WEREWOLF - PART 2.3

Chapter Eleven

"And that's how things came to be between both Raphael and myself." Pearl said. Apparently, they were having dinner together he had given her a warm welcome. Pearl decided to explain the bad blood that existed between Raphael and himself to Aliyah and this made Aliyah completely shock. A family war wasn't one that usually end well and being in the mix was slowly going to spell trouble.

"So what happens..." Aliyah couldn't complete her statement as she felt something wrong with her belly and immediately stood up and rushed over to the basin and puked out completely. "Are you alright?" Pearl asked rushing over to her side. Aliyah was feeling completely dizzy and Pearl noticed it. He quickly helped her to her room and placed a call to the doctor.

After a couple of hours, the doctor arrived and ran series of test on Aliyah, who was fast asleep. "Such a pleasant surprise Mr. Pearl. Turns out this young lady here is pregnant." Pearl gasped as he heard those words from the doctor.

He felt rage within as he realized that the child was obviously Raphael's child. There was nothing he could do about the situation as it was a forbidden thing to kill a child on the family.

When Aliyah woke up, her eyes fell on Pearl, who was reading magazine beside her. "Hey." She said and Pearl immediately dropped the magazine and rushed to her side. "How are you feeling?" He asked.

"Slight headache.' Aliyah replied, holding her head in pain. "I called the doctors and they ran a series of test on you. Aliyah, you are pregnant." For a moment everything stopped as Aliyah heard those words from Pearl. There was only one person she had sex with and that was Raphael.

"How did you allow him have sex with you?" Pearl asked, a look of disappointment and rage written across his face. "We both had raging hormones Pearl. I didn't expect it to end this way." She said with frustration written all over her face.

"Regardless Aliyah, I want to assure you that you are safe with me. I will be by your side and you will have this child. You don't have to worry about a damn thing. Raphael would not dare come near you I promise. Aliyah stared at Pearl with a little bit of admiration. Someone who was willing to keep up with her, despite being pregnant for his arch rival; his step brother was purely a gift from heaven and for that reason, she would continue to cherish him.

*****

Days morped into weeks and weeks morphed into months and months slowly drew into years but there was still no sign of Aliyah. Raphael was in total mess. He realized he had brought everything happening upon himself, when he had laid his hands on her. He regretted his actions and even after using his father as a tool to enquire from his step brother if Aliyah was with him, it still turned out negative.

Things are back to normal, even though it was still not fully normal for him. Raphael still went about his business, but with a broken heart. He fired all his maids and left only Viola as he was totally frustrated with life.

While thinking about Aliyah, his phone suddenly buzzed and upon checking the caller's I.D, it was from his father.

"Don't tell me you are still sulking over that girl Raphael. She is gone and there is nothing you can do about it." Norrignton yelled on the phone. "Get yourself in the best shape and be a man!" Raphael sighed knowing his father was clearly tired of his personal antics.

"Anyways, the purpose of calling is to remind you of the Elite Pack anniversary coming up in three days. I certainly hope you will be available?" Raphael sighed knowing he had no choice than to show up.

"Of course I will be available father." He replied monotoned. "I am calling before hand to warn you, do not start a fight with Pearl if you both lay eyes on each other. I know the both of you have a tendency of fight every year at the anniversary." Raphael literally rolled his eyes. He had so many things to think about and Pearl was clearly not one of them.

"I heard you loud and clear father." He said and Norrignton immediately hung up.

*****

Aliyah was feeding her beloved Alonso, when the landline telephone began to ring. "Pearl! I think you should get the call." She called out as she scooped the milk unto Alonso' mouth. Pearl rushed down and picked before the call would die.

"Hello father." He said immediately. Pearl knew that only his father had access to his landline contact. "I hope you are aware of the anniversary coming up?" His father asked.

"I am aware father, you don't need to remind me." Pearl replied, rolling his eyes. "Good! Makes sure you bring the beautiful lady you wanted to present as your bride." Pearl turned to look at Aliyah taking care of Alonso. "Ofcourse father, she will be in attendance." He said, while smirking heavily as his father hung up.

