*Clair's POV***As soon as I got to the quarters where my mom was said to live now, I was overtaken with surprise. Why was my mom having her quarter of her own? I asked in my thoughts. “Miss, we are here,” the lady who led me announced. “But this isn't the direction of her room?” I asked, confused when I noticed where we had stopped was not a room.“Yes ma'am, we are not in her room but in her favorite garden.”“What? My mom goes to a garden?”The lady stared at me with an expression that showed I looked weird to her. Though it's just a few years since I left the pack, it seems so much has changed. “Please come with me, ma'am,” The lady said, leading the way to the garden. I walked slowly behind her while looking around. I could barely believe my eyes.As soon as we got to the middle of the garden, I saw a woman with her back against us, she was watering flowers. I looked at her fingers as she carefully watered them. She was doing it with so much care that I couldn't help but wond
**Clair's POV**In anger, I stormed Cannon's office, my hands folded into fists. A pushed his office door open and barged in with full force. “How dare you? How dare you make it impossible for me to leave with my mom too? What lies did you feed her?!”I burst into flames. Cannon, who had been sitting on his chair, slowly stood up and approached me. “Clair, can we not do this, please? Why wouldn't you calm down and listen to me even once?”“The only way I will calm down is if you let my kids go.”“I can't. Stop asking me that, Clair!”“And why not! Aren't you happy being with Roxanne?”“You still don't understand what's going on, do you? All my life, if there's anything I regret most in my life, it is the fact that I hid the mate bond. If I hadn't, maybe all of this wouldn't have happened.”“Since you already know, why cry over spilled milk? Why wouldn't you let me have them?”“Because I don't want you to leave me again, Clair,” he instantly covered the distance between us. “I wan
**Clair's POV** What the fuck do you think you're doing kissing me like that? I screamed out even though I let him kiss me enough. I feel so terrible right now. I never should have let him approach me in the first place. “Clair, I'm sorry for what happened, but I couldn't help it. You know just how much I love you, don't you?” “That's not the point!” “Then I don't know what else to say to you. My mind is made up. The kids aren't going anywhere. And if there's anything I'll do, it is to go to war with Rojas if that's the only way to keep my children,” he said the words sternly with his back against me. At that moment, I didn't need anyone to tell me that he was serious about what he said because I could already see it. “So, that's your decision?” I asked for the last time, just to be certain I didn't hear him wrongly. “That's it, Clair, my mind is made up.” At that moment, I held my hands tightly in a fist. I can't believe just how conscienceless he could be. I don't understan
**Clair's POV**I waited patiently in my mother's room for Tessa. As soon as I heard the door open, I quickly raised my gaze up, and to my greatest shock, it was none other than Tessa. We both went wide in shock when we laid eyes on one another. “My goodness! Is that really you, Clair?” Tessa asked as she ran towards me quickly. “Yes, it's me, Tessa. I never thought that I would ever see you again,” I said as soon as Tessa got to where I stood. Presently, I noticed tears clogged her eyes and I felt the same way too. I can't imagine just how badly she must have missed me. “You have no idea, just how much I missed you, Clair. When the news came that you were dead, I hated and blamed myself for a very long time.”“Why would you blame yourself? You didn't do anything to blame yourself for, you know.”“Of course, there's a lot to blame myself for. If I had known it was that dangerous, I never would have let you go. I would have told the Alpha about your whereabouts sooner. So many reg
**Clair's POV ***I looked up at Rojas, I felt terribly bad for what I was about to say, since I was the one who moved the motion from the very beginning. “Rojas, I'm sure you'll be wondering why I came to you and not saying anything for a while now. That's because I still don't know how to start talking about what's on my mind.”“What could you have had in mind? You know you can always talk to me, and I'll hear you out.”“Well, the thing is, I want to put a stop to the fight about getting back my kids.”“What? Why would you stop? Don't you wish to get back your kids anymore?”“Of ourselves I do, but then after a second thought, I realized that I actually can't fight him for the kids no more what I do. It's obvious that he's only willing to let go, and I'm not going to fight about this as well.”“My goodness, Clair, do you realize that you have just succumbed to him? Is that what you want?”“Believe me, that's not what I want, but the situation is far more complicated than I thought.
**Clair's POV **“A condition?”“Yes, a condition. Are you ready to hear it?”“Well, why don't you bring it on,” I stated, prepared to hear what he had to say. Just then, he slowly walked over to where I stood. Judging from his slightly dark expression, I was having the thought that I might not actually like what he was about to say to me. Just as he got close to where I stood, he suddenly stretched out his hands towards me. I tried to move backwards a bit before I could do that. He grabbed a hold of my waist and pulled me towards him.“What do you think you are doing?”I asked, breathing heavily. This action of his has tuned my wolf into disarray. Why was he suddenly doing this? Does he have any idea how badly what he was doing affected me?“I don't know why I'm the only one with this feeling. This is unfair. You're my mate, and you should at least feel a little passion for me, just as I feel for you. How can I be the only one to suffer for this? It's so unfair,” he whispered as he
**Alpha Cannon's POV **I paced from one end of my office to the next. I was worried sick about what I had said earlier. “Alpha Cannon, you shouldn't stop pacing for crying out loud. I'm beginning to feel extremely dizzy right now, you know. Please, calm down and let me think.”“No, you don't understand, Andrew. You know for a fact that Clair isn't someone who will back down from something like this.”“My goodness! This is why you never should have said that to her. What are we going to do now if she comes up with something else.”“That's the problem.”I'm afraid that Clair might have something else going on in her head. Whenever she leaves angry, what she comes back with is always shocking. When she left after I asked her to stay here in the pack with me, she shocked me out of my wits when she rather came back with Alpha Rojas. While I was contemplating on what to do, I suddenly heard a knock on my office door. I took my gaze towards Andrew, who equally stared at me in shock. My
**Clair's POV**I stood in front of the water bath. I still can't believe what I'm about to do. How did I get this far? “Ma'am, on earth you're done, please let me know.”I took my gaze toward the direction of the lady who stood at the entrance of Cannon's bathroom door. “You don't have to watch me. I'll be very much okay on my own.”Alright, Ma'am,” the lady said with a smile before exiting the bathroom. I shut my eyes and took a deep breath the moment she was out of the room. I can't even begin to describe what all this was. All I knew was that I'm feeling so awkward. This is just like the first day I had sex with Cannon for the first time. I remembered that back also soaked a warm bath. The only difference was that Roxanne watched the whole process of my bath. Unlike now, where I wasn't under anyone's supervision. No matter how normal I'm trying to feel, it still doesn't change the fact that I'm giving myself out to Cannon in exchange for the cancellation of a battle. I can