6. Luca

James.

Jinx was roaring around in my head waiting to claim our mate. He wanted me to pick her up and run but I could feel her reluctance, I sensed her fear. He was primal and feral and would happily tear every person in Don Carlos' pack apart if it meant taking his mate out of here. I had instant feelings for this beautiful girl too but I had to be the rational one. I had to make sure I didn't let the animal side of me ruin this. She was human which meant whilst she felt an instant pull to me it wasn't as strong or as instant as if she were another wolf. when I asked what was holding her here my biggest fear came true.

"Luca." she had replied as a tear rolled down her beautiful face.

Jinx went insane at the thought that our mate had a boyfriend or another lover and his rage was hard to fight down. I almost lost control to him from the disappointment and shock I also felt. I stumbled backwards as I fought Jimx and his idiotic plan to kill Luca. Jinx let out a growl that escaped me and made her jump.

"She's human." I growled in our mind link. "Stop your freaking her out."

"She has a boyfriend. Our mate has another I am going to kill him." Jinx growled back in the mind link.

"She didn't know she had a mate." I roared at him in the mind link as he surged again and tried to force a shift. I stood my ground, it was hard for a wolf to force a shift if the human and wolf bond was strong and normal Jinx and I were on the same page and completely in sync. Occasionally I had to over ride his feral idiot ass and suspected this was why the Moon Goddess had named this wolf spirt Jinx. He was a blessing but his over excited big emotions had the potential to make him a Jinx. If not controlled Jinx would be a menace to society. He surged again at the mind link like the hulk but I braced myself and flung him back from the corner of my mind.

"Sit the fuck down." I growled in the mind link. "You're giving me a damn headache."

"Aren't you mad?" he snapped but did drop down on his hind legs.

"We don't even know who the fuck Luca is yet or how serious Luca is to her." I snapped back.

"Alright Captain America, then go find out who Luca is so I can pull his throat from his neck for touching whats mine." he snarled darkly as I rolled my eyes at him and shoved up a wall in my mind to cage the wolf for now.

"Are you okay." she asked softly and I caught a glimpse of myself in her office floor to ceiling window.

I was hunched over holding my head like an absolute mental person. I took my hands off my head with a snap and straightened up. Fixing my leather jacket and collar as I composed myself. There was no way now to look cool in this scenario.

"Im sorry I am not mental." I blurted out as I felt Jinx laugh behind our block.

"That's okay I figured you were talking to your wolf not yourself." she answered. "Not that its not okay to talk to yourself if you were. I sometimes talk to myself. Only person I can trust for a decent open." she responded then trailed off. " I'm sorry this is weird." she added defeated.

"I know meeting a werewolf who is your mate must be weird....." I began

"Yes, but that isn't the weird bit that is freaking me out" she said biting her lip.

"It isn't? Whats weirder then that?" I asked now confused.

"Meeting the man you had a son with who doesn't know." she meekly suggested as I replayed the words over and over. There was no way she meant the words in that order.

Jeez did they turn off the air conditioning in here all of a sudden. Why was the room closing in on me.

"It's okay." She assured me. "Take a breath." she added as she guided me gently around the desk to sit in her chair. I numbly followed not sure how my limbs were working as my brain picked over the last sentence. She gently put her hand on my chest and said softly

"Breath with me slowly. In and out." she said as I followed her directions breathing in with her and blowing it out with her.

Slowly the tingles from her touch grounded me as the room stopped spinning and the world slowed down. Once calm I glanced up and spotted a picture on her desk of a little boy with blond curls like my mother and my chocolate eyes staring back at me. He was definitely from the Shine-harris side of the gene pool. Considering his mother was dark haired olive skinned Italian beauty this blonde boy stood out with the mop of blonde curls. I numbly reached out for the picture holding it in my unsteady hands as I stared at it.

"That's Luca." she simply said.

"When?" I began but trailed off I didn't know what to say. What to ask? Where to start?

