Wind Carved Names Into Silence by Zex Hollow 55

Chapter 55 

Alpha Nicholas 

“Going through all of that… I can’t imagine how you even begin to move past it and what happened with Lottie is just mind–blowing but you said… You said that your reason for not wanting a mate was connected to Lottie, but if you never met her mother and she wasn’t your mate then I don’t understand.” 

“I didn’t meet Lottie’s mom until she was 7. One day while she was in school her mom showed up at the pack house. She was dirty and smelly and looked like she hadn’t eaten in months. At first, I thought she needed help but I couldn’t have been any more wrong. Well, she did need help because it turned out that she was on drugs but she didn’t want any help with that.” 

“Did she come for Lottie?” 

“No, she came for money. She turned up and demanded money for Lottie or she would take her and leave. There was no way on earth that she was taking my daughter so I paid her, I essentially bought my daughter from her. There were other ways around getting rid of her without paying her but unless I killed her she would always come back and regardless of anything else she was still Lottie’s mom and I didn’t want to have to tell her one day that I killed her mom so I paid her, she left and I’ve not seen her since.” 

“I don’t know how you’ve got through all of that and can still be such a good person, such a good Alpha.” 

“How can you even think that let alone say it after how I have treated you?” 

This girl must be seeing something that I’m not here because I don’t get how she can think that. “No, you haven’t been the best to me but you also haven’t treated me badly. You haven’t called me bad names or hit me and you helped me in the woods when I was hurt.” 

She stares at my chest as she speaks while Anger shoots through me at hearing her words and I have to remind myself that those kinds of treatments are all she has ever known in her life but not anymore. I hock my finger under her chin so that she has to look up at me and my chest hurts with how sad she looks. 

“Listen to me and listen to me good. I would never and will never call you names or hit you, just the thought of doing that to any woman never mind you makes me want to throw up. I would cut my own hands off and cut out my tongue before I did any of that to you, baby.” She stares at me for several seconds then nods and lets a little smile out, it’s not the biggest smile that I’ve seen on her but it’s a start and it makes me breathe a little easier. 

“Wait, what happened to the Rogue that told you everything?” I smile as I think of him “Well, it turned out that he was a doctor and after some time of proving himself he became a doctor in our pack. Sadly we lost him last year when he tried to defend a she–wolf from a crazed wolf in our pack. He had lost his mate and went insane and tried to hurt her, Devon stepped in to protect her and got his heart ripped out as a thank–you. Of course, Zane the wolf that hurt him was killed for his actions but I do miss Devon. He worked closely with my uncle and I know he misses him too.” 

“And what about Lottie’s grandad? Do you know what happened to him, where he went?” 

1/2 

13:22 Thu, Jan 8 M4–**