Brother’s Best Friends Are My Mates novel Chapter 80

Rain

I was fussing over Lia, trying to see how badly she was injured and the more I fussed, the more I annoyed her.

“Lia are you-“

“Rain, I’m fine,” she assured me.

Then she winced, making me panic.

“You winced!”

Lia glared at me. “How are you not wincing? You got shot in the shower with a bow and arrow?”

I shrugged. “I didn’t go through and only pierced the skin. It just feels like a dull ache.”

“If I slap it it’s not going to feel like a dull ache anymore,” Jesse pointed out, making me shrink away from him.

I grinned nervously at him. “Can you just not and say you did?”

“Guys, enough,” Colby snapped. “We’re all tired and injured so let’s just wait until we get back home, okay?”

The fight had been crazy. At times I was convinced we were going to lose until what remained of the witches turned tail and ran. Afterward, I learned the vampires had taken out one of their coven leaders and injured one, causing the rest to flee.

It gave us a chance to create another portal with what magical energy the vampires had left and flee. When the portal closed, I looked over everyone to survey the damage.

My first thought was that it could’ve been much worse. People’s lives could’ve been lost, not to mention the serious injuries. All of us had some kind of injury.

Except Gabi.

When I first saw her after all this time I felt tears spring to my eyes. She looked so good and visibly pregnant. Her belly was clear as day in the thin dress they had given her to wear. Most of all, Gabi looked healthy.

Since the moment we pulled her out of there, she had been crying and telling Michael she knew we would all come for her. It was just a matter of time.

I sniffed, unable to contain my emotions for much longer.

This was what I hoped would happen but was unsure if it actually would. How could we beat an entire witch’s coven?

Well, we couldn’t have done it without the help of the vampires. It was thanks to them that we were able to successfully get Gabi out of there with the pup still in her belly.

But I remembered what Tegan said to me privately the other day before we launched the attack.

“Rain before you leave I need to have a word with you about something.”

I paused. “Yes, Tegan?”

“It’s about what will happen once we launch this attack. You do understand that this is going to ignite a species war, correct?”

My stomach dropped. It was something I had thought about multiple times and heard, but it never failed to cause my blood to run cold.

“Yes, we’ve considered that Tegan,” I muttered. “Is this your way of saying you won’t help us?”

She laughed. “Of course not! We still have every intention of helping one of our own but you need to understand that if you go through with this, it will have large-reaching consequences on the supernatural community.”

“Humans have it so easy,” I lamented out loud.

“Not really. It’s just by the grace of the gods and goddesses out there that these humans didn’t have magic during all their multiple wars,” Tegan pointed out. “Anyway, we are getting off topic.”

I sighed. “Tegan I understand and so does my pack. We’ve gone over this before and there are no other options.”

“Then we will proceed.”

Sometimes, I wondered if there were other reasons for them helping us but I didn’t want to look a gift horse in the mouth. If they were doing it for other reasons, I wasn’t going to let myself get angry because they helped us in the end.

Things were fine right now but in the coming days things could get dicey as Tegan said might happen. I wasn’t going to think about it right now, focusing instead on the fact that Gabi and the pup were back with us.

Shaking my head, I went into the kitchen where everyone was trying to go about with their normal lives.

Gabi and Michael were upstairs in his room which they had spent most of the time in since we rescued her three days ago. She was nesting, trying to make herself feel comfortable and at ease.

I had no idea if they were going to go back to their old apartment which was about a ten-minute drive from the house. Honestly, I preferred to have them here. It kept them close and we felt complete.

Simone and her mates had also been over every day, even if it was just for a few minutes. They wanted to make sure everyone was healing after our fight.

As pack leader, I wanted everyone to be under the same roof. I think it was just my instinct kicking in, but in these modern days, it wasn’t always possible for all of us to live together.

This was going to be a future discussion one day but for now, I was just going to relax and enjoy the small victory that we were relishing in.

“Hey, Colby want pancakes?” Rain asked me, causing me to jump.

I blinked, unaware I had gotten that lost in my thoughts.

“Yeah, as long as you’re not making them,” I teased, giving him a look.

He pouted. “Hey, I… can learn to make pancakes. If I can pass a vampire trial and join their clan then I can certainly cook and make some pancakes.”

“Let’s agree to disagree,” I teased Rain.

A round of laughter filled the room.

I was grateful we were getting back to some normality.

Yes, there was still the fact that a species war was likely to happen but I wanted to enjoy this. Enjoy being with my pack and the fact that we were all back together.

Some wounds would take a while to heal. The mental scars were the worst ones in my experience, but together we’d be able to do it.

We’d need to lean on each other if we were going to weather the storms that were to come anyway.