SWNOVELS Chapter Chapter No 22 This was not meant to be
She grabbed the tray full of salmon and transferred the fish onto her plate. She took a bite of fish and it was delicious.
“Yum, who cooked today it’s so delicious,” she said while closing her eyes.
She started eating faster; First Alex noticed her and then Mateo.
They exchanged looks and shrugs. She ate all of the salmon. Julius was looking at his phone.
Max looked up at the table, he was looking for salmon.
“Hey, where are all the fish gone? I have not eaten one yet” he said, whining.
“I want more. It was so delicious,” said Althea sadly.
Julius had looked up at her and then to the tray, she ate almost 9 fish.
“Althea, are you okay?” he asked.
“Yeah, I am fine, Alpha, how are pack matters going?” she said smiling.
“Well they are fine,” he said.
“Althea I was thinking….” Mateo was about to say something when she got up in a rush.
“Excuse me,” she said in a rush and ran out of the kitchen.
“Althea,” called out Mateo.
“What’s wrong with her?” asked Alex.
“She is not looking fine,” he said and ran after her followed by Alex.
She ran towards the nearby bathroom in a rush. She was suddenly feeling nauseous. She threw out everything she ate. She was exhausted when she got up she almost fell but luckily Mateo had held her.
“Whoa, Althea what happened?” he asked worriedly. She was looking so exhausted.
Alex, who was standing out, was also worried.
“I am calling a pack doctor,” he said.
“No I am fine,” she said while raising her hand.
“We are late,” said Lilly in her head.
“What?” she asked, mortified.
Her expressions were turning darker.
“Lilly this can’t be happening,” she said in a dark tone.
“Althea what is it?” asked Mateo worried.
She looked at him panicked and then she had gone unconscious.
“Althea” screamed Alex.
“Alex, call the pack doctor now,” Mateo said and he lifted Althea in his arms and took her towards her room.
Lara was checked up on her for twenty minutes. She was one of the best pack doctors. Wanda and Grace were standing at the side of the bed. After a while, Lara took a deep breath.
“What is it, Lara?” Grace asked worriedly.
“She is four weeks pregnant,” she said calmly.
Both Grace and Wanda were Jaw drop.
“Pregnant? How?” asked Grace.
“When?” Asked Wanda, she was about to faint.
“I think you know how and for when I already told you, one month,” said Lara sheepishly.
Both women were in shock. “Luna, The girl is under stress, it is not good for her and the baby, so please keep her away from the stress,” said Lara.
Grace was unable to say anything. Lara left them alone.
“She is pre..pregnant?” said Wanda in a whisper.
Trio Julius, Mateo, and Alex came inside the room in a rush.
“What is it?” asked Mateo.
But both were staring at Althea in disbelief.
“Grace what is it?” asked Julius.
Althea had opened her eyes and she got up.
“Althea you okay” Mateo ran towards her in a rush,
“Yeah I am fine I, I just,” she said sheepishly.
“Althea, who is the father?” asked Grace while looking at her in pity. Althea turned bright pink.
“Father? What are you talking about?” said Alex, shocked.
“Althea, tell us what it is?” asked Wanda.
“You, you are pregnant, is that heartbeat?” Mateo asked, shocked. His wolf hearing was helpful enough.
She looked away avoiding his gaze.
“Who is he?” asked Wanda.
“It’s Tyler,” she said calmly, making everyone in the room shocked.
“What do you mean by this?” Mateo got up and he was angry.
Althea looked away.
He walked towards her and held her arms softly.
“Did he?” he asked while looking into her eyes. His eyes were all red and slowly started turning golden, meaning his wolf was taking over.
“No, No way he did not rape me or forced me it was indeed from my will,” she said.
“And you did not tell us?” said Wanda while crossing her arms.
“I wanted to tell you guys the very next morning but he left, you asked me why I was crying. This was the reason, that night he confessed he loves me but the very same morning he left without any note, I thought he did this to humiliate me and when he came back two weeks ago I thought he is here for me but instead, he tried to rej….reject me,” she said while looking at the nearby wall.
“Don’t say that word, it will hurt you,” said Grace sadly.
“What happened? I mean if he looked so down on you why did he bang with you it does not make any sense,” asked Alex.
“I don’t know either, I don’t know,” she said in a whisper and started crying.
Wanda and Luna walked ahead and hugged her.
“Shhh it’s fine, crying is not good for the baby,” said Grace.
“I could already hear the faint heartbeat,” said Julius.
“I don’t want my child to be as unlovable as I am,” she said.
“No he won’t be unlovable he has us, his family,” said Alex.
“How you can guess it is a boy?” said Wanda.
