Author's Note: So I didn't know the last chapter was going to be like that. It just kind of popped into my head. It also is a good leeway for the next story that I'm going to be working on. I just have to figure out how it's going to go.

This is the final chapter for this roller coaster of a story. I won't be writing for a while as I finish making Christmas presents that need to be ready by thanksgiving so I can give them to family members I won't see after thanksgiving. So it will take a bi to get the other story up and going.

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Jeongmin sat in the bed and watched the woman sleep next to him. Baye had finally been allowed to come back to their room and hadn't really left. For the last five days she had been secluded in the small space. It wasn't because she was being antisocial. She was just tired and slept most of the time. Hansol and B-Joo and a few of the others ventured in every so often to check on her and make sure she ate, but everyone just left her alone.

And it was a good thing too. It gave her body time to heal and rejuvenate. Everyone was still reeling from everything that had happened. They knew all the details and innermost thoughts of those involved, but they still thought it was best to leave the four people involved.

Over the last few days, Jenissi and Leo had gotten close. Both understood what all of this meant. In Guardian world, anyone who was unfaithful was subject to ridicule and excommunication whereas in the wolf community having multiple partners was celebrated because a man could have many children to carry on his blood line. The two worlds were colliding in it was Jenissi's baby. They wouldn't know for a fact until Ji Hoo did the test, but the doctor was waiting until his patient was healthier.

But it was Jeongmin who was carrying the burden. He was the one essentially raising his two sons alone while his wife recovered, and there was a possibility he could raise a wolf child as well. He didn't know if he could come back from that. He had fought to get this far with his mind intact but now it was being threatened again.

He just didn't know what to do. The love he had for the woman curled up at his side told him that he would be okay, but the fact that it was another man's child told him he wasn't perfect at all. He didn't want to share his wife with another man, and he didn't want any other children other than his calling her mom.

Baye shifted and rolled into his hip. Her jaw hit it and she groaned in pain. It took a couple of minutes before her to become aware of where she was. She rolled to her back and looked up. Her eyes met his and she smiled. He couldn't fight the smile that crossed his face as she looked at him. Sighing, he slipped down the bed and took her into his arms. When she was situated, he ran his fingers through her hair.

"You know you should sleep," she said as she nuzzled her face into his neck.

"I know, but at the moment I can't. I don't know what you're going to do," he answered honestly.

"Do you want me to terminate it?"

He thought hard about it. "Would you respect me if I asked?"

She shrugged. "I don't know. It hasn't happened. There's no need to speculate on something that's an unknown."

"I don't want to lose your respect." He shifted until he was hovering just over her. "I'm sorry I blamed you. No one deserves what happened. I understand that you did what you had to survive. I probably would have done the same."

"That's all well and good, but I know you're still mad at Leo and Jenissi. That's not fair, and you know it."

He ran a hand through his hair. "What do you want me to do?"

"My brother is coming up for a visit next month. I plan to return to New Zealand with him."

Jeongmin's throat worked. She was leaving? Why hadn't she said anything before now? This was a decision they should make together. It was their family they had to deal with. They had to overcome this obstacle. How could they do that separated?

Baye knew he was upset again. It had been nearly a month since he had thought he had lost her, and now she was telling him she was leaving again. Truth be told she really didn't have a choice. The Guardian Council was going to be in New Zealand and she had been summoned to see them. It was going to be an all out war because they were going to demand she terminate the baby or claim that Leo was the father when she knew better. She may be the Wild Power, but she still was a subject under the Council. She couldn't just do as she liked.

Sighing, she rolled out from under him and slid off the bed. Ignoring the mandatory crutches she was supposed to be using, Baye held on to the wall as she left the room. Walking down the hall, she knocked on the next door. A sleepy Donghyun opened the door then beckoned her in. He flipped on a lamp then sat her down in a chair to get her off her feet.

"Are you okay?" he asked. "I haven't really gotten a chance to talk to you since everything happened."

"Do you still have that lawyer friend of yours?" she asked.

