CHAPTER 6

Katarina’s Pov

The guilt of what I had done had been plaguing me for weeks now. I was distracted and my parents noticed it. I tried to forget what had happened that night but whenever I closed my eyes I saw his brown eyes staring at me.

My wolf has also been quiet for some time. She was one of the reasons why I ended up like this. The horny bastard. Although I didn’t understand why she had been quiet, I could understand her feelings.

I was in the kitchen trying to make dinner when my dad walked in. He watched me while I cook before coming to assist me. I knew he wanted to have a conversation with me.

“What is for dinner?” he asks. I glanced at him and smiled inwardly. My dad and I are very close so I knew he would be the first person concerned.

“I’m making grilled chicken and rice with some stir fry veggies by the side."

“Can I help?” He goes to pick a knife knowing fully well he can't use it.

“I’m fine Dad. Besides, I'm almost done,” I tell him.

“Kat, you know I’m always there for you right?” He looked worried. I could tell he had lost his patience and was going straight in for the kill.

“Yea I know,” I answered while going to check on the chicken. I wasn’t ready for a heart to heart conversation so I could only act busy to send him away.

“Something is going on with you and I want to know." He was insisting with a stern expression. My dad is a smart and fierce man. He knows when to be soft with us and when to be strict.

“Dad I am not a child anymore, you know. If it is something that requires your help, I’ll gladly ask for it but for now, it is my problem and I need to solve it myself,” I tell him. I remove the chicken from the griller and move to check on the rice in the rice cooker. The rice was still hard so I left it to keep cooking for a while.

“So I can’t know what is going on with you because you are no longer a child? Kat, you will always be my baby no matter how old you get." I knew he was looking at me as his little girl. He sounded concerned but I couldn’t tell him I had lost my virginity. I know they thought I was sexually active due to the way I dress and went out partying on the weekend but they are wrong.

“It is a man problem Dad,” I say to him.

“That is one more reason why you should open up to me,” he insisted. In his eyes, I could do no wrong. It had to be the other party's fault. He feels he has to protect me every time because I’m a latent wolf. Even after training me to be strong, he was still skeptical about my strength.

“Dad no!” I replied laughing.

“You won’t understand because you are a man. I’ll handle my man's problems myself and will call on you if I need the brutal strength of a Beta." I was trying to soothe his ego. He looks at me and smiles.

“Okay if you say so. But I don’t want you looking like the world is coming to an end in the office,” he grumbled. I smiled back at him knowing he was not satisfied with my answer but decided to leave me alone for now.

“I’ll be fine Dad don’t worry,” I assure him. The words were also meant for me indirectly too. I didn’t know when I’ll be able to get over what happened but I was ready to move on. After all, it's been 3 weeks. I went to the bar twice thinking I’d at least be able to see him once more but it didn’t work out. The waiters couldn't even remember him.

I had also been avoiding Maddie ever since that night cause I couldn’t bring myself to tell her. I’m pretty sure she is angry at me because I tried calling her the other day but she didn’t pick up. She also didn’t return my calls so I knew she was angry.

I checked my rice and removed it. Dinner was ready.

I walked into my office feeling dizzy and tired. I have been feeling tired and lazy for some days and I don't know why. My annoying wolf had gotten herself back and was disturbing me to come out. I might just let her take over and assert her dominance over some people.

I quickly went to my seat and sat down. My assistant kept a bottle of water and a cup of coffee for me on the table so I took the water and drank it.

The smell of the coffee made me want to throw up so I had to call in my assistant to go trash it. I picked up the landline and called her in.

“Can you please take away this coffee? The smell is very bad." As a werewolf, my nose was very sensitive and I could smell the fragrance of her perfume. I couldn't stand it unlike before.

“Okay Miss Black,” she picked up the coffee from the table.

“What is my schedule for today?” I asked her and massaged my head with my hands.

“You have a meeting with your father and HR by noon. And a meeting with the team by 3 pm,” she replied.

I thought about canceling everything today and just go home and sleep but it would make my dad question me again. I knew I wasn’t at my best today. It was strange being this weak because werewolves hardly get sick. And when we do it doesn’t even stay for more than a day.

“I could cancel if you’d like. You don’t look too good."

“No, I'm good. I can manage,” I say and dismiss her. I couldn't stand her scent again. I switched on my laptop and tried to work on some designs that were sent to me by the creative team.

