His Second Chance:Win her back

Chapter 2 Cold spring water

He frowned hard, out of patience. “Don’t bother thinking about refusing or fighting me. It’s pointless. I won’t let my child live in a place like this. Understand?”

Selena stared at his face, which looked just like her son’s, and slowly said, “Oh.”

The truth was, she’d never even thought about refusing or fighting back.

As the saying goes, only a fool passes up a good deal.

Now that the child’s real dad had shown up at her door, of course she’d let him pour out all that fatherly love with nowhere to go.

She turned and went inside. “You can come in, but first I want to see the paternity test results for you and the child.”

Connor hesitated for a moment.

Then he stepped inside and stood by the door, looking over this home that barely qualified as a house. The light was too dim. The walls were yellowed and the sofa was old. The place was tiny, just a few square meters, with room for nothing but a double bed and a dining table.

It was kept reasonably clean, and everything was put away neatly. A worn wooden rocking horse sat by the bed, obviously a child’s toy. Crayon scribbles covered parts of the wall. You could tell it was a lived-in home. The mother and son were poor, but warmth showed in every corner.

The child lay sleeping on the bed, his cheeks flushed. The pup was fairly tall for his age.

He clasped his hands behind his back and looked out the window. A length of twine strung from the trailer to a tree trunk held a row of laundry. Some of it was the pup’s, some was Selena’s.

Suddenly the pup rolled over. He seemed to catch a scent, and with a soft growl, he stood up. Standing on the bed, he wore nothing but a white short-sleeved shirt that hung to his knees, showing off his chubby little legs. On his round, doughy face, a pair of big black eyes glared at Connor fiercely.

His little mouth was open, showing two tiny fangs, and he growled a threat at him. “Rawr... awoo!”

He growled in a soft, babyish voice.

He was almost five, so his bones were developing, and without the spring water from the summit of the snowy mountain, he felt awful all over. His face was flushed red.

Selena was human. She would only think the pup had a fever.

She couldn’t know how much it hurt at night when his growing bones went without the spring water to soothe them.

“Rawr! Awoo!!” The pup was still growling. He was trying to chase off this dangerous intruder. His instincts told him the intruder was strong and dangerous. He had to protect Mommy.

“Rawr rawr rawr!!!” He got even louder. Maybe he felt threatened by the scent of one of his own kind. The soft black hair on either side of his head shifted, and two fuzzy black wolf ears suddenly popped out. Since he was still a pup, the ears were small and short.

Those weren’t ears a human should have.

“Rawr...” The pup’s growl cut off mid-sound. He let out one short syllable and stopped. He had felt it too, and he scrambled to cover his ears with his hands.

He was afraid of being seen, and even more afraid of Mommy seeing.

He thought Mommy had never seen them.

Young as he was, he had noticed long ago that he was different from other people.

In this world, being different was wrong.

It was like he was a little monster. He covered his little ears and stuck his little butt in the air, hiding under the blanket, but his jet-black tail was still sticking out.

Selena strode over to comfort him. “Lucas, don’t be scared. I’m right here. He’s not a bad guy.”

Connor spoke up. “Open your mouth. Take a deep breath.”

The pup froze for a second. Then he seemed to follow along, and the little tail behind him vanished instantly.

The little pup poked his face out. It was even redder, and sweat covered it. He’d worked himself into a sweat from panicking and holding it all in.

The sight hit Selena like a knife to the heart. Her eyes went wide and she threw herself forward, hands shaking as she touched her son’s little face. “What’s wrong? Is it another high fever? Let’s go to the hospital.”

It had been two weeks, and the hospital hadn’t helped.

He clearly had the symptoms of a fever, but the doctors said nothing was wrong. She’d been to more than a dozen hospitals, and none of it had helped.

Some doctors even questioned her mental state, saying her son was perfectly fine.

She knew better than anyone that her baby was sick.

But she was helpless. She couldn’t take the pain for him. Every night, her son broke out in a sweat from the pain, such a tiny little thing, clutching her hand for dear life. He was hurting. At the thought, Selena’s eyes turned red, her heart ached, and her whole body trembled. She got ready to scoop up her son and leave.

“I know what’s wrong with him,” Connor said.

Selena stopped.

“I can save him.”

“He has some things on him that humans don’t have. You must have seen them.”

The pup was still hiding. But after four years of living together day and night, how could a mother not have noticed anything?

Selena went slightly stiff and held the child tighter.

Connor hated beating around the bush, and he had no patience, so he kept it short. “I’m his father. You don’t need to be on guard around me. He’s more than half werewolf clan by blood. Human medicine won’t work on him.”

The moment Connor finished speaking, the pup in Selena’s arms seemed to run out of steam. The little ears on his head popped back out with a whoosh. He didn’t have the energy to hold them back.

Especially with Connor there, that scent they were born with was setting him off. But Mommy was right there, so he hurriedly put out his chubby little hands to cover them up.

