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Chapter Eighty-Seven: Family
Ryan
I followed Jason and Tillie into the formal dining hall. It was the same space that we had talked to her father in earlier. I could tell
that being in here made Tillie nervous from the way that she kept looking around the room, her shoulders down slightly like she
was waiting for the boogyman to jump out at her. Tillie left the room, making the excuse of fixing up our plates. Jason had
followed with Gideon hot on his heels.
When he had all entered the kitchen earlier, it had been pretty obvious that the table in there would have been a tight fit for all of
us. Jason had suggested coming in here, but I wished that we could stay in the kitchen. There was just something about the
space that felt right, like it was made for those moments together that the other room lacked.
The table, though, wasn’t big enough.
It was a small wooden table that looked well used and would be the perfect size for intimate dinners between Tillie and her
parents. But not for all of us. We would have been crowded close together and though we wouldn’t mind it, if her parents showed
up there would be no place to join us. The last thing we wanted to do was make them feel like we didn’t want them
around.
I was looking forward to the day when Tillie’s dad thought of us as part of his family. I knew that Travis wanted that, too. That it
He and Maddison weren’t close and I couldn’t blame him. She didn’t seem like she would be easy to love, much less like. It was
his sister though, so I knew I was going to need to learn to get along with her for him. His parents weren’t around and family was
something that he craved.
Tillie, Jason, Gideon, and I, we could give that to him. It wasn’t a traditional family but that didn’t bother me and from how he
acted; I knew that he already thought of Tillie and me as family. I had seen it in the way that he had protected her today, the way
that he had protected me and Gideon.
With me, I knew it was because he was mated. Gideon though, I knew it was because he was Tillie’s. It had been hard for him to
accept that he was going to have to share, but once he did, he was all in and nothing was going to change that. It was just how
Travis was and it was something that I loved about him. :
It was harder for me to accept that she was taking another mate. I hadn’t wanted her to. I was already sharing her with my best
friend and Travis. It had felt like too much, but when I had seen that spark of fire in her eyes when she talked about him.
How she had said she knew that she was his mate. I knew that I couldn’t tell her no, just like I couldn’t tell Travis and Jason that
they couldn’t be with Tillie.
The only other option would have been death. He was an omega and when I’d heard that; I had known that I was going to suck
up my feelings about it and I was going to make sure that he was safe. Because he was Tillie’s and at the end of the day, if he
got hurt it would hurt her.
He wasn’t like us. This man was delicate, his wolf had been just as gentle when I had seen him in the woods. The caregiver in
me had known in that moment that he needed someone to take care of him. He wouldn’t have made it on his own, not with that
beast on his trail. He was too soft and I knew that he wouldn’t have survived the mating and claiming with Jamison.
That beast had been too close to going feral when I’d put myself in front of him. Blocking the smaller wolf from the tawny wolf
who was out for.blood. Travis told me of how he had. turned feral on them.
How he and Jason had taken him down like they had so many others, my heart hurt for him. I couldn’t imagine what it was like to
turn feral, but I was glad that they hadn’t let him hurt the omega. My family was safe.
Travis helped me sit down at the big formal table and I nodded my head in thanks. I hated that I was having to lean on him so
much, but my body ached so much that even my bones hurt.
Travis was an alpha, but he was mine. He called me daddy and while I knew he meant it to tease me.
I was going to look after him and take care of him. Because it’s who I was and he was mine, just like Tillie. Just like Jason and
now Gideon. The relationships were all different, but that didn’t matter. They were mine and I was going to do everything that I
could to keep them safe.
We were endgame. We were family.
I had meant it when I said it earlier, but I’d been worried that seeing Tillie with Gideon would be too much for my beast. When we
found them in the shower together, I had let out a sigh of relief.
My beast didn’t want to hurt him for touching her. I just hoped he would be okay with his brother touching her if that’s what was
going to happen, because I knew that I couldn’t tell her no. She was my baby girl, and everything in me wanted to spoil her.
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