*Time Skip To Graduating day*

Farrell’s P.O.V

I can’t believe that I am graduating today with the rest of my class! Everybody passed, but I did just like Connor said; I passed with flying colours so they asked me to hold a graduation speech. I was honoured; but didn’t know what to put on paper. I have been wrecking my brain for the right words, thinking about what happened to Matt and Missy, I felt like I had to say something about that too.

Connor picking up on my tension, he came over and started to rub my tensed shoulders, I let out a content sigh, feeling the tension leave my body. “Still thinking hard about the words you’re going to say at the speech?” his deep voice spreads warmth through my body, making me shiver. I snuggle into his heat as we watch the twin boys rolling around on the beach, since they are werewolves they mature quicker than normal people. Both of them were trying to build a sandcastle with their uncle Mike, but the damn thing kept collapsing on them. This didn’t damper the fun they were having. It was good to see Mike this happy; he was practically glowing. This seems to be a very common thing for happy mated werewolves, or at least so I have heard.

We decided to go to the beach with the whole graduation class; Connor and I got weird looks as we came to the beach with two young boys. It was obvious that they never have seen so many pretty people together, and to make things worse; some people started to hit on mated girls so we decided not to get too involved so we left the original beach and went to another one. Connor left getting some lunch, the boys were tired, so they came back and take a little nap, basking in the sun’s heat I close my eyes. Hearing a quiet laugh, I slowly opened one eye; I saw a young surfer, tall bronze skin, “Can I help you?” I asked, seeing as he wasn’t moving. Instead of answering me, he looked me up and down like he wanted to eat me. Then his eyes landed on Dermot and Brendan, who were curled up beside me. Licking his lips the surfer dude hunched down to my level “Yea you can.” trailing a hand along my arm. I growl lowly in my throat, not liking his touch or the way he speaks to me.

He looked surprised at the sound, but then Mike comes up with Connor in tow, “What do you think you’re doing punk?” he growls at the surfer. The surfer looks at me one more time before raising to his full height, “Enjoying the view. There is nothing wrong with that.” Connor narrows his eyes, “You can enjoy the view elsewhere, somewhere where my boyfriend isn’t in it.” he snaps. The surfer dude laughed, “YOUR Boyfriend huh? I hope you are ready to keep a close eye on him, because there are a lot of others who would want a piece of him, me included.” he made the mistake to sound cocky, Connor steps protectively in front of me, folding his muscular arms in front of his chest, smirks “I would take anybody on who is willing to try.” This grabs the attention from everybody else of our group; I sit up straight up “Connor don’t act stupid, this is not needed.” Silently adding Why on earth are you doing this? There is no need for this.

Snorting Connor replies This punk needs to know his place, you and the boys belong to me and no one else.  I roll my eyes, We know that, and we always will. The surfer dude looked in question from Connor to me and back, obviously he wasn’t following our silent conversation, and Mike and Alex came to back Connor up so they looked quite intimidating. Three muscular six foot something guys, all standing in front of me like they needed to block me from his view. I do understand that they feel very protective of me and the kids. So to make things worse the friends of the surfer dude came up to back him up, but they did look intimidated by Connor, Mike and Alex but were determent not to show it.

Sensing a fight coming on, I intervened coming up with a plan on the spot. Putting a hand on Connor’s chest, “Why don’t you have a surf contest? I don’t want you to fight or do something else stupid.” Turning to the surfer dude “Do you agree to this? If you do and lose you will leave me alone, and if you win I’ll…” I didn’t get the chance to finish, “Spend your remaining time with me and my friends.” Not acutely what I had in mind, but it will do, “Right, seeing as it is one o’clock I will spend time with you until ten tonight, that is IF you win fair and square.” I huffed, glaring at the surfer dude. Smiling he extended a hand towards Connor; “May the best man win.” Connor accepted and squeezed a bit hard seeing his reaction at the shake. Massaging his head he looked at me, “My name is Caleb, you better remember it.” he winked and walked off.

Groaning I turned to Connor, “You better win!” Mike rolled his eyes, “Of course he will win, if not everybody here will continue to rub it in his face that he lost to a mere human.” Alex nodded his head vigorously, “But we have to get Connor a board just as good as Caleb’s, and that’s going to be hard seeing as his is quite good and the rentals aren’t that good. But we will figure something out.” Always the cheerful optimist. Connor growled, of course he’s not happy with the situation but it’s the best for everyone.  As Alex scurries off to find Connor a surfboard we eat lunch in silence, Connor keeps a possessive arm around me the whole time, I don’t mind, in fact I love it. The boys woke up from their nap to the smell of food, and picked up on the tension between us.