"Mr. Norrignton?" Aliyah asked as she gave the last scoop of milk to Alonso.

"Yea. I have been meaning to tell you this..." Pearl said walking over to meet Aliyah, who was waiting for his speech.

"The Elite Packs usually have their yearly anniversary. We didn't attend the last year's own, I thought it would be appropriate we go for this one." Aliyah paused for a moment and thought about it.

"Wouldn't Raphael be in attendance?" Despite the years that had rolled by, Aliyah couldn't keep her mind off Raphael. Giving birth to Alonso was the icing on the cake; their similarity was hard to ignore.

"It doesn't matter Aliyah. I promise he wouldn't dare anything. I have my boys stationed at every corner. He would be playing with fire if he comes near you." Aliyah thought critically about the whole thing. Even though there was still a gap between herself and Raphael, giving birth to Alonso, made her realized that a chemistry still existed between the two.

"So what do you say?" Pearl asked with a smile on his face, while he playfully rub Alonso's hair. "It is clear I don't have a choice, I guess we will go then." Pearl clapped his hands and pecked Aliyah on the cheeks before leaving her with Alonso.

Norrignton had made sure to reach out to all members of the family to grace the yearly occasion and to him, this one happened to be a special one because he wouldn't only be seeing his sons, but also his grandsons as announced by some of the members of the family.

Pearl, Aliyah and her son Alonso had just arrived at the penthouse in Mexico where the family usually held the event. When they entered, Aliyah had her sight set fixated around for Raphael to know If he would had arrived.

"Don't worry sweetheart, as long as I am with you, I promise that no harm would come for you" Pearl assured her with his words and smile. Even though Aliyah tried to convince herself about what he had just said, deep down she knew that Raphael wasn't a man to joke with.

"Welcome brother" a young man dressed In a black Armani tuxedo had greeted Pearl the moment they entered the living room which looked grand.

"It's a pleasure to meet you again Norman; and I must say you look quite astonishing on the suit" Pearl complimented the young lad who had this cheesy smile that made him look quite handsome.

"Your wife I presume" Norman pointed to Aliyah causing Pearl to turn around and look at her with smile on his face.

"Of course, pardon my manners, meet Aliyah and Aliyah, this is Norman Levi one of my cousins" Norman shook hands with Aliyah.

"I must say she look quite ravishing" Aliyah made it a point to smile genuinely at the man for the compliment. She liked how gracefully the man spoke and how elegant he seemed.

"And I guess this is your son too" Norman noticed a child being carried by one of the body guard. Aliyah had handed Alonso over to her personal body guard to help look after.

"It's a long story Norman, why don't we just heard over to meet the rest of the family" Pearl decided to change the topic as he had no positive answer to the question that Norman had asked.

The living room was two, the first was the one that led to the second and it was also the one they had just conversed.

"Father" Pearl greeted Norrignton who was sitting side by side with Priscilla boring holes through his eyes on Aliyah

"Why are you in the possession of Raphael's wife?" Norrignton asked not removing his eyes off Aliyah who was already frightened by the ambience she was recieving from the two.

"She is my soon to be wife" Pearl declared causing everyone in the hall gasp including Aliyah; she wasn't aware of this arrangement and she was certain this looked like an ambush for Raphael, Pearl was playing a mind game.

"Your wife?" Norrignton asked after recovering from the shock of hearing the news from his beloved son.

"Yes my wife" He confirmed

"You do know she is Raphael's?" King asked taking his hot gaze back to Aliyah who was still shocked that Pearl had announced her as his wife.

"She doesn't belong to Raphael, he can go to hell for all I care" Pearl declared.

"But what do you two see in this low life gold digging bitch?" Priscilla asked.

"Mother, I haven't disrespected you before, and clearly I don't want to start now. Aliyah isn't worth the insult you just poured out" Pearl remarked.

"Oh! Please don't give me that talk Pearl, you are my son and clearly I see you have been puppy charmed by this bitch" Priscilla spatted out causing Aliyah to once again gasp at the horrendous insults being rained on her.

