Chapter 1: Chapter 1

"Good morning, darling," Chace woke me up, snuggling close to

my back. I smiled to myself and reached under the covers for his hand to clasp it tightly in mine.

"Good morning," I breathed happily, listening to the rain patter softly against the window.

Apart from the rain, I only heard his breath softly, which I could feel on the back of my neck like every morning and which gave me a wonderful tingling sensation in my abdomen again and again. This guy really blew my mind and has been for as long as I can remember.

Beaming with happiness, I turned to him and brushed the tip of my nose against his. That was our little morning ritual and there was nothing better than looking into his green eyes afterwards and forgetting the world.

He carefully brushed a strand of my brown hair away from my face and looked at me as if there was nothing more beautiful for him and it was the same for me. He was my everything.

"Are you excited?" he asked me quietly, holding his hand tightly over the spot on my chest where my heart was pounding evenly.

"No why?"

"Well, you're going to be godmother to two babies today, after all," he whispered, leaning over me so that my heart really started beating excitedly at that moment.

"It's going to go wrong," I smiled at him, wrapping my arms around his neck to pull him down to me. His hair fell slightly in his face and even if he preferred it freshly styled, it looked just perfect to me in the morning so messy.

As I gently stroked through her, he carefully laid down on top of me and slowly began caressing my neck. His soft lips against my skin just felt arousing and immediately I closed my eyes and relaxed lying under him.

I felt his naked upper body on mine and only my black bra prevented our bodies from touching completely. He gently kissed the way up to my ear and pressed his body tighter against mine, so I felt directly on my thigh that he was probably also quite excited and that brought me the usual racing heart again.

Full of anticipation for him, I faded out the rain and everything else and lovingly stroked his back. His excited humming penetrated my ear and I felt the warmth and the desire for him chasing through my whole body until I suddenly heard loud footsteps in the hallway, my heart skipped a beat and shortly afterwards the bedroom door was opened.

"Get up! You're not even dressed!"

Chace immediately dropped onto my body in frustration, growling to himself as I angrily pulled the covers over our bodies.

"Don't you have any decency at all!? It makes you think people change, but you're always the same idiot!" I hissed at Ethan, who didn't pay any attention to me and was about to rip all the clothes out of our closet.

"Say something, too," I turned to Chace, who was still lying on my chest and reluctantly got up.

"Next time, please knock," he spoke to the black-haired man and stood up, but he only turned around and gave us a stupid grin.

"Just be a little faster next time, Casanova."

He slapped Chace on the shoulder at his silly line, then pinned a white shirt to his chest.

"Now the plan is to get dressed instead of undressed. I'll wait outside."

Ethan walked out of the room, not even bothering to close the door behind him. Typical idiot.

"We should put in an alarm system," Chace joked, handing his fingers through his brown hair while all I could see was his toned torso.

"Or we can set up some bear traps," I grinned and Chace gave me his heartwarming laugh that got under my skin at how happy it made me despite this shitty situation.

He closed the door and came over to my bed and gave me a quick kiss on the forehead before taking an undershirt from the closet and putting it on. Since the prospect of cuddling was spoiled for me, I got up and ran to the closet to take out my black dress.

As I pulled it up over my body, Chace buttoned his shirt and watched me adjust the dress on me. His bedroom look just made me guess how sexy he found it on me. I smiled at him and then turned my back to him so he silently walked over to zip me up.

"I'm already looking forward to tonight," he breathed into my ear while hugging me from behind. I let my head fall back and was about to say something seductive back to him when Ethan burst into the room again.

"Ready?" he asked and I turned to him in bewilderment while Chace pulled away from me.

"Yes!" I growled softly. "I just have to go to the bathroom!"

I stomped past them angrily, heard Ethan's triumphant laughter and disappeared into the bathroom with a slamming door.

The day started well...

As I stood in front of the mirror and brushed my teeth, I couldn't stop getting mad at Ethan. So you thought he had a wife and child now and was getting on their nerves, but no, since the babies were born the pack had moved even closer together and my friend of all people was the alpha and our hut always had the gates for them idiots open.

Those were quiet weeks when they were out and about in their mobile home. I had Chace all to myself. Only Samuel dropped by every now and then and I preferred him a thousand times over to Ethan.

I rinsed my mouth, brushed my long brown hair and was about to get out when Chace walked into the bathroom. He didn't say anything, just gave me an amorous look while he smeared some toothpaste on his toothbrush. I smiled and then disappeared outside, where Ethan was pacing nervously in front of our cabin. At least the rain had stopped, otherwise he would probably have been soaked, but that wouldn't have bothered me.

"Why are you so stressed?" I asked him, standing next to him.

"Because I want everything to be perfect for Josephine."

"Aha," I gave him back briefly and then fumbled around with my dress.

"We can!"

I turned and looked straight into Chace's eyes as he walked towards me, beaming in his white shirt and black slacks, to lead me by the hand.

The three of us ran to the small church behind the market square and there everyone else was already standing and talking loudly.

Jo and Chiara wore dresses in the same shade of brown, and my brother also dressed up in his dark blue suit. Only Ludwig looked the same, because somehow he always wore this style with a linen shirt and trousers.

"There you are at last."

My brother walked towards us beaming with pride. On that day his daughter would officially be named Darya. I hated the name, but it was a cross between his and Chiara's, so I found it really cute at the same time.

Ethan and Josephine had named their boy Phileas. Not my cup of tea at all, but fortunately it wasn't my decision. I walked past my brother, who stayed with Chace and Ethan, and joined the girls, who greeted me happily and then talked about baby food and the like. It annoyed me that there was no other topic at all. After all, they all lived together in Chiara's house and one could probably demand that they would at least talk about something else when they were out with us.

I didn't bother with the two, but turned my gaze to the double stroller and smiled at my two godchildren, who were deeply relaxed sucking on their pacifiers and doing gripping exercises with their hands. As soon as I looked at the two of them and thought about having children myself, I was torn out of my daydream by Ludwig's voice.

"Here we go."

He went first into the little church, the girls followed with the strollers and I waited for Chace, only to enter last with the boys.

It was really nice in here, even if I never went to church very often before because it was mostly for the few people who lived here. I wasn't a real person and actually I should have believed in the moon goddess, but I just didn't want to and I lived quite well with my decision. Only the bitter thought of saying goodbye in front of my sweetheart made me doubt my decision at times.

While Chace stood next to Jayden and Ethan, I stood next to Jo and Chiara, who put Darya on my arm and looked at me expectantly.

Ludwig stood between us and started rambling on about something, but I sank into the ice-blue eyes of the little beauty in my arms and didn't notice anything until Chiara pushed me forward by the shoulders and Ludwig began to dribble individual drops over her forehead to permit. Luckily that was it.

I carefully handed the little one back to her mom and took a deep breath, ready to take Chace's hand again. As soon as I had these in mine, I was just fine and I felt like I belonged, which was otherwise denied to me because I didn't fit into any group anymore.

Neither to the girls, who had a different lifestyle than me because of their babies, nor to the pack that I had voluntarily rejected. That means I basically only had Chace by my side, which was enough for me, because he was my lifelong treasure of destiny.