Page 25 of Unloved Mate

I was heading back to the pack house from the workplace, which was only about five buildings away from the mansion where I spent most of my day dealing with the pack businesses with the Gamma of the pack. He had left earlier, leaving me to finish and close up. I sauntered down the path that led to the mansion with the starlight guiding me down the road. Halfway through my destination, I heard a movement behind me and I turned in its direction. My claws extracted from their fingertips and a growl rumbled in my throat, my beast coming forward and becoming defensive. “If you value your life, I suggest you step into the light and stop hiding in the dark like a fucking coward.” I declared.

“I’m not a coward. I'm just a cunning, manipulative werewolf who will always outsmart you and your pathetic mate.” I heard a voice behind me, and I turned to the source, seeing a person who I never thought I'd see again.

“Ezekiel. How are you alive?”

“I learned from the best. All I needed was a dark object to make you believe you killed me. Meanwhile, it was all aprojection.” He answered with a smirk.

“Stay away from Valor.” I growled and swung my arms at him, but he ducked, using his unnatural speed to move behind me, gutting me with a dagger. I grunted and tried to pull the weapon away, but an immense amount of pain coursed through my body, forcing me to my knees. He placed his hands on my temples and chuckled manically. I tried to fight him from putting memories in me because I knew that the only reason he came here was to put Valor and me apart. I struggled, but the level of pain I was feeling now from the mystical weapon he had used against me was unbearable.

He had his way, poisoning my mind with memories of him and Valor being intimate and when he was done, he asked me to send my mate away and never go back on that decision. He disappeared just like he came, like he was never there, leaving me to wonder what had happened to me. Until the memories hit and I realized Valor was having an affair with Zeke, who he had claimed to hate so much. I growled as I made my way back home driven by the one desire to ruin everything I had with Valor.

15

Valor

As soon as Kane had left the house with Leda, I found my way to the dining room where Rohan had said he would wait for me. We were both going over the procedures of how the Lycan shifters would sign up for the Sentinel training program. I had to make sure Midnight Shadow was ready before I got back to Logan. I think it was high time I returned to the pack to keep them updated on my whereabouts so they wouldn't have to worry, especially if Zeke tries to pull a stupid move by going back there. “Hey.” I said to Rohan and settled into the seat next to him. He gave me a big smile, and we started by arranging the list of every eligible Lycan blood in the pack—those eighteen years and older. By the time we had compiled the list and sorted out the already available team and other requirements for training. It was almost afternoon, and during our work, my body was tired and my unexplained grumbles raised concern in Rohan.

“Is everything ok?”

“I’m just easily exhausted. It has been happening for days now, but I didn't want to tell Kane.”

“Hmm. Do you think it's related to what happened a week ago?”

“No. I've healed from that and…”

“Maybe we should go to the pack hospital. I'll finish this up while we are there.”

“I’ll be fine.”

“You’re the Alpha’s wife and if anything happens to you, he'll have my head.”

“We are not married yet!” I said, my cheeks flushing with embarrassment.

“I know, but you will be. Now come on, let's go, let's go.” He said giddily and packed up his laptop and paperwork.

We headed over to the hospital, and Rohan helped fill in the patient's forms while the nurses assigned me to a ward. I didn't know that these shifters already knew the Alpha and I were mates, and the smiles and words they gave me had my heart bubbling. I was glad that not only Kane's closest family had accepted me, but even his pack. I changed into the patient's gown and lay on the bed while the pack doctors ran their tests. Rohan sat outside the ward and kept working on the project. I heard him cuss a few times, and I giggled.

“I can hear you, you know.”

“Yeah. I'll be out of here soon, and we can finish it together.” I sighed and knotted my hands together, coming up with scenarios of what the examination result would be. Maybe my wolf was sick.

“I’m not sick, you motherfucker.”Leo barked at me. Well, that's me assuming wrong. I put up my hand, backing away from any further protest with him. But what could it be? Maybe somehow Zeke’s manipulation had affected my brain. But that couldn’t be the reason for the fatigue or the sudden food cravings or the constant urination. Fuck, what was happening to me? I was beside myself in confusion when the door pulled open and the doctor walked in with a clipboard in her hand and a big smile. Hey, that smile belongs to me. You know, the goofy one.

“Hey, how are you feeling?”

“Better. Is something wrong?”

“No. But it's good news,” she said with an excited expression, and I cocked my brows at her. “You’re pregnant.” She revealed, expecting some enthralled reaction from me.But I didn't say or do anything. I just sat there, lost in my own thoughts. How is this even fucking possible? How was I supposed to know that mating with an Alpha would get me to this situation? I'm not even ready to raise a fucking kid. How am I supposed to carry this baby for five months on my own? Does Kane even want this?

“But how is this…”

“Possible? You're an Omega, Valor. Every male Omega shifter can bear children.”

“So you're saying we have a uterus?”

“Don’t think about it. You're only going to get confused further. Anyway, that's how it is. I have a brother and he's an Omega like you. He had a child two years ago,” she said. “You know it’s beautiful that two men or women are able to raise kids regardless of their children being biological or adopted, and show them the love they truly deserve. And this baby is in luck because I know you’ll both make wonderful parents.”

“But I don't think I'm ready for this.”

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