Second chance mate

He was there at the hallway, panting for breath, panting after any form of gratifying news concerning his dearest Emily.

He was standing out there, licking his lips nervously, anticipating something good, moving back and forth, trying to calm his nervous soul.

 He seemed like a blue arse fly, seeming very nervous. At this point in his life, nothing would be in the better position of calmingbhis nerves that a comforting news about his beloveth Emily.

He stopped his movement half way, he heard a sound, it struck the bones of his feet and it made his ears to tingle, he could hear this sound, it sounded like a joyous one, a joyous sound emitting from the room where Emily and the doctor were in.

He decided to move closer to the door of the room in a bid to identify the cause of the sound he heard and satisfy his questioning spirit.

He could finally hear the sound, it was sounding like a cry, but from a young creature.

The baby, his replica, his little self was born, his gift from the moon goddess had finally arrived the earth.

His elated soul couldn't just contain the enormous joy, his face beamed with a heavy smile which burst into laughter and further more into sounds of jubilation.

He felt extremely good within, smiling and feeling like he had won million dollars. But even if he won a million dollars, he wouldn't be as excited as he felt currently.

The moon goddess never delivered his gift late. He searched around, he looked outside to the nearest possible location where he could catch a clearer and a better view of the full moon and when he finally did, he smiled broadly at it.

"Thank you!", He joined his two palms together as if he was praying and uttered out with his eyes closed from the depth of his heart.

Indeed he was extemely grateful, he had always relied on the moon goddess for the strength he needed as an Alpha and as a warrior and the moon goddess never failed to assess him in all his troubled times.

It was a happy event and he could not just hold back the ecstasy and the bliss which flowed from the depth of his soul.

Doctor Martins Grey emerged out of the room, with his face down to the ground, he created a heavy sigh of relief, indeed he felt so exhausted and before he could lift up his face, there was a harsh wind which he felt which blew, and when he lifted up his eyes, the figure who stood before him was a desperate Richard who was feeling like hey go mad who wanted to visit his mate.

Now he was acting just like Emily who couldn't stay ten minutes without seeing her mate, with the only difference being that he was male and also the fact that Emily had gone through a very tedious experience of which his presence would calm her tensed nerves.

"Whoa! You scared me", Martins Grey said after he was able to catch his breath.

Truth, the alpha wolf had scared the living daylight out of him.

He held his chest like his heart would jump out I'd given the chance to.

But with all these, Richard didn't think in that direction.

He never thought that his little actions could frighten anyone.

He had spotted the doctor (from where he stood speaking to the moon goddess) coming out from the room and he needed to talk to the doctor before he lost glimpse of him.

He ran again, courtesy of the super speed granted to him by the moon goddess, he ran quickly, like a dose of salt, and stood just in front of Martins Grey, beaming positively at the doctor with all pleasure.

"How is she?", Richard asked the doctor looking rather worried than being anticipated just like before, asking like his life depended on it.

He was effusive in his questioning. His eyes were moving, following every direction Martins Grey moved his head or hands to.

"Oh! Yeah! It went very well. Though it was tough at some point, but then her wolf helped her. So, she's good and so are the babies.", Martins Grey replied his questions with a smile on his face. 

The word "babies" sent shock waves throughout Richard's body, stricking his heart like a thunderbolt.

The ever beaming and smiling face died down and his forehead wrinkled in a puzzled manner.

"Babies?" Richard asked scratching his head and looking very thoughtful. 

He was in utmost disbelief, the most striking he had ever felt.

 None of them, neither Emily nor Richard thought in that direction, the possibilities of having twins weren't even considered and now, surprisingly TWINS!, this could probably have been the biggest surprise of the night. 

"Yes! Babies", Martins reaffirmed his statement looking at Richard who seemed to be out of his mind with worries. 

His countenance had changed. Martins looked at the Alpha wolf and thought if he wasn't happy with the news seeing the expression and worry on his face.

He couldn't hold on to his worry anymore, it took so long before Richard could give a reply to the statement he uttered out and when Richard never spoke a word again, and this time, he had to ask, "She gave birth to a set of twins. Don't you like that?"

Alpha Richard didn't say a word, he was lost in his thoughts, he didn't hear the question the doctor asked him, he had gone to an entirely different realm if checked properly.

"How possible could this be", random thoughts flowing through his head, he thought of how possible it could be, he thought of how Emily would feel if she got to know she had a set of twins.

But on the other hand, he was euphoric. This came out to be some sort of like a double blessing for him from the moon goddess.

Who in the world would truly believe that the Alpha wolf would have twins overnight. 

He vividly remembered the moment Emily placed his hands on her belly, he remembered vividly the response of the baby to his warm gesture and he  never thought in his entre life that what was in his beloveth's womb was going to come out being double.

"Hello?!", Martins Grey touched Richard's shoulder, and shook him with all his strength trying to bring him back down to earth because from the looks of it, he was definitely out of this world.

"Yes! Yes! Yes!!", Alpha Richard gathered himself together, shaking his head severally like he was set free from a form of hypnosis.

He gathered himself together and breathed out heavily. Obviously the journey he took through his random thoughts was too far and somewhat tiring.

"Sorry! Uhmm... I didn't get what you said", Richard asked in a low tone trying to recollect himself together.

"I said.." Martins Grey spoke out repeating every single word he said previously.

"I said, "She gave birth to a set of twins. Don't you like that?"", He said raising questioning eyebrows at Richard.

Richard beamed again with a nostalgic smile, not faking it this time actually.

He remembered how joyous he was when he heard the cry of a baby, he was on top of the world, like a bird set free from it's cage, he never ever wanted any other repugnant thought to override the rapturous emotions which were flowing out of him.

"Of course! That sounds very wonderful. Oh goodness" he said rubbing his right hand through his hair and placing his left hand on his waist looking overwhelmed.

