Galen's POV

"Charlie, are you werewolf, too?"

Yuki's sweet voice murmurs above me. Charlie turns around to smile at him, walking backwards.

"Nope! I'm a vampire!" He exclaims brightly. Yuki's hands go down to my head, now gently petting my head, scraping his claws gently over my scalp. I sigh in contentment. What am I going to start doing now, purr?

"Whassat'?" Yuki asks. The forest is getting less dense as we go on. I see the pack house coming up in front of us. I stop and turn to Damian.

"We need to get clothes to cover him," I tell him. Because I certainly am not letting him be seen naked without being officially mated to us. He nods and starts looking around the tree bases to look for clothes we put down for people who shift and rip their clothes. Charlie and Yuki continue talking as Damian shifts the leaves and looks into tree hollows.

"I'm a creature that drinks blood to survive. But don't worry Yuki, I'd never bite someone as cute as you," Charlie continues. Yuki's giggles above me.

"But Charlie is cuter! I love your hair! Is pretty!" He shouts, wiggling his body and making me sway.

"Woah, Yuki! Yuki, stop!" I exclaim while holding his legs closer to my chest. Yuki freezes and leans his head over mine to look into my eyes.

"Ah, sorry Gale," he murmurs sheepishly with smile. He sits up on my shoulders once again.

Charlie is staring at us from where he stands. His arms are crossed and one of his fingers pressed to his lips. God help us all. That's his thinking face.

"Yuki, I could make your hair look great. We'd just need a straightener, a curler, a hair brush, some product," he whispers to himself. "And I could trim and shape your claws and put you into some slimming clothes. Comfortable ones, of course. He's probably not going to want to wear uncomfortable ones. Get some teeth whitener. Definitely wash you in a bath... fuckin' twins don't know how to think correctly. He's been living in the woods, for godssake. Poor thing needs a bath. Okay! It's decided! I'm gonna' take Yuki and make him look sexy. You boys go talk to your father." Charlie crouches and jumps over my head, grabbing Yuki off my shoulder as he goes. He carries Yuki bridle-style, which looks awkward due to Charlie being as short, if not shorter, as Yuki.

He grips Yuki tightly and speeds off using his vampiric powers to boost us speed. Damian comes from between two trees. He looks at me, then at the surrounding area. He looks just as confused as I.

"Uh, where's Yuki? And Charlie?" He asks me.

I stare into his eyes. "Charlie had a revelation. And then he stole Yuki and ran off to make him look sexy. And yes, Yuki did not have clothes on," I tell him. Charlie wouldn't let people see him naked. I'm sure of it. Damian opens his mouth, then closes it. He nods.

"Okay. I guess we're supposed to go talk to dad, then?" He asks me. I shrug. We start walking back.

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"Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad."

I repeat this while knocking consistently on his door to his office. His footsteps resound loudly as I continue repeating and knocking. The door flies open.

"What?!" He opens his door with an angry expression.

"You wanted to talk?" I ask brightly. He sighs heavily.

"Yes. Please come in."

Damian and I step into his office.

The first thing I notice is that there are two other people in the room, my father's beta and gamma.

Samuel Farlen is the beta of our pack. He's our second in command and is the father of my best friend, Sammy. He has a beautiful wife named Kate. She used to be one of my mom's best friends. The wife of our gamma, Gabrielle also used to be one of my mom's best friends. Our gamma, Spencer, and Samuel helped my father through the loss of our mom. Their wives helped Damian and I, as our father was inconsolable. I don't blame him though. He lost his mate. I can't even imagine what I would do if I lost Yuki or Damian.

Spencer smiled as we walked in. He stood from his seat and walked over. "Boys! I feel like we haven't seen each other in ages. Vizin finally wants to tell us what's going on," he shouts while strangling us in a hug. I laugh and Damian wheezes out a faint "help".

Dad laughs at our predicament and sits down behind his desk. "Spencer let them go and sit so I can tell you what's going on." Spencer laughs and releases us.

I push Damian to sit in the last chair and sit on his lap. He wraps his arms around my waist and we wait patiently to see what dad has to say. Spencer and Samuel look over at us with their mouths open. I smile at them and wave. Dad smiled at us and faces his friends.

"This is what I wanted to talk to you about. Damian and Galen have found their mate," Dad says bluntly.

Spencer falls out of his chair. Samuel sits there with his mouth still open. There's silence. Then Samuel speaks up.

"So that's why they've been closer? Why hasn't the pack met their mate?" Samuel asks my dad. Dad sighs and looks over to my brother and I. He stares at us for a few seconds.

"Alphas are required to keep certain things secret, like the existence of certain creatures. There's a type of shifter that is supposed to be secret, but that's unavoidable now that Damian and Galen's mate is one of them. There's not really anything else to do. I thought you two, as my beta and gamma, should know first," he says.

Spencer is back in his chair when he speaks up. "What kind of shifter are they?"

"A cat shifter. Werecat. Whatever you'd like to call them. There's a dark past that I don't really feel like going into detail about, so I'll just say that there is one. I plan to introduce Yuki to the pack, if that's okay with Yuki and Damian and Galen," he says, directing the last part to my brother and I.

I shift my position on Damian's lap. "Were fine with it, along with Yuki. Charlie already told us. Then he took Yuki to, and I quote, make him look sexy," I tell dad. Damian tightens his grip on my waist.

"Well, I'm happy for you two. You deserve it. I also think you're adorable like this," Spencer says to us. Samuel nods as well. He's always been a man of few words. I turn my head to Damian and smile at him.

"I guess we'll go check on Yuki and Charlie. Thanks, dad," Damian says, standing up with me. Dad nods and motions with his head to the door.

