The Alpha's Choice by Jacqueline Rhoades

Author:Jacqueline Rhoades
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: love story, wolfpack, romance paranarmal werewolves

Chapter 23

Kat awoke to the faint light of daybreak, the lump on her head a mere sore spot, her headache gone and Charles sleeping peacefully beside her. She stretched a bit, carefully so as not to awaken Charles and snuggled back under the covers. They'd had a long night and there was no reason not to catch a few hours more sleep. Then she remembered. The children were coming today!

There was so much to do. Bedrooms would need to be rearranged. She wanted the children settled and quickly, no shifting of bedrooms from here to there as the adults moved out. This was to be their home and she wanted them to see they were planned for and wanted. These children would need more than a teacher. They needed someone to love them as well.

They would no doubt feel lost and alone and frightened just as she'd felt when her father left her with a grandmother she barely knew. Grams' hugs and kisses had meant a lot to that nine year old girl. Poor as she was, she'd made sure Kat had a bed with a new and pretty pink coverlet to welcome her into her new home and that small gesture had made Kat feel wanted and welcome.

She carefully rolled to her side to slip from the bed, but Charles rolled with her and captured her waist, hauling her back, nuzzling her neck and hair.

"Go back to sleep," she whispered. "It's early and you need your rest. You've had a rough time of it. I'll send Buddy up with some breakfast later. You'll be starving after last night." She started to pull away and Charles tightened his grip. "Come on, Big Bad, I don't have time. The children will be here soon and they'll need me," she said quietly and tried again to pull away.

"I need you," he grumbled, pulling her closer. The hand at her waist began to roam. "Last night I thought I couldn't survive it, the crushing weight of it. That's what happens to an alpha who's not strong enough to carry it, you know, and I wasn't meant to carry it. My father knew that."

Kat relaxed back onto the bed and stared at the ceiling. They suffered from the same thing, she and Charles. She'd spent her whole life wondering why she wasn't good enough for her father's love. Why couldn't he stop drinking for Kat as he had for her mother? She remembered their quiet conversations. It was part of the code she hadn't been able to break as a child.

"You can do this, John. One day at a time," her mother would whisper when her father was in one of his sad and miserable moods. "Do this for me. One day at a time. I believe in you, darling."

John Bennett would cling to his wife like a drowning man. "I'd be lost without you, sweetheart," he'd say to her. "You are the Master of my fate, the Captain of my soul. You keep my sails to the wind.

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