Dark Mate

Chapter 6

They listen to me with so much attention, the female alpha paying so much attention.

I can see sympathy in her eyes, but I have learnt not to trust anyone from my previous experiences, not to trust humans. After all, my own father banished me from my pack on a request from his enemy just for the safety and peace of his own pack. Remembering him and my mother brings fresh tears to my eyes, being away from home. I have no idea where life is taking me to, but I hope it takes me somewhere I can look at my past and smile.

The female Alpha gathered her pack and left me alone. I am glad she did, because I need time to assimilate my thoughts. Deep in thoughts when I fall asleep. I wake up to find just the female alpha beside me. I hold my head with both hands, it feels like headaches want to rip off my head.

"I thought it should be over but it just won't stop."

"You're pregnant with a dark Alpha's child, aren't you?"

I immediately become cautious, I can feel myself stiffen. I cannot remember spilling the race of my child's father, unless it's their gift to read minds, which I highly doubt. I have already started planning my escape route.

"How did you know?" "I never told you anything, did I?" My heartbeat drums with this question. I hope she doesn't tell me I accidentally spilled this piece of information.

She smiles and hands me water,

"Do you want to know how I became an Alpha as a woman?"

This time, she is stirring leaves in the hot water but I seem attracted to the steam.

"I had just clocked 16, father was so excited. He finally sorted out suitors. My mother refused to be idle. She'd search and gist with father about their perfect choice for me. The conversation went on for as long as possible. As an Alpha, we weren't financially buoyant, so papa celebrated my womanhood at 17 years. Suitors came from far and wide, all with a pretense of attitude, dressed in the best of their attire, fair and dark. Csnerian and Scenerien, tall and short, all broad chested.

It was a very beautiful sight to behold. Then HE came.

Dressed in all black. Deep green eyes, he had perfectly chiseled jaws. Jaws as tho would cut a metal cleanly. Shoulders broad enough to carry the world on his back. He was just perfect, every woman's dream. His red lips did nothing to alleviate my teenage crush.

All other suitors became completely useless and unappealing to me. Father and mother were both happy, their daughter had finally caught interest, our mindsets were all set on marriage. He'd come every day to see me, each day a different flower. I stored them all in my wardrobe, I threw out my undies to clear up a space for his flowers. Mother was furious when she noticed me without underwear, but I just wouldn't listen. She bought a new set of undies with a big vase big enough to contain all of the flowers. I'd sniff it first thing in the morning and the last thing at night before I went to bed. It reminded me a lot of his scent.

One day, we went under this peach tree that blossomed with red flowers at night. He confessed his love. I was just as elated as my mother was when I told her about his confession. The next day, he visited me in my room. At first it was just a conversation, then we got closer and it became a kiss, and it became s*x. Mother had come to wake me up when she found out what I had done. She hid it from my father, thinking that was just the end. He stayed two weeks longer than the initial ball. When I discovered I was pregnant, he had planned to leave. The news was like a shockwave to both of us.

I wasn't ready to become a mother and he wasn't ready to become a father either.

We argued it over for days, but he was as stubborn as my father, in my case, the father of my pregnancy and husband to be yielded. We threw our engagement ceremony and I followed my husband back to his clan. His mother was proud, never lifted her gaze to look at me.

On my first night at my husband's place, that was when I found out, my husband was a dark Alpha and my children were to be dark Alphas. I wouldn't have rejected discarding the pregnancy, everybody knows no normal werewolf could mate with a dark werewolf. The pregnancy was bound to have complications, one I wasn't prepared for."

I choked on the hot soup she had just brewed. I knew problems were bound to arise but pregnancy complications were something I really wasn't prepared for.

"Not to worry, I am here for you."

"My pregnancy was one hell of a kind, it took Precious, his mother, two lunar moons to finally accept me. The cramps were one hell of a trauma, it felt like I was brewing fire in my bowels and it just kept rotating. The pain became unbearable with every trimester of my pregnancy. My husband, Davis, did his best.

At first, he wouldn't cooperate, but the moon goddess did it and he became the perfect husband. Alongside his mother, it wasn't easy but I managed and I endured it. Finally, I gave birth to Samuel. Davis was so happy, he couldn't stop smiling. My mother-in-law briefed me and she warned me, but all I wanted to be was an ideal wife. I followed my heart and emotions and I took in. This time around, luck wasn't on my side. I gave birth to triplets, two boys and a girl. Now I have listened, we grew as one. Davis was always there for his children as a father. He was beyond the perfect husband, all throughout the abstinence period, he restrained himself even on the full moon."

"Why did you leave him?" If Raziel was just like this, I wouldn't have rejected him. I wouldn't abandon my pack to live in this desolate world I know nothing of. Tears are flowing out from both our eyes, I can feel everything she's going through.

"I didn't leave him. If I could bring him back, I'd do everything in my power to, but he left for the land of no return.

We had just signed an alliance treaty with a weaker pack.

We were to supply them with food and they'd be part of us. Little did we know, they were just spies looking for a weak point. A weak

point that has haunted me my whole life.