Chapter 7
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Elijah's POV
When Skye caught me kissing Ashly this morning, I felt ashamed of myself. Ever since Skye moved into the room two doors down from me I have been having a hard time sleeping.
It is funny, she can't sleep with me and I can't sleep without her.
The pack has been giving me funny looks for the past two weeks. I hated the fact that I let things go this far. She would still kiss me and let me hold her, but it was not enough for me.
She has been acting up, she is sweet one moment and then frustrating the next.
My mind is all in a twist because of her.
I have not been thinking straight for about a week now.
This morning when Ashly entered the kitchen, all I could think of is the last time I was with her. The last day I had no mate to care about. I kissed her and even though my wolf was growling and screaming at me not to, I deepened the kiss. It felt sickening and good all at the same time.
When I heard my mate whimper and saw her run away, I felt disgusted with myself. She could have teleported to some place far from here and ended up killing herself. She could decide to change her identity and be on the run again.
I might have lost her, all because I wanted to have s*x with someone who means nothing to me.
My wolf was pissed at me. I am the reason we might never get a chance to claim our mate.
Skye does not deserve what I did. Her mother was wrong! I am not a good enough mate for Skye.
Eric was the one that found her and brought her back. I wanted to be that one. When he told me where he found, I hated myself even more.
She would not come to me, when I tried to take her from Eric's arms. I was humiliated and I deserved it.
I watched as Eric carried Skye up to her room. The doctor asked Nancy, a she-wolf that worked as his nurse, to get some or other machine for him after two minutes of looking over Skye.
After another fifteen minutes I thought that I was going to lose my mind. Why was Dr. Peters still busy with Skye?
It was when I heard Skye scream that I completely lost it. Eric opened the door and ran in. Caleb and I followed him, thinking the worst.
I felt my chest clench when I saw Skye and the look in her eyes. We all tried to calm her, but nothing worked. The doctor gave her a sedative to put her to sleep.
I was too angry at him to thank him. I rushed over to the doctor and pushed him up against the wall. My wolf was close to the surface.
"What happened?" Even to my own ears my voice sounded deadly. Caleb tried to pull me away from the doctor, but I would not budge.
"She is pregnant, Alpha Kent." He gasped out. He looked scared, just as he should be.
"You’re lying!” I screamed.
Skye could not be pregnant, we have not mated. My wolf wanted to rip out the doctor’s throat for lying to us.
Caleb pulled me away from the doctor and just as I was going to attack him again my father came in the room, stopping me in my tracks.
"What is going on here?" He asked his voice held anger and disappointment.
"The good doctor is lying to me." I spat out and tried to make my way back to the doctor, but was pulled back by Caleb and Eric.
My father looked towards the doctor. "What is he talking about Peters?"
"I...I told him that his mate is pregnant, she is about seven weeks along, Alpha." Even though I am now Alpha of the pack, people still treated my father with respect and called him Alpha.
"Are you completely sure about that?" My father asked.
"Yes, sir. Just listen carefully; there is a faint heartbeat in her that does not belong to her."
My father simply nodded and walked over to me. "I need you to calm down son. We are going to figure all this out soon. We just need to keep a cool head on our shoulders, okay?"
He spoke calmly, yet his voice was full of authority.
I did as my father said and ran out of the pack house; I leaped from the front porch and shifted into my black wolf. We needed to figure out what happened.
I ran to the lake where Eric found Skye.
It truly looked beautiful under the full moon.
I shifted back to human form and let out an ear piercing scream. I am sure the moon goddess heard that.
"How is this possible?" I screamed to no one in particular. "She has not been claimed by any other wolf! She has not mated!” I cried and felt the tears I have been holding back reach the surface.
Not only is there a chance that she might leave me. She is going to have some other man's pup.
I stayed there until I drifted off.
The moon goddess appeared before me and lifted my face, so that I would look at her.
"Elijah, I am partly to blame for all this." She sounded sad and looked the part too.
"How can she be pregnant? I thought a she-wolf can only get pregnant when she is in heat."
She nodded at me and smiled sadly. "That is true. It is also true that a wolf will start going into heat every three months, if they haven't found there mate fifteen years after their first shift. "
It dawned on me then that Skye had first shifted when she was just four years old.
“My daughter never wanted this. When she was nineteen she went through her first heat and she had no choice in the decision she had to make. After that every three months she had to find ways to deal with her heat.”
I cried and hated myself at that moment, for never going out to find my mate. I was too busy having a good time that I never went out to look for my mate as I should have after I first shifted.
"She is going to need you now more than ever. She will be difficult, for the pup in her will always want to be near its father or be alone. "
"It won't be that easy, I screwed up. She hates me." I said to her. I just admitted to my mate's mother that I have been unfaithful. I wanted to die right there.
"She will forgive you, but you have a lot to make up for. Before, she never cared about anything, now she is overly emotional and starting to feel things she has never felt before. You have to learn patience and humility."
I nodded and felt myself fall away from the light that held me in the dream and woke up.
The sun was already starting to rise and I needed to get back to my mate.
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