The Wrong Alpha - A Twist Of Fate?
The Wrong Alpha – A Twist Of Fate? Epilogue 3

6 Months Later continued…….

Gabe passed me a large gift bag, I open it up, inside is a photograph of us all on one of our nights out, all dressed up, me in Knox’s arms, Jake with his arm around Knox’s shoulder on one side and Dan’s shoulder one the other side. Indie in Dan’s arms on the other side of Jake. Manuel and Gabe knelt in front of Jake, massive smiles on all of our faces. I remember the night, it had been Knox’s birthday and had been good fun…. the picture was done on a large glass edged tile and it looked so nice! I loved it…..

“Aww Gabe!” I hug him. “I love it!”

“Cheers dude.” Knox joins in the hugs.

“Jeez you won’t even let me have her for a second will ya?” Gabe jokes. “Glad you like it though. One of my favourite pictures of us all. Our family right?” He smiled.

I smile, he’s right…..

Manuel passed me a gift bag, inside is a statue of two wolves sat proud and strong, the smaller wolf leant against the bigger wolf ….. our wolves….. Knight and Sky…. It was gorgeous…. It even had the tones of the fur right and the shades of their eyes…… I look to him, I know there are tears in my eyes “I had it made for you guys, I hope you like it.” Manuel smiles.

Knox gives him a big hug “bro it’s beautiful, you can immediately tell who they are. I love it. And you know our girl does too, you made her cry dude” he smiles. He refers me to me as their girl as he knows Manuel is one of my close friends now and one of the people he said he trusts most with me which I think is sweet.

“Aww Manny I love it. It looks so much like them….” I look to the statute again, the figures are lifelike almost and so beautiful! I place it on the side table so it is seen by everyone when they come in the lounge.

Jakes passed Knox a bag with a smile “congrats dude”, Knox looks puzzled as he pulls out a piece of paper, they have a glazed look in their eyes that tells me they are linking each other…..hmm I’m curious now….. I see a smile break onto his face, before he looks at Jake who smiles back and then he looks to me before showing me the paper….

Wait?! It’s holiday tickets!! To Paris!!! Oh my goddess!!

“Jake!!” I scream flinging myself at him in a big hug. I feel his arms tighten around me.

“See Manny I’m favourite now!” He laughs.

“That’s too much for a house warming gift though Jake!” I tell him.

“Nothing is too much for my Alpha and my Luna, you guys do so much for me” he gently k****s the top of my head “besides….” He nudges me….. “I think your mate wants you hunni”

I turn to replace Knox knelt on one knee, all our friends now sat or stood watching us with big smiles on their faces….. oh my goddess…. What is he doing?!…. what……my head is ready to explode!!…..

I feel Jake guiding me gently to Knox, his hand on my lower back. Knox takes my hand with a smile, his big brown eyes looking up at me.

“Lilah Patterson, you came into my life somewhat unexpected and turned my world upside down, confused me, drove me crazy…..” I hear our friends chuckling,

As he continues….. ” I didn’t realise it at the time but that beautiful she-wolf I was drawn too, and couldn’t get out of my head was fated to be my mate, and I will forever thank the goddess for that, like I promised you the day I found out you were my mate mi cielo” I see him wink at Manuel…..

“I will forever be doing all I can to show you how perfect you are and how you should be loved and worshipped. The day you accepted me as your mate I felt like the luckiest guy in the world, I know as mates we don’t have to, but Lilah, I would love for you to be my wife, to be Lilah Winters…. So….” He pulls a small ring box from his pocket.

“Sweet, will you marry me?” He asks me, looking up at me with those beautiful brown eyes of his. How could I ever say no?!

“Yes!” I whisper, feeling tears on my face. He places the ring on my finger. I look down, it is a beautiful silver ring with a black diamond in the centre, surrounded by smaller white diamonds. “Aww it’s beautiful!” I tell him.

“I’m glad you like it. I looked at so many rings! But saw the colour of the diamond in that one and it reminded me of Sky and Jake agreed.” he says.

Wait, Jake knew?! Did they all know?!

Wait, Jake knew?! Did they all know?!

I look to Jake “sorry hunni, was a big secret, the trip to Paris is your honeymoon” he grins.

Ah that makes sense…. But still it seems too much…. I smile back.

“But the holiday is in 2 months!” I say.

“Hmmm yeah, we have all been busy, helping baby doll, even your mama and papa have been helping, Knox wanted to surprise you….” Indie said.

What?! They’d planned a wedding?!

“Sorry sweet, you’re not angry are you? The wedding is a week before the holiday, It will be under a gazebo by the lake at sunset as I know that’s your favourite time of day. I have left lots of details you can change though as I still wanted it to be special for you.” Knox is suddenly in front of me looking anxious. He is clearly worried bless him. How can I be upset? It’s so sweet he’d do all this for me…..

“No I’m not angry! I love it! You just surprised me is all. You are all very sneaky!” I look at our friends. I am greeted my lots of awkward smiles.

I feel Knox relax in front of me, aww he must have been really nervous…. “Thank you babe, I don’t know what to say” I tell him hugging him.

“You said all you needed to when you said yes sweet, let me know when you want to go wedding dress shopping as my mum and your mum have been pestering!” He grins kissing my head.

“I’d like to buy you a ring too babe” I tell him quietly.

“That can be sorted, a shopping trip it can be, we need to pick out some wedding lingerie anyway” he whispers and I replace myself giggling.

“Let me give my chica a hug to say congrats” Gabe says, nigh on knocking Knox out of the way.

“Nah she’s my chica” Manuel joins in with the joking around. I love these guys…..

“You two the bridesmaids?” Jake says.

We all laugh.

