“I’ve missed you.” I sniffled as he unbuckled my seat belt and I was in his arms fully.
“As I have missed you.” He kissed my temple. “Now we have much to discuss.” He was running with me before I could utter another word, with Ronnie following behind.
“Slow down, jackass. Some of us can’t move that fast.” Ronnie struggled to keep up and my laughter filled the halls of the pack house. We settled in my father’s office with an out of breath Ronnie, who was scowling. God, I missed these two.
“Tell me what’s wrong, pup.” I looked around and still I stumbled over my words. My father grabbed my face and shook his head. “Nothing you tell me will change anything, pup. I believe you, no matter how crazy it seems.”
“Agreed Sugar.”
My insides settled when I saw how resolute he was. He would believe my craziness. I could tell no matter how preposterous my story was, my father and Ronnie would believe everything I said.
I never had to second guess if I was going crazy here.
So finally, I settled in fully and told my story.
“Ilived another life, and I died.” I stumbled over my words and I felt my father freeze. A quick look to Ronnie had him locking the door and waving his hands. I felt the air still, but I was focused on my father’s eyes. “This morning I woke up six years in the past after living until I was twenty-four, and growing my own pup only to have my mate rip him from my body.”
My father’s and Ronnie’s snarl shook the walls, but I raised my hands. “He betrayed me for my step sister who convinced him that I cheated and the pup wasn’t his, so he killed us both using silver scalpels, and killing any love I had for him at the same time.” I looked up at my father and the tears rolled down my face.
“Pup.” His voice was choked up, but I raised my hand.
“I don’t want him to be my mate, Daddy, I won’t survive it. I need to change it. Everything, and it starts with hiding my scent. I told mom what I needed, and she called you. How are you going to help me?” I was starting to panic. “I don’t want to die. I don’t want my pup ripped from my stomach only for him to smell himself on him. I don’t want to create life just to have it ripped from me Daddy. I can’t.” My soul was ripping and even though I want revenge, this was the first time I was given to truly grieve the loss of my pup.
“Sugar.” Ronnie’s voice was barely a whisper and then I felt my father lose control.
“Who?” His voice was pure darkness from the depths of hell. His fist slammed into the desk, creaking the thick wood, and I looked up to find my father’s wolf looking back at me. “Who hurt you, my pup? Who killed my grand pup?” Loki’s voice was deeper than I had ever heard and his eyes promised retribution.
“Brandon, the Alpha’s son.” I whispered the final piece and everything seemed to click. The air rushed back in and my father’s wolf shifted into his black form. I screamed and Ronnie dove in front of the door.
Loki snarled, but Ronnie held firm. “You can’t go kill him for something that hasn’t come to pass yet, Loki. You know how this works. You have been through it yourself.” But Loki just snarled.
“Daddy, please.” I begged. I knew if he got out, Brandon and Shannon were dead and the council would be on his doorstep. Loki whirled on me and softened at the devastation he saw in my face. He padded over and licked the tears from my face before going back behind the desk and shifting again.
“I’m sorry Amy, I lost myself for a moment.” He opened a door and slipped into some shorts. He wiped at his face before he sat back down. “I guess it’s our turn to come clean.”
“Daddy?” I sniffled and looked up at him.
“I’m not just a wolf, although, as you can see, Loki is very much a part of me.” His laughter was weak, but I just smiled. “My grandmother was human, or as human as you can be while having power. She was a witch, and my father inherited her gifts as well. He saw my mother as a contract instead of a mate, and a duty. Then I was born.”
“A witch?” I dropped my hands, and he just had a small, sad smile.
“Yeah. You would have loved her, but witches don’t live like us. They have the lifespan of a human, a flash in the pan. She was gone long before I met your mother.” He shook his head.
“One of her powers was exactly what you explained, a second chance. The Moon Goddess passed down with the same powers to both of us. I had mine when I was much older then you though.”
I jolted back as he nodded. “What?”
“I never cheated on your mother.” His words were soft. “I Alpha commanded a wolf to pretend I did when she came to me and told me she was pregnant. You see, in my first life, I stayed with her and we had three wonderful pups, but one night, my enemies attacked and the four of you were all murdered.” His swallow was thick.
“Daddy.”
“I couldn’t lose you, not all of my pups, so when I woke up four years in the past, I acted. You were just a babe. I never got your brothers or sister, which broke me for a time. But I had you.” He swallowed back his tears as I reached his side. “I told your mother, I betrayed her.”
“She said she felt it.”
He nodded slowly. “When a wolf betrays their marked mate, the mate feels the worst pain imaginable.”
“Yes, he does.” Ronnie growled out and I darted my eyes back to his face and I realized something.
“Mom and Morgan.”
“It doesn’t happen often enough to make a big deal out of it.” My dad growled out.
“But it happens enough that you feel the pain.” Ronnie grumbled out.
“Mom doesn’t know.” I wrapped my arms around my father. “She wouldn’t ever touch him if she knew.”
“I know, princess, but you can’t tell her. I’m sure I passed the fate, since I made it past my death…but now, now it would break her to find out the truth.” My dad squeezed me.
“So she felt you take another female?” I hugged him back, but he just shook his head.
“I used my power to fake the pain. She was crying inside of our room, and I was in the next room, breaking my own heart.”
“Daddy?”
“It was losing her and you, or losing everything. And I knew I would still get to see my little girl.” My dad pulled back. “But, I didn’t tell you so you would feel bad for me, but to know that you have power too. Power to hide your scent. At the very least, I’ll teach you how to wield it this summer.”
“Thank you, Dad.”
“Don’t thank me yet. This summer will probably be the worst you’ll ever have, but it will save you in the long run.”
“Once everything is done, I need you to promise me something, Daddy.”
“What is it, pumpkin?” My dad always called me new nicknames when he was worried.
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