"It is okay honey, let us wait for Raphael to come, I believe he will have a say about this" Raphael calmed his wife down. Aliyah was already nervous as she believed that Raphael would be here any minute from now.

**

Raphael had taken his precious time to do what he needed to do for his company in New York before heading down to Mexico where his parents would be anticipating his arrival.

When Raphael arrived with his escorts, the entire penthouse was already filled with cars of his brothers, cousin and other members of the family that made up the Elite Packs. It was a rule that once the male eldest son isn't seated or hasn't arrived at the penthouse, no one was eating this he was aware that no one would have eaten at the moment.

Opening the living room he moved flawlessly across the red carpet up the stairs matching up to the hall where everyone would be gathered. He could feeling the laughing and chattering before he opened the door.

When Lucifer his new escort helped opened the door, he was graced with a number of people awaiting his presence and with a smile he entered but that smile will falter when his eyes landed on Aliyah.

"Impossible!" Raphael stated to no one but himself. He tried to go meet her but was immediately stopped by one of Pearl's bodyguard, causing Lucifer to also try and interfare with the man and his towering height caused the bodyguard look like a kid in his sight.

"Aliyah, is that really you" Raphael asked from afar. Pearl came into view and wrapped his arms around her waist. Raphael was perplexed, why was his step brother holding his wife like that and why did he had that devilish smirk laced on his lips.

"It is good to have you son" Norrignton stated, trying to cut the brewing tension that was in the air as Raphael watched Pearl's hand still on her waist.

"What are you doing? Get your hands of my wife" Raphael warned.

"She is mine now brother" Pearl said with a smile causing Raphael to fold his hands into fists, he looked ready to devour the entire flesh that made up Pearl.

"You son of a...." He was stopped by a slap across the face causing him to turn around to see Priscilla standing looking at him.

"You won't insult me because of this thing" She said standing her ground. Every other member in the family had gone quiet as they watched the drama unfold before them.

"Enough of all this madness" Norrignton declared with his authoritative voice.

"No father! Pearl here is very evil, he tricked Aliyah. I should have seen the bigger picture now." Raphael pointed out and before he could say anything else, his eyes fell on the two year old Alonso who was in the arms of one of Pearl escort.

"Is that our son" he turned and asked Aliyah who seemed to have became a shadow of herself during this scene.

"He is our son, this is Alonso" Aliyah stated and retrieved Alonso from the escort and held him up in her arms. Raphael's heart melted when he saw the eyes of the boy. He was seeing his younger self, innocent, happy and full of excess joy.

"Why? Why? Aliyah, why did you chose to be with him" Raphael said the last word with a tone of resentment.

"I had no one to run to Raphael, I didn't want to go to my uncle because clearly I know you will come looking for me, I just wanted to stay far away from you" Aliyah explained with a broken voice.

"Gentlemen, Ladies dinner is ready" Priscilla announced after being informed by the chief cook.

"This matter would be resolved in the round table of discussion after this meal but for now, let us go and eat" Norrignton declared once more.

To make matters was, Pearl kissed Aliyah on the fore head and held her arms and took her out of the hall to the dinning where they braced themselves to eat.

While everybody digged into their rice which was covered with peppered stew along side chickens of various size, the whole dinning ro was quiet. Norrignton had made it a habit that no member of the Elite Pack should be found talking while eating as he regards the person as being mannerless.

Raphael wasn't eating his meal and infact, he was staring down at Aliyah who was uncomfortable by the multiple of stare she was having from each person at a time. Even Norrignton seemed to stare at her every now and then.

She felt herself hyperventilating, she needed air from the tensed room and excused herself to use the bathroom. While in the bathroom, she took a long breath and stared at the mirror before her, she was already having eye bags laced underneath her eyes and one strand of her hair fell to the floor. She couldn't believe stress could make this life hard for her.

"But why?" She turned around and saw Raphael in the bathroom standing by the edge of the door staring at her.

