Six.

Alpha Zach's POV

I knew she wasn't going to like what I say and wait patiently for her to get comfortable and pray to the Moon Goddess that she will not freak out

"Well spit it out then" she snaps at me, annoyed that I was taking my time.

If anyone else were to speak to me like that, my hand would be tightening around their throat just about now, but she was the Queen and she was my mate, I couldn't risk that now when she was seeing the softer side of me.

Even Kayden was taking the micky saying that this girl already had me wrapped around her finger and he wasn't far from the truth, I would do anything for her.

"Charlie, there is no easy way for me to say this, but your mother killed your grandmother"

Her eyes are wide for a moment as she registers what I am saying and then she narrows them at me

"Your lying"

"I have no reason to lie to you Charlie"

"So you're telling me that my mother who would never be Queen, killed the Queen"

"Yes"

"But you are letting her live on your pack land"

"Yes"

"Where the Queen also lived?"

"Yes"

She falls quiet, her soft pink lips clamped together as she thinks over what I had said.

"Why?" she mumbles the word so quietly that I almost miss it

"Although I disagree with why your mother killed the Queen, your mother has proven herself quite useful"

"That's not what I meant. Why did she kill the Queen"

Standing up, i lean against the fire place, staring into the flames, "It's alot to explain"

"Was it something to do with the vampire she was having an affair with?"

I shoot my eyes at her "How did you know about that?"

She explains to me all the things she had learnt about her mother in Alpha Max's pack and how on the data base they keep it said she had been killed by a vampire but her father had told her the truth and that her mother was having an affair with a vampire.

"She fell in love Charlie"

She chews her bottom lip which has my beast roaring inside. I wanted to be the one doing that, I wanted to be the one who got to taste her with my tongue.

She stares at me "What was that?"

I look around the room but she is still watching me "What was what?"

"What was what?" I look around the room again but it was just us

"That growl?" 

Crap she heard it. I smile at her "It's my stomach, I haven't eaten in a few hours"

But she stares at me and I know full well that she doesnt believe me

"My mother had an affair, for how long?"

"Ten years, we believe, though she does not talk about it so we don't know much more"

"Ten years?" Her questioning face suddenly becomes pale and emotionless.

"Charlie what is it?"

"She left when I was eight. My father said she left with him"

They had been having an affair long before Charlie was born, could it be possible that she was the vampires child? No surely not, there had never been a Lycan vampire child but then her mother had been so shifty when i told her that Charlie was here and seemed to be afraid of something.

I had to find out why she didn't show this morning, she was definitely hiding something.

"Alpha Zach, you haven't said anything in a few minutes"

I offer her a smile to try and reassure her but as I look at the girl sat in the chair its like i am noticing things for the first time, how bright her eyes were, yes she had her mothers eyes but they were much brighter, her hair hung straight and not a single frizz or wave, her skin smooth like porcelain.

She smiles at me and using my strengthened senses, i look at her teeth, they are sharper than the average Lycan.

"I need to speak to your mother Charlie"

"Can I come?"

"Not right now"

She frowns at me "But you said"

"I know what I said Charlie but for some reason she doesn't want to meet you yet" I snap at her a little harsher than what I was intending

The tears were instant, I hated seeing her cry and tried to hug her and ressure her but she pushes me away and runs out the house. 

She was quick but she stops about ten metres from the packhouse, some of my pack were busy completing tasks but they all stopped to watch her because they would feel it, they would automatically know that she was their Queen. 

I watch as she looks around her, some of the pack advancing on her but through mind link I tell them to keep their distance and that she was not ready yet. Instead they stand and watch her like I do, her bare feet on the gravel as she continues to turn and look at everyone.

There was panic written on her face and as I hurry down the stone steps towards her, she summons a ball of red mist and slams it into the ground sending everyone but herself flying through the air and crashing to the ground.

What had she just done?

She spins to look at me her eyes searching my face but I have no words to offer and just use my head to gesture towards the packhouse.

Charlie runs pass me, tears streaming harder and faster than ever as she races up the stairs whilst the people of my pack dust themselves off and make their way towards me. They were not happy.

"Alpha is that our Queen, Alpha is she going to attack us, Alpha what have you brought here, Alpha she cannot be here"

The questions went on and on and I do not blame them, I would be concerned too if my Queen treated me like that.

Trying to keep peace, I tell them she is going through alot and that she is not to be approached just yet. I know they will talk among themselves but for now it was all I could offer.

I could not believe what Charlie did to my people but I guess at least she didnt kill them but it had me wondering how strong her powers actually were. Glancing back at the house, I considered going in after Charlie but instead decided on paying Sophia a visit, i needed to know if what I suspected was true.

Sophia peers around the door at me, and visibly relaxes when she sees that it is me.

"Oh Alpha, I wasn't expecting you"

"What do you mean, you were supposed to come to the house this morning"

She shifts her weight from one foot to the other

"I couldn't do it, she will have so many questions and I just, I just don't know if I am ready to answer them"

"You owe her"

"I don't owe her anything" she folds her arms across her chest just as Charlie does and i cannot help but laugh inwardly, considering Charlie doesn't know much about her mother, she certainly has alot of her mannerisms.

"You left her with an abusive father"

"I didnt know"

"You ran away with your mate, Charlie's true father"

Her jaw drops as she stares at me "How did you know?"