Vance POV

The aim was to not let the beta cause my mom the pain he and the gamma cause all other palace maids.


I ran with mad rage into the kitchen, ready to tear him off my mother, by any means possible.

'Get out!" I screamed at him, dashing towards them both.

He goes through many emotions at once. From surprise, to irritation, to disbelief, then to anger.


Looking around for whatever he could use to defend himself, he quickly grabbed the closet thing to him which was the silver knife my mom got as a gift on the day she was given to my dad.

Grabbing it and holding it against me, he brandishes it, daring me to step closer.


'Get off my mom!" I screamed back at him.

'Tell this imp to step away!" Still facing me even though he was talking to my mom.

'Arghh!" I screamed madly while dashing towards.

I could not have cared less if he was armed or not.

'I hate you!" I said the third time after stabbing him in the stomach.

And that's when I began to feel the pain in my chest.

That did not matter as long as my mom was alive.

His uncontrollable breathing was creating a very mournful sound tract, and the air already smelt like blood.

Crawling over to where I saw my mom hide last, I held my chest, to reduce the blood flow.

And that's when I sat it…

Her brilliant white eyes still wide open, looking at me, or so I thought.

'Ma?! Mom! Mom!" I kept calling her, giving myself the excuse that she just could not hear me.

'Stand up, stand up!" I continued screaming while shaking her head vigorously, even to the point that I thought if she truly dies, it would be from the head shake and not from the visible fresh wound I can see in her stomach.

Why did the beta do this? Did he have to take her with him?

Tears I thought I never had started streaming down my face uncontrollably, I don't have the strength to wail, and I wasn't ready to call attention, I just wanted to lie there beside her, and die.

Then I hear him laugh…

Summoning the last strength in me, as I had begun to feel dizzy from the blood loss, I crawled over to see him smiling through his bloodied teeth.

'I'm sorry. She was my first and only love." The dying man's confession only made me angrier. Angry with myself, my mom, and him.

'I knew it wasn't going to end well." He continued, 'we have been warned, as kids, and as adults, but you can't break a bond."

'What the fuck does that even mean?" I'm operating with less than half to blood in supposed to as blood is streaming from somewhere near my heart, but I was determined to hear him out.

'We are mates, friends from childhood, who grew into lovers and then discovered that we both were actually destined to complete each other, we were each other's better half." He continued, 'and life was fun, it was blissful till your father, the Alpha, discovered her and rejected his own mate because he wanted mine."

His breathing is more labored from the emotions his story brings than from his intestines which were beginning to sprawl out.

'Your father, that bastard, took her from me." I could see him reliving the hurt. 'Worse still, I had to support him, and her, I could not go against them or my head would have been served to the pack dogs long ago.

'I know you're still quite young, and really should not be exposed to all this, you've barely known what life you've been predestined to live and are yet to meet your wolf. But I'll tell you this because if I don't, you will never find out the truth." His speeches are deteriorating into croaks, I see the life going out of him, and out of me.

'You father never really took her away though. We always made time to…made time for…for ourselves, for our pleasure, for sex…" He could no longer form the words no matter how badly he wanted to.

Sex, that's what they were having…

I close his eyes which were still open after he passed, just like moms

I hurry back to where she lay and shut her eyes closed. Maybe they really were made for each other.

'Babe! Babe!" Nadia's voice brings me back from the past." She looks scared, shocked in fact. 'What is the matter?" She asked me, looking fearfully into my eyes.

'Nothing." I take her hands off my body and get up before giving her the chance to to worry more about my bleeding fist.

'What happened?" Nadia asks persistently, trailing behind me.

'Nothing. I thought you went to sleep or something." I never thought that, I'm just giving her reasons to leave me the fuck alone, to let me the hell be.

'I won't." She replied, to my disappointment. 'I'm not gonna leave you."

'Nadia, I'm perfectly fine, please leave me be."

'And I'm supposed to believe that with a bloodied fist to my face?" She quizzed. 'You might think I'm daft, but I'm not that daft."

'Why did you leave when you knew you were gonna come back?" I asked her.

'I left because it got too embarrassing for me." She replied, it sounds sincere. 'I was asking for something that I'm supposed to have, it got so cringe I could not take it any longer."

I felt bad for making her feel that way.

After the loss of my mom, Nadia was the one I turned to for support. She had always been just a friend, then she became the friend who watched me get my wolf, the friend who watched me grow from a boy to a man, the friend who watched me get my mate, the friend who watched me become sexually active, and the friend who I always had sex with.

We have too much history for us to ever think we could make a happy family, why she refuses to see that is beyond me, but it hurts me to hurt her, it really does.

'Vance?" She called me, her voice sounds like she had fallen a few steps behind and was no longer on my heels.

'Yes?" I replied, curiously waiting for whatever she was calling me for.

'You would have made it much easier if you had rejected me." it's stung.

It's the last thing I needed to hear with how I feel right now.

I was a failure to my mom, a failure to Talia, and just seconds ago, a failure to Nadia.