Chapter 21: Linda is not my mother
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Sofia pov:
It's been a few days since the whole pregnancy saga, and I haven't really been myself. I've been thinking and wondering why things have to be so complicated between Damian and I. I couldn't help but wonder if we are really destined to be together or maybe the moon goddess just made a mistake pairing us together.
Albaz spoke up, "The moon goddess doesn't make mistakes. There's a reason why Damian and Storm are our mates, and I promise you, you'll understand it in due time." She speaks in parables, but I didn't bother to ask further.
These few days haven't been easy. I have been training a lot, and yesterday I discovered two of my powers: healing and telekinesis. Albaz told me not to let anyone know yet.
Lately, I've noticed my appearance changing. The silver streaks in my hair have been getting more pronounced, and my eyes seem to be shifting to a deeper shade of green. Albaz said it's because we're coming into our full powers, and my body is adjusting to the changes.
We shift only at night to run around the woods. We're always careful to make sure nobody sees us.
Josh and Mark knows about my wolf and always make sure that whenever we go for our run, they instruct the warriors on duty to stay away from the northern part of the park.
That's where my wolf and I go for our runs and hunting.
Mark and I trained in our wolf forms a few times, and Albaz fighting skills are really something. Mark asks if Albaz was a warrior in her past life and we laughed over it.
Luna Elina called the school principal and told him that I won't be available for the last days of school. I had some personal issues to deal with.
I'm really grateful for that because I don't want anyone seeing me in this condition. I haven't been able to eat or sleep well, and Luna said it's the mate withdrawal symptoms. It's going to get worse if we don’t fix things with Damian.
Josh and Mark told me Damian is in his penthouse in the city, but I'm not ready to see him. I don't know what to say to him, and the pain in my chest is getting worse.
Luna helps me with a potion, saying it'll help with the withdrawal pain. Whenever I take the potion, Albaz gets weak and silent for hours. Luna said it's a side effect; it helps my wolf calm down and rest from taking the pain.
It hurts so much because I miss him. Things were finally going well between us.
I was trying to eat lunch, but I had no appetite. I gave up and was cleaning the plate when the doorbell rang. I thought it was the omega with the potion, and opened the door surprised to see my mother. She asked, "Sofia, how are you doing?" I responded by saying I was fine. She said, "We need to talk." I said, "Look, Mother, if you here to blame me for Vanessa's punishment I'm not in the mood."
She said, "No, I'm here for you. You need to get your act right and work things out with Damian. Let him mark you and stop acting like a kid. You should be grateful he chose you despite being an omega."
I said, "Mother, it's not that easy to forgive Damian." She responds by saying "It doesn't matter; you need to stop acting like a kid. He made a mistake, and besides, it happened before you both discovered you were mates. I want you to give in to him and stop acting high and mighty just because Damian chose you."
Mating him means more power for our family in the kingdom.
And I looked at her and asked, "Really, is that what you care about? Power?" And she said, "Of course, Vanessa was doing just fine with him. But the moon Goddess had to come and decide that you were better fit for him, which, by the way, we did not question, but you need to be grateful. Do you know what it is to be mated to Damian? Damian is an alpha; he is entitled to have more than one woman in his life."
And I said, "Well, I don't care about that. He can go and be with his werebear; it’s none of my business." And she said, "You need to stop acting like a child. You know it's about power. I have an omega for a child; can't you make the family proud by being with your mate and fighting for what belongs to you?"
I said, "It's not even about the power, it's about my feelings; it's about the fact that he had a fiancée and he did not tell me about it. He had so many opportunities to tell me that he had a fiancée, but he didn’t. Countless times, he promised to make things right, but he kept disappointing me."
He doesn't owe you an explanation. He is an alpha; he is not entitled to explain himself to you.
He is not just an alpha; he is my mate, mother.!
She responds by saying, you should know your place; you are an omega mated to an alpha. You should be grateful."
I looked at her, finally broken, tired, and fed up with her treatment, and said, "Mother, I'm your child too, your daughter. Why do you hate me so much? Why do you make me feel like I am nothing and I deserve just crap, because Damian is my mate I should take every s**t that's being thrown at me?"
she said, "Please don't act dramatic."
I said, "No, Mother, I'm not acting dramatic. I just want to know why you hate me so much. I didn't beg you to give birth to me. I didn't beg you..."
She spoke, "I wish I had gotten rid of you then. I found out about you, but it wasn't my place to do so.
Why do you hate me so much? Why would you even...want to kill your own child?
"Because you are not my child, Sofia. You are not my child. I did not give birth to you. Your father cheated on me, and then one day, he just came back, holding you in his arms, and told me to accept you as my child."
and I had no choice but to do that. But the shock of you being in our lives made me miscarry; you made me lose my son that I was pregnant with. You, Sofia, have always been a curse to me and our family, and I wish... I wish I would have just actually taken you out."
"But your father loves you so much and protects you. The reason why you are even alive is because of your grandmother, and you should be grateful that, despite being a lonely omega, you mated to an alpha."
"And if you do not want Damian, you should let Vanessa have him. Besides, Vanessa won’t let some b***h snatch Damian. You don't know what you have, child, and you need to stop being foolish and fight for your mate."
and said in a low voice "You drop a bomb like this on me, and this is all you could say? You are not my mother? I asked, sounding really shocked and hurt. Then who is my mother exactly? Is this the reason why you hate me? Because you are not my mother?
And she said, "Yes, I hate you, and I hate that mother of yours so much."
And that was when we heard a very loud growl behind us. When we looked, it was a very angry-looking Josh and Mark standing there with death in their eyes, staring deeply at Linda. If looks could kill, she would be six feet under.
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