Hiding the Alpha’s Heir

Our picnic was finished. Sander already fell asleep in his father’s arms as soon as we headed back to the house.

“I’ll prepare our supper,” Desmond said without looking at me.

I only shrugged. He fell silent ever since we had come back. Sander thought that Desmond was sick at that time but he reasoned out that he was jaded for a while.

It was not my fault if he was being like that. After all, Desmond thought that I could easily be persuaded again if he kept uttering such sugar-coated words.

No. I was going to protect my heart this time. He would never hurt me again just like what he did in the past.

Since I had nothing to do, I decided to come down and went to the kitchen area. I came to see the agitated kitchen personnel since Desmond was the one who was handling the kitchen now.

So, he really was serious that he was the one preparing for our supper, huh?

I turned my back. It was not my business to worry about what to eat.

What I must do now was to confirm my suspicions. I changed my clothes to a tunic and trousers so I could easily move for later. I patiently waited for more than fifteen minutes before I departed from the window.

I came to run to the pine trees forest and climbed up in the tree. I waited there, feeling annoyed because I hadn’t brought my incantation bangle to cover my scent.

I would easily be found here. But it was a good thing that I picked some mint leaves as an alternative to cover my scent.Content from NôvelDr(a)ma.Org.

“Where did she go?”

I looked up and saw Desmond who came out from the balcony. I inhaled slowly seeing one of his elite pack warriors come out of nowhere.

I knew it… They were really here. They were really here to guard us. Or more likely, they were guarding me.

“To the woods, Alpha. However, Luna does not go further near to the end of the vicinity of your property.”

I frowned. Seriously? He was still addressing me as Luna? I already cut my ties with Desmond. Why did they still need to do that?

Did Desmond order them?

That was plausible…

It was a good thing that I could still hear their conversation using my sensitive ears. Being a werewolf was a blessing from the Moon Goddess. Really.

“She is hiding,” Desmond concluded coldly. My heart jumped when his cold eyes darted in my direction.

It was as if he knew where I was.

“Shit…” I mumbled.

I gulped and held my chest, hearing how my heart was palpitating so fast. I even covered my mouth, frightened that he would hear the loud pounding of my heart and my fast breathing.

I was only testing a theory of whether Desmond’s elite pack warriors were here or not and I was only pretending to abscond to see if Desmond would be alerted… And I was freaking right to assume things!

“You can hide but I will be able to find you, Seraphina.”

I stiffened when I heard Desmond’s voice below me.

I looked down to see him in his darkened face. He was with the elite pack warrior that reported to him about my whereabouts.

“Do not piss me off, Seraphina,” he said in his sheer cold tone. “Get down from there.”

I scoffed, sitting on the branch of the tree. “Relax, Desmond. I did not really run away.” I hid my nervousness by shrugging my shoulders.

He growled a warning. He looked offended at my response. “Get down from there before I decide to put you in the prison cell. You might not be able to see our son for a while if that happens. What do you think?”

That was the moment I went down and fished out the kitchen knife I had with me. I managed to point it to his neck but in exchange for that, the elite pack warrior with him was quick to point his dagger near to my eye making my eyes widen in surprise. I could even smell the wolfsbane smeared on the blade as well.

“If you hurt me, you know that he is not going to hesitate to put you in an unfortunate situation, seraphim,” he said, drawing out a lazy smile. “You know how they work to protect their Alpha.”

I squinted my eyes at his threatening tone, not minding that the tip of the blade his elite pack warrior was holding was very close to me. “How dare you even threaten me that you shall make me not be able to see my son…” I said through gritted teeth.

Desmond smirked. “If you behave like this for the second time around, I shall not hesitate to do what I said.” He glanced at the elite pack warrior beside him and nodded.

The person he was with stepped backward before he quickly vanished into thin air. They wouldn’t be called elite ones if they were not trained to move as quickly as possible using their wolf speeds.

“Give me that,” he commanded, opening his palm to me. I gripped the handle of the kitchen knife and hid it behind me. “Give me that or you will not like it if I forcibly take it from you.”

“Make me,” I challenged him. But I knew that was a wrong move because as soon as he said that, Desmond didn’t hesitate to lunge at me. I cussed under my breath as I dodged him and used the kitchen knife to attack him.

However, he was quick to evade it as he scoffed a smirk. “Hmm… Impressive. It is a good thing that you are still applying what you learned from the Rising Diamond pack, Seraphina. But you know that I can easily counterattack you.”

“Scumbag…” I attacked him and used my wolf speed.

But in a blink of an eye, Desmond was already in front of me. Then an unexpected attack came from him.

He punched my stomach!

I coughed and stepped backward with that strong punch I received from him causing me to drop to my knees as well as the knife I was holding. I glared at him when he was already in front of me, kneeling on one knee.

Desmond had a stoic expression while his lips were stretched out into a sinister smile. “You see, seraphim… I do not wish to hurt you.” He held my chin with his fingers and made me look up at him. “But if you shall dare to hurt me, then you know I must protect myself, right?”

