Hidden Children (AL Series)

Chapter 2

Inara

  I give him a small and worried smile. Damn Luke, I’m going to kill him. Wait, I can tell that to him now that we have bonded as siblings.

‘I’m going to kill you, Luke. How could you give me up like that?’ I mind link him. He chuckles before answering me back.

‘Just listen to him little one, you might be shocked by everything. I promise if you, in the end, don’t want to stay with him and complete the mating process then you can come home to my pack. I have a feeling you will want to stay though, I can feel how much you care for him.’ 

‘Fine, but I’m still going to kill you and I’m not little.’ I growl at him. Growling seems to be a new thing for me and I love it. Makes me feel like a badass!

‘You can try, little one, you can try and you are four years younger than me that means you are a little one.’ He chuckles, making me roll my eyes before I turn my attention to Trent, who is giving me a knowing smile.

“Yelling at Luke?” 

“Yes, he is an ass.” I say while sitting up in the hospital bed and crossing my arms.

“You have no idea my love how big of an ass he is but he is a caring one.” He chuckles before he sits on the bed next to me to take both my hands in his before looking at me in the eyes. “What did you end up hearing and where do you want me to start?” He asks me with worry in his eyes.

“I heard you talking about your other lady and not wanting a mate. Oh, and starting from the beginning would be a good start.” I answer honestly while looking away from him trying to keep the tears from falling. God my heart feels like it’s going to shatter just thinking about him leaving me. He sighs and lifts one of his hands to use it to make me turn my head back to him.

“I did say that I would reject any second chance mate if I got one. I was a hurt and bitter man and I still am, but not to you, never to you. Do you remember how I didn’t tell you who I was and that I sat on the poor side when I came to the restaurant?” I nod a yes, it’s kind of hard to forget it. “Well, I made a mistake before with a woman who used me. She made sure I was crazy about her, and then she left me, karma got her a week later.” He says with finality. This man is crazy if he thinks I will let this slide.

“Yea I need more than that, buddy.” I said in a sharp tone. I mean would he just allow me to answer it like that if the roles were reversed? Yea I think not and to think it’s men who say women need to explain better.

“Fine.” He groans. He might not want to have this conversion but I do and it will happen. 

“There was a girl I thought I loved, hell at that time I thought she was my mate. I think I was just blind because I didn’t meet my mate when others did and I wanted one more than anything.” He takes a breath and removes his hand from my chin and back to my hand rubbing small circles on the backside of them. “Now however my thoughts have changed.” He smirks as he looks at me before continuing.

“Her name was Amanda, I met her at Luke’s packhouse while I was trying to figure out how to handle a problem we were having with the rouges at the time. I was just made Alpha of the Red Rain Pack and wanted someone to love me for me and not who or what I was. I thought that was her but I was wrong, so wrong.” I see him starting to struggle to get the rest out so I scoot over to him and sit close enough to hold one of his arms while leaning my head on his shoulder. 

“Well thinking that she was my true mate, I asked her to marry me after I learned that she was pregnant with my child.” Did he just say pregnant with his kid? The F! Oh hell no! “Please don’t say anything, let me just get through this please.” I look up and see him pleading with me, his eyes held so much pain in them. I nod and cuddle closer to him causing one of his arms to wrap around me. Open mind, open mind.

“She told me that she didn’t want to get married till after the baby was born because she didn’t want to look fat in her wedding dress. I know women always want to have that perfect day, even some wolves want it, so I agreed not to think too much into it. I was with her through her pregnancy. I helped her shop, paint the baby’s room, and was there for all of the doctor appointments. We were going to have a baby boy and I was over the moon when we found out. My whole family celebrated the next Alpha.” He stops as a tear falls down and hits my arm. I don’t look at him though I can’t, instead, I crawl onto his lap and hug him tightly, and wait for him to continue.

“She was seven months pregnant when we got into a huge fight about me not claiming her as mine through the mating bite.” He reached up and slid his thumb over his bite mark on my neck sending a shiver through my spine. “As much as I loved her there was something about it all that didn’t sit well with me and my wolf wouldn’t mark her, I told her that I wasn’t ready yet and after our baby was born and we are married then I would mark her. She did not like that answer. when I woke up the next morning she was gone.” He takes a moment to bend down and place a kiss on his mark on me making me moan. I feel him smile against my skin.

“Later my love, later. We have a story to finish before anything happens.” He placed a soft kiss on my forehead and went on. “I went crazy looking for her. It took me four months to find her, by then our son was born but once my eyes looked at him I knew he was not mine. My wolf went crazy, he could smell that the boy was from a different male wolf. When I walked out she was laughing and saying she got all she wanted and that I needed to burn in hell. I didn’t even get to my car when my dad called me telling me that she took important information and that our company and family was in chaos. We lost a lot that day but it didn’t last long, just one week later I was able to fix everything, other than the family secrets which didn’t hurt us that bad because again there was something stopping me so I never let her fully in.” He chuckles and shakes his head.

“That same week she died in a rogue attack with her son and the true father of the kid. Karma got her badly. I tried to save their child and thought I could raise him as mine but we didn’t know about it till it was too late. By the time we got there Amanda and the kids dad were dead, lying in a pool of their own blood, and the boy.” He takes a shuttering breath. “The boy took his last breath in my arms while looking into my eyes. Now you know my deep dark secret that I keep hidden from everyone and that has me so angry with the world. I know this changes everything between us and I understand if you don’t want to stay with me anymore.”

  Was he crazy? How could he think I would hold something like that against him? Did he really think I was going to leave him over something like that? Who does he think I am? What kind of person does he think I am? Well, I need to get all the negative thoughts out of his head and he needs to learn who I am so I leaned back and got up on my knees and straddled him. Placing both my hands on his face I slammed my lips to his before I pulled back and felt myself blackout before coming back but as if I was in the background.

“Hello, mate.”