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He chuckles
“I thought it was going to be weird, like I’d freak out but I didn’t. It almost felt like the 3 of us were meant to be, connected in a different way”
As he talks I gasp as a vision blinds me and forces my head back
———
Lucas' face hits me, the Ailm mark floats around his head, I see our arms come together and as our palms touch I hear a gasp.
“Fated..fated..fated..fated..fated”
Im singing it over and over again
——-
I pull out with a gasp and turn my hand around. My marks have not appeared yet
“Aspen are you ok? What the f**k was that?”
I turn around and straddle him trying to catch my breath, I look at the sleeping Arthur and decide to be honest. I wasn’t honest with Arthur and it cost us time.
“The other day before we found out about the cancer I took a drink of our blood to induce a vision to see if we are Ailm fated. The vision just happened and I know who my fated is and it’s not Arthur”
He frowns, I take the joint from him
“Who is it? You can’t leave him”
I growl
“I would never! And I mean never leave him are you crazy! Fated or not he is still my mate and I’ll be there for him until the day he—“
“I’m sorry. I just feel protective”
“It’s you”
I just spit it out. He looks at me stunned not saying a word but then he shocks me by kissing me. I moan into his mouth as he grabs my face and deepens the kiss. After a minute he pulls back breathless looking me over
“How is it possible I got so lucky?”
He rests his head against mine. I smile taking him in. But a strangled scream shocks us out of the moment and I jump out of his knee and run inside as Arthur clutches his head. Blood runs down his nose.
Luca lifts him like he weighs nothing
“Get in the car, we need to get him to the hospital now!”
I scramble out the door grabbing my keys, running past mum and dad and out the door, I open the back door and jump in the drivers side as Luca climbs in with a screaming Arthur. Mum jumps in beside me and dad gets in the back and I take off towards the hospital.
I feel tears streaming down my face as I put my foot down and make it to the hospital in just a few minutes, dad jumps out and opens the door, helping Luca climb out, a doctor is ready with a gurney, Luca sets him on it and they take off inside.
I’m frozen in place as I watch them take off inside. I feel a hand squeeze mine and I know it’s Luca. A smoke is placed at my lips and I take it eagerly.
“What now?”
I ask him, mum watches us with interest
“We wait babe. We just wait”
I drop my head and sob, Luca pulls me into his arms, he sits on the ground and pulls me onto his knee as I cry into his shoulder.
“We need more time. I haven’t had enough time”
“I know, me either”
He replies sadly as he holds me tighter. I’m not sure how long we sat there for but soon I heard a sad voice behind me.
“Luna?”
I lift my head to look at the woman.
“Yes, how is he?”
“I’m dr parks. He is stable”
I sigh in relief as Luca helps me stand to my feet, never letting my hand go.
“What happened?”
I wipe the tears from my face and try to stop them.
“He took a bleed in the brain, thankfully it’s just minor. I’m going to put him on some pain medication and you need to know that although I said 2 months anything like this could happen”
“What can we do to avoid him bleeding?”
Luca asks her and she shakes her head
“Well for a start you can’t have him in one of those damn cars Luca, I’ll kick your ass myself if I hear of it”
“He said he doesn’t want to spend his last few months being afraid”
I say to her, she looks at me sympathetically
“I understand that I do, but if he bangs his head too hard that could be it. I’m not asking him to lay in bed, just avoid racing or crashing. He can still watch”
I nod that sounds reasonable
“Can we see him?”
“He’s just getting some imaging done of his head, the bleed was minor and stopped on its own. This could happen again but hopefully it will only be small, but you can wait for him in his room, Luca you can show them the way”
He pulls me along the corridor and into a room named alpha. Mum and dad come with us and sit down, Luca pulls me onto his knee.
“I’m confused, are you 3 together?”
Dad said to us making me go bright red, Luca laughs and mum glares at dad.
“I had a vision Luca is my fated”
Mum's eyes snapped to my own.
“Does he know?”
I shake my head
“No but it doesn’t matter, we will still be by his side no matter what”
“Yeah we can deal with us later, I just want him to be happy, and honestly i've never seen him this happy. not since before Eva”
I growl, Eva was his first mate
“Why did she reject him?”
Mum and dad sat forward to hear the explanation
“Because he had cancer”
Mum and dad both growl to.
“She was a b***h, we all went to school together and on his 18th birthday she rejected him infront of the entire school. Basically laughed in his face, it took me a week to get him convinced to reject her back, after that he turned to drink and girls and business then after Jordan I joined him.”
“Who’s Jordan?”
