Chasing His Rejected Mate

Chapter 3:

Irene:

Six years later,

“Reina! Come downstairs this instant, you don’t want to be late for your first day at school!” I yell at my six year old daughter from below the stairs, while clutching a mug of warm coffee.

“Coming!” She shouts back while I shake my head. I move towards the kitchen with the cup of coffee still in my hand.

“Morning.” Iris smiled as she made her way towards the kitchen. Coming to Iron Fur pack has been a blessing with Iris by my side, we attended the university here and even when I learnt I was pregnant, she still supported me.

I took part time classes in my course and when I wasn’t busy, I was working. We took time to watch my daughter and when we graduated in medicine two years ago, Iris and I saved up to be able to afford this three bedroom apartment.

Currently, we are both working in the same hospital. I am a physician while she’s a surgeon. After six years, I am glad with all that I have achieved, but sometimes I still miss my father and twin brother. I wonder how they are even doing.

“Okay, I really need to get out more often.” Iris grumbled, a towel wrapped around her head. She took a sip out of her mug of coffee. “Do you have a shift today?”

“My shift doesn’t start until an hour, I was hoping to drop Reina off at her school before I go to the hospital.”

Iris nodded, before seating on the dining chair.

“Morning mother, morning Aunt Iris,” My daughter came skipping in, her golden blonde hair was held in a ponytail. Obediently, she sat down on the dining chair while I took out breakfast for them both.

I dropped the plate of bacon and orange juice on the table.

As I watched them stuff the food into the mouth, my phone rang loudly. Picking it up, I realized it’s Tyler.

“Hey, Tyler.” I said, turning my back away from them. Like me, Tyler is a physician in the hospital; Iris and my daughter really want me to go out with him, when he mentioned his feelings for me, I asked for time to think about it. I wasn’t ready to throw my heart out again to only get hurt.

“Are you busy tonight? I was thinking we could go to this new restaurant that just opened up, they serve really good food.” He said through the other line, his voice brimming with hope.

“As much as I want to, I can’t. I am really busy tonight; I hope you can understand that.” I bit my bottom lip as I said it. Iris and Reina stared at me and I rolled my eyes.

“Oh. Alright.” His voice was laced in disappointment and I felt really bad.

“Does next week sound better?” I asked and he responded positively, after saying my goodbye, I hung up and turned to face Iris and Reina.

“I want a daddy.” She grumbled, picking at her food. “Why can’t you go out with him?”

“Yeah, why?” Iris scrunched her brows together at me.

“Wait..Is he my daddy?” Reina asked, smiling.

“No.” I took a sip out of my warm coffee.

“Ask him.” She said boldly, she reminds me of him so much, apart from the fact that she has the same golden blonde hair and light green eyes; she has that feisty behavior as him.

I sighed, before grabbing her backpack. “Come on, we don’t want to be late for school.” After dropping my daughter off at her new school, I went to the hospital and spent the day attending to patients.

I sat in the nurses’ station at my computer, charting the records of my patients when Tyler walked over to me wearing his white coat.

“Hello.” He smiled at me.

I stared up from the screen. “Oh, hey.”

He stood, scratching the nape of his neck. “How’s Reina?”

“Missing you as usual.” I smiled at him. If there was anyone who understood my daughter, I would say it was Tyler. He was always at our house playing games with her and she was always trying to pin him as her daddy.

He has been with us for a long time now, always trying to make sure we were safe and I owe a lot to him. I will never forget to thank him for everything he has been doing for my daughter and I.

“So, next Wednesday?” He asked hopefully and I bit my lips as I nodded.

“I will pick you up at seven. Okay?” He smiled. I watched him walk down the hallway towards the patient’s room. A sigh escaped my lips when he finally left, for a moment the thought of Leonard crossed my mind and I pushed it away immediately.

I have been having recurring dreams about the day I stood in his office and how he told me how weak of a person I am. I still can’t get it out of my mind, but I was trying so hard to forget about him, yet I wasn't sure it was working.