The Crescent War

Chapter Sixteen

5 Years Later

“Mummy…” I glared down at the triplets, their bright eyes and freckles being used in full force to get whatever the hell they were after.

“Whatever you want the answer is no.”

“But we wanted to make something fun for James and Oscar’s birthday!”

“That was yesterday, kiddo.” I laughed and flashed them a dazzling smile before pointing at Alex. “Uncle Alex is way more likely to say yes.”

“Yay!” My two sons and daughter ran off in the direction of their favorite uncle and I was left to help Dakota with her homework in peace.

I had thought twins were hard but damn, I was never prepared for triplets.

Even though it was my hormone attack that lead to them, I still blamed Daniel and his stupid super sperm. I had firmly decided that I would have no more children until all of the kids were over eighteen. Then maybe I’d enjoy living an adult life for a while. It was still just a dream but I had all the time in the world to reproduce and I had six kids, I was in no rush to have any more.

No matter how much my mate wanted me pregnant again.

“Mum, this makes no sense!” Dakota huffed a sigh and narrowed her eyes at her English homework. She was only eight but she was really smart, she just didn’t choose to show it.

“Sure it does, baby.” I took the sheets of paper off her and read through it. “Yeah, that makes no sense.” I frowned and tilted the paper upside down, just in case it made sense that way.

“God, Jia, don’t hurt your poor brain.” Gale laughed and wrote the answer on a separate piece of paper for Dakota to copy.

“Don’t be an ass.” Grace appeared at Gale’s side and slapped his chest affectionately, curling her body in close to his.

“Sorry, honey.” He kissed her temple and allowed his hand to graze protectively over the soft swell of her stomach. Yep, my baby girl was pregnant. She was pregnant at eighteen after knowing her mate for over five years...

I was damn youthful for a grandmother and there was no way in hell I wouldn’t let anyone call me one but Daniel on the other hand had done a complete turn around and embraced his daughter’s new family. He had welcomed Gale with open arms and threw a party the night he found out his oldest daughter was expecting his first grandchild. I was just thankful it took the attention off me getting pregnant again.

“We’re all packed and ready to go.” Grace leaned forward and hugged me tightly. “Where’s dad?”

“I think he’s out with Luke somewhere. Who knows what kind of prank they’re probably up to.”

I knew exactly where they were, they had gone to prepare the lake house for Grace and Gale’s visit. Daniel had gone all out in buying candles, rose petals and various other things to make it the perfect romantic getaway before the baby would be born. My husband had even gone as far as getting non-alcoholic champagne.

“That sucks.” She pouted. “I really wanted to see dad before we left.”

“Why?” I raised a curious eyebrow.

“You think Alpha would let me marry your daughter?” Gale asked hopefully.

“And have you for a son in law? Hell no.” Daniel’s voice came from behind them and Gale stood behind Grace, more than a little terrified that the pack Alpha had heard him.

“Dad, you can’t say no!” Grace pleaded, bringing out Daniel’s sad puppy eyes that never failed to work.

“I was joking.” A grin formed on Daniel’s face. “I’d like nothing more than for my daughter to marry her mate.”

Gale picked Grace up and swirled her around in celebration, kissing her softly and practically beaming at her. Their love was evident and I had never seen the other man show so much adoration for somebody else. I had been worried at first but there was no denying that they were made for each other.

The whole pack cheered as Gale bought out a simple engagement ring that Grace of course loved seeing as she had chosen it herself in order to force Gale to grow enough balls to approach Daniel.

They were young and loved up and starting a family. It reminded me of how happy I was when I met Daniel and how much happier I was after all these years.

“Where’s Alec?” Grace asked when she had finished receiving congratulations from everybody. “I want to make him jealous with my ring!”

“I’ll go find him.” I laughed at my daughter’s excitement, pressing a kiss against Daniel’s lips as I went in search of our eldest son.

Of all the places I expected to find my son, I had never considered finding him making out and grinding against Oscar in the middle of a hallway upstairs.

My jaw dropped open at seeing them together. My son had Alex’s son pressed up against a wall and was making a damn good job out of marking him up with love bites and open mouthed kisses.

I was pretty shocked to see that as over the years they had argued more and more after Grace’s constant teasing that they would end up mated one day, causing the two boys to drift apart.

“Well… I’ll be damned.”

I almost laughed at how they both froze and turned to look at me at the same time. “Oh, don’t mind your mother. You can continue dry humping in my hallway.”

“Oh, God...” Oscar groaned and buried his head into Alec’s shoulder. Alec on the other hand looked pretty f*****g proud of himself, smiling at his mother with pure happiness.

“Are you mates or just messing around?” I asked, sort of praying I wouldn’t be related to Alex come morning and desperate for my son to find his mate.

“We’re mates.” Alec confirmed, his pupils were dilated with pure lust and his smile was contagious. He turned to nose across Oscar’s temple, pressing a short kiss there and smiling warmly at his mate. “I love him.” His alpha confidence allowed him to say the words with no doubt of not having it returned but Oscar returned the sentiment anyway.

“Then I guess I’d better leave you to it.” I gave Alec a thumbs up while Oscar tried his hardest to look elsewhere. “Move it to a bedroom though yeah? Else I’ll send the pack up.” Both of their eyes widened and they scrambled to Alec’s bedroom, slamming the door behind them.

I made it back to the living room and delivered the good news. Grace clasped her hands together in delight and Lane also got excited at the prospect of her son finding his mate. Alex had to be held back from rushing to protect his son’s innocence and Daniel’s dimples were out in full force from the pride of his son, the future alpha, being mated to an omega.

I found myself smiling too. My daughter was mated, had just got engaged and was about to have a baby. My little triplets were cute as they can be and made sure there was never a dull moment while Dakota was intelligent and growing more and more into a young lady every day and my oldest son was about to be mated to his best friend meaning Alec would probably be a father himself too before long.

My kids were growing up and starting families but I wasn’t scared of the future. We had an unlimited future and I had Daniel by my side. I didn’t need any more than that.