Chapter 3

Alexa’s POV

I don't know what to do right now, my heart at this moment wants to fail me. So far this would have been the only job to raise such an amount of money for my surgery. I wouldn't just leave, my life is in danger.

"What about the rest? How can he alone, the person I loved so much in the world and was dying to meet, be so rude?" I ask.

“And let me tell you,” I hear his voice from a distance which I swiftly turn around to. “Fuck whatever it is I'm really right inside of me for you, I can never have a mate like you. I'm sure my brothers wouldn't want you.”

“What!” My lips hang loose, not returning back again. Did he just mean he feels this way too? I puff out a deep breath, bending, feeling really exhausted and confused.

“What am I gonna do now?” I lift my face to the receptionist who's staring at me with pity.

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DUSTIN

Her image continues to reflect in my mind as I walk off. I never wanted a woman who would come in and make my heart race, Louise doesn't need such a nanny. My brothers and I don't need a woman we will be tempted to have an affair with. One of the greatest mistakes I made was by not specifying the age range. Perhaps an older woman from forty years would've been better.

My brothers and I made a promise to our late mate that we would never give our heart to another woman after her death. This is what the pack members know but the secret is we don't want to endanger any woman that would decide to step in to be our next mate. She's sure to be killed by our first mate who is a Phoenix Vampire, prior to her dangerous nature we laid her down but her spirit still hovers in the estate. Once she detects we have someone else, she would definitely come for the person.

We specified that it would take a very long time before we bring another woman into our hearts but still we won't love her as we loved her. This was to calm her spirit before ending her life. We told our pack members and even our daughter that Lucy got diagnosed with cancer last year and died within that same year. She had Ovarian cancer which made it difficult for her to conceive but it was her endless dream to raise a baby with us. We went extreme to the point of adopting a baby from a foreign pack, a baby from a mother who wasn't capable of raising her child to make everyone believe. In this aspect, we could justify our action. She's a vampire and a cold breed one whose eggs were frozen, she couldn't bear a child.

As for the real mother of our baby girl, according to information from the hospital she gave birth at, she got impregnated after a one-night stand at a five-star club where she went to find a partner. The father of the child must be some wealthy bastard who knew how best to fuck a lady without protection, making her risk a pregnancy and eventually pulling her to suffer all alone.

Austin, Justin, Aaron, Baron, Cameron, Sharon and I loved Lucy so much, she was our only mate and at times I sit to think and conclude that it's a curse from the moon goddess. How can we be fated to a hundred year old vampire who was the woman our dad dated in his lifetime without knowing who she truly was until years later after marrying her.

We brought a curse directly on ourselves by taking in our dad's woman, even though she wasn't the one he later married but so far as they once dated, the curse of the moon goddess descended on us. I've never seen the moon goddess as unfair before, but I'm forced to say so here. With this curse, any other mate we would later have wouldn't stay to give us a pup, she will die.

If Lucy, originally Alexia, was a werewolf like us, I would say she died from the curse. Well, no one really knows what the issue is, or whether it's just fate. We choose to keep it a secret from everyone.

I shake my head to clear off this thought, each time I think of this, my wolf gets so weakened, he'd loved Lucy so much and now she's no more. Seeing Alexa, the new nanny trying to take my heart from my beloved wife and mate, I find myself slowly beginning to hate her.

I initially wanted to pick some document from the drawing room but seeing Alexa, I need to return as quickly as I can to talk to my brothers. This is just a mysterious fate, why will she bear a similar name with our first mate, as well as exert a deep sense of bond with me.

Something must be wrong somewhere!

I rush to the living room where we sat, waiting for Alexa's arrival before I left. I know Austin really well, after waiting for a while and not seeing Alexa, she would want to come down. When he comes down and sets eyes on Alexa, there's no way he won't want her. He loves women and then he will be able to convince the rest into accepting her.

I just guess I'm the one who loved Lucy more.

"Heyyy guys," I call out as usual. "Alexa is here but I just caught gossiping about us with Maurin, trying to get some information about us which is strictly prohibited." I lied. This should be like a second reason to reject her, I just decide to hide my main reason. I can't let her risk her life just to serve us. She might not understand me here but sure, I know what I'm saying. It's this first before we talk of her wanting to derive information about us from Maurin, our life and our fate ought to be a secret, if I let her in, she might go on to know more than what she deserves to know, even before the right time to know it. I also have to consider this.