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.

hadn't been so nice, maybe she would still be here. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that this man knowing about her was the cause of

she was crying because she hurt him and he was a 'nice guy'

responsibility for him and ensure he doesn't talk."

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

him. He was close to my dad's age, and he always considered her his daughter that he never had. She was happy, so automatically I was happy too. That's all

it was hard for him to relive it all. He was doing a good job

I went beside him and cautiously

and laid his head on my chest while I ran my fingers

into me, and I waited

went into town with him to grab some pretzels that she loved so much. Our stores in the pack doesn't sell them, so she always went out

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

distances apart, and I couldn't reach her,

heavier and I knew he could break anytime

knew she shopped at, I caught a whiff of her scent and relief flooded me, but we entered the

gasped. How could a human kidnap

two months trying to find her, but even our best trackers couldn't find her. It was like she disappeared from the face of the earth. I didn't sleep or eat. I was

I even asked humans if they knew where he lived, but it was useless. I knew she wasn't

gut feeling that the story

night around eleven, we heard a loud siren from outside the Alpha house. When we rushed to see what happened, it

there and gave himself enough time to escape before we could catch him. We wondered

night. The day he

it on her everyday for the whole two months, because he wanted to use her blood to try and change himself. Apparently, a lot of years ago he saw a wolf and dedicated his life to

tears I knew were

diner was empty. Kera came out once and saw the seriousness of the situation, so she silently went back inside the employee's lounge, successfully keeping Nick and Charlette in

wasn't crying loudly, they were just quiet sniffles here and there as he hid his face in my chest more and

she convinced him that she's an Alpha blood, and any other wolf that he kidnapped would give worse results than her." He continued after gathering himself

what she was going through"

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

to be a wolf? I mean, werewolves seem

try using it on a new-born child. The lunatic was gonna kidnap a female baby" 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 he let her go, she would get pregnant and promise

gave him the baby?" I

desperate, that he fell for her lie. He was happy since the

it hurt

poison will kill us slowly if it wasn't flushed out of our system, but she begged us to go stop him before we take her to the pack doctor" His grip

whereabouts and asked us to stop him before he could steal the female human baby. I didn't want to leave her side, but she made me go. I knew she was withering away, the idiot knew so much but didn't know that the wolfsbane would kill

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

pack doctor, while a group of us went to the location she gave us. When we arrived the place reeked of wolfsbane, and that's why we couldn't

and had all sorts of things wolf related, then we saw that he grew the poison there too. The stench alone could weaken us so we had to

were already shifted so we attacked him before he could retaliate. We injured him enough to get him to talk. Luckily, he

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

and burn the damn cave from inside, ready

She was content when I told her that he didn't get a chance to get the child." His arms wrapped around my waist tighter,

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 she only said that so I wouldn't feel like

I never knew I

I urged, holding his face. "You didn't fail her Luka. After everything I've learnt today about Ella, I knew she meant what she said. You hear me? You did not fail her. You did the one thing she wanted done before she left.

too. She wanted him to stop the

chest again and I softly kissed his hair. I used my thumb to caress his hand while I massaged

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