Chapter 39: Bonus Chapter #1

Hey everyone!

I know it's been I very very long time since I did a PAK update, and I realise it's about time I give you a little bit of closure to this story, once and for all!

So, here is one bonus chapter (maybe there will be more) just to sedate your appetites about this story and how it ends.

Hope you guys enjoy!!

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My throat is dry.

I don't think it has ever been so barren of moisture before. It feels like I have carried my tongue across the floor of the Sahara desert and dragged half of the ground along with me on my travels. The only thing that I can think of is water and how desperately I want to drink it.

Maybe I'm going mad, maybe I actually am in a desert and I have begun to see things, mirages as they call them.

Because I swear I can see Kaden.

I can see him so clearly it's like I could reach out and touch him, feel the stubble of his growing beard on my fingertips. Only he hasn't got stubble, his beard is long and we'll shaped. His hair is longer too, the tips of his obsidian coloured locks curling behind his ears. It's like I'm looking at Kaden, but he's changed, but only slightly. It's like just little things that would be considered insignificant and unnoticeable if you watched them unfold in front of your eyes.

My heart begins to ache as I realise I haven't seen Kaden with my eyes in quite some time.

How long has it been since I've seen him in my dreams? Time seems to pass in a strange way when you're aware you're in a coma but you can't wake yourself up. Usually I just see memories, happy ones mostly.

But today it's different.

It's almost like I can feel his soft lips against my skin, can hear his voice as he whispers against my skin. I want to scream at him that I'm awake, that I'm here. I want to tell him that I love him. I want to tell him something, anything.

The mirage is making my eyes hurt, like looking into a fluorescent light that is just that little bit too bright. My skin is too warm, too clammy, my vision is unfocused. The mirage of Kaden starts to fade as he walks away from me, and I start to panic.

"Kaden." I call out, begging that this is not a dream again, that I am not being tricked by my own subconscious and having the one thing I desire most in the world dangled by a strong in front of my eyes. I can't have him go, for I don't know how long it will be before I see him again.

There's a ringing now, a sound so shrill and high that it's making both my mental and physical state wince.

Wait, physical?

My eyes fly open, the ringing getting louder as I look around frantically, my body waking up about as fast as one would from a nightmare. My breathing is fast, uncontrollable, and I can't seem to get air in no matter how much I inhale.

"Kaden!" I shriek, panic taking over.

And then he's there, and time stops. There's a wild panic in his eyes as he bursts back into my room, his eyes widening when he sees that I'm awake. I watch as he runs across the room and cups my face in his large hands, electricity flowing through his fingers and into my cheeks. His eyes are swimming with a mixture of joy, shock, fright, tears springing to the corners as he smiles at me.

Oh god I've missed seeing his smile with my own eyes. It's different, yet the same. His teeth are still straight and white, the lips tugging just as wide as they used to. His canines catch on his lips as his smile breaks into his face, his beard almost making it look wider.

"Lola?" He says my name and it sounds like I'm listening through water. But I still hear it and god it makes me melt. My insides turn to mush and my heart hurts when I think about how much time I've lost. How long has it been?

"Kaden." I say, and tears line my eyes when I hear the strangled cry escapes from his mouth as he buries his head in my neck.

"Oh god, Lola." He sobs, his fingers running over every inch of my face, the bow of my lips, the contour of my nose. His eyes lift from my neck to look at me, those electric blue eyes so light and full of life. "We thought you were never waking up."

My arms are heavy but I still raises them to dig my fingers in his long hair, pulling his face to mine and resting his forehead on mine. I feel sluggish, my energy being drained from me at an alarming rate. But I want to be with Kaden, I want to be awake, I want to be alive.

"I love you." He whispers against my lips, his eyes boring into my own. "I never told you, and I've regretted it ever since. Not a day goes by when I haven't regretting not telling you've much control you have over my heart. It's yours Lola, it will always be yours."

I grin and start to cry, pulling his face closer and pressing my lips to his. I've missed this, missed him. His lips taste like a mixture of Cherry coke and mint, the salt from our tears making an appearance. He's soft, gentle, his lips moving against mine like he fears I will crumble underneath his touch.

