My Second Chance Alpha Mate
Chapter 29

~*A month and a half after Christmas*~

(Yashira)

I pant as sweat drips down my face. I looked at Gabriel who is grabbing the cloth to wipe the sweat from my forehead.

“One more big push, Luna,” Doctor Maggie says. I take another deep breath and as soon as I feel another contraction, I push with everything I have. I have been pushing for the past thirty minutes and I’m exhausted. Suddenly, the wailing of a baby fills the room. Gabriel grins down at me and I let go of his hand.

“You have a beautiful and healthy baby girl” Doctor Maggie announced. The nurses take our daughter to clean her up. After a few minutes, Gabriel came towards me with our daughter. He gently places her in my arms. She looks beautiful with dark brown hair. When her eyes open, I smile widely. She has Gabriel’s eyes.

“She’s perfect” I whispered.

“Yes, she is,” Gabriel agreed. There’s a knock on the door and Gabriel opens it, revealing grandma, Jeffrey, Joel, Andy, Donovan, Mitch, Jake, and Tristan. Gabriel steps aside, letting them enter. They walked towards me, and I handed our daughter to Joel, who already had tears in his eyes.

“She’s beautiful sis,” he whispered.

“What are you going to name her?” Donovan asks, touching the baby’s hand. I looked at Gabriel, who smiled at me widely.

“We decided to name her… Raguel (pronounced Ra-guil)” Gabriel tells everyone, making Joel’s head snap towards me and the tears fall.

“Angel of justice”, Mitch whispered.

“Mom loved that name for a girl” Joel said, and I nodded. I knew this was mom’s third favorite name besides Joel’s name and mine. I spoke with Gabriel and we both decided to name our daughter Raguel, since he also loved the name. After everyone had a chance to hold Raguel, they left to give the others a chance to enter and see Raguel. After Gabriel’s parents, Sara, Jake, Noah, and Rhonda left, I watched as Gabriel fed our daughter. Tristan was lying close to Raguel’s feet, asleep. I closed my eyes and felt exhausted. I needed to rest because I knew that now with a newborn, a soon to be four year old, a mate, and a pack to run… sleep would be something I would need to cherish.

***

(Yashira)

It’s been a month and a half since I had Raguel, and everything has been perfect. Thankfully, there haven’t been any rogue attacks or sightings of any hunters. When I woke up this morning, I decided to spend some time with Tristan by the waterfall. Sara asked to join us and obviously I agreed. Gabriel was in a meeting, but he promised that as soon as he was done he would join us.

I put Raguel on my shoulder, gently patting her back to burp her. She’s very attentive at her surroundings. Tristan squeals and jumps in the water with Sara. The water was cold, but they still jumped in. All that matters is that they are having fun.

“Mommy, come in” Tristan said.

“Later baby, I promise”, I told him and continued watching him. Raguel finally fell asleep, and I placed her in a little basket.

“Tristan, Sara, come on out so you can eat something” I called. Sara is like a child when she’s with Tristan. They run up to me and Tristan jumps on me, and I catch him, and he laughs while I get wet. I also can’t help but laugh. I took out some sandwiches from the basket. I also got out some juices for the three of us.

“Your birthday is coming soon my sweet boy. What would you like?” I asked Tristan. He looked up at the sky as if thinking.

“A car” he says, making Sara and me chuckle. He wanted a 12V car to ride around the pack. I had already talked about it with Gabriel, and he agreed that we could buy it for him.

“I want chocolate cake too, mommy”, Tristan says, giving me those puppy eyes.

“Okay baby”, I smiled at him. Suddenly, I felt the air around us change. Someone was watching us. Sara has stopped eating and was now looking around and I knew she felt it too.

“Yashira” Sara calls.

“I feel it. No matter what happens, protect the kids”, I told her.

“But what about you?” she asks.

“I need to protect my kids and pack”, I tell her. I then opened the mind link to Gabriel.

‘Gabriel?’ I called.

‘Yes, my love? The meeting is almost over’, he informs me.

‘Sara and I are being watched. I don’t know who or where it is coming-’ I was cut off by the stench of rogues and the gasp of Sara. I looked around and saw two men with three rogues in their wolf form. I looked at Sara to see she already had Tristan clinging to her like a koala and was holding Raguel’s basket where she was sleeping.

“You’re trespassing” I said in a firm voice full of authority. The two men smirked and the one with blonde hair took a step towards us, making Tristan growl. The blonde guy looked at Tristan with amusement.

