I Rejected You, Alpha

Flashback

ELEIA’S POV

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“Don’t be ridiculous, there’s no way Aiden would go away for training. He’s the king.” I shrug as Rosie and I sit with Arlen and Duncan in our laps.

They have grown so big, it makes my heart ache. Arlen started crawling at the age of six months old, just around the time Duncan started to walk.

“But doesn’t he need to be the strongest and the wisest?” Rosie asks, giving me a certain look.

I think she’s just afraid of Stefan leaving.

Aiden has been talking about sending a few guards to intense professional training, the elite and Rosie was not happy when he said that Stefan needed to go since he couldn’t go himself.

I could see in the way Rosie stares at nothing that it upsets her. “Should I talk to Aiden? I could tell him that Stefan needs to stay.” I shrug and her gaze slowly drags back to me, “No.” she shrugs, sighing.

“He’s excited to go.”

“Are you excited to see him go and improve himself?” I ask as Arlen crawls off my lap. Rosie lets Duncan go too and he walks off like the big boy he is and she brings her knees to her chest as she rests back against the wall.

I mirror her sit, my arms straightened out over my knees as I fiddle with my hands. “No. Of course not. I’ll be alone with Duncan.” The edges of her lips twist down in disappointment. “This won’t happen for a really long time, it’s hard getting into that program. Royal guards or not, there is a waiting list.” I shrug.

“Are you sure?” She sighs, her shoulders relaxing a bit, “Positive, Aiden told me. He actually whined about it like a woman. He went on about it for more than a week.” I snort.

Rosie laughs and my eyes trail to the boys and I sit up, gasping as my eyes widen. “What?” Rosie whips around and her mouth drops open. “Oh my goddess!” She shrieks while I grab my phone, cursing when my camera struggles to open. “Give it to me!” she grabs my phone out of my hand while I take in this special moment of Arlen taking his first steps. “Come here baby!” I beam and he turns to me, wobbling over before falling.

My smile falls along with him, thinking that this special moment is over and I sigh, lowering my hands as he looks around. Duncan walks over to him, giggling as he helps him up onto his feet, “Rosie, record!” I shriek as Arlen walks hand in hand with Duncan.

“This is soo cute, where the hell are the guys when they need to be around?” she sighs and I immediately mind link Aiden.This content provided by N(o)velDrama].[Org.

‘Get your a*s to the playroom!’ I shriek, not caring if I’m hurting his head or interrupting something important, because this is more important.

“Can you get that?” I point to a red cloth dangling over the small child’s chair and Arlen looks at where I’m pointing as he lets go of Duncan’s hand and walks over there. His entire body sways side to side as he stumbles, he doesn’t have good balance at all, not yet anyway…

He grabs the cloth and turns to me, I could hear the door opening and heavy breathing, I could smell Aiden, but I did not dare to look away from Arlen, “Oh my Goddess.” Aiden breathes out and I smile, knowing that he’s witnessing this too. “Go Arlen, go Arlen!” Rosie roots for him and I can’t help but cry when he waddles over to me, falling right in front of me, but with the quick hands I have, I catch him and lift him into the air.

My hair hangs down my back, my shirt railing up, the ends tickling the small of my back and Aiden rests his hand on my shoulder blade, “You’re such a big boy now!” he beams next to me as he squeezes his cheeks.

I don’t think that I’ve ever been this happy in a long time.

He smiles with his two little teeth and I can’t help but feel overwhelming joy.

“Come here.” Aiden tries to take him and I bring him into my arms, “I’m not done yet.” I pout, making my mate laugh as he rolls his eyes, “Rosie, tell her she’s been with him the entire time.” Aiden begs for my best friend to take his side, but as I look at her, her lips press into a thin line and she gives him a ‘sorry’ look, showing him that he won’t be getting any help from her.

My happy moment is ruined when I remember that my best friend is furious with my mate and it all suddenly feels awkward, as if I had to choose.

I know I don’t, but I will need to choose between my pack’s best interest and my best friend’s interest.

“See?” I try to lighten the mood while Aiden glares at Rosie. His eyes slowly trail to me, softening a bit, “Come on, I ran away from training the kids to see this, just let me hold him for a minute.” he holds out his hands and I shrug, “But it seems like you have a certain place to be.” I shrug, trying to anger him a bit. “Yeah, right here, this minute, holding my son.” he grits out and every time he says ‘his son’, I can’t help but wonder if he’s meaning that Felix isn’t his son.

I shake my thoughts away and hand him Arlen, he doesn’t mean it like that, I know it.

He loves Felix like he loves Arlen and Cleo too.