Everly POV

Two weeks later

“Everly wake up. You‘re late again,” Valen says, shaking me out of my deep sleep. A growl escapes, and I tug my pillow over my head. He growls, ripping the heavy drapes open and flooding the room with light that seared my eyeballs from their sockets..

“Everly up!” Valen growls, ripping the blanket off me. My eyes felt like sandpaper, and I was so damn exhausted. No matter how early I went to bed, I always woke up feeling like crap, and it didn‘t help that he watched me like a damn hawk. And wouldn‘t allow me any coffee, making me question if that was an addiction. I usually had two before I even did the school run, and now no caffeine has resulted in me becoming a zombie.

“No, leave me,” I whined.

“Valarian was ten minutes late yesterday and today. The tantrum I just dealt with was insane! Now up! You were supposed to do the school runs the last two days, and on both days, he couldn’t wake you, and I had to come home!”

“I‘m tired,” I told him, reaching blindly for the blanket that he tugged away.

“Up!” he says slapping my backside and earning a growl.

“Why,” I whined.

“Because it is time to get up!” he snaps.

“Time for you to get up. I don‘t have to be anywhere,” I growl. It was my day off. I wanted to sleep!

Valen growls and storms out of the room, and I snuggle beneath my blanket when I wrinkle my nose at the smell of coffee. The smell I couldn‘t stand sent me running for the bathroom, but damn, did I miss the taste and the energy buzz. The scent grew more potent, and I growled as his scent wafted in from behind me and the pungent aroma of caffeine goodness.

“I swear if you made that just to make me get up to puke, I would provide the damn vasectomy myself,” I snarl before I gasp, my throat burning. It was such an odd reaction to the one thing I loved. Once I threw up, I was good to drink it. Just the initial smell always got to me.

Flushing the toilet, I quickly rinsed my mouth while glaring at him in the mirror as I watched him take a sip. He was pushing my limits. I snarled as I stood up while he smiled tauntingly.

“Ah, be nice, I may let you drink it,” he says.

“Hand the coffee over, hun, or I feel this miningdeal may not go through,”

I tell him, “I hear the owner is a real bitch without her morning coffee,” and his smile falls.

Maybe him knowing now would play to my advantage. When I brought it, I knew if the packs knew, they would hunt me down and probably kill me, but with Valen and my Dad behind me, no one would dare touch me now.

“You can‘t blackmail me, and that was my land you brought,” Valen tells me.

“No claims, therefore, no–man‘s–land and now my land,” I tell him, putting my hands on my hips.

you did that, and you nearly started

away. “That land would make a nice protected reserve,” I muse, folding my arms across my chest. He glares at me before cocking his eyebrow at me and not taking his eyes from mine while

heard, was looking to extend. I am sure he would offer a good amount for the spot

wouldn‘t dare, then you would get yourself in trouble!” he

to cause trouble, and I hear it

Everly. And once that jar is gone now more, it should last you a while,”

whole jar?” I ask excitedly, and he

asks, holding out

a day?” I

“One!” he says.

“Three!”

“One!”

have a deal,” I tell him,

shake his hand, and he gives me the cup. I take it excitedly and have a sip before it comes spraying out my mouth as I spit

fuck, Valen! That is not

a deal,” he laughs. “And you

a deal for coffee! Not whatever the heck that

he says, and I growl. “Well, I know never to let you go over a contract. Always verify what you‘re making a deal on, Luna,” Valen laughs. I pull a face at him and flip him the finger behind his back as he walks out. I get dressed, pouting about my

since the hotel was under renovations. We had so much spare time on our hands, and it

until you have one day off. The girls agreed to meet up with me for lunch, and before I knew it, I was driving over to the hotel to check everything was remaining on schedule while Valen told me he was going to see his father,

seemed to be happening so fast but it was a

took care of most of the debts while I waited for my accountant and some agents to sell off some of the land, selling off everything besides the land behind our pack and my father‘s old pack, and out of spite, I was also keeping the land behind Nixon‘s it might come

what saves us from going under. Valarian‘s money was locked in a trust until he came of age. I could get it out, but the hoops to jump through would be a pain

being served and not doing the serving. We all looked and felt out of place. People

at the waitress. “I think you

“I‘m sorry, Luna, but,”

his pack

I think he is

them, glaring at

“Cheese?” Zoe asks.

listeria, oh and fish, apparently mercury levels and since he can‘t be bothered looking up which fish best to steer clear of, he has banned all fish, oh and mayonnaise. I will kill him by the end of this pregnancy. Every night he has his nose in a baby book,” I

Zoe glances around like she is waiting for him to pounce on me over the coffee Macey

it. Although, she had admitted that he had been hounding her since Tatum found out about my pregnancy, especially now that they had officially moved

Zoe smiles at her sadly. And I felt terrible because I was pregnant with not one baby but three, and

in her mouth. I knew she

and clingy now,

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