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.

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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 beta

“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”