Damien POV
Waking to the vibration of my phone that lay on the bedside table, I quickly grabbed it before answering, making sure not to speak until I was out of earshot.
“Hi Aria”
“Alpha Damien, I was just ringing to find out if you got my message yesterday?”
“Yes, I meant to call you back, but we had a situation with Rogues entering the territory yesterday. I didn’t get home till late” The phone goes silent for a second, but I know she is there because I can hear her breathing.
“How is she?” Aria asks.
“Lily is fine, a pain in the ass sometimes, but that’s just Lily”
“Have you marked her yet?” She asks, making me sigh.
“No, she won’t allow it yet”
“You might not have a choice soon, she will forgive you. Any luck with her wolf”
“Yeah, her and Layla seem to get on better, Layla attacked me the other night for upsetting Lily so I suppose that’s a good sign” Aria chuckled and I couldn’t help but laugh with her.
“That sounds promising, you need to hurry up, and mark her, at least that way you will know where she is all the time” Aria tells me.
“Yeah, about that, Lily is a little reluctant with the idea”
“Why?”
“Because before I met her, I was fooling around with another she-wolf and got her knocked up” I admitted. I felt Darian growl loudly at my words. Aria didn’t speak for a few seconds and I waited to hear her scream at me, only she didn’t.
“You’re sure it’s yours?”
“Pretty sure we did a paternity test, we will find out I suppose in ten weeks”
“Ten weeks? You can’t let her wait that long to mark her. The sooner the better, especially since Kade has escaped. My father has been trying to track him. I worry he may come for her”
“I just don’t understand, why you all left him alive it has been twelve years Aria” I said frustrated, my voice coming off harsher than I intended. I didn’t like the idea of the man that destroyed Lily was now running around free.
“I know, we should have killed him when we had the chance, but we hoped if we waited we would finally get some answers about what is wrong with her”
“Where has Abel tracked him so far?”
“I can’t get a hold of him. Last I heard he was in Russia checking some of Kade’s links there. As soon as I know more, I will let you know. She can’t find out Damien, I worry she will run. Took us years to get the nightmares to stop, I don’t want to see her back track when she is finally improving”
I hear movement upstairs and look toward the stairs.
“I need to go, I think she just woke”
“Okay fine, but hurry up and mark her Damien, we haven’t got time on our side not with that monster out there”
I hang up the phone just as Lily walks down the stairs rubbing sleep from her eyes.
“Who were you talking to?” She asks.
“Just my Beta, hungry? Natalia is cooking breakfast,” I tell her.
Lily nods before walking down the steps and taking my outstretched hand. I pull her against me, wrapping my arms around her before lifting her up and crushing her against my chest.
“Put me down Damien, I can walk”