Chapter 5

Alexa’s POV

I couldn't afford to miss two great opportunities, working with my celebrity crush and raising funds for my surgery as well. Without having a health challenge, I'd still love to do this job.

I had to imagine how hard it must have been for seven dads to raise a child. No matter how many they were, the child still needed maternal care. Probably, this sensitive nature was aroused particularly after I'd lost my baby in adoption. I felt my breath going away for me as she was being taken off me but yet I couldn't take care of her either, I was helpless myself, without parents or support from anyone.

I was eighteen then, just graduated from college and was looking for some rich, handsome guy to mingle with, someone who would foot my bills. This probably led me into gathering the little money I had to attend a luxury dinner party at an exquisite bar with the hope of landing with a wealthy guy. This was the greatest mistake I made, I only landed with an unplanned pregnancy.

Right after losing my baby, the only soul I had on earth to comfort me, I realized I'd made a great mistake, worse than engaging in a one-night stand. I was determined to find her as far as she lives on this earth, no matter what it took me.

Well, nobody knows but this was my secret reason for enrolling in a Nanny Care Agency, a prestigious one. Thank God I passed my tests and became one of the best nannies over the years. In each family I went to look after the kid, I dreamt of seeing my baby. There's no way I wouldn't know her if I saw her.

So when I heard this little voice call me, I stopped, turning around slowly. “Maybe God wants to use her to call me back,” I say inside of me. My eyes lowers slowly to look at her.

I stumble backward, nearly falling if not that I take a good stance. My eyes blink up and down as I gaze at her. “Am I dreaming?” What? She looks so much like me, could this be a coincidence of what I just had in mind or she's–

My daughter?

My eyes nearly falls out of their sockets seeing this cute little girl with the same face as me. When my daughter was taken away from me, her adopters represented by their legal delegates didn't let me have any information of where they will be taking her to or who she will be with. I was only told she's wanted in a foreign elite family who can't make a kid. Foreign because they didn't want an after connection between my daughter and I, the parent, later on in the future so they took her somewhere so far away.

“Why do I look so much like you?” The little girl mutters, looking up at me with pretty, dull eyes. My lips are wide open as I stare at her without being able to provide her with an answer. She just said exactly what I was about to ask.

It's at this point, I see seven hot men, all identical, same height and faces, muscular, hot and sexy stepping out of the estate. I pull the little girl into my arms, holding her so tight.

Gosh!

Here is another mighty distraction. My eyes settle on them without being able to lift off them. I feel ripples in my stomach, my eyes start to go blur like some white film is settling over it. My legs tremble and I feel some sweat in my palms.

“Who are these?” I mutter, asking the little girl.

“They are my daddies. Seven Alphas raised me up after the death of my mom. That's why I'm asking "why do I look so much like you?” She repeats her question but still I wonder what to tell her, even I, myself, am confused. What then can I say? So for the second time, I'm pretending as though I didn't hear her ask this.

“What's your name?” I choose to bring up another question to take off the pressure from thinking about this.

“Louise.”

“Louise? Woww!” I smile.

“What a lovely name.” I try to cheer her up, acting happy but only I know what I'm feeling inside. As the confusion in me heightens, the seven Alphas are coming closer. It hits me deep to realize that they all have the same scent. My wolf, which has always been calm, immediately leaps up, growling so loud that I can feel my lungs vibrating, my heartbeat triples. My head and mind at this moment seems to be clouded with a white film as they walk closer. Slowly I feel sparks rolling over me, tingles climbing up with the riot of the hormones inside of me.

“What's really going on?”

“Mates! Mates!! Mates!!!”

I hear my wolf leap and screaming, I stamp my feet on the ground, refusing to accept this. All my life, especially after I was abandoned after my one-night stand, which is often so, I yearned for a fated mate who would love me and care for me, well I also knew it's so hard seeing one as a single mother. Even after I gave my daughter up for adoption, I thought I'll find one shielding this part of my life from the public and pretending to be a single young woman, yet I found no one.

I need one man, not seven Alphas. How can all these cute, charming, sexy young men be mates with such a lowly girl as I? I'm sure the moon goddess made a pretty big mistake by doing this.

“Come on, these are Alphas and one of them is an idol. Why will they even look at me twice?” I question my wolf. Or is it my wolf that's making this mistake.

“But they are looking at you?” My wolf retorts. I swallow the lump in my throat.

“What do you mean?”

As I look straight for the first time into the Alphas’ eyes, I realize they are doing the same to me right now. Gosh!