My Mate.....Rejected Me [New Version]

Epilogue: Luca

A lot can happen in 18 years. I didn't think my life would ever be the way it is now. With five healthy and beautiful children and a loving husband supportive family.

Seventeen years ago I was a scared 15 year old boy running from his abusive pack with no way of knowing just what was going to happen to him, his four year old son and unborn daughter.

My life was hell from the moment I was born until the moment I decided that it was enough and left. Now here I was a 32 year old man living the best life I could possibly want.

I didn't think that I would ever have a family that would protect me from harm but I did. I found them in the people that took me in the moment I crossed into their lands even if they were not much older than I was. For the first time in my life I had finally found the parents that I had dreamt of having even if I did have a mother that gave her life up for mine and my son when my father had followed after us to get us back. She died protecting me and for that I will always love her because without her selflessness my children nor I would have the family we have now and we would have lived in a pack that's filled with nothing but fear and ruthless wolves that didn't care how old you were as long as you can satisfy their needs.

Okay, let's not think about that instead, let's talk about the now. Like I said, today I'm happily married to the man that I never thought I would ever end up with, and not because of our past but more so because of what had happened on my 18th birthday when he rejected me and left Canada for the UK. When he left I thought life would never be the same, though I had the kids and my family, I didn't have him. Anyway, flash forward to eight years after he left and we had the dream wedding we wished for and then two years later we had our little Sara and not long after that we learned we were once again expecting but this time it was two for the price of one.

And speaking of them, I heard the loud cries coming from down the hall through the baby monitor that I had on top of the kitchen counter. I set my coffee mug down and made to get up when the cries stopped followed by a soft lullaby that I used to sing to Princeton, Bella and Sara.

Baby mine, don't you cry
Baby mine, dry your eyes
Rest your head close to my heart
Never to part, baby of mine
Little one when you play
Don't you mind what you say
Let those eyes sparkle and shine
Never a tear, baby of mine
If they knew sweet little you
They'd end up loving you too
All those same people who scold you
What they'd give just for
The right to hold you
From your head to your toes
You're not much, goodness knows
But you're so precious to me
Cute as can be, baby of mine

I sat back in the chair as I listened to Bella singing to the twins and smiled. Ever since Princeton left the house to study in Texas,Bella had become distant and rebellious not wanting to be near any of her siblings so listening to her singing to the twins was something I never thought I'd hear. Caleb walked into the kitchen and raised a brow, "what's got you smiling like that?"

"Listen" I said pointing at the monitor as Bella starting singing again

"Is that, is that Bella?"he asked surprised and I nodded

"There you go, there was no need for crying the way you two did," Bella said and I could hear the twins gurgling and cooing on the monitor as she spoke to them, "don't tell mama or papa I sang to you, okay? Or I'll never hear the end of it"

I smiled shaking my head before lowering the volume on the monitor even though it was only a one way monitor meaning only we can hear.