Dad asks him
“My mate, she died not long after I found her. Rogue attack”
“You have both been through so much”
Mum mutters crying again. I squeeze Lucas hand, he shrugs
“Sure we have. Both had to kill our own fathers to”
I look at him, I never knew that.
“I remember that, you had no choice”
“I know”
He answers dad.
“Wait, why?”
Luca sighs and pulls me back slightly so I’m laying on his arm and he’s looking down at my face.
“Our fathers hated us being so close, thought we were gay. Our mums stayed close even when the packs were at war with each other. After Arthur’s mum died of a heart attack, me and mum spent our time with Arthur. Arthur was so ill so I was always there trying to cheer him up. Anyway one night he was violently ill, it scared the crap out of me, he was vomiting blood and he was so weak. Anyway I stayed with him and helped him into bed. He had puke all down his clothes so I started to change him when his dad walked in and saw me stripping him. He lost the plot. He beat me to a pulp, Arthur was so weak I’m not sure how it happened but his wolf came early, we were only 16. His wolf came early and he broke his fathers neck. After that I stayed by his side for weeks at a time, mum helped and together we looked after him as he adjusted to becoming alpha. Anyway I went home one day, dad had heard what happened and he was going crazy saying I wasn’t allowed to be gay and all this garbage, I told him I wasn’t gay that he was sick and my best friend and if anything it strengthens both packs, Arthur had opened up the border so the kids could go to the same school and we could use his hospital. All things we only wished we could have done for our people but dad was having none of it. Didn’t believe a word I said then he commanded me to kill Arthur, I lay on the floor in my room all night screaming trying to fight it. Mum came home and when I told her she lost it. They never had a good relationship anyway but this time he went too far. Arthur was like a son to her. She told me the only way to overcome it is if my aura outranked him, so she told me to kill him. So I challenged him and I killed him becoming alpha at 16. We opened up our borders and since then the packs have lived in peace and we started businesses strengthening it further. Mum died a few years later after Jordan died. She was lonely without her best friend and when she took an infection she refused treatment and died soon after”
Tears streamed down my face. These 2 could have had a happy life together, they could have loved each other the way they are meant to but their fathers got in their way.
“I’m sorry you went through that”
“Honestly I don’t care about that stuff, it was obvious even then that me or Arthur would choose each other over them anyway so that always lessoned the blow to know me killing him saved Arthur”
I smiled but sat up as a bed was wheeled into the room, Arthur was awake smiling sleepily, his eyes lit up when he saw me and Luca. I climbed of Luca and went to his side
“How do you feel?”
I push hair from his face and kiss his lips gently.
“Better now that i've seen you both”
Luca stands behind me but reaches for Arthur’s hand and squeezes it.
“I mean your head, how is your head”
“I’m fine love stop worrying, these painkillers are kick ass. I’ll be right as rain tomorrow so who’s going to help me up”
Luca pulls on his body so he’s sitting up, I can see Arthur look at Lucas lips, a smile played on Lucas as he leaned forward and kissed Arthur infront of everyone. I bit my lip and looked at the shocked room as Arthur moaned, kissing him back. Mum grinned and dad chuckled as the doctor rolled her eyes
“About time you 2 sucked up that pride”
Luca pulled back and rolled his eyes at her, Arthur swings his legs out of bed and I frown
“Arthur get back into bed”
“Nope I’m going home”
I growl at him
“No, get back into bed, you scared the crap out of me so just listen!”
I screech at him.
“Doc seriously I’m not spending my last few days in this bed please let me go”
She groans, shaking her head at him.
“Fine! But no racing cars, you can watch but not race, keep on top of your medication and if you even sneeze a bloody snotter I want you back here ASAP”
She points at me and Luca with a stern look on her face. I look back at a grinning Arthur
“Fine but I’m having gran come and stay with us if you insist on being a damn man child”
Arthur snorts and laughs taking my hand in his, he kisses each knuckle and grins at me.
“Stop worrying, your going to take premature wrinkles”
I scoff at him and rub my head of any lines making him laugh harder.
“Fine let’s get you home then but no more wrinkle talk, I don’t want to jinx it”
Luca helps him to his feet and we make our way home, I text gran and ask her to come stay for a while and Arthur gets comfortable in his chair in our room. Luca shows me how to roll a joint incase Arthur ever needs one and he isn’t here. After that Arthur pulls me onto his knee and I heat my skin.
He shivers under my touch then sighs happily. I play with my fire making fireflies and floating balls, Arthur watches it like he’s a kid in a circus for the first time.
“I love that you can do that. It’s my most favourite thing about you, as well as your heat. I love you baby”
“I love you to”
I kiss him gently then take a drag off his joint.
