(Cole P. O. V)
I wake up with my mate in my arms, I am still unable to believe that we finally found her. It still feels like I am dreaming and it will be shattered as soon as I wake up from my sleep. I feel her stir in my arms, and she opens her eyes and looks at me with her beautiful Hazel eyes.
“Good morning,” I said smiling at her and kissing her head.
“Good morning,” she said with a yawn and gave me her breathtaking smile. God! How much I missed her beautiful smile.
“Did you sleep well, princess?” I ask her while smiling at her.
“Yes, it been so long since I sleep this peacefully, what about you? Did you sleep well?” she asks me with a smile on her face.
“Yes,” I said kissing her on her and chuckling when I heard her stomach growl in hunger and see her face turn adorably red due to embarrassment.
“let’s get you clean up and feed that empty stomach of yours,” I said getting out of bed and walking to the closet to take her clothes out of her. She does some teaching, grabs her clothes from my hand, and walks inside the washroom to get ready for the day. I would link the cook and tell her, to prepare all Nikki’s favourite food. I want to pamper her with all the love, issues, hugs, and gifts to catch up on the time, I missed when she was kidnapped from the school. Hell, I will never send her to school again. I will homeschool her.
I have also missed her birthday, I also have through her late birthday party, for her. She is 11 years old now. Time passes like a blur. It still feels like it was yesterday when I found her and found out that she was my mate. Few more years to wait and then, I will make her mine, I will claim her as my mate. I thought as I grabbed my clothes from the closet and walked to the guest room to take a shower.
After the shower, I get dressed and walk back to my room to see Nikki coming out of the washroom while drying her hair with a towel. She smiled at me and I smiled back at her. I grab a brush from the dressed and brush her hair. Her hair has grown long by now. It feels so smooth in my hands.
“Let’s go,” I said grabbing her hand and leading her to the kitchen where Kelvin and Zane were having breakfast and talking with each other.
“Good morning Zane, and Kelvin,” Nikki greeted them with a hug and sat beside me and I made a plate for her.
“All this is for me,” she asked, surprised to see all her favourite food on the table and I nodded my head to her. I pour the orange juice into the glass and give it to her. She smiled at me and dug in.
“Wow Maria, you are the best, if they’re anything I have missed there in a cell after Trevor and Cole, is your food,” she said moaning at the taste of the food and I smiled feeling satisfied to see her eating peacefully. I dug in my breakfast while making small talk with Kelvin and Zane.
“Why don’t you go and play with other pups, Nikki, while I get some work done so that we can spend some time with each other?” I ask her and she nods her head and walks away from there. I mind linking a few warriors telling them to keep an eye on her not wanting to take the risk of losing her again.
“Zane go in the cottage, I have given to the vampires and tell them I want to meet them in my conference room,” I order him while standing from my seat to walk towards the conference room and mind link my father to meet me there.
“Would you mind if I came with you, there were things that I want to talk with you about Nikki,” Kelvin asked me and I nodded my head to him.
(Kelvin P. O. V)
When I heard Cole ordering Zane to bring the Vampires to his conference room I wanted to go with him so that I also know what the vampire had to say to him, not because I was curious about her but because the moon goddess wanted me to become her protector and I have to know everything about her to protect her, from any harm that comes to her.
Yes, she visited me more than one time when, I was a prisoner there and told me to protect Nikki, when I asked her why or asked her about Nikki, she told me that I would know when the time was right.
“Would you mind if I came with you, there were things that I wanted to talk with you about Nikki,” I asked Cole hoping that he would let me come with him and he nodded his head at me.
I walk inside the conference room with him to see his father is already there waiting for us. After some time, Zane comes with Ryan and his man following with him.
“Ryan, I hope you all are well settled and comfortable in your cottage until I find a cave for you, please take a seat,” Cole said to them and they all took the seat in front of us, while Zane came and stood beside Coles’s chair.
“We all are well settled, thank you, for asking, Alpha Cole,” Ryan said smiling at him.
“I am glad to hear that, please write something in the paper, with your signature,” Cole said passing a paper and pen towards them. Ryan takes a paper and pen from him, does what Cole told him to do and gives the paper back to him.
“Get the handwriting in this paper watch with the papers which had the clues about Nikki’s whereabouts from Donald, find out the information about the rogues and the vampires who joined our pack, and report me or my father half an hour later,” Cole said to Zane passing the paper to him. Zane nodded his head and walked out from there.
“So Ryan what do you know about my mate?” Cole asks Ryan while looking at him.
“As you know your mate is not an ordinary human being, she is the daughter of a witch, a white witch to be precise, and just not an ordinary witch is the daughter, her mother belongs to the most powerful witch coven, Spiritual Moon coven,” Ryan informed us and we all look shocked at him expect Mike.
“But who is that possible? That coven was destroyed 100 years ago when the vampire attacked them when they refused to help them, to declare war against all the supernatural creatures?” Cole asks shocked with the information.
“That’s possible son, like how every werewolf doesn’t like to live in a pack and become a lone wolf or a rogue, the same way all the witches or the wizards don’t like to live in a coven with others and prefer to live alone while hiding between the humans, maybe her mother was one of them who chose to live alone, between the humans, but what I did not able to understand is, why didn’t we able to sense her power when Cole bring her here, what happens with her real parents because with the people Cole finds with her was a normal human being? ” Mike asks him looking confused. Ryan’s expression grew sombre.
“Nikki’s mother and grandmother embarked on a perilous journey, fleeing a formidable witch coven to shield her from danger. In a twist of fate, Nikki’s father, a Lycian hailing from a lost pack, crossed paths with her mother during their hidden existence. Following Nikki’s birth, her parents confronted a harrowing ordeal at the hands of dark witches and vampires. Anticipating the looming threat, Nikki’s mother skillfully enchanted a human couple, entrusting them to raise Nikki under the guise of their own child, while sealing away her innate powers.” Ryan explained to us, shedding light on the intricate details of Nikki’s lineage and upbringing.
“Nikki is the daughter of the moon goddess, right?” I asked him the question I wanted to ask him for a long time.