Page 27 of My Knotty Mountain Men

“It’s only a day late. It snowed pretty bad the past few days. They need to plow the roads.”

“Damn it!” Thomas switches his attention from me to something else, forgetting about me entirely. He goes over to the wall and stares at the display. “This is all wrong. Damn it, Ryan messed it all up. None of this is in the right place,” he growls. “Thanks for lunch, Nolan, but I need to get this fixed.” He turns back to me. “See you at home?”

I give him a forced smile. “Yeah. See you later.” I step up, pressing a kiss to his lips, and a flutter stirs in my belly when he groans.

Even though the guys are lost, they haven’t forgotten about me. And fuck if that doesn’t make me happy.

“I love you,” he murmurs.

My heart swells. “I love you too.”More than you will ever know.

Leaving the store, I head down to the site where Aiden and his crew are working. Seeing he’s busy, I leave his lunch with one of his crew members and head home.

Opening the cabin door, I stand there, staring at the big, empty place.

We would have been good to her, the best pack. We would have treated her like a Queen.

I wish she didn’t take off; I wish she would have stayed long enough for us to explain.

But I don’t blame her. She thought she was in the wrong. Sylvia let her believe she was the other woman, that she was messing with someone else’s men, someone’s family.

I honestly respect her for leaving—that even though she’s their scent match, she didn’t want to be the one to break up a family.

I just wish she could know thatshewas our family. We might not have known her for long, but I was looking forward to getting to know everything about her. To grow with her, to explore things, get to know one another. To prove to her we could be the right pack for her.

Tossing my keys on the table, I head deeper into the cabin. Pulling back the plastic sheet hanging from the ceiling, a wave of longing hits me.

In his spare time, Aiden has been expanding the house. Not the best thing to do in the middle of winter, but he needed something to keep him busy.

I found the blueprints the other week. He’s adding on three new bedrooms. I know they’re meant to be a nest, along with some spare rooms for future children.

And that just breaks my heart all over again.

“Whoever is listening out there...” I say out loud, looking up at the ceiling. “Please bring her back to us. We need her more than she will ever know.”

Chapter 10

Violet

Two months later

The past three months have been a struggle. The longing for my Alphas is strong. There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t think about them.

With the help of my friends and keeping myself busy at work, I’ve been able to keep myself from slipping completely into depression.

My girls are at my door every day, waking me up and refusing to go to work without me by their side.

The first few weeks after everything settled was hard. I cried a lot, more than I ever have before.

I was tempted to get in contact with them, to just hear their voices.

But I didn’t, knowing it would only hurt more if I did.

They had a life, a girlfriend, and a baby on the way. I had no place in their lives.

What I needed to do was focus on my own, to not let myself slip into a dark space I couldn’t find my way out of.

Coming to work every day has been good for me. Working with the students, helping them find their packs however, isn’t so easy.

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