The Heart of The Pack

chapter 11

Ashley pov

When Amara breaks down in Zan's arms, I can’t help but rush to her and hold her. Ally begs me to distract her, because Amara is too drunk to be feeling such heavy emotions and I give in. I kiss her but what I didn’t expect, was her moans and the feeling of zans hand on her breast, squished between mine too. Ally pushed for more and I found my hand under her skirt, dipping into her panties. Goddess she’s so wet, entering her and feeling her tense and relax made me push over and over. I feel Zan's hand rub Amara’s cl*t and she cries out, so I move faster. As she tenses around me I know she’s close and I beg her to come, she cries out again and I feel hot liquid seep down my hand. Zan catches her limp body, she’s completely out of it and I stare at my hand. This isn’t something I ever thought I could do or wanted to do, but I can’t wait to do it again. Zan pushes my hand in my mouth and the sweetness of fruit and flowers explodes on my tongue, then he kisses me tasting her too. Zan loads Amara in the back of our car, her head resting on my lap and she’s so cute, goddess I missed her face. I miss her scent and the way her skin feels, having her between us while she came. It was like we were whole again, I wont let her run from us again. Kissing her forehead, I promise to always make her happy and to never let her feel alone or invisible again.

Zan lays Amara in the middle of our bed, where she truly belongs and he goes to get a wet towel, while I dress Amara in one of his shirts. She’s so beautiful and we’re so lucky to have her back were she belongs, well sober her might fight us again. But I won’t give up, I’ll show her how special and loved she is and I know Zan will too. Coming back he wipes her down, from the mess made and we both change too. Finally getting to snuggle with her, in the bed that is meant to be ours as a family, feels so perfect and finally having her home, we all sleep soundly.

Amara pov

I knew I would wake up slightly hungover, but the tingles and sparks all over my body eased the pounding in my head. Wait sparks... opening my eyes, I’m stunned with a sight of Ashley’s face so close to mine. Her eyes shut and the sun shining through her hair and her long lashes twitching as she sleeps. I relax knowing this moment might not last much longer, our arms and legs tangled around each other.

“Morning baby, how’s your head?” Alexander walks in with a tray of food, my stomach immediately responding with a growl.

“Hmm that was cute,” Ashley’s sleepy voice calls out and we both sit up, untangling ourselves. Alexander hands me some pills and a glass of juice, probably for my hangover.

Once downing them I ask “what am I doing here?” they look at each other smirking.

“what do you remember of last night?” Ashley asks, placing her hand on my shoulder, rubbing soothingly. Thinking back I remember lots of drinking and dancing, then a round of shots and.... Ashley and Alexander were there, they followed me to a hall and I was trying to leave. Then I started crying again and they cuddled me and it felt good.. then we... oh goddess. I can feel my face reddening at the memory of them touching me and I bring my knees up to my chest hiding my face in them. “Why did you both show up there?” I ask. I feel Ashley scoot closer her arms coming around me and Alexander rubs up and down my calf’s.

‘Stop fighting the bond, they want us I can feel it’ Arabella whines.

“Because you’re our mate and the idea of you in that little dress, with all those people around.” Alexander growls but continues, “no one but me and ash, should ever see you in something so sexy.”

“look Amara, Zan said after the dinner incident, that you might need some space from us. We both tried to give you that but we couldn’t any longer and we are sorry for everything. We want you to come home, we need you and we won’t let you go again.” Ash says near my ear.

“Neither of you noticed, I was even here the night of the dinner and neither of you noticed I was gone. I know the pack needs me but the two of you don’t and your relationship together is great, how do I even come into that. Neither of you need me and it’s very clear to me, so why keep pushing it?” now looking at them, my face red from my emotions of anger and sadness, rather then embarrassment.