I walk ahead of Damian and open the door to go out. Before I make it out, Dad winks at me and wiggles his eyebrows. I scoff and roll my eyes, moving out into the open, empty hallway. Just as I turn to say something to Damian, the sound of the door shutting softly resounds and I'm pushed against the wall.

I open my mouth to shout but before I can, Damian's mouth covers mine. My eyes widen in surprise as I'm left staring at Damian's eyelids. They slowly close on their own accord as I relax into the kiss.

He pushes my arms up above my head and pins me against the wall. As his lips move against mine in a harsh way, a soft, breathy moan leaves my mouth. I thrust my hips onto the thigh he wedged between my legs, causing a growl to escape his mouth. His tongue pushes into my mouth with his lips continuing their assault on mine. I push back against his tongue in a fierce fight that I know I'll lose.

I never expected to be the submissive one in a relationship.

His hips push harder against mine, his mouth moving more harshly than before, as I jump up and wrap my legs around his waist. We're both growling and moaning in a battle of lust and stubbornness to not lose the fight.

It doesn't register that we're in the hallway or that my father and his next-in-commands are in the room next to it. The only thing on my mind is an urgency to be fucked. Hard.

I am just using my foot to push down the hem of his pants when we're interrupted by a loud scream.

"YUKI!"

Damian and I both release each other and run in the direction of Charlie's scream.

We sprint down the hallway and go down the stairs into the e try room to see Charlie running past us as naked as the day he was born.

Naked males should not run. Especially if they're going to let their dick flop every which way.

Damian and I slide to a stop and observe the scene before us.

Charlie is chasing Yuki around the entry room, both of them buck-ass naked. Although I recall telling myself that Charlie wouldn't let people see Yuki naked.

Pack members are standing around laughing at the sight. Somehow, Yuki is evading Charlie's vampiric speed and is bouncing off the walls—literally bouncing off the walls—as Charlie slips on the floor that was wet due to them dripping water all over the wood. Obviously, Charlie was giving Yuki a bath before this.

I never even thought of bathing Yuki. I just thought Yuki was clean enough. Wow. Having a mate sure does cloud my judgement.

Yuki slides to the side and bounds over to where my brother and I stand. He crouches and jumps up and clings onto my body. I wrap my arms around his back and over his butt to hide his nudity and turn around to give Charlie my back, as it looks like he's not going to stop or slow down just because Yuki is in my arms.

Yuki wraps his legs around my waist and clings to me just as Charlie slams into my back and wraps his lanky limbs around my falling body. Just when I'm about to hit the floor, Damian grabs onto my shirt and stops me.

Oh, what a sight we must make right now.

Damian slowly pulls me back up so I'm standing again. I just now hear the loud guffaws of laughter behind me, which obviously is the number of pack members who grew in size since this ordeal started.

My brother removes Charlie from my back and I turn around. Charlie sassily crosses his arms, completely unashamed of his nudity. He glares at the bundle of adorable kitty cuteness in my arms, which is squirming to get closer to me by the second.

"Gale! Gale! Save Yuki! Charlie tried force me into water!" He whimpers, somewhat desperately, into my neck. I sigh and look to Damian. He's staring at Yuki with a glint in his eyes. A glint that says 'shit he's cute'.

I look back down to Yuki and say in the gentlest tone I can manage, "Yuki, baby. You need a bath. Would it make you feel better if Damian and I were with you?"

There's a moment of stillness before he slowly nods. I sigh in relief and look to Charlie, who still stands there glaring. I clear my throat call his attention to me. His eyes flick up to mine.

"What?" He snaps. I raise my eyebrow. He rolls his eyes, softening his stance until his arms are by his side. "Nobody's in the bath. I threatened to pull everybody's dicks off until they got out."

Damian raises his eyebrows. Charlie looks offended. "What? Okay, fine, I threatened the females, too, you damn feminist," he snaps out. Damian sighs.

"I'm not a feminist and I wasn't incredulous about the fact that you threatened to castrate only the men. I'm weirded out because of your sick personality that I still haven't gotten used to it from the day I've been born," he says. Charlie smirks in retaliation.

"My personality isn't sick, it's fabulously healthy. Perks of being a sexy vampire," he smarts off.

I turn away from them and walk to the enormous bath that everybody shares. I walk into the steamy room and shed my pants and underwear as Yuki slides out of my arms and onto the floor with his tail flicking at the steam. He eyes the bath in trepidation and grabs my hand when I finish shedding my clothes. I smile at him and walk him to the step that leads into the bath.

He slips his big toe in to test the water before putting one whole leg in. I follow closely behind and hear Damian shedding his clothes behind me. Then I hear Charlie's light steps pat into the bathroom and see the following splash from him jumping into the water. Yuki squeals and clings onto me, pressing his body against mine.

Yuki, I say in my head, that's not a good idea unless you'd like to consummate the mating right now.

Yuki sits on the step as Damian and I follow. Charlie sits across from us and stares.

"How the hell did he come peacefully with you when I had to bodily throw him and hold him in?" He snarks. Damian takes a deep breath from beside me.

"Probably because you threw him into the water and held him in it," Damian bluntly says to Charlie.

Charlie tilts his head as if considering it and nods.

"I guess that makes sense."

There's a peaceful silence before Charlie stands and walks over to the stereo. He messes with the public iPod on the shared Spotify premium account that the entire pack can use and picks something to play. He sets it down and walks back over to the bath, giving it enough time to start playing.

Less than three is just a tease

Send those nudes, make me drool

Hit me up - make me cum

Wanna sext? I'll show you so-

Damian scrambles up and turns it off just after the fourth verse as a put my hands over Yuki's ears, which is probably super ineffective. I take my hands off his ears after it turns off. Charlie sits, smirking his ass off across from me. Yuki sits silent for a few moments before-

"What's sext?"

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