REX’S POVTwo weeks ago……I was on my way to meet my mother. She had been demanding I show up in her wing at my palace but I had done well in dodging her but today she got me cornered and there was no way I could possibly refused her invitation.I grunted frustratedly wanting nothing but to be over with this conversation even though we haven’t even began to discuss it. I know what she wanted to talk about and I had been dreading having the conversation with anyone let alone my persistent mother but I knew now that I had to face it.When I was right in front of her, the only thing separating us was the door to her room, I gathered all the breath I could, bracing myself for the worst to come, which I know would definitely will. Since Joan literally ran off to God knows where, my mother had been throwing hind here and there of wanting her back in the park. I had been ignoring and she was equally becoming just as desperate and now that she called me to meet her alone in her room, I knew

REX’S POVI was left with only one choice, to follow her into the blood stream park. It was one thing for a guard from there to sneaked into my park and it was entirely a different thing for an Alpha, especially myself to sneak in unnoticed.But I had no other choice but to go there myself. Sending guards is entirely not an option because I knew Joan would definitely cause a scene which will only escalate the matter even further.I wished I could just let go of whatever this is and just face the usual part of myself but I knew better than to ignore my mother’s words. And beside that I knew deep down that I want to find her, for my own sanity at least.If I could look at it in the most logical way possible, she did not ask to be my mate, I saw it in her eyes the moment I met her that I was the last person she was expecting as a mate and would have been grateful if the moon goddess switched me with someone else. I knew she doesn’t deserve the hatred I threw her way, she doesn’t deserve

JOAN’S POVImmediately I was able to feel myself, I realised that something was odd about my sleeping posture. Firstly I was certainly not in the comfort of my moderately sized bed back in my aunt’s house. Secondly I couldn’t for the life of me remembered how I fell asleep and last but not the least which was the most alarming one, there is a hand around my lower body, a freaking hand around my waist.The first thing any reasonable person would do was to wake up and find out what in hell is going on but I did not. Instead I lay there, wanting to savour more warmth from whoever it was.While doing that I tried to remember how I even fell asleep, rummaging deeper into my brain the first thing I was able to find out were some pieces of me in the stream, with the palace guard, with Alpha Jerome and then……..I abruptly pushed myself out of who I thought was Alpha Rex and I was actually shocked to see that he was in fact the one. The way I jolted away from him with force caused him to open

JOAN’S POVNothing much changed. The park was quiet as it used to be when the sun was rising. Thou now the sun is completely out in the open, everywhere is engulfed in silence as we walked down the path that led to the palace, two guards in tour.Except for the occasional werewolves roaming about and guards stationed at some corners of the park, we met with no one, which means no one I knew would confront me yet.When I left this park in the first place, I never had plans of ever stepping my foot in it again and that was why I slipped out of it without informing anyone. But now that life had somehow led me right back into it, I have no idea how to react to that.I might be just a regular palace maid when I left, but I had close friends and associates who I knew would be worried sick about my whereabouts and now that I would have to face them again, I felt nervous and had nothing to say that would justify my sudden absence.Just thinking deeper into it made me realised how much I messe

JOAN’S POVThe thought of Alpha Rex’s reason for bringing me back to his park really left a bitter feeling in my heart. I felt horrible, I felt almost betrayed…..yes betrayed that is the word.He brought me back just because his mother wanted him to? Not because he realised his mistake, not because he wanted to and not because he thinks I deserved to be back. I was just standing right in front of him now just because his mother requested for it and that’s it.Why was I even expecting it to be something else I mean this is Alpha Rex I am talking about. He will never change and I should have known better. I knew I had been having this thought that maybe he brought me back just to reject me as a mate but then deep down inside my heart, I can’t help but think maybe he was finally ready to accept me as a mate and confirming now that he doesn’t really breaks my heart in more ways than I care to admit. But immediately we stepped out of the his mother’s room I decided to ask then and there