"I am pregnant," Meredith said between her tears when she finally managed to talk to Emmet alone. She covered her face with her hands, as she was powerless to stop the surge of emotions that hit her hard.
"What!?" Emmet was shocked, he didn't expect to hear such news early this morning.
Meredith had been asking to meet him since two days ago, but he didn't feel like he wanted to see her. Something happened to him and this was happening very slowly, but surely. He lost interest in her.
Ever since Emmet marked Zuri, he lost the bond between himself and Meredith. There was nothing left, since the feeling that he had for her was never be love. It was infatuation and it was gone along with the bond between them.
He didn't know how to explain this…
"What should I do?" Meredith cried to her hands, her voce was shaking, she was afraid if there was someone found out about this. As a shifter, they would sense her change even without her telling them.
Emmet scratched his head in frustration. He didn't want Meredith anymore, but since he couldn't touch Zuri, he still could use her, yet she was pregnant with his child now, it would be a different story.
"I will think about it," Emmet said and then patted Meredith's shoulder. There was no consolation or even a hug to calm her down, as if he just wanted to touch her only in his term. "Now, you can go, we don't want anyone to see us here."
Meredith lifted her head and looked at Emmet in disbelieve when she heard that, she just told him that she was carrying their child, but he responded her so coldly.
Seeing Meredith's reaction, Emmet shook his head and then added. "You will be in danger if my father finds out about this, so did our child." He tried to convince him. "Go now, I will come to you with a solution."
For a moment, Meredith didn't budge, but then she wiped her tears and nodded obediently. This was one thing that Emmet liked from her, because she obeyed his every words, it suited well with his ego, as the future alpha. He wanted a control.
After that, Meredith walked away from that room, but little did she know, there was someone else that emerged from behind the cabinet after she was not there.
"So, she is pregnant now…" Alpha Xerxes said in low voice, he sauntered the room leasurely from the spot, where he had been listening to the conversation between them.
"Father?!" Emmet's face turned pale when he watched his father, he was aghast. His eyes filled with horror to realize what his father had heard from the conversation between him and Meredith.
"No need to be surprised," he said and tilted his head. "You just need to focus on getting me an heir from your mate. I want a white little pup from her." He chuckled delightfully, as if he just told him the most funniest thing in his entire life.
"What?" Emmet was dreadful to learn what his father wanted. "Don't you think it's too fast? Zuri is not easy to handle."
However, Alpha Xerxes simply shrugged his shoulder, his eyes were very calm, like a river. "It's not necessary to handle her, she will beg you to do it."
In this rate, Emmet didn't know whether they were on the same page or not, because the last time he confronted Zuri, she was about to kill him, just because he didn't want to leave when she needed to change her clothes, let alone to touch her naked.
"Father, I don't think you understand this…"
"Tomorrow night is the first wanning crescent phase of the moon," he said simply. "This will be the first wanning crescent phase of the moon since you marked her."
Emmet tried to discern this information, as he watched his father walked out of the room, while saying something with underlying meaning before he closed the door behind him.
"I am sure you are aware what is that mean." He winked at his son and disappeared.
Of course, Emmet knew what was that meant.
The first wanning crescent moon after you were being marked was the time when you would go on heat…
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"First wanning crescent moon will be tonight," Adel, an old woman from Zuri's uncle's former pack member told her when she came to the kitchen. She had been asking to meet her since yesterday by sending her a crumple of paper under the plate of her every meals.
Zuri didn't spend so much time out of her bedroom, or she felt the need to go on training, because she still felt exhausted after the matting ceremony and the mark on her neck healed very slow.
That was what happened if you were marked out of your consent, the mark would heal in stagnant pace, or maybe it wouldn't heal, so it would look like she had just been attacked by a wild animal.
Zuri didn't really care with how she looked right now.
"You will go on heat, Zuri." The old woman looked very concern, she was visibly trembling when she let her knew about this information.
"I can handle this," Zuri murmured, rather to herself.
But, Adel shook her head and convinced the girl before her eyes. "No, you will not be able to handle this. You have never gone through this. You don't know how it feels."
The heat would only happen once after the women were being marked, therefore it was something that they wouldn't be able to handle, because it would come in unimaginable urge and desire that you couldn't control.
It was purely your beast's instinct that took control over your body.
Adel grimaced when she spoke again, as she held Zuri's hands in hers tightly. "Will you allow him to touch you? Will you?"
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