My Two True Mates (Book 2 True Fated Mate Series)

Chapter 1

Lena POV

4 years have passed, and I am already raising 4 pups/children. Turns out, the doctor was wrong. I was not pregnant with twins but with triplets. You can imagine how scared I was when labor pains kicked in again after giving birth to the second baby. All of a sudden, I was pushing out a third.

Lukas, Ryker, and Weston were in the room with me. Ryker had me lean against him. Lukas stood at my side, holding my hand. Weston stayed by the nurses and stayed by the door, not allowing anyone to peek in or walk in, he was already a protective uncle and they weren't even born yet. Weston would mind-linked me that he didn't trust the nurses to do something stupid with the babies. He heard some stories where they faked the death of a baby, or stole them or they ran off with them and sold them or some sort. Of course, Ryker growled at him after Weston told him the stories in detail. Scaring me at the time. So, I let him be the eyes of our babies. I was paranoid someone would do something stupid. Ryker although he didn't like the idea of getting in the nurse's way, he also gave Weston the go-ahead to keep his senses open. Lukas was also watching carefully.

Lukas was now one of my best friends. We no longer had a mate bond. No sparks. No, nothing. I wasn't sad at all, I was happier that he was alive and well. He has been training with the Quadruplet kings. He and Ryker will be taking over soon. I decided that I did not want to be queen. I will just stick to running my businesses and keep my farm. I want a simple life. I also fell in love with the land here and the people so decided to stay here permanently. Then, of course, without Ryker and Lukas becoming kings, they'd have to stay here and I couldn't take our children away from them or this place.

I also hope that Lukas finds a mate someday. Someone who will accept that he had me as a mate first and that we had 3 babies with one another. Well, 4 counting Zeke the youngest who is biologically Rykers and mine but Lukas takes him as his as well.

Anyway, once the babies were born, they were immediately loved and adored by everyone we loved. Harley went crazy with gifts when they arrived. She didn't get a chance to be a grandma for Ryker, Lukas, and Weston when they were little. Now she has her great-grandbabies, and she loves them to pieces. Even the quadruplet kings dote on them a lot.

My parents get teleported here by Cruiz when they want to see the babies. We made a guest cabin for them right across the lake from my place, it's a 5-minute drive to get around to them. I can't see their cabin from my place, the lake is huge with small rivers flowing here and there.

My sister would come over with her two boys she had one after another with her mate, King Damon. Jenni is now Lycan Queen of the Western Kingdom. She stuck with the J letter for her kids. Damon wanted it that way, so they'd match his beloved, who is what he calls my sister. Their twins are about the same age as my triplets. Jace and James are their boy's names.

Speaking of my children. All 4 ran into the room as I was reading my book on my balcony. Or I was until I spaced out.

"Mom, Ryn keeps trying to spar with me!" Luca, my middle triplet whined as he came and tugged at my arm.

"Quit lying, Luca!" Ryn, my youngest triplet shouted as she stomped and huffed, walking in behind him as she glared at him, her golden eyes simmering brightly with the sun rays.

"He's not lying. You've even been pestering me to spar with you. I tell you over and over, no." My eldest triplet Kade huffed as he came walking in behind Ryn.

Then the littlest one who is 3 came running at me, jumping up and down in front of me for me to pick him up. His little hands clenched open and shut. I shook my head at my triplets, picking up Zeke as he nuzzled into my neck. "Alright, Ryn, if your brother says no, it means no. Besides, you are much too young to start training."

"Mommy, I love to fight." Ryn makes a cute little fighting stance, her little fists are folded as she raises her arms as if ready to punch someone. Her little nose was crinkled as she gave a little roar. Her long black hair was messy. Her golden eyes had a fire in them. I gave her a knowing look as she lowered her hands.

Luca whines again as he pulls at my arm again. I looked into his golden eyes and was about to say something to him but he cut me off. He pointed a finger at his sister, "See? She's trying to fight again!"

"You baby!" She stuck her tongue out at him then crossed her arms and turned away, annoyed with Luca.

"Come on, let's go get a snack in the kitchen. I'm hungry." I ruffled Luca's brown hair and then ruffled Kade's back hair. His cold blue eyes glared at me as he fixed his hair.

"That's enough with the play fighting for now Ryn, apologize to your brother."

Ryn gritted out, "Sorry Luca."

"Thank you." He grinned at her as she walked ahead of us.

