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.”

Ryder exclaimed,

“they moved ‘way

hear more.”

“we have ta help her, maybe we can show her she doesn’ need ta be

she does for us when we have nightmares!” Parker rea soned,

Ryder suggested, brushing

Mommy will

him.”

idea!” Parker approved, bending down

of Ethan’s ankle.

side, taking the Alpha’s other ankle in his small

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,

big!” Parker assessed

we do?” Ryder

trying to figure out how they could possibly make their plan succeed. After a moment the answer came to him like a lightbulb jolted with electricity, “our

grabbed 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 Ethan’s limbs onto the three skate boards, then quietly rolled him into the house and

Ryder questioned, looking a bit

thought this

dirty.” Parker

concurred, “he needs a bath.

better if he’s clean when she

directing Ethan’s body to wards the

for the boys, Jane had already thought better of running away and leaving the Alpha knocked out for her spy ing

minat bathroom

they heard her footsteps outside the door, Ryder and Parker exchanged a startled glance and dropped the Alpha’s un

landing she immediately noticed that Ethan was missing, as well as the muddy skateboard tracks leading into the house. “Oh boys.” She sighed, shaking 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

with her arms crossed over her chest, looking perplexed. She looked up when Jane entered. “Do I

trail of mud her

Lowe you a

skateboards?” Her friend asked, lifting one of Ethan’s

chuckle, “clearly my boys have been playing ‘search and rescue’.” She raised her voice to wards the bedroom door that she was sure they

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