A White Moon

Heavenly Blue Times Two Part 2

The man in front of me is growling. The man behind me is growling.

Their Betas are growling. Jake is growling in my defense.

My head is spinning from looking back and forth between them.

I take a couple of steps back only to feel Jakes soft and familiar fur in my left hand. I take a firm grip on his fur, to steady myself.

“What’s going on Jake!?”

“I don’t know, Elle.“

Logan finds himself first and steps forward. “Okay, everybody please calm yourselves. This is supposed to be a peaceful meeting. So, this is what we’re doing. Dad. Mom. Please greet the rest of our guests while we try to figure out what’s going on, with… this. Whatever this is.” Logan says to Robert and Makela. Everything around me is a fussy mess and I feel like I’m under water and hearing everything. “Alpha Keaton, Alpha Kayden, Beta Owen, Beta Mason please follow me. Elle, Adora come on.”

“Children. Go with the nannies.” Dora instructs the kids as she hands over Noah to a nanny.

Dora then takes my hand and I feel my feet start moving as she pulls me with her.

Is this a joke? What the hell is going on?! My head keeps spinning. There’s darkness around my sight. I feel my feet stop moving. “Dora I think I’m going to faint.“ I say matter-of-factly.

Then darkness swallows me.

The first thing that I feel is Logans familiar smell. “Logan.” I say as I move to touch my head. My eyes are closed and won’t open quite yet. “What happened?”

“Your system overloaded little sis, take it easy.” He responds.

“Easy for you to say!” Dora states. I feel like there’s something rhetorical about it though.

I open my eyes and I look around me, I’m in the small living room in my favorite armchair, on my right side is the short hair and rugged looking guy with a black-haired guy at his side. Pine and fresh rain guy’s eyes looks straight at me. I look to my left and there’s the pine and aftershave guy with the shoulder long hair, he’s got a blond-haired guy beside him, both of them looks straight at me.

I want to smile but the situation feel heavy on my shoulders. I look between the guys a couple of times and feel no realization coming through. And My wolf is of NO HELP AT ALL she just prances around in my head.

“I see I am not the only one that’s confused.” Logan states.

“That’s an understatement.” I mumble to myself.

Logan ignores my remark and stands up tall, he looks down at me then reaches his hand out for me, I take it and stand up. Thankfully the pool of arousal in my panties has dried up.

“Okay Elle. This is-“ Logan gestures towards my left “Alpha Keaton Hayes of the Golden Moon pack and his Beta Owen.”

“Hi, it’s a pleasure to meet you.” I say and stares into Keaton’s eyes. They are so blue. He’s maybe one full head taller than me.

“The pleasures all mine, little mate.” He responds with a smile.

I hear a growl from my other side and turn my head to meet the eyes of his doubleganger, his eyes are dark with anger and he glares straight at Keaton.

“Then you must be Alpha Kayden.” I say to get his attention back at me. It works and he turns to me.

“Kayden Michaels, Alpha of the Lupine Moon Warriors, my love.” He states and bows at me.

I hear a growl from my left and when I turn my head Keaton glares at Kayden.

I see Dora stand up. “Okay. Can we all please sit down?”

“Yes Luna.” Everybody responds.

She and Logan sits in a couch across from me and that leaves Keaton and Kayden to take an armchair each. Their Betas stand.

“So. This is really confusing.” I say when nobody else say anything.

“What’s confusing, little mate?” Keaton asks. “It’s simple. I saw you first. You’re mine!”

I’m a bit baffled about his possessiveness. But I really shouldn’t since Logan’s been the same with Dora from the beginning. Especially before she was marked as his…

“It’s not that simple! I want her!” Kayden growls.

“You can’t come late to the party and expect all the goodies to be still there for you!” Keaton says a bit more agitated.

“I’m not expecting anything except that you do not treat her as an object!” Kayden states with eyes black in anger.

“Okay. But she does not know you or me! How is she going to choose from that?” Keaton asks.

As they are "talking" they raise their voices and themselves from the chairs. The rest of us follow with heads turning back and forth, like we are watching a game of ping-pong.

Dora meets my eyes. “Do something.”

“What?” I ask.

“How would I know? They are your mates!”

I stand up and both Kayden and Keaton looks at me.

“Yes, little mate?” Keaton purrs.

