Chapter eleven

Groaning out, I grab Jessie's hand and start running

"nurse, take our baby to the safe room now", I yell before continuing to running

"Are you sure you are okay to fight?" I question Jessie in concern. I would rather the whole pack die than Jessie not be ready; she weakly smiles at me

"yes, I am sure. Now let's go; otherwise, everyone will die", she hisses before letting my hand go and running off into the middle of the battlefield. I hold my breath before joining in; I shift into my sizeable black wolf and take off, ripping heads off anyone in my way; I notice Jessie to my right standing off with a giant wolf, a wolf bigger than anyone here, me included. I gulp, already knowing that it is the big bad; I rush off in that direction and stand next to Jessie, getting ready to attack when needed; I look at Jessie and notice her shaking. Not understanding what is going on, the wolf strikes Jessie seeing her as the weak link; I watch as she jumps up and kicks him as hard as she can, knocking him to the ground; I jump in, biting into his neck as Jessie tears into his stomach, I can feel the whole fight stop and staring at us, but at this moment I don't care, I grab onto a bit of his neck and tear it out making him transform back into his human form, Jessie steps back in shock.

Carefully the rest of the first starts up again, killing all of his fighters; Jessie changes back and has tears in her eyes; rushing over, I comfort her

"Baby, what's wrong?" I question, shifting back into my human form

"that's my dad" I stare in shock

"say what" I gasp, not knowing what to say in this situation. I don't care about the fight anymore, and listen to Jessie

"When my mum died, dad disappeared, leaving my sister and her mate to look after me; I was five when he left and didn't understand why my sister told me he ran off so I wouldn't see him die. When I turned six, my sister's mate died, and she died as well; I ran off, not knowing what to do; I guess I stumbled upon you three weeks later when my mate marked another; I thought everyone in my family was dead," she spits out, I pull her into my arms not caring about how we look right now, I hear my beta howl in victory.

Pulling apart, Jessie and I howl back, signalling entirely that we won; not knowing what to say or do, I get down on one knee.

"Jessie, after hearing all of that, I still love you with all my heart, and I don't mean as a mate or even as the dad figure, I raised you for ten years with the beta help, and the whole time, my wolf secretly knew you were ours, I should have died with my dad, and you should have died from the rejection, but we didn't, we held on for each other, we have a beautiful son who is just as strong and has survived being born early, we just won a war that we didn't even know was declared by your real dad, and this makes me more sure of anything in my life, I want to be with you forever, not just as mates but as husband and wife, so will you luna Jessie the love of my life marry me?" I question

I watch her face as it shows sadness and happiness; I go to get up, taking the silence as a no, when her unique voice rings through my head

"yes, I will marry you."