Hiding His Baby: The Alpha's Rejected Mate novel Chapter 100

"How are you Athena?" Suzanne asked in a caring tone while getting inside the living room.

Patricia followed beside her and they sat on both sides of her.

"Not very good." Athena replied with a sigh while leaning on Suzanne’s shoulder and holding Patricia’s hands.

They both gave her a worried look.

Patricia squeezed her hands in an assuring way while Suzanne rubbed her back.

They were worried for her.

"What happened? Are you okay? Is Dominic okay? Is everything okay?" Suzanne asked in a really worried tone, making Athena smile in gratitude.

Suzanne gets worried for her very easily.

"Dominic is still the same.Showing no progress at all.And about me, my wolf just returned after months.It’s getting restless for a run.But we can’t go on a run with the things going on.It’s really stressful."

Athena explained with a sigh, making them frown at her 

"Why not?" Patricia asked with a small frown, trying to look for the reason why she couldn’t go for a run.

"Dominic is not well.I can’t leave him alone here.On the other hand, There is so much to do.So much work left to do which I am having a hard time handling.Also, Justin doesn’t want anyone to go far for a run but I know my wolf, it’s not going to stop until it crosses limits." Athena answered with a frown while pushing her whiny wolf at the back of her mind again.

As much as she loves her wolf, it annoys the hell out of her sometimes.

"I am so sorry, Athy.Things are going so hard for you.I wish we could help."

Suzanne said in a sad tone but the fact that she couldn’t do anything to help her was making her even sadder.

Athena said and pulled herself away from Suzanne’s arm and looked at her with a small sigh.

A small smile was shining at the tip of her lips.

She held both of their hands and gave it a little squeeze.

"It’s okay.Your support is what I need."

She said as her smile got bigger when they both hugged her from the side.She let out a chuckle and playfully pushed them away.

"Okay, now, let’s come to the main business now.Did you guys find anything?" She asked, suddenly getting serious, making them serious as well.

"Well, not only a thing."

Patricia grinned ear to ear while sounding very excited, making Athena look at her with a raised eyebrow.

"We found a lot of things."

Suzanne exclaimed back with a smirk as well, completing the sentence for Patricia.

Athena turned to look at her with the same expression which she gave Patricia 

"You guys sound so confident today.What did you find and why are you so confident?" She asked in confusion, their excitement for some reason got her excited as well.

They couldn’t concentrate on the matter from the past one week because of everything that was happening.

But today things were less rough so Athena decided to concentrate on the matter again and after what she saw two days ago, she couldn’t stop herself from thinking about it.

"Well the reason for our confidence is your wolf.You wolf made it very easy for us to figure out everything." Suzanne asked with a serious look on her face.

She was making points in head which she was going to present to her.

Athena’s face went blank after hearing her and she went a little cold.

"What do you mean by everything? Do you know what significance the word everything holds?" She asked with a clenched jaw.

She wasn’t angry with them.She was just a little frustrated and helpless that she couldn’t get things easily.She always has to work hard 

"Okay, sorry.Not everything.But a lot of things for sure." Patricia said, while correcting Suzanne’s words on her behalf.

"And what are they?"

Athena took a deep breath before asking.

She looked at them with a raised eyebrow, waiting to hear what they got 

"Well, let’s give your precious things back to you first." Suzanne said with a giggle while they both brought out the things from their bag 

"Here’s the symbol and papers." Patricia said while handling them to her which she took with great care before turning toward Suzanne.

"And here’s the crown." Suzanne said while handling the crown with a small frown which Athena didn’t notice as she was busy in taking that with the greatest care.

"What did you find? And how did my wolf help?"

She asked with a confused frown, she was unable to understand how her wolf was connected with her past when there wasn’t any sign of her wolf 

"Well, after your wolf shifted, we got to know that it’s a red wolf.From a book we found that that red wolf represents fire.Red wolf has the power of fire I don’t know if they woke for you yet or not." Suzanne said with a confused frown while waiting for Athena to give her confirmation 

"Uhmm..No, I don’t feel any different or… powerful, you know?"

Athena replied in confusion while trying to remember if she felt any different.

But she didn’t notice anything.

"That means they haven’t woken up yet."

Patricia said with a small nod and Suzanne nodded back in agreement, "Okay, what else?"

Athena asked, pushing the topic aside for a moment.

And concentrated back on other things.

"One thing leads to another, and I have found that the symbol means fire as well.I didn’t find anything else about the signs.Did you find anything in the book?"

Patricia asked while pointing at the papers which had a few signs which meant fire in different ancestry language.

Athena put on a blank face as soon as she heard them and looked at them with a blank face as well, which didn’t give away much.

"I did find something but I will tell you later.First tell me what did you find about the crown?" Athena asked, shifting the conversation to Suzanne now.

Suzanne’s expression changed to cold and distant as soon as she heard the question directed toward her.

Athena frowned seeing the change of expression on her face.

"Oh right, about the ruby stone.Every region has a special coloured ruby stone to represent themselves.And the red ruby is for the south region.But the question is, such ruby’s are very expensive and important things.What is it doing to you?"

Suzanne asked with a frown, her tone held a certain amount of anger which Athena couldn’t point out why.

"Also, why didn’t your foster father sell it? He could have done that and been really rich." Patricia spoke up in confusion, earning a sigh from Suzanne.

"Well, you can’t just sell such representative ruby to anyone, Patricia.He would easily get caught.Such things aren’t for sale."

Suzanne explained and Patricia nodded at her after she understood it.

Athena didn’t say anything about it.She planned to have another meeting with her foster father once again 

"So, we found two things.Fire and red, right?" Athena asked with a frown and they both nodded at her.

"Yes." They answered at the same time.

"Now tell us, what did you find?" Suzanne asked with a frown, she sounded eager to know what she found out.

"In the book, I found the tattoo on my waist." Athena said while mentioning about the book Patricia gave her the previous day.

"What did it say?" Patricia asked, sounding really interested.

But on the other hand, Suzanne didn’t sound anything near that but it seemed like her mood was getting lower every passing seconds.

"The sign stands for…" Athena stopped and created a little suspense before exclaiming that loudly.

"SOUTH."

"What?!"

Before anyone could understand anything, Suzanne shouted out loud while looking at Athena with a deep frown Athena looked back at her with a similar frown, unable to understand the reason for her such expression, "Yes, and girls, I found something else as well."Athena said with a grin, making them frown at her while she ignored Suzanne’s weird expression.

She didn’t want to think of anything else at that moment.

"What is it?" Suzanne asked with a frown.

Her tone was getting less and less warmer every second.

"The letter ‘N’ was tattooed on Dominic’s waist.That tattoo is the same as the sign in the book."

Athena exclaimed with widened eyes, ready to get some reaction from their friends.

She found the tattoo two days ago when she was changing his shirt.

She changed his shirt before as well but as it was really hard for her to do it alone, she didn’t notice it before as she was struggling with his weight.

"What are you trying to say, Athena?" Suzanne asked, her tone was getting cold and colder.