“I need some fresh air. Can we go for a walk?” I look at Kayden then Keaton to clarify that it will be the three of us.

“Sure thing, love.” Kayden responds and directs a gleeful smile towards Keaton. I choose to ignore it and start to walk towards the door.

When we get outside Kayden walks on my right side and Keaton to my left side.

“So.” I say to start somewhere “I don’t know how this is going to work guys.”

“What do you mean? There’s nothing to figure out.”

I stop and look between them. Oh yes there it. There is a lot. “Okay, from one thing to another. How come you look like twins?”

As soon as the words leave my mouth it’s like the boys look at each other for the first time, and really sees the other. They do not answer me, I keep walking and they join up on either side of me.

“Can you tell me more about you, Keaton?”

“What do you want to know?”

“Your birthday, how old you are, what your father and mothers’ names are? Siblings?” I say and use my hand twirling to indicate that he can continue after that.

“I’ll start with answering your questions then. My birthday is October 3d, I will be 23. My father’s name is Barton and my mother’s name is Hanna. I have two younger brothers, Lennon and Maddox. My favorite color is black, I think that’s a given” he gesture towards his outfit. “I love to let my wolf, out so we can run in the woods around our territory. And I must confess that I find you extraordinal beautiful.”

I feel my cheeks redden, and I look for any other thing to look at. I feel his hand capture my chin and turn my face towards him. His smile makes butterflies swirling up and buzzing around. We stare into each other’s eyes for a few seconds and I feel so incredibly loved by him already.

I turn to face Kayden. “Your turn…”

He chuckles and I feel his hand grab mine. “My birthday is June 13th, I also will be 23 years. My parents are Richard and Katherine Michaels. I had a twin brother that died, otherwise I have an older sister, she’s 24, her name is Rakelle. She’s got three kids, two boys and one girl. My favorite color is the kind of icy blue that resides in your eyes.” As he announces his favorite color I feel his eyes directly staring into mine.

“Smooth.” I hear Keaton mumble.

My feel my cheeks heat up and I head over to a bench that is nearby.

“Okay, so you want to know about me?” I ask when I sit on the table gesturing for the boys to sit in front of me.

“Elle. Your sister will not approve of you sitting on the table-“

“Jake. Seriously. Why are you following me?” I look over my shoulder to see him sit about twenty yards away.

“I’m doing my job as your protector while you get to know your mates, or whatever they are.”

I shake my head and sigh. I turn towards the guys again to see them both looking at Jake.

“He is my bodyguard.” I say a little apologetically.

The guys reacts at the same time and their answers collides.

“Why would you ever need one?” Kayden asks, confused.

“I would never hurt you!” Keaton utter with an expression of disgust.

“Well…” I say and I drag out the e. “My father has a deep founded hate for me.”

Both guys looks appalled but they stay quiet. I heave a heavy sigh. I study my hands as I continue.

“When I was born my icy blues and white hair was an issue. My four older siblings all came out with black hair and midnight blue eyes. I was so different that father thought that mother cheated or was raped and didn’t tell him. That created a rift between them that led to my mother dying from heartbreak…”

I feel a few tears escape but I don’t look up to see their reactions. “It’s a good thing my sister is the amazing woman she is or I would have not been who I am. She came at nights when I had bad dreams. She was there when I had questions on wolves or on women things. Now we both have Makela, the former Luna” I explain “As a stand-in mother. She’s been terrific and that gave Dora the opportunity to be with the love of her life, to be a fantastic Luna and to be the inspiring woman that she is. Then destiny and she got that one screwed up too and she became a mother again.” I say with a half laugh. “Though I love the blessings that are my nephews and nieces. They are, after all, all I’ll be able to get...”

I stop myself from letting that secret slip out. It's too early, maybe even a little too painful. I am not ready to tell them that I will never have children of my own, that if they choose me, they will never have children.

I feel my wolf growl in my head. Her ears are backwards which reinforces the feeling that she is as angry as angry I am over this fact.

This was not meant to be. I feel the anger behind her words trying to get the best of me.

But there is nothing to be done. I’ve been nagging it over and over a lot since it happened. I take a few deep breathes.

“Elle.” I look up at Keaton. “I’m so sorry.”

“That’s awful.” Kayden agrees.

