Hiding His Baby: The Alpha's Rejected Mate novel Chapter 7

The world stopped for her when she opened her eyes and looked into the most alluring grey eyes. Only their erratic heartbeats were heard, nothing else. It looked like they even stopped breathing When Athena slipped, she expected to fall into the arms of the cold ground. 

Not into the arms o f her heartless ex mate. His strong arms were wrapped protectively around her slim waist while her hands were on his hard chest as they looked into each other’s eyes. They were intoxicated by each other’s scent.

“Do you always do what you are asked not to?” Dominic suddenly spoke up with a blank look o n his face.

He didn’t know what he was doing here. He didn’t know why he came here but he just came. He was supposed to go to a peaceful place and find some peace there. 

Then why did his legs bring him here? To her. Being near her brought him anything but peace. She was the reason for his restlessness and messed up state. But there he was, with her in his arms. His words brought her back from the world of illusion she was in and she immediately tried to get away from him. 

But he didn’t let her do that, instead tightened his hold around her. She glared at him. 

“I don’t know, try me!” She snarled as she tried to get away from him once again.

“Stand still.” He commanded in a cold tone, earning a scoff from her.

“Get away from me!” She shouted and tried to get free from his hold but he wasn’t budging.

She tried to free his hands, push him on the chest to create distance but nothing was working. She suddenly winced in pain after getting poked on the stomach by her own elbow. She closed her eyes tight and shut her lips to digest the pain and not show him any weakness. He looked a ther with a frown.

“If you had listened to me, this wouldn’t have happened.” He scowled at her. 

“If YOU had listened to me, this wouldn’t have happened!” She snapped back at him instantly. 

“Now leave me!” She demanded again but this time she didn’t move much. She didn’t want to make things worse for her.

“I left you already, don’t you remember?” He said in a bitter tone, halting her movement completely. She stopped and looked up at him in disbelief.

“How can I forget that? Can’t you see I am carrying that memory still with every small wound? “She said with watery eyes. She controlled the tears from rolling down with a lot of difficulty. He clenched his jaw hearing her. 

“It’s not like it mattered to you much. Look at you! You ran to new arms so fast. You have a son now.” He taunted while breathing hard. He was trying to show that he didn’t care but it wasn’t the truth. The thought of that made him want to burn the whole world. 

“Yes, I have a son. He is my power, pride and reason for existence. Don’t think you can use that against me to make me weak. Because his name gives me power.” She said with a fire in her eyes. 

The intensity was too much for him to keep looking at her. He moved his eyes away from her for a second before looking back at him.

“And if we are playing the game that way, then you are not lagging behind as well. You have a Luna. How great is that!” She taunted with a smirk but her red eyes from tears said something entirely different. He was too strong-headed to read that.

“Oh, yeah, did you meet my Luna? Do you want to know who she is?” He asked with a smirk. Her blood boiled seeing his smirk but if only she knew that her blood would turn cold when she heard his next words.

 “She is my second chance mate.” He announced with his chin held high.

Her hands dropped which was holding his bicep dropped in shock. She looked at him in shock a s silence fell around them once again.

“S… second chance ma…mate?” She asked in a shaky tone.

He looked away from her as he didn’t like the look she was having on her face. It might be the third raw expression he had seen on her face from the time he knew her. The second was when she talked to her son. And the first… he forced himself to not think about that.

“Yes, second chance mate and I love her. I am proud to have her by my side unlike-…” He couldn’t complete his sentence when she completed it for him.

“Unlike me whom you hated and were ashamed of.” She whispered and couldn’t hold the drop of tears any more. His jaw clenched as he eyed the drop of tears rolling down her cheeks. But before it could roll down completely, she wiped it away.

 “Good for you. I am happy the moon goddess didn’t do injustice toward any of us. She blessed both of us with second chances.” She said with a fake smile which he couldn’t read because his mind was stuck.

“What do you mean by second chances?” He asked with a deep frown while pulling her closer.

“What do you think I am talking about after seeing my son? Oh yeah, did you meet my son? His name is Ace. He is the sweetest chi-…” She couldn’t complete her sentence as his hold suddenly got tightened painfully around her arms. But she didn’t show any reaction to that and instead looked at him with a sly smirk. 

“Who is his father?” He asked with gritted teeth while glaring at her hard.

“My second chance ma-…” She couldn’t complete her sentence when she was pushed behind roughly. Her back side of the legs bumped with the bed and she fell on the bed with a thud. She let out a winch before clutching her stomach in pain. Her stitches reopened and blood started pouring again. 

He hovered over her as he pinned her on the bed with his hands on both sides of her head,

“What the hell is wrong with you?! Why do you keep giving me pain?!” She groaned as she bit her lips to stop the cry coming out of her.