Life After the Storm

IVAN'S POV

As I am leaving the woods from my encounter with Lily. I am in shock, wondering how the hell she survived that fall. All this time I was calling her weak, but I was so wrong. I hate myself even more now for treating her the way I did. Remembering When I touched her skin it felt like a delicate flower, so soft. I tried to snap out of my thoughts of thinking of her, it's distracting me as I am tripping over branches that are on the ground. Realizing that I have made the biggest mistake Underestimating my own mate.

I shift into my wolf and take off to the pack house. I need a distraction. From thinking of her it's making me crazy and craving more of her, I want to respect her and let her be free. Even though I'm not going to be able to let her free for long. I am hoping now more than ever that Jenny finds a way out of this marriage.

Not really sure how she is going to do it, but I'm looking forward to it. If she can get out of it, then I will be able to be happy with my mate. I know that I will have a lot to make up for gaining her trust, knowing it will be all worth it in the end. She will be mine eventually, it just takes time, but am I going to be able to wait to get the satisfaction that she gives me for long.

Now that my wolf knows that she is alive, I can feel his power coming back to me more. Not that I was weak before, but now I feel invincible. I know that he wants his mate, I do too, but I messed that up. I will get her back no matter what. I just have to figure out how. I can feel my body ache for her, wanting to be close to her. I have never felt this for anybody that I have ever encountered.

I always thought that this whole mate thing was bullshit, that it was all an act. Now I realize that I was the one who was full of shit somehow I hid my feelings for her so deep inside me, I made them non-existing. What a fool I am Realizing now that power is not worth losing your mate. 

don't want to shower, I crave her scent to be near me. As it sends chills up my spine and arousal takes over.

in my mind is fucking her. Loving how she just took what she wanted and fucked me hard. Knowing if she was here, I would make her do it again. As my cock gets hard, I begin to stroke it, thinking of her

is so distracting why can't I just forget about

I hear an odd noise that almost sounds like a cry coming from a baby. I stop to try to make it out, the sound wondering why there would be a baby this far in the woods. As I get closer to the noise, I shift into my human, not wanting to scare the child with my

able to help myself, fear overcomes me. I can't even let out a howl of desperation for

that I could come up with to escape you. So, instead,

with anger, but I can't react, it's like I'm stuck in my own mind, trapped. Maybe this is what I deserve, especially because of what I did to my own mate. Maybe I deserve to suffer just the way I made her suffer. Realizing that Jenny was never going anywhere, that she was watching me

have known I was here, I wondered if her and Lily were working together to kill me. I don't blame Lily for wanting to kill me. Sorrow takes

is about to come. As they shift into their wolves. I know my end is here as they attack. I feel every bit of their canines tear through my flesh. All I see is my blood covering their mouths.

pick up my lifeless body from the ground. As my legs are dragging, I accept that this is it. Regretting decisions that I made, wishing I could make it up to the people I hurt. As they throw my body against the tree, I can't help but want to be dead, not wanting to feel the pain that is overcoming my entire body. As they begin to hold my