The months following the triplet's birthday and the funeral of Sergei's mother were a strange mixture of whirlwind days and torturously slow ones for Irina and Sergei. They slowly got to know each other while the mate pull drew them closer together and made it difficult to keep their hands off of each other.
Bardik watched Sergei closely after their encounter following Aldrik's banishment. He was not happy that Sergei had been mated with his sister after his little stunt with escorts. He'd ordered a guard on him since then and the only thing he'd done with them was relieve his tensions. The alpha-to-be sighed as he released the guard from duty with a word of warning. "If he so much as punches a door out of turn, tell me."
The guard nodded, while he couldn't possibly understand the stru
