A time came when Vanessa found her mate, but the Alpha Sebastian never wanted to let her go, demanding that she reject her mate because he had invested too much in her to lose her. They had dated for years and he paid for her tertiary education, bought her an apartment and a car, as a good sugar daddy that he was.And all of a sudden she was going to leave him. He put up a fight and once even tried to kill the boy but didn't succeed, and in the end, Vanessa and Gage (that was the name of Vanessa's mate) moved in together.Vanessa fell pregnant soon after, but there were doubts as to who was the father of the baby. Gage suspected the child wasn't his, and that strained the relationship between him and his mate a great deal, until he disappeared from her life one day.Vanessa was devastated by his departure, frightened by the prospect of having to raise a child on her own when she was unemployed.The child was born a few months later, and it was a male child.She named him Joseph, and fo
Mathew doesn't hesitate to answer her question, telling the story as he remembers it, and this is the story according to him:He remembers the first day he heard the words that he wasn't the Alpha's son, that he was being kept in their house out of pity. His parents had abandoned him because even they thought he wasn't good enough to raise and he better behave or he would be tossed right out on the streets where he belonged.He was six years old and the words had come from the Luna of the pack, who obviously feared Mathew because, to be honest, the boy looked more promising than her own son, more talented and more suitable to be the Alpha's heir.Everyone felt threatened by him even though there was no need for that; Mathew or Joseph had never shown any real interest in the Alpha position.But there was no way to convince the Luna and Alpha about that, as they insisted Mathew be shown his place.He was paid since he was ten years old to serve the Alpha's son, and it was then that he st
Thanks to Mathew's direct involvement in every part of the Alpha's son's life, academic life included, he had an easy time in university.Well, only where academic performance is concerned.He developed this habit of gambling and soon, the funds his father deposited in his account weren't enough. Mathew knew the Alpha's son had a habit of stealing since he was a very young boy. Unfortunately, this habit grew to alarming levels when he got in university. His need for money kept increasing as he kept creating more situations that required huge amounts of money, and Mathew could not do much to stop him. He dated a new gold digger every week and lived a very expensive lifestyle.He sold his car, but that wasn't enough to cover the huge debt that had accumulated, and in the end, he hacked the bank accounts of the pack.The Alpha and Luna died because they tried, for the first time in their lives, to lecture their spoiled son. They must have suspected that he was behind the thefts that kept
The new revelations cause Emily to hate Jack even more. He is a murderer; a spoiled brat who was used to getting away with shit because of his wealthy and powerful parents. He is the selfish liar who grew up using people and treating those below him like trash.He is sick in the head and she is going to make him pay for what he did...Emily holds out her hand to help Mathew to his feet."Let's go home. I will get you something to eat."She has a tender and maternal look on her young face, and Mathew is moved. He still loves this girl to the moon and back, and he will forever love her. He can feel that there will be no mate for him, he already fell in love and the moon goddess would never consider giving him a mate. She was the one but he couldn't keep her due to his messy life. Such a pity."I have to be taken away, Emily. If I decided not to get caught, these people would never have found me. They have visited this place a hundred times yet they couldn't find me and I have been here t
Mathew takes off his tie and tosses it on a chair, then goes back to cutting the vegetables."You have always complained that I never told you about..."She interrupts him immediately."Please stop. I understand completely the reason you have been reluctant to share information about who you really are, so you can stop feeling bad about it."Mathew watches her for a moment, then returns his attention to the task.His kitchen is very small but very neat and organized. In the pack house, there are two kitchens, each of them as large as a kitchen could ever be made, but Emily thinks she prefers being in this tiny one with Mathew. She would prefer to be here any day."Nevertheless," Mathew says. "You are going to be the first, and perhaps the only one, to hear this. The day that Alpha Sebastian and his Luna passed, I walked in on them just before the Alpha slipped away. I was told that he was sorry for the way he had treated me all those years. He thought I would overshadow Jack, because I
"I am glad you like it." Mathew says, getting up from the table. Emily glances at his plate, noticing that he has emptied it. She nods in approval because she thought he looked a bit starved when he came to the pack a few hours ago. Other people wouldn't have noticed that he was a bit malnourished, but Emily knows Mathew inside out, she is quick to tell when something's amiss."What made you come up with the name Mathew, anyway? Of all the names out there.""I heard it was my dad's name. I needed to feel connected with him in some way, and that's the reason I took his name, not that I like it any better.""But your father's name was Sebastian, or did I not get that correctly?" she frowns and rises from the table as well."I mean the man who was my mother's mate."He wanted his parents. Emily is sure that, had his parents appeared and apologized for abandoning him, he would have readily forgiven them. He is a good man, gentle and kind and craving to be loved, even though he hides that
"I see you sorted out your issue now. Wasn't hard to do that, was it?" Emily smiles at Tara.Tara looks panicked, shaking her head slightly."We didn't sort out anything. He is still with the woman."Shocked, Emily's brows crease."Why are you letting him kiss you then? From the look of things, you are going to finish your little make out session in some bedroom. I can't believe you are doing that, Tara!"She can't believe she is trying to give advise to issues concerning a relationship when her own desperately needs advice. She feels she is one hundred percent disqualified from offering any kind of relationship advice by now and she probably shouldn't do this but she won't let anyone, not even Tara's mate, take advantage of her. Although Tara is smart, she is also a young naive girl who doesn't have much experience when it comes to love and relationships. And she lacks boundaries. Tara has no one else to guide her. Emily feels like Tara is her younger sister for some reason, and she
After the demise of their Alpha and Luna, the Elders of the Crescent Wolf pack had tried to train the Alpha's son, Jack to be their Alpha, finding a tiny building with a very poor budget somewhere in the forest where no one would question them.The thing about being an old wolf is that one was brought up to be codependent and hardly survives without the help of other wolves, especially without the help of the Alpha. One gets used to having things done for them by the Alpha, having jobs created for them, nice environment to live in and what not, and when the Alpha is taken from the picture, poverty strikes.The younger wolves have evolved to live like humans; independent regardless if they have an Alpha or not. Some even go to human universities and get degrees in human related jobs, blending in among humans and just living their lives.And that happened in Crescent Wolf pack. After their pack fell apart, the wolves that had lived away from their Alpha continued with their lives after g