They move restless on our bathing towel, not knowing how to handle the tension, until Alex comes back with a board looking quite similar to Caleb’s board. Connor was looking pleased, as he holds the board inspecting it for any bad signs. Not finding any he turns and says “I will see how it goes with this one.” and is off making a test round on the board. As Connor is making another round on his board Caleb comes back around and sees Connor on the board surfing. Looking slightly stunned I smile at him “I only thought that it would be fair that you would race an equally good surfer.” he looks slightly disgruntled at the news,  but doesn’t give up on his optimism, he looks down at the boys, they are playing in the sand again. “Are they really yours?” I look fondly at them, “Yes they are, they are mine and Connor’s.” if he believes me or not he doesn’t say, he can’t say as Connor comes jogging up the beach, with the board under his arm.

Connor raised an eyebrow at Caleb, “Are you ready for getting your ass kicked?” his smile was killer; it had everybody in the close range, with weak knees and most girls were close to fainting. Caleb feeling a challenge; just smiled and draped an arm around his shoulders and pulled him with him towards the sea and tell him what the course would be.

Feeling the tension raise again the boys crawled on my lap, very interested in what was going on between Connor and the other man. They were confused, about why daddy felt threatened by the man who smells different, I calmed them a little as I stroked through their hair. When Connor and Caleb both got into the water all of us, tensed and kept a close eye on Connor as the contest began, we even had a judge with binoculars to judge who was first and who was second. Not that we needed that, we all could see Connor clearly as he took the lead when they turned around to come back to the beach.

They were neck to neck at the last stretch, but Connor’s board was the first to cross the imaginary finish line first. We all cheered, and I felt relieved, I was save from the weird surfer. I could tell he was sad that he lost but he took it in stride, he smiled at Connor as he shook his hand, feeling a little sad for him I came over and kissed his check, as a consideration price I guess. He blushed but smiled and gave me a bear hug, and wandered off.

Connor’s strong arms wrapped themselves around me, turning me around and devoured my lips. I was breathless at the time we separated, flustered, but didn’t protest as he walked me off the beach towards the hotel room we stayed at. Mike followed us with the twins in his arms; Alex busied himself with returning the board to the shop he rented it from. Once inside our room Mike put the twins in the little pen, nods at us and leaves us alone.

I saw the look in Connor’s eye; he was going to eat me alive. It turned me on so bad, I shivered biting my lip as I grind my hips into his. Showing him I wanted him as much as he wanted me, if not more than I ever wanted anything in my life. For some reason I was scared that if Caleb won I would never see Connor or the boys again. It was a stupid reason, but it scared me none the less. Looking at Connor I saw the same fear and relief that I am still here with him. So Connor being Connor wasted no more time, grinding his fully erect cock into mine, making me press myself further into him. Connor was all over me, hands and mouth touching every piece of skin he could reach. It was like he was scared that if he didn’t keep touching me I would disappear on him.

That night we made love, it was slow and sweet, totally different from the sex we usually have. It was nice to take our time and fully explore each other like this; we both felt the need to keep touching each other to make sure the other won’t leave or disappear. I woke up to find the twins gone, and went into full panic mode, Babe relax they are with Mike and Ryan next door. Mike came up not long ago when we didn’t show for breakfast and took them down and left us here, they will be back soon.

Thinking back on everything that has happened I knew what to say in my speech. Connor sensed my happiness and pulled me closer to him, intending to go back to sleep. Unfortunately fate and the twins had other plans; Mike came in with two hyperactive boys babbling something in baby language. Mike still felt slightly uncomfortable, our scent was thick in the air and it had an effect on Mike. Good thing Ryan was there, because as soon as Mike put the boys back in the little pen, Ryan literally dragged Mike out of the room slamming the door on their way out.

We spent our last day in bed all day with the twins. I felt lazy because of our little rumble last night, Connor didn’t mind, he was moving around the room trying to pack our stuff in the bags. Every time he put something in the bag Dermot or Brendan pulled it back out. After a while Connor gave up and roughhoused around with the boys instead, when their nap time came, I helped Connor with the packing and by the time the twins woke up from the nap we were already half way home.  Stretching I smiled, our little vacation was a success; I felt both relaxed and happy.

We arrived home a few days before the graduation ceremony; I had put the last touches to my speech, read it again and nodded my head. It was exactly what I wanted it to be. Those last few days we were quite busy; we had to fit our caps and gowns, decide what to wear underneath, run a test trail with walking into the gym in a straight line according to our last name.

Finally graduation day was here and I was running around like a headless chicken, making sure everything was like it should be, practiced my speech until it was time to get dressed and move to the gym. Once in the car I groaned “I will be happy when this day is over.” Connor just smirked at me, “Yeah I want to start spending quality time with my family without any more interventions. Shaking my head, I remembered what happened at the beach and Connor had planned for us to go to the mountains once we were graduated and he became Alpha, we wanted one more family holiday before starting college. Seeing Connor like this made my heart swell and impulsively I kissed him. He was surprised; I never do something impulsively but he kissed me back with passion. We were snapped out our little world when his dad cleared his throat, “We are here, please keep it clean boys.” I blushed at the meaning, it meant I couldn’t kiss Connor anymore from here on out.

After what felt like an eternity it was time for my speech, I was called out by our principal she was a tall female with dark brown hair and a plain face. Swallowing hard, and a squeeze from Connor, I walked up the podium. Clearing my throat I started at my speech; “In the last two years I never once thought I would find that one person that would be there for me. I did and I didn’t and still don’t know how to handle the situation. I always hoped that everybody would find this one person, but for some it wasn’t as simple as that. I feel sad that Matt and Missy aren’t standing here with us today because they thought that they could force something that can’t be forced.” swallowing again I continued “What happened with Matt and Missy made me glad to realise that I have friends and family to confide in and tell my troubles to. It also opened my eyes to what could have happened if I didn’t continue going to school. Yeah in beginning of junior year I was seriously thinking of not going back to school because of Matt. In the end my friends convinced me to go and now here we are graduating and making the best of things. All there is left to say is CONGRATULATIONS CLEARWATER HIGH CLASS OF 2024!” People were quiet for a while before clapping and cheering, the rest of the graduation was a blur to me: I remember shaking a lot of hands, taking a lot of pictures.

*At their house in the mountains*

After putting our boys to bed, Connor wrapped me in his arms, “You were really thinking about dropping out after the Matt incident?” Letting out a breath rubbing my face in his chest “Yeah I really considered it, but Kate and Genesis, Kelley and Natasha convinced me to stay.” Tensing Connor pulled back a little to look me in my eyes “Why didn’t you tell me?” I could see the hurt in his eyes because I didn’t tell him. “I didn’t tell you because I was still coming to terms with being your mate and what happened to Matt and Missy. It wasn’t easy, but I am happy we stayed together.” I looked at the sleeping boys, “If we didn’t they wouldn’t be here.”

“Yeah, I am still trying to figure out how I couldn’t have seen that you were pregnant.” Connor puts his hand through his hair, shaking his head. I smile “Well it’s not every day a boy get pregnant, and you can learn from it for the next time.” he looks at me with huge eyes “Are you telling me you’re pregnant again?” I laugh out loud at his reaction “I am not sure just yet, need Doctor Carter to confirm it, but I am pretty sure we’re going to expect and other one.”

We were lucky that we were back in the living room with the crackling fire, and Connor sank down in the old sofa. He swallowed hard, “Are you sure? I really hope that if you are this means we won’t have sex for the coming nine months.” sitting down next to him “I know, that’s why I want to wait before telling anyone until I get the confirmation form doctor Carter.” Connor’s eyes softened as he looked at me, rummages in his pocket and pulls out a little velvet box, “Well then I guess it would mean we were supposed to be toghether that I have this huh?” and holds out the box to me.

Looking at him “Connor Lance Lawson are you asking me to marry you?” I do take the box and open the lid and gasp seeing the ring; it’s a beautiful golden band with a small sun and sword engraved into it. I thrust the box back in Connor’s hand and hold out my right hand “Do I need to put it on myself?” For a second he looked confused, but when he caught on he put the ring on my finger. Smiling I wrap my arms around his neck kissing hem passionately Of course I will marry you! You better be ready then to belong wholly to me and me alone. He linked to me as he slowly pulled me on top of him.

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Just one more Chapter left in this book!!!! It will be an epilogue, so please look forward to it!!!!