Chapter 21 Ethan Gots a Aath

Jane

If I didn’t know any better, I’d think it was five years ago.

I’m standing in the hallway with tears streaming down my face, feeling every bit as weak and powerless as I did when Ethan and I were married. How does this man always do this to me? Why do I fall for it every time? He wasn’t even sober! I was,

and he still got the better of me.

Stars, it makes me so angry. It isn’t fair. It isn’t right that I’m still helpless to resist him after all this time. I’ve been telling my self for years now that I’d be immune to his charms if we ever met again, that I’d learned my lesson the hard way and wouldn’t soon forget it. So much for that.

I’m still wallowing in my self-imposed misery when I hear a chair scrape across the floor on the other side of the door. Smashing the vase must have made too much noise and woken the pups. I know my sons, and I’m certain they’re currently clam bering onto the chair to spy on us.

I run off before they can see me crying, darting away down the stairs without a single thought for my ex-husband. It’s only lat er, after my senses return and logic sinks in, that I realize they’ll have seen Ehan and run for Linda. The knowledge keeps me away from the house for much longer than I would otherwise considered hiding. I can only pray that he’s gone by the time I get

home.

3rd Person

As soon as Jane ran away down the stairs, Ryder and Parker yanked the door open and rushed over to Ethan, looking down at him in confusion. The planter Jane smashed over his head lay in shards beneath him, the flowers it once held crumpled and crushed by his big body. His clothes were covered in dirt, still damp from being watered a few hours earlier.

“What happened?” Parker asked his brother, bending over the handsome alpha and studying him intently. “Why’d Mommy do that?”

“I guess she didn’ like the kiss.” Ryder shrugged forlornly,

“she seemed really sad.”

“I heard her and Auntie Linda talking the other day.” Parker

frowned, “parently Linda thinks Mommy should give Daddy ‘nother chance, so we can be one big family.”

“I want that too.” Ryder admitted, .

“Uh-huh,” Parker nodded in agreement, “but Mommy was

scared.”

Daddy?” Ryder exclaimed,

shared, “they moved ‘way afore

hear more.”

her, maybe

nightmares!” Parker rea soned, getting

him ‘nside.” Ryder suggested, brushing some

Ethan’s shirt. “Then Mommy will have to take care

him.”

Parker approved, bending down

of Ethan’s ankle.

to stand at his brother’s side, taking the Alpha’s other ankle in his small hands. “On three okay?” He instructed, “One,

boys grunted and strained with all their might, trying to pull the huge alpha into the house. Unfortunately even their bud ding shifter strength couldn’t budge the man, and

Parker assessed

we do?” Ryder

rubbed his chin thoughtfully, trying to figure out how they could possibly make their plan succeed. After a

their favorite toys, suddenly feeling very thankful they convinced Mommy to let them bring them on the trip. Returning to the hall, they worked together to heft

looking a bit stumped.

this

really dirty.” Parker observed,

“he needs a bath.

it’d probly be better if he’s clean

directing Ethan’s body

and leaving the Alpha knocked out for her spy ing pups to find. Tears banished, she was already on her way back upstairs

minat bathroom

they heard her footsteps outside the door, Ryder and Parker exchanged a startled glance and dropped the Alpha’s un conscious limbs like a pair of bricks,

her head. She wasn’t sure if she should be annoyed or proud. She would want any of her pups to help someone in a medical emergency, which they probably imagined this was, but

Linda standing over Ethan’s prone body with her arms crossed over her chest, looking perplexed. She looked up when Jane entered. “Do I want to

of mud her children left behind and moving

you

asked, lifting one

a low chuckle, “clearly my boys have been playing ‘search and rescue’.” She raised her voice to wards the bedroom door that she was sure they were listening behind. “And they better be back in bed and sound

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