“You’re a hard person to get on hold off without the Alpha’s protection or so many friends” the blonde guy says.

“What do you want?” I asked, keeping an eye on the rogues.

“You” the bald guy says and, as if on cue, the rogues take a step towards Sara and the kids. I took my hands up to put a shield over them but stopped when I heard the bald guy’s next words.

“I wouldn’t do that if I were you. I have seven hunters who are currently aiming at the woman and two kids. Another move from you and the three of them are dead. I couldn’t let that happen.

‘Baby, if you can hear me I’m on my way’ Gabriel links me.

“What do you want with me?” I asked. I saw the two guys smile evilly and, for the first time in a long time, I was afraid.

“If we tell you, then we’ll ruin the surprise. Now what would it be? You come with us? Or we kill them?” the bald guy asks. I can’t let my kids die. I took an oath to protect those that are innocent, which includes my kids. Maybe as soon as I’m with them I can put a protection shield around them.

“I’ll come with you, but you have to promise me that you won’t hurt them and let them go” I said to the two men.

“We don’t want them, just you” the blonde guy says. I looked at Sara who was holding the kids tight.

“Take care of my children” I told her before turning and starting walking towards the two men.

“Good choice” the bald guy grins. I took slow steps towards them and opened the link to Gabriel.

‘Three rogues, two hunters’ I said, and sent the images of the two hunters to Gabriel.

‘I have to go with them, or they’ll kill our kids and Sara. I know you will replace me but know that I love you with all my heart’. I cut off the link, not waiting for Gabriel to respond. I moved my hand to put a protective shield over my kids and Sara, but I was hit on the back of the head hard. The last thing I heard was Sara scream.

***

(Sara)

I screamed as soon as I saw one of the hunters hit Yashira on the back of her head. Raguel started awake and a blue-ish ball formed around the three of us. The blond guy grabbed Yashira before she could hit the floor and placed her on one of the rogues. The hunters looked back at us. I released a growl ready to kill anyone who came towards the kids, but they turned and ran, disappearing into the woods. I turned to take off running towards the pack house, but I saw Gabriel’s wolf running towards us.

“That way they went that way with the Luna” I shouted, pointing towards where the hunters and rogues had left. Gabriel ran to where I pointed him to and I saw my mate. He shifts to his human form and puts on some basketball shorts. He looks at us and his eyes widen when he sees the blue-ish ball around us.

“It’s okay Ra-Ra. We’re safe”, Tristan tells his baby sister, and she drops the shield.

“Are you hurt? Are the kids hurt?” my mate asks.

“We’re okay”, I tell him ‘but they took Yashira’, I say through our link.

‘We’ll replace her’ he assure me. Raguel starts to cry just as Gabriel’s wolf comes out of the woods. He goes behind some trees and shifts. Jake hands him some shorts. Gabriel reaches and takes Raguel, who quiets down as soon as he grabs her.

“Let’s head back to the pack house”, Gabriel says, and I knew right then and there he was not able to catch up with them.

“Jake called Donovan and Mitch to meet us at the pack house”, Gabriel says. I’m still holding Tristan. We arrived back at the pack house within fifteen minutes. Charlotte takes Tristan upstairs so she can get him changed. Raguel falls asleep in her daddy’s arms. Jake brings down the bassinet behind him. They were Andy, Joel, Donovan, Mitch, Victor, and Noah. As soon as Gabriel put Raguel down on the bassinet, I explained to them what happened. Gabriel was trying hard to suppress his growls so he wouldn’t wake up Raguel.

“A friend of ours got back to us. He’s also a rogue, but by choice. Anyways, he said he heard that two other females had been taken from another pack”, Mitch says.

“Yes, I had a meeting with the Alpha of the Black River Pack and the Snowpack. The Alpha of the Black River Pack’s sister was taken three weeks ago only to be let go three days later. The female Beta of the Snowpack was taken and also released three days later”, Gabriel informs us. Donovan and Mitch nod in understanding.

“Could they have been a distraction?” Andy asks.

“Probably” Gabriel murmurs.

“They are probably looking for something or someone, but whatever it is, I don’t think they’ll replace it. I mean my sister was born a human”, Joel says.

“But she’s now a high priestess, but what could hunters want with a high priestess?” Donovan asks.

“I don’t know. All I know is that I want my mate and Luna back and I want those hunters dead”, Gabriel growls lowly. Gabriel and Jake get a search team with the best hunters. I am one of the best trackers we have, so I’m in that search team. I just pray to the moon goddess that we replace her safe and sound.