“Come on both of you in bed, we have had a long night”
I smirk at Luca getting up and shooing us to bed like we are little kids. We sleep the same way and I relax instantly when I feel they both shiver at my touch. I love that I can keep Arthur warm when he feels so cold.
I couldn’t stop the tears from silently falling as I thought of soon I won’t be able to do that for him, soon it would just be me and Luca in this bed, then that worried me too. Will Luca still want me if Arthur’s gone. Will I lose them both at the same time?
I tried to silence the voices and sleep but I couldn’t, not until Arthur woke up
“I’m scared to”
He whispers to me
“What’s your biggest fear baby? tell me?
“Losing you but losing Luca to”
I answered him honestly.
“He’s your fated isn’t he?”
I roll so I’m face to face with him.
“Yes but it doesn’t mean I love you any less”
He brushes the tears from my face
“I know it doesn’t. My biggest fear was you're going to have to deal with this on your own. Now I know you have each other it makes me feel at peace”
“You don’t mind that he’s my fated?”
He shakes his head and smiles
“No baby I don’t, in fact I’m happy I know the man that’s going to love you when I’m gone, I’m happy I know he will look after you and care for You. I love you both and I want you to be happy”
I kiss him softly, his words bringing even more tears to my eyes
“I do ask one thing of you”
He pulls back and says
“Marry me”
I pull back and look at his face, he’s dead serious and so am i. I lunge for him and kiss him deeply.
“Hell yes I’ll marry you”
He grins and starts to cry, I wipe his tears now too.
“Thank you”
He kisses me and rests his head against my forehead and sighs, he wraps his arms around me so I heat up my body.
“I swear your the sexiest hot water bottle ever”
I snort and chuckle but snuggle in closer finally letting the exhaustion from the day take over and I close my eyes in the arms of both my fated and my mate.
—-
The next few days went like that, we worked on the car for a few hours and spent the rest of our time talking or watching movies and slowly with my gran’s healing help Arthur started to look like his old self.
I was just about to pull on my overalls when Arthur stopped me pulling them off again
“What are you upto?”
“Your having a break from me today, you are going to training with your dad and Luca is bringing me to meet my lawyer”
I went to protest but he put his finger to my lips
“Love please, you have been by my side all day and night. You need a break and you need to go show our warriors what a kickass Luna really looks like then after I’ll meet you back here and we can chill until the race later. Ok?”
I sigh but nod
“Fine but take your medication with you, do not overdo it and if your tired make Luca carry you”
He chuckles and shakes his head at me
“You worry to much but I promise I will do all above except for him carrying me, my prides already hurt enough that he carried me into the hospital the last time”
He grumbles something else making me giggle, he pulls out work out gear and hands it to me, I sigh and give in getting dressed in shorts and a sports bra. After I went to grab coffee with mum in the kitchen, Arthur followed me in as Luca walked through the door and stopped looking me over.
“Where the hell do you think you're going to dressed like that?”
I frown and look myself over
“I’m going to training”
“Not in that your not”
I crossed my arms over my chest and growled at him, Luca growls back as Arthur grins watching us
“You can’t tell me what to wear it’s not like I’m going out stripping for there entertainment, I’m going to kick there ass”
“You are not leaving this house like that, tell her Arthur”
I snorted and smiled at Luca
“Don’t put him in the middle Luca it’s not fair, it’s hot as hell outside and I have to train, I can’t do that if I’m to hot”
“A vest top now aspen, it’s not going to hurt you to wear a damn vest top”
He stomps down to the room in a huff, I roll my eyes and fill 2 cups with coffee and hand one to Arthur who is smirking at mum.
“What?”
“Why argue over a vest top?”
“It’s the principle of the entire thing”
I answer sitting down.
“Well I’m the one that has to listen to him today so will you please just wear it?”
He looks at me with puppy dogs eyes and I sigh
“Fine”
———————-
My head was not in the game, all I could think of was Arthur and had he taken his medication and was he warm enough. I finally give in and link him
Me
I can’t focus
Arthur
Love I’m fine I promise
Me
I know i've turned into this crazy b***h that you can’t get rid of but I can’t stop worrying
Arthur
You are definitely not a crazy b***h and I don’t want rid of you, infact when I’m finished here I’m coming to watch training so I can see you sooner
Me
Your coming back soon? To watch me?
Arthur
Yes and I’m rather excited to watch you kick my men’s asses, Luca doesn’t believe me when I said your the best so he wants to come and prove me wrong so get your head in the game I want to win this bet
Me
What else have you 2 bet on?
Arthur
The race tonight, he hasn’t seen you drive and he’s in for a hell of a shock, now go, fight and be the best. I love you
Me
I love you too
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