Page 134 of Broken Souls

“I ate just as much as you and I'm not groaning.” I chuckle.

“You just had a baby so you need to replace all that weight with food.” Axe closes his eyes sleepily.

“That's not how it works.” I laugh but rest my head on the couch, both of us falling asleep.

***

I wake up and groan as I stretch out my stiff neck. Axe is in an even worse sleeping position than I was.

“Axe.” I shake his shoulder to wake him up. He jerks as he wakes up.

“Ugh why did we sleep on the couch?” Axe groans, grabbing his neck.

“Let's go to bed. I think we've eaten enough for the day. We can just relax.” I pull on Axe's hand and we tiredly walk to our room.

I look to see Cash sleeping. Axe stands over the cot and stares down at Cash with a sleepy smile. I get comfortable under the blankets and Axe joins me, wrapping his arm around my stomach and holding tightly. I sigh contently. Being in his arms feels amazing. It's still strange to me the way he's angry and then back to himself. It's strange that I'm crying from his outburst one moment and lying comfortably in his arms not long after. I don't think I'll ever understand the storm that is Axe and me, but at least I can say my life will never be boring. However, you know what they say; after every storm is a rainbow. Hopefully the storm has passed and the rest of my life with Axe will be a rainbow.

Chapter Eighty-Two

Olly, Ryleigh and I are in a bridal store. Olly and Brian have set a date for their wedding and it's coming up quick so Olly wants the dresses sorted today.

“What colour?” Ryleigh asks as she looks through the dresses on the rack.

“Baby blue,” Olly says with certainty.

“Have you already got your dress?” I ask.

“I've found a few online that I like.”

Olly shows us pictures of the dresses she likes on her phone while we wait for the woman in the store to bring out all the baby blue dresses the store has. Olly tells us to try them all on to see which she likes best. We try them on and model for Olly. She ends up choosing one with a thin diamond belt around the waist, off the shoulder straps and a little bit of a flow to the bottom of the dress.

We go for lunch after she buys the dresses. We discuss the wedding and what's been planned already. They are having a garden wedding in one of the fanciest gardens in town. Then their reception is at a club. The colour theme is white and blue. The wedding is in two months.

“Elora, how are things with Axe?” Ryleigh asks.

“The past couple weeks have been good. Since Joel's death, Axe has been carefree. I think Axe feels that nothing will get in the way of us now.”

I have to say Joel's dead to them too. Only Dash, Jayceon, Levi and I know he may possibly be alive. But considering how badly injured he was, he's most likely dead.

“I don't think I'll ever get used to how easily you werewolves talk about death,” Ryleigh says.

“Neither will I. I told Brian to keep all his pack business to himself,” Olly says. “It must be shit for you. You're the luna so you have to know everything.”

“Yeah, but it's worth it to be with Axe.”

We girls spend the next few hours helping Olly set the wedding into a defined plan. We all go back to my house where the guys are waiting for us. Axe is sitting in the middle of the couch holding Cash while Brian and Dash are sitting on either side of him. They seem to be gushing over Cash like women do about babies.

“How is Cash?” I ask, setting my purse down on the couch while the girls sit down.

“He's a mummy's boy. It took me forever to get him to stop crying,” Axe says. I chuckle.

Brian and Olly break off into their own conversation and discuss the wedding. I watch Axe holding Cash. I could watch that forever; it's such a pure sight.

“Dash,” Ryleigh calls, snapping him out of his trance. I notice Dash staring a little long at Cash. I think he's ready for kids but I don't think Ryleigh is.

***

Our friends leave after dinner. Axe sends them on their way while I'm upstairs, settling Cash in his cot for the night. I've decided to be intimate with Axe tonight, just not in the way he's thinking. Since he's downstairs cleaning the kitchen, I grab the lube and set it on the nightstand and put on one of my sexy nighties. I sit on the bed and wait for Axe to come in. When the door opens, Axe's eyes fill with excitement as he stares at my red nightie.