#Chapter 15 – Water Playing

“Bed?!” I call out to the boys, surprised by their request. “It’s only…7 o’clock. You haven’t even had dinner!”

“Bed, bed!” the two boys shout, leaping to their feet and running around the pool. “Let’s go to bed!”

“Okay,” I say, shrugging. “Sorry Victor,” I say, turning to him. “Looks like the boys want to go home.”

“NO!” Ian shouts. “We can go to bed here! Dad has a BIG bed – we saw it upstairs! You said we could have a sleepover!”

“Yes, they should sleep here,” says Victor, eager to keep control.

“Bed! Bed! Bed!” The boys begin to chant, climbing on the ping pong table and hopping around.

“Boys, get down from there,” I say, anxious. I walk over and reach out my arms to lift them down.

“No!,” Ian shouts, an impish expression on his face. “You have to catch me first! And then we’ll go to BED!” Shrieking with laughter, he and Alvin leap from the table and fly by me, running around the pool.

“NO running!” Victor shouts, authoritative, expecting them to obey. The boys ignore him, laughing harder, jumping over lounge chairs and pushing floats into the pool.

“Boys!” I shout, using my best mom voice. It has no effect. I move towards the edge of the pool as they come around it, making a full circle. They’ll have to run right past me.

“Catch us! Catch us!” They shriek, dodging me and zipping by. I reach out as fast as I can, snatching at the tail of Ian’s shirt – missing – reaching for Alvin’s arm –

Suddenly, I feel my left leg go out from beneath me. I stumble sideways and gasp, seeing nothing but blue pool before me when – bam! I feel a strong arm around my waist, pulling me back and steadying me.

“Are you all right, Evelyn?” I gasp as Victor pulls me to him, holding me steady until I find my feet.

yes,” I say, brushing hair out of my face and looking around for the boys, avoiding eye contact as he

not,” Victor murmurs, finally

PLAY MARCO POLO!” and I spy a flash of him standing right behind Victor, hands up,

and we both topple, suddenly, helplessly, into the pool. I surface frantically, gasping for air, just in time to see the boys cannon

Ian!” I shout, full of rage.

I struggle to the side of the pool and support myself against the wall, trying to come up with a hasty plan

is standing in the shallow end about ten feet away, teeth fully bared, full Alpha asserting his authority over his pack. If he wasn’t soaking wet, he would

“You will come to heel. NOW.” The boys, silent, paddle towards him until they each stand at his side, up

under each arm, holding them still with absolute strength. “You boys,” he growls, “will learn to respect your Alpha, and to listen to me

raise my

his sopping dress shirt off over his head,

somehow gotten in better shape than he was five years

He turns to me and I blink, realizing suddenly that I’ve

and swimming over to the shallow end, where I pull off my pumps

over to all three. “That was unacceptable. You owe Victor and I an apology while

we discuss it, why don’t you two go wash off all this chlorine

“Walk!” I shout after them, “and no nonsense.” They obediently slow

myself off as best I can, grimacing

have a lot of energy and need a firm hand, like you said. They remind me…a lot of myself, when I

“You’re so…controlled, now. I have trouble thinking of you as wild,

think that you, of all people, could maybe think of a time when I was…impulsive.” At this, his eyes wander down my body and I look down at myself, realizing that my soaking dress reveals more of my figure beneath

my hair. Victor laughs behind me, not falling for it.

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