Chapter 68Â
BonnieÂ
After a few minutes of him running his hands through my hair and taking lots of deep breaths, he finally starts talking. “So you remember me telling you about Lottie’s mom turning up here when she was 7, right?” I nod yes because well, how could I forget what she did? Well, her wanting money for Lottie wasn’t all she wanted when she came for that visit.Â
“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 loseÂ
Lottie.”Â
I’m not that surprised that she wanted to mate with him “What else did she do?” He takes a deep breath and all I see is a pain in hisÂ
eyes, and it feels like my heart is breaking for him so I reach out and take his hand in mine hoping to bring him even the smallest ofÂ
comfort. He gives me a gentle smile but it doesn’t cover his hurt.Â
“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.”Â
“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.”Â
“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.Â
“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.Â
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.”Â
‘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.”Â
‘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 backÂ
and ask you again?”Â
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Alpha Nicholas’s Little MateÂ