Victoria's pov

"Everything."

He sighed as if gathering his thoughts, while I braced myself for the worst.

"Ella was my mate. She died a year ago" He whispered loud enough for me to hear while my heart broke for him.

I suddenly felt bad for resenting her so much, thinking she was a bad person for leaving her mate, when in reality she was actually dead.

"Luka you don't have to continue if you're not ready. Gosh I'm sorry I pushed it so much, I didn't know. Damn" I rambled out quickly while he just chuckled, shaking his head.

"It's okay Victoria. As I said, it was selfish of me to put you through that."

God what am I gonna do with this man?

"I met her when I was eighteen. I was thrilled and eager, so I took her home and marked her, claiming her as mine" He continued.

"What do you mean by you marked her?" Is that some kind of werewolf thing?

Oh my gosh did he pee on her?!

"A mark is a claim that a male wolf puts on his mate, to show unmated wolves to stay away, also mixing both of our scents" He explained slowly with a nervous look on his face.

"We do it by biting her in a very special spot on her neck" I winced as my hand automatically went to my neck as if I could feel it. "It hurts at first but then it becomes quite pleasurable" He added a little too quickly, as if he's trying to keep me on the positive side.

"So that's what happened to Ashley's neck?" I asked and he nodded.

I processed the new information then urged him to continue the story.

"She was my other half. I felt so complete and happy with her" He smiled and I felt a pang of jealousy run through me.

A very small part of me was actually glad that she's gone, and I felt like a bad person. ’Come on Victoria she's dead for Christ's sake have some remorse!’

"She was quite a character," he chuckled. "She was practically the opposite of you. Shy and collected, quiet and she was never the sassy type. Both your hearts are big the same though" He met my gaze and I frowned.

If she was the opposite of me, then I really had no chance with him. He is in love with her and her personality, so he would never feel the same way about me.

So why did Lincoln say I'm important to him?

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing" I denied quickly, giving him a fake smile. He didn't look convinced but he let it go.

"Anyways, I won't bore you with our love story" Bore me? More like torture me! "So I'll get right to it"

He paused, getting serious again. Why do I have a feeling this is gonna be bad?

"Ella was always into human things, so she would always come here to town and meet people, hang out and even just to get dinner. She was smart though, so she never risked our secret by befriending any of the humans. But one day, someone followed her almost half way into our territory" His jaw clenched and his eyes got dark.

I guess this was the hard part.

"I don't know how, but he already knew about us. So when he met her, he got suspicious about her and that's why he followed her. He somehow managed to mask his scent so she wouldn't detect him, and he saw her shift.

"Right then he made himself known and she was taken off guard by his presence, so she attacked him, knocking him out. She then brought him back to the Alpha house. She was crying so hard because she didn't know what to do. If it was any one of us, we would've killed him on spot given that he obviously had tabs on us. But Ella with her big heart..." He trailed off as he chuckled humorlessly.

heart', but I'm guessing he's thinking that if she hadn't been so nice, maybe she would still be here. It doesn't take a genius

found out about us, she was crying because she hurt

us promise not to kill him, and she would take responsibility for him and ensure he doesn't talk." He sighed, shaking his head. I held his hand reassuringly and I saw him

quiet, but little did she know that he couldn't be trusted. They became close, and she started bringing him around more and more often. She showed him around the pack, she told him everything about us. After a while, we started trusting

never threatened by him. He was close to my dad's age, and he always considered her his daughter that he never had. She was

see that it was hard for him to relive it all. He was doing a good job keeping it all together, but I could see that it was hard

me when I was telling him about Sophie, I went beside him and cautiously eased myself onto his lap. He caught on

the glass window and laid his head on my chest while I

'thank you' as he relaxed into me,

him to grab some pretzels that she loved so much. Our stores in the pack

scrunch my nose up, as I thought about the snack that I

and she wasn't back yet, so I started to get worried. We can't mindlink if we're certain distances apart, and I couldn't reach her, so I knew she wasn't on her way back. I called her and the man's cell numerous times

heavier and I knew he could break anytime

but we entered the

could a human kidnap

from the face of the earth. I didn't sleep

would spend days and nights looking for her. I even asked humans if they knew where he lived, but it was

a gut feeling that the story was about

When we rushed to see what happened, it was her" He said as his

left her there and gave himself enough time to escape before we could catch him. We wondered how he managed

he got away that night. The day he took her, he injected her with it, so it weakened

lot of years ago he saw a wolf

were bound to come soon. I hugged him closer as I hushed

seriousness of the situation, so she silently

there as he hid his face

he would fail all the time and blame her, but she convinced him that she's an Alpha blood, and any other wolf that

was protecting other wolves from going through what she was going through" I

she was doing," Luka agreed. "She knew he wouldn't stop until he had what he wanted, but he just wouldn't let her go, no matter how much she

to be

gave up on her, she said he took her blood and said he was gonna try using it on a new-born child. The lunatic was gonna kidnap

wolf too, so he would grow them as his and make a pack somewhere across the world. Ella wouldn't have this, so she told him that if

him the baby?" I

he fell for her lie. He was happy since the pup would be a full bred Alpha blood, and that's when he

looked sad again and it hurt

will kill us slowly if it wasn't flushed out of our system, but she begged us to go

gave us his whereabouts and asked us to stop him before he could steal the female human baby. I didn't want to leave her side,

of the man I'm falling for, but this woman was

of us went to the location she gave us. When we

It was creepy and had all sorts of things wolf related, then we saw that he

Some of us were already shifted so we attacked him before he could retaliate. We injured him enough to get him to talk. Luckily, he wasn't

it were any other circumstance I would've cringed, but after what that freak did to them, I would've

I left my men to gather his remains and burn the damn cave from inside, ready to tell Ella the good news" He

to her organs. She was content when I told her that

sometimes wonder how she did it. She was basically dying and her mind was on a child that she didn't know. I apologized for failing her, but she said I didn't fail her and that I was her hero. But I knew

reminisced on the last moments with his mate. I never knew I could feel this much pain for another individual. It hurt me to see him

the one thing she wanted done before she left. You did that

believed it too. She wanted him to stop the

I used my thumb to caress his hand while I massaged his scalp softly with the

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