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I giggled and smacked him on his hairy chest.
“I swear it’s not that,” I protested.
“Oh, it is,” he said. Then he wiggled his eyebrows. “What do you read in those books, I wonder?”
Chapter 34
Sergio
Iwasbackatthe OBC two days after my engagement with our omega, Olivia. I had to find my mother’s grave, wherever Henry had buried her.
The buildings were deserted, and it looked like a ghost town when I arrived. The sand crunched under my thick boots as I walked around the perimeter. My hand was on my gun, just in case any of the old guards were hiding out here. I couldn’t believe I spent years here, trapped and unable to leave after not finding my mother. Henry made sure that the alphas didn’t just leave and expose the operation he was running here.
I hoped that motherfucker was dead. That would be the greatest news.
As I walked towards the prisoners’ barracks, I looked around the back of the buildings and finally saw it.
There was a small plot of land with rocks embedded into the sand in a rectangular formation and a yellow crime tape around it all. Slowly, I took a look at each of them, and upon closer inspection, I could see names and initials marked on the largest stone.
Inspecting each grave, I saw various names of different females and small infant graves, which bore heavily on my soul. All the crimes Henry committed right here for everyone to see. My breathing paused when I saw her name scratched faintly onto the biggest rock.
I’d found it. My mother’s grave.
Tears sprung to my eyes as I dropped to my knees in front of the grave. I laid my palms against the dirt, and my tears soaked the sand under me. Just being here, I could feel all the pain and suffering she went through. Her baby son, me, was taken away from her in such a brutal way.
“I wish I had known you, Mother,” I whispered. “You are everything to me even if I’d never met you. I was raised well by good parents who took care of me just as you wanted. But I came back for you, and now it’s too late. I love you.”
I closed my eyes tight, seeing her in my mind’s eye, screaming for her baby.
Chills went through me to the bone, and I could almost hear her voice in the wind telling me she loved me back. I lost it right there, sobbing uncontrollably as I knelt over the dirt. Henry had destroyed the only family I ever had, and I couldn’t care less who my father was - the alpha who raped my mother. I didn’t want to face the fact that I was the child of a brute.
I felt a small hand rubbing my shoulder, and I knew it was my omega by her cherry scent. As she stood behind me, I gripped her hand in mine without turning. She sniffled, and I knew she was crying as well.
“I’m so sorry,” said Liv, kissing me on the cheek, and I could feel her wet tears on my face. “I wish she was here with us.”
I nodded without saying a word as tears fell onto the dirt. The rest of my pack had shifted, in wolf form, as they stood around my mother’s grave, grieving along with me in silence. Later, we would have to go for a run as wolves. I needed it, and so did my pack.
Olivia
The ride home was somber.
I felt for Sergio, and I wished he had gotten to know his mother. The camp disappeared behind us as we drove in the night. We had been at the camp for most of the day, and I watched the alphas from afar as they ran off the emotion they were feeling. Thankfully, I had brought sandwiches to stave off my nausea, but I was feeling hungry again.
Living full-time with the alphas was an easier adjustment than I thought. They gave me space whenever I needed it, and pregnancy had made me more horny than usual, so it was nice to have an alpha ready to rut me on command. They were more than excited the minute I said I needed a knot, so it had been fun.
Wedding planning had gone by the wayside since I was sick in the mornings, and I couldn’t gather the energy to even think of planning a wedding right now.
“We’re home,” said Evan after the long ride back from the OBC.
“Good, because I’m hungry,” I sighed. Ian opened my door and held my hand as we walked to the house. I was familiar now with the pink and red rosebushes in front of the home, and I couldn’t wait to add my own plants to the collection.
In the middle of cooking dinner, I started to feel sick at the smell of the onions frying in the pan. Ian was busily chopping up cubes of meat as I hunched over the trash.
“Are you okay, Liv?” said Sergio, rushing into the kitchen.
“Just feel a little sick, that’s all,” I heaved as I tried to hold the contents back in my stomach.
“Go lay down on the couch,” he ordered, and I didn’t need to be told twice. “Evan! Come here and finish cooking. I need to take care of Liv.”
