Chapter 35 - Meeting My Royal Family.

"Momma"

My mother smiled brightly at me.

"Come to me, baby girl"

She said with her arms opened wide for me and I wasted no time in running over to her and giving her the biggest hug possible.

Tears were running down my face which I tried to control because I didn't want to look like a hot mess in front of my family for the first time but I couldn't stop them especially when my momma tried to calm me down.

"Sshhh!!, it's ok baby don't cry, mommas here now"

My mother gently stroked my hair as I rested my head on her shoulder.

I don't know how long we stood like this for but we eventually pulled away from each other when we heard the sound of a throat clearing, I assumed it was Cole and turned to look at him expecting to see him looking at me but instead he was looking at something else in front of us.

I turned my head to see what he was looking at and my eyes widened as fresh tears filled them when I saw three men, one of whom looked exactly like me from his eye colour to his hair colour, an older woman who looked just like my momma, a young woman who was holding a newborn baby and a gorgeous little boy who was holding onto her leg.

They were all looking at me with big huge smiles on their faces and they all looked so excited to see me.

"Who are they?"

I whispered to my mother knowing full well who they are but I guess apart of me just wants to hear it to believe it even though they're standing right in front of me.

"Baby, this is your ohana, do you know what that means?"

I nod my head and looked at my mother.

"Ohana means family"

Her smile became brighter if that's even possible.

"Come along, baby"

She grabbed hold of my hand and lead me over to the people, I was racked with nerves but I didn't understand why? this is my family, my real family, they're not gonna hurt me, right?.

"Natalia this is your father Koa, babe...this is our daughter"

Her voice shook at the end and from briefly looking at her, I could see that she was crying or at least trying not too.

My father looked at me like I was a delicate piece of China that he was afraid of touching, he then lifted his hand up and gently caressed my hair.

"My baby girl"

He whispered.

"Can I?"

He asked opening his arms and I nodded unable to speak.

My father wrapped his arms around me and I did the same with him whilst burying my face into his huge chest, I instantly felt a connection with him and I broke, I was finally in my daddys arms and I've never felt safer...don't tell Cole that though.

After a few minutes, my dad pulled away and cupped both sides of my face.

"You're so beautiful, my baby just like your mother"

"Pfft, please Koa, she's a dead ringer for you"

"Whatever you say, my flower"

My dad looked at my momma with so much love and she rolled her eyes jokingly.

"Urgh!!, can you two hurry up? we want to meet our baby sister too"

"Oops, sorry boys"

"Yer, I bet you are old man"

"Old man? who are you calling old man? do you want me to show you what this old man can do?"

"After last time, no thank you"

I chuckled at them but I was curious as to what my dad meant because the two boys looked disgusted and mortified.

"Hey there pretty girl, I'm your big uce Nathan and this idiot is your other big uce Christian"

"Idiot? says you"

"Well, I'm smart enough to be king"

"It's not like you have to take a test, Nate"

Christian rolls his eyes.

"What's an uce?"

Nathan and Christian both looked at me and smiled.

"It means bro, we're your big brothers"

Nathan said excitedly.

"Oh"

"Can we have a hug?"

Christian asked me, I don't know why though because they didn't even give me a chance to answer before embracing me in a hug at the same time.

I heard a deep growl coming from behind me and I knew exactly who it was, I pulled away from the two men and turned to look at Cole with an are you being serious? look.

"Babe, what are you growling for? they're my brothers"

"So was I at what point and look at how that turned out"

"Eww!!"

I groaned in disgust through our mate link.

"Please, don't remind me of that ever again, Cole"

Cole chuckled through our mate link as I turned back to face my family.

"It's so good to finally meet you, Natalia, we've been dying to see you again ever since you were taken away from us"

"Yer speaking off parentals, can we finally get some answers for that?"

I chuckled at Christian who had his hands on his hips whilst looking at his parents or should I say our parents with a fake stern look like he was telling them off.

"Shut up, jackass"

My dad slapped Christian over the back of his head which made me laugh again.