He was overwhelmed with the joyous news, feeling like a bee in a clover.

"Who in the world would have thought I would be a father of twins?" He said out in utmost excitement.

"Yeah! Not even the Luna knew that", Martins Grey answered in the same tone Richard spoke with, a blissful tone.

"Maybe that was what gave her an extra tough time, but thanks to the goddess! They're all good", Martins added.

"What's the gender?", Richard asked inquisitively still having an aura of excitement oozing out of him freely.

"Oh! They're both boys", Martins Grey answered as he removed his jacket and folded up the sleeves of his shirt.

"Sweet", Richard uttered as he rubbed his two palms together like he was about feasting on something very delicious, like the cat that got the cream.

Richard was as happy as a box of bird, so carefree at that moment, he began to ponder, though in a loud voice, "The first will be the next alpha and the second, maybe his beta"

" Yeah!!... About that", Martins Grey spoke out of the corner scratching his head with the ballpoint pen in his hand, killing the iota of excitement in alpha Richard.

Alpha Richard turned looking a bit confused with Martin's statement.

"Was something wrong? Was one of them affected, or was any of them too sick? Would any of the twins die?", These were all random thoughts running through Richard's brain in just less than a second after Martin's statement.

"What is it? Is there a problem?", Richard asked in a concerned state. The last straw to break the camel's back was to find out that something bad would happen to either Emily or any of his two sons.

But, he clinged on to the doctor's statement ".. she's good and so are the babies" as his last ray of hope.

"I'll tell you.. " Martin's Grey said out but looked around to see if anyone was eavesdropping on their conversation.

When he was certain that no one was close by, he lowered the tone of his voice and said, "but not here. Downstairs. Plus I need a drink"

He tapped Alpha Richard at the back and walked down the staircase with Alpha Richard being behind him and heading straight towards the sitting room.

At one corner of the room, there was a wine vault which hung beautifully on the wall showcasing it's collections.

It was filled with the finest of wines and drinks, exquisite enough to suit the Alpha's taste.

None of the things Richard ever bought or owned was below his standards and none was a replica of the original. He made sure to buy the best money could buy, to get the greatest thing since sliced bread.

"So..", Richard turned round to look at Martins Grey.

He continued with his statement, "What's your poison?", He said again proudly flaunting his wine collection.

"Ooh! Brandy. I'll take the Brandy", Martins Grey replied pointing at one of the wines he saw which sat on the shelf.

Alpha Richard wore a smirk on his face and winked at him, and turned back to pick up the exact wine Martins pointed at.

It was obvious, Richard had thought of the exact same drink Martins had chosen, it was as though Martins was in his head reading his every thought.

Martins Grey was an indefatigable lover of good and tasty wine and his body always reacted to the sight of good wine, the only advantage was being able to drink Richard under the table.

"You know? Emily's really a strong woman", Martins spoke out as he watched Richard pouring little quantity of the wine into a wine glass.

"The goddess really matched you two together", he continued sounding like one who was in need of a lengthy conversation.

"Thank you", he uttered as Richard handed over a glass of wine to him.

There was this reaction written on Richard's face and if read to complete understanding, one could tell he wasn't comfortable with the contemptuous way Martins spoke about Emily.

"She got a little issue with the pushing aspect until she switched to her wolf form. Oh Goodness! Her wolf form was glorious. It was like... " Martins was blabbing uncontrollably sounding like fingernails on the chalkboard.

If allowed, he would talk a blue streak, talking like an apothecary, forgetting he was talking about his Alpha's mate, his Luna.

"You were saying something about the babies.. " Richard cut him short with his deep manly voice when he got provoked. Martins was boring him with all the long talks and it was getting provocative to some point.

"SKIP TO THAT PART!!.. " he ordered emphatically, looking at Martins scornfully.

Martins paused for a moment and took a sip from the glass of wine offered to him.

The looks from Richard's clenched face scared the bejeebers out of him, he almost choked while swallowing the drink.

"Oh! Yeah! Sure", Martins Grey said again as he cleared his throat and dropped the glass of wine cautiously on the table before he continued that statement.

"In all my years of working as a medical personnel...", Martins began using his hands to demonstrate some of the points he made as he was about the nail on the head.

"Whenever a female wolf puts to birth, the young wolf would let out some kind of energy, like an aura, though it comes out minute and small, there's this little strength which the baby gives out which shows us that his wolf is present. Such child could grow up to become a fierce wolf, also still depending on the child who wants to train his wolf, but as of tonight, I didn't feel much of it in one of the babies", Martin's Grey continued. 

Richard was about to take a sip from the glass of wine in his hands but stopped halfway unto hearing Martin's last statement.

His eyeballs which looked down on the table changed it's direction towards Martin's grey who sat on the chair.

"So what are you saying?", Richard asked uncomfortably.

He sat upright and removed the glass from his lips and put his full attention on Martins.

Martins breathed out heavily, though his hands were shaky and unsteady, he made an effort to compose himself and hit the nail on the head, saying what he had to say straight from the shoulders.

"What I'm saying is...", He started his statement and stopped halfway, moving the muscles of his throat due to the nervousness which sparked up within him, and swallowing his fear.

The once upon a time blabbing Martins Grey, the same man who could talk over someone's head, the same man talking Alpha Richard under the table, this same man was now as silent as the tomb, this same man was now afraid of his own shadow.

He was afraid of the Alpha Wolf's reaction to his statement. 

He was tapping his feet on the ground consistently just to ease his nerves and the fear roaring up in him but it didn't seem to work, the Alpha's consistent look on his face was enough to make his soul separate from his body.

He blinked his eyes continuously in less than a second and then said, "I'm saying... I'm saying that the first born MIGHT be wolf less."