8: Mama Teresa

KAI

The first place I showed up when I got back home was in Nadine's room and she was still out with the physician sitting on a chair in her room.

I then went to the kitchen where Mama Teresa was cooking one of her delicious recipes to drink water.

"The council must have been very happy," she said softly as I drowned a cup of water.

"Happy is an understatement to what they felt when they realized that finally, there's a way out of the impending doom."

"Yeah, I can imagine, after all these years, the Moon Goddess finally answered our prayers."

After all these years indeed! Since the curse and prophecy were revealed to me after my eighteenth birthday by Father and the rest of the council, I initially thought it was ridiculous because we were in a modern world and mates were a thing of the past but as I grew older, I realized how dire the situation was.

The existence of the entire werewolf race was solely dependent on if I found my mate. As the 21st generation of the Alpha bloodline from when our pack was formed, I was cursed with the continuity of our werewolf race.

If before 30, I was unable to find my mate and get her pregnant, our generation will be wiped out and that will be the ultimate end.

As I grew older, especially after Father died and I took over the mantle of power, I realized just how dire the situation and I stopped fucking around and I started to actively look for my mate which proved to be a Herculean task.

God! Finding a needle in a haystack was easier than finding her.

Until Nadine...

Who'd have thought?

"Has she ever crossed your mind why she turned out to be human? Mama Teresa asked as she stirred her sweet-smelling soup that made my mouth water.

Mama Teresa was like a mother to me because she has been my live-in Nanny since I was born. After mom died while giving birth to me, she was the wet nurse and she never made me feel the absence of a mother because she was a mother to me.

"Yeah, it's bizarre. How did she end up becoming my mate? And it's crazy but she has a tie to our world."

"Obviously," she rolled her eyes at me as if I just displayed stupidity, "seeing how she's your mate."

"That's not even what I'm talking about. She... she knows what Eden City looks like even without being here before."

Her mouth dropped open, "and she told you this during the 20 minutes you were able to converse with her three mornings ago before you scared her to fainting."

She gave me that stink eyes that she had been giving me since I confessed that Nadine fainted after she saw my eyes change color and my claws too. She has completely berated me for scarring an innocent girl like that.

To think I just brought a stranger into this house and she was already supporting her.

"No, I... I saw the proposal for the city she's developing and it looks exactly like this. It's exactly Eden City and she named it Eden City."

Now, she looked completely surprised and discombobulated.

"That's really odd."

"I know, right? But I intend to get to the bottom of everything once she's awake."

She nodded and a minute or two of silence passed as she returned fully to her cooking before I spoke again.

"Do you think I'll be able to convince her to stay?"

"That's a very elaborate and tricky question. No one would want to get trapped in an alternate where a race of what's perceived to be animals exist but I'm sure we'll figure out a way."

We have to and she was right too, there was no way Nadine would voluntarily want to stay here with werewolves when she already fainted just from seeing my claws which means I might have to do the one thing I didn't want to do.

Force her to stay.

That thought unsettled my stomach as my wolf growled in agitation within me. He wasn't concerned with stealing her from her world and forcing her to remain here as long as he gets to claim her and mate with her.

Horny bastard.

You weren't thinking about mating with her too? He had to rear his ugly head by question and I shoved him into the recess of my mind but not before I felt a deep throbbing in my dick.

Fuck.

"But she's really pretty, right?" Mama Teresa gushed excitedly, "I've gotten sneak peeks when I went to clean her up, and really, she's so beautiful, that white porcelain skin of hers, her hair... just everything about her."

"Uhhh, she's really pretty," I replied absentmindedly as her face popped up in my mind.

A face that looked like Art, hair so luscious that it looked like it had been prepped for a fashion shoot, lips that looked like they were made for kissing and it should be wrapped around a cock.

My cock.

My hold tightened around the glass cup I was holding and I had to instantly let go before I broke it but that thought of her on her knees, her lips wrapped around...

I blocked that train of thought immediately.

I never paid attention to her whenever I went into their world when she was still proposing her project. I've only caught glimpses of her side view or back view so I never expected for her beauty to knock the air out of my lungs the night I went to take her.

But seeing her face fully for the first time that night had done something to me and my brain, something I couldn't explain because how could someone be that beautiful?

I wasn't sure if it was the mate bond or just a plain physical reaction but keeping my hands to myself was so so difficult.

I wanted to hold her hands, to touch her hair, to confirm her existence that she was really real and her beauty was real too.

That's why the next morning, I couldn't resist moving close to her even though it does the most dangerous things to my body and touching her hair and face because suddenly, touching her was the new best thing in my life.

Must be the mate bond because there was no way I was going this crazy already.

"Look who's here," that extremely loud and energized voice announced as a force in the body of a tiny girl came barreling into the kitchen as she launched herself at Mama Teresa.

"Mummy," she screamed, hurting the poor woman's ears, "I've really missed you."

"You were really gone for three days, Sara, now let go of my neck before the food burns."

She groaned in disapproval before she tightened her hold around her body and Mama Teresa did not have an option but to hug her back and that was only when she let go.

"Brother," she turned to me with a huge grin on her face, "I'd have asked if you missed me but with everything that has happened these past few days, I'm sure you did not even remember that I exist."

"Hmm, you're right, I totally forgot about you."

"Jerk," she eyed me scornfully, "you can't even pretend to be a caring brother."

Yeah, Sara was Mama Teresa's daughter but she was also my younger sister that I was older than by almost 10 years. Mama Teresa had her for my dad and I never for once blamed them. If anything, I was just really grateful that they gave me Sara who was the sunshine of my life.

"Good evening," Adam greeted as he walked into the kitchen carrying large shopping bags that I knew were for Sara because he was her personal guard. He was like my Beta and he used to be my assistant but the minute Sara became of age and she became wildly pretty with an untamed wildness and she started college, I had him become her personal guard because he was the only one I could trust with her.

With the way she was always going around parading in mini-skirts and scanty tops, I knew the boys at college would give anything to take advantage of her. They were going to die afterward of course but I knew some would court death just to have what they wanted.

"And congratulations Boss, I heard you found your mate."

"Yeah, thank you."

By now, I knew the whole of Eden City would have heard of the development.

"So where's she? Is she still unconscious? God! I can't wait to meet her, Mom said she's the most beautiful person ever!" Then without waiting for anybody's reply, she started running towards the direction of the stairs, flashing her long legs because the skirt she wore was hardly a skirt.

"Come back here," I ordered her and she retreated immediately, "she's still out and for Christ's sake, wear longer clothes, Adam is a guy and you shouldn't be putting ideas into his head no matter how stoic he is."

She rolled her eyes comically, "and even if I was the last she-wolf in this world, he wouldn't touch me with a ten feet pole."

Adam didn't blink at all, his expression just remained ever impassive and blank.

"You have nothing to worry about Boss, she's right."

Yeah, I was grateful for that. I knew he only see her as a younger sister and that means he'd kick the ass of whoever tried to take advantage of her.

"Yeah, I know..." I was interrupted by a loud shriek that could only belong to one person.

Nadine.