"We're not done introducing Natalia to her family"

He came over to me and wrapped his arm around my shoulders.

"Natalia darling, this is your grandmother Isabella Kane"

"Grandmother, do you want a slap?"

The elder version of my momma came over and glared at her son in law.

"Sorry momma"

"You better be"

The lady switched from glaring at my dad to smiling at me.

"My dear granddaughter, come here"

She took me out of my fathers hold causing him to growl and she hugged me, way to tightly for my liking.

"Not too tight momma, we don't wanna lose her when we've only just got her back"

My grandmother released me and held me at arm's length.

"My, my look at you, you've really blossomed into womanhood, haven't you?"

She looked me up and down and I felt so self-conscious having this middle-aged woman look at me like I was a piece of meat right in front of my family and friends.

"Your mate's gonna have a field day with you when you find him, honey"

"WHAT?"

I flinched when my dad and my brothers growled angrily.

"Momma, what did we talk about back home?"

My grandmother sighed and rolled her eyes.

"I'm not allowed to wind the boys up"

She said sounding like an annoyed kid.

"Exactly"

"But it's my lifes mission to wind this lot up Tia, it's the only thing that gets this old girl excited"

"What about warrior Don?"

Nathan asked with a smirk.

"That's none of your business young man"

The boys chuckled except for my dad who looked pretty angry.

"I'm sorry, can we go back to the whole mate thing, I..."

He was cut off by a baby crying, I turned around and saw the young woman from before trying to calm her baby, who is she?.

"Oh sorry babe, I got so caught up with Nat, I forgot all about you"

"It's ok babe, you're excited and you have every right to be"

"Who's she?"

I asked whilst looking at the baby who is wrapped in a baby pink blanket which has got an M on it with a crown in hot pink stitching, it kinda reminds me of the blanket that Angelo described to me when he was telling me the story of my real family.

"Natalia, this is my wife, Rachel, babe, this is my long lost sister Natalia"

"Hello"

"Hi"

"It's so nice to finally meet you, these guys have done nothing but talk about you ever since I can remember"

I smiled not knowing what to say.

"Natalia, this is my son Maximus but we call him Max, Max say hello to your auntie Natalia"

I'm an auntie, oh my god, I've got a nephew and he's so freaking adorable, he's got Nathans dark hair and green eyes just like me.

"Hewwo Natawia"

Everyone awwed at him.

"Sorry, he has problems pronouncing his L's"

"It's ok"

I said whilst looking at my handsome nephew who was hiding behind his momma.

Nathan gently takes the baby girl out of his mates arms and brings her over to me, I looked down at the little girl who I assume is my niece because she's a perfect blend of Nathan and Rachel, she looks just like her mother except for her dark hair which there's a lot off.

I was so caught up in looking at the beautiful bundle that I barely heard my brother speak.

"And this beauty is our daughter, your niece Miliana"

"She's gorgeous"

I gently placed my hand on the side of her face and caressed her forehead with my thumb, I don't know why but I was so enamoured with Miliana which is weird seeing as I've only just met her.

"Would you like to hold her?"

"Can I?"

I looked up at him excitedly.

"Of course you can, here you go"

He gently placed the young tot in my arms and showed me how to hold her correctly so that I won't drop her or hurt her.

"She's the first girl to be born into the royal family in eighteen years, in fact, her middle name is erm...it's Natalia"

I looked up at him and smiled, tears brimmed my eyes but I held them back, I felt stupid getting emotional because my niece is named after me.

I looked back down at Miliana who is sleeping peacefully, I couldn't resist leaning down and placing a gentle kiss on her little head.

"Hello beautiful girl, I'm your auntie Nattie"

Miliana smiled a little and my heart melted.

I know many people will say it's just wind but I didn't care, genuine smile or not, it was the most beautifullest thing I've ever seen.

Whilst holding my niece, I felt a very intense and familiar stare on me and I knew exactly who it was.

When I turned to look at him, I found him staring at me with so much love but he looked like he was lost in his own world.

"Babe, are you ok?"

