Chapter five
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OPHELIA'S POV
Looks passed around the table. Questions floated in everyone's minds. Who would be looking for me? Ophelia the rejected mate, the orphan, the slave and all of a sudden, someone knew her.
The guard stood in that same spot awaiting permission from Alpha Kian to bring in the man who was looking for me. Who knew me? I basically had no one on earth except my children. My mate rejected me, my parents died a long time ago, who could it be? Did I have siblings I didn't know of? Or was it relatives?
Minutes fled by like seconds while Alpha Kian contemplated and finally he nodded and said, "bring him in."
A sigh of relief left my being. I needed to know who this was. The guard bowed and exit the room. Alpha Kian and Amber, who had rejoined the meeting stared at me. I couldn't figure out what was going through their minds. Amber wouldn't be happy about all that's happening. She first manages to become Luna even when the Alpha is not her mate and years after, the rejected mate of the Alpha shows up and claims she has kids for the Alpha and needs his help. I was a threat to her. I was once her best friend; if only all that we had was true and now I'm a threat.
The door opened and the finest male I have ever set my eyes upon walks into the room. I forgot how to breathe for a minute. I felt my wolf stir, I felt the urge to gravitate towards him. He was drawing me in and in that moment I drew in a breath. He looked in my direction and we held eye contact. Time ceased to exist as everything went in slow motion. The whole world seemed to turn into a blur; a dull shade of non-existence. He c****d his head in question.
I mustered a shy smile. I was a grown woman but this man turned my insides to jelly; I felt like a teenager again.
My wolf screamed on my insides. I whispered the word my wolf were howling the same minute he did too.
This was good but not good too. Finally he broke eye contact and the world came back in focus. Everyone at the table stared at us both. Alpha Kian stared at me for a minute before he averted his gaze to the handsome stranger.
The stranger bowed so elegantly and when he spoke, I thought I would melt. His voice did things to my insides. It was the only voice I would rather listen to throughout my life.
"Alpha Kian." He said as a kind of salutation.
Alpha Kian stared emotionlessly at him, "and who may you be?"
"I am Draxton and I seek Ophelia because I know where her children may be."
I gasped the same second the whole room did too. I furrowed my eyebrows. This felt suspicious but I didn't have a choice.
Alpha Kian threw him a look of suspicion, "how?"
I decided to say something, it was my children's lives we were talking about here. "Daxton, I'm Ophelia."
He nodded and it was though as if he spoke. I understood him perfectly, it was as though he said 'Obviously'
I smiled a bit and continued, "how do you know where my children are?"
Draxton c****d his brows, "I'm not sure I do.” His response confused the hell out of me. “I was around the school when some guy came to pick them up. I was there too when you came and cried that your children had been taken."
Confusion flooded the room and I was now concerned. I decided to voice my concern out. "How were you there?"
Daxton didn't miss a beat, "I visit the human world on a regular basis and when I do, I visit random places and on that fateful day I was present when the guy showed up in this fancy car and the kids went with him. I had thought it was a relative since the kids knew him. Not until you came to pick them and realized they were taken. That's when I figured out your children might have been kidnapped.”
A flicker of hope fluttered in my chest, "you saw the man who took them?" A little voice in my head informed me that Daxton could be the man who took my boys.
"Yes, I did. After that I decided to do a little digging and I found your kids but I couldn't free them because those holding them are powerful."
I gasped. I stood so quickly that I knocked my chair over, the sound resonating against the walls of the hall. I placed a hand over my mouth, "You know where my kids are?"
Daxton smiled empathetically, "Yes, I found them. I needed help that was why I tracked you down here."
Daxton came around and placed a hand on my shoulder. The second our skin came in contact, I felt a spark and a tingle down my spine. I made eye contact and said the word for a second time. He did too.
"Mate."
Daxton and I held eye contact for minutes simply staring at ourselves like we were the best things we'd ever set eyes on. I felt excited about having a second chance mate. As excited as I was, I was scared also.
Alpha Kian cleared his throat breaking the connection we were building. This was awkward. Amber smiled, this evening took a happy turn for her and for me too. I still had a chance. I had a second mate.
"How are we sure that we can trust you, Draxton? You might be the man who kidn*pped my kids for all we know."
I saw what he did there, Kian was jealous. Earlier he was suspicious that I was lying about him fathering my sons and now he was calling them his like he didn't just find out about them this evening.
Daxton took his hand off my shoulder but still maintained his calm expression. "Ophelia has no other choice, Alpha Kian. Ophelia wants her kids back, she'll do anything."
I saw what he did there and I liked it very much.
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