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Everleigh:

After serving the big muscular guys, I felt happier than I have the days before. My shift was coming to an end and I was walking home. I picked up Rose on the way, and I was preparing myself to see what state I would find Dan in this evening.

Take us for a run, please? We can take pup with us.

My wolf begged in the back of my mind.

You know we cannot. It's been so long since I have shifted and you know how dangerous that is with Rose. I tried to reason.

She just whimpered and put herself in a corner sulking.

I walked through the door and put Rose down when I saw Dan with a bottle of whiskey in his hand.

"Go to your room baby." I cooed, pushing rose further.

She looked at me and ran to the stairs. But before she could get up, Dan held her arm and she started crying and screaming making me growl.

"Let her go, Dan!" I bared my teeth not liking that my pup was in danger.

"And why would I do that? Huh! Where the fuck were you?"

"Language! I was at work! Now let her go!"

I want to kill him. My wolf snarled.

She kept on screaming and calling for me. He only held her arm tighter and shook her.

"Will you shut up!"

"Let her go!" I growled louder at him trying to be intimidating.

I couldn't take it anymore. I walked up to him and slashed him as hard as I could across the face when I felt my hand shift into claws. He let go of her and walked me up against the wall.

"You shouldn't have done that, you bitch." He growled in return his eyes shifting from their hazel colour to black and that's when I knew his wolf was fitting for control.

Run baby to your room. I mind linked Rose making eye contact with her.

But mummy... she sniffed through the link.

I'll be ok, baby. I gave her a smile before cutting off the connection.

Who am I kidding? It won't be ok.

I felt my cheek sting and I knew that my daily hell would start. He punched me and I fell to the ground. His sick smile came on and he bent down to me and grabbed me by my hair and whispered in my ear, digging his claws into my scalp.

"You naughty girl... ts ts ts. You should know better than to hit me. You know what I can do."

I cringed and the smell of his breath that smelled of alcohol and some other smell I couldn't quite figure out what it was.

Was he high on something?

He clawed me again, my head hitting the floor in the process. I put my hand on my head I looked at my fingers. Blood, the metallic smell filling my nostrils. He kicked me in my ribs as I held in the tears, small whimpered escaping my lips. He hit me again a couple times in the face and by that time I had a black bruise just below my eye kissing my cheekbone, a bust lip and a cut on my head that was bleeding. I think my ribs are bruised, nothing that I haven't been through before. He took a knife and was coming closer to my legs when his phone rang.

Thank the moon goddess for that!

"Hello, yes. I'm coming."

He hung up and crouched down to me and lifted my shirt, he took the knife and ran it by my hip and made me bleed with the small cut. I was so glad he didn't use a silver blade.

"You got lucky this time babe. But when I come back I'll finish this. It's going to be fun."

He kissed my cheek and with that, he left. There was no spark, there has never been. I know he's not my mate, and it kills me that he isn't, but I am thankful that Rose is not his daughter.

I waited for the door to close and hear the car drive off. I got up and cleaned my wounds, luckily they weren't deep, even if my wolf isn't as strong as she used to be because she hasn't been out for a run in a very long time.

Once I was done I went to check on my baby who was crying her eyes out once she saw me.

"Mumma!"

She ran to me and I took her into my arms and hugged her tight breathing in her sent which calmed my wolf down immediately knowing I had our pup safe in my arms.

We can't stay here anymore. My wolf spoke up after being silent all this time.

I agreed with her rushing to my room to get a big duffle bag and put some clothes of mine and ran back to Rose's room and put her stuff in there too as well as a few toys and the money I had been secretly saving in one of her stuffed toys.

I changed before leaving, took Rose and the bag and left the house.

I was walking and at some point, I took Rose in my arms because she was getting tired and it was night outside. I didn't know where I was, or where I was going, I just hopped something would come to mind when I was walking. It was only later that I realised that I was no longer in the neutral territory.

We approached this little alley and heard someone scream. I walked over to try and see who it was. I heard talking and recognised Dan's voice.

"Pl-please Alpha Mortimer. I didn't know I was trespassing, I didn't mean to attack." He whimpered, his wolf clearly scared by the Alpha in front of him.

"Rogue... you should haven't have come here being all cocky. Now tell me, who sent you to attack my pack!"

The man in front of him growled, his voice sending shivers down my back, the smell in the air only adding to the feeling.

Mate, there's mate. I wolf howled running around in circles showing her excitement.

Mate? Confused I shoved that thought in the back of my mind blocking my wolf out and focusing on what is happening.

"Pl-please, I have a mate and a pup."

"Louis, punch him."

I couldn't help but let out a little laugh and scoff at him saying I was his mate. I'll never be his and he knows that! But I didn't realise that they heard me. I was pushed up to the tall muscular man, who I'm guessing is the one waiting for his answers.

"Hey don't push me!"

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Ash Mortimer:

"Hey don't push me!"

That voice. I turned around and saw my angel with a mini version of herself in her arms. The same golden hair and she looked at me, she had beautiful blue eyes.

My beautiful mate.

"Mummy, I scared"

"I'm here baby." She held her close to her chest, her protective side showing off.

She looked straight into my eyes, the both of us getting lost in each other as we did.

"You're the guy from lunch." She spoke, her voice soft as if she didn't believe it had been me earlier on.

I couldn't help but smirk at her, she remembers me. But that smile soon faded when I hear that dicks voice.

"Everleigh! What the fuck are you doing out here? And with Rose? What's with the bag?"

Ahh, Everleigh that's her name. Beautiful.

She was wearing shorts and a simple white tank top and a baby pink jumper. My wolf purring, liking the way she was dressed but not liking the fact that she was like that when it was this cold, even if I knew her wolf will keep her warm and the fact that that dirty rogue was there looking at her.

"Language! I'm getting away from you! You sick fudge tart!"

"Hooo! It seems it's not your lucky night!" Of course, Paul, my third in command had to make a comment.

"Like hell you are! You're mine!" The pathetic excuse of a wolf growled making my wolf resurface and become territorial over our mate.

I looked at her and she looked scared of him it wasn't before I saw that she had a huge bruise, her busted lip and more bruises all around her neck that everything started adding up.

I turned and punched him and heard her gasp.

"She's mine! You lost her the minute you laid a hand on her!"

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Everleigh:

"She's mine! You lost her the minute you laid a hand on her!"

I stood there in shock. I couldn't believe I'm listening to that.

Mate looks sexy when he is mad. My wolf purred prancing about feeling all giddy because mate was around defending us.

"Get him to the base, I'm not done with him yet."

The tall muscular man ordered the two other and they took Dan away. He walked past me and I held Rose closer to me. She was shivering, my body heat didn't seem enough to warm her up. I put the bag down and took my jumper off and put it on her to warm her up.

But now I was the one who was cold. But if it meant that she wasn't then so be it. But what I didn't realise was the man walking towards me and put his leather jacket around my shoulders.

"You're cold, here."

I looked down and stuttered a thank you. He lifted my chin so that I could look him in the eyes.

"No need to thank me, angel. Come with me."

I couldn't help but blush at him.

"O-ok. But don't hurt my daughter please."

"Don't worry angel I won't hurt my little princess"

What just happened?

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