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"It's not a bad idea," Tyson stated and I shot him a dirty look. What a traitor. And after I had stood up for him.

"We're not talking about this anymore," I told them all seriously.

"We'll have to bring it up to the others, but I think the idea holds merit," Damien told them and I wanted to throw something at him for agreeing with the others.

Rain ignored them and asked me, "Do you want to be a broodmare for the Council or do you want to do something that's important?"

Some people would have argued with him that having children was important but since I never planned on having any, I didn't think it was my place to argue with him.

The guys tensed, and I just knew they didn't like where this conversation was going.

"What do you have in mind?" I asked Rain.

"You want to follow in the family footsteps?" He asked me and there was a collective intake of breaths throughout the room. "Do you want to learn how to be a hunter?"

The guys looked worried as they probably should have been.

As for me? Well I grinned at my dad because there was no question about it. I wanted to learn. I wanted to learn everything.

Epilogue

The Council payed Quinton a visit at the big house to deliver the news that Chucky had, unfortunately, suffered a horrible accident and lost his life. I hadn't been forced to attend this meeting. In fact, both Quinton and Rain had insisted I not attend.

Yes, you heard that right. Both QuintonandRain. I now had not one but two bossy alpha males in my life who thought they knew what was best for me. I didn't mind at all, in fact, I loved it. Just so long as Rain stuck around I could handle his bossy and be totally good with it. Having people in my life who cared about me far from sucked and I was loving every second with Rain.

The Council backed off after Chucky died. They were giving me space and time. To do what, I had no idea and I didn't bother asking them. They weren't gone, but still staying at the Motel and I knew it wouldn't be long before they tried to insert themselves into our lives again. This, unfortunately, did not fill me up with joy on the inside.

Since there wasn't anything I could do about it, I let it go. Worry, where they were concerned, would have been useless and a complete waste of my effort so I pushed it out of my mind and focused on the things in my life that I could control.

Like the GED. Which I am proud to say I took and I passed.

Annabell left Ty alone after he did that spell on her at the Motel. If she remembered anything that had happened to her that night we hadn't heard of it and I was more than okay with how that played out.

Rain only brought the marriage idea to the table that one time and hadn't said anything about it since. If the guys had talked about it they had left me out of their conversations and I was grateful for it. I would get married when I was dead and not a day sooner. Besides, who would I pick to marry? I could never simply pick one of them. It didn't work that way between us and I wasn't about to make a choice between the seven of them. No way, no how.

Someone slept in my bed with me every night because we still didn't know what had been trying to interrupt my sleep and the guys were over paranoid and weren't going to leave me alone until they figured it out. I didn't mind because I would rather sleep safely with one of them than be on my own and vulnerable to some unknown threat.

Outside of a few things here and there that were out of my control, my life was looking up.

My training with my dad began next week and I could notfreakingwait.

The End.