I remained rooted on spot, her cold gaze piercing through my entire being. It took everything I had in me not to cower behind Darius. It took the whole of my being and maybe my baby's included.
I felt Darius cast his eyes in me before returning to his mother " Not your business. What are you doing here?". Again, the bite in his voice suprised me but it seemed like the woman in front of us does not seem affected. Not one bit.
" Not my business?". She scoffed, tge corner of her mouth tilting. Her eyes cut to me briefly, before moving back to her son " How could it not be? I can sense a little heartbeat from her, that is definitely my business".
My stomach dropped. And I took a step back for real.
I looked from her to Darius.
It's not possible.
Only Alphas could sense unborn children. Everyone knew that. It was one of those things you learned young in pack life — that an Alpha's senses ran deeper than any other wolf, that they could detect life before it announced itself, that nothing stayed hidden from them for long.
But how can she sense it when she's not a —
"That—" I started
" I never asked you". Her voice cuts me off like knife , piercing through my voice and whatever delusion I had been.
I was about to bite back when Darius interrupted " Enough of this". His voice recalibrate in the whole room and even his mother blinked…the only sign that it had an effect on her.
" Mother, you will be going back tomorrow morning. I will not speak of this again".
The silence that came after was the loudest thing Ive ever heard. She held his gaze for the longest time possible before clicking her tongue "Of course".
She turned to leave, her movement unhurried. Right at the edge of the glass staircase that sat in th middle of the room, she turned back, her eyes falling directly on me " I will not let last time happen again".
My eyebrow scrunched up. Last time? What is that suppose to mean?
Before Darius could reply her—though I don't think he had any intention to— she turned around, disappearing behind the walls at the end of the staircase.
I stared at the direction she disappeared to. What does she mean by not letting last time happen again? Does it have anything to do with me?
Ofcourse she does. She looked at me dead in the eye while saying it.
I turned to the man beside me but he didn't spare me one glacé before walking away in the direction his mother emerged from.
Leaving me alone in the cold hallway.
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A sigh left my lips as I sank into the familiar bed. Even though I had only stayed for a few days, I could still my lingering scent. It was as if I never left.
My eyes rolled to the ceiling , taking in the familiar cracked sight. I wish I had the chance to tell him that i wanted to change my room. I hated the cracked ceiling , hate how the window was placed perfectly to allow the illumination of the moon, hate that his room was barely far from mine and I definitely hated the fact that I could literally catch a strong whiff of his smell, every now and then, as if he was next to me.
" Ughhhh" I groaned, turning face flat on the bed. I don't have time for this. There was a lot I intended to do here and none of them involved him.
Like what, exactly?
That was the question that kept circling. I know nothing about the pack except the rumours that circulated about their Alpha. But even the knowledge of that was limited because ' indulging in hearsay is not virtue for a Luna'
Bullshit.
I pressed my face harder into the pillow.
If only I had indulged more, I'd have an inkling idea of what to expect here. At least for the meantime.
My hand moved to my stomach subconsciously.
For the meantime….till everything is stable and I no longer have a bounty on me or my child. I'll disappear completely after then. Away from everything, away from a pack life, away from him.
But until then, I was stuck here. With the suffocating knowledge that my old pack was a few miles away.