Seriously, these kids of mine are like mini-adults, in the way they all act and talk. I shook my head as I carried Zeke in my arms and led the 3 to the kitchen

Kade is the one who is particular about how he looks, and he's also the smart one, the strongest of the two, he's very good at taking the lead over his younger siblings unless he's bumping heads with Luca when Luca steps up and challenges him. He rarely doesn't argue with Ryn. Ryn knows she can't beat Kade in a fight, but she's well-matched with Luca.

Luca is my sweetheart and always reminds me that I am beautiful. Definitely a little heartbreaker he's also leader material. He loves reading, he learned how to read recently and I am shocked at how quickly he learned before going to school.

Ryn is my fireball that one. She's not even Daddy's princess. More like Daddy's precious warrior. Ryker plays rough with her. He's partly to blame for how rough she gets with her brothers. She also hates girl things, she hates dresses, and she'd rather stick to her pants and shirts. She rather fight instead of play with toys.

Zeke, my little man, is Mama's baby. He loves to stick by me at all times. He's the only one Ryn doesn't try to play rough with. She's very protective of him and very gentle with him. She doesn't even allow Ryker to roughhouse him. He is also Ryker's lookalike.

We don't have any idea of what kind of species our children are yet. We won't know until their teens. Uncle Elliot had a vision that he saw the triplets will all know at age 12 and Zeke at age 12 as well, 5 months after them. We also discovered that because our babies are mixed species of whatever they will be, their development is above average the normal vampire, werewolf children. A doctor said they should have been struggling to pronounce words and go off topic once in awhile. They also have to start school in the fall. Doctor said it could be because of my angelic blood.

Lukas sometimes takes the kids back with him to the castle so he can spend quality time with them. He takes them for a couple of days. Gives Ryker and me, a break. Then again, we all usually do suppers together so it's not like we don't see them at all during the time they are with him.

Even though, my life is full of amazing people and beautiful babies. I still feel incomplete. I feel like something is missing. Then, I think of them, their faces are too painful to remember instead I forever see their silhouettes when they left with Michael years ago. I can't even bring myself to think or say their names. I get lonely all over again. 4 years is a long time without them. I am not sure when I will see them again. The last time I allowed myself to think more about them, I went into this depressive state that was so strong that Ryker had to bite his mark on my neck to pull me out of it.

Another thing that's been weird is that Ryker has stopped engaging in s*x with me. After I had Zeke, we never had s*x, we were too busy raising the triplet toddlers and a newborn. Well, that's what I kept telling myself. I had this feeling he wanted to give me my space but at the same time, I also didn't pursue him either.

At the end of every day, we were both so exhausted. Now, when Lukas takes the kids, Ryker and I catch up on work and sleep. I don't even mind not having that physical connection with him. Which to me is weird since we are mates. I am used to it by now it's been 3 and a half years now.

We share the same bed, I can't sleep without our mate bond, and he can't sleep without mine either. Some part of me also doesn't want to have more kids right now. I'm satisfied with 4 for now. I can't take birth control of any sort. I tried this coil thing and my vampire healing made it painfully scrape its way out of me. I tried the pills, the shot, you name it. Even condoms but the way we have s*x, gets a little rough, especially with vampire speed, and the condom breaks. It's how we got pregnant with Zeke. My mate seriously has strong Genes, especially when Kade and Zeke could pass for twins. None of my babies look like me. Luca and Ryn resemble Lukas more too. The kids only have a few of my features.

"You're feeling like that again more and more." Ryker comes over to me after we put our kids in the living room with their snacks.

Ryker wrapped his arms around me and rested his chin on top of my head.

"You've been counting?" I asked.

"Yes. How bout we take the boat out for some fishing this evening?" He asks.

I turn to look at him, "Really? It's been so long since we did something together."

He smirked as he pressed against a small kiss on my temple. "Luke wants to take them to a bouncy castle in the park with Weston and his kids tomorrow, so he's on his way to pick them up to spend the night. Hardin is also tagging along with them." He tells me. Hardin hasn't found his mate yet.

"Okay, we will go." I smiled at Ryker as I turned around in his arms to look at him. He kissed my forehead and we both got ready to go fishing at the same time we packed some food for ourselves. We didn't need to pack for our kids because Lukas already has everything for our children's needs for them in the castle. I guess that also means Ryker and I will be having supper alone this time around.

I have a feeling he wants to talk to me about something important it's the vibes I am getting from him. I think I know what he wants to talk about. Either way, I will catch the biggest fish.