Cole snapped out of his little daydream and looked me deep in my eyes with a beautiful, bright smile on his face which caused butterflies in my stomach to erupt like they were having a damn rave.

"I've never been better, my love"

He looked down at my niece and smiled even brighter.

"You look good with her, babe, you're a natural"

I was brought out of my mate link with Cole by my momma who was looking at my friends quizzically.

"Natalia darling, now that you're fully acquainted with your family, why don't you do the honours of introducing us to your friends?"

"Oops, sorry"

Still holding my niece, I walked over and stood next to Cole who wrapped his arm around my waist.

"Everybody, these guys are my friends Dimitri and Massimo, my best friend Brody and his mate Jason, my big brother Angelo and his mate, Emily..."

"I'm also her best friend, oh and it's so nice to finally meet all of you, by the way"

Emily cut me off sounding giddy, she's been like this all day, it's like she's on drugs.

"It also explains why you're so hot Nat, I mean have you looked at them, wow"

Emily muttered like I was the only one who could hear her not realising the guys on patrol miles away could hear her.

"And who's this handsome young man, baby girl?"

My grandmother asked whilst looking between myself and Cole and wiggling her eyebrows.

I was hesitant to introduce Cole and I could tell that my silence was hurting him because his eyes were filled with pain and sadness, what he doesn't realise is that I'm not hesitant because of him, I'm hesitant because I know shit is gonna hit the fan when my dad and brothers find out who Cole is to me.

It doesn't matter what species you are, men are naturally overprotective of the women in their lives especially when it comes to men.

"Erm Rachel, can you take Miliana, please?"

"Of course but why? she looks quite content with you?"

Yer she does.

"You'll find out in a sec"

I reluctantly hand my niece back over to her mother before going back over to Cole and grabbing his hand, I then looked at my parents and took a deep breath.

"Dad, momma, this is alpha Cole Vasquez....my mate"

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"WHAT?"

Three very loud and powerful growls broke out shaking the grounds and everything that was on it.

I quickly stood in front of Cole to protect him, even though I knew he was fully capable of taking care of himself, I also knew that there was a less violent way of him being protected and that's through me because even though I've only just met these guys, I knew that they would never hurt me yet it was the only way if they plan on ever getting to Cole.

"Oh I understand now"

Rachel said with a slight chuckle.

I looked over at my dad and brothers who looked like wolves ready to pounce, their nostrils were flaring, their shoulders were all tensed and their fists were balled up really tight.

"Erm, m..momma, can you..."

My momma looked at the men and rolled her eyes.

"Calm your d***s down boys, you always knew our princess would eventually find her mate and look at him, he's just perfect for our daughter"

She said with a bright smile before Christian spoke up and what he said floored me and everyone else, how the hell did he know about that?.

"Just perfect momma, really? do you not remember the stories we've heard about this guy? about how he abused and rejected his mate?"

"WHAT?"

This time it was my momma and grandmothers turn to shout and I flinched from their tone.

"Natalia baby, is this true?"

"Well..."

"Of course it's true, momma"

Nathan cut me off.

"How would you know?"

Angelo asks him angrily.

"Everyone knows, idiot, I've heard this story from numerous people in different packs and unlike Chinese whispers where the story gets tweaked along the way until it's a totally different story, this story always remained intact every single time it was told to me and it sickened me to hear that a man would do that to his mate"

Nathan was getting angry or should I say even angrier so much so that Rachel had to step closer to him to keep him calm, she grabbed hold of his hand and Nathan looked down at her, he instantly looked a lot calmer but he was still angry, he then looked back up at Angelo.

"Now I know that the girl in question is my own f*****g sister, it makes me even more furious to know how much she's suffered from...Natalia is a royal and such acts inflicted on her are punishable"

"Punishable by death"

Christian adds with a smirk and I started to panic, they can't be f*****g serious.

I subconsciously found myself backing up closer to Cole until I could feel his front on my back.

"And what about you guys?"

Angelo growled.

