Hazard grins. “Not just me.”
I lift my head and find the pack wading towards us. No, not just him. My pack, our pack.
Hazard
I follow just behindCasey, ready to kill anything that upsets her, even the smallest bug, whatever she wants.
“Mika, it’s fine, relax.”
I take her hand, and she turns, touching her lips to mine, and before I can even register it, she’s turned away, back to the cabin.
We all know why we’re back here. The mountain where we lived doesn’t feel like home anymore. We’ve gone to several places over the last twelve months, but there is only one place we keep coming back to.
She puts her hand on the cabin door and pushes it open.
It looks exactly the same. Like we walked out yesterday and not almost two years ago.
Casey lets out a small sound, and I know we’re home.
Of all of us, Wrath had been the most against coming back here, but once our families agreed to relocate with us, he relaxed.
Finally finding foster packs for the children of Pack Foster and getting them out of our pack helped as well. It had taken a while to find them all safe places. I am grateful that none of the children were there that night, but they don’t look at Casey and see the omega we love, they see the feral wolf to be feared, so getting them gone had been my number one priority, and now I feel like I can breathe.
“So, this is home?”
Casey inhales and exhales. “Yes, this is home. Mika, Drew, Riordan, Hudson, Kerrick. We’re home.”
My omega smiles, and it reaches her eyes. She’s come a long way from the omega we found in the pit, but she’s different now, too. She’s colder to strangers and defensive. Sometimes she retreats into the wolf for days. We sit with her and wait until she’s ready to come back, but I know we all just want to help her feel safe again.
“I promised when we were finally free I would call you by your true names.”
I’d forgotten she had made that promise.
“I think free is a state of mind, too, and it feels free here. We could be happy here. I love you, Mika, and you know I adore you, Drew. Riordan, you take my breath away. Hudson, I don’t know how to be me without you. Kerrick, you are my everything.”
“So sappy,” Riot teases, but I can tell he’s pleased.
She takes a step, but I catch up her hand and pull her to me. She jumps up, wrapping her legs around my waist.
“Thank you for bringing me home, Hazard.”
I let out a mock growl. “Mika,” I remind her unnecessarily. “I am your Mika.”
“You are my Mika, my Hazard, my everything.”
The warmth that expands in me when her meaning presses into me has me lost for words, so instead I kiss her, our lips lingering.
“Enough of that. Let’s unpack. The sooner it’s all in there, the sooner we can go for a run.”
“You just want to fuck in that meadow we found.”
“No regrets,” Riot says over his shoulder.
“Mmm, we should start in the bathroom,” Wrath whispers as I set Casey down.
“Why the bathroom?” I ask. “What happened in the bathroom, Huddy?”
“Don’t call me that, Mikie!” Wrath says over his shoulder.
