The Unknown Lycan Princess - Chapter 91: Chapter 91

Beth’s POV
I felt the dagger as it was thrusted into my chest as I fell to the ground while the man who raped me held my daughter in his hands. My mates were screaming in pain while being restrained watching me die. I knew I was dying. I could feel my soul slipping away. The last thing I saw before it went black was my rapist cooing to my daughter and laughing at my mates who were helpless to help me.
I sat up in bed with a start. My heart was racing and I was frantically checking myself for injuries. My frantic breathing and searching caused Ethan and Alexi to shoot out of bed looking for the threat. Once they realized that there was nothing in the room they came back to the bed and tried to comfort me and figure out what was going on. After I assessed that I didn’t have any injuries I broke down into uncontrollable sobs.
I thought I was past that trauma. The thought that my rapist had his hands on my baby. I just couldn’t get a handle on my emotions. That has always been a huge fear for me. He said he wasn’t done with me. I haven’t thought of that in ages. Was that a dream and just my subconscious telling me I still needed to work through that. Or was it a premonition of something to come? I needed to talk to Ares or Hecate or Selene or any of them really.
When I stopped sobbing my breathing was more of hiccups. It took a little while to calm down enough to explain to my patiently waiting impatient mates. I looked up into their eyes and my bottom lip wobbled. I don’t know if I can explain well enough what happened in my nightmare. I decided it was best to just show them everything so I placed one hand on each of their cheeks and let the memory of my rape and my dream flow through me to them. When it was done Ethan and Alexi both let out murderous growls that shook the room.
Alexi grabbed me into his arms and I buried my head into his chest while Ethan was having a hard time controlling Dex. He had fur growing on his arms and his canines were extended. His claws had escaped his nail beds and were protruding out. Ethan had blood dripping from his clenched fists because of his claws. His eyes were completely black right now with Dex coming to the front.
“He will not touch what is MINE again! I will kill him before he can lay another finger on my mate.” Ethan and Dex said together making Ethan’s voice have a gravelly edge to it.
“No he will not touch any of what is ours. He will not get ahold of our mate or our pups.” Alexi confirmed Ethan’s words. Ethan went to reach for me but Alexi stopped him, causing Ethan to growl furiously until Alexi said, “Not with your claws out!”
Ethan looked down at his hands like he didn’t even realize they were out. I watched from Alexi’s chest as Ethan closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths. When he opened them again they were back to his natural beautiful color. The fur that had sprouted on his arms was now gone as were his claws. He slowly came over to me and grabbed me from Alexi’s arms and cradled me to his chest.
“Baby don’t worry. We won’t let anything happen to you or Esmerelda. I was already thinking that we should move the pups back to the pack. It isn’t safe in the castle anymore, and I would feel more comfortable if they were surrounded by pack anyway. No offense to the vampires, but they seem to be having more and more problems with the sect, and I don’t want to put you or our pups in unnecessary danger. At least in the pack I know we have safe rooms in the Alpha wing that no one can get into. Only the Alpha family knows about them and they are changed after every new Alpha takes charge. Dad and I already discussed putting a new safe room in our suite and it should be done by now.” Ethan said, looking right into my eyes.
I could see his concern through his eyes. I didn’t need to feel it through the matebond to know that he was worried about our safety. I took a deep breath and thought about what Ethan said. I can’t refute his claims because he is correct. The simple fact that they were able to send a group into the castle undetected attested to that. Deep down I knew Ethan was right and so I nodded my head and said, “You are right Ethan. I think we should all go back to the pack for now. I still have one more task to go and I would feel better if we were with the rest of our family too so that I know our pups are safe. Do you think we could leave today?”
Alexi sighed and said, “As much as I would like to claim that there is no place safer for my family than here in the castle it would be a lie. There has already been a close call and our boy almost died. I can’t see how staying here is the safest option anymore. I agree, we should tell everyone at breakfast that we will be leaving today to the pack. Besides that is where two of our prisoners are. We still need to question them, and we can question the witch here before we leave.” “Ok. So we need to get dressed and get the pups ready for breakfast with the family here. Are you ok now Baby? We won’t let anything happen to you or our pups. We will go back home to the pack after we interrogate the witch.” Ethan asked me.
I took a deep breath and extracted myself from his arms and nodded as I turned around to walk into the closet to grab some clothes to wear after I took a shower. I was on autopilot as I walked into the bathroom and started the shower. As I was undressing I couldn’t stop thinking about my dream and how real it felt. I entered the shower and placed my forehead on the shower wall while the water ran down my back. I was so lost in thought that I didn’t even hear or feel my mates join me until I felt a pair of hands grasp my hips and pull me back into a firm hot chest.
