Alpha’s Rejected Second Chance Mate by Pradeep

Chapter 77 

Theo’s POV 

“How is this possible?” I asked Nelson in an angry tone. He sighed and looked in the other direction. “Answer him, Nelson,” Killian roared at him, as he was also as angry as I was. “Don’t you two think you’re intelligent enough to make a guess, huh? Her mother is in the captivity of the vampire king for more than eighteen years. She escaped twice but was captured by him both times. I…. I guess that he started injecting her with vampire serum when he kidnapped. her for the first time.” Nelson yelled at both of us, pouring all his anger and frustration into his voice. 

“He experimented on her when she was in her mother’s womb,” he screamed aloud and I felt that someone had snatched the ground under my feet. Killian also gasped in shock. I was startled when I saw Crystal drinking a vampire’s blood when I reached there where they were fighting with a few vampires three hours ago. She fainted right after that, but I saw fangs instead of extended canines. It was a complete shock for me. 

Killian, William, and Vincent reached here half an hour ago, and they were also shocked when I told them what we saw. She was sleeping in our room, and we were in my office right now. Nelson ran his fingers through his hair in frustration. “That damn leech experimented on an unborn child,” he muttered under his breath, but his voice was clear enough for our hearing. “Why did she drink from a vampire?” William asked him in a confused tone, and we all looked at him to get an answer. 

He sighed and looked out of the window. “I only have this idea about why she drink from a vampire instead of attacking me, or someone else,” he answered in a defeated tone. “Marcus’s experiments, in the beginning, included vampires as blood bags for the creatures created by his experiments as he didn’t have any other creatures to feed them at that time. Their initial experiments had Vampire serums, and…. And if my guess is right… then… then he injected Catherine with those serums, and that’s why, Crystal has this urge 

urge to drink from a vampire, instead of me,” Nelson answered us, but I could say that he was also not sure. 

“We can guess that she would have a craving for blood only if any vampire is in close proximity, right?” Vincent asked in a hopeful tone, and I immediately looked back at Nelson with a hopeful gaze. “I…. I don’t know, Vincent. I really 

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don’t know,” Nelson answered him in a helpless tone and lowered his eyes. I narrowed my eyes when I felt that he had tears in his eyes. 

“Nelson,” William called him in a cautious tone. “He… he experimented on a… an unborn child, William….. He… he converted my daughter in.. in a monster… and I… I couldn’t stop him,” Nelson muttered in a choked tone, still having his head hung low, but his statement took us off guard. 

I looked at Killian who was also startled by his statement. He took revenge on me… he took his revenge on Catherine,” he continued muttering as if he were in a daze. “Nelson… What are you talking about?” Killian yelled at him and stood up from his chair. He was about to jump on Nelson in anger. I immediately jumped to my feet and wrapped my hand around his waist to stop him from attacking Nelson. 

“Catherine is my mate too…. Crystal is my daughter from her,” Nelson. screamed this time and lifted his head up. Tears were now streaming down his eyes. The pain and the helplessness were so clear in his dull and cold eyes that I was startled too. We all gasps in shock, and Killian trembled hard in my embrace. 

“This is the secret that we kept from the rest of the world, including you too, Killian. Your father was my best friend, and we were as shocked as you are right now when she recognized him as her second mate in that gala,” Nelson continued and I just forgot to breathe for a few seconds. It’s a lot to process. 

now. 

“She rejected me because of her father, but I never accepted the rejection. She, later, took back her rejection, but we decided to keep it a secret because we were continuously attacked by the vampires and rogues at that time. No one, except your father, knew about this. We decided to keep this a secret because The Night Crawl Pack was in a vulnerable condition at that time, and she is my only weakness,” he said further while crying silently. 

Nelson stood up from his chair and strode towards us. William and Vincent immediately approached him and stopped him a little distance away from us. “Can you imagine, Killian, what I suffered all these years, huh?” Nelson asked Killian in a painful tone while looking at him with a mocking gaze. “I took part in her coronation with your father. I don’t have any problem with your father being her second mate, because that’s how a mate bond works. If your mate ist blessed with two mates, they always spend their lives in harmony, but our situation was completely different,” he continued in the same tone. 

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I shuddered hard while thinking about what he suffered. “I… I couldn’t even hold your mother’s hand in public,” Nelson yelled a little this time. Killian almost stopped breathing while looking at Nelson with wide–open eyes. Hist eyes were blank as if he were not present here. “We kept on showing everything that we have some disputes, and that’s why your mother visited the pack from time to time, but the truth was that it was the only way that we could spend time together. Rogues and vampires were behind her, and also that damn alpha continued attacking us with the help of vampires from time to time. We didn’t know our enemies as well, and that’s why, we never let anyone know about both your father and me being Catherine’s mate,” Nelson. said further, but his voice choked in the end this time.. 

William dragged him back to his chair, and made him sit. “Here… drink some water first,” Vincent gave him a glass of water and asked him in a low tone. It looked back at Killian who was still looking at Nelson with blank eyes. “Killian…. Killian,” I called him in a gentle tone. He moved his eyes toward me, and tears started building up in his eyes. I sighed and pushed his head into the crook of my n*eck. 

