SEARCHING FOR A MATE - Season 8 Episode 74

Trinity

To say that the looks on the faces around me were stunned was an understatement. The pack members and the people from werewolf and magic user kingdoms were looking at me with their mouths hanging open in shock. Even my friends, family and guards looked like they couldn’t believe what I had just said.

I turned to look at my children and my mate, who were standing around me. Talia was smiling happily. I think she was just always happy, especially since her mommy woke up. Reagan and Rika were just fine too. They didn’t think it was wrong of me to have told them. They just wanted to get things moving. I think they wanted cake.

Reece was the one that I needed to be worried about. What was he going to think about me telling everyone the truth? What was he going to think about me spilling these secrets to all of them? Hopefully, he didn’t get angry at me.

When I turned to look behind me, into Reece’s eyes, I saw that he was smiling at me too. He wasn’t upset. He wasn’t scared about the consequences. He was just smiling.

…..

“I knew you were going to do that.” He laughed a little. “You couldn’t bear for them to continue living with a lie. They needed to know where their queen was.”

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“You’re not mad?” I asked him, shocked to see that he was so easygoing about it.

“No, I’m not. I mean, we will need to deal with some people wanting to get more answers and all of that. But, you don’t need to do anything about that. Noah, and the others can handle it. They will see to it that there is no hysteria or anything like that.”

“Good.” I smiled at him and then turned back to the people that were watching me. “I am sorry, all of you.” This time my voice was loud for all of them to hear instead of whispering for Reece. “I didn’t mean to bring down the mood. I just wanted you all to know the truth. I was in the underworld. I literally made it through hell and now I am back. I am back and better than ever. And soon, all of us are going to be so much happier to welcome Zachary Aaron Gray, Zander Ian Gray and Zayden Issac Gray. And then, I do believe that our not so little family will be complete. At least for a while.” I grinned. Being immortal meant that I could have another baby in a hundred years if I wanted to. That was the benefit and joy of that.

“WHOOO!”

“YEAH!”

“QUEEN TRINITY!”

“SHE IS SO AMAZING!”

“SHE TOOK ON HELL AND IS STILL THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN EVER!”

“YEAH!”

“SO CUTE! BABIES ON THE WAY! THE NAMES ARE JUST SO AMAZING!”

“WHOO! WHOOO!”

“GO QUEEN TRINITY!”

The cheers had started up again. Apparently, they all thought that their queen was somehow amazing for having taken on the underworld. They didn’t know what had happened there, and in truth most of the people around me didn’t know, but they were just happy that I went and made it back.

Oh, not to mention, I did reveal the names of the boys to everyone here. That was major as well. We usually didn’t reveal the names like this, but I felt like they all deserved a special treat at the moment.

During all the commotion, my guards and family came running up onto the stage. Dietrich was in the lead and came to give me a hug first. As tall as he was (still shorter than Reece though) he didn’t mind crouching down just so that he could get a good hug with me.

“You look beautiful, meine Schwester.” He was always so sweet.

“Since when did I become your sister, Dietrich?” I asked him with a laugh.

“Since I declared it so, Trinity. Do you have a problem with that?” He laughed at me as he stood up.

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“No, I do not. That just makes Shawn my brother as well. Oh, and I guess Shane too. And let’s not forget about David and Vincent. All of you will be my brothers. And I couldn’t be happier about that.”

“At least you have some sisters in there too then.” Falena came to hug me next. “If you have to have my numb-skulled husband for a brother, then you need all the sisters you can get.”

“Baby!?” Shane laughed at her as he pushed her aside for a hug next. “I am not a numb-skull.”

“I don’t mind being Trinity’s sister. My kids have thought of her as their aunt for years.” Heather hugged me next.

“I am good with more family.” Rawlynne came up next. “And who better than the queen herself.”

“Let’s not forget about my wife, Lana. She is a sister to Trinity as well.” Griffin walked up onto the stage with his wife then.

“Can I be your sister too?” Ella ran up onto the stage with Devon. “I want to be sisters with my best friend too.”

“Don’t forget about her actual sister in laws.”

“Yeah, we’re her sisters first.” Emmalee and Nikki ran up beside me then.

“Uh uh, she is my sister first. I am her best friend. I am her truest of all sisters.” Juniper’s voice was filled with laughter, but I knew she was being serious.

“Me too!” Acacia was running toward us all.

“Hey, I count as a brother too.” Landon was running onto the stage with his mate Ava. “And that means she is your sister.” He was always happy when I saw him now. He and his wife had been together since the battle with the Fae and they had two children now, Logan and Amelia.

“She has a big family. Lots of aunts and uncles for those kids of hers.” Trevor was laughing as he came up with Aunt Glory. She looked like she was about to pop, but Trevor was carrying her like a baby in his arms. “Though some of the family dynamics get a little muddled at times.” He winked at me knowing that he was like a brother to me but also like my great great great great uncle because he was married to my great great great great aunt. It was not easy to figure out.

I loved having all of these people around me, but I didn’t know why they had all come up here.

“What is going on? Why did you all run up here?” I was laughing at them and their excited behavior.

“We all just love you and really missed you, Trinity. This is the first time that you have left the royal tower in months, and we wanted to mark this occasion.” Mom was smiling as she came up next. Dad was with her along with Lila, Grandfather, Noah, Carter, Athair mòr and Daciana.

“We wanted to get everyone who counted themselves as your family together and take one large picture before the babies got here. And we will do it again after they come.” Dad was explaining things to me that I didn’t know they had planned. “They all want to be in this with you, and I don’t blame them.”

“You guys?” I was on the verge of tears. “OK, then I want to have a really big portrait made so that I can hang it up. I want to be able to show off my family, all of them.”

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“I think that a lot of us would be wanting a copy of this picture.” Riley said, the last one to make it on the stage with his wife Katie.

After that, all of us gathered around, with me in the middle. The picture was a big one and the photographer, who happened to be a pack member, took it in many different ways at first. There was a panoramic photo, a photo from a high vantage point, a super wide angle lens photo, and a couple of more. I couldn’t wait to see how they turned out so that I could pick one to be made into a portrait for my wall.

Finally, now that everyone was done with their little excitement, it was time for us to start enjoying the baby shower. And the first thing that I wanted was the same thing that I wanted at my first ever baby shower. I wanted to get some food. I was starving and it all smelled so delicious. I needed to get some of that into my system as soon as I could.

The boys wanted some food too. They were kicking and moving around so much that I thought they were going to burst out of me and gobble the food down themselves. The hungry little devils.

Calling them that made me laugh because of what I used to call them before I knew who and what they were. I used to think that they were imps. Little devils that were there to trick me and hurt me. And obviously, they still had some very devilish qualities to them.

“Calm down, Mommy will get something to eat.” I said as I rubbed my belly.

“You too?” Daciana laughed. “I swear this one is hungry all the time.”

“Mine too. I never knew how much I was going to have to eat when I was pregnant with twins. Now I know, though. And they’re just as hungry right now.” Aunt Glory laughed and then grabbed her belly. “Uhhnn. They’re so active when they’re hungry.” She laughed it off so we all just went to get something to eat.