The Beta's Second Son.

Never alone, never to be alone, and always to be with faith that tomorrow is a new day, and a new hope for life.

Xavier Amari Nile.

Celebrations, its what the Hollow Creek Pack has always been good at, I detested it before until I knew the reason why they held so many parties and ever since the beta and alpha found their mates, I put a dial down on it, glad to have small meaningful parties, rather than sex orgies that will most likely have Cornell rejected, cheers to preventing that, but currently, we were cerebrating, it was small, meaniful and something I wanted, more or less something everybody wanted for me and I just went along with it because what's with having babies, without throwing a baby shower, it was deserved, everyone enjoyed alcohol from a baby bottle, except the actual pregnant person, I learnt to live with that repressed feeling of not being included, I will indulge when I won't be harming my kids.

"Everyone can I have your attention please!" Cornell announces as he stands on top of a picnic table. "I just wanted to say thank you to Xavier, for making my brother happy, giving him his joy back and getting rid of his massive blue balls—" He chortled just as a shoe hit him. "Cornell language!" Siena yelled not caring if he was the alpha. "Sorry Ma, anyway, thank you for giving us Jude, and thanking you for giving us the triplets as well, they are an addition to the pack that we cherish, because any child in the pack isnt just for the parents, but for all of us, they are the next generation that will lead us to greatness, and we couldn't be more thankful." He finally concluded as everyone raised whatever they were holding and cheered. "The party went on as I talked and smiled at people I began to care for the moment I became more than just a passing member of the town or the pack, they were truly a part of me, they accepted me when I came from nowhere with nothing on me except papers that legitimized me as a person, they helped me get back on my feet and they kept being my support even when I didn't need it anymore, I appreciated them, always.

After mingling I stayed back, I was still relevant but I needed to appreciate or rather just appreciate their love in my silence, as the party went on, Jude came to sit by me as he couldn't sit on my lap, I was due anytime, and Marquee had made it his priority to be ready for anything, thankfully Siena took the party back to the pack house and our house was left relatively clean, my mate sighed as he sat next to me, I could see the exhaustion in his eyes, it was hard to control a wolf pack high on wolfrum and other alcohols brewed for wolves.

"Are you okay?" He asks as Jude climbs on to his lap and begins fiddling with his hair. "I'm okay, just I needed the peace and silent." I replied with a chuckle and he held me close to him, I appreciated his warmth and how he felt so safe. "Any day now we'll be holding them, and we'll have sleepless nights, Jude will try poison one of them because they have taken all our attention from him, but we'll love all our kids, our lives won't be perfect but it will be ours." He explained my dream, in all its vivid splendour, I guess we saw the same future, I couldn't have been given a better mate, someone who saw our lives together and never apart, he was always thoughtful, and never lacked in affection. "What do you think about getting a picture taken on delivery day, just before you pass out from exhaustion." He suggested and I smacked his bicep. "Hey, I won't pass out." I argued as we both chuckled. "If you say so." He teased again and I smacked his arm again. "I won't, but I do love the idea, just make sure you take my good side." I accepted flipping my hair over my shoulder. "Hmm ofcourse, we wouldn't want that when all light is good for you, I've never seen a picture of you when you don't look good." He was laying it on thick. "Oh sugar papi, I see you, but I'm not saying what you're saying is wrong, I am pretty hot." I stated proudly and he growled playfully biting down on my neck making both of us laugh, I loved moments like the with my mate and my family, just us being us without anything hindering our bonding, nothing mattered.

"You know I love you right, I'd pluck the moon from the sky for you, or die trying." Marquee began again as my cheeks flared making me giggle like a school girl. "Would you also bring down the stars, I can't have the moon without them." I stated and he moved my head slightly so he could place a kiss on my lips. "I'd act like a dog for you if you asked, and if that dog were in heat, then I'd do anything too—." I covered his lips as I worried Jude would be influenced by his naughty words. "Save that for later." I mumbled with a giggle as he wiggled his eyebrows, he maybe goofy, a manchild at heart but I loved him, I couldn't imagine my life without him at all, even before he was my mate, he made my life interesting in so many ways, he never lost his touch even when we discovered that we were mates, he just became more of what I wanted and I would be grateful each day for it, I had survive alpha Crow to be here in this moment with him, I didn't regret it.

"I'm glad I ran that day, I don't know who I would be if I didn't run, this moment wouldn't be real if I hadn't, whatever strength I got that day, I still keep it with me because it helps me defy fate and whatever set rules they wwew for me, because I would do anything to be with you, now, before or in the future, you're the man I wanted, the father of my kids, you're everything I wanted, its why my every prayer begins and ends with your name, its why I keep you in my heart and feel you in my soul, I love you Marquee Nile." I stated with tears streaming down both our cheeks, I had to be real in that moment.

"Will you hold my hand through it all?" He asked and I nodded. "If you're going to hold my hand through it all, then I'm going to tell you a secret that not even you know, and its the only one that I haven't told you." He mumbled seriously and I was stunned. "Are you a closeted drag queen?" I quickly asked. "No you little weirdo, where did that even come from, haven't I proved my manhood at this point, or you want me to pull it out and we go go at it again." He argued as we burst out laughing together. "No—no I'm just checking." I retorted as he nuzzled my stomach and ran his a large rough hand on my inner thigh eliciting a moan. "Ooh sugar —okay, okay point proven." I surrender and he winks satisfied at his work. "I love a man, it doesn't diminish all my masculine qualities and you know that." He adds and I had to be honest, he was right, he burped like a man, left his towels on the floor and clothes too just like any man, feet propped up on my table like any regular macho dude, even more so than normal and somehow somehow it turned me on.

"Before you give yourself an orgasm thinking and fantasizing about me and this perfectly built body, I have to tell you, when I was a kid I had an accident or rather was in an accident, I got internal injuries and when I was operated on the chemicals they used during surgery and medication they gave me after surgery, affected me, they told my mother I couldn't have kids because of the reaction, it tore her apart, and me aswell, because I thought that was it, I would never have kids of my own, I wanted to tell you even before we made things official, but I couldn't do it, I was terrified, then came  the whole fiasco after fiasco, things got hard, I'm telling you now because we are about to start a new life together with a new house, and three babies, that we are welcoming into the world, and I'm not telling you this  so that you start doubting my love for Jude, he's my boy, my first born, always, but as for these three in your belly, they are a miracle, a miracle you blessed me with bella." His words resonated in my heart and filled me with love, I couldn't believe he had gone through this ordeal on his own, I appreciated his truth, I loved him more than anything, because he was my miracle as well, just as our children were to him.

"I love you, the weirdo I love." Marquee teased. "I love you more sugar daddy—" I spoke with a gasp that stunned both of us. "Your water just broke." Marquee mumbled and we both nodded to each other as he rushed off. Welcome to the world Xander, Marquis and Alexis, your papa and I along with your brother have waited a while to meet you.

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The End.

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