Chapter 37 – part 1
Everly POV
My hands tremble as we pull up out front of the hotel. Officer Richards had driven and escorted me to Alpha Valen’s penthouse apartment. The whole ride, I wracked my brain trying to figure out how he had Valarian here. Did he spot him at the school and take him? Did Valarian look him, or did someone notice the uncanny resemblance between them? I had many questions, but nothing terrified me more than what happened now that Valen knew he fathered a son.
He would have to kill me before I ever let him take my son. My nerves were shot, my eyes burned from spending all afternoon and night balling like a baby. My mind instantly went to the thought that he was kidnapped, or one of the forsaken had killed him. The relief I felt when I found out he was alive and ok was as crushing as the thought of losing him. There was nothing worse than thinking you lost a child; the what ifs, the sheer panic, and frantic places your mind takes you were a pure nightmare. My mind had been zooming in and out of the worst–case scenario. Plus, because he was considered a rogue child, it’s not like anyone else really cared that he went missing.
The thing you fear most in the world, losing them for good. Your child suffering, and you could do nothing to help them. No sort of fear could compare to thinking you lost the most important person to you. Fear, once you’re a parent changes.
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You no longer fear the boogie man. You no longer fear the dark, at least not for those same reasons you once did.
Being a parent, you become the boogieman hunter. You don’t fear him anymore. You fear ordinary people taking your child, your neighbor, the person hanging around the children’s parks; you fear people in general. You suddenly become the person checking under the bed, the person entering the shadows first, not because you don’t fear them still but because you fear them for a different reason. You fear them because you know the child behind you relies them safe.
you to keep
No, you don’t fear the dark; you fear what’s lurking in it that could hurt your child. Just the same as you no longer fear death, what you truly fear is leaving them behind, knowing nobody would love them more than you. You fear what would become of them without you.
As a parent, you fear the news headlines when a child goes missing in your area, your mind instantly going to what if that was my child.. Losing a child, no matter how briefly, nothing can compare to that sort of fear. The little person that has you getting out of bed each morning because the morning wouldn’t be worth waking up to without them.
Before children, you couldn’t picture a life with them in it. Yet, once they are born, you can’t remember a time when they weren’t all–consuming, you can’t remember not having them because your life becomes somebody else’s, it isn’t yours anymore, it becomes theirs, and you live each day for them, so to think you lost one? You just lose your reason for
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Without them, there is no life worth living. So, no fear can compare to how I felt for those grueling hours of frantic searching and thinking the worst. Sometimes your own mind becomes your worst tormentor. So, moving into the elevator, I feel myself breathe, knowing he was safe, yet my anxiety never lessened because now we were back to fear number one. Someone taking my child, except it would be his own father this time.
I move from foot to foot as the elevator traveled up to the top floor. The hotel is lovely, and I am shocked to find that Alpha Valen’s floor is heavily guarded. Exactly who was he expecting to attack him? We had to use a key in the elevator to get to this floor. Officer Richards grabs my arm when I step out. He walks me to the middle of the corridor containing one door and five guards.
Each one stares at me curiously. It must be strange for them to see a rogue girl visiting the Alpha, oh the scandal that would result in the media, if I was spotted here. Officer Richards knocks on the door before suddenly walking off.
“Psst,” I hiss at him, and he stops.
“Where are you going?”
“Work, I was told to drop you off, not hold your hand,” he says with a smile. I am about to retort that he should remain if this
turned into a violent custody disagreement when the door
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opened, and Beta Marcus is suddenly standing in front of me.
“Luna,” he says, and I scrunch up my face.
“Yeah, don’t call me that. Where is my son?”
He steps aside, motioning for me to come in, and I step past him. The place was all open–plan, and I realized the entire floor is just his apartment. Large windows ran the whole length from floor to ceiling, looking over the. I bet the view would be breathtaking at night.
Hesitantly walking around, I notice another security guard sitting on the couch when I spot Valarian on the sofa beside him. The huge security guard had a game controller in his hand, and Valarian glanced at me before shrieking.
“Mom!” he squeals, placing the controller he had in his hands down and rushing over to me. But before Valarian reaches me, Alpha Valen scoops him up with one arm before depositing him back on the couch. Valen kisses his head before looking at the security guard, who nods to him in some silent message.
“Stay here. I need to speak to your mother,” Valen tells Valarian as I step closer, wanting to see my boy. I try to move toward him. My heart frantically thumps in my chest as I reach the back of the couch when Valen grips my arm and suddenly starts walking. I stumble as I am forced backward before shoving him off, earning me a growl from him.
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“Don’t fucking touch me,” I hiss at him, making sure to keep my voice low so Valarian doesn’t overhear as we stand in his oversized kitchen. Marcus leans on the counter, and my eyes. dart to him when Valen steps closer, caging me in with his huge body and pressing me against the counter.
“You want to explain how the fuck we have a son that I had no idea existed until he turned up on my doorstep?”
st a door,” I
talk to me like
“Well, for starters, you don’t have a doorstep. tell him while rolling my eyes. If he was going shit, then this conversation is over before it started. I push on his chest, but he places his hands on either side of my hips, refusing to move.
“I am not in the mood for more of your lies, now answer me,” he growls.
“Who the fuck do you think you are? You are not my Alpha. I will not tolerate you talking to me like some child that needs a scolding now back up,” I tell him and glaring at him. His aura slips out, and the only thing keeping me upright is his body pressed against mine.
A whimper escapes my lips, having forgotten just how powerful an Alpha aura was when directed at you in anger, and he was angry, no that wasn’t a strong enough word. He was livid.
“Don’t test me, Everly, you know exactly who I am and what I am capable of, just remember if you want to leave here with
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my son, you better start speaking,” he warns when Marcus comes up behind him and grips his arm. My eyes dart to him over Valen’s shoulder.
“Valen, calm down,” Marcus whispers to him, and he growls but steps back. I breathe deeply when his aura slips off me, allowing me to stand without wanting to collapse in a heap at his feet.
Chapter 37–part 2
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Chapter 37 – part 2
