The Hidden Queen

Chapter Eight

Cullin’s POV 

I approach the Alpha’s office. It is not formal to approach an Alpha without an appointment, but I need to figure out what in the actual f**k is going on. My mate has a chosen mate and a kid, but no one thought to tell me not even her. I needed to figure this out because if she had already chosen a mate, I guess I would need to do the right thing and reject her. It is not like I can complain… much. The goddess has plans beyond our control, and maybe this was her way of setting me on my right path. I knock on the door, and hear a gruff voice say ‘come in’. 

“Good Morning, Alpha Cullin! I am surprised to see you up this early given everything that happened last night. Poor little Spencer, How is he doing?” Alpha Andrew addresses me from behind his desk standing as I walk in. I just raise my eyes in confusion. 

“Dad… I don’t think he has any clue… He wasn’t with Fi and Isaac when I went to check on him last night,” Future Alpha James responds to his father. He is sitting on the couch across from his father. 

“Um… No, no clue here. I was wondering if you would be able to set up a meeting with the Beta for me. I need to speak to her, so we can be free of our bond before we leave here.” I respond curtly. 

“REJECT HER!” Alpha Andrew screams, his eyes changing from blue to black. Obviously, his wolf was very attached to his Beta and protective. 

“Well, she has a chosen mate and a pup. I do not want to get in the way of these matters.” I respond matter-of-factly, as I go to sit down on the opposite couch from Alpha James and cross my arms over my chest. 

Alpha Andrew’s eyes glaze over, I am assuming mind-linking Fiona and Alpha James looks rather smug sitting on the couch holding back a laugh. 

“Dude! You are so off base it is not even funny. However, it is not my place to explain Fiona, but seriously don’t be a d**k. She is…well she is Fi. There is no other way to describe it.” James laughs off. I guess it is hilarious to all of them that my mate had a pup and a chosen mate. Great, this whole pack is nuts. 

Just then the door swings open, and in walks my mate. Goddess, she is even more beautiful in the daylight. Her long dark brown hair was in a messy bun on top of her head, and she was in leggings and a sweater. She looks beautiful even if it looks like she had just rolled out of bed. 

“Morning, sorry Spencer didn’t fall asleep until almost 3 am, and then woke up every hour. Isaac even took a shift, so I wouldn’t be too out of it today…. But I guess I already am…. Good morning Alpha Cullin…” She says glancing around the room before settling on me and turning bright red. 

“Good Morning Beta Fiona. I requested your presence this morning. Hoping to get this silly mate bond issue out of the way before the meetings.” I say curtly. She just rolls her eyes and plops down next to James on the sofa crossing her arms and leaning back. 

“Told you so. Stupid mate bond. Get over with it, so my wolf can just shut up.” She says staring me down. 

“ENOUGH!” Alpha Andrew bellows in his alpha voice at the top of his lungs. “Fiona, stop it with your nonsense. He thinks Isaac is your chosen mate and Spencer is your pup. Alpha Cullin, I suggest you give Fiona a second to pull her head out of her ass and explain her unique situation.” 

Fiona just rolls her eyes and I am taken aback by how she doesn’t even flinch at his alpha tone. I didn’t expect to submit to another alpha, but I let myself do this once.

“Fine.” We both say. It feels like we stole a cookie from the cookie jar and were in trouble with our parents. 

“So…” I start to say.

Just then the door bangs open, and in walks Isaac with a crying a pup in his arms. The same one I saw last night in the hospital with them. 

“Fi… He won’t stop crying. I tried everything…” He starts and walks over to her. He glances around the room before his eyes land on me. “Oh sorry… I didn’t know you were in here Alpha Cullin.” 

He was tall, but not as tall as me. He had the same blue eyes as Fiona, but his hair was a dirty bond. He was just wearing sweats and a loss tee, but you could tell he was 100% mussel. He walked over to me and held out his hand. 

“I guess introductions are in order. I am Isaac, that sassy pants,” He pointed his other hand to Fiona, “little brother. Nice to meet you. Sorry for interrupting last night, but Houdini tried a famous escape and cracked his head open. I told her to have you come with us, but Fiona is too hard-headed.” 

I shake his hand and try to process all of that. Brother, he was her brother. That made sense as to why they were so close to each other all the time. It still didn’t explain the little guy, but at least she didn’t have a chosen mate. Fiona had gotten Spencer to calm down, and he was sound asleep in her arms. 

“Brother?” is all I can say, and the rest of them start laughing but Fiona. 

James is the first one to come up for air, “You thought she was with Isaac? Dude Oh my goddess…. I am sure you think Spencer is…” 

“James,” she cuts him off, “Well Alpha Cullin, I guess I should at least explain, and then we can go back to discussing the rejection.” 

The daggers that Isaac throws my way with his eyes could kill anyone. He is pissed, I wasn’t even thinking of rejection anymore. I thought that she had chosen a mate, and I was going to let her be with him. But he is her brother, so what if she had a pup. 

“Well… As I stated last night, my parents passed away a few years ago. My dad a little over 2 years ago, and my mother a little under. When my dad passed, I started to help my mom with my siblings because… well... So when I was five my parents had Isaac. Then came the twins' Becker and Oliver five years later and then the triplets Nolan, Ayden, and Carson five years after that. I know for wolves to have triplets is unheard of, but we have them. They are almost seven now,” She rambles slowly. I try to process all of this information. Six younger siblings is a lot for anyone, But that still doesn’t explain the pup in her arms. He had to have been no more than two not seven.

“Okay so then my dad was killed… and mom didn’t handle it well. She was really sick and no one knew why... well turns out she was pregnant quintuplets. She carried them as long as she could, but five Beta pups is a lot. She carried them to 4 and half months and did not survive the delivery. This is Spencer the middle one. The other four are Camryn, Isaiah, Everett, and Quinn.” She finally finishes.

I didn’t even know how to process all the information. 11 kids, 11, 5 still in diapers, and she was the acting Beta of a pack. I can’t believe we didn’t know about this family when we were the closest pack to them. Cal had to know about it. I would have to ask him.

“Eleven.” was the only thing that I could get out of my mouth.

“Yup.” She said and rolled her eye. “Told you so.” She looks at the other men in the room.

“Wow…” I say out loud. I wasn’t even listening as the rest of the guys are talking to Fiona and checking in on Spencer. I just get up and leave the room. I went from wanting to reject my mate, to being so happy I found my mate, to end on eleven kids. What was this girl doing to me? This was insane. I open the door to my room, and I see the last person I thought I would, Calix.

“What are you doing here?” I ask right away.

“Kaleb called said you met your mate, but that you were going to reject her. I was not letting you do that without your other half.” He jokes and shoots me his toothy grin.

“Dude. I am not rejecting her. We talked… well more like she talked and I listened.” I say as I sit down in the chair across from him. Running my hands over my face.

“Sooooo….” He questions looking over at me.

“She doesn’t have a chosen mate or a pup.” I whisper looking down at the floor.

“And the problem is then?” He looks so confused.

“She is raising her 11 siblings. ELEVEN.” I finally look up at him.

“Oh fuck.” He almost yells. “Well, what do you want to do?”

“I don’t know…” I sink down in the chair. I was to tired to try and figure this out.