Mate by Fate, Bound by Love

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Claire’s POV

“Dad, Mom, Mom”, I stammered.

“I know dear, Mom is gone” He said

“I couldn’t help her, Dad. I couldn’t help my little brother”, I cried out.

At first, I didn’t notice the blood on my hands and mouth until I was about to wipe my tears away with my palm. As I lifted my hands, I saw my hands filled with red liquid.

Yes, I called it red liquid because I didn’t know what it was. The last thing I remembered was shouting and crying when the vampire got to Mom.

How the red stain got to my hand I didn’t know.

“Dad what is this” I asked

He didn’t want to tell me anything, but I was going to stop asking him what happened.

“You killed it?” He said

“Killed what?” I asked.

“You killed the vampire, that attacked your mom” he replied

“I killed a vampire? How did I do that”?

“I think seeing your mom lay on the floor lifeless awakened your wolf, and you devoured the bastard” He replied.

“It’s my first kill,” I said

“Yes dear it is” Dad answered me

I felt different after realising that I had made my first kill, and it wasn’t just a game; this was a real higher species, the greatest and longest enemies of wolves.

Yes, we do have enemy packs that we fight war against, but vampires are just on another level.

I felt happy that I was able to avenge Mom’s death by killing the vampire who killed her. Ever since then, I vowed never to be weak; I vowed never to be oppressed.

Instead, I would be the oppressor. Little me was feeling a lot of anger inside, but at the same time, I felt like I had done one of the greatest tunes I have done.

BACK TO PRESENT

The only thing was that, after that day Dad never smiled like the way he smiled then until today.

Just as we kept on drinking and chatting, a knock came on the door. It was Adrian’s betaExclusive © material by Nô(/v)elDrama.Org.

“Milady, Lord Adrian requests your presence,” He said then left

I stood up, pecked Dad on the cheeks, and then left to meet Adrian; as I got close to his chamber, I quickly drew the upper part of my dress down a little just so I could reveal some cleavage.

Yes, I know I had him now in my palm, but I am not ready to take any chances; I must continue to seduce him every chance I get until Lena is executed.

I also looked at the lower part of my dress; the slit was far away from where I would have wanted it to be; I looked around and saw that no one was there.

I tore the slit more open, down to where it could show more of my lap; after checking out myself one more time, I entered his chambers.

“Greetings,” I said

“Rise,” he said

“Are you sure she did it?” He asked

The question came as a shock to me; I thought he hated Lena by now; what is it with this sudden question he’s asking me?

I decided to act like I didn’t know what he was talking about.

“Please, I don’t understand you, my lord”, I said.

“Lena” he replied

“With all due respect, do you think I would stoop so low to lie against her? Why? Because of the Luna position?” I said faking anger

“No, not I just wanted to be sure,” He said in a calm way

The way he responded, I knew that I had him wrapped around my hands to some extent. But I hated the fact that he still cared about her a little, I didn’t want to see an iota of care.

This just made me want the execution to come faster.

“Is it because she’s with your child?” I asked

He looked at me, and I noticed he was trying his best not to look at my cleavages, but he was doing a bad job of that. I walked closer to where he seated and put placed his hands on my boobs, and asked him again.

“Is it because she’s with child?” I asked again

“Yes”, He said, taking his hands off my boobs.

“Are you sure it’s just the child you are worried about?” I asked him

I wanted to be sure that was what he wanted before I started to devise another plan.

“Yes, Claire, not to get you offended, you know we tried having a child, but it didn’t work out; I just don’t want to lose this child,”, he said, almost with tears in his eyes.”

I was shocked at the sight of his teary eyes; I could guess where this discussion was going to end; it was probably gonna end with him asking that we delay her execution till her child was born.

I couldn’t allow that to happen; I couldn’t wait for that long to get her out of my sight; I couldn’t even bear to think of the possibility of her getting favour in his sight, probably after a safe delivery.

“There can be a way to save the baby,” I said

His eyes lit with joy and happiness

“How my darling?” He asked

“I remember reading a book in the library where a baby was removed from a pregnant woman’s womb through the way of magic with the help of a black witch; we could remove the baby from her womb and place it in mine, then I carry the baby till its ready to be born.”

I could see interest in his eyes, I began to tell him everything I read in the book. Don’t misunderstand me. I don’t like books; I said that earlier. It’s just that when I read them, the information stays put in my head.

After giving him a full detail of how it was in the book, I could see that he wasn’t convinced it could be possible.

“There’s always a loophole?” I said.

You are probably wondering what a loophole is, right? Loopholes are ways out of a particular situation, it’s mostly not an easy way out, but it works.

“How are we gonna find a black witch to this” he asked.

“Leave that to me, If you decide to do this I will handle everything for you my love” I replied

I kissed him and he kissed me back and then he uttered something I had been waiting to hear all this while

“I love you”