Mostly it hurt, yeah I'm man enough to be glad for her but at the same time it just hurt so well, her leaving my room, my arms and wrapping her body so quickly and thoroughly around his. It was good while it lasted but there is no more time to dwell on the what-ifs, not with her being imprinted now, not with the season opening tomorrow

"hey bro, its just me. from the sound of things I guessed she was finally asleep so just wanted to make sure if we need to buy some feminine things or what, I figure shes coming with you right?" Neal nods at me, I can see that he is gathering his wits about him after the alarm left his body but I don't blame him, it was like that the first decade after I imprinted and I can only hope that someday our older brother will be able to experience the same feeling of completeness. "'Kay, we'll wait until she wakes up and just have her come with us, well by us I mean You, Leah, john and Scotty" he nods again, settling back in bed next to his new mate, sharp canines now back to being regular teeth

"Hey dad, Freddie's back" my youngest son calls up to me as the form of our deckhand appears at our bow "Hey Freddy, head on up here will ya?" I call over the loudhailer and he waves in acknowledgment, "Actually how bout we just have a get together in the galley, that sounds a little better" I knew they would be shitting bricks until I got down there but hell, let them. I drain my cup of joe andhead down to my waiting crew

""kay so i think we should talk about last night, things could have gotten really ugly really fast and we cant let that happen, this is the last frontier and the last sanctuary for all of us we have to do our best to keep our secrets from the Normals. I think we are getting too lax, to comfortable but the world isn't yet ready to find out about us" my crew nods, all but freddy who looks like a pup that's just pissed on the rug

"how did she know what was about to go down?" Jake asks "What happened anyways, I thought you were cool with the hillstrands?" Josh asks at the same time and Freddie nods

"yeah, I'm cool with them. It only became an issue when Neal and Le imprinted, that's what set me off"

"imprinted?"

"yeah, its hard to explain its muchhh stronger than love but its friendlier than obsession"

"so how did she know to stop you guys from going at it in there"

"shes one too, a different breed, or species im not sure she said shes more shapeshifter than lycan, called me a "child of the moon" or something like that"

"oh, so I take it that since she is imprinted your not getting any from her then huh?" josh elbowed his brother in the gut just as the camera man walks in

"Hey guys, what did I miss?"

"nothing mouse, why don't you get to work on getting those cameras rigged so we are good to head out tomorrow

The young camera man leaves to find his counterpart and get to rigging, once he is out of earshot the crew begin to speak again

"No, I won't be seeing her like that again, it was too painful for her" the cheeky grin that jake flashes makes Freddie growl low "Not like that pedo bear, painful in a very bad way, she was cheating on her soulmate"

The men cringe outwardly and a few shake their head

"Will you be alright man?" Josh asks worriedly to which Freddie only nods

"Yeah, bud, you will be you got us" I say to my deckhand and friend

I shook her gently awake, kissing her softly all over but she still woke up grumpy like I figured she would. "Le, were heading out in an hour to get some supplies want to go catch some breakfast first?"

she just nodded at me, smiled shyly and then lifted her head to kiss me. I had never been more content than I was right now with my imprint, that was until the door opened again "john, knock" I growled low. He just rolled his eyes, was the alpha after all "hi" leah squeaked from underneath me "you mind turning that fine ass around and getting out of here so I can get dressed?" with a chuckle and a grin he did as he was asked and she quickly threw on her sweat pants but as she went to grab her sweatshirt I took it from her, getting a strange look in return "im not walking around topless no matter how warm I am" I laughed "I know, heres a tank top, you don't have to hide around here everyone that matters knows what we are, you already know freddy is a lycan like us but the rest of his crew aren't exactly human either, same here, its me john and andy as well as johns kids, and andys kids and russ. Shea, and mike have their own thing too, mike has the gift" she staired at me wonderingly before asking "the gift?" I nod "your shirt hun, yeah hes able to manipulate things, it sure makes trickey repairs easier, Im the engineer on this old girl" while I talk she pulls the tank top over, not caring that her nipples stand as hard against the thin fabric as my cock does against my boxers