“One of my talents,” he said proudly. Wanda rolled her eyes.
“Althea dear now to onward you will not take any stress,” said Grace.
“Yeah and we will take good care of you, is that clear?” said Wanda and she smiled.
“Yeah 24 hours,” said Alex.
“Tyler is not only a bad mate but also a bad father,” said Mateo angrily.
“He does not know I am pregnant,” said Althea defending him.
“Yeah, what do you want? Going to tell him? So that he could execute you for being Canis lupus?” said Wanda angrily.
“You are a very rare kind of wolf Althea, no one has seen Canis Lupus since the dark ages,” said Peter.
“But you guys have accepted that,” said Althea.
“Yeah, we did because you saved Max, you were no threat, we are not like Peter, killing everyone,” Julius said while crossing his arms around his chest.
“I hate that pack, everyone from that pack,” said Wanda.
“Everyone?” asked Alex while smiling mischievously.
“Alex,” she said while staring at him.
“What is it?” asked Grace.
“Our goodie, goodie Wanda found her mate,” said Alex laughing Wanda punched him over his arm.
“Ouch watch out,” he whined.
“What? Who,” asked Julius.
“It’s nothing, brother,” she said.
“Oh come on, tell them he is from Riverstone,” said Alex.
“Alex,” she said angrily. She gives him a death stare.
“From Riverstone who?” Althea asked, shocked. “Who is it?” she asked.
“I don’t know his name, he is tall, with blue eyes and fawn hairs,” she said while imagining him.
“Jacob,” whispered Althea.
“You know him?” asked Grace.
“Yeah he was my only friend in the pack,” she said while staring at Mateo.
“Jacob? The guy you told me about once?” asked Mateo she nodded.
“Gena was his girlfriend and I am accused of her murder, I was defamed,” she said.
When she used the word “girlfriend” Wanda’s wolf growled.
“Relax wolf girl, she is dead,” said Alex mischievously.
“Oh moon goddess this is a mess,” said Grace.
“Has he mind-linked you, as every mate does?” asked Grace.
“Nope it’s like he did not recognize me, I was unable to feel his wolf,” said Wanda.
“But how can it be? I mean the wolf has to be conscious to find his mate,” said Grace.
Wanda shrugged.
“Well he is your mate, you can contact him,” said Julius.
“I know brother, but you know the laws of Riverstone they don’t allow outsiders and now we have canceled our allegiance with them,” she said.
“Don’t worry he will contact you and if you want I have his number” said Althea.
“He is your best friend. Can you tell me about him,” she said.
“You seem so excited,” said Althea, smiling.
“You know he is hot,” said Wanda.
Both Alex and Mateo rolled their eyes and muttered “Girls”.
“Althea you are Canis lupus and you are pregnant with a white wolf’s child, that makes the baby the strongest kind in an entire werewolf’s race,” said Grace.
“I wonder, being an Alpha, I have never heard something like this before,” said Julius.
“I know the story of Canis lupus when I was six, I asked about it from my daddy, about my purple eyes,” said Althea sadly.
“Hey don’t be sad,” Wanda hugged her. Althea was missing Jack and Ruby, they were her family when everything seemed normal but normal was not about her life, being Althea was something different.
“I still can’t believe they said those harsh words to me,” she said while looking at Wanda.
“We can understand your pain dear, I understand what it is like to lose a family,” Grace said with poker expression. Julius put his hand over her shoulder.
“I lose my parents when I was 16, I ran with my younger brother, who was only 4 at that time, and all I wanted was to save him our pack was under attack, but they captured him and killed him in front of my eyes, they wanted to kill me too but I ran,” she said sadly.
“Days after Days, she was running and hiding, her pack was destroyed and she was rogue Then, she finally managed to reach our territory exhausted and injured that’s when I found her first and I came to realize that we are mates, I was newly Alpha of this pack, I let her in as a Luna of river-stone pack,” Julius said while hugging Grace protectively.
“We all have lost, Althea,” said Mateo sadly.
“It’s been 10 years. I remember how Mateo was close to our dad, when he was gone, Mateo used to cry for months, it was difficult for me to calm him down” said Julius.
“Julius, how did your parents die?” Althea asked, concerned.
“Well, it’s a long story, my mother was Rogue, and her pack was destroyed long ago by river stones, homeless. She was living inside the woods one day…..” he started telling the story.
A few years back
She was running as fast as she could. Wolves were following her, wolves hungry for her flesh. She was clever, clever enough to escape these flesh-eaters because she was living in this escape game for months.
She narrowed her eyes, there was a cave up there, she jumped and in a matter of seconds, she was lost in the dark.
