Total pages in book: 35
Estimated words: 33372 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 167(@200wpm)___ 133(@250wpm)___ 111(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 33372 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 167(@200wpm)___ 133(@250wpm)___ 111(@300wpm)
“Dude, she is so gross,” Lee, his six-year-old, said, complaining as he always did.
“You were gross as well,” Adele, his eldest daughter, said.
Adele was eighteen years old, his firstborn daughter, and currently about to head out for her first transition.
Karina was running around upstairs, preparing the beds for the kids. They had seven children.
Adele was the eldest at eighteen. They had been together, married, and mated for two years before she came along. The pregnancy had made his and the Westblood’s pack very nervous.
Rage had spent a great deal of time reading about human births. Sister Claire had stayed over. She was the only person Karina had wanted with her, besides her mother. She refused to go to a doctor. She was convinced their children would be wolves, and they all had been.
Over the past twenty years, there had been several threats from the rogues. William and himself, along with the strongest men of their pack, had fought against them. They were always a threat, but they had learned how to detect them. Members of the pack were assigned to look for the clues of a rogue, and when one was close, the hunt was on.
Back to their children: Adele was the eldest. Billy, Maxwell, and Kyle, had come next. Then, Susan, Lee, and finally Petal, who had just filled the diaper so badly.
He heard his mate coming downstairs, and she rounded the corner. So far, she didn’t look any older than the day he had met her, even after seven kids and twenty years had passed.
Her parents were always worried, and he was pretty sure Rose, his sister-in-law, always did a going-grey test on Karina whenever she was around.
Rage always made sure he took care of his woman. He didn’t allow a single day to go by without telling her he loved her and wanted to spend the rest of his life with her. She looked at him and smiled.
This day had been coming for so long. He had to prepare Adele for what was to happen.
“Come on, Maxwell, Kyle, Susan, and you, Lee, it is time for bed. You’re not going to give Billy a hard time. Come on, come on, no arguing. You know this is an important day for your sister.”
“If it is so important, why can’t we go and see her?” Lee asked.
“And when it comes to your turn, you’ll be happy for everyone to watch you as well?” Karina put her hands on her full hips.
Lee grumbled, but as with all their children, Karina knew how to handle them, and she got them all to bed within twenty minutes. Billy was given his instructions, which also included no parties.
On one of the days he went to visit Westblood, Billy had attempted to have a private party, but it ended in chaos. Rage had no choice but to punish him for a good month afterward. Every bad chore he could think of he gave to his son. It had resulted in an apology a month later, and so far, he’d not done anything to disappoint.
With Billy now in charge, he took Karina’s hand and they made their way out toward the forest, where the rest of the pack and their youngest children were.
Adele stepped away from them, and he sensed the moon rising in the sky.
It was powerful.
“Will she be okay?” Karina asked.
“Of course. She’s our daughter, but she has your spirit. She’ll be able to handle anything.”
They had already shared twenty years together, and Rage had cherished them all. He would never take a single moment for granted. Karina had given him something to live for, and she was his soulmate.
Karina never did go grey. They also didn’t only have seven children, but ten, and that was their limit.
She also didn’t leave him after fifty years.
Against all odds, Karina was with him for life, and then some.
The End