He sighed and crossed his arms, pectoral muscles flexing in the process. He had a habit of not wearing a shirt when he slept, the same as Jeongmin. She had seen him in various stages of undress over the last few months.

Curious, she reached forward and touched him. Her fingers skimmed his chest. Where they trailed, goose flesh popped up in their wake. Donghyun was still affected by her touch even though he knew she was his friend's. But like she knew when she tried this little experiment, there were no romantic feelings for him. He was just a man who was sitting shirtless before her.

"I already called him," he said after he settled down. "I did so after Ji Hoo hyung told me what was going on. He said he will be available for you at any time. He can even make a house call."

He leaned forward and took her hand. "Noona, he's hurting just as much as you are."

"I'm really not hurting, Donghyun. I know what they were trying to do. I know what they wanted to prove. Does it bother me that people will go to extremes to get what they want? Yes. Am I angry and hurt? No. I know that none of this was my fault. I hurt more for Jeongmin than I do for myself. I brought the two men who slept with his wife into this group. Now one of them is this baby's father and there's nothing he can do about it."

Donghyun sighed and rubbed his forehead. "How can you be so freaking well-rounded that you see everything from every angle?"

She didn't answer him, instead staring not directly at his chest but level enough that he thought she was. She was in deep thought and the only thing he could do was rub the back of her hand until she finally came back to him.

"I'm going to terminate my parental rights to this child," she said suddenly. "I can't terminate it and I won't give it up to someone I don't know. I can only do this. It's the only thing that will bring Jeongmin any peace."

"He won't have peace, Noona, if that child lives here," he advised gently.

"Do you know why Woo Bin Oppa reacted the way he did? Do you know why he punched Jeongmin in the face?" Donghyun shook his head as he bit his lip. "When Woo Bin was twenty, he and his then girlfriend were taken captive by the then Darklings and tortured for a month. It's the reason everyone lost their minds. That story wasn't as happy as this one. You think what happened to me is bad. What happened to Song Woo Bin is even worse. The woman he was going to marry and who carried his child was killed in front of him. He tried to get to her but they buried an energy sword in his gut. Unlike Leo, Woo Bin was violated in front of his girlfriend, and like me, she didn't blame him. But after she died, he blamed himself. He should have been well-trained and ready for that situation."

"You really need to be angry."

She shook her head, bringing her captured hand up to rest her head on it. "I'm too tired to be angry. All I can do is wait. He'll talk when he's ready."

"What if he asks for a divorce?"

Donghyun watched the thought run through her tired eyes and he knew the answer before she told him.

"Then I will give it to him without an argument. He can even take the twins. I don't want to hurt him anymore."

Sadness ripped through him as he watched her eyes close and she slipped into sleep again. She was so selfless. Jeongmin better realize how lucky he was because if he divorced this woman, Donghyun would never be his friend again.

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A YEAR LATER

Ji Hoo stared at the computer screen in shock. This couldn't be right. Last time he checked Kim Song Ji was the strongest Alpha in Seoul. This shouldn't be going on.

He continued reading, noting that the dates were from a few weeks prior. Things had happened and no one had been informed. He wondered if the Councils even knew. They had to go through all of them to do anything. It kept the balance of things even.

It had been a year since the fateful day Baye and Leo had gone missing and everyone else had had to watch as they were beaten and abused for two weeks. They had done what they had to do to survive. It had been the toughest time for everyone after they had been brought back, but the hardest thing had happened between the four people it really affected.

The only person who had had been completely calm about the whole situation was the person it had affected the most. Baye hadn't said a single bad word against anyone. She had gone to counseling like she had been advised and had done really well. She had kept the baby, steadfastly refusing to abort the child.

That had caused a huge strain between her and Jeongmin. She had gone to New Zealand with Ravi when he brother had come to retrieve her. They had stayed for three months as the investigation had taken place. During that time, the couple had talked things through as much as they could being separated. Luckily, neither one had yelled nor screamed nor pointed fingers.

