Free Web NovelChapter 18: Someone’s Son
Liam’s POV:
Right after Anastasia threatened me, she gently let go of my hair and moved to sit on the couch, eating the breakfast that I made for her.
Making my mate mad at me didn’t feel good.
I didn’t like how upset she was because of me.
" Alpha, I didn’t mean to do what I did earlier," I spoke lowly, lowering my head, and waiting desperately for her to say something.
With the corner of my eye, I watched her holding her fork to stab the pancake, only to take a bite and eat it.
I sighed when I noticed how she didn’t answer me at all, hell I doubt she even heard me " I just love kids and could not just stand there without doing anything."
Anastasia stopped eating, averting her gaze to me to stare at me for a while before opening her mouth to speak " Come closer."
My heart raced as I sauntered close to her, and knelt in front of her.
She likes it when I sit like this.
How did I know?
The last time I did it, her heartbeats fastened just like they did just now.
"You know what happened to the last wolf who tried to go against me four years ago?" The moment she asked this question, a shiver ran down my spine.
Of course, I know, everyone knows.
There was a male alpha, his name Frederick Blaze, he was 34 years old at that time, the thirties is when the werewolves are at the peak of their powers.
Apparently, he didn’t like the fact that our head alpha is a woman.
That was weird because nobody has ever objected to the fact that our pack has been led by women for centuries but boom out of nowhere this Frederick guy decided otherwise.
As the head alpha of a pack, any other alpha is allowed to challenge her for this position even Alexander when he turns twenty-one if he wants to.
So Frederick decided to challenge the twenty-one-year-old Anastasia, four years ago for the position as the head alpha after he repeatedly went against her commands.
Challenging a true blood who is living the first year after turning twenty-one without finding her fated mate, was not Frederick’s brightest idea.
Werewolves are four times stronger when they are in their wolf form and even though Fredrick fought her in his wolf form while she stood her ground in her human form, he lost.
In lost, I mean she ripped his throat with her claws.
Because challenging the head alpha has to either end with one of them announcing their surrender or the death of one of them.
Everyone cheered for her in the end, except Fredrick’s family who just cried because they could not do anything about it.
Well, they tried to stop him but he did not listen to them.
" Yes, alpha, but I would never do what he did," I answered her question and made sure to say alpha just in case she thought I was trying to challenge her because that is not the case here, but still, I’m an alpha and stood against her earlier so I can understand how she got this idea.
I can’t tell what she is thinking of or what she is feeling right now.
Her face is always blank... but so pretty.
She slowly lifted her hand to grab the orange juice that I made for her and took a sip " Then. don’t try to when I’m trying to raise my brother right."
" But he didn’t do anything wrong." Fuck my mouth... why did I have to talk?
She scowled at me and put the glass on the table " I’m trying to make him an alpha. A Man."
" He is ten. He is a kid." I talked back only for her fist to narrow and speak again " We teach them young."
" How does coloring his face make him less of an alpha or a man? It wasn’t even makeup, he was coloring some drawings in a book and thought it was a good idea to color his skin like the drawings. That’s all and I explained to him why he shouldn’t put colors on his skin because of the chemicals in them."
Her fist narrowed even more, I don’t understand the way she thinks at all.
Like werewolves aren’t humans, we don’t have this thing of a man should be a MAN and a woman should be just a woman aka a damsel in distress.
Look at her for example and look at me.
We are nothing like regular human men and women.
" Don’t ever try to teach my brother any of your mentality. He is a man and I will make him a strong alpha just like me. I don’t want no wimp omega-like wolf in my packhouse."
Ouch.
Oh, I get it now.
She is talking about me.
All what she did to Alex was because I was the one with him.
She thinks my presence with him will magically make him an omega like me.
My face washed out as my eyes dropped while I slowly stood up, lowly speaking " I’m afraid I can’t do this since the mother alpha asked me to babysit Alex from now on. I think I should go."
That was the last thing I said before walking out of the room.
I hated turning my back on her but she hated me and hated my presence also since I didn’t have to work in the kitchen anymore I didn’t even have to be in her room or wait for her permission to leave.
I lifted my hand, massaging my chest, I really hate that burning sensation that I feel every time she rejects me indirectly.
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I stayed the whole evening in Alex’s room, I taught him how to play some chess, and we studied, since he was still in middle school it was not too hard for me to study with him then we played video games and I made him lunch after that.
When he would not eat, I would just tell him he needed food to be as strong as me in the future, and that convinced him all the way.
" Liam?" While I was busy putting Alex’s toys away, I heard the mother alpha calling out my name which is why I instantly dropped the toys in the drawer and turned around, only to find Elisabeth standing there with some suits in her hands.
Suits that seem to be in the same size as Alex who is still sitting down on his couch and stuffing his mouth with food as if this will make him grow faster.
I wanted to laugh at how adorable he was but I held it in because I did not want to seem disrespectful in front of the alpha’s mother.
" Yes, alpha?" I replied only for her to grin slightly, I think this is because I’m doing a great job taking care of Alex while she is not at home.
After dropping the suits on the bed, she turned to me and spoke " Thank you for taking care of Alex. Really. Can you do me one last favor?"
" Yes, of course," I answered her immediately, because why would I say no to her?
She has been so nice and respectful to me and also she treats me as if I’m an equal to her and not just like some random worker.
" I just need you to help Alex shower and put on one of these suits." Suits? Why though?
Is there some kind of celebration in the packhouse or something?
I wanted to ask but I know it’s none of my business but she also answered my questions without me having to ask.
" There is a pack gathering at 8. Packs from around the area will attend the party." I nodded with a tiny smile " Of course I can get him ready. Don’t worry about it, alpha."
She thanked me and left immediately because I could tell that she was in a hurry since she needed to get herself ready too. freeweɓnovel.cøm
Why is there a pack gathering all of a sudden?
" Who is ready to take a bath?" I asked excitedly, only for Alex to groan and act dead " Not me."
I chuckled at him before going to get his bath ready and distracted him a couple of times so that he would not try to run away from the bath and end up slipping and hitting his head somewhere.
Overall, he listened when I asked him to close his eyes so that I could rinse the shampoo and he was pretty obedient even though he hated taking baths.
I guess we will be taking showers from now on.
" Which one do like better?" After I placed each suit on the bed, I asked him which one he liked better.
and he ended up choosing the navy blue one which was also the one I liked the most.
I helped him put it on, along with some shiny black shoes and lastly, I styled his hair.
" You are going to get all the girls in the party. Leave some for the rest of us, yeah." He giggled shyly, he also seemed so happy about how he looked.
Finally, I sprayed some of his parfum on his neck and wrists, noticing how expensive these parfums are.
I chuckled to myself, thinking of how a child has parfums that even adult working people can’t afford.
He is lucky and actually, Alex deserves to have everything he wants since he is such a very good kid and will be an amazing person when he grows up.
The party looked pretty fancy.
As I walked with Alex to the top of the stairs, I noticed how everyone was dressed so fancily, the food looked so fancy as well as the decoration, the dresses, and the men and women.
It’s already 9 PM, so almost everyone is here.
This is when I heard it. fɾeewebnoveℓ.co๓
" I hope Anastasia would not mind getting to know your son, Emilia."
