Chapter 160 – True Luna Book Free: The Unknown Magic

I knew who Alpha Nathan was. I knew his son. He did the Alpha training a year earlier than me, so we didn’t cross paths, but I knew who he was.

But why was Alpha Nathan still alive? Why didn’t my father kill him?

“Did he hurt you, mom?” Fia asked quietly.

My mom took a deep breath and released it slowly.

“He came here because he was sure that he was my Goddess-given mate,” my mom said as he ran her fingers through Fia’s hair. “He was sure that your dad was the cursed one. He wanted me to give him a chance.”

“Were you already mated to dad then?” I asked her.

“I did,” my mom nodded. “That was four years after the Rogue King took me. Your dad and I were already mated and married then.”

“And he still insisted that you give him a chance?” I asked angrily.

My mom nodded.

“He was very sure that he was my Goddess-given mate,” my mom said.

“But how would he mark you if dad had already marked you?” Fia asked, furrowing her eyebrows.

“Anna came to our pack one day to tell us the whole legend of the White Wolf,” my mom said as she went back to sit beside my dad. “Her ancestors wrote the books and she knew how to read them. She knew the entire legend.”

“That’s how you met her?” Fia asked.

My mom nodded.

“Anna told us about Alpha Nathan,” my dad continued. “She said that he was your mom’s other mate and that your mom had to be marked for the second time. But if her cursed mate was the one to mark her for the second time, she would die. Unfortunately, the first White Wolf never found out who her Goddess-given mate was and we had no idea how to know for sure.”

My heart raced. My mom went through so much.

“I was fine with your dad being my cursed mate,” my mom said. “I was fine with things staying the way they were. I didn’t want Alpha Nathan, not even if he was my Goddess-given mate.”

“But?” Fia asked quietly.

“But Anna told me that I wouldn’t be able to have children unless I was marked by my Goddess-given mate,” my mom said.

I furrowed my eyebrows.

Everything that happened was so fucking insane.

I couldn’t believe what my mom went through.

Sophia’s POV

“What did you do?” I mumbled quietly.

My mom looked at my dad and sighed.

“Alpha Nathan insisted on getting to know me, so we had dinner together,” my mom said. “I always knew that your dad was my Goddess-given mate. I didn’t need to get to know Alpha Nathan. My heart knew.”

“Why didn’t you mark her for the second time immediately, dad?” Lex asked.

Dad pulled mom into his arms. He hugged her tightly and took a deep breath.

“I was scared,” dad mumbled as he buried his nose into my mom’s hair. “I was so scared that she would die.”

My dad closed his eyes.

He adored my mom. It was hard for me to believe that there was a time when he didn’t want her. I couldn’t imagine my dad rejecting my mom. It was surreal.

“Why did you even go to dinner with him, mom?” Lex asked her. “Why didn’t you just throw him out of the pack?”

“We were trying to avoid a war,” my mom sighed. “Back then, Alpha Nathan was under the influence of his crazy father, who was working with rogues. We didn’t want innocent people to get killed. I couldn’t let our pack members suffer because of me.”

I understood that. I would do the same thing.

“So what happened?” Lex asked. “How did you find out who the cursed mate was?”

My dad let my mom go. She looked at uncle Andrew.

“Alpha Nathan went crazy,” my mom mumbled. “He wanted to force me to leave the pack with him. He took your aunt Daisy hostage and threatened to kill her. She was pregnant with Mason then.”

My eyes widened. Lex growled loudly.

I looked at my uncle, who had a pissed-off look on his face.

“I am still pissed as fuck about it even though it happened 18 years ago,” my uncle sighed.

“Of course you are,” Lex said angrily. “He threatened your mate and your child. I would have killed him.”

I squeezed Lex’s hand. He was always very protective of our family. It was a value our parents taught us. Family and mates always came first.

“What happened next?” I asked, making my parents and uncle look back at me.

My dad looked at my mom and smiled.

“Your badass mom found her magic and saved Daisy,” dad said proudly.

“That’s how you found your magic?” I asked, raising my eyebrows.

“Yes,” my mom nodded. “Anna said that I would get my magic only after I was marked by my Goddess-given mate, but I guess the anger I felt unlocked it.”

“She was amazing, but she almost gave me a heart attack,” my uncle chuckled, looking at my mom.

My uncle was incredibly protective of my mom. He practically raised her because my grandparents were working a lot. Sometimes he acted more like her dad than her brother.

“Why?” I asked.

“I fought Nathan using my magic, but it was still so new and I didn’t really have control over it, so he almost won a couple of times,” mom said, chuckling and shaking her head.

“It wasn’t funny, Emma,” uncle Andrew said sternly. “I thought that you were dead.”

I gasped.

“Dead?” Lex growled.

“I blasted us both with magic,” mom explained. “I don’t know how, but we passed out and talked to the Moon Goddess. The curse broke in the blast and after we woke up, we weren’t mates anymore.”

My head was going to explode.

My mom talked to the Moon Goddess?

“You talked to the Moon Goddess?” Lex mumbled.

“We did,” my mom nodded.

My brain felt like it was going to explode. Lex shook his head and took a deep breath.

“Why didn’t you kill Alpha Nathan?” Lex asked angrily. “Why did you let the fucker live? I would have killed him. I want to kill him.”

“Oh, believe me, bud, I wanted to kill him,” dad said. “Your uncle wanted to kill him.”

“But?” Lex asked.

“But he is an Alpha,” our dad sighed. “If we killed him, his father would have a very good reason to attack our pack. We did everything we could to avoid a war. Your aunt Daisy was pregnant. Your mom and I were finally mated for the second time. None of us wanted to risk our happiness for some crazy fucker.”

Lex gulped and tightened his jaw.

“I made Alpha Nathan promise to cut ties with his father,” my mom said. “I made him promise to listen to his wolf more. As far as I am aware, he did all of that. He exiled his father and he became a great Alpha.”

“And now you know everything,” my dad said quietly.

I looked at him and my heart clenched. He looked so sad and worried.

“Why didn’t you tell us sooner?” I asked, making my dad look at me. “Why now?”

“Well, this is the first time in 18 years that the Alpha of the Blood Moon Pack will attend the Alpha gathering at our pack,” dad said. “We forbade Alpha Nathan from coming to our pack, but his son took over and your mom and I believe that it wouldn’t be okay if we forbade his son from attending.”

The Alpha gathering was a yearly event. Each year a different pack was hosting it. This year’s Alpha gathering was at our pack. It was an opportunity for Alphas to talk and make new allies. It was an interesting event and I was excited for it to start.

“I would forbid his son from coming as well,” Lex mumbled.

“I know, bud,” dad said. “But we can’t punish him for his father’s mistakes.”

Lex sighed.

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