My face darkened. I wanted to say that I am going to break our mate bond again but I knew that I wouldn’t be able to find myself to do that.

I could still remember the unbearable pain I felt when I severed our mate bond. It was killing me ten folds.

“Now, shall we set your punishment?” he asked in a soft yet firm tone.

“Punishment your ass,” I barked while my hand was still on my stomach. His punch was so strong. It really was so painful…

I flinched when Desmond squeezed my cheeks with his hand. Then his smiling face turned into a cold one. “I am not going to tolerate this behavior of yours, Seraphina. I already know that you will act like this. Do you think you can outsmart me, huh? Do you think that I am at ease and I did not set some measures for coming here?”

I clenched my hands. It looked like I was caught now. Desmond really knew how I would react to this.

“I already know that the moment you brought up to our son about our vacation house here in Elian…” he paused. His teeth were gritting in annoyance. “I know you are planning something.”

At that moment, I felt like I was being cornered as soon as he had already concluded. I knew that Desmond was not that dumb to be fooled for the second time around.

“Well, looks like I know what punishment I am bestowing to you.” I looked at him, alarmed at what he said. I didn’t know why but the next words he was going to utter would make me feel more cornered than before. “Perhaps, starting from now, you are not going to see Sander. What do you think?”

I growled and gripped his hand that was holding my chin. “You are not going to do this to me!” I raised my tone.

What he said made me feel alarmed right now. This was not good. I pissed him off so bad he was threatening me by separating my son from me.

“I can do it. With your action today, you really are planning to abscond. Do you think I am going to allow that?” His face expressed that he was really infuriated right now. “Perhaps, a good punishment like that shall make you behave. I am certain that you are going to learn your lessons very well.”

“N-No!” I held onto his trousers when I saw that Desmond was really earnest right now. “D-Desmond… Don’t do this to me. Sander will look for me… Sander will hate you if he happens to know this!”

Oh, dear Moon Goddess… What had I done?

“If he will know that I do this.” He smirked. “But obviously, he will not because I am going to keep it.” My eyes widened. “I shall summon my pack warriors to bring you back to our pack. Perhaps, you can behave there for a while,” he said, releasing my face.

For certain, I had a horrified expression right now. My heart was hammering inside my chest seeing that he was not going to back down now.

I stood up and halted him on his arm. “D-Desmond… Don’t… Please… I beg you…” I cussed. How did I end up like this? This was a big problem. “D-Don’t separate me from our son. Sander will look for me…”

But Desmond didn’t look at me. He didn’t spare a glance at me. Instead, he was looking at the five people who had just arrived.

That made me feel chills down my spine knowing that he had summoned his other elite pack warriors.

No… He really was serious…

“Your orders, Alpha?” they said in unison as they knelt on one knee, bowing their heads.

Desmond glanced at me with his frigid expression. “Bring her back to our pack and lock her up in the prison cell-Ah, no. In her chambers,” he ordered.

I gasped, horrified by his words. Damn it!

“As you command.”

“N-No…” I stepped back when they were making strides in my direction. “Desmond, please!” I immediately hugged his side, not wanting to leave. “Don’t take Sander away from me!”

There was no way I could be separated from our son. I must not let Desmond do this to me.

“Don’t touch me!” I growled at them when they were about to touch me so they could separate me from hugging Desmond. When I looked up, Desmond didn’t even show any expression. That made me feel frightened of him.

He tried to remove my arms wrapping around him. “Sander will understand if you are gone for days. Don’t worry, Seraphina. I shall take care of our-”

“I will do anything you want…” I chimed in and didn’t let him finish his words. “Just don’t let me separate from him…”

With my words, a sly smile appeared on his lips. “Oh? Anything I want?” I shivered when he had a meaningful gaze right now. He didn’t even bat an eye.

It looked like he was really waiting for the moment I would utter those words.

But now was not the right time to think that. If I could bargain with him, he might reconsider separating me from Sander.

“Yes…” I said in a dejected tone. I was already expecting that this might put me at a disadvantage but what I couldn’t take now was being away from Sander.

That was one of the things why I was scared Desmond would know about the existence of our son.

This one… The part he was threatening me right now that he would separate us was the scariest thing he would do to me.

“Anything…” I said. My breath was shaky right now. I could even feel the stinging pain settling in the corner of my eyes as well.

Desmond chuckled darkly and raised his hand to brush his knuckles on my cheek. “I am glad you said that, seraphim,” he said in his dark hoarse voice. “Anything I want, right?”

“Y-Yes…”

“Well…” he paused and drew closer. “Since you have said that, there is something that I want right now.”

I gulped, already knowing that this was a trap. I felt like I already knew what he wanted right now. “W-What is it?” I asked, feeling nervous.

Desmond slightly tilted his head and smiled brightly. “Come to my chambers tonight. I need you to do something for me, my lovely Seraphina.”