Another End

(Her)

“ Good morning sunshine! Let’s prepare breakfast for your daddy while he is sleeping a little more. He needs his beauty rest.” I whisper to Harper.

She still wakes us twice during the night. To help Collin, I’m taking care of her in the morning. I’m changing and feeding her. Then we are cooking breakfast. This is our morning routine. She is helping me by staying in my arm so I can only use one of my hands, making things easier... But she is an angel who needs a lot and a lot of hugs in the morning so I can’t resist. While we are removing the cookies and the marble cake from the oven, we hear Collin in the stairs.

”Good morning Angel!” He says to Harper kissing her nose and Taking her. “ Hey Lilly, How are you? That smells good, what did you cook?”

 “Hey Collin, I’m good thanks and you? For breakfast, we have cookies and marble cake.”

”I’m great, thanks. It’s a sunny day maybe we can take our breakfast outside.”

”I know! You can’t imagine it was raining all day yesterday! It’s a good idea! I love to have breakfast outside. I will dress the table in the patio.”



We are enjoying our breakfast and the sun in the patio while Harper is sleeping in her baby bouncer.

“You always cook a sweet breakfast never a salty one.” He tells me while eating a cookie.

“I have a sweet tooth, sorry. Something sweet to start the day is the best way for me. If you want tomorrow I will cook something salty for you.”

“You don’t have too. You are already cooking for every day so I can’t be picky.”

“I don’t mind. If you want some omelet I can cook it for you.”

“Thank you! Good Morning Alpha Franck.”

“Good morning Collin and Anna-Lynn. Enjoy the sun I see. It’s smell good what did you cook this time.”

“Morning Alpha Franck. Cookies and marble cake, you want some?”

“Sure! I can’t refuse the offer, I have a sweet tooth.”

“Me too! Do you want some coffee?” I ask him.

As he nods I’m going in the kitchen to fill a cup of coffee and take a plate for him. He is now sitting beside Collin.

“Thank you Anna-Lynn.”

“You are welcome, Alpha Franck. What do we have to do this morning? Elena is coming for lunch and I would like to have time to cook.”

With happened two days ago to Kaiden, we canceled the lunch, but she called yesterday evening to ask if she could come today which I have accepted. Aiden is staying with the kids.

“What do you will cook?” Collin ask me really interesting.

“ French: Bœuf bourguignon and Gratin dauphinois. As for the dessert, I will cook a raspberry pie. And yes I will cook enough for both of you if you are staying for lunch Alpha Franck?” 

“I will thank you. We need to check the accounting of the month but it can wait this afternoon.”



“Great. Let’s start now and I will stop around 11:00 to cook.”

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At 1:00 pm sharp, I hear someone knocking.

“ Hey Elena, Come in!” I say opening the doors.

“Hello, Anna-Lynn. Thank you for having me for lunch.” She says and she gives me a beautiful bouquet of flowers.

“Thank you, You shouldn’t have!”

“You save my son and invite me for lunch so it was the minimum.”

“ You don’t mind if Collin and Alpha Franck are eating with her?”



“Of course no.” She says but she looks a bit disappointed.

So far the lunch is going well, everybody is enjoying the food even if Elena is not speaking a lot.

“Damn. It’s so good! This is my favorite!” Says Collin.

Alpha Franck and I both laugh.

“You already the that yesterday.” Says Alpha Franck.

“And the day before. And the one before too. And the day before. And the day before. Wait you are telling me that every day!” I add teasing him.

“Yes but this time, I’m sure!”

“If you say so.” I say not believing him.

“Do you know how to cook simple things like pizza?” He asks me.

“First thing first Pizzas are not simple. The best pizzas that I never ate was made by Italians. I don’t what is their secret but only they are able to do the best one. I remember asking an Italian friend how to make a good dough and he told me: “You have to have good ingredients and it starts with the water you use”. Well even with the best water I was never able to have a dough as good as them.”


“So this is why you slept with am Italian boy, to steal his recipe?” Jokes Collin.

I smile and say innocently: “Nope he was just super hot and he knew how to use his d-”

“Careful baby in the table. She doesn’t need to hear that neither she needs to know what is it. She will never see one anyway.”

Elena, Alpha Franck and I can’t help but burst out laughing. He is so delusional. 

When we calm down, Alpha Franck asks me: “So you had an Italian boyfriend?”

“I don’t really do boyfriends Alpha.” I answer.

“If he was not your boyfriend what he was.” He asks him

“It called Sex friends now, Alpha.” Collin tells him.

“I know what it’s a sex friend. I’m not the old Collin.” Says Alpha Franck.

