“I missed you, Ty.”
“I’ve missed you, Angel. I know I’ve done some unforgiveable things lately, but I can’t lose you. Even if you reject me, I won’t be able to leave. I love you, Angel. I love you so much, I can’t live without you.” He holds my face firmly, bringing his lips to mine. I feel my wolf stirring inside of me. Faith is waking and calling out to his wolf.
I pull away, rubbing my cheek against his, “I love you too.”
“Can I have a turn now?” I look over Tyler’s shoulder and see Talon, his face blotchy and red and his cheeks wet with tears. I reach out and he wraps his arms around me, I can feel his breath on my neck as he breathes me in.
“I missed you so much. I never wanna be without you again. I’m so sorry for all the time we wasted trying to get back at you. If I could take back every single thing I’ve done to hurt you, I would-” I cover his mouth with mine just to shut him up.
“No more apologies. Can I just enjoy this moment for a second?” I smile reaching out for Tyler’s hand.
“Anything you want, babe,” Tyler says, holding my hand tightly in his.
“Any lovin’ left for us?” I hear my dad’s deep voice. Whipping my head around, I see we have been joined by a couple more people; I hadn’t even noticed.
My father hugs me, holding me tight, “I’m so glad you’re awake, honey.”
My mother is next, she doesn’t want to let go, she doesn’t want to stop crying either.
Phoenix follows, she too is in tears.
Axel has to pull her away from me and I can’t help but laugh. “Missed your face, pretty girl,” He links to me, his voice filtering into my thoughts. I wonder why he didn’t speak out loud? As he pulls away he does this fist pump thing with the twins, muttering a “Good job, dudes.” Since when did they become buddies?
I look around the room searching for Nixon. “I’m right here, cupcake.” Nixon comes in with a big smile on his face. He wraps me in his arms, rubbing my back gently.
TYLER POV
It takes Angel a couple of days to rest and recuperate. She’s determined to get out and get back to life, but I can’t bear to have her out of my sight just yet. I need to make sure she’s okay, that she will wake up everytime she rests her eyes.
My Angel, I thought I’d lost her. I never want to go through that again. Nearly losing her made me look back on all the mistakes I’ve made and all the hurtful shit I’ve said. I can’t believe how I took her for granted. If I could go back now and take back everything I’ve done to hurt her or cause her one ounce of sadness, I would; I’d take it all back without a second glance.
She keeps telling me that it isn’t my fault that this happened to her; this being… she nearly died. But that’s Angel, she has a need to make everyone around her happy. I, however, know it was my fault, even though I didn’t know the full extent of her healing capabililities. I would never have let her attempt to heal Kate had I known it would cause Angel harm.
It was my fault my Angel nearly didn’t wake up and I’m going to make it up to her every second of every day if I have to.
I love her. She’s it for me.
My brother and I are finally making progress with the Alpha. He said it wasn’t for him to forgive us, that if Angel forgave us then that’s all that mattered. It matters to Talon and me though. We want to prove to him that we will make great Alpha’s when the time comes. We need him to trust us. I know it’s gonna be hard for him to do that, especially with everything we kept from him, and the hell we put his daughter through.
At least he no longer looks at us full of animosity, he’s softening. I know all the hard work we’ve been putting into learning the skills of taking over the Alpha role of his pack is paying off. The fact that my brother and I will both become Alpha has motivated our fellow pack members. This is a rare occurance. Having two wolves share the Alpha position can only be of benefit to our pack.
That being said, the news has travelled across the allied packs and a lot of the other packs in the region are not overly happy about it.
Alpha believes we are ready to take his place. The fact that Angel will have two men who will protect her to the end a bonus, although he has made it known that he will watch over his daughter till his dying day; I can appreciate that.
“Brother? You ready for this meeting?” I look to where Talon stands in the Alpha’s office, the office that will become ours next week after the mating ceremony.
“Yeah, we have to meet with Caspian. Alpha wants to make sure there is no animosity between us. We have to do this, Talon,” I say, mostly to convince myself rather than him. I personally couldn’t give two fucks about that man. He would have taken Angel from us, given the chance. But it’s no longer about what I want… I have a pack to think about now. I can’t be selfish.”