Chapter Thirteen

David's POV

Mia and I stood still, shocked by the revelation of what my mother just said. So my father had a lover before he married my mother. I turned to face Mia.

"Baby, you just wait here, I have a few things I want to discuss with my father."

She looks at me and gives me a reassuring smile, one that gives me hope before I place a kiss on her forehead and go to find my father.

*****

I stand in front of my father's office door and take a deep breath before opening it without knocking.

He looks up from the document that he holds with his right hand as he is on a call with someone.

"... Alright, do come quickly", my father says.

He ends the call and places the receiver back before he locks eyes with me. I shut the door and I bolt it. He curled an eyebrow to the action I just performed.

I wall towards the seat and I sit down and place my hands on the table and I take a deep breath.

"Father", I begin, "I know I have no right to ask you this but who was your ex-lover?"

He frowns in disapproval and replies, " You said it yourself, you have no right to ask."

"Yes, I know that the person who is behind the kidnapping is your ex-lover, my mother told me this."

He was quiet and so I continued

" I think she is still alive."

" Impossible", He spat, "Your mother killed her."

" How?", I ask.

" With a knife to her back."

" Dear father, if werewolves can survive from gunshot wounds, what then is a knife wound?"

We both go quiet. Father brings his hands to his face and squeezes his temples. Sweat drops fall down from his face to the table and his breathing rate increases.

He looks up at me

" What do you want to know?"

" How powerful is she?"

He sighs tiredly, " she had the power to cast illusions and make someone hallucinate. She made me think once that Gordon was a rogue that I banished and so we engaged in combat. Hmmm, she also made me hallucinate that someone was talking to me when no one was there. She also made some of our people commit murder."

" When she made you think someone was talking to you, were others there?"

" YES. They thought I'd gone mad because I was laughing and talking to myself. Luckily for me, Gordon was there to snap me out of it."

That made me remember when Mia snapped at me when I was hallucinating seeing Kevin's car so I told dad again about it while also mentioning the fact that she could have been close by.

He clenched his jaw and brought his hand to his chin.

"You know, your mate has powers that she is hiding from everyone in this pack."

" That doesn't matter because she loves me a lot."

" And you love her more than you love yourself", he chuckled and smiled sheepishly.

There was a sudden knock on the door and I heard Kate's voice come through the door and she said, " Alpha Kane, the doctor is here."

Father quickly stood up and I did the same. I let him take the lead before following him. As he unbolted the door, he leaned in and whispered to me, " Always recognize your mate no matter what."

*****

The pack doctor stood at the bedside of Nicholas as he examined him. He was paler than before. Father and I walked towards the Pack doctor as they exchanged greetings, then he went to my mother's outstretched arms and pulled her close as she sobbed.

" A maid told me that he wanted to use the bathroom but slumped. He seems to be getting worse."

Father comforted her and I turned to look at Mia as she examined Nicholas with a grave look.

I walked up to her and she snapped out of it and smiled at me and I smiled back at her. I turned to see the tip of the doctor's fingers turn blue as he placed them on Nicholas head for a short time and shortly, he coughed and opened his eyes.

Everyone had a look of relief as he woke up. The doctor turned to look at the maids and instructed them to give him light meals, he then brought out a bottle containing a light blue liquid and instructed them to give it to him three times daily before he shook hands with father and nodded at mother and left.

We all left the room to give Nicholas space. Father and mother left before Mia and I. As we reached the bottom of the stairs. Mia turned to look at me.

"I want to check out something in your family's library room, can I?"

"Go ahead. You don't need to ask."

She smiled and planted a light kiss on my chin before she turned and left.

I felt a very strong urge to go and stay with Nicholas.

As I reached the top of the stairs, I saw a maid pouring out the contents of the bottle that the pack doctor gave into a potted plant.

"Are you crazy, what are you doing?"

She looked up and smiled not at me but as though there was someone behind me. As I turned to check, I felt something hit my head and I felt pain shoot throughout my body. I opened my mouth to scream but nothing came out, my heart began to beat faster as I felt my body drop to the ground and everything went black.