Undefeated Mother

7. Mate Talk

Kilian POV 

I didn’t want Felicity near Cassius, I thought she hated me and our son, but seeing her reaction in the office made me wonder. I heard Estrid whimper and Felicity’s eyes were full of tears. For some strange reason Bane was begging me to comfort her, he wanted to hug his old mate. Even Cassius was looking at her, but she didn’t see it, she had her back turned towards him. I don’t know if it was to hide her tears or she genuinely didn’t want to see her child.

During the meeting I got flashback of my time with Felicity, more specifically my s*x life with her. It was sudden and unexpected but I would lie if I said I didn’t enjoy it. I only slept with Violent since Felicity, having s*x with your mate was the best adrenaline rush I ever experience, Violent was there or my needs, but I always wanted to be with my mate.

I was walking back to his room when I saw Poppy walk out of it, immediately Bane wanted to protect his pup and started growling at her.

“Calm down Alpha, I’m not here to harm him. Just … just give her a minute please” she said quietly pointing to the door. I knew what she meant and who, Felicity was in there with Cassius. I didn’t say anything just nodded.

Opening the door slowly, I heard Felicity whispering something to him, she said that it wasn’t her choice to leave us, then whose choice was it? I could look at them for hours, the love of my life and my child in the same room. The Moon was shining on to her face and I thank the Moon Goddess that she was still alive to see our son. For the last four years I thought she was banished, beaten or dead. But it wouldn’t be Fury if she was. I wanted just one moment to talk to her, I needed to know why she rejected me but the peace in which we were in, next to Cassius, was perfect, just what I needed.

Felicity POV:

 I was in the car waiting for Francis when Poppy was rambling on about our next week’s training. I as glad she was the First Daughter because in moments like these I needed her to take charge.

“What if he is like Damien?” she suddenly asked.

“He isn’t, I can see his aura and it is pure. Even Cassius wanted to be near him, he has kind eyes. We just need to wait for his wolf to come out and to do that we need to find his mate” I answered.

“That’s my point, you said that your wolf is your other half. Estrid is kind and courageous and so are you. But what will happen if his wolf is power hungry and murderous?”

Realisation hit me like a tonne of bricks. What if my father was a kind man and his wolf turned him evil? What is I’m putting all my Daughters at risk?

“We need to find his mate and fast. We also need to find a witch”

“Why” Poppy questioned

“The Marble Pack is hosting a party next week. Francis is invited as there will be a lot of unmated she-wolves so there is a chance his mate will be there. I’m going to accompany him but I need to mask my identity. We needs to find a witch, so that no-one from Marble will recognise me.

“I’ll see what I can do”

Out of the corner of my eye I saw Francis walking down the stairs but I was surprised to see Kilian following him. He wanted to make sure we leave his pack for good.

“Thank you coming here Felicity and Francis sorry for everything. I really thought you cam here to kill my son” he held his hand out and Francis shook it leaving me and Kilian alone.

“I will see you in a week” he took his hand out again and left it for me to shake it. I hesitated but I didn’t want to seem bitter, I wanted this night to be over so I shook his hand and immediately felt pain in my head, it was like he was breaking another curse and electricity passed through my body, I broke the contact before my headache became worse.

“Yeah see you” I said and walked back to the car.

“Poppy move I’m driving back home. You go to the back and sleep it off. Francis I need to talk to you”

After a while I waited for Poppy to fall asleep to speak to Francis. I don’t know what to say but I knew the information I wanted from him.

“Where did you grow up?” I asked.

“All over the country. My parents travelled a lot for work and they also travelled to different hospitals to see specialists” he admitted.

“Your parents?”

“Yeah I was adopted when I was two”. My mother must have given him up for adoption when he was born and kept me since I was a girl.

“You know when our mother died her last words were “you need to find him” I always thought she meant our father, she meant you. I guess she never forgot about you”.

“What was she like?” he asked.

What should I tell him? That she was ruthless, she taught me to hate men and kept me away from wolves. She put a curse on me to keep me from my mate, never showed me an ounce of love. The relationships I had with my mother was nothing like a normal maternal relationship.

“She was determined and would do everything do get her way. Even her death, she refused to go to the hospital” There was a moment of silence as Francis turned to look at Poppy.

“Could Poppy be my mate?”

I couldn’t help but laugh. “No, when you meet her you will get the biggest headache as they would be breaking the curse. After the curse is broken you will be attracted to them and nothing else will matter. Every mate has their scent, when I meant mine all I could smell were cherries and he said he could smell chocolate. You become hungry for them and you feel like you will die if you don’t get a piece” without realising a massive grin formed on my face.

“He’s your mate isn’t he? Kilian? Which makes Cassius your son” Francis huffed.

“Well what do you know, you find your sister and your nephew in the same day” I laughed. “There is a lot for you to learn but yeah he is or rather he was. When I gave birth to Cassius, Kilian had to take him to the hospital and he rejected me... he’s no longer my mate” I confessed. “Tell me about yourself, what do you do? What’s your favourite thing to do, stuff like that?”

“I work for an international company that deals with financial trade. To be honest with you I was getting sick and tired of it. I’m probably fired and my name is on the missing list if I have been walking around for 7 months”.

I kept driving in silence as I didn’t know what to say, I was ripping him away from the life he used to know.

“You can go back if you want to, you might meet your mate in New York, but Francis you are a Royal, you are the oldest male descendent of Xavier, as soon as people find out about you they will try to kill you. We have powers, abilities you could say” I explained.

“Powers?” he questioned.

“Yeah, you will have more when you have s*x with you mate, they kind of ... unlock it. When I was pregnant I was able to see people’s aruras and sometimes I can still see them. I saw yours and it was pure, I knew you weren’t dangerous. We are stronger and faster than normal wolves. We heal faster and we can mind link more people”

“Aura’s are like a shadows right? Like that girl’s? Violet?” he asked

“What?” this couldn’t be true, he hasn’t met his wolf yet, unless the wolf was coming out on his own accord. I haven’t seen Violet as I turned away from her, I didn’t want to see the woman who was raising my son.

“When she walked in I saw a dark shadow around her and for some reason... I growled”

“Your wolf is coming out”