Aleena’s POV
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“I must say, Aleena! You’re the one hell lucky woman to be blessed by such an amazing mate.”, The werewolf king commented.
I saw her quickly rushing toward me, but Daniel grabbed her arms, removing his grip from her arms. She glared at him and then ran toward me with a smile.
But I sensed something.
Her scent… it had been changed again.
It meant only one thing now.
‘She is pregnant.’, Leia chirped. Immediately a vivid memory of me running around Mom came in front of me happily, shouting that I was going to big sister now.
Then mom’s words came to my mind, ‘The weakest phase of any woman is when she is pregnant.’
‘I hope you’re not thinking of hurting Eva and her unborn baby.’, Leia said, knowing very well how my mind works.
‘No! I’m not thinking anything. At least, not now.’, I responded, and by that time, Eva hugged me tightly and kissed my head.
Was she serious?
I hadn’t taken a bath for the last five days, and she was kissing someone like me. While this was going on, all the crowds started leaving there one by one after the drama ended, and now no entertainment was left there.
“You look so weak and drained out.”, She muttered, breaking the hug. How could someone be this good? I meant it was too much. I had no idea whether I should call her a fool for caring for someone like me or call myself unworthy of her love and care. But at the same time, I didn’t miss observing the anger and hatred for me in other family members. They were not the same people who used to favor me before Stephen and Stephen…. I couldn’t read his cold expression.
“Come, freshen up quickly and …. ”
“Eva!” I stopped her. “I’m leaving. Thank you for everything, but this is not where I belong.”, I added. I couldn’t risk caring or loving anyone. I knew I had to leave because Julia had said that they would come…they would come for me to snatch everything and everything I love or care for!
“But…”
Before she could have completed the entire sentence, I shifted and ran away from there. With Leia’s presence, I felt strong enough to handle myself, but at the same time, I knew that I had to eat something soon.
‘Mate!’ Leia whimpered when we ran away from there.
‘They don’t want us, Leia.’
‘But they haven’t rejected us yet.’, Leia pointed out.
‘Even if they haven’t rejected us. We can’t afford to lose them. Remember soon all my enemies will be coming for me? And just like I lose that, I didn’t want to lose anyone else.’
Leia didn’t say a word after that, but I sensed that she was in pain. She kept running, and god knows in which direction, while I sat in the back of her mind thinking about this mate bond.
What should I do with it?
And not to forget, I was still a member of Stone Moon Pack!
Should I reject both the bond with pack and Stephen?
I hadn’t had good food for days. This shouldn’t be my decision. Not when I now knew that Leia was in love with Thunder, Stephen’s wolf. Meanwhile, Leia hunted a deer and ate him impatiently as if she hadn’t eaten anything for days, which was somewhere true. After this, she didn’t settle here and started running again.
This time her paws stopped near a pack where the warriors on patrol were staring at us.
‘Leia? Why are we here? They will lock us in the dungeon again for trespassing.’, I said and remembered that this was the same pack that Stephen had brought me with the car when I had lost my consciousness after rejecting my fated mate.
But to my surprise, they let Leia enter the pack without any conversation or anything as if they knew her, and the way Leia ran inside that pack forest, it looked as if she was well aware of this place, but I had never come here before.
Did she come here when she was in control of my body? I wondered but didn’t ask about it her at that moment and admired the place around me. It was so beautiful that I started thinking of asking the Alpha of this pack to let me stay in this pack after breaking the bond with my current pack. The moment my eyes landed on the waterfall and the river, the first thing that came to my mind was to take a bath, but Leia enjoyed that opportunity before me.
After taking a bath, she sat on the bank of the river and kept looking at the reflection on her face.
‘Leia? What is going on? Is there something you want to share?’ I asked her when I looked at her lost and sad expression, and soon a few of the memories from her eyes started playing in my mind. I mentally slapped myself for not giving attention to Stephen’s words when he told everyone about how Thunder and Leia met for the first time.
‘Okay! Let’s return back to your mate.’, I suggested. Fine, don’t be this sad.
‘No! Even you’re right at your part. I can’t risk losing him, and in case something will happen to him, then I will die.’, She whimpered before adding, ‘That’s a different thing that I’m missing him too.’
She kept looking at her reflection until a reflection of a grey wolf appeared from behind. We couldn’t smell his scent, and we had already guessed the reason behind it. He, too, joined her in looking at her reflection in the water together. He licked Leia’s head in affection, and that was it.
Leia broke down and turned her head, and she nuzzled her head against his fur.
They hadn’t spoken a single word to each other, and still, they stood each other in such a great way. Hell, he didn’t even know that she would be here. I could see that they wanted to talk with each other, but they couldn’t. Not until we mark each other until then only the humans could speak to each other.
Sitting in the backseat, I watched them running together, playing together, and licking each other countless times, but their quality time was interrupted when it started raining.
Throughout the day, the sun was already hidden in the dark cloud, so it was somewhere clear that there would be chances of good rain. Thunder guided us the way, and Leia followed him until we reached a cave. It didn’t look like the rain was going to stop anytime soon.
‘Sorry to break this news, Leia, but now, I need control over our body.’, I said.
‘Yeah! I knew this was coming. Just … just don’t fight with his human.’
‘Don’t worry about that.’
I sighed back in my human form and saw Thunder looking at me in irritation.
Aww! Romeo started missing his Juliet already.
“You can talk to her after I sleep.”, I told him so that he would stop glaring at me. And finally, he did. I looked for something so that I could make a fire. And I found some sticks and grasses in the cave, arranging everything. I looked for the perfect stones to make a fire and when I turned around to reach back to the place where I had arranged everything, I saw Stephen trying to create the fire by rapidly grinding the pieces of the sticks and tada! It worked.
Then he lifted his eyes to look at me, and I would be lying if seeing his cold eyes, I felt nothing. Immediately I missed the old Stephen with whom I could talk, not in a lovey-dovey way, but at least I could speak to him, but this man was completely stranger to me.
“When we talked to each other last time, you had apologized to me, hadn’t you?” I would be lying if I said that I wasn’t surprised to find him initiating the conversation.
“Yes!” I replied, trying to look away from his naked body.
“Did you mean it?” he asked again. “You were really sorry?” he added and stood on his feet.
Damn it! This man.
I tried to focus my mind and eyes on his face.
“Yes!”
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#TBC