"Maybe I should explain from the start." she kindly responded. She stood and nimbly hoisted herself up to sit on the desk facing me as I remained seated in the desk chair.

"My brother use to do some small time drug trading with a vampire whenever the vampire was in town or needed extra cash, so it was a casual thing. He told CJ about some ball going on in the palace and offered to get him on the guest list with my cousin and a plus one. The day of the event my brothers plus one decided she couldn't go for whatever reason. I didn't ask questions and I didn't really care to be honest. CJ always had some new girlfriend on the go and none of them lasted. I saw my chance to go so I begged my dad and CJ and by some miracle my father said yes. So I got a dress my mother had and made a mask and went to enjoy one night as a free normal girl. I had never been to anything before. No school dances or anything so this was out of this world for me, a real dream. When I got there I bumped into you and something pulled me towards you. I had never felt anything like it. It was like free falling and I couldn't stop it. I had to be with you I needed you on some insane level. We spent that time together but I knew I was gone too long and CJ would report me to my dad as would our gaurd so I dressed quickly and left. I really didn't think you would notice I assumed a guy like you had nights like that all the time. So I left and didn't look back I had no choice. I tried so hard to forget you, I had to go back to this." She paused as she gestured around bitterly."Back to my life as the Angelito Mafia Princess but I took a part of you with me that night. I didn't think it possible as only a few days later I began feeling sick. I lost alot of weight, my skin was pale and my hair went limp. I couldn't hide the fact I was ill. My mother took me to the doctor and it was found I was pregnant but the hormones and the time of my last period were off." she mused her eyes distant as she recalled the memories. "I came clean to my mother and she instantly suspected my one night stand wasn't human. My father was insane with anger telling her get rid of it and sell me to one of his sleazy sex trade connections. He wanted me gone I was no longer an assest but a damaged liability." she took a deep breath stealing herself against the horrible memory of what she had ensured. "My mother knew if something had a worth to my father then she could work with it. She took me to a special clinic that dealt with supernatural medical issues. They took a blood test and told me I was carrying a werewolf shifter and due to the rate of growth of the baby it was potentially a high ranking shifter." she looked at me as if waiting for confirmation and I nodded that I was still following her story and what she was saying was correct a least in relation to my rank. " As I was human they were amazed I hadn't miscarried the baby so then assumed I was quite a strong girl if I could last the pregnancy. My mother repeated the information to my father laying it on thick that I was a strong human girl to be able to endurenthe pregnancy of a werewolf shifter. The growth rate of the baby also told my father it was a powerful wolf and that was all it took for my father to realise if he kept me and allowed me carry the baby he could raise his own pet werewolf." she said pet werewolf with pure venom and I shared the sentiment. I could only imagine the plans Don Carlos had for a werewolf shifter raised at his mercy. "I wasn't going to let that happen but I had to wait out my time. So I played the game." she sighed. " I was damaged no longer marriage trading material so I found a use here in the business and carved out a relative piece of sanity." she added as she played with the hem of her pencil skirt.

"Why didn't you look for me?" I asked.

" I tried at first but I was so ill during the pregnancy it was difficult and then when I had Luca I spent time surviving the newborn stage alone. I didn't have the time to ask the right resources to find you. I am never out from under my fathers watchful eyes and if I looked for werewolf information he would know what I was doing. I had hoped Luca's Dr who is a shifter would help but he was firmly on my father's side anytime we saw him. So I didn't know what to do." she trailed off as I realised she was in an impossible position. "If I made one wrong move my father would make me vanish and I would lose Luca forever."

"Jesus." Jinx muttered in my head as I let the mind block down.

"Still want to rip his throat out?" I asked him bitterly.

"No but I want to rip down Carlos' throat out." he replied.

I looked back down at the picture clasped tightly in my hands.

"Holy hell I had a son." I gulped in my head. what the hell was I going to do now.