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10 Years later

The thunder storm roared outside, lightening struck the ground every minute. The lights were out and instead of turning on the generator, I lit multiple candles in the cosy lounge. Ocean wanted to open plans, like my parents house but once I convinced him that I don't need the the big mansion, just something comfortable and something that is ours.

Ocean and I both worked on the house together with the builders and it was a beautiful experience. Darkwood became my home after the we killed the Darkling. After Ocean's Elite team spread the stories about how I resurrected the dead body of Ragen and that I met the Earth spirit, the whole pack found new sort of respect for me.

The Earth spirit should have also warned us about the humans finding out about the Supernatural species. The world fell into chaos but it's been nearly 8 years since the war had finished and yet we still live in constant fear of anti-supernatural uprising again. Everything is different now.

Even though we expanded the house, with 3 more extra room, one guest room down stairs and two others on second floor, we never spoke about kids. Specially after the war started. We've both been busy with helping thousands of supernatural who fled to our borders and many are still migrating this way. The war, in a way, never ended, people still lived in fear.

I honestly didn't want to bring a child into this world who would have to live in constant fear that we do. That's not a way to live. But now, I was waiting for Ocean to come home so we could finally talk about it. He was at the river border, trying to figure out ways to expand past the borders and near the mountains.

The rain didn't stop settlers from coming in and neither did it stop ocean and his men from doing their work. Most of the times, I was dealing with human governors and businessmen so our work took us in different direction and it sucked.

We only had the evening and night to ourselves but at the time of war, the only time we saw each other was for work. As an alpha I didn't even think about being intimate with him. It was our duty to protect our pack but now, it was different.

Another strike of thunder shook me out of my thoughts. Taking a sip of my green tea, I mentally contacted Ocean.

Sweetheart, are you done yet?

His answer was instant. He'd never blocked me out, never tried to hide anything from me ever again. It amazed me how attentive he was of me. If something I was dealing upset me, he would fell it and contact me immediately and he even dropped everything to come over to comfort me.

He never answer a 'how was your day?' question with a just 'fine'. He would explicitly tell me what happened and sometimes share images of the day with me. He treated me like an equal and never like a vulnerable glass that would break under pressure.

Not yet, you need me home now? I could hear the urgency in his voice.

You left before I woke up. I didn't see you at Pack House for Lunch or Dinner. You'll wear yourself out, honey. Come home. I sipped my tea.

I'll be home in 15 minutes.

That was all I needed to ask of him. Sighing, I finally got up to turn the generator on. The smile the crept up on my face was inevitable. He was an Alpha but he was my mate first.

"You know if you were a wolf, you could have just shaken your fur and all the water would fly right off your body." I chuckled as I watched him take off wet shoes and try to shake out the water from his t-shirt and shorts. He huffed out a laugh. Closing the door, he slowly took off his clothes and wrapped the warm towel around his waist that I laid out for him near the door. He dumped the wet clothes into the plastic basket I left next to the towel.

"I'm goning to take a shower, did you eat already?" He asked from across the hall way as I watched him take out a mop from the closet under the stairs, to wipe the floor where water had pooled.

My chest tightened. Seeing him as a husband, as a mate instead of an alpha. I unwrapped from the comfortable position I was sitting in, on the sofa. "I'll warm up dinner. I cooked, I didn't want to take away food from the pack house."

"You could have, we have plenty to feed all."

"Even with the new arrivals?" I walked into the kitchen, losing him behind the walls.

"Yeah, only I work for 24 hours. Everyone else takes shifts. Livia's 3rd team of cooks are preparing food now." I heard him enter the laundry room, turn the washing machine on before emerging from the dining room.

"Is everything okay?" I asked, taking frozen garlic bread out of the freezer to put them inside the oven. The lasagne was already inside, cooking away.

"Yes, same as yesterday. We are running out of room however. We can carry on building cabins for people but what will happen after they leave?" He asked while I took out the salad from the fridge.