“baby, we made a mistake giving you space and we should have gone after you and showed you how important you are to the both of us. And I think I can speak for both ash and I when I say, we do need you. We fell into a routine of working all day till late, then coming home to bed. But you have reminded us to not just live to work, but live to love. You showed us that our lives aren’t in our offices or on the training grounds, it’s here with the three of us. With dates and dinners and spending time together, you’re the heart of this pack but you’re also the heart of this relationship. Baby we are both sorry for how we treated you and the way we made you feel. But we have decided as long as you’re ok with it, to not hide anymore. We want the world to know who you are and we want you home with us as our mate and our equal.” Alexander’s pours his heart out to me and I can see Ashley’s eyes tearing up.

Ashley sniffles and says, “I forgot how much of a romantic you can be Zan. I agree with you though, everyone should know and Amara, we both promise to do things differently in the future. Honey we need you and we will both spend forever showing you that. Just please, please come home, the moment we realised you were gone, it’s like our hearts were ripped out. I knew in that moment I would fight anyone and everyone who stood in our way, as long as we got you back.” Ashley now had tears falling from her eyes at her own words. I realised by listening to the two of them , that we may not have had a perfect start and things might be complicated, but I wanted them. I wanted my mates, I wanted to be here with them and my heart broke without them. And I love them both with so much intensity it’s overwhelming.

I grabbed Alexander’s collar and dragged him with me as I fell into Ashley’s arms, the three of us holding each other. And it isn’t crowded, it’s perfect and warm and it feels like home. “I missed you both so much” I cried into them both and I feel them hold me tighter. Alexander let go and abruptly stood up and goes into the wardrobe. “where are you going” I called after him. He emerged dressed with clothes for Ashley and some of her clothes for me to wear.

“we are all going down stairs, to get your stuff,” I sat up confused.

“What?”

Alexander leans on the bed and pecks my lips. “baby, I’m not letting you spend another night away from us. Now get dressed, so we can bring you home forever.” At his words Ashley gets up and runs to the bathroom coming out changed.

“Come on, hurry up honey” Ashley said bouncing on her feet, I shook my head in disbelief at how they’re acting and it made my heart swell for them. Once we’re all dressed, we end up in my room on the second floor, Ashley is helping me pack my stuff into bags while Alexander’s is taking them up stairs. Once the last bag is done Ashley and I head back up. Alexander is cooking by the time we get upstairs and we head to my room next to theirs. Only it’s empty and I come out confused, Alexander’s sees me and chuckles.

“You really think we would make those declarations to you about needing you and bringing you home forever, to just put you in a spare room. Your stuff is where it rightfully belongs” and he points to their room. Ashley squeals taking my hand to help me unpack in their room. They have a California king size bed, that will fit the three of us and Ashley’s makeup vanity is long enough for the two us. The bathroom is massive, all my stuff fits easily and the wardrobe is even bigger. Once I’m unpacked we all sit together on the couch eating and watching a movie. We cuddle each other intertwined and for the first time since I got here, I was truly happy and felt like I belonged and Arabella, well she purred the whole time.

We all head downstairs for lunch, and I end up sitting between Ashley and Alexander. Which I understand would look odd to the pack, a random woman sitting between their alpha and Luna. So I understand why people are looking at me funny, but Ashley and Alexander can’t stop smiling. Seeing them happy, makes me not care about the odd looks we get. “I was wondering when you three would show yourselves. If you’re all not to busy maybe you could help prepare for the full moon party.” Mel says sitting down opposite us, but I see Alexander mindlinking in the corner of my eye. I look over to Ashley and so is she, they’re mindlinking together and because we aren’t mated I can’t link with them.

Ashley notices my sad face, she leans into me whispering. “perhaps that would be the perfect night to join you into our pack, and make you ours.” I can feel the heat of my face flushing and Ashley kisses my cheek chuckling at me and Alexander’s arm across the back of my chair. I look up and see Mel smiling at us making my blush worse but I don’t fail to notice, the weird looks from pack members.

“yeah, mum we will help and after we uh...” Alexander looks at me smiling, “ we can announce her to the pack.” I feel Arabella puff her chest out, proud to soon be taking her place, but I can’t help but be nervous.

“that my darlings, is a swell idea” Mel winks at me, I swear my face is going to be permanently red from now on.