When she and Ravi had returned, she was noticeably bigger. And that's when the problems arose. First her legs gave out and she had been chair bound. Next she had gotten stung by something and had gone into anaphylactic shock. Her body had nearly aborted the baby on its own but somehow she had held on. And last but not least, she had had another seizure. Ji Hoo had wanted to abort immediately, but Baye had refused.

Donghyun had been on her side the entire time when it seemed like no one was. Even the wolves had become wary of her decisions. Hojoon had been the only one to stand with her and Donghyun against everyone. They had had plenty of vocal argument over the course of a few weeks.

Baye had finally gone into labor prematurely at the seven and a half month mark. Ji Hoo hadn't stopped the contractions and had delivered a surprisingly healthy and fully developed baby girl. True to his nature, Jeongmin had been there the entire time she had been in labor. He still hadn't agreed on the whole thing, but he hadn't held it against her at all.

That had been four months ago. Since then, Baye and Jeongmin's relationship had mended and they were able to be safely intimate. Ji Hoo hadn't tied Baye's tubes because he had known she wouldn't have been able to handle the anesthesia. The twins had turned one and had been getting into everything. It was a crazy habit everyone in the house had gotten used to.

"Jenissi, can you come in here a moment?" Ji Hoo called.

It took a moment but the Alpha of the wolf pack appeared in the office with his daughter draped across his arm. Hyun Joo was nearly four months old and had been doted on in the house more than Jeongmin's twins.

After the baby had been born, Baye had shocked Ji Hoo and Jenissi. Months prior, the DNA had come back to prove that the wolf had been the biological father. Baye had kept it quiet up until the time of the birth. After she had come home from the hospital, she had pulled Jenissi, Ji Hoo, Donghyun and Jeongmin into the office. Her lawyer had been waiting with her. No one knew what she had done in the months she had been gone.

As soon as they had been gathered, she had taken out a pen and had signed a piece of paper. She had handed it over to Jenissi and had waited for his reaction. He had looked at her in shock and she had just nodded. She had signed away her parental rights to her daughter. They had realized it had been her plan all along. She wasn't going to raise the baby as her own, but she would help raise her as part of the bigger family. Jenissi had signed immediately, and since then, he had been a devoted father.

"What's up, hyung?" he asked immediately.

"Have you talked to P-Goon's sisters?" Ji Hoo asked. The other man shook his head. "Apparently, your adoptive father was killed in a duel, and Xero and Yano's father has taken over the role of Alpha."

Jenissi didn't seem surprised. "He'll be a better one than Kim Sang Ji. He's always been a kinder man than the one who took me in. Hansol and B-Joo won't go to the funeral."

"What about their mothers?"

"They'll be taken care of out of respect for their sons. It's customary." He turned his head towards the kitchen. "You better go stop Noona from breaking Jun Pyo hyung's toes. I hear her threatening him."

Sighing, Ji Hoo stood and rounded his desk. Jenissi followed him to the kitchen to find a wheelchair bound Baye chasing Jun Pyo around the kitchen with Jae Mi squealing in her lap. Jun Pyo looked terrified as he ran from the zipping woman. Ji Hoo didn't know what he had done, but he did know Baye would burn him if she got the chance.

"That's enough you two morons," he said as he stepped into the room. Baye looked at him with hatred in her eyes. "You better control that banding or I will sedate you. What happened?"

"Dumbass over there decided that he was going to unlock the wheels while I was trying to pick up Jae Mi," Baye growled.

Ji Hoo looked at his friend. "You have a death wish don't you?"

Jun Pyo gawked. "I thought they were unlocked. I didn't want her to get hurt."

The older man shook his head. "Whatever. Hansol and B-Joo look like they had lunch ready. Come on. Let's eat because we have a lot of work to do if we're going to convert the house next door."

Everyone sat around the table. Jeongmin passed his younger son to his wife as he sat down beside her. Their relationship was back to how it had been a year ago. Everyone had gotten better. It was amazing to look around and see his chosen family back to where it had been before all hell had broken loose. Would it be the same? Of course not, but every pack shifted and changed as blood ebbed and flowed through their veins. It was how the pack mentality worked, and they would continue to work with it as long as they could.

THE END.