chapter 6

Walking towards the front door of the pack house and instantly feeling the fresh air whipping her loose hair around, causing a smile to graze her face with the familiar feeling.

She always loved walking outside, infact she used to spend a lot of time in the backyard back home tending to her flowers and playing with the pups. Thinking about home makes her think about the loved ones she lost not so long ago.

She shakes her head to clear off the sad thoughtg, guess walking would help her as running in her wolf form wouldn't be a smart idea as no one knows her real identity here and she doesn't want hunters to know about her whereabouts and hunt down this pack too like they did to hers, she couldn't possibly handle the guilt.

She walks around the pack grounds that is around the edge of the forest, she could hear shrieks and laughter of pups and their parents telling them to be careful, she instantly realises that it's a playground for the young children as she walks towards where she could hear their voices.

She keeps walking when she suddenly feels herself colliding with someone else and she instantly feels small hands wrapping around her legs, she realises that it's a small pup as she bents down so she could pick up the pup, and her hands comes in contact with short smooth hair letting her know that it's a boy, she always loved small babies and toddlers and this just made her heart melt.

She picks him up and places him on het hip, the little boy instantly snuggles into her side by nuzzling his head into Jade's neck and hair as if to hide himself from others making her as his hair tickled the skin on her neck.

"Hello baby" she speaks up and she feels small hands circling around her neck and she hears a muffled cute voice saying "Hello" back.

She places a hand on his back while the other rubs his back and his tiny body instantly relaxes in Jade's hold, she wished to have a child of my her own one day, but now she wasn't so sure of herself as her mate doesn't even want her and plus she was blind for god's sake. How can she take care of a child if she can't take care of herself properly.

"What is your name, honey?" Jade aska him softly and he lifts his face from his initial position on her neck.

"My nwame is Lwion and I'm four ywears old-d" he says proudly in a baby voice causing Jade to swoon at his cuteness.

"Hello Lion, my name is Jwade" she replies in a baby voice which makes Lion giggle. He suddenly clamps both his tiny hands on het cheeks and he seems to be looking at her face for sometime and then blurts out the words which made her feel like keeping him to herself but she knows that it isn't possible and his parents wouldn't approve of it.

"You lwook beawtifwull Jwade" he says and she hugs him tightly, not enough to hurt his small body.

"Aww, aren't you a handsome little man" that makes him fold his hands on his chest and say in a cute angry voice "I'm not a small man, I'm a bwig boy" and she tickles him to which he squirms and giggles in her hold trying to free himself.

"Lion" a male voice calls out which seems to snap both Lion and Jade out of their previous actions and, Jade srunches her face in confusion.

"Lion, where are you?" The voice calls out again and it sounds a bit worried.

Lion instantly reclaims his earlier position by nuzzling his head into Jade's neck, she stands there confused for a moment and smile afterwards when she realises the situation.

"Lion, are you hiding from someone" she asks him and he nods his small head with his face still in her neck, she laughs and shake her head at his antics.

Kids

"Lion- oh" she feels the presence of the male infront of her causing her tense up, she could feel the stare of several other pack members on them, which she didn't seem to notice before as she was distracted by Lion and his cuteness.

"Aahh, it's you" the male says almost sounding surprised, he seems to be a top ranked warrior as he excludes some amount of power but not as strong as an Alpha or Beta.

"Um..who are you?" She asks him "oh where are my manners, I'm Nathaniel the Gamma and this little man's uncle" he says and I instantly relax.

Lion chooses to come out of hiding by replying to his uncle's statement "I'm not a lwittle gwuy uncwule" he states and both Nathaniel and Jade laugh at this.

She smiles at him and decides to introduce hetself "I'm Jade, and nice to meet you Nathaniel" she says and he laughs.

"Nice to meet you too Jade, and I know who you are as I was among one of the guards the night we caught you, and please call me Nathan" he replies and she instantly likes him. She felt at ease in his presence, normally she tended to stay away from male species but something about Nathaniel just seemed so calming.

For a moment she tenses up when she heard him say that 'he knows her' as all her life she had been sheltered and kept as a secret by her parents to protect her and the pack from the outside world. She feared the fact that he might know about her secret that she had worked so hard on keeping hidden.

Nathan seems to go quiet all of a sudden causing to furrow her brows in confusion, he seems shy all of a sudden.

"Nathan? Are you okay?" She asks him concerned.

"I- I uh- would you like to go out on a date with me Jade?" He asks her nervously fearing that she would reject him.

She was shocked at his request, no guy had ever asked her out as no one wanted a blind girlfriend and being the Alpha's Daughter scared away boys.

"Uh- me? I'm blind" she asks him confused, he has definitely made a mistake like who would ask her out...

"Of course I know that but that doesn't bother me and yes, I'm asking you out..I mean look at you, you're young and beautiful" he replies and she instantly blushes as no grown man has ever called her 'beautiful'.

She contemplates it for a moment and replies with an "okay" and a smile.

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"Then it's a date" he says and she blushes again.

"Uncle Nwathwan has a dwaattee" Lion exclaims and bounces in Jade's hands causing her to blush even more if possible.

She hands Lion over to Nathan, who was sad to leave her arms but after promising him that she would play with him the next day he went willingly.

Among all the stares of all the pack members she failed to realise one of them was watching their whole exchange with a furious expression from the window on the top floor of the pack house.

Adryan felt red hot fury take over his senses when he saw her speaking with Nate, his Delta. He felt like strangling him. His hands grips the side of the windowsill in a tight grip causing small cracks to form on them.