“Oohhh I think I’d look gorgeous in a bridesmaid dress don’t you Del?” Gabe asks. “Make sure it’s short to show off my nice toned legs though”

The guys are all laughing again, this guy is crazy…..

“Hmmm I may give that a miss, wouldn’t want overshadowing by you on my wedding day now would I?!” I grin at him, “but our next night out, I would like to see that!” I add, and he ruffles my hair while our friends laugh.

“Can I have my mate and fiancé back now?” Knox asks, wrapping his arms around me and sitting me on his knee on the recliner.

“Jeez, so possessive!” Gabe laughs. “It’s never too late to run away with me you know Del?” He winks.

Everyone laughs at the longstanding joke.

“Right either Dan has s**t or that bundle of joy needs his diaper changed” Jake suddenly says.

We laugh, Indie looks to Dan “your turn babe” she grins.

“Awww doll he smells” Dan whines.

“Yeah poop usually does. He’s your son, you’re already holding him, have fun” she grins.

I can’t help but smile.

“Get a grip Dan, it’s a baby’s diaper” Jake laughs.

Dan sets out the changing stuff on the floor, and takes off Finn’s trousers and opens his diaper up. The smell is horrendous….

Knox, Jake, Gabe and Manuel are instantly looking like they want to throw up, gagging….. covering their mouths. I can see Dan holding his breath as he deals with the mess in his son’s diaper…..

“Shitting hell you two, what are you feeding him?! That stinks!” Manuel says and suddenly all four of them are rushing out of the room. Jake not so critical of Dan now……

Indie and I are instantly laughing. Goddess help those guys when they become Dads.

“That is bad to be fair” Indie says.

Dan cleans Finn up and puts on a fresh diaper and puts on his trousers again. He passes his son to Indie while putting the dirty diaper into a bag and getting up to go put the bag into the bin and go wash his hands.

“Is it safe to come back in?” Knox asks.

“You d**k” Indie laughs “you best get used to it for all them pups you and Lilah will be having…” she winks at him.

We sit and drink, and eat the pizzas we ordered in, chat and laugh the day away together, enjoying each others company. The guys winding each other up the way they do, making us laugh. Speaking about my surprise wedding plans too…. I couldn’t be happier….This is where I belonged……I wish I had known sooner…….but I won’t let myself think like that and I’m just grateful I found my way here…… fate got me here in it’s own twisted way…… got me where I am meant to be….. with my mate… my fiancé….. and our friends…..family…….

“We best get back, need to sort Finn for bed” Dan says.

“Aww responsible parents now” Gabe jokes. “Though we will head off too, leave you guys to it, or Knox will be jumping on Lilah while we’re still here otherwise” he grins.

Knox laughs, “you’re a d**k Gabriel. Wait until you meet your mate, you will understand then” he says.

I can’t help but laugh. I go give Indie a hug and k**s my beautiful nephew goodbye. “Thank you for the picture Ind’, we love it” I tell her.

“You’re welcome, been working on that for months! Was worried it wouldn’t be finished for when the house was.” She kissed me on the cheek as her and Dan walked out of the house.

Jake hugged me “see you later hunni”.

“See you J, thank you so much for our present, was way too much by the way! But I love it!!” I k**s him gently on his cheek.

“Like I said, anything for you guys. Knox is like a brother to me, he’s more than a friend he’s family, so are you now Lilah. I love you, remember that.” I was touched by what he’d said, it meant a lot, and I hugged him tighter. “Obviously you know now the gift is your honeymoon. Knox came to me saying he wanted to ask you to marry him, so I have been helping plan things…I was touched he confided in me first” he smiled. I don’t know why he was surprised, him and Jake had been friends since being babies….they were like brothers…

“Come give me some love chica” Manuel says behind us.

Jake k****s me lightly on my cheek as he high fives Knox and walks from the house.

I wrap my arms around Manuel “see you later Manny” I tell him. “Thank you for our present it is gorgeous”

“hey no problem mi amor. I’m glad you both like it. And congratulations on the engagement! I’ve been desperately wanting to tell you!! So excited for you angel!” He k****s me on my head as he pulls me close.

This guy couldn’t be further from the shy, quiet guy I first met in the bar… he alongside Indie and Knox was probably my best friend. Always checking in on me, protecting me like a big brother….

“We heading off cuz?” Gabe says to Manuel.

“Sure thing” Manuel says. Giving Knox a hug and talking to him.

I hug Gabe “thank you for our present, I love it.” I k**s him gently on his cheek.

“Glad you love it chica, I have one too, not as big but the same picture, definitely one of my favourites of us all. Like I said you’re one of our family now Del.” He smiles.

I smile back as Knox is suddenly at my side, his arm around my waist as we watch our friends leave our home. Time to chill out with my mate….not just my mate, my fiancé now too….

We go to the lounge, ah dammit, before we chill out we should clear up the mess in the lounge……… so we begin to pick up the pizza boxes, the gift bags and empty mugs, glasses, beer bottles. I notice the small gift bag from Indie, I go upstairs to dump it in a cupboard, I know I’m not pregnant so I am not going to need it for a while yet.

I walk into the bathroom to put it in the cupboard in there…. I know I’m not pregnant but because it’s there I’m tempted to use it….. ah sod it….. I close the bathroom door. And open the box, following the instructions. I lay it on the side as I wash my hands.

Completely stupid of me doing this… Indie only gave it to me as a joke…

I dry my hands and then brush my hair, killing time, I go to pick up the test ready to throw it in the bin knowing the result will be negative. We haven’t been trying for a baby….. though we haven’t not been trying…

I look down….. wait…. What?!…. There is two lines…. Didn’t that mean?!….. I rummage through the bin for the instructions again to double check….. oh my goddess!!!!

I dash from the bathroom “Knox!!” I scream sitting on the edge of our bed, my body shaking.