Chapter 73
/////**Author’s Note: I have not been able to spend the time writing that I usually have the last two days. Unfortunately, Adulthood, and all that comes with it, is not willing to be ignored and comes for us all eventually. Imagine me, a nondescript female, in my room, standing with my hands in the air, and with exaggerated Shakespearian-like drama, calling out to my ceiling “Why for art thou adulthood, must you torment this poor unsuspecting soul so, with the wretchedness that is reality, bombarding me with things like grocery shopping and parent-teacher conferences! Why!”**/////
**Alora's POV**
Watching my very, Alpha wolf, mate step back from his mother's glare like that had been funny. I giggled. I imagine Serenity is going to be just like Luna Ember, with her and Darien's pups. I was happy. I had a mate. And It was the wolf I knew I had always wanted it to be, but I had pushed down, ignored, and denied that want. I was already so in love with him.
The Luna keeps me at her side leading me away from my mate. While he is looking at his mother like she's keeping him from getting what he wants. And she was, she knew he wanted me at his side. He had been clutching me close. So Luna was doing this to torment her son. I swear I can almost hear a whine leave him as she takes me away. But it's only to the kitchen table where a breakfast feast for werewolves was set.
Luckily, the Luna was nice enough to sit me next to her, with the chair on my other side empty for Damien to sit in. The disappointment disappeared from his eyes and he practically dove into his seat next to me. Sending me and the Luna into a fit of giggles. He glares a little sullenly at his mother. This only made her laugh. Alpha Andrew walked in then.
Seeing his own mate, the Luna, laughing he stops and smiles at her, his love for her shining clearly in his eyes. I let out a soft sigh and smiled at the couple. Damien leans down and kisses the top of my head. I turn and look up into his eyes, the emotion I see in his gaze can't be described any other way than love. 'Is it so hard for me to believe, that I might actually be worthy of love?'
He must have seen or felt it, because his eyes while still full of love, had a sad understanding in them now. "I love you Starlight, more than I can ever say," he says to me in a soft rough whisper. The sound sent a whip of fire-hot lust through me. I smile at him, grateful he was here again, back in my life, and now, my mate.
"Goddess I'm so in love with you." I hadn’t realized I had gasped that out till he was kissing me.
"Well now, I'm fairly certain I’ve missed an important development. But judging by the marks on their necks I believe we now know where our son spent the night, instead of in his room," said Alpha Andrew, I feel my cheeks flame to life as I pull away from Damien to peek up at the Alpha.
He's smiling, laughter in his eyes. The Luna had her chair up against his, and the Alpha had his arm around her shoulders. Holding his mate close. The Luna also smiling at us says. "Yes dear, I just found out before you walked in," she tells him.
"Well from what I understand, Damien was in a very big hurry to make it home last night," he tells the Luna,
She looks up at him, Damien stiffens at my side "Oh? And how do you know this dear?" she asks with a smile.
"Well apparently Damien was in such a big hurry, he and his Beta got pulled over last night." The Alpha says.
I feel Damien shift in his seat next to me, I look up at him but he's not meeting my gaze and there is a dark blush staining his cheeks. I begin to smile. "Oh really?" asked the Luna.
"Yes, they had been speeding down the highway at a hundred and twenty miles an hour," he says.
The Luna gasps "That fast?"
The Alpha nods. "Yes, and when they got pulled over, they were apparently so angry, the Werewolves who pulled them over nearly wet their pants." says the Alpha.
Darien spews the orange juice he just gulped and was choking. Serenity was laughing and trying to help him by pounding his back. The twins, my Beta and my Gamma, were laughing loudly.
The Luna was giggling. "Now my son what would have had you in such a hurry to get home." her eyes dancing with mirth at her son's expense.
He clears his throat, his cheeks a dark red, and shifts in his seat." I may have....been a little.....desperate.... to get home to Alora." he says. This makes everyone laugh.
I touch his shoulder, he looks down at me and sees my smile. "Did you already know?" I ask him. Wondering if he had known I was his mate before leaving the School.
He stares into my eyes for a moment "Zane told me, the night before I called you." he tells me, making me gasp. His hand goes up to my cheek, "I've always loved you Starlight, now you are my mate, like you were always meant to be." he tells me, butterflies fill my stomach and my heart melts. If it were possible, I'd be on the floor. The puddle that was once Alora.
I lean up and kiss his cheek "I've always loved you too Damien." I tell him, feeling the, now permanent, blush on my cheeks heat more.
We hear a chorus of awes and look up, there they are. The entire family of busybodies staring at us, smiling. We were now the breakfast entertainment.
Till I smelt something, wolves can get pregnant outside of their heat, but it's not common. Smiling, almost smug, I look at Darien, he looks at me and his smile drops. A look of trepidation enters his gaze.
"Has anyone noticed Serenity's scent has changed?" I ask in a teasing tone, smiling like a cat who ate the canary. Darien pales, then turns and starts to sniff his mate. He sits back with a stunned look on his face, everyone else is now sniffing her.
The Luna jumps and squeals in excitement "Oh! I get grand pups soon! Andrew grand pups! It's finally happening." the Alpha chuckles and laughs over his mate's antics.
"Congratulations Serenity, we are obviously very happy with the turn of events," said Alpha Andrew his tone filled with amusement.
Darien is just sitting there, stunned "But you haven't had your heat yet." his tone is low and shocked. His look bewildered.
I laugh at him "Females can get pregnant outside their heat, It’s just not very common, because most mated females are on a form of birth control, or the male wears protection." I give him the basic science lesson of female biology.
He looks stunned and a little guilty "Didn't use protection did ya?" I asked him, laughing again at his blush.
He glares at me and then askes "Are you on birth control or did he use protection last night?" he snaps the question at me.
I smile at him at him. I feel Damien move to look down at me. "No, we didn't use protection," I tell him, Darien looks almost triumphant till I add "Yes I'm on a form of birth control, I made sure just in case Allister ever tried to rape me again." the last was given grimly.
Damien was growling, his anger at my statement blasting through our mate bond, I had forgotten I hadn't told him this part. I never intended to tell him. Everyone else in the kitchen was silent as they all realized I had only protected myself from pregnancy because I had been in very real danger of being raped....by the man I had thought was my father for so long.
I looked at him, his eyes had shifted to wolf, and he was nearly snarling. "I'm sorry Damien, I shouldn't have said that," I say, his attention snapped to me. His brow furrowed in anger and confusion.
"You're sorry?" he asks. "Why is it you are sorry? They're the ones who should be sorry!" he snarls. I'm not afraid, because I knew, and felt I wasn't the one he was mad at.
No...his rage was for those people...the ones who had treated me less than trash. "They touched my mate." The words were filled with rage and pain. The pain at what they had done to me.
I was starting to worry, how much did he know? "What do you know Damien," I ask, my voice careful. How much did he know? I couldn't help but worry again.
"I know everything you've told Darien and my parents, and of all the events that have happened in the last two days," he says. Confirming my worry that he did indeed know a lot, and he had still accepted me as his mate.
I don't know why I'm shocked, Damien was the kind of male who would have accepted his mate no matter what. This is just one more trauma those people have left me with.
I was starting to think…seeking out some counseling…would be a good idea. Now that I'm free of them, I was starting to recognize a lot of my reactions, and breakdowns, as signs of post-traumatic stress.
I guess nobody's perfect, not even a Clan Alpha.
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