If I was not bothered by the turn the discussion is taking I would have a laugh.

“Sorry Alpha.” Says Collin.

“So you had a lot of sex friends Anna-Lynn?” Alpha Franck asks me.

“ A few...” I tell him.

“ How did you meet an Italian guy?” He keeps questioning me.

“ In Italy, Where else? It’s was in Napoli if you want more details.”

“ Well, it’s pretty normal in the human world to have sex friends as humans were not blessed with a mate.” He answers me.

“She never said they were human.” Says Collin For me. I look at him with disapprobation. Alpha Franck looks surprised.

“And what were they in this case?” He asks me again.

·A bit of everything.”

“That’s not answering.”

“That’s not your Business!” I retort to him.

“Elena, let’s take the dessert and the tea, alone outside. We should enjoy the sunny day.”

“Of course.”

We are both sitting outside but no one is speaking for now. Alpha Franck went bask to the pack house and Collin is putting Harper to bed for her nap.

“The food was great, thank you! How did you learn to cook?”

“One of my friends is passionate about food. He is traveling everywhere he can learn the specialty in the area. I asked him to teach me. He was in his European period when I met him, so I learned that. My favorite is french food and I love cheese!”

“You need to teach me! Aiden would love that.” She takes a pause.”Sorry, maybe you don’t want to share your recipes with me as I am Aiden’s mate.”

“No, I don’t mind. I’m just not the best teacher. You should meet my friend he is really great and passionate about food. But I don’t think Aiden would let you meet him though.”

“Because he is a HE? Mates are jealous it’s true but Aiden trusts me.”

I laugh: “HE is a vampire and in this pack, you can’t befriend with the “enemy”.”

“Oh! Yes, I doubt he will let me meet your friend if he learns about that small detail.” She shrugs.

“Just small?” I laugh “ How did you meet Aiden by the way?”

“I went to study in the city next door. My birth pack is very open-minded so I went there with my Alpha approbation, but he told me to introduce myself to the Primus Pack because if I needed help they will be closer to me. We met in front of the Alpha’s office door. I ran away but obviously, he knew the pack land better than me and he caugh me easily.” She says smiling.

“Why did you run away?”

“I knew it was a traditional pack and he was a high ranking wolf and I wanted to graduate. I was afraid that he will forbid me to finish my studies.”

“And he did?”

“ Actually no. He didn’t even ask me to drop it as I thought he would but he was staying with me in the city, we rent an apartment together. It was a great time.”

“I’ve never imagined Aiden living among humans. As you know this pack is close off with any other species even with other werewolves actually. Love can make you do everything!” I say really surprised.

“ Yes, the love between two mates is powerful. It’s an amazing feeling to be loved like that.” After a few seconds, I look at me with guilt.” Sorry, I shouldn’t have said that. It’s inconsiderate f-“

“No, No, No. it’s perfectly fine. I know true love too.” I cut her.

“ Oh really, can you tell me more.”

“I would rather not. It’s not against you but I don’t want Aiden in that part of my life and he is your mate. I don’t know if I can trust you or not sorry.”

“It’s okay. I think I understand. So asking you to have access to your blog is not an option neither.”

“How do you know about my blog?”

“I met Mrs. Ivery. She is a really nice lady.”

“How is she? It’s been a while since the last time I saw her.” I smile thinking about my former teacher. I need to visit her before leaving.

“She is doing well for what I have seen. She showed me a lot of pictures and videos of you. You were so cute...I’m sorry for the way your family had treated you.”

“You shouldn’t feel guilty for something you didn’t do. They’re not my family anyway.”

“Not anymore. I have a question: You change your family name when you were 16 but not your name, why?”

“Because I like it. It’s not about who gave me that name but what I wanted: to start my life, my real life and do what I wanted. I wanted to keep my name so I kept it. Even if I use mainly Lilly now. It’s the surname Chris gave me.”

“You mean Alpha Chris?”

“Yes, Darius and he are my family. I’m so lucky to have them in my life.”

“In your life... Where we have no place in?”

“Don’t look so disappointed. I’m sure you have never looking for me. And before few days you didn’t even have a positive opinion about me.”

“It’s true but now I know and it changes everything. And you have a son that will never know his own family.”

“He knows my family and that enough. There is no way a let Aiden or his parents meet him. I don’t them to put a stupid ideas in his head.”

“What about Kaiden and Julia? They have the right to meet him.”

“ You are right and if I trust you enough it could happen but not here.”

“You will never come back here when all of this is finished.”

“I have no reason to come back and no time to lose more than I’m already losing now. But If you really want our children to meet it will be possible.”