I turned my head to look behind me to see Ethan with a devilish smirk on his face. I felt a blush rise to my cheeks knowing what he was thinking about. Hands on my face turned me back towards the front and Alexi was standing in front of me now and he too had the same look as Ethan had. I gulped knowing what was going to happen next, and I was grateful for it. I needed to lose myself in my mates for a little bit just to feel like I am still alive in the real world. I felt both of their hands explore my body causing quiet moans to leave my lips. Alexi’s hands explored my breasts while Ethan’s explored my soaking wet p***y.
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After our very long and intimate shower we were all dressed and ready to go to our pups in the nursery. Ethan assured me that they were fine and that my mother stayed with them all night. I couldn’t help feeling a little bit guilty that I indulged in my mates while my mother was taking care of my pups.
As we left our room I could hear Link telling my mom she was doing it wrong and that she needed to do it a certain way like mama does. It was so cute to listen to my little boy. I peeked into the room and saw that mom was dressing Dimitri in a little footed pajama set. Link was trying to get her to do it with the arms first but my mother was teasing him by doing it from the feet first. I stepped in when I heard him growl at her and said, “Link baby, why are you growling at your grandma like that?”
Link looked up at me and a huge smile lit his face and he ran into my arms shouting my name. I couldn’t help the smile that graced my lips. He was such a cute boy, but I know that we need to talk to him about controlling Timber’s emotions. He can’t let him take control. With Link shifting so early it is going to be harder for him. There is a reason werewolves don’t shift right away. Though I think this will give Link a better chance at understanding his wolf counterpart and I believe in my heart he will have better control of his wolf than most adult wolves do.
“I’m sorry mama. Timber got mad at grandma because she wasn’t dressing Dimitri right. His arms go in first then his little feet. Not feet first.” Link said with a pout on his adorable face.
“Oh baby. It doesn’t matter how the clothes go on. Grandma was doing it to tease you mainly anyway. Timber come forward so that I can talk to you too young pup.” I said in a slight commanding tone. I continued once I saw Link’s eyes change color letting me know Timber was present. “Timber you need to control your emotions. Link isn’t old enough to know how to do that just yet. You don’t want to accidentally hurt someone do you?”
Timber and Link lowered their heads and said, “No. I am sorry mama. Please forgive me”
I smiled and lifted their head and kissed his nose and said, “There is nothing to forgive from me, but maybe you two ought to go tell your grandma that you are sorry hmm.” Link nodded their head and I watched as he leapt down from my arms and went to my mom and hugged her while he told her he was sorry and it wouldn’t happen again.
Alexi and I helped finish getting the triplets dressed while Ethan took charge of Link and got him ready as well despite the fuss that Link made about not getting to help with the babies. We descended the stairs and made our way to Roman’s private dining room. When we entered everyone else was already present and waiting for us.
After we all got settled into our seats and the triplets were placed in the bassinets in the room by the table Roman cleared his throat and said, “I just want to say that I love all of you here and I don’t want to see any of you leave, but I fear that it is in the best interest of the pups safety and yours Beth if you returned to the pack. I don’t feel like the castle is safe enough right now. That passage that Mom, Dad, and Alexi found last night told me there is more to this castle than I even knew. I have my most trusted guards going through every room in this castle to find any and all hidden passages. I can’t leave the kingdom right now so I can oversee the progress of the search, but I am going to send Mom and Dad with you for extra protection and help. I will be on standby with my army if the need arises and the sect attacks. I have witches at the ready to open portals up to the pack if needed for emergencies.”
I was speechless because I thought that we were going to be the only ones who felt this way. I started to tear up and got up from the table and hugged Roman as I said, “Thank you. We were going to talk to you about this this morning too. We also felt it was safer right now to be at the pack. I am so thankful that you understand our concerns.”
Roman gave me a small smile and kissed the top of my head and said, “I just wish I would have done this a long time ago with Esmerelda then maybe she might still be alive.”
“So, when are we leaving?” Sandra asked, breaking up the tense atmosphere.
“We were going to interrogate the witch in the dungeons first then we were going to portal into the packhouse.” Ethan said.
“Eat. Torture.Vaycay. Just a normal day then. Got it,” Sandra said, causing us all to chuckle a little bit.
We all settled down into our seats and ate our breakfast. While everyone was eating I let them know of everything that happened in the Underworld. Ethan and Alexi were furious that something like that had happened to me. Overprotective mates.
“So who is ready to take a field trip to the dungeons and visit our favorite prisoner?” Alexander said as he placed his napkin down on his plate after wiping his mouth.