Awakening (2 book series)
Awakening – Following Fate Chapter 98

"No you f*****g didn't. That's what Meadow is there for when I'm not. She's my beta...the one who deals with war and battle. You're the Luna, you're my f*****g life, Lorey.... I don't care what is expected of a Luna, it doesn't count when it comes to you. You always put your safety first, over everything you hear me...That's a f*****g order!" The biting attitude and he actually alpha tones me in his last two sentences and enrages me on all kinds of levels. He swore he would never ever alpha tone me again as long as we lived, because he knows how much I hate his use of it over my free will. The angry growl he exudes and yep, he is really pissed about all of this despite the fact we just saved his a*s and broke a spell. "If anything has happened to those two babies. I'll never forgive myself!" His last words tear me open inside, dampening my own growing rage as it sizzles into nothing like water on hot coals. I lift myself back to his face and pull his jaw with clasped hands to look at me. Pulling his eyes to mine even though he tries to fight me at first, but then relents when he catches my gentle expression and the misting of my eyes at his being so mad.

"I had to bring you home, or else those two babies were not going to have a father...and I wasn't about to leave you out here. I couldn't live without you." I try softly, attempting to soothe him with my obvious devotion, but he squints his eyes and turns away from me. His jaw clenching, showing he's still highly emotional and not really in the soft lovey mode of communication. My sweet talking never works when he's in pig headed and overprotective mode.

"Your life trumps everything. Your safety comes first. I can't believe my mom even allowed you to do this, what the hell was she thinking?" he rages out loud, throwing out a Colton tantrum into the air around us. Stamping across the foliage like a bad mooded bear and I close my mouth and cling on in the hopes the walk home will help him vent a little.

"That my daughter was more capable than you give her credit for!" Sierra's voice cuts in, almost making Colton drop me as he realizes she's still wandering around here without an escort but walking along beside him inside this retched forest. She has dodged Meadow and carmen and found her way back to us and probably has Carmen going mad with looking.

"Don't even, Mom. You don't know what you missed back there when you lost her. Jesus Christ, I go mentally off the charts for a week and you two start running around the forest taking on vampires! What the hell, mom? The two most important people in my life, and you're out here acting like all this is a walk in the park and neither have any chance of being hurt." He shouts at her too, and I flinch and curl up into a tight ball in his arms. He never raises his voice to Sierra, ever, in the whole time I have loved him and yet here he is, scolding her like she's another unruly pack member and not the Rema. I squirm to get loose but the death glare he snaps on my face tells me to stay still and let him carry me all the way home. He's not to be screwed with in this mood.

"I know this may be really hard to comprehend Cole, but I'm your mother, and I was doing far more dangerous things before you were born or old enough to lead a pack. I can hold my own, and your mate...the fates wouldn't give you someone who wasn't able to fend for herself. She made it out, didn't she? She's here, unharmed, and so are your children." Sierra pushes us out onto a well-worn path that leads back to the homestead that I guess the vampires used and we catch sight of others in the woods heading home too. Some trying not to eavesdrop, but I guess the alpha going at his mom and mate are something worthy of listening to. It doesn't happen ...ever.

We make our way into the sunny clearing of freedom and stench free air, inhaling to clear our nostrils and Sierra darts fast to wipe her blood-soaked hands on the grass by the opening of the forest canopy where light becomes bright enough to see. "God their blood is disgusting. Sticky and ughh." She mutters absentmindedly and I tense as my mate's body gets a degree stiffer. His mood inching higher. I swallow down the inner angst that I know he's not even close to being done.

Colton looks even more unamused if that was possible and then shakes his head, hauling me higher in his arms so he pulls my face into his neck and almost crushes my body into a tight grip that has me clinging on for dear life. He turns to look down on me and I blink with a hopeful look of innocence. His eyes amber once more and it's clear I'm not winning with loving looks or sweet smiles.

"You two... vampire blood, battles, road trips and fucking witches. Don't bet on getting outside of the stead any time soon, or ever again... not happening. Letting you out of your rooms for the next decade, not likely. And letting you have any say in what we do concerning future attacks... don't bet on it. House arrest, grounded, locked up.... whatever you want to call it. I am drawing a f*****g line." He grinds out through clenched teeth in a low and hostile, hoarse tone, Eye's burning in rage as he zones on mine and I flinch and look way from the rage I see there. Maybe mind linking wasn't the best way to explain and I might have had an easier time omitting some details from this back story.

He's in full on protector mode and I can't really say I'm mad about it, even if he has me trembling under his fury and feeling apprehensive about getting home to be alone. It's kind of a relief to not make those decisions or have to think about leaving my bedroom ever again.

I mean I'm pregnant, I'll happily stay in bed for the foreseeable future while groveling for his forgiveness. I can sleep as long as I like and not worry about the safety of my pack. My mate is home, well almost, I mean we still have to walk the several miles to get there, but for right now, the danger has been annihilated.

He won't be mad at me forever. Once he calms down, and lets it all sink in and ensures the pack really is okay and that I'm unharmed and our babies are healthy... Maybe in like, a month, he'll finally stop growling at me. Maybe.

I didn't fall in love with just gentle Colton, but this stubborn, aggressive, crazy protector, who is physically hauling my a*s home and looks like he might be about to eat me. That right there, is the guy who makes me feel the safest. I just hope he's hungry and tired because I could use food and sleep.