“ You will never be forgiven them.”

“It’s not about forgiveness. We are nothing more than strangers. They’ve never shown any interest about me so I just moved one. I don’t know who they are and I don’t want to know them anymore. I have nothing against them, they are just nothing to me.”

“And if they want to change that?”

I laugh: “They are way too proud for that. A few days ago your mate even told me he had prayed for my death.”

“Sorry about that.”

“Again, not your fault.”

To change the subject, I ask her questions about her, her family and her life. She has 3 sisters and she the second one. Her parents wanted a boy and after the 4th girl, they decided to stop trying. Her big sister is a pack doctor as her mate and her two little sisters are teachers. She has 4 nephews and yes only boys this time, Julia is the only girl in the middle of her cousins. Elena had studied psychology because she wanted to be a concealer, she may be not but as the Beta Female see using her abilities a lot. Aiden is a really good mate as I knew he would be.

It’s almost 3:00 pm when she had to leave and I had to work. Before she left I gave her access to my blog but she had to pinky promise she will not share it with Aiden or his parents. Or anyone. She is a really nice girl. Aiden is really lucky to have such a sweet girl as his mate. In other circumstances, we would have been great friends.

My afternoon is pretty boring now. The accounting is a mess and we have to check everything with Alpha Franck.

“ So I guess Liam doesn’t like paper and accounting. This is a mess. You are lucky to be rich if not you will have been ruined.” I say to Alpha Franck.

“ I know! I didn’t imagine it was that bad!”

“ And Eleonora?”

“Whats about Nora?”

“Does she like it? Or at least it will be okay to manage the financial part of the pack? I mean the Alpha couple has to be complementary. Seriously when you see that (I’m pointing the paper and tickets) the best solution would be that some else is doing it.”

“I don’t know. She was not really involved in pack life when she arrived. Now she is of course but she is always in a submissive position with Liam’s decisions.”



“Stupid bastard of Markus!” I can’t help to add.


He nods in agreement.


“ How can you be okay with Liam and Nora be together? I mean it’s like you don’t even care. Liam was supposed to be your mate and this pack, your. And still, you are doing only what you said you will do. You are just helping and nothing more.”

“I see... Still questioning me Alpha. I don’t love Liam. I never had and I never will.”

“What about the mate pull. Maybe You don’t feel it because you are not a werewolf?”

“I did feel it! I mean I felt the sparks but it didn’t change the fact I find him too pretentious.”

“Felt? You don’t feel it anymore.”

“Nope.”

“How is it possible, neither of you is mark be someone else?”

“Maybe because we were not meant to be mates after all. I’m sure Liam is not feeling it anymore neither.”

“How can you be so sure about that?”

“Ask him if you don’t believe me. Can we go back to that mess, please? I would like to finish before midnight.”

~~~~~~~~

We finished at 8:30 pm and it was difficult to check everything. For sure Alpha Franck will give a dressing down to Liam. He needs to organize better his accounting or to find someone who can do it for him. Hopefully, he will knock some sense into him.

We ate around 9:00 after Harper went to bed. I cook a quick Minestrone soup and a Caesar salad. We spoke about Elena and also my travel. I showed him pictures and videos and I gave him access to my blog.

Now we are washing the dishes with music. I’m dancing alone and that bothers me!

“Come one Collin dance with me. I spent my day trying to figure out the pack expenses and to find every proof of payment. I’m going crazy and right now I just need a bit of fun. But alone is not the same.”

“Easy to say you know how to move your body.”

“I will teach you then! Come on. We are alone nobody will be seen you.”

And like that, we start to dance. We laughed, jumped everywhere. We didn’t care about everything else and we forgot about our problems.

“Seriously you are a good dancer.”

“I took dance class for 9 years it might help.”

“ But you don’t sing.”

“Bad idea. I’m a really bad singer. If I start to sing you will wish you’re dead.”

He laughs: “ I would like to hear it. You are perfect so it’s difficult to imagine you failing on something.”

“Believe me on this one.”

“Okay, okay...What’s your favorite dance?”

“Tango!”

“Why the Tango?”

“Because with the right partner it’s taking another sense.”

He is raising one of his eyebrows.

“ It’s becoming sensual with huge sexual tension.” I develop.

He laughs: “why I’m not surprised. Of course, it’s sexual. It’s always with you.”

“ Hey not always!” I say pretending to be offended. He laughs even more.

“Knowing you are dying change the way you see the world.” He tells me.

“We are all dying!” I answer.

“True but we don’t have less than 5 years to live.”

“WHAT!!!” We hear someone screams outside.