He helplessly burrowed into Selena’s arms. “I’m sorry, Mommy. I don’t know why this is happening.”

Selena saw them. She’d already seen them. Over these past two weeks, she’d seen them.

Connor watched this and frowned, his voice dropping a notch. “You’re stressing him out. He’s afraid to let you know.”

Selena’s heart shook, and she hugged her son tighter. “It’s okay, it’s okay. It doesn’t matter that I saw. Mommy thinks they’re cute. Don’t be scared, don’t be scared.”

Her lips, wet with tears, pressed against her son’s little ears. “Mommy already knew. What does it matter? Mommy loves her baby the most, right? Don’t be scared.”

The pup slowly calmed down. He opened his eyes wide and peeked at his mother. “Mommy?”

Mommy was gently stroking his fuzzy little ears, looking at him with a big smile.

Awoo! Mommy really wasn’t scared!

He was happy. He smiled in Selena’s arms, showing his two tiny fangs, then his eyes slowly closed and he fell asleep.

Once her son was completely asleep, Selena stepped out of the room.

She wiped her tears and looked at Connor. “I don’t care if you’re from the werewolf clan or the wild man clan or whatever. I just want my child to get healthy again.”

That night, there wasn’t even time to pack. Selena took her son and left with Connor.

Deep underground in a mansion estate, it was like winter, a world of ice and snow.

This was an ice chamber Connor had built at great expense. The equipment was top of the line and kept the temperature perfectly at its coldest.

At the center of the ice and snow was a small pool of blue water.

It was spring water Connor had brought back from the summit of the snowy mountain a long time ago.

Selena sat in a big, beautiful, unfamiliar room. She had no attention to spare for her surroundings. All she could see was her son’s bright red little face, and her heart clenched.

No wonder. No wonder the hospitals hadn’t found anything wrong.

Even she thought it was ridiculous, leaving with a man she’d known for just a few hours.

What if Connor was lying to her, just playing with her for fun? Or what if he was after her child’s life...

No. There was no use thinking so much.

She was out of options.

A desperate mother could only pin her hopes on this strange man.

After all, her son looked a lot like him, and she’d seen the paternity test too. She had no choice but to believe him.

The moment Connor stepped into the room.

Selena shot to her feet like she’d just spotted a lifeline and rushed over. “Mr. Connor, did you bring the medicine?”

She was standing too close.

Connor stopped and frowned slightly. “Stay away from me.” With that, he walked around her and headed for the bed.

The werewolf clan cared a lot about their distance from females. They were only close with their mates. Even though he and Selena had been as intimate as two people could be, Selena wasn’t his mate. She was the human who’d seduced him that night, slept with him, and run.

He couldn’t say he loathed her, but he just didn’t like her.

It had never been possible between them, and it never would be.

The pup’s existence didn’t change his attitude.

“You humans are all the same, grabbing at strangers at the slightest excuse,” he said with a light sneer.

Selena’s mind was full of her child right now, so she didn’t take offense at his attitude. She followed him and stood well behind him, staring at the glass in his hand，a wisp of white mist rose from the mouth of the bottle.

“Wake the pup up.”

Selena snapped out of it, climbed onto the bed, and carefully gathered her son into her arms, rocking him gently. “Sweetie, can you stay awake a little longer? Take your medicine first, then sleep. Once you take it, it won’t hurt anymore.”

The little guy slowly opened his eyes.

Selena held out her hand. “Give it to me. I’ll feed him.”

Connor scoffed lightly. “You hold it? Cold spring water from the summit of the snowy mountain. You think you can touch it?”

A human hand would feel a burning pain, as if touching red-hot iron.

Selena paused. She thought the man’s attitude was extremely arrogant and rude. She pressed her lips together. “Fine, you do it, then.”

Connor didn’t answer. He held the rim of the glass to the pup’s mouth, and then Selena watched his son gulp it down in big mouthfuls, as if he were drinking heavenly nectar. The bottle was empty in no time.

“One glass a day. Go to sleep.” Connor reached out and touched the pup’s head. “He won’t be in pain tonight.”

Selena frowned. “I’ll watch over him.”

She couldn’t rest easy.

Connor’s gaze rested for a moment on her dark circles and slightly haggard face. His lips twitched. “Suit yourself.”

He turned and left.

That night, Selena didn’t sleep at all. After more than two weeks, her child finally got a restful night of sleep.

Her son could really be saved.

She smiled, the corners of her lips curling up. She hadn’t gotten much rest in these two weeks either, and now that the pressure had lifted, she couldn’t hold on any longer. She slid down and fell asleep right there beside the big bed, on the thick white carpet.

She didn’t have the energy, or even the thought, to get onto the bed.

At seven in the morning, Connor stepped into the room and saw the woman who’d fallen asleep on the floor. He paused.

He looked the pup over, relaxed, and turned to leave. As for the woman asleep on the carpet, he didn’t spare her another glance. He didn’t want to touch this human woman. But she was, after all, the pup’s mother.