Filed to story: Owned by the Alphas Novel
He mouthed, Thank you, to me as he left, and I mouthed back, ~Congrats~. He grinned and walked out the door.
So that was the love of her life and who she had bargained with my brother for. I was happy for them, but my smile faltered when I realized something.
“You slept with Ryleigh. You took her virginity too?” I blurted out to Kai.
Luckily Ryleigh and Vaughn were already gone, but my mother sucked in a breath.
“Lorelai, manners,” she scolded, but I ignored her and waited for Kai’s answer.
He scowled and nodded. “Yeah. We had to.”
I frowned at that, not sure how it was sitting.
In the back of my mind, I knew they had slept with all the virgins in my village, but it hadn’t actually hit me until that moment, when I was fully in the situation.
Ryleigh had enjoyed their cocks too. It was irrational to hate that fact, but I did.
“She was shy, we were gentle, and she was in love with someone else,” Kai murmured, and I nodded, leaving that little conversation for later when my mother wasn’t listening.
“We have to talk, Mom,” I said, and she nodded.
“I’ll run you a bath. We can talk then,” she said, and I smiled at her. A bath sounded luxurious. She put the water pot on the fire to boil before heading to the bathroom.
“Her child is not my brother’s,” I whispered to Kai as soon as my mom left the room.
Kai nodded. “I know.”
“You can sense it too?”
“Yes. Their connection is as strong as it gets for humans. What you would call soulmates. Their child is a part of that connection. It reaches us,” he said, and I blew out a breath.
“I guess with my brother being a vampire now, she would be considered a widow.
They would be allowed to live together and be happy,” I said, mulling it over in my brain.
Kai frowned at that. “Your human customs are strange.”
“As opposed to virgin rituals and communal orgies?” I laughed, and he smirked, leaning down to kiss me.
His kiss deepened, and I dragged my tongue along his as he gripped me tightly against him. My body exploded in heat as he picked me up so I wasn’t tiptoeing to reach him.
He held me there against him, my feet off the ground, tasting me, reminding me of all the good things I had after such a shit few days.
I trembled against him as his canines dropped and I felt them against the kiss.
“I need to bite you,” he whispered, and I nodded.
“I know. Soon.”
“You need it,” he urged, and I kissed him again, distracting him. My mother could handle a lot, but walking in on me being bitten was not a part of it.
“Put her down this instant!” my mother said as she caught me with Kai.
He placed me on my feet, looking at me longingly before I grabbed his hand, kissed the back of it, then turned to my mother.
“He takes care of me, Mom,” I reassured her as her eyes wavered.
“Based on most of your visits, I am worried that is not the case, Lorelai,” she said, and I walked over to her.
“A lot has happened. We should go talk,” I said, and she nodded.
Kai was already grabbing the boiling water and tipping it into the cold that my mother had put in the bath already. She nodded a silent thank you to Kai, dismissing him in the same gesture.
“I’ll be in the living area.”
“There is tea in the pot on the table,” my mother said, then shut the bathroom door.
I stripped out of my dirty clothes, then stepped into the bath. I sighed at the warmth and sank into it. Mom grabbed a cloth and moved behind me, washing my skin, my hair, the silence deafening.
“Father kidnapped me,” I started heavily, and she sucked in a breath, her hand stilling in my hair.
“Excuse me?”
“He kidnapped me, Mom. For being a traitor. He took me from the bed with you and kept me in a cell underground, where he has been building an army to fight the wolves,” I explained. Her hand didn’t move. When I looked back, her eyes were filled with tears.
“Tell me everything,” she whispered, and I did. Every single thing.
I told her how my father’s hatred had poisoned my brother, how he hated me. I even told her about the child I carried and all the risks that came with it.
“Oh, sweetheart,” she cried, “I am so sorry. I had no idea he would go this far.”
She sobbed as I finally climbed my pruney ass from the bath. She stood and wrapped me in a towel before holding me. I hugged her back, glad I had come despite feeling worse and worse.
The potion was good, but it wasn’t the toxin that I needed.
“I have to ask, Mom, did you know about any of this?”
She leaned back and shook her head. “No, but I had my suspicions he was up to something.
“Get dressed. I will get fresh tea and braid your hair in the living area, where Nikolai can hear what I have to say,” she said.
I smiled. Kai would already be listening, but there was no need to tell her that. I wanted to be closer to him anyway. He made me feel safe.
She left me to dress, and I pulled on one of her dresses. It was rougher than I was used to after being with the wolves for so long, but I enjoyed the comfort of home in that.
I walked out to my alpha being hugged by the tiny woman that was my mom. He hugged her back and smiled up at me.
I grinned and went in, sitting down in front of Mom’s rocking chair, where she always used to braid my hair as a child while I read. Our tea was already steaming in the cups on the side table.
My mom pulled back from Kai and wiped her eyes dry. She sank into the rocker and collected herself with a sip of tea.
“Your father has always been angry with the wolves. His ancestors, technically yours, have always spread their hatred, all the way back to the wars, where his family was wiped out by them after they betrayed the treaty that they didn’t want but the rest of our kind did.
“But as I understand it, the wolves were savages back then. Much more so than now. We’ve progressed, but he hasn’t,” she said, starting to brush out my wet hair.
“But the wolves haven’t done anything to him,” I argued, and she sighed.
“True, but he is a proud man. To know that the wolves took his woman first and then his daughter, especially after those marks came up on you? It must have pushed him over the edge.
“Admittedly, he was already spewing hatred years before we had conceived you and your brother.
“His father and mother were very antiwerewolf, his whole family. The alphas before were not as kind as the ones now,” she said, her hands pausing as Kai nodded.
He wasn’t offended or arguing, so it must’ve been the truth.
“We have done everything in our power to change what they did,” Kai admitted quietly, and she started brushing again.
“And a lot of us are happy with that. We don’t mind providing our crops and all that for our protection against the vampires, but unfortunately, this generation’s fear of the monsters beyond the border has dulled.
“We don’t see the vampires and the lethal threat they pose. We see them as a myth, or a tale that maybe we were just told to be scared of to keep us in line.
“So, your father has decided the wolves are worse. He decided this years ago, however. It seems he has been planning for as long as that.
“I wish I had said something, but I thought he was a fool with his ramblings. I see now, the fool’s role in this is mine to bear,” she said, her voice tightening with tears as I turned to her.
“You are not a fool, Mother! He is. And the way he is dealing with the wolves is dangerous. He will get the humans killed. I have seen the vampires for myself.
“The leader said it himself, if they have a human scent, their bloodlust can become uncontrollable,” I explained, and she smiled softly.
“Well, maybe it is what we deserve for everything your father has done to his own kin.”
I shook off her hand. “Stop that. Don’t lie down and take this. Fight for yourself, and for all the humans that are going to suffer for what he is pulling,” I snapped, needing to see that fighting spirit back in her eyes, not the bullshit glaze of giving up.
“I am a woman, Lorelai. We don’t all have winter born power in our blood to make people listen.”
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