Chapter 12

**Caleb**

I run as fast as I can, doing violence against my wolf who wants to stay with them. I quickly get my clothes and change before climbing into my car. This must be some kind of punishment, I can only think of it. What other explanation could there be? I drive home and realize I've done something stupid as soon as I turn off the engine. My father is waiting for me at the door. He really chose his timing well. When I look at my dad, I know what I will look like when I get older. We have the same dark hair, the same green eyes, the only thing that makes us physically different is that I am taller than him. Growing up, I kept telling myself that I would do anything not to have his temper but he ended up making me what he wanted.

He turns around when he hears me approaching. "Since when do you go running in the middle of the afternoon?"

"Hi Dad. I'm fine thanks and you?"

He looks at me with a tight jaw as I open the front door.

"I haven't heard from you so I wanted to see how things are going with Romano. Is she still around?" He says her name in disgust and I'm irritated.

"It's going really well, she's put Theo in charge of the firm so they're working together quite a bit. She's got her parents' house in order and she's settled in so I don't think she has any plans to leave again."

"Doesn't she have a business to run in New York? She's bound to go back. She's not staying here."

He sounds so sure of himself but I know she won't leave again, her mates are here. I don't plan on giving him that information, well not right now anyway.

"You know there's a thing called the Internet..."

"Don't play dumb." He cuts me off by slapping his hand on the kitchen counter.

"And what does it matter if she stays?! Theo's working with her so we'll know if she's planning to make any layoffs or budget cuts.... and anyway Theo would stop her if she wanted to do that. And I doubt that's what she wants."

"That's my business! This business was meant to stay in the hands of the Alpha of the pack. She's come to steal it from us!"

"Let me stop you right there, there is not one but three alphas. Secondly, I repeat, I don't see how this concerns you. You are no longer the alpha of this pack."

"I just don't want her to run it."

"Her father ran it before you did..."

"Caleb, I'm warning you, don't go there." He runs his hands through his hair in frustration.

"You kept telling me what to do and I always listened without question. But today, I want to know. Why was it so important that we get her out? Why did you want us to disgust her so she wouldn't come back? Because that was the whole point, wasn't it? Otherwise you should have just called Arthur to come get her but no, you wanted to make sure she didn't set foot in here again."

He points his index finger at me. "Alpha or not, I'm still your dad so you're going to change your tone with me."

And just as I expected, he turns on his heels and storms out of the house. As much as it kills me to admit it, I think there's something else going on there. I don't want to believe that Elena could be right about him, but the fact that he shuts down like that proves that there is something.

Finn tells me through the mindlink that they're going to Elena's house if I decide to join them and stop being a jerk.

I run my hand over my face. I ran away not because I don't desire her or because I don't want her. I ran away because every time I see her, it takes me back to everything I put her through. If I hadn't left, she would have certainly rejected me. How could she want to have her former tormentor as a mate? She had to be my mate for me to feel guilt.

**Elena**

The boys and I arrive home at the same time. As I close the door behind us, Finn pulls my hand to draw me closer to him and kisses me gently.

"If you knew how many times I've dreamed of doing this." He tells me between kisses.

Theo reaches behind me and pushes my hair over my shoulder and kisses the back of my neck. All these years of hating them and I let them kiss me, touch me. Finn runs his hands under my shirt and lifts it off. Then Theo unhooks my bra, they work as a real team. Each of them takes a breast in their hands.

They stick to me each on one side and with their hands on my body, I feel like I can feel them everywhere at the same time. I place each of my hands on their crotches as I caress them.

" Bedroom?" Theo asks and the three of us walk up the stairs.

I am the first to reach the room and I sit on the bed. They both stand in front of me and start to undress without taking their eyes off me. In their eyes, I read pure, raw desire. I know it's not going to be gentle or romantic. Finn is the first to get naked and he pulls my hand to get me up, he opens the button on my jeans, then pulls down the fly to finally my jeans and panties at the same time. Once he has everything off, he stays on his knees in front of me and looks at me through his black lashes, his brown eyes burning with passion. He places kisses on my thigh as he spreads my thighs. He places his hands on my hips and licks my slit and my head tilts back. Theo leans my head towards him to kiss me while his friend sucks my clitoris. My moans are swallowed by Theo.

"Fuck."

I turn my head and my eyes land on Caleb and his impressive bulge under his jeans.