Page 31 of A Phoenix Will Rise


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Nate has made it that way, sign and send

back to get the ball rolling,

Congratulations Love x

ME: Thank you, see you later x

I manage to tone Miles down and tell him to tweak once he knows what Mateo is bringing with him, and he needs to talk to Bram and Bray tonight about what Mateo potentially is to them.

Once the guys are home and homework is done, Miles, Bray, and Bram leave for a chat, and the rest of us decide on a movie night; I fall asleep during Jurassic Park between Kodi and Jace.

I wake at 5 am still snuggled between Kodi and Jace, Creed’s armover Jace so he can touch me in some way, Crawling out so I don’t wake them, I head to my room, dress in workout stuff and pull my weapons case out, I head down to the gym but passing Brayden’s room, I hear things I wish I hadn’t.

“That’s it kitten you’re taking all of me now, swallow your dragon deep and I’ll let you cum,” Okay moving on, I hope my brothers have never heard what the guys say to me but ‘Go Miles’ I do a little fist pump and mentally high five him, once in the gym I decide to do some stretches and yoga ready for when Nate and Uncle Luc turn up, I’m about an hour in when Bray and Ren walk-in.

“Hope your kitten was a good boy for you, brother”, I smirk at Bray before he has a chance to reply. Ren pins me to the wall, kissing me hard and grinding his cock against me. When he finally lets me up for air, Bray is staring at me, gawping like a fish.

“I heard a little while I was walking past this morning; we need soundproof rooms when we move out”, I say to Ren, who chuckles and nods; Trent, Marcus and Calum wander in, followed by Nate, Uncle Luc and Declan.

After three hours of them attacking me in various ways, including shifting so they can assess me, they decide all I need to improve is my firearms, which I will now have twice a week, and Nate wants to keep up my practice with blades every Sunday.

Ren and Bray stay for some more training, including Ren wanting to copy another of my adaptations of how I do something like with my bounce house, sorry, roundhouse kick; the rest of us have showers, then head for breakfast.

When Uncle Nic sits down, looking glum and stressed.

“When everyone is done with breakfast, don’t disappear, please; some of the pack members are demanding one-on-one meetings due to their claim to mating one or more of you. I know it is invasive, but can I or Luc take photos of all your mate marks?” We all murmur our consent

“I don’t get it! What aren’t people getting? I feel sorry for you guys,” Calum says. He, James, Marcus and Trent are part of Ren's Pack when he turns 18, so they have rooms in the pack house, just not on our floor

“Trent, James, that includes you, so I might as well get everyone’s”, Uncle Luc adds as he sits; I see Trent start to panic

“T if you want, I can do yours if that helps? we got you” I say with a smile he nods and relaxes, the rest of the day and most of Sunday is spent watching movies and one of us dipping into the office to say no to people, Xander calls in back up when four pregnant girls claim they are carrying one of the guys babies, so Xander and Jalen do DNA from the foetus, yes we know it will come back negative as the guys are all on the contraceptive injection but we need to wait the 48 hours for the tests to run and find out if Brayden, Trent, Jenson and Timber are daddies. Trent got called in ten times, Ren and I went in with him each time when the last girl blurted that she was pregnant with his baby he finally broke yelling he hadn’t even had his first kiss and wasn’t interested in guys or girls in that way, Miles picking up on the discomfort when we came out became mother hen, and we started goofing around picking baby names and taking photos of shocked faces at the claims we were all recalling.

Monday, we were all up early, Sunday ended in a popcorn fight, and we promised to clean it before Alma saw, she knew of course, but said we did a good job.

On Wednesday Uncle Nic and I headed off to meet Mateo, my uncle was still fielding complaints about the shame screen, and we seemed to be getting more and more requests; Darby had started designing a site, similar to a dating site but you needed to be DNA authorised to get access to find your mark match, some of the retired scientists from dads work offered their help and said they would buy shares in the lab we set up for it, but we were a ways off on that part yet, I also pointed out it would help so we didn’t lose children like me in the system.

As we neared the parking lot, Uncle Nic seemed to relax. I was under orders from Miles to get a photo and, if I could, somethingof his scent, which I worried about, in case it set his heat off. Bram was also curious, as he would also be a mate.

We chose a diner, my idea in case Mateo came from a similar background to me and would be more comfortable than a swanky restaurant; while we waited, Uncle Nic told me stories about him, my dad and Luc growing up I was surprised how often Mickey G was mentioned but he had told me that he grew up with them, he’s just finishing a story about how they met Liam, as it happened they broke into his home so they could slay the vampire prince and be heroes, they were eight years old at the time. I hear the door chime and glance towards the door and see Matt from my history of literature class, and it clicks, I knew I recognised the voice, but I couldn’t place it, I stand and wave, and as he gets close to the table, I see his nerves fall away.

“Em! What the? Well, shit, I forgot your full name was Ember!” he laughs, rubbing a hand over his face and bumbling over his words and then sees Nic.

“Mateo Michaels, Sir, it is nice to meet you” Nic clasps his outstretched hand.

“Dominic Ivanova, but you can call me Nic; how do you know my niece?” I step in, explaining we had one very dull class together at college, but as he introduced himself as Matt and I never knew his last name, I didn’t make the link. He always called me Em, so I guess we both had a daft moment. After an hour, Nic excuses himself to make a call, which allows me to tell him about Miles and Bram.

“I’m glad you found your family Em I was worried and I could never find you on social media” I smile and chuckle,

“Yeah, I have a twin and two older half-brothers, I also have ten mates,” He imitates a fish, and I chuckle again,

“My Twins mate has 3 marks, obviously one is my brother, which is behind his ear, but then he has one on each wrist near his pulse points” I find the collage I did of Miles’ marks and twist it to show Matt; I ignore his sharp intake of breath and swipe to a sketch I did of Bram’s Dragon.

“I remember that it was a Shakespeare lecture,” he says, and I nodand swipe again “I met Bram at one of my foster placements he’s Miles’ Dragon mate, and my brother is a Beta wolf; Bram also has the same two marks, but they are nearer the crease of his arm,”

I swipe again, showing the photo I have of Bram's forearms and his marks. I then swipe again to a photo of the three of them, Miles is sitting on Bray’s lap, head leaning back onto Bram’s shoulder and holding his hand. I point them out, so he knows who is who.

“They are aware you are coming; Miles caught your scent on some paperwork Nate had at the house. Miles wants to be a personal stylist. I’m glad you are distracting him from trying to get me to wear heels and dresses,” Matt chuckles at my words, and I send the photo over to him.