Chapter 14 Amalie

“Um, can you have Cal come back in?” I asked hesitantly. Calyx would be more levelheaded than Markus. I needed someone who wouldn’t react as much as I was examined and talked to.

“Sure, give me one minute,” Dr. William stepped out of the room. He was back 30 seconds later, Calyx following him inside.

“I’m sorry it took us so long to find you,” Calyx said, his voice breaking as he walked up to my bed.

“You didn’t know,” I whispered. I could not hold something against them if they didn’t know about me still living with my parents.

“We should have protected you,” he growled.

I could tell he was more mad at himself than anyone else. “Hey, you guys got me out in the end. You took over the pack and was able to find me,” I tried to sooth. I pushed my hurt away. I would deal with that when I got released.

“What?” Cal asked. “What do you mean?”

“That’s how you found me. You took a chosen mate and took over the pack,” I said, keeping the hurt from out of my tone. Mellisa had bragged about how they would take a chosen mate and then take over as alphas. Once they had become alphas, they would feel my connection to the pack since I had never renounced the Moonstone Pack.

“Wait,” Calyx ordered before he strode back out of the room.

Dr. William sputtered in confusion. “What is that boy doing?”

‘Same, doc. I want to know the same,’ I wanted to say.

Calyx, Markus, and Rose entered my hospital room. “Uncle Will, I know that you wanted to talk and examine her first, but we need to talk first,” Calyx ordered.

William huffed before he left, telling us, “You have five minutes.”

Markus sat Rose down in my arms. She buried her head into my neck. I wrapped my arms around her and held her close.

“Okay, we’ll make this fast,” Markus started. “We did not take a chosen mate. We have wanted and waited for you for seven years. We knew you were our mate when we turned fifteen. We were not about to lose you in the end.”

“Next,” Calyx took over when Mark started to growl, “our father somehow planned with your parents to keep you locked up. We’re still trying to figure out why. But we have your parents and your sister at the pack house cells. They are waiting for your decision.”

“Finally, we took over the pack after our father fled and left the pack. We became alphas in quick and dirty ceremony. Our plan is to have a proper one when we have you luna ceremony,” Markus finished off.

“You found me without becoming an alpha?” I asked in disbelief. I had always thought they would become alphas before finding me.

My statement brought the twins up short.

“We never stopped looking,” Markus said softly. He picked up my hand and squeezed it.

I started to cry at those words. They never forgot me. They missed me. A few tears turned into full sobs in a few minutes.

“Mommy?” Rose asked me.

“I… I’m… I’m okay,” I hiccuped, my sobs coming harder. The next thing I knew, I felt sparks on both arms. Markus’s pine scent and Calyx’s cinnamon scent surrounded me. I was enveloped in it and for the first time in a very long time, I felt safe.

“Your safe,” Markus whispered into my hair.

“We found you,” Calyx murmured as he held me and Rose.

“I’m sorry,” I tried to apologize.

“You have nothing to be sorry for. We will spend the rest of our lives making it up to you,” Markus said as he kissed my forehead.

I just cried harder. I had no idea of why I was crying. It could have been because of the slight pain I still felt, the years of abuse at the hands of my parents, the fact that old alpha had wanted me locked up, or it could have relief that I was free, that the twins were mine, and never gave up on me. I just didn’t know. It was too much, too soon.

“Enough,” Dr. William said as he walked back into the room. He sighed before he stated, “We’ll do the assessments later, on the condition that you two bring up nothing else. No past, no present, no future, let her rest and her wolf finish healing her.”

“Yep, as long as we can stay right?” Mark asked as he tightened his arms around me.

“Amalie, do you feel up to having them here?” he asked.

“It’s fine,” I say as I snuggled back down. My sobs slowing down and I was no longer hiccuping. Rose was secured in my arms, and I had my best friends, now mates, sitting on either side of me.

“Alright, if I have to come in here again because one of her machines go off, there will be consequences young men,” he stated as he pinned both with a glare.

“Best behavior Uncle Will,” Mark said.

“We’ll not upset her,” Cal assured.

“Alright, I’ll make sure something is brought for all of you to eat,” Dr. William said with a sigh.