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.

nice, maybe she would still be here. It doesn't take a genius

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

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

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.

daughter that he never had. She was happy, so automatically I was happy too. That's

it all. He was doing

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

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

into me, and I waited for him to continue

day, she went into town with him to grab some pretzels that she loved so much. Our stores in

my nose up, as I thought about the snack that I hate so much. We really are

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

I knew

relief flooded me, but we entered the parking lot and her bag that she carried everywhere and the pretzels

could a human kidnap

disappeared from the face of the earth. I didn't sleep or eat. I was just a mess"

it was useless. I knew she wasn't dead because I didn't

feeling that the story was

a loud siren from outside the Alpha house. When we rushed to see what happened, it was her"

in a white cloth, unconscious. The siren had a timer on it, so the bastard left her there and gave himself enough time to escape before we could catch him. We wondered how he

that day, and that's how he got away that night. The day he took her, he injected her with it, so it

and change himself. Apparently, a lot of years ago he saw a wolf and dedicated his life to learning about us and he was obsessed

were bound

seriousