Twisting Her Fate
Chapter 155

The two children have already gone to bed, it has been a big day for them and they managed to get out of their day nap. When they were starting to fall asleep on their fathers shoulders is when they were finally talked into going to bed. Only once Astrid promised to stay with them. The two didn't want to leave their fathers side at all. The love the two already had for their father has grown exponentially after getting to spend time with the man, especially for Ace. Connor doesn't try to talk to him like he is a child, he spent time training him, he spent time reading to them, playing with building blocks, all of Ace's favourite things.

As Connor walks back into the room after the phone call, Leilani walks to his side threading an arm around his waist. She has not discussed this with anyone first but wants to discuss it as a whole group at the first announcement.

"I've been thinking about it and since we will all be venturing on to join the stormy pack as we were going to do all those years ago, the fusion pack will no longer have a live in leader. I will be the first to recommend Gabriel for the role. He is absolutely ready to run a pack again and he knows as much about fusion pack as the rest of us"

Leilani looks at Oscar, who has Aubrey sitting on his lap, and they're both sitting on the sofa.

"What do you think about that for an idea??"

The fusion pack originally was a present from their father, so she would feel wrong to just move it on without consulting first, especially since the original fusion pack is no longer around, it is their father's legacy. Oscar just raises his hands with his eyebrows raised and a slight smile on his face.

"This was dad's gift to you, Leilani. It is up to you who you want to run it, but I absolutely agree that Gabriel is ready and I know he will do a good job"

Leilani looks at Gabriel who is sat in the group. A beer clutched in one hand and a look of surprise plastered on his face.

"What do you think? Gabriel, I know it isn't anywhere near as prestigious as the half moon pack, nor is it as big as the half moon pack and I'm not exactly sure what your plans are, but I really think you could do well here. It would be a challenge. You would have to recruit members and you would be starting with an empty place, but you could leave all your father's teachings behind you. You could start fresh and start how you want to start?"

"You would trust me with such a thing?"

"Why not? I really couldn't think of a better person"

Gabriel stands and walks forward, embracing Leilani. Connor watches on slightly uncomfortably as he doesn't really know the new Gabriel, he just has to take Leilani's word for it, he is not jealous. He just doesn't want anything bad to happen and when a man that has tried to hurt her before, tried to kill his offspring is in such close proximity, he has to suppress his wolf. Connor wants this occasion to be celebratory and not go all alpha wolf on everyone.

"Thank you so much Lani, you really don't know what it means to me"

Lani smiles as she pats his back.

"Wasn't I just saying the same thing to you earlier?"

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guess you were"

"I am proud of you Gabriel"

Gabriel backs away from the embrace quickly, not wanting to push Connor too much. He has never felt possessiveness like Connor would feel toward Leilani but he can understand it.

Connor nods and pats Gabriel on the shoulder. The last meeting of the two alphas was far from civil, but now there is a mutual understanding and Gabriel's actions in this moment starts to build a mutual trust.

Connor wraps his arms around Leilani and leads them toward the small bar that is in the corner of the room.

"Even though I am sure I drank way too much before I had the time of my life in a filthy alley with the girl of my dreams, I feel like we have to celebrate this moment"

Leilani walks behind the bar to mix some drinks for everyone. Connor just sits on a bar stool watching her, everything that this woman does is flawless, every movement is beautiful. It is hard to believe that only twenty-four hours earlier he was sitting on a bar stool thinking that his life was over.

Now he is sitting on a bar stool knowing that his life is only truly beginning. Leilani places twenty glasses up on the bar that people can just help themselves to, the alcohol is flowing and there is no one that is not in a good mood. Leilani not being with Connor put a strain on everyone, having that command over them was hard on everyone, no one more than Terrance and, by association, Levi. The girls have realized that there was such a big part of Leilani's life that they just didn't know about at all. Every single person is feeding off the joy of the newest fated couple, there is so much history there, so much lost time, there has been so much pining.

But now that they are together, there is no regret over misunderstandings because the past doesn't matter now, what matters now is their future together and what it will bring.

The whole elite group is buzzing because they wanted that life that the stormy pack could provide them, while they are always happy with wherever they are as long as they are together, the possibilities and the normalcy that will be opened up for them now, being able to give their mates a true happy pack life, something that not a single one of them has actually ever had before. Opportunities for more friendships, for work, the possibilities that will be provided are endless.

Leilani walks toward the bar to grab some more drinks and when she walks back, Connor pulls her straight down on his lap, Leilani lifts the glass of whiskey to his lips and Connor takes a tentative sip.

Leilani raises the glass to her own lips and takes a look around the room over the brim of the glass. Her stormy blue eyes are searching the room and Connor only watches her. The others are busy talking and laughing, the music is low and the mood is exuberant. Leilani takes the glass from her lips, the condensation caused by the ice in the glass gathering and getting ready to drop, Leilani casually tilts her head slightly and brushes the cold glass against her neck and runs it down her smooth flesh until it reaches the only flaw in her perfection, but it is the most beautiful flaw of all.

Connor watches everything, his tongue moving out of his mouth as she watches her s*ductive motion, seeing that mark, his mark on her flesh, seeing that thing that he has wanted for so long, seeing it real and right in front of his face does things to his body, seeing the way the icy cold water runs over that mark and then runs down the valley of her cleavage.

Leilani just looks like she is deep in thought as the glass runs over the burning hot piece of flesh over and over again. Connor cannot stop staring, his steel gray eyes are transfixed.

"I was just thinking that I haven't even marked you back yet"

Connor's voice is so deep and so throaty, he doesn't even look up at her face, his whole attention is on the glass, the same backward and forward motion, on the droplets of water sitting on her tender flesh.

"I had noticed my incredibly bare shoulder"

Leilani runs a finger in under his chin, tilting his head up so that his eyes finally meet hers.

"Did you want me to change that?"

"Anywhere, any time"

Leilani smiles and licks her lips.

"I was hoping you would say that"

Connor watches with wide eyes as Leilani's canines extend.

"What are you doing?"

Leilani places a finger against his lips.

"Shh"

Leilani moves his shirt and her teeth pierce his skin. Connor closes his eyes, keeping in all the sounds that he wants to make in this moment as their true bond forms, in this one single moment, Leilani loses the bond with the fusion pack and becomes the true luna of the stormy pack. The true link is set between the two, the sparks increase, the scent increases, the flood of her thoughts and emotions all hit him at once. While this is going on all the friends that are surrounding them have no idea what is happening, a private moment between two in a room full of people. Connor should have known that Leilani would make a move so bold, it is actually perfect for her.

He doesn't even care, both their marks were done strangely and not how he ever would have pictured it, but he doesn't care, because their bond is complete.

He is hers.

Leilani retracts her canines and licks the wound sealing it, sitting back up to look at Connor's face as his eyes flicker open the steel gray is gone. All that remains is pitch black.

"Opps"

Her voice is so innocent but her eyes tell a different story. The glass runs once more over the mark on her shoulder as Connor stands up, picking up Leilani and throwing her over his shoulder. He turns to the others in the room. "We will be getting to bed now. I will see you all in the morning"

Connor turns on his heel, not even giving them a chance to answer at all. He doesn't see the knowing nods or hear the giggles from the girls, he doesn't see the victorious smile on Leilani's face as he moves quickly towards the stairs, giving Leilani's a*s a hard smack.

"Opps"

Connor's voice was nothing like Leilani's the word coming out as a growl. Leilani just laughs as her wandering hands move up under Connor's shirt, touching those sculpted muscles as Connor takes the stairs two at a time.