Chapter 14

Clara's POV

Nicholas had agreed to follow me to the garden for a picnic. 

“Ummm…Nick, I need some canapes. I also want some red grapes, quavas and some mangoes. 

I continued making demands of all the things that I wanted. The grass in the area that I would lay the mat also needed to be mowed properly.

I was allergic to grass and would feel a kind of way if it touched my skin or anything. 

I was already a princess in my father's castle and I was used to having the best. Why would I settle for less in a man's pack?

I had other boyfriends but no one of them was rich as Nicholas.

Nicholas was the wealthiest, strongest, most handsome, he had the best dick game and the had the largest pack. 

I had tried to seduce him into ending his marriage and taking me as his Luna, but he told me he loved only one woman which was his mate, Charlotte and whatever we were doing was just for fun and pleasure.

When I began to nag him into changing his mind, he cut me off and refused to speak to me, not until the day I showed up with my bags in his pack.

I stood up from the bed and entered the bathroom to dress and put my makeup on. Nicholas was too busy with his phone.

I'm sure he was texting another girl. I came out of the bathroom and he still did not notice me. “ Nick, have you taken notes of all I asked for?” 

Nicholas nodded his head. “I'll have asked the servants to give you all that you want.”

Nick was the name I gave him when we started our affair.

I leaned on his arm for support when we were about to leave the room. 

As usual, I claimed it was to support me from the pain I felt on my intestines.

When we reached the garden, he laid out the checked garden mat and put some pillows on it to give me extra support.

He scooped me gently off the floor and lowered me on the mat.

Even though I lied about the nausea, I did feel a certain type of relief.

I was very sure the baby was going to be a girl. I loved the scent of flowers too much.

Nicholas stood still for sometime. I knew he was mind-linking with someone.

It did not take long before his beta came out of the blues. He seemed stressed.

His beta was also as fine as him.

“Alpha. I tried to mind-link you but the mind-link kept disconnecting,” the beta was panting as he was speaking.

Was he running? It seemed like he was chasing something or something bigger than him was chasing him rigorously. 

“Alpha. Alpha..there's a..” the beta was speaking incoherently.

I kind of figured that he was not speaking incoherently. He didn't just want to say whatever was on his mind in front of me.

“Someone! Get him a glass of water!” Nicholas commanded and the servants began to scurry Helter skelter. 

A blonde male servant gave him a glass of water and he gulped it up quickly. I would have offered him some of my water, but it was in a personal jug. Also, everyone knew that pregnant women did not walk around without water.

The beta was finally calm. “You look like you just came out of a boxing room. Is there any problem?” 

“Alpha, I need to show you something. I also need to tell you something very important, but it cannot be here. Can I have your time?” The beta asked as his eyes kept darting from mine to Nicholas’ and from Nicholas’ to mine.

I folded my face into an unattractive frown. We just came here and we had just started the picnic.

Why was he leaving so soon? 

“Clara. I'll be back okay?”

“Promise?” 

“I promise. I won't take too much time because of you.” Nicholas was assuring me. He was acting softer. I was winning. He was slowly entering my grasp. 

“The baby says goodbye. He also says if you don't come back early, he'll be mad at you.” I teased Nicholas and blew a kiss at him.

Normal Nicholas would have warned me because of his stupid Luna. This time around he smiled and went away with his Beta.

When I found out that I was pregnant, my mother was very furious.

She did not believe that a lady should get pregnant out of marriage.

She was a very reserved and quiet wolf. She was also extremely stoic.

She rained hell on me and asked me to abort it. She offered to take me to the doctor's place.

I declined. Why would I want to abort the baby that belonged to the man that I loved?

I played along with her and told her I had taken the abortion pills. I traveled to visit one of my friends in her pack in Amsterdam. 

I spent the whole Christmas and new years there. 

When the weather got warmer, I came back to the pack with a six month pregnancy.

My mother was bamboozled. She gave me a dirty slap and my father asked me to go back to the home of the Alpha that made me pregnant.

They did not allow me to enter the house. My father threatened to align with other packs and fight with the Alpha responsible for it.

He said the Alpha had to marry me. Knowing my father very well, he was capable of it.

My father, Alpha Carl, had one of the biggest packs in this kingdom. His pack was the second biggest after Nicholas' 

Despite that, I had never been lucky with finding a mate. People claimed my father was evil and they stayed away from us.

All my mates always rejected me. They wanted nothing to do with me. I refused to marry a poor man.

All the alpha's only used me for pleasure. Bad luck?

But I had sworn to myself that I had to be wedded to an Alpha. It had to be by hook or by crook. 

Nicholas did keep to his word. He came back immediately when he said he would and we had a great time together.

I was showing him some celebrities from a sports magazine and he was analyzing them to make funny jokes. 

I finally had a bit of happiness until the witch showed up.

She tried to challenge me but Nicholas was there for me. This made me love him even more. Ugh! 

After Nicholas had put her in her place and her maid left, Nicholas gave me some words of assurance. 

“I'll always protect this baby, okay?” he then rubbed my belly.

I hugged him. He embarrassed his Luna for me. He stood up for me? He caused a scene for me? I thought I was winning when I heard more words from his mouth.

“My Luna. I have to apologize to her.”