23. I Come In Peace

**Desiree’s POV.**

The look in Harrison’s eyes was enough to make my mood light up immediately, it was a way that I hadn’t even dreamt of being looked out- it was the kind of look that could turn a person into a puddle of nothingness. It was a good look.

His head was placed on my lap and I had backed us up into a corner, leaving a large space between us and Alec- I could feel the anger radiating off him and I did not want him to retaliate badly because I would also be forced to do something I would end up regretting.

Like threating my father with my mother’s name- not that I regretted doing that since it saved my mate but I regret the fact that I was actually going to go through with the threat of killing her if he killed my mate.

‘Qula oculo ad oculum’- an eye for an eye. That was the first thing my father had said to me when I began my training at the age of five, he had taught me to always seek for revenge and make sure I found it in the worst way possible, especially when it involved the person you loved the most- your mate.

My mother would usually frown at such teachings and would tell go on and on about how revenge was not the best answer and forgiveness was but the thing is, I never listened to her- once my daddy said something, it was the right thing, no questions asked. Until, I grew up and saw that no matter how powerful the alpha king is, love is still the strongest power- my father never backs down from a good kill but because of his mate, he did.

Besides, my mother never really had the right to talk about forgiveness- at least, not after what she did twenty years ago. She was still in the records for it! I heard it was the most brilliant revenge one could ever take on an offender- a public execution. She had slaughtered one of the women in the most horrendous way while she had banished the other who was reported dead in the Vampire territory two days later. She preaching forgiveness was hypocritical.

A hand gently touching my face dragged me out of my thoughts and I was faced with the most capturing eyes I had ever seen, “Is it true?”, his voice sounded low and raspy, probably struggling to breath after my father had held his neck, “That you are expecting?”, a small smile made its way to my lips,

“Yes, we are”, I emphasized on the ‘we’ to confirm that he was indeed the father of our unborn pup-human? Honestly, I could not be bothered as to what species the child was, all I knew was that he or she was ours to cherish and spoil filthy.

His hand left my face and he pushed his head off my lap, was something wrong? Why was he moving away? Did he not want this child? Was he going to leave me? Was he not happy about-

“You’re overthinking things beautiful and there really is nothing to be worried over. I love you and I am not going anywhere”, I heaved a sigh of relief as his hands took mine, “You have just made me the happiest man on this shithole earth we live in Desiree”, a hand left my hand and found its way to my flat stomach, “I will love and protect this child until my very last breath”.

I was speechless, he had rendered a snarky, sarcastic, talkative, opinionated shewolf like me speechless. I wanted to form words but noting, absolutely nothing could make up for anything he had said so all I could do was stare at the amazing man in front of me but as they say, no good thing lasts long.

I pushed myself up and slid to Harrison’s front, awaiting the arrival of my furious older brother. His growls of anger could be heard from across the hallways of this filthy dungeon that my mate had been held in for weeks, “Where is he? Where the fuck is that bastard?”, I rolled my eyes, my brother had always been such a drama queen, he knew exactly where ‘he’ was. DJ stomped into the room, “Alec, leave”, his alpha tone was dripping in his command and Alec who had been staring intently at Harrison and I made his way out of the cell.

“You!”, he then snarled at us, “I trusted the both of you!”, his eyes snapped to my mate who now had an extremely guilty expression on his handsome face- I wanted to strangle DJ for making him feel anything other than happiness, “You especially! I should have known never to trust a fucking human. I gave you a mile and you went a thousand extra, now, my father is hauled up in my ass telling me that all this is my fucking fault, not that I blame him for saying it because it fucking is”, I wished my fist could have a solid word with him but even it knew that would be pushing our luck.

“I am sorry DJ, I”-, why was he apologizing?

“I do not need your half-assed sorry and forget my blessings or whatever crap we said when the bitch was knocked out, you will never get anything from me”, he paused for a second, “I cannot believe you got her knocked-up, what the fuck where you two thinking?”, neither of us replied. “You know what, I do not give two flipping fucks. You”, he said to me, “Get your ass up now”, I was about to say something when Harrison stood to his feet and moved closer to DJ, they were almost the same height, maybe a few inches in difference, DJ being the taller one.

“Do not hurt her”,

“I am not, but I am definitely one fist away from hurting you if you do not get the fuck out of my way”, I had established long ago that my brother was a prominent curser, just like my mum but I had never heard him swear so many times at once before. Yet, to add to my mother’s infamous records was a curse streak where she spoke nothing but curses in a whole sentence after getting into a fight with my father. I do not know what he did but it had to be bad- extremely bad.

I finally stood up and walked over to where they were, placing the menacing look on my face once again, “I will go with you but one thing I would not tolerate is you threatening my mate, there will be consequences and I have no doubt that our blabbermouth of a father told you what his consequence was”,

His eyes narrowed to slits, “Do you feel any remorse?”, I rolled my eyes at his question and folded my arms over my chest,

“The only thing I am capable of feeling right now is love and that goes out to only two people, there is nothing to be remorseful about”. I lied. No matter how much I hated my father and brother at the moment, I still loved them to bits and could do anything for them- I would just do more for my mate and unborn child. Even if I had threatened to kill my mother, I could not deny that I loved her deeply and it pained me a lot that I had not had the time to see how she was fairing or to know what exactly was the cause of her illness.

I could see the hurt flash in his eyes but it was replaced with flaming anger, “You do not realize what you have done. You will regret this soon enough”, I chose to ignore him and faced my mate,

“I would see you soon my love”, I stood on my toes and placed a long kiss on his lips, saying goodbye to him, “I love you”,

His huge arms found their way around my body, engulfing me in his sweet scent, “And I love you, the both of you”, he kissed my cheek and knelt down in front of me, raising my shirt up a little to reveal my belly, he kissed it softly before whispering, “Take care of mummy for me, okay? I will be with you soon”.

Tears. I just could not find away to hold them back, every drop falling from my eyes mocking my will to be strong when I should not be. The truth was that I was scared, I was scared and afraid- I was going to be vulnerable for the next three months and I knew it. I was going to lose contact with my wolf when I needed her the most, I needed her to protect my mate from harm, I needed her to protect my mate from my family.