“Yeah, well I’m a strong believer of the Moon Goddesses will. If it is her belief that this was all meant to be and that I shall have two mates. Then who am I to question.”

We sit together and talk about less heavy things until their eyes cloud over, indicating mind-links, I wait for a few seconds and they’re back. It was from their Beta’s. The meeting is about to start.

“I don’t know what we’re supposed to do. You can’t be the Luna of two different packs, Elle. And I cannot and will not give up my pack.” Kayden looks at me with a strong look of sympathy.

“This is your decision.” Keaton agrees. “I will not fight Kayden for your hand unless you want me to. I don’t want to give you up. But if you’re rejecting me than I’ll have a chance to get a second chance.” He looks up at me and looks a bit scared as if he said something wrong, then he adds. “Clarification. I do not want that.”

“I agree. I will not do that to you. I will kill for you, but not if it will hurt you.”

They can’t be serious; they leave me to make this decision?!

They both want us. My wolf purrs with pleasure and contentment.

“Aren’t you supposed to be super possessive Alpha males?!”

“Sure, that we are, love.” Kayden responds and winks at me.

“But we know when to use our heads-” Keaton says and winks but adds with a shrug “Sometimes.”

They stand and each hold out a hand for me, I move to place my hands in theirs. As soon as my hands touch theirs there’s a ginormous spark shooting through me. I gasp out loud and completely freeze up, chocked beyond comprehension.

They pull me up to stand up and reluctantly lets my hands go.

“KAYDEN! Let’s go!”

I move my eyes to see the black-haired man from before. Beta Mason? Was that his name?

“Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes I wonder if I’m even your Alpha.” He says under his breathe, with a huge chunk of sarcasm. Keaton snickers beside him, until we hear.

“KEATON! Your ass is also requested in here.”

His face falls as he is not amused by his Betas choice of words. “You’re lucky you happen to be my best friend!” he yells back.

I watch them as they leave side by side, they have only a slight difference in their walks, until they go inside of the packhouse and disappear from sight. That leave me alone with Jake. I meet his eyes; he rolls them and turns his head towards the house in a ‘Shall we go back?’ move.

“No.” I say and start walking towards the lake. “I want to think for a while.”

He walks up to my side and I hear his voice in my head loud and clear as usual. “What are you thinking?”

I sigh. Loudly.

“I don’t know. My head is still spinning from all of my thoughts. How would I even choose? I don’t know them and what I do know about them I love equally. How would I even choose one and ‘leave’ the other one behind? That would probably break me in half. I can’t have them both…”

“But it’s not like I can ignore the Goddess will… and I…” I feel tears stinging my eyes. “I can’t… I can’t have their children.”

“That. Is. Not. Your fault Elle.” Jake growls.

“I know. But it still hurts.”

After that Jake and I walk in silence so I can try and think of what it is I am supposed to do, what I'm supposed to choose. Everything is buzzing and I’m so profoundly confused. I closed my mind off; I don’t want any mind-links. Jake can take them if it’s important. We’re never far apart, everyone knows that. About half an hour later Jake huffs, I open my mind to him.

“Dora wants us back, now.”

We walk back together. The very moment I step in the packhouse dining room Ellie slams in me in the biggest hug she’s ever given me, then she pushes me away and starts scolding me.

“What the f**k dude?! Why didn’t you mind-link or call me? Or even texted me!?”

I am completely baffled. “What? Why are you angry at me for!?”

“Rochelle Williams! I am your best friend! You tell your best friend things! I told you thirty seconds after I found David! BOTH of my big sisters knew about yours before I was told, and not by you, that’s majorly unfair!”

Is there no such thing as being allowed to process things before everyone else knows about it? I bet the whole pack has bets on who I’m choosing. I pull her towards the small dining room and is reminded of what happened here less than two hours ago.

“Well, I’m sorry Ells. There really haven’t been that much time to process…” I say truthfully.

“What do you mean process? You found your mate Elle! It’s all over the pack! This is a great thing!”

Oh. The truth wasn’t out yet… “Actually. I have two.”

She looks at me and stays quiet, then she says. “I’m waiting for the punchline.”

“No punchline.” She is still just looking.

“I. Have. Two. Mates.” I pause between each word.

As soon as the words leave my mouth I feel the truth behind them. They are both mine.