Hiding His Baby: The Alpha's Rejected Mate novel Chapter 1

“I don’t feel good, Suzy.” A beautiful lady in her late twenties looked at her best friend Suzanne with a worried look on her beautiful and flawless face.

“What’s wrong, Athy?” Suzanne asked in a worried tone while stopping what she was doing.

“My left eye has been twitching since morning. I don’t have a good feeling about it.” The beautiful lady said as she clutched the pendant which was around her neck.

The pendant has always been with her as far as she remembers. It gives her a weird sense of assurance which she doesn’t understand.

“Calm down, Suzy. It happens sometimes. It doesn’t necessarily mean that something bad is going to happen.” Suzanne tried to console her.

“I don’t see myself going out of the pack today and nothing good ever happens in this pack. So, that left us with only one option.” She said as she fisted her hands by her side thinking of how helpless she was over the situation.

They both were the slaves of the Shadow Eclipse pack, a pack full of lies and deceit. It presents itself as something outside while it is completely opposite of that inside. In the eyes of the world it is a great pack who takes in rogues like her, even members from other packs’ like Suzanne. Two and half years ago, they were attacked, kidnapped and kept held here as slaves of the pack.

That has been their fate since then…

“You can still hope for the best, right?” Suzy asked with a sigh as she wiped the dust off of the vase in her hands.

“I have only one hope, Suzy and never in my dream I will let that get involved with the dark sickness of this place at any cost.” The woman said in a strong tone with determination in her eyes.

Suzanne let out a sigh when the word hope reminded her about her hope. Her only hope to be out of this hell hole.

Her mate.

They are stuck in this pack with no way out. They can’t go out. They can’t attend balls or parties. They can’t meet people. Then how are they supposed to find their mates? Even though the topic of mates anger Athena beyond limit for some reason. But it’s not the same for Suzanne.

She wants a mate and prays to find him all the time. She is never going to lose hope on that.

“Don’t worry, you are not going to lose your hope.” Athena spoke up with a small chuckle which brought Suzanne out of her thoughts. She looked at Athena with widened eyes.

“Did you just read my mind?” She asked in shock.

“No, silly. You should have seen the look on your face. You always have that face whenever you are thinking about your mate.” Athena said with a small smile, making Suzanne blush.

“Yeah, I wonder when I am going to find him. I am going to leave this goddamn pack the moment I find him. I am not going to stay here another second.” She said with gritted teeth, making Athena go blank. She noticed that. “What are you going to do when you find your mate? Leave as well?” She asked slowly, not trying to upset her.

“I don’t need my mate to escape this, Suzy. If I want to leave, I can do it myself.” Athena said in a blank tone, completely dismissing the thought of a mate.

“You are so strong, Athy. I admire you so much for that. I don’t understand why you don’t want to run away from here!” Suzanne exclaimed in frustration at the weird stubbornness of her best friend which angers her so much sometimes.

Athena, her best friend. Athy is the nickname she had given her. Athena is a very beautiful woman with golden blonde hair. She has the most beautiful deep sea blue eyes. But what’s more beautiful in her is her strong personality. Suzanne looks up at her a lot.

There were a lot of times in this two and half years old period when Suzanne had a mental breakdown because of how messed up their situation was. But never even for once Athena broke down and bent down in front of the situation. She not only handled Suzanne but also faced all the insults, inhumanity and workloads all alone bravely with a blank smile.

How strong she was!

“Leave all this. Where is your duty today?” Athena asked, changing the subject as always. Suzanne let out a sigh and looked at the clock.

“I got the duty to clean up the office area.” She answered.

“Oh, the office area. I have heard that someone from the leader pack of the North region came here to have a meeting with the alpha. Be careful while you are there. Don’t do anything to grab attention.” She warned in a caring tone as she wondered why those important people might have come here.

‘Maybe to give some more donation to the ‘generous’ alpha.’ Athena heard her wolf speak up in a sarcastic tone. She rolled her eyes at her sass before ignoring her.

“Don’t worry, I will be careful. Do you know why they are here?” Suzanne asked in a secretive tone while looking around cautiously. She didn’t want them to fall in trouble for talking about this here.

“I don’t know. You know how I always stay away from all these gossips. I was personally asked by the beta on alpha’s order to stay away from the office area today. That’s why I know about the meeting.” Athena said with a frown as she was confused about why the alpha wanted her to stay away from those important people.

“Yeah, apparently someone ran away from the pack a few days ago and there’s a possibility that he reached the alpha of Crescent Mystery pack, leader of the North region. He complained to the alpha about it.” Suzanne said in a hushed tone as the walls here have ears. Athena looked at her without much reaction.

“And you think that’s going to change anything? The most that’s going to happen is, the alpha of the Crescent Mystery pack is going to handover that person to this pack and he is going to get a merciless death. That’s it.” Athena said in a blank tone as she stopped cleaning the table and looked at Suzanne who was going to say something more.