All Chapters of His Mate, His Son, His Regret: Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

LISAIt’s been years decades in the human realm since I’ve gone back to check on the livelihood of Joseph’s family. I haven’t needed to check on them for any reason. Lucy survived, and Katherine, Joseph’s daughter, was changed into a vampire by the Northern vampiric lord.There was no reason to continue checking on them. They were the end of the celestial line….That was what I thought, but it appears that the vampiric lord wasn’t as forthcoming as he should have been. I didn’t directly ask if Katherine had any children, but I thought that was an obvious thing to disclose.Guess that is what I get for being over eager about returning to the fae realm. My exile for dishonoring my brother had finally been lifted, so when I thought that the last of the goddess’s line had been saved, and I got the vampire’s word that he would not be having any more children, I returned home.My brother still will not permit me to go back to the courts, or his castle grounds, no matter how much I begged an

VIVIAN I messed up. I was planning hoping that I could hide this pregnancy until the second trimester, knowing that with my other symptoms my overprotective husband and father-in-law would run themselves ragged trying to save me, or even convince me to terminate the pregnancy.Valentine suspected, but when I came back from the doctor and shrugged off his concern, he let it go. With the businesses being in their busiest seasons, and Max searching so adamantly for the fairy woman he saw by the chicken coop all those months ago with the theory that she was the Lisa woman we had been looking for I’ve been spending more time on my own with the kids.Valentine is usually at the lumber mill or visiting the plots for logging and mining, spending all day away, and even taking overnight trips for work more frequently.Max stays with me and the kids when Valentine is gone, but he is so wrapped up in the fairy encounter that, luckily, he hasn’t noticed anything off with me yet.Well, until now.

“Mine,” the little girl continued to glare at me. I would think it was adorable, the way she was acting, if it was directed at anyone other than me. I’m a victim. He kissed me. I didn’t mind it…but I wasn’t the one who approached him first.“Shh. It’s okay, baby girl,” the sexy man, Max, whispers against her head. Those same lips that were so passionately kissing me are now tenderly pecking her temple, and she wraps her arms tightly around his neck. Possessive little squirt.“My gi-paw,” she reiterated, and I almost wanted to roll my eyes.Yes. I get it. He’s yours, not mine.His deep chuckle vibrating his bare, bulky chest makes my mouth water, and some of the irritation leaves me. He is very pleasing to look at. That is for sure.When I saw him before with his grandchildren, I thought he was mated. I can see the mate mark on his neck. Now that I’m able to really examine it, though, I can see it is faded and not as prominent as other mated wolves.“I will always be your grandpa, swee

Lisa POV“May I take a look at your mate, Alpha?” I need to assess how far along the curse is and how much time we have to break it. The information I painstakingly received after demeaning myself by pleading with my brother told me how to break the curse, but it would be a journey. A hard journey between realms.He assesses me, measuring my words and, I’m sure, those spoken by his father. I never expected the older alpha to have been Alyssa’s mate. The Moon Goddess almost seems cruel with all these coincidences.I may be his second-chance mate, but I don’t know how I am supposed to meet that standard or even meet his gaze again knowing that I basically advised his first mate not to fully accept him and instead accept the curse if she didn’t want him to face the same fate as her brother-in-law. I didn’t know any other way back then. I had no way of retrieving the information I have now.I feel like even more of a failure to Joseph.The alpha nods once, a firm dip of his head with auth

Max runs his hands over his face, a stressed look coming over him. I feel horrible. If I hadn’t been so selfish, I could have helped him. No, I wouldn’t be his mate now, but neither of us would be the wiser. He could have lived happily with Alyssa.“I’m sorry,” I whisper.He asked me if I was okay with the mate bond, but now I feel I need to ask the same. It’s my fault his first love was lost.He sighs heavily, then pats the cushion beside him on the couch, indicating I should sit.I tentatively move to sit beside him, slowly lowering myself to the couch as he watches me. His eyes, filled with so much emotion in their icy depths, roam my face, his lips pressed together grimly. It takes all my control not to squirm under his gaze.“Why are you sorry?” he asks after an extended silence.I bite my lip nervously. “If I had acted back then, I could have saved her,” I whisper.He nods, then turns his eyes upward, staring at the ceiling. “That may be true, but she didn’t say anything either.