When You Were My Mate (Demetra and Emris) novel Chapter 49

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The same thing is happening to me. But I cannot fathom that gratiat Alpha dudu’t have any other woman so kis ked because he was mourning the ines of me.

“Miss Pride?”

I look up. The nanny is standing there with a worried face and Bear Amira crying

I’m off the couch in a second. Amira rue to me with her face eyed with tears, but body disking dog to my knees catch her, checking everywhere for injuries at once!

What happened?” I look at the nanny.

She shakes her head.

“I don’t know. I picked her up from school and she was already fussy and crying She wouldn’t tell me anything!

I 1 cup Amira’s face. “Haby, what is it? Did someone hurt you? Did omeone at school hurt your Amre, please say something to me.”

She buries her face in my chest and I have no choice but to lift her up

“What’s happening?” Sabrina comes back

“I don’t know why she keeps crying. I swear-“I shift Amira so tan see her face. “Amira, please, Say something to me. Why hurt you?”

Her little body heaves with sobs. “Ma Ma M… Milo’s mummy

My heart first stops. Then explodes. 1 feel fear burn my own eyes Elena? Elena did something to my child.

“What baby what did she do?”

Amira’s face is wrecked with tears and snot altogether. “She told me to not play with Milo She. A horrible sob “Mommy, she… call me…hore”

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I squint Hore? What does that meant? I look at the nanny and Sabrina to see if they understand that Only for it to hit me.

She called my baby a…a…a whore,

She called my five-year-old daughter a whore.

I pull Amira against my chest and feel something dark flood my veins. Something cold and hot at the same time. Something that wants to hurt.

I’m a mother first. Before anything else. Before being an artist, fore being an ex-mate, before being Demetra Pride. I’m a mother.

And as my linde baby weeps in my arms with confusion and pain she’s too young to understand, I swear on everything!

have…

Elena Covenant is going to pay for this.

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Chapter 49

Emris

“M…Mate!?”

I rest back against the pool table, arms folded as Silver processes the bomb I just dropped.

“Yeah.”

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“Demetra is your mate?” His voice climbs. “Your true mate that we all thought didn’t exist? The one and only mate you have in this entire world? The mate who should rightfully be Luna ofhe Black Covenant Pack?”

He steps closer, head tilted in that way that’s both Beta questioning his Alpha and brother calling me an idiot. Usually, he knows everything about me. This? This one secret I kept locked own tight.

“Yes.”

“When did you find this out?”

“Since she turned eighteen.” I confess.

He’ll know soon enough anyway. Once the Council of Bonds starts chasing me to reject her, he’ll be the one buying me time while I figure out how to chase Demetra back.

Chase Demetra back?

I’m fucking stupid. I keep saying that without thinking about my family, my son. But I already chose Elena for Milo’s sake. Already married her, made her Luna.

Now, I want to be selfish in this second chance the moon goddess has given me.

I’ve already seen what five years looks like without a fated mate. Unhappy. Fighting packs for some kind of relevance because I had none at home. Finding no one to confide in the way I used to have Demetra. I’ve asked Elena for a divorce before when she got sick of my emotional and physical absence in her life.

She never agreed. And I didn’t care, because whether she stayed or left, Demetra still wasn’t in my life then.

But all of that actually changes if I can get Demetra back. I’ll talk to Milo. I’ll talk to everyone in this family to suck it up.

“So you kept her a secret?” Silver’s voice pulls me back. “Why?”

“Why the fuck do you think!”

“The Alpha seat.” He says it flat.

“Regan is older. Dad didn’t leave a will for which of us should be Alpha….you were uninterested, so it was between us. The elders knew I was powerful, but they thought I was unstable.” I psh off the table.

“Being a hybrid alone was enough to qualify me but they knew I was mad. Fucking mental in the head. I needed them to see I wasn’t a complete beast.” I stop, look at him. “I thought a picture of me having a mate would make them go hmm, so he’s got a heart after all. What do you think they would have thought if I chose a mate whom mom let the whole world know was the daughter of a whore?”

Silver doesn’t say anything. He doesn’t have to.

As my Beta, he knows. As my brother, he already knows what the elders said about me back then. The patch over my eye. The rumours that ran ahead of me….what I did those who insulted me. Of course the elders were afraid to put their lives in

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That’s why I wanted the Alpha seat so badly. To prove I was stable. That the broken boy wasn’t living inside me anymore.

“So what’s the plan now?” Silver asks quietly. “You have bonded Elena. You have a son.”

“I know that.” My voice hardens. “I love Milo. And one day he’s going to have his own mate. I already made the mistake of trading mine for the Alpha seat. I’m Alpha now. I can do and undo things. Nothing’s stopping me from going after her.”

“You want to… chase her back?” Silver laughs slowly, looking away now that he’s heard the only other part of my life he didn’t know about.

“Is there something wrong with that? Is there a rule in the pack that says I can’t-”

“Maybe you’ve forgotten that her dad is Alpha Ronin!” He’s almost yelling now. “You’ve wanted to know what happened to Dad since forever. We’ve hated the Lion Pride Pack since forever You know…no wonder Regan keeps asking what’s wrong with you.” He jabs a finger at me. “You were the one Dad’s death affected the most. Yet-”

“Demetra was born in our pack!” I cut him off. “I knew her before Alpha Ronin even knew she existed. The hate and renege I have for that bastard doesn’t involve her.”

“Oh, is that what you told yourself when you snuck her in here? Because don’t think I’m stupid. You guys were close enough to imagine that you’ve been banging.”

“Like I said.” I straighten, pulling my Alpha authority around me like a cloak. “I’m Alpha now. Doesn’t matter what elders say. I make the laws. I don’t have anything left to prove.” I tilt my head. “What did you come in here for anyway?”

The subject changes. He can question me all he wants, but he won’t get to the point where he asks if Demetra will even take me back.

Because I don’t have that answer yet.

“The territory.”

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