Alpha Nicholas novel Chapter 38

“She… when she first turned up she wanted me to take her as my chosen mate, to be a family with Lottie but that was never going to happen, and after she didn’t get the response that she wanted she blackmailed me by demanding that I give her money or I would lose Lottie.”

“After I paid her she left the pack or so I thought. Tony and I had personally walked her to the border and watched her walk away but within 30 minutes I had a link of the guard that was protecting that area informing me that she had come back and she was asking for me and me alone. I was still with Tony at that time and there was no way in hell of him letting me go there alone and he would have never forgiven me if I had ordered him as his Alpha to stay there. We’ve been best friends since nursery and I knew he wouldn’t stay there unless forced because I wouldn’t do it either if I was in his position. Fuck, do I wish that I had made him stay.”

“Anyway, I told my guard to keep her there as I didn’t want her on my pack lands and we headed back to the border to see her. When she had first come to me she looked worn out and honestly like she was seconds away from death but this time she looked different… strange even. She still had the same worn out almost at death door look but whereas her eyes were a dull green before, they had now become a crimson red and she seemed to stand a little taller.”

“ Wait… was she a witch?” I don’t mean to blurt it out but my brain-to-mouth filter isn’t exactly working right now. He nods as he starts to gently rub his thumb across the back of my hand. He’s so lost in that moment that I’m not even sure if he realizes that he’s doing it. “So what happened next?” He jumps as my words drag him back to the now then lets out a long breath.

“I asked her what she wanted and again she said me, her, and Lottie as a family but I still refused. I didn’t know her but she had abandoned my daughter and then when she couldn’t use her to get me she used her as a cash cow and that showed me enough of the person she was. Before she had showed up that day I had never once hated her. I never understood how she could just abandon my baby girl as she did, but I understood that she had her reasons, she had gone through hell and couldn’t cope and that was ok because sometimes it happens. Lottie had me and my family, she was happy and healthy and so loved that I never let any hate for Lola set but what she did completely flipped my hate switch.”

“Once she realized that I wasn’t going to be with her she started to lose her ever-loving mind. She was completely insane sprouting shit about how she had birthed my child so she was entitled to be my mate. How Lottie would grow up hating me for rejecting her mom. How after all she had been through the Luna title was the least that she deserved.”

“So she asked for you to be a family then when you said no she sold Lottie to you then she still had the goddam cheek to come back and ask you again?”

“Yep!”

“I’m guessing her little meltdown wasn’t what brought your hatred out?” He shakes his head as he lets out a long sigh. “No. If anything I just found her outburst amusing and somewhat pathetic. No, whilst she was still in the middle of her meltdown Tony started laughing and then I started laughing. I wasn’t even laughing at her, just wait until you hear Tony laugh and you’ll understand what I mean. He has one of those laughs that just has everyone laughing with him even when they don’t know why. Anyway, his laughing just pissed her off even more and then she said the words that to this day haunt me.”

“She didn’t make it. She and Tony got separated in the fight and by the time we managed to find her, she was already being torn apart by two wolves. They tore her skin from her bones before finally ripping out her heart. She must have been in so much pain, so much agony, her screams tore across the battleground and I’ll never forget them.” I don’t realize that I’m crying until I feel him wipe his thumb across my face. “Are you ok, sweetheart? I know it’s a lot to take in, believe me, I know.”

“I can’t imagine what you went through witnessing that. Goddess that’s just awful. Poor Tony. He met his mate just to lose her less than 24 hours later… Lola… the curse… She was telling the truth wasn’t she?”

“It’s been almost 8 years since it’s happened and Sometimes I still have nightmares about that day. Some nights I lay in bed and can hear the screams, her screams.”