"Do you think they will? They come here because they know that this state has strict laws against hate crime towards people like us and under your sanctuary, people feel safer. Specially when they hear walls and elite force." I tilted my head to the side. Shaking his head, he came forward to place a kiss on the back of my head.

"Maybe we should start redirecting people to RedMount. I know Onyx will take them in. They aren't as self sufficient as we are but their state is also a sanctuary. I'm sure they can expand." The water from his wet hair dripped onto my shoulder.

"We should start doing that. We've taken in over 10 thousands people like us, we need to strengthen this community. Make people feel like they belong. I can't allow people to drop through the cracks and something crazy happens. I mean, werewolves and other species are staying together. Which is very uncommon now."

"Do you plan on keeping them separate?" I started making

"No no. We just need to regroup as a pack, figure out a way to function together. Lay some new rules down." The water from his hair was soaking my t-shirt. "Honey, you need to go take a shower. I'm starving. Also, you're getting water all over me."

Instead of walking away, he brought his head near my neck and used his hand to shake of water from his hair on me.

"STOP IT." I laughed, squealing slightly. Laughing, he walked away and upstairs to our bedroom. Ocean was adamant about creating a bigger bedroom for us, with walk in closet. I had to almost go behind his back to make sure the closet wasn't the same size of the damn bedroom. When the room was being built, I finally managed to convince him that I didn't need a giant closet.

The house had an extra living room down stairs which I turned into a library with giant leather sofa sets and an extra long dining room. The kitchen was twice the size now, with a much bigger island which extended into an informal dining area.

The two new rooms were directly above the library and the dining room, giving us much more space and a balcony and Ocean's old room and guest room remained in place.

It didn't take him long to finish and join me for dinner. 4 more pack houses were build around the estate that we now owned. 3 hidden among the trees and the middle was always the main one. Ocean was thinking about building more cabins but I recommended that he added more houses like that. Turn them into hostels so not only would it be cheaper and the plumbing would be easier.

As the Alpha of his pack, he can decide whatever he wanted to do and enforce any rules he wanted but that didn't stop him from discussing even minor decisions with me before implementing them. It humbled me that he saw me as his equal and when he was absent or dealing with something else, he would just leave his packs problems with me like it wasn't a big deal.

I never fumbled, I was trained to be an Alpha and it felt good to act like one. To have such responsibilities. I loved everything about being his mate and Alpha Female. I loved everything about him and how he treated me. He was someone who I never thought I would have before I met him. Now, after all these years, I couldn't imagine my life without him.

After dinner, Ocean sent me up to bed telling me he would clean up and as I waited for him to join me, I prepared myself to tell him the news. I didn't know how he would receive it but deep down, I knew he would accept it. Even so, I was terrified. I didn't even know how it happened. I never missed my pills.

After a while, I heard the lights being turned off and then the generator. Slowly, the lights from downstairs disappeared when he turned the candles off but the ones I lit in the room was still on and one at the top of the stairs.

The orange lights from the candles softly lit his figure when he came in through the doors, closing it behind him. I lost my breath for a second, from the fear of what I was about to tell him.

"I need to tell you something." I patted the space next to me legs.

"Something serious?" I saw the serious shift in his demeanour. The glimmering lights danced around on his tanned skin. Leaning forward, I planted my palm on his face, loving the feel of his stubbles.

"I..." I didn't know how to break the news so I decided to rip off the band aid. "I'm pregnant."

The air around us stopped.

He paused. Maybe even stopped breathing. There were no expression on his face for nearly a minute. My heart pounded in my chest, I heard the blood rush to my ears. He didn't want it. It wasn't the right time.

"Okay look. I don't know how it happened. I never missed my pills." I paused. "Wait, it's actually your fault." His face suddenly transformed, a barely minimum tilt to his lips. I leaned back, dropping my hand from his face. "You and your super sperm got me pregnant. I wasn't supposed to get pregnant. We didn't plan this. You know what, if you kept your damn penis to yourself this wouldn't have happened." I was panicking suddenly, flailing my arms around.

