A second chance mate?!

I finished cleaning in the kitchen, and everything was ready for the Alpha, and Lucas to be here. I didn’t know if there would be anyone else coming, but I prepared a lot more.

“You should leave, you’re not part of the family, I don’t want you here when the Alpha comes,” Judy grumbled under her breath. She wore a blue dress, and her makeup was beautiful highlighting her face. Her blue dress was a strapless hand, and her push-up bra showed her cleavage.

Hera looked at me, her hair was done up, her face covered in makeup, almost turning her tanned skin completely white, and she a red lipstick.

“We can’t afford to make any mistakes tonight, Mom. It’s important,” Judy insisted. “Just send her somewhere away from the house, and we don’t have to see her till the Alpha is gone.”

“Who is going to attend the Alpha when he comes, he won’t care about someone like her, you know how Alpha Hector is, he’s very strict and wicked. If there’s any mistake tonight, we can blame it on her.”

“Leave her, let her act as the servant,” Hera concluded, and Judy rolled her eyes at me, she wanted me out of here.

I doubt if she told her parents I was the one who was mated to Lucas before he rejected me.

It doesn’t matter, does it? She was still the chosen one.

The dinner table was set, I wasn’t allowed to have a taste of the meal I made, I was only allowed to eat when they were done eating.

My apron was stained, there was no chance left to have my clothes changed, and I could hear the sound of the car horn at the gate.

My father had stepped out of the house to welcome them, the Alpha was at the house.

I remained in the kitchen, I was going to remain there until I was called for or my presence was needed.

I slid down beside the kitchen door, I heard their voices, my wolf stirred in me, was she waking up now, she had been dead conscious since the rejection.

I heard her whimpering, and I started to sniff the air.

Her senses were awake and the same was her smell.

The scent hit my nostrils, cedarwood, and like mist.

I felt the presence of the Alpha, and there was someone else with that smell that came with them, the one whose smell had stirred up my wolf again.

‘What is it, Tella?’ I asked my wolf.

‘Something doesn’t feel right.’ She replied.

‘Can we go out?’

‘We can’t.’ I retorted.

We can’t leave the kitchen unless we are asked to, and we can’t just move around.

‘You simply do anything, Avery. You’re worse than I am, are you going to keep running away from everything? It won’t solve anything.’ I didn’t have to reply to her.

I shrank back into the wall, they were heading towards the dining room, and the dining area was close to the kitchen. Their voices came out a bit louder.

“Is this your only daughter?”

Why does that voice sound familiar?

“Yes, she’s our only child,” Hera answered sharply.

“I’m asking the Gamma, is she your only daughter?” The voice asked again.

I leaned close to the kitchen door, I wanted to hear what his answers would be.

What would my father say to them while I brace myself for another rejection?

“Yes, Judy is my only daughter.”

My shoulder sank. What did I expect?

“Am I supposed to serve myself?” His authoritative voice, he might be the Alpha.

I was anxious to face them, I didn’t want to face any humiliation, and I didn’t want to be embarrassed before them.

I came out of the kitchen, my head lowered, staring at their feet covered in expensive loafers that I couldn’t even afford if I worked for a lifetime.

“Alpha, she will attend to you,” Hera nudged me forward.

“Who is she?” He asked, and I lifted my head a little, slanting it over at his side. I have heard those voices before, and the smell came from him. He was the one who had made my wolf react earlier and she was acting up again.

I stared at him keenly, ‘mate.’ I heard my wolf’s voice in my head, and I tried to ignore the feeling that she wasn’t right because I started to panic.

I urged my wolf. Tella. ‘Let’s get out of here, I can’t do this again. We are not strong enough to handle a second rejection. We can’t handle it.’

And the humiliation that comes with it, I could remember vividly their sheer laughter at the mating ceremony.

Lucas snorted at me, with a dark glare.

I took a step back from them, gripping tightly to my stained apron.

Fear clouded my thoughts.

“One of our servants.” Hera smiled.

I saw his side view, the jawline, pointed nose, and lips, when he turned and caught my stare.

I gasped.

He was the man from that night.

He was the Alpha?

How did I not know that? But he wasn’t just the Alpha but my second chance mate:

‘Your senses were knocked.’

‘It was because of you,’ I responded to my wolf.

‘We needed time to heal.’ She snapped back at me.

‘He’s going to reject us,’ I mumbled.

He was Alpha, it was entirely different from Lucas, he was of the Pack!

Beside him was Lucas, the blonde haired man who has rejected me. I heard he dated Judy in college, though they broke up, and came back again because he couldn’t find his mate, only to find her and reject her.

And him.

The Alpha.

I felt my breath hang in my throat. I held the kettle and was about to pour some tea into his cup. I tried to stop my hand from trembling, but I couldn’t, the kettle slipped out of my hand, the tea poured on him, and some splash on their bodies across the table.

“So clumsy!” The older woman in the middle seated between the Alpha and Lucas, around the same age as Hera exclaimed.

“I’m so sorry.” I rasped with my body palpitating.

Was she Lucas’ Mom?

They had the same blonde hair.

His hand brushed against mine while I tried to dry up the tea I poured on his laps with the handkerchief on the table.

I darted my eyes to him in shock. My heart was pounding so fast with each movement he made, was he going to criticize me? Curse at me, hit me or reject me at this instant.

He took my hand off his lap, his silver eyes staring intently into me. “It’s enough.”

The tea was hot, and I’m sure that must have burned a little, though he was wearing a black pants.

I lowered my head. “I’m sorry, Alpha.”

“She’s so stupid!” Hera cursed.

“I heard she is your daughter. Gamma Williams, why do you lie to me?” His voice was calm, and he was distracting me from the fact he had his hand on mine.

“She’s just an illegitimate child, Alpha.” My father stood up and lowered his head, his head almost dropping at the table.

“So?”

“She’s not recognized and part of the family, moreover she’s from another pack.”

“Not another word from you, or I’ll have your tongue slit out and served right here.” His gothic tone made me shudder but his words were directed at Hera. Judy slipped her hand off Lucas’ arm.

“I’m sorry, Alpha.” My father apologized, he had his head down the entire time.

“Alpha, why are you making a fuss over this? It shouldn’t be an issue.” The woman beside Lucas said.

She glanced at me, taking my entire look over in a second, and scrunched her nose. “She’s not worth it, look at the mess she made!”

“Don’t speak to her that way.” He gritted out.

“Why?” She asked curiously.

“Because she’s my mate.”

“And that’s the reason I came here, to claim her.”