She shifted into her human form again and took a deep breath.
Her body was all sweaty. She moved her fingers in her long curly bronze hair. She had long hair going down to her hips.
She sat next to the stone wall.
“Escaped again, oh moon goddess, how long do I have to do this?” she whispered.
She was the daughter of the famous Alpha of the time but since the Alpha was killed and the pack was under attack, she has lost everything.
Now she was the current heir of the pack making her automatically Luna of the pack. There were a lot of wolves who wanted to be her mate either willingly or unwillingly.
“Riverstone, I will make you pay,” she said, clenching her teeth.
“But what will we do now,” asked her wolf Ulva.
“I don’t know Ulva, we have to think of something,” she said getting up.
“I think we should not go outside,” said Ulva.
“The footsteps are gone,” she said and walked ahead.
“Am, Nate, I think you should wear something,” said Ulva.
She looked down at her body and rolled her eyes.
“They are destroyed during shifts,” she said.
She looked around, it was an old cave, and no one had visited this place for years.
She walked ahead in the dark and looked around.
“Here we go, it is my lucky day,” said.
“Yeah, lucky enough,” said Ulva.
She took the white clock she found on the floor.
“This is amazing,” said Ulva.
She wore that clock around her body and got out of the cave.
“Now, I look like a forest native,” she said.
She was walking in the woods when something fell from above.
She stopped herself from screaming. It was a man.
“Whoa, whoa, are you okay?” she asked but the man did not reply. He was all entangled with the parachute around her body. \He must be paragliding.
“Now what is this moon goddess’,” she said while looking up.
“Where are your manners, take him somewhere safe,” said Ulva.
“For God’s freaking sake, we are also in trouble,” she said.
The man moaned with pain.
She rolled her eyes and grabbed the man’s shoulder and started dragging him.
“What are you doing? Is this a way to help?” said Ulva.
“What do you want me to do?” she said, they were now near the cave.
She settled him beside the wall.
The weather was not good outside.
She checked upon the man.
“There is no noticeable injury,” she said.
“Well, I don’t think he needs our help,” said Nate.
She walked towards the wall and sat beside it.
After a while, she heard a moan and he got up moving fingers in his hair. He had silky blond hair.
“Where am I?” he asked in a deep voice.
Nate rolled her eyes.
“Heaven,” she said.
Just then the clouds thundered.
“Or hell,” she shrugged.
He looked around trying to recognize his surroundings. The rain started.
He got up and walked toward the edge of the cave.
He closed his eyes. She became startled.
“Ulva, wolf, he is the wolf,” she said instantly and got up.
He turned instantly.
“Don’t you dare to come any closer, I will rip your head out,” she said angrily.
“Excuse me, mam, I am not here to do such things,” he said while crossing his arm around his chest.
“Who are you?” she asked.
“Why should I tell you?” he shrugged.
She bent down slightly and took the only weapon she had, an arrow.
“Tell me or else I am going to stab you, this is made of silver,” she said.
He raised his hand.
“Whoa, Whoa, hold on, I am, I am Barclay Williams, son of Alpha Dalton William and upcoming Alpha of North-pole pack,” he said.
She stared at him for a while. He narrowed his eyes.
“Will you please put it down, I am not lying,” he said.
He had charms, he could charm every woman’s pants. A tall handsome, an exact image of princes’ of the Victorian era.
“Trust me,” he said while walking slowly ahead.
She raised the arrow a bit high towards his throat.
“Okay, Okay, I am blocking my wolf, I won’t turn, I am blocking my scent too, now happy?” he said.
She stared at him in disbelief.
“Listen, I. I will leave when the rain is over,” he said.
She threw the arrow down and sat beside the wall. She looked so tired.
He walked slowly ahead, she opened her eyes instantly.
“Relax, wolf girl, I am not on anything, just sitting,” he said smiling.
She closed her eyes again.
“She looked so scared,” he thought.
“What is your name?” he asked.
She remained quiet.
“Come on, we can at least talk,” he said.
“I don’t want to talk,” she said.
He looked at her for a while.
“Are you rogue?” he asked.
She opened her eyes instantly and looked at him, there was anger in her eyes.
“Whoa, sorry, no offense, it’s just a bad guess,” he said.
He looked ahead.
There was an awkward silence in them.
“I am not a rogue, I am the daughter of Alpha Victor of the Silver-stone pack,” she said while staring at the wall ahead. There were strange paintings on the wall, maybe made by cavemen who used to live there.
“You are the daughter of the Alpha Victor?” he asked, shocked.
“Yeah, why?” she asked while looking at him. She was trusting him for this information despite they knew all the mated and unmated wolves want her for the kingdom.