The Rejected Mate novel Chapter 22

I spent the next day working in the kitchen, helping the omegas of the pack with preparing for the lunch they've to serve to hundreds of hungry wolves with the appetite of an elephant. I also got to a lot from the omegas a lot, how the pack has been in a better condition and how they're treated like any other pack member with Damien as their Alpha

I'm currently in the play room, where the parents usually drop their kids off before they go to run errands or the warriors for the pack training, its more like a nursery if not. I was bored out of my mind and decided that I could spend some of my time with these little munchkins.

I watch as the children play among eachother, some chasing eachother around, toddlers either being handled by nannies, some chewing on their toys, or babbling to themselves in an adorable way, Making me smile at their adorableness. I feel two hand wrap around legs, only to look down and find a pair of grey eyes staring up at me with a toothless smile, making my smile to widen.

"Hi baby" I pick Elijah up and place him on my hip. I place a kiss on his chubby cheeks, making him giggle out.

"How is my favourite person doing?!" I say and Elijah looks at me with his big grey eyes and babbles in reply by moving hands and pointing at the playground, make me laugh out at his adorableness. If anyone were to see me now, they would think I've lost my marbles for talking with a toddler. I squish his cheeks making his lips to pucker out in a cute way.

I tuck the long hairs out of his face and tuck it behind his ear, I feel small arms wrap around my neck and he rests his tiny head on the crook of my neck, and I realize that he might be sleepy. So I decide to take him along with me.

I'm about to leave the nursery with Elijah when someone across the room calls me, I turn around to find a girl with blue eyes and raven hair heading over to my direction.

"Hi, I'm Raven. I saw you interacting with Elijah, and I was pleasantly surprised to see him approach you the second he saw you looking around, and he isn't really found of strangers" her words make he realize how much Elijah takes after his father, her eyes move from Elijah back to me with a smile and I smile back at her "if I may ask, how do you know eachother?".

I pause, not knowing what to reply. Who am I? His father, The Alpha's rejected mate? Or a packmate who happens to share a special bond with the Alpha's only son? Now that I say it in my mind, she would think I'm lying since Damien isn't exactly known for his socializing skills. So I decided to say "I was a friend of Emily's" Raven's eyes become sad when she hears Emily's name.

"Ahh, I see. It makes me sad to think that Elijah has to grow up without a mother in this cruel world" her words makes me wonder what would've happened if my own mother was alive?! I had too grow up too fast for my own good. Living in this world without a mother was tough for me. "I mean no one can love a child like his/her mother" she continues "Alpha makes a point to take time out of his busy schedule to spent atleast three days a week with Elijah and also drops him here and picks up Elijah himself."