The Silent Alpha (Natalia)

Chapter 10: Mate: Part 2

***Jane***

“I’m Kota,” he giggles, climbing off my lap.

“What’s your name mister?”

The boy grins back at me, not an ounce of judgment in his tiny body.

His pretty eyes sparkle with excitement as he waits patiently for my response.

I have been asked for my name many times in my lifetime, usually for unpleasant reasons, but never had anyone asked just for the simple reason of getting to know me.

My father asked me my name everyday growing up and everyday I disappointed him.

Last night, my own mate wanted my name so she could reject me.

And yet, this little boy with blue and brown eyes just wanted to know who the stranger in the bushes was.

His smile is infectious and as I stare silently at him, he furrows his brows and leans in close.

“Are you dead too?” He whispers, resting his chin in his hands.

“I know a dead person,” he hisses.

“Her name is Egg-Ness,” he adds matter of factly.

“She can’t hear.”

He suddenly stands close to my ear and shouts, “Can you hear me!?”

“Kota?”

We hear Talia call out and I place my hand over his mouth.

Kota.

“Hehe mommy”

Kota laughs when his mother walks right past us again without noticing our presence.

The little boy dusts off his hands and squeezes my cheeks together.

“I like you,” he laughs.

“Do you wanna play with me?”

He stares at me with his blue and brown eyes and for the first time in years, I feel completely at ease.

“Y-yes,” I whisper.

His grins, grabbing hold of my hand and dragging me out of the bushes.

“Come on!” He squeals.

“There are dragons chasing us! Mommy’s the princess. We have to save her!”

He pulls me in the direction that his mother had walked to and we stop just before Talia, her eyes narrowing to slits when she sees me with her son.

Oh dear Moon Goddess…I avoid her stare and shift uncomfortably on my feet, my legs itching to sprint out of there.I can feel my mate glaring at me and I try to run but Kota has a firm grip on my hand.

“Mommy look!” Kota smiles proudly at himself.

“I found a friend.His name is….”

He stops himself and looks up at me with a grin.

“What’s your name?”

Talia ignores me and grabs her son, ripping him out of my grip.She crouches down so that she’s at his eye level and looks at him sternly strangers! It’s dangerous!”

She snaps, the little boy’s lip quivering at the harshness of her voice.

“But mommy…”

“No buts, Kota,” she retorts, her cheeks slightly flushed in anger.

Her face softens when Kota’s eyes fill with tears and she takes a deep breath.

“Okay.Okay.I’m sorry, baby,” she whispers, pulling the boy to her chest and kissing his head.

“I’m sorry for yelling.I didn’t mean to.You just can’t talk to strangers like that, okay?” She sighs quietly.

Kota nods solemnly.

“I’m sorry,” he says, kissing her cheek.

there,” she says, kissing him back

to

tree, grabbing a stick and waving it around like

near my son again, Zane, I will kill you.Do I make

the misunderstanding.She taps

this rejection over with so

beats uncontrollably, Grayson whispering his plan in

name,” she continues, her eyes full of security job, and living with friends and your mother, my best

gulp and she

she’s good,

tilting head slightly to the side

falls between us, the only sounds coming from Kota as he jumps and

in a mate or any other werewolf tradition, so if you could just accept my rejection, that would

I brace myself for the

at me in confusion, running her hands

said it wrong,” she

Ramos, reject you Zane White

blink at her, still feeling absolutely

be saying something

perhaps only a wolf

you say

me

ball is in our court, Grayson says.Perhaps my plan may work. I shake my head at

getting down on her knees and

anything.Anything.Please, just let me go.I can’t do this

wonder.Her voice breaks and a sob

“P-please!”

crouch down and pull

her arms against me and screams at me to let her go but I only hold her tighter until she finally gives in and sobs into

smooth down her hair and rest my chin

Please don’t cry…

always, the words taste

stops his game and runs over to us, his eyes growing

his small body between mine and

sad mommy?” Talia wipes her tears

He frowns when she pulls away

and forces her cheeks up into a

in her arms and smothering

pain in my heart as I remember all the small kisses my

aside from Agnes who didn’t make me

me, her distrust for

a deal,” I sign and to my dismay, she

what you’re saying,”

search for a small stick

your house,” I

lip as she contemplates my offer and I understand her concern.I might be her

won’t hurt you,”

“Just talk.”

picks up her boy and nods

“Follow me.”

big tree perfect for a child to climb on.She invites me in and has me sit at the dining table while she fixes Kota a

a nonsensical skit for story but I clap when he’s

you let Zane and I talk a little while you go out and

but she manages to convince him to leave us with a promise for ice cream later that

occupied, Talia finds a notebook and hands it to

over a jar of pens for me to

sigh, scribbling out

her knees up on the

finished, I hand her the

***Natalia***

and their importance In my world.I do not know your reasons for wanting to reject me but I can assure you, I will not accept it.I do not plan to throw my gift from Moon Goddess away.So I

the next three months and if I can

never ls he serious? He expects me to fall in love with him in just three months? I was in love with Christian for over two years and it meant nothing

a joke, right?” I laugh half heartedly, tossing the page at

once again scribbles on another

your rejection unless you give

I snap, unable to understand why he, a perfect stranger, wanted me for no other reason

is this so

a little, the pen shaking slightly in

he lets out a sigh and scribbles

have never been in love and I would like to know what it’s like to

to break it to you, but love isn’t real and mates are a f*****g joke.It’s just some stupid fantasy you wolves made up to get what

writes furiously on his page.I read his words several times, furious that I was

let this go will you?”

pinching his

burning in my eyes. I know

me and he

another mate? Another three months with a wolf? Will be strong enough to resist Zane

gift a wolf ever gave me…and I almost didn’t survive