Christmas blessings.

Linden.

"London Ralliel Everlin put down your sister this instant and get your ass upstairs!" My husband yelled as he looked at our firstborn more like one half of the firstborn, he was cheeky, just like him, a little rebellious but what seven year old wasn't, he immediately put down his baby sister around her toys and made a dash for the stairs, obviously he didn't want a time out from his father.

"What am I going to do with him." Emric mumbled walking into the kitchen where I was busy going from one pot to another, I was finishing up on Christmas eve dinner but when you have a family as large as mine and eats thrice as much you cook more than fifteen dishes and they still wouldn't be enough. "Hello to you too my love." I exclaimed and immediately I was engulfed by a pair of very large arms and warmth that always comforted me. "Hello mama, I missed you, is there anyway I could just have you for the day." He whined knowing full well why and how I had been busy.

"If we didn't have kids that would've been possible, but alas it's nigh possible a feat." I replied rubbing my almost showing baby bump, yes we were on baby number four, time had moved fast or we had kids much faster, hopefully I can take a break when this one pops out. "That reminds me." Emric exclaims crouching down to face my stomach. "Hello little peanut, it's your papa, you and I gonna have so much fun." The rest was gibberish whilst he was tucked under my off shoulder tee shirt, I didn't mean for it to droop but rather it wasn't mine to begin with, I couldn't resist wearing my husband's clothes, they were too damn alluring not to.

I checked my cooking with Emric now nuzzling my stomach, wolf culture wasn't lost on me, I was married to one and all my kids had wolves, they were just waiting to turn in a few years time, I just never really got used to it, how the great alpha Emric Everlin, mountain of a man was turned into a puddle of gooey sentimentality and fields of lilies and daisies by just his kids, that I would never understand. It was Christmas eve, though it was a Christian holiday not many wolves recognized it, some wolves recognized it as a way to be together in harmony, be thankful to the goddess for the gifts of life they had received.

Others like my children were more inclined to just believe it was a day to eat your weight quadruple, fill yourself with an assortment of meat that no one could resist, then after that give their cutest puppy dog faces so that they would get more than one present, along with presents came competition for who wore it best or who had more style, the Nile family had been beaten by the Heathen family last year, this year the winners were tied between the Everlins and the Heathens, somehow the Heathens had a secret weapon, called Matheo, cutest child I'd ever seen and I would know, my mate and I made beautiful kids of our own.

Despite the intense competition, Ralliel somehow bonded with Savage, the two are a few months apart so it didn't take much for them to get along, often I have to fly to Algiers then travel to Sydney Falls just so that the two could have a week together, of course, Ralliel's brother tags along too, he loves playing with the twins, Aries and Heathen's third born twins. It's always hectic but our lives have pretty much been intertwined even though we live so far apart.

"Are you done talking gibberish to our child?" I questioned my husband as he rose to his full seven-foot height, he was still scrumptious even after years of being together. "Yes I am, now would you like to detox, de-stress in a nice warm bath." He was tempting my hormones, he knew how pregnancy drove my sex drive through the roof, and with his own already too high to even bother with, he was dangling the apple I wanted to take a bite into but I had to resist, he came closer pressing me onto the breakfast bar. "I will be quick, I promise." He gently whispered but I knew what a quickie led to.

"Me being pregnant right now is you tempting me with a quickie on your desk at the packhouse, I'm not falling for it, catch me later so that it won't be a quickie, deal." I offered and he seemed proud to have good sperm. "Wipe that grin off your face or I'm revoking my deal." I threatened and immediately that boyish grin that made him dad hot graced his features.  "No no, I'm taking the deal, that way I can have you agonizingly slow and sweet, you got a deal, and mama wear those tight ones for me, the ones that make me want to go butterfly all night." He whispered in my ear sending images of what he wanted mentally, multiple shivers of lust ran down my spine, and yet it heated down under.

"Yes, Papi." I replied biting my lip because of the close proximity, he was making it very hard not to just drop everything and let him have his wicked way. "Love you, mama." He remarked backing off but not before deeply kissing me. "Go, the boys should be done picking out their clothes, by boys I mean Lucy only whilst Ralliel acts like the entitled boyfriend." I asserted with a chuckle making my husband laugh as well.

He walked away from me with a lazy smile and went to pick up our daughter who giggled watching her papa make funny faces, they looked perfect together and you didn't need a lot to see that they were father and daughter, both their heads of hair and eyes were exactly the same. I sighed with a smile watching him go upstairs, I would always be grateful to the goddess for giving me such a blessing, I had my own belief about these kinds of holidays, belief made things real, and that how my life worked.

The door bell rang just as I finished icing the black forest cake, I had made a range of four different cake, there was the fruit cake, red velvet, cheesecake and of course the black forest, there was something for everyone. "Come in it's open!" I called out and the door opened to reveal my best friend and brothers in law along with their daughter, they had taken their time before starting a family, my husband and I, well we were more of oops another one through a quickie, but we were never ready to be parents to another kid, we just accepted it and moved on.

"Linden hey!" Train tightly hugged me, after Andie handed their child to his mate, I was crushed in another hug. "Sweethearts, there you are." It was our mother in law who really looked like she hadn't aged a day in her life since I first met her but she was a grandmother to a litter of pups. "There are my boys!" The best father anyone could have embraced us with so much love, I loved Lex Everlin like the father he was to me, he was a man of his word and he never broke his promises, I got to fulfill my dreams through him.

"Dad, you look great, how was the beach life?" I questioned taking the bottle of wine he was offering me. "It was perfect, loved every second but we missed home, and I couldn't wait to see you, my sons, I heard both of you are pregnant again, more grandkids!" He cheered with so much life you couldn't resist being happy yourself, it radiated off him in waves. "You too?!" I asserted looking at Andrew who was surprised as I am then we began laughing.

My mother in law was busy with her granddaughter, never minding the world. "Grandma, grandpa!" The boys yelled as they came down the stairs all dressed up for the dinner, their grandparents didn't lack in affection for the two of them, they were the favorites along with Train and Andrew's first. "Lucy no swindling your grandpa tonight." I reprimanded, if you couldn't resist the eyes then Luciano and Ralliel could leave your wallet dry. "Fine." Lucy mumbled as he led his grandpa to seat next to him.

Andie could never tell the twins apart, they were the perfect copies of each other, if you paid enough detail you could see that Ralliel's eyes were a darker shade of forest green than his twin, that's all there was, if you didn't see that you might as well be talking to one twin not knowing it's the wrong one, of course, the boys loved correcting you when you got it wrong. Train and I laid out the food whilst we talked about all the upcoming pack events, after college he just moved back home, his husband got a job in the city and he well, he got to work with his brother.

We all sat at the table, it was filled with chatter and happiness, and that's all I ever wanted, to be surrounded by family love and happiness. "A toast, to a year where we faced a lot of obstacles but overcame them and now we're here celebrating." My father in law raised his glass and I raised my own glass with health juice. "Cheers." We all replied and sat back down to eat, it was lovely being home, but my favorite tradition was coming and the bonfire was ready, though I didn't have a particular wish this year, I was already immensely blessed.

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I wanted to give this to you guys, to enjoy, to love and whatever else, thank you for supporting my book, thank you for supporting my journey as an author, I haven't gotten there yet, but I'm slowly reaching my goal.

Hope you enjoyed a peek into Linden's life at one Christmas eve dinner, hopefully for those reading Savage the sequel to Heathen, it will shed a lot of light as we go on in that journey as well.

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