Chapter Hundred and Eighty-Eight – Drama.
Rihanna’s POV
Jaden’s energy wasn’t around us. Was I exclusively meeting his mother?
This felt weird. She’s basically my mother-in-law.
She made me follow her in a carriage, saying she was taking me to her favorite place.
The place was outside the pack and not even rose valley as I thought.
She must have been the one who wrote to me.
I wondered what she wanted to say to me when it’s our first time meeting each other. Was it about the answer Jaden wanted?
“Could you stop assuming and ask her?” my wolf groaned. “This silence is deafening.”
I stole glances at the former Alpha.
She looked powerful, though with relaxed face. Her eyes were dark, and her aura wasn’t inviting.
“I don’t even know what I could ask her. Jaden should have been here…”
“Do you love my son?” she broke the silence.
I forced a smile. What was with that question? Her son and I hadn’t even known ourselves for a year. “I’m yet to know him properly.”
“And this war had been distracting, hasn’t it?” she turned to me.
I nodded, glad she was helping me with excuses. “It has been indeed.”
The carriage stopped and she jumped down. I did the same. We were at a small cave which had small rocks and a large one, like a dining table.
“When I was younger, I stayed here a lot. Like my safe haven.” She walked around the place.
In the middle of a forest was where she found a safe haven? I could never.
What if a rogue crossed her path? Or she was ambushed by a rival pack?
This was outside her pack and her warriors would find her late. But I chuckled. “Yeah cool.”
She walked around the place, touching the dining tables made of stone. “I had carved them by myself. Out of boredom, of course.”
I was standing at a point since we arrived, I inches towards a chair and plopped down. “You did a good job.” Where was she getting at?
“I want to speak to you about something.” she finally declared. “And I wanted to tell you alone.”
I smiled broadly. “Sure. I’m all ears.”
She didn’t want Jaden to hear what she’d tell me or she didn’t want Jaden seeing my reaction?
Either ways, I prepared myself for whatever that’d be. She rested on chair and glared at me.
I moved back. Was happened now?
She asked. “My son is an offspring of Logan, that Lycan. Did you have no clue?”
My smile slowly faded. Her son was an offspring of Logan? “You mean Jaden?” Maybe she meant Jake, which would also be disastrous.
“Your mate, Jaden. You’re a gift from the moon goddess, a silver wolf, yet you didn’t perceive it?” she raised a brow.
I frowned deeply. Was I supposed to know such a thing? Why would it even come to my mind!
My head shook gently, there was no way she was serious. My Jaden was a son of that beast?
“Maybe you aren’t a powerful silver wolf.” The Alpha tsked, with a hint of disdain.
My fist clenched and I swear I could hit her. Did she know how my life had been? “I had no clue about that! And how was I to?”
She scoffed. “You are a Silver Wolf…”
“Doesn’t make me all powerful. And how could your child be an offspring of a Lycan beast? Is he Lycan?” I yelled at her.
She stood akimbo. “What do you think? If his father is Logan then can he be a full werewolf?”
She must be joking, she had to be joking. Maybe she wanted to see my reaction or know how my temper was. Well, it wasn’t good.
“This better be a joke and I’d say it’s insensitive because that Lycan has killed a princess of this Kingdom, a Beta and lots others.” I remarked.
She sighed heavily, running her hands through her hair while keeping her glare on me.
“I am serious. Why’d I joke about this?”
“I don’t know!” I barked. I left the seat and walked around. Logan being Jaden’s father didn’t make sense.
“Then how’d you find him? You saw him with his dead mother and picked him?” I cocked my head.
That was Hunter’s story, was it Jaden’s too?
“I am his mother! I birthed Jaden!” She yelled, pointing at herself.
She was growing frustrated and beads of sweat filled her head. I calmed down.
If Jaden was Logan’s son and she’s his mother then she and Logan were more than friends back then. They were lovers.
I slammed my hand on the table. “Logan wasn’t your mate. Why have anything to do with him?”
The lady diverted her eyes from mine. Grasses on the ground became interesting suddenly.
My eyes went to the skies to the moon goddess. She must be kidding me right now?
Giving me a mate who was Lycan and son of a beast? The person would also be Alpha King?
And kill his own father, the evil? What kind of drama was this? What was she thinking?
The fact that a prophecy was given for this made sense now. It was a complicated situation and the prophecy was a kind of explanation.
“I didn’t mean to have Jaden with Logan. It had just happened…” the Alpha sighed.
My eyes went to her. Of course she’d say that!
She would be smooching her lover and suddenly they’d have sex then say ‘it just happened’. That was how many single mothers happened as well.
“When we met, the Lycan hadn’t found his mate. He was still young then and so was I.” she continued.
My expression changed. “Oh. And you didn’t have a mate too?”
She shook her head. “No but Logan does now, a Lycan princess. He found her after we met.”
I exhaled. He must have broken her heart or something. “I’m sorry about that…”
“What are you sorry for?” her eyes widened.
“That he left you? It must have been hard to train a child without his father.” I said.
She smirked. “I am an Alpha. I didn’t need him. I’m glad he found her and left me. He had a son with her and let my son be. I was very happy.”
Wait, what? “You didn’t want Jaden to know his father?”
“Never.” She seethed. “Logan was a beast then too. He only wanted a son from me because I was an Alpha, that was his only goal.”
Weren’t they lovers?
“I never loved him. He… I should have killed him then but I couldn’t.” she sobbed.
I was confused now. How did they have Jaden?