Todos os capítulos de The Alpha's Fated Encounter: Capítulo 31 - Capítulo 40

Julia laughed. “That’s a good description.” She patted my thigh. “That’s fine. Since your parents aren’t here, you can call me Mama Julia. All of Nico’s friends do.”“We do?” Sebastian asked, frowning deeply.“Shut up, Sebastian,” Julia said over her shoulder. She got up and headed toward the kitchen. “I’m going to go ahead and make lunch.”Nico and I had had breakfast less than an hour ago, but my watch said it was past noon. We’d slept much later than I’d expected. No one protested, and within minutes, I could hear pots and pans being banged around in the kitchen.I hadn’t realized what an event lunch would turn into. Apparently the reason no one objected to having such an early lunch was because Julia was preparing a massive feast of six or seven dishes. She sent Carlos to the store to buy steaks, deciding to turn lunch into a cookout. Suddenly, Nico’s house was being inundated by family and friends. It turned into a huge party. Nico introduced me to all his brothers and the friend

I took a breath to calm myself before walking over to the bed. Maddy leaned across it and looked at me in a way no one had ever looked at me before. All thoughts and ideas of staying calm jumped out the window. I gestured toward the bed. “Are you comfortable?” I asked, my voice gruff and heavy with desire.Maddy nodded, her eyes filled with a deep-seated hunger—hungrier than I’d ever seen. I could read her body, could hear her breaths coming in small pants, and I could smell the nervous sweat on her skin. She wanted me. She wanted me as much as I wanted her.“I promised I wouldn’t force anything. I’m sorry about earlier. I shouldn’t have⁠—”“Shut up, Nico. I wanted that. I wanted that…I wanted more. I’ve always been super-guarded with men, but with you? It’s like I don’t need to be that way. Or that I don’t want to be that way. I have no idea what’s happening with us, but I don’t want to fight it. It feels too good to fight. I’m not ready to be claimed yet, but I know I want you.”I k

He turned the computer around and clicked to expand an image. It was the smiling face of a beautiful girl. It looked like a senior picture from a yearbook. I looked into her face and felt a twinge in my chest. My birth mother. I had her eyes.“This is her. I got the school to let me in and scanned some images from the library where I found the yearbooks. It gets more interesting.” He started clicking through more images. They showed the woman and another boy. My jaw fell open, and Nico whispered a curse. The guy looked just like me. The resemblance was uncanny. There was no way he wasn’t my birth father. One of the images was of the two of them embracing and laughing. Above the picture were block letters that read Cutest Couple. Luis pointed at him. “This is David Samuels. Four months before you were born, this happened.”He clicked open a link that brought up an old newspaper story about a high-school graduate who had been found murdered in an alley only a mile from the school. There

Javi jabbed a finger toward me. “We can’t allow her to become a wolf. She needs to be destroyed. If there was even a one-percent chance she could go on to have a child that was an alpha, then the werewolves could return. You can’t let that happen…unless you want to risk the lives of your entire clan.”Rage swept across my body. I took two heavy steps toward Javi. “Is that a threat?”“No. You’re confused. That’s not what I mean. I’m not the threat, that woman is. If the Hollander bloodline was to be restrengthened and the werewolves come back, she’ll be the main reason we are destroyed and subjugated. It will be a bloodbath.”My mind went to Maddy. Nothing about her seemed like the type of person who would go mad with power. She was kind and gentle. Everything Javi believed was urban legend, paranoia, and bullshit. “Listen, I know exactly what Maddy is capable of. She’s none of the things you’re talking about. The blood is so diluted, even you’re sitting here talking about ‘maybe’ and

It was like a normal date. We talked about the mundane things new couples always talked about. He told me about his childhood, being the heir alpha and all that entailed. I told him about growing up with my own family. How it had been simple. Camping trips, Disney trips, beach trips—all the normal family stuff. Then the revelation that I was adopted when I’d just started high school. It had thrown me for a loop and made life difficult for a year or two.After dinner, Nico took me for a walk through downtown, and we talked some more. It was one of the most romantic evenings of my life. I couldn’t even explain why. A small part of my mind told me it was the bond we shared. We both knew we were fated mates. That had to have played into the bliss of being with him, but I didn’t care. All I wanted was to keep walking down the sidewalk, holding his hand, and talking.It was almost eleven by the time we got home, and I had a huge smile on my face. The night couldn’t have gone better. I was s