Chapter 24
Vance's POV
"Oh my darling Skylar not to much longer now and you will be mine” I say to myself as I was sitting at my desk looking at a picture of her. I have been sending notes at random. I have also been sending rogues who have allied with me to their territory to camp there and watch them until it is time for me to go and claim what is rightfully mine. Some of my pack members think I'm crazy going after someone who they believe doesn't belong to me but she does.
My parents died when I was young and so I was raised by my uncle who was the alpha of the our pack which is the Midnight Pack. He was a cruel man and he taught me everything I know and and made me the man I am today and I am grateful for him. He used to tell me a story of a very rare wolves called Hell Hounds, they were the strongest, fiercest types of wolves that ever lived. Until one day when an Alpha went completely power hungry and crazy and sought them out to take one as his mate but he was so crazed and everyone refused him he slaughter nearly every single one of them almost making them extinct. A few got away and hid themselves away from the world so that they wouldn't be hunted and killed because of what they were. After hearing so many stories about them I knew I wanted to have one as my mate to have her bear my children and adding the Hell Hound bloodline to my own to strengthen it and make future generations better and stronger. Skylar's POV
We have been receiving threat after threat and the rogues have been attacking more and more lately as well over these past 3 months. My belly has been growing at a steady rate, I am now 8 and a half months pregnant and the doctor says that I am due any day now seeing as my baby girl is healthy now it's just a waiting game. We still don't know who this Vance person is but he is determined to get me and claim me as his own no matter what. I am scared for what is to come once I have my baby girl, I don't want anything bad to happen to her or to my mate. No one knows that I am thinking about handing myself over after I have my baby so that no one gets hurts but I know Jace will try to stop me and our daughter needs at least one of us.
Everyone has been on edge lately with everything that is going on. Jace and I are sitting in the kitchen having dinner talking and just enjoying our time together. I stand up and put my dishes in the dishwasher when I suddenly feel liquid running down my legs. I look up at Jace with fear and excitement in my eyes.
"I think my water just broke" I say to Jace
"Really are you sure?” Jace asks me looking concerned. As I'm standing there about to say something when I feel a slightly painful pressure go through my abdomen and I realize it's a contraction.
"Yes I'm sure seeing as I just had a contraction. I'm in labor our baby girl is finally going to be here" I say holding the counter.
"Baby get our stuff and get the car ready we need to go to the pack hospital” I say looking at him as another contraction goes through my body making me slightly clench my jaw. Jace runs out of the room and grabs mine and the baby's bag that we had prepared before hand for this kind of situation,
Once the car was ready Jace came back to the kitchen to help to the car seeing as I didn't trust myself to walk without some support. Once we got in the car Jace sped to the pack hospital which only took us 10 minutes even though to me it felt like forever.
He parks and grabs our bags before helping me inside and into a wheelchair so I didn't have to walk anymore. A nurse comes over to us and brings us to a room and helps make sure I'm as comfortable as I can get before she leaves to go and get the doctor. About 10 minutes of laying there sweating and gritting my teeth through every contraction while I hold onto Jace's hand making him wince every now and then from the amount I'm squeezing it.
"It's okay baby girl I'm right here. Everything is going to be alright” Jace says to me as he strokes my hair trying to help me through this the best that he can.
"I love you so much Sky" he says in my ear as another contraction comes and goes.
"I love you too baby" I say back to him through shallow breaths. Then the doctor finally comes in to see how everything was progressing and it was finally time for me to start pushing. After another 20 minutes of contractions and pushing my baby girl was finally here and she was perfect. I layed there with her in my arms staring down at our perfect little girl. She had my facial features and her fathers beautiful light blue eyes and she had a mix of blonde and black hair making her very unique like her parents.
I hand her to Jace and watch as he holds her cooing and bouncing her as he walked around the room. As I watched Jace holding our baby exhaustion from being in labor for so long had finally consumed me and dragged me down into the darkness. I awoke a couple hours later to people talking in the room. I wake up and see a bunch of people in my room all talking and arguing about who gets to hold our little girl next. I lay there watching the spectacle before I laugh making everyone shift their attention to me.
"You're finally awake" I hear Jace say from the doorway. When I look over to him I see him holding some to go bags of food and my mouth starts to water as my stomach growls at the smell. Jace laughs and walks over to me and gives me my food before turning to the give everyone else their food and grabbing our baby while everyone eats and chitchats.
"So have you guys thought of a name for the little one?" Lucy asks "Yeah we would love to know it or are we supposed to call her the baby or little one forever?” Jasper asks with a smirk making everyone laugh. "She has a name we decided it a couple weeks ago we just never told anyone” I say to them between bites.
"So are you guys going to tell us or not?" Alex asks impatiently. I smile and look at Jace and nod my head to him to tell them.
"Okay everyone we would like to introduce you to Lilith Ophelia Miller. You can call her Lilith or Lily for short.” Jace tells them. They all look at her with adoration and love in their eyes.
"It's perfect and suits her well" Lucas says taking her from Jace so he could eat.
I had to stay at the hospital for a few days to make sure everything was okay with Lilith and I. We finally get discharged and on our way back to the pack house so I can relax and put Lily to bed in her crib. When we finally pull up to the house the air is stiff and there seems to be an odd electricity in it putting me on edge. We get our things and head inside as a warrior puts our stuff into my room and I go and put Lilith in her crib before I go to Jace's office and see what the hell is going on. As soon as I walked in it went eerily quiet, as I walk over and sit on Jace's lap and place the monitor on his desk I look at Lucas his beta and he has a grim expression on his face. The look he had on his face made a cold chill run down my spine and an uneasy feeling in the pit of my stomach telling me I was not going to like what they had to tell me.