CHAPTER Twelve

At first Aliyah wondered how Raphael had been able to enter the bathroom but she remembered that it was his father's house after all and Raphael though high of himself and wouldn't care for anybody's privacy.

"Look Raphael, I am not ready for this conversation" She tried to excuse herself from the bathroom but Raphael drew her back and used his other hand to hold her waist. She felt this sense of comfort upon feeling his hard chest pressed against her.

"You aren't thinking of really marrying my brother are you?" Raphael asked with a look of desperation in his eyes.

"You really want me to answer that question?" She raised an eye brow.

"What the fuck Aliyah! I thought we had a thing going" Raphael asked holding unto her hands firmly and looking her in the eyes.

"A thing? Norrignton Raphael, I am your property wait scratch that was your property, I was never intended to be your wife" This was the first time anyone would had the audacity to use his name.

"I will have you know that you are still mine even after all this years, I could still hold your uncle and his wife in ransome for my money" Raphael replied with a smirk on his face.

"I am sorry to disappoint you Raphael but that contract ended the day it ended. That same day you laid your hands on me. What didn't I do for you Raphael? I worshipped you like a god, made you happy at the expense of mine and above all, I had a baby for you. Your fucking child! Do you even know his name? No you don't. All I ever wanted was my child to have a family moment with his dad. I cried many nights when I knew that you were never going to see how I had developed feelings for you. Raphael, I fucking love you and it hurts that I am pouring out my emotion to a narcissist who only think of himself at this point" Aliyah emotions were poured out excessively. It felt as though all these years, she had been keeping them within. She never knew the extent of how she loved Raphael till the day she had cried at the hospital, the day she had given birth to his beloved son, the day she held the baby's hand and enjoined it with hers.

Raphael was simply speechless. In all his years as a Alpha Leader, he hadn't seen anyone express their emotions so innocently and so real than he was seeing today. He looked at Aliyah who was still sobbing in his chest and held her chin up to look at him. Aliyah felt his lips on hers as she moaned into the slow but sensual kiss. She knew Raphael had no way of expressing emotions but the kiss seemed to carry the emotion he wanted to pour out to her. Raphael pinned her to the wall and held her tightly as he ravaged her mouth with kisses. He begged for his tongue to have access to hers and Aliyah didn't hold back either. He tasted like summer berries. She trailed her arms down to his muscular form she enjoyed having this body pressed against hers and before Raphael could go further, a knock at the door brought them to reality.

"Aliyah, what in God's name are you still doing" Pearl's voice came through; he had been trying to get the door open but Raphael had locked it himself.

"I will be there in a second" she shouted out as Raphael growled hearing the voice of his step brother. He would take a mental note to have his revenge sometime.

"That kiss we just shared, that passionate kiss that was rudely interrupted by the douchebag outside is perhaps one of the best I had in all my years of active kissing" Aliyah chuckled at the way he said it.

"I really miss you Raphael and I truly love you. I was not aware of Pearl's intention today" she admitted honestly to him

"I knew he was being manipulative, he got it from his mother" Raphael explained still gritting his teeth in anger as he thought of the possibility of Pearl touching what is his.

"Don't worry Raphael, we didn't share any passionate moment together. Pearl was attractive and had this sense of humor but he couldn't come close to you" She admitted and kissed him once more but it was a short kiss.

"I really need to hold my child in my arms" Raphael explained after the kiss.

"Alonso, his name is Alonso" Aliyah revealed.

"What inspired you to give him that name?" Raphael asked out of sheer curiosity

"Let's just say I was so happy at that moment that I named him anything that came to my mind" she explained.

"Listen, since you will be the topic of discussion at the round table, I want you to know that regardless of the outcome of that meeting, you are still mine and would always remain mine" Raphael stated.

"Look, I may not be the best girl in the world but I think it is time to show your parent what you have thought me all this while" Aliyah stated with aura of confidence being taking in.

"That is my little wife"

"And you are my darling husband" Raphael smiled a genuine smile.

"Come now, let's show the family how tough you are" he held her arms and ushered her out of the bathroom.