Alpha Maximus The Last Lycan novel Chapter 49

He gently takes my wrist, "I'll come with you," he says with concern. "

No, please, I need to be alone for a while," I tell him.

"I don't understand why you need to be alone and why you need to process any of this. It has nothing to do with you," he says in frustration.

"It has everything to do with me!" I shout at him.

He let go of my wrist, in shock at my sudden outburst. I run out of the office and outside, away from him.

I pull my dress off, tie it around my ankle, and shift into my wolf. I race through the fields of grass and flowers. I don't stop running until I become exhausted. The conversation I had with Maximus replays over in my mind. I shift back, put my dress on, and sit under a large tree. I try to be happy that I finally know who my parents are, but I'm heartbroken at what has happened to them.

My mother was killed for being in love, and my father was thrown in a dungeon and kept there to rot for the last eighteen years! I don't understand how I'm alive, though, why I wasn't killed. Maximus did say it took Alpha Cal months to find my mother. I need more information.

The ruby heart I wear begins to glow. I place my hand over it and feel like I'm being swooped up in a gust of wind and spun around.

Suddenly I'm standing in the woods. It's foggy, but a full moon gives me enough light to see my surroundings. I hear someone running nearby.

I follow the sound and come to a halt when I see her. My mother is leaning against a tree, trying to catch her breath. She has something bundled in her arms and keeps looking around her surroundings with worry.

"Mother?" I whisper, but she can't hear me.

She looks down at what she is holding. It's a baby!

"It's going to be okay, my darling. I will make sure you live. You shouldn't be punished for the love your father and I have for each other and the love we have for you," she says, kissing the baby on the cheek.

My mother starts running, holding the baby dearly to her chest. I follow her. When she stops, I recognise my surroundings. We're in the woods near the lake, where I would go to bathe and hide when needed.

I hear yelling in the distance, "Your father and I love you so much, baby girl, but I have to leave you here and lead the others away from you. If anyone knows that we had a baby, they will kill you! This is the only way for you to live, my child," she cries, giving me one last hug and placing me on the ground.

She bursts into tears and runs deep into the woods to lure the mob away. I look down at the baby and caress her cheek, but my hand is ghost-like and goes through her. There's a scream in the distance; I know it's my mother. I run towards her 'Mother!" I call out.