60 - Moving On

60 - Moving On
~Ellie’s Point of View~

I hugged everyone and said good night. I knew everyone was just as exhausted and desperate to sleep as I was. I had no idea where they were putting everyone up but I just couldn’t think about it right now. I felt horribly selfish about that but I just needed some time to myself, and a shower.
I wanted to say thank you to Max for his bravery and sacrifice, but they’d already taken his body away. I decided I would pray about it later.
I did check on Chance and between getting some vampire blood and Katrina taking care of him, he was already more than half healed. Apparently he’d really fought about taking the vampire blood but he had internal bleeding, a shattered collarbone and a dislocated shoulder just to name a few injuries.
I felt like anything else just had to wait until tomorrow.
“The shower is all yours baby,” Hunter said, as he walked out of the bathroom.
“Need any help,” Skyler asked, already clean as well.
I laughed. “No, I’m good but I’ll see you in bed in a few.”
He blew me a kiss and I caught it, making my tummy flutter. By the time I got all cleaned up and felt like some sort of human being again, I went into our bedroom and they were all waiting for me.
“As badly as I want to jump all of your bones, I think we all just need to go to sleep,” I said, yawning.
River turned out the light and held his arms open, I fell into his warmth and he kissed me. He rolled me into the middle of the bed where Hunter and Skyler each kissed me.
“Good night my sexy triplets,” I said, getting comfortable on Hunter’s chest.
“Good night Lilly,” they all said at once. I beamed and knew they had all rehearsed that.
We all slept about fourteen hours, and it was glorious. I was standing in front of a massive feast on the kitchen table, courtesy again of Angel. She was simply too nice for her own good.
“There’s so much to do today, we have to find homes for people, figure out what’s what,” River said.
“I think White Star and what’s left of Blood Claw might make a new pack, there was talk of it,” Hunter said.
I gaped at them both, opened my mouth to say something, but shoved a donut in my mouth instead and sat down.
“Who would be the Alpha,” Skyler asked.
That was only one of my million questions.
“Actually, Ridge is interested,” Hunter said.
My mouth opened again on its own and again, I decided to shove the donut in there instead of talking.
“Damn, that’s a good idea. I saw him fight, he can definitely hold his own,” River said.
“What did Godfrey mean about Isaac having to retire,” I finally managed to ask.
They all looked at each other.
“Ohh no, no no no. Not this business of keeping stuff from me again, spill it,” I demanded.
“Isaac admitted to knowing some things about what Gunner did to your pack, but he didn’t pursue it as hard as he should have, he kind of let it go,” Hunter explained.
My face grew red hot and without realizing it, my hands were in fists. I tried to calm myself down but it was hard.
I felt hands on my shoulders and kisses on my neck. Skyler. I relaxed and he put his arms around me.
“You think he was just lazy or actually malicious,” I asked.
“Both maybe,” River said.
I reached for another donut, I figured I burned off enough damn calories lately.
“I need to talk about something else, get my mind off everything even if only for a little bit. Where are we all going to live, are we staying here,” I asked.
“We haven’t decided anything yet, we know you’ll want to be near your parents. But at the end of the day, we’re all still Shadows and our work goes on. It never stops,” Hunter said, taking my hand.
“Maybe we’ll see what your parents and your pack want to do and go from there,” River offered as a suggestion.
“Yeah that makes sense,” I said, nodding my head slowly.
My parents … my pack. It was all still just swirling around in my head like it couldn’t mesh with reality. I had a brother, who could be an Alpha. Just … wow.
“Angel’s coming over, she’ll be here in a few,” River said.
I zoned out for a little bit and ate some more until Angel showed up. She quickly put her arms out to greet me and I jumped up, giving her a long hug.
“I’m so glad you’re okay and safe, you really had us all pretty worried,” she said.
“I could never possibly thank everyone enough for all they did to help me,” I said into her shoulder.
“Well it solved two very big problems, Gunner and the traitor, Kai,” she said, releasing me and sitting down.
“Oh yeah, so … I mean do you think we’re square with Katrina, is she still going to want something for helping us,” I said, quite curiously.
I noticed the guys all stopped whatever they had been doing to listen for her response.
“Oh no, she couldn’t be more over the moon that she found Chance, I mean he’s as hot as hell. And she wouldn’t have found him if she wasn’t helping you guys,” Angel said.
We all kind of relaxed but I was still wondering if she was here for any other reason. Werewolves naturally didn’t trust witches but I had no real reason to question her for coming here.
“So as you can imagine I’m here on a bit of business too,” Angel said.
Ohh there it is, Skyler said, over mind-link.
“Well a Shadow’s job is never done, Quinn wants you guys in tonight for debriefs and all that. Godfrey’s actually MIA, but probably just sleeping off his blood lust hangover for a few days. Lilly you’ll have to come on Tuesday for official statements and they will be announcing candidates for Isaac’s replacement. Technically you are not a Shadow but their mates have to be able to mind-link everyone, just in case it is ever needed or in case you need a teleport,” she said.
“Has Tyson approached you about being a Shadow,” I asked.
“He has, but any recruits go through a rigorous investigation in addition to physical testing and have to have sponsors, all kinds of things, they have telepaths secretly tail them to make sure their intentions are pure. What do you think about him joining,” she said.
“Honestly, I think he’s a very well trained fighter, he’s smart, as long as I don’t really have to see him, I don’t care,” I said.