My blood was still boiling inside my veins and Nelson’s revelation about what The Vampire King might have done with Crystal when she was still in her mother’s womb didn’t help me calm down. Thunder was also seething in anger, but I needed to stay calm for the sake of Crystal’s brothers. “Eighteen years…. For eighteen years, I compromised so much for the sake of Catherine. I gave in to all his demands because he always threatened me with her life. I know that she is still somewhere in his castle, and she is in a coma state for eighteen years. I…. I tried to find her there so many times by going there stealthily but,” Nelson continued telling us while crying bitterly. 

The revelation that Crystal was his daughter was a heavy blow to all of us. “He sacrificed so much. Keeping your mate secret and staying away from her for the sake of her safety is not easy,” Thunder murmured, making me chew on my inner checks. He was not wrong though. 

“You mean to say that my mother is also a half–vampire, and she also needs vampire’s blood to survive,” Killian suddenly asked in a daze while lifting his head up from my n*eck. He was still holding me by my waist as if his life depended on me. 

“I… don’t know about that…. If… if Crystal is not attracted to a werewolf or any other creature for blood, then there is a high possibility that Catherine too will 

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crave for vampire’s blood whenever she will awake,” Nelson answered him. while sobbing lightly. 

“Now how will you give the serum for yourself? The Vampire King now knows that you betrayed him,” William suddenly asked him while putting the heel of his palms on the edge of the table. Killian also removed himself from my embrace, and we all looked at Nelson with a worried expression. He gulped. hard and looked at me. I couldn’t understand his gaze, and it made me narrow. my eyes in confusion. 

“Do you have any idea about why I turned myself in half–vampire, including my wolf, huh?” he asked us while looking straight into my eyes as if he directed this question to me. I gulped hard while processing his question. “You are a mated wolf, Theo. What will you do to keep your mate alive in this state?” he asked me directly this time. 

“I will do everything to keep her safe and alive,” I answered him without an hesitation while looking straight into his eyes. I still didn’t understand why he asked me but understood that he did something to keep Catherine alive. 

“Even if you need to change yourself in her blood bag?” he asked me again in the same firm tone. “Even if I need to change myself,” I agreed without any hesitation once again. We heard gasps all around us, and it was when the realization hit me. “No wonder I felt something odd about his wolf. His wolf also has some traits of a vampire which is almost next to impossible,” Thunder. murmured once again, and my heart skipped so many beats in rows in anticipation. 

“It… It means…. you.. you,” Vincent spoke while stuttering hard, and Nelson nodded in agreement. “Yes, Vincent…. Marcus didn’t know that…. that I already know about Catherine’s whereabouts in his castle. What he didn’t know that….. That I fed her with my blood serum from time to time so that she only drinks from me whenever she wakes up. I asked him for those serums from time to time, telling him that I needed those serum injections to conduct some tests on my warriors and that it could increase their strength or not if given in a controlled amount. My warriors volunteered to be a subject of those experiments so that they can get the strength to fight with an army of vampires and hybrids. That… that is a pure torture for everyone. I… I saw them crying in pain and some even asked to kill them during the transformation. We…. We did e.. everything so that we can bring Catherine back to us,” he told ;us without any hesitation. 

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There was silence in the room for a good few minutes. All of us were looking at Nelson without having any expression on our faces. I, too, didn’t know what to think about this. “Did I do something wrong?” Nelson asked us in a calm tone, breaking the silence. “No…. no, Nelson… you did nothing wrong… As a 

mated wolf. I understand why you did this. I would have donong… As a 

if I were in your position,” I replied to him in a firm tone. 

the same thing 

“Me too,” Killian murmured, and I snapped my head towards him while narrowing my eyes in confusion. “He has also found his mate,” William said in a low tone. I pursed my l*ps while straightening all the lines on my forehead. 

“What do you need to fulfil your craving for blood?” Vincent asked Nelson again. The corner of Nelson’s mouth curled up in a sinister smile. “Not only me, but all my warriors need vampires‘ blood for our cravings. Marcus didn’t know but we never killed any vampires during the battles. We always captured them and kept them in our dungeons as our blood bags. He did the same thing with our species. I don’t know what made us different from other. hybrids, but Marcus didn’t know there are some hybrids who are different from the ones whom he made,” Nelson answer Vincent in a calm tone. 

I raised my brows in surprise and looked at others. They also had that surprised expression on their faces. “You mean to say that something happened to your wolves which were different from Marcus’s experiment, huh?” Killian asked this time, and Nelson nodded in agreement. 

“Theo… Crystal has woken up.” At the same time, I got the mind link from my mother. “Crystal is awake,” I informed everyone and almost ran towards the door. Everyone was behind me, but I didn’t pay attention to them. They knew their way. All I wanted right now was to See Crystal. She was deathly pale and wounded when I brought her back. I left her with my mother, Luna Elena, and the pack doctor before calling for this meeting with others. Now it was time to go back to my mate. 

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