Kaden's kisses are like a drug I've been deprived off. The high makes my head feel light, my heart rate to sky rocket, my body to feel better than it ever has. I'd almost forgotten what it felt like to kiss him, the memories beginning to fade after time. But the way his lips fit perfectly with mine, our tongues caught in that familiar dance and the pressure now perfect, it's like I was never gone.

Like we never stopped.

"I love you Kaden." I mumble as we break for air, his long, slender fingers burying themselves deep in my hair, his nose brushing mine as he sighs heavily, the action laced with content. "I love you so damn much."

He growls lowly against my face, the sound sending a burst of energy through my body like it used to. My nerve endings become electric, my body and skin craving his touch. "I'll never tire of hearing you said that. It's been too damn long."

The heaviness of his words hits me, and I realise that I don't know how long I was trapped inside my body. It's hard when you can't see or hear anything, time passes differently. I swallow, nervous to ask the question I don't want to know the answer to. "Kaden?"

"Hmm." He hums against my skin, his head buried in my shoulder once again, his nose attached to my neck.

"How long have I been like this?"

His body stills, tenses tighter than a spring. I can feel my stomach drop when I see the sorrow built up in his eyes, the anguish he's not even trying to hide. "Lola..."

"Tell me how long." I whisper through gritted teeth, tears threatening to fall at the thought of how much of my life I have missed out on.

"Five years." He mutters, his eyes dropping like my heart. "Sweetheart, you've been gone for five years."

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I was upset for quite a while, which I think I'm entitled to be as well as being very understandable considering I've been in a coma for the last five years. Events that feel like yesterday for me, were five years in the past for others. Since I didn't wake up, Otis found his mate and left our pack, my mom and dad moved to Spain to make international pack connections. Jasper's daughter is nearly ten, Olivia and Brett are having a little boy and they are making me his godmother. This little pup was going to have a godmother that they didn't even know was going to wake up.

Oh god, I was going to have a pup, and they've spent five years of their life without me, if it even lived past me getting stabbed.

I cringe and wince at the memory of Allivander throwing that knife at me. If I think hard enough, I can still feel the pain of it piercing my skin, burning my chest.  I rub my fingers unconsciously across the scar, the wound not disappearing because I was human when it happened.

I think I am still human, and my heart sinks a little bit. I miss Shiva. I miss her annoying remarks in my head, I miss her constant company even if it was unwanted. I miss the extra strength she gave me, and the ability to run faster and hear much further than I can now. I feel lost not being a werewolf. Yeah, I have my years of combat training to protect me, but it's not the same as being able to shift and rip an enemy apart with my jaws.

"What're you thinking about over there?" Kaden raises his eyebrow and looks at me in the corner of his eye. He gives my knee a soft squeeze as he waits for my answer. "You look like you're lost in your thoughts."

He hasn't let go of me since he used his alpha status to get me out of hospital. Whether that be a hand on the small of my back, or like now his giant paw is resting on my knee, his thumb stroking circles through the thin borrowed clothes I'm wearing. Kaden had to get a kind student nurse to give me her gym stuff with the promise he'd return them at the next pack training session.

The leggings and the sweatshirt are a little too baggy, probably because I've lost a hell of a lot of muscle mass due to not moving for a long time. I'm honestly not surprised that Kaden needed to carry me to the car and bring me home a wheelchair so I can get around by myself.

"I'm just thinking about how much time I've lost." I sigh, leaning my head against the window of the car as we drive through the woods. The trees blur together in a sea of greens and browns, no one shape coming into any particular focus. "How my life stopped and everyone else's moved forwards without me."

"Then we'll just have to catch you up." Kaden grins, his dazzling and easygoing smile relaxing my upset state. "You have all the time in the world to find out what you missed out on, and you can make new memories starting today.

I smile as he squeezes my knee again, pulling the car up outside our house. It's the same house that we moved into all those years ago after he trashed the log cabin on a drunken rage. The same house we held my Luna ceremony, where we found out I had been cursed, where we finally gave into the mate bond.

There are so many memories tied to this house, and I hope to be around to make many more.

I frown slightly when I see that there are a lot of people on the other side of our window, small balloons in various colours taped to our porch and people coming and going through the front door. "Why are there people in our house?"