"But you like my penis." He crunched his eyebrows together but the smile on his face got bigger.

"That's not..." I was surprised by his calmness. "That's not the point."

"Why didn't you tell me before? Did you already take the pregnancy test already?" He moved forward, his hand absently rubbed my knee.

"Wait, you're not freaking out? Wait what?" I was so confused.

"You could have told me before you took the test. I would have liked to be there." His voice was tender, so soft, it soothed my heart. I breathed out a sigh of relief.

"I took one. Macey stole a couple from Adeya's clinic." I sat up, leaned towards him. He smiled this time. "You're not mad? Or you know... freaked out?"

"No! Of course not. Why would I? You do know you're my mate right? Not a one night stand?" I rolled my eyes, picking up a pillow, I whacked it against his body.

"But we never talked about it." He took my hands in his and kissed the back of them.

"We've both put the pack first. We've both chose to halt ours lives for them. We've been through a lot. I think it's time now. We should start redirecting the new ones to Jace's I mean, Onyx's pack now. We are at full capacity. We should slow down a bit now. Maybe get Aaron to step up sometimes." He was putting us first. Again. Always, without even asking. My chest expanded.

"I'd like that very much."

"Good. From now on, anything happens, you tell me first. Not Macey." He was dead serious. Sometimes Aaron and Ocean got annoyed at how close Macey and I were. By default, when we gossiped Ocean and Aaron's business was shared which they didn't want each other to know.

"Girls share. Deal with it."

"I don't want her to know how I do you. Or how good I am in bad. Neither do I want to know how Aaron has a bondage fetish" He shivered. I laughed out loud so hard, I couldn't help it.

"I'm SORRY. I KNOWWW. Okay, I promise. I will try to limit them but you have to understand that we've been sharing since we were babies."

"I know. Ergh." He got into bed with me, pulling me down into his arms. After some laughter, we both settled down. His hand was on my stomach and he couldn't stop rubbing it.

"Thank you for not freaking out."

"I know we never spoke about it but I want a baby with you. I want a baby with your eyes. I want a family with you Naya. It's time. We've suffered for centuries, it's our time to have what we couldn't. I'm not freaked out because I want a baby with you. I was just waiting for you to be ready. I'm ecstatic Naya. I'm really happy."

I didn't say anything after that. It was perfect. That's all I needed from him. Macey already have 2 and by what she tells me, Aaron could go for a football team but the only way Macey would have another one is when science found a way to push a baby out of Aaron's penis.

I nearly laughed out loud thinking about it.

What I loved about Ocean was that we were always on the same page. I was grateful for that. He always found a way to put me first. It was humbling.

It was also humbling that the Earth spirit had been protecting us. No body has died from the hands of humans since the night we defeated the darkling.

It was time to move on. It was time to build the future that we both dreamed of.

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So, I will not be explaining about how the world found out about werewolves and every species, how the war started, how the war ended and who won the war. How it changed the lives of everyone around the world. You'd have to read my next book to find out. I know it's an open ending but remember in the beginning when the Alphas met and they spoke about werewolves were disappearing, it has something to do with that. I haven't started to write yet and it may be a while till I start to post it but it will be different and it will be about other people.

This is the permanent end of Ocean and Naya. They will not appear in the next book. It will be different protagonists and different storyline. I hope you are excited about that because I can't wait to start on that book.

I'm leaving an open ending, well it's not an opening really because this story is about the beginning of the world and Ocean and Naya's. Their story is over. I plan to write a sequel that occurs in this world/timeline which will be about the War and why supernaturals are migrating. That will be about other people and Ocean and Naya will not be in that. So this is it for them

I know I didn't finish the missing wolves plot because that wasn't Ocean and Naya's story to tell. That will be my sequel.

I don't know when I will start the next book. It will be a while. Thank you for reading this book and it's been an honour to have received all your votes and comments.