By the end of the whole day, I was tired and to the point of breaking down. It wasn’t an easy feat trying to hide my lack of strength in front of my dad during the meeting but I was able to manage it. I kept on looking at the time to clock 5 pm so I could leave.

Once the long arm of the clock touched 12, I stood up ready to leave the office as fast as I could. I picked up my bag and went straight to the door and opened it and standing right in front of my door was Maddie. Her hand was stretched out like she wanted to open the door but I guess I beat her to it. She withdrew her hand immediately and looked at me with a blank expression. Oh boy, she was pissed.

“Come inside,” I said, inviting her in. She walked in and sat down on my seat.

“Now are you ready to tell me what has been going on with you?” she asked. I closed the door and walked over to my table and rested on it.

“What do you mean?” I replied. She turned red instantly and looked like she was about to blow up.

“What do you mean by what do I mean!” she exclaimed.

“You have been avoiding me since the night we went out clubbing. At first, I thought you were busy with the company and stuff but no. You constantly rejected all my calls and have been avoiding me,” she complained angrily. My head felt heavy while she was talking. I couldn’t even reply her when she finished talking.

“Are you angry with me?” she asked when I didn't say anything.

“Of course not,” I quickly corrected her. I could understand her reason for thinking this way. We were best friends and rarely had issues so not talking for this long was uncommon. And I missed her.

“Then what is it? I thought you were angry that I ditched you that night and left with Zach."

“Zach came back for you though after taking me to the car but you were nowhere to be found. He asked the server that served our drinks and he said you had left already so I thought maybe that was why you were ignoring me,” she said quickly in one breath.

“No, I’m not angry at you and Zach. I just had an unforeseen circumstance and didn’t know how to go about it.” I felt nauseous and ran immediately to the bathroom to throw up. Maddie came up behind me and started patting my back.

I threw up everything I had eaten during lunch. She gave me her handkerchief and I used it to clean my mouth.

“Thank you,” I said to her and stood up. I walked to the sink and washed my hands and face with water. I also rinsed my mouth with water to remove the taste and smell of the vomit from my mouth.

“Are you okay?” I heard Maddie ask from the door.

“I thought I was but it seems I caught the flu or something." I was pretty sure it wasn't the flu though.

“We don’t catch the flu,” she reminds me.

“Well, then I don’t know. I’ve been feeling this way for about three days."

“That’s weird or is there an illness spreading around?” she joked. I couldn’t answer her cause I didn’t know what was going on with me. This is the second time I was throwing up this week alone and it doesn’t look like it's ending anytime soon. I leave the bathroom and go back into the office.

“Do you want me to call the pack doctor?” she asked again.

“No please don’t. He will call my father to inform him and that is the last thing I want.” I sit down on my seat behind my desk.

“You don’t look good though."

“Or could it be possible that you’re pregnant,” she teases me. I froze immediately. Why had I not thought of that? Maddie noticed the expression on my face immediately.

“Wait, don't tell me it could be possible." She walked towards me in shock.

“KATARINA BLACK WHEN DID YOU LOSE YOUR VIRGINITY?” Maddie shouted.

“Can you stop shouting? It’s affecting my ears,” I tell her. I massaged my temple with my hands and sighed.

“Oh sorry. When did this happen? Why didn’t I know about this?” she kept on throwing questions at me. Questions that I didn’t know how to answer.

“I’ll tell you about it later. Can we go get a pregnancy strip? Let’s buy as many as possible,” I picked up my purse and stood up.

“Okay okay there's one down the street,” she said and we left.

As we walked down to the pharmacy my anxiety increased. It can’t be possible. We used condoms that night or didn’t we? I couldn’t recall exactly what had transpired that night. The possibility of getting pregnant from a one-night stand was low, I told myself.

We entered the pharmacy and walked down to the women's area. There were so many brands. I didn’t know which one to choose so I took two from each available brand. I wanted to be a hundred percent sure. Maddie waited for me outside. I went to the counter, paid for my stuff, and left immediately.

We went back to my office and I went to the bathroom to check it. Five minutes later I carried all 10 of the test strips and walked into the office.

“What is it?”

“I don’t know. I don’t dare to check them,” I tell her. She took them from my hand and looked at all of them with a blank expression.

“What did it say?” I was terrified of the outcome. Maddie raised her head, lifted one of the strips, and smiled at me.

“You’re pregnant,” she says softly.