Kaden's grin widens as he turns off the ignition and jumps out of the car, rushing round to open my door and help me into my wheelchair. His hold on me is gentle but firm, and he pushes me up the ramp that was conveniently already attached to the house and through the front door.

It looks like Kaden was throwing a party and people did not expect to see me here. People look on with wide eyes before bowing their heads towards me. Some people go as far as getting a little bit tearful when they see me, their trembling hands touching me to make sure that I'm real and they're not imagining me.

"Wait here." Kaden mutters softly in my ear as he walks into our living room. "Koda?"

My eyebrows scrunch up in confusion as Kaden calls someone's name, and my whole body begins to shut down when I hear the reply.

"Daddy! You're late to my birthday! Uncle Brett had to pick me up because you were too busy!"

"I'm sorry little bear." He says in a voice so gentle. I've never heard such adoration in his voice when he speaks, not even when he speaks to me sometimes. "I had to pick up your present."

"But I already opened your present." I can hear the confusion in her little voice, and I'm more desperate then ever to meet the daughter I never got to see growing up. I wheel myself into my living room, and my eyes focus on the little girl stood in front of my mate, my breath getting caught in my throat at the sight of her.

She looks the spitting image of me, with near black hair and big, round brown eyes. She's wearing fairy wings and a tiara, and her skin is tanned like Kaden's. I can see from here that she's spilt cake down her purple dress, food she must've been eating with all the other kids sat on the floor.

I gasp, and her big brown eyes move from her dad to me. She points a chubby finger at me, her eyes lighting up like she's been given the greatest gift. "Daddy, I can't believe you got me my mummy for my birthday!"

She barrels over to me and launches herself into my lap, wrapping her short arms around my neck and pulling me close. I can't stop myself from crying as I hold her close to my body, inhaling her scent. She smells like birthday cake and summer fruits, her hair smelling like kids bubble bath. "Hey baby."

"Mummy! I aksed you'd come back from the horizontal!" She pulls away and grins at me, showing me the large in her teeth where one is missing. "Luna answered my talks!"

I know that I said I wasn't ready to raise a pup, that neither Kaden or I was ready. I didn't even know if I could love the pup, or if I'd be any good at looking after them. I was terrified at the thought of being a bad mom, and I'm already distraught at the fact I've been absent in her life.

But I know just holding her, looking at her, listening to her talk, that I'm going to love this girl with every fibre of my being and I'm going to try and be the best damn mom I've ever been in my entire life.

"Mommy what are you crying?" She cocks her head to one side, her hands reaching up to wipe away my tears. "It's my birthday so you should be happy!"

"I am happy, Koda." I laugh a watery chuckles, cupping her chubby cheeks in my hand. I look up at Kaden and see the adoration swimming in his eyes when he looks at her, looks at me. I beckon him over with my hands and hold my arms out to hug him. "Group hug!"

Koda giggles and screeches as Kaden starts making growling noises as he blows raspberries in her neck, tickling her before enveloping the both of us in a hug.

And in this moment, nothing has felt more right. My life feels complete, with my daughter on my lap, surrounded by my friends, and my possessive alpha mate in my arms again.

I feel content. Happy.

I hope it never ends.

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IVE PICKED A KODA AND SHES PLAYED BY ABBY RYDER FORTSON

ISNT SHE SO DAMN ADORABLE, AND SHE LOOKS A HELL OF A LOT LIKE LOLA AMIRITE!!

Thought I'd treat you guys to a bonus chapter, I mean I've been promising one since October. I had a sudden urge to finish Lola's story, and I decided I wasn't going to be cruel and let them have the happy ending they deserve.

You can thank everyone who wrote on my wall pestering me to finish their story, I wrote this chapter in a day (staying up till 2am to get it done!!! (Be grateful!!))

Please please PLEASE comment your opinions on this chapter, but the star to give me a like, and receive all of my love. Honestly you guys mean everything to me and having you stick with me is AMAZING.

Maybe I'll see you down the line in KODA's (the ship and the pup) future, maybe I won't.

I guess we'll have to see.

Peace and lots of love!!

Lauryn xoxo