got one in the bath, he had to find the other while the first escaped when the dally wasn't looking.
"Sure." She laughed before hopping off her bed and walking behind the dally. "I'll be back in a sec Rocky." She smiled over her shoulder.
"Ok." I  replied, lowering my head onto my pillow, making it sink in the middle a little. I heard paws on the floor and looked up when I felt a warm mass beside me. I smiled as a familiar brown Labrador came into my line of view.
"You're back." I licked him on the cheek.
"Yup. Made suwe I got done quickly so I could get back to you." Zuma nuzzled my cheek. I breathed in, inhaling his scent.
"I missed this." I confessed.
"What?"
"You. The lookout. Everyone else. Your hugs. Kisses. Other stuff..." I blushed.
"Believe me. I've missed that too." He leaned down and placed his lips in my embrace, letting our tongues mingle.
"Just wait till I've got my strength back." I growled as my mate gently nibbled my floppy ear.
"Why?" he whimpered happily.
"Because I'm gonna ruin you."
"I bet you will." He chuckled.
"Guys no foreplay on my bed." Lexi laughed as she walked back into the room. We pulled away but laughed regardless. Zuma looked down at me.
"Love you Wocky."
"I love you Zuma." I smiled, then whispered. "But I don't know why you'd love someone as messed up as me."