"What about us? we've never hurt Natalia"

"No, but you knew about it didn't you, you knew that she was being abused by her pack but you never bothered to come and save her from all the torture she was suffering from, Cole may be an asshole for what he's done to my sister but at least he's owned up to everything he's done and is trying to make it up with her but you lot swan in here with your fancy helicopters acting like you know jack shit about what she's been through and giving my brother a hard time, threatening to kill him because of what he did, well, if you're sentencing him to death then you may as well sentence yourselves to death since you all knew what was going on all these years and did nothing to f*****g stop it"

Everyone but Cole, Brody and Jason looked at Angelo confused.

"What are you accusing us off, young man? we knew nothing of the sort about my daughter being abused and if we did then we would have done everything in our power to find her and save her a long time ago"

My father growled at my brother and I could tell that he was trying to keep his anger at bay.

"That's not what we were told"

"And what exactly were you told?"

Christian asked in a mocking way whilst crossing his arms over his chest.

"We were told that the people who left Natalia on our territory knew everything about her including everything that she suffered through from the moment she was left here to the moment she ran away on her eighteenth birthday including all of the abuse and being rejected"

"That's absurd"

"Is it? why don't you ask the people who brought her here? because they knew everything whether you all like it or not and instead of helping her, they chose to leave her to rot whilst writing it all down in some stupid f*****g file which the heartless and idiotic bastard left lying around for some psycho to get hold off"

"How do you know about that file?"

My grandmother gasped whilst looking at Angelo, everyone looked at her with confused and shocked looks.

"Momma, you know what he's talking about?"

"I...erm...no..no I don't"

She stuttered out before standing strong and adamant.

"Momma, didn't you tell me that your parents are the ones who brought me here?"

"Yes...yes, they did honey"

I was so confused and I felt like an idiot, this woman who a few minutes ago was hugging me so tightly and acting like she was so excited to see me is the same person who contributed to that stupid file that Scar has got.

"Natalia baby, what is it? what's wrong?"

I look at my grandmother who is looking uncomfortable before looking at my worried mother.

"Everything Angelo said is true...your mother and father knew everything I went through and did nothing to help me"

"How do you know this, darling?"

My dad asked me.

"A rogue told us, he knew the guy who is after me and he told us that he's seen the file personally, he even gloated about my grandparents knowing about the hell I was going through and not caring enough about me to stop it"

"A rogue"

Christian scoffed.

"You actually believe a rogues word, Natalia"

"Actually, yes I do because I threatened to cut off the one thing all men are scared to lose if he didn't tell me the truth which quickly got him talking once he saw the machete in my hand"

"What did you threaten him with?"

Rachel asked confused.

"His family jewels"

The guys looked at me shocked whilst my mother looked proud.

"Momma, is this true?"

My grandmother looked at her daughter and she became all flustered, she tried and failed several times to form a coherent sentence but couldn't.

"There's no point in lying grandma, Natalia's not gonna believe you"

Angelo said in frustration.

"Don't talk to our grandmother like that, asshole"

"Or what? what are you gonna do?"

Angelo and Christian looked ready to fight which is the last thing that I wanted right now especially with kids present so I put a stop to it by quickly going over to them before they could get any closer to each other.

I stood in front of Angelo whilst facing Christian who looked hurt by my actions but at this very moment, I didn't care, I wasn't gonna have them fighting and I certainly wasn't gonna have anyone hurt Angelo, he may not be my biological brother but he's the only one other than Emily who has stood by me my whole life.

Christian looked me in my eyes showing me how hurt he is, I felt bad but I didn't regret what I did.

"Ok guys, let's calm down alright"

My father said whilst placing his hand on Christians shoulder.

"This is the first time meeting our princess in eighteen years and I refuse to have anyone ruin this moment by getting violent"

"Your father's right son, besides, we've all got a lot of catching up to do and a lot to talk about"

My mother said aiming the last bit at my grandmother who looked scared.

I don't know why but I didn't like how this was going and I was worried about the potential outcome of having this talk with my family, I just hope that at the end of the day I'll be going to bed with my family still wanting me in their lives and with my mate alive and well sleeping next to me.