I laughed.
It was obviously dry and I wanted it to be that way.
“Are you trying to fool me because of my condition?” I asked.
My gaze roamed from Hawk, Sean, then the woman. I wanted to be a good boy, respect her and send her off but she began to reach foe something around her neck.
I waited.
She brought out a necklace, opened it and showed me the picture in it. It was the picture of the younger version of her and my dad in the necklace locker.
“So you expect me to believe you”
“I want you to understand that I had a reason for been away, my boy” She said.
I shirked inwardly. She had the guts to call me her boy! I am the Alpha! Everyone fear me.
It would have being better of I were the Alpha king because no one would want to kidnap my mate for the second time.
“Just get out and I will pretend you don’t didn’t just disrespect me” I told them.
Hawk wanted to say something.
The way he looked, opened his mouth and closed it without letting out a word made me smile in satisfaction.
He knows his place.
The fact that he was my best friend and the Beta doesn’t mean he could go against my order.
As they approached the door slowly, I turned away to get back into the room. I wanted to think we’ll, to know where else to check and see if Kia’s contact will go through this time.
“You know that you are not a full werewolf?” The woman asked.
I looked back at her.
My body tensed as I remembered what Hawk and his mate had told me before at the woods.
“I am your mother, I am a Lycan”
I walked back to her, grabbed her by the throat again and growled at her. She was obviously in pain, she made choking sounds but didn’t fight back.
She looked me dead in the eyes, tears filled hers as she let them drop. I followed the tears, down to her chins and down her neck.
“Are you really going to kill your momma?” She asked calmly.
I was shocked.
It sounded directly into my head and I thought she mind linked me. I looked at her lips, I wanted her to say it again and she did.
She was really talking into my head.
‘Are you going to kill me like your father did?’ she asked.
I got scared and threw her.
Hawk caught her, helping her to her feet and tried to rub her neck. He glared at me, a low growl came from him and I was sure that he would attack me.
‘I can get into your mind link son, and I know about how you feel’ She moved off Hawk’s grip and walked to me.
I didn’t move. I wanted her to fear me, to know that I remain the Alpha and can still kill her but she didn’t show that fear. She looked at me with pity, with love, with Hope!
‘I Heard about your mate, Your beast, and I am here to help you, baby’ She mind linked me.
This time, I didn’t try to hold the tears. I let it drop, rolling down from behind the dark glass to my chin. I sniffed loudly, My lips quivered like a lost baby looking for his mom.
“Go get Mira,” she ordered Sean who imma went.
I was shocked but I kept quiet.
I watched her push me to the couch and sat beside me. She took my palms, looked me dead in the eyes and smiled.
“I don’t mind if you still don’t trust me, but I need to save my daughter in law and my grand kids” she said.
Fact!
Some part of me already believe her but I tried to hold that hard look. She was that hope I have been looking for and I believe her.
I wanted to ask her lots of questions. To ask her why she left and why father never talked about her but I didn’t.
Hawk walked closer, avoided my gaze and knelt before me.
“After your mate got missing the first time, she came to us. She explained who she was and we immediately had that connection especially when my mom knew who she was”
I removed the glass and stared at him.
“You forgot my mom was you nanny. Your father me the beta to keep her shut about who your mom really is”
As I listened to Hawk, I realized I never knew his father. He didn’t even come from a respectable family, not even from a high rank wolf.
All I knew about him was that we grew together, I hoped and thought that were brothers until I knew we weren’t.
“Madam CJ” I said.
Hawk nodded.
That was what we both called his mom. Poor boy didn’t even have to call him mother mom because of my dad.
“After the an attack, my mother found Her, ” He pointed at my mom and shrugged “Found her at the border trying to sneak in. She told my mom who and what she really is so my mom took her straight to your father who…”
He paused.
He obviously didn’t want to say the rest to I looked at my mom for help.
Immediately her gaze met mine, she flinched. Soon, she was relaxed, but unease.
“Please ignore my eyes, Ma”
She smiled
“My name is Elena and you can call me that of you aren’t free with calling mom yet”
I growled at her.
Even if I felt this warmth from her, that I felt so happy and enough hope around her, I still would not trust her how I trusted Klaus and he helped them kidnap my mate.
“Your father and I were never mate” She started “He doesn’t have a mate because of what he did to women, I, and Olivia’s mom made sure he never would”
Shit!
She knew about my formal mate too.
“Your father knew about Lycan and he was obsessed with it. Him and Kia, they used to be best friends but Kia wanted more”
I adjusted on my seat and sat to face her. Her gaze would meet mine and she would look away because of my eyes.
Seeing that she wasn’t comfortable with it, I covered them with the glass back.
She smiled, gave me a small nod and deeply inhaled and exhaled.
“You know what happened” she shrugged ” He made me have you, Kia wanted to have a Lycan baby from me too and when you father knew it, he tried to kill me”
I gasped.
My hand went over my mother and tears rolled my eyes. My mom didn’t deserve all that!
Was that why he never talked about her?
“CJ found me, I have been hiding in her basement for years and Hawk had always been a good boy” she wiggled her fingers in her hair.
Jealous, I growled.
He had been my best friend and Beta to hide such from me?
“Don’t me a bad child, Rex” My mom said as she placed her palm on one of my knee.
“Your mate, her brother and my grand kids are in trouble”
I rolled my eyes.
“Klaus betrayed us and Kidnapped her” I growled.
I looked up at her to see her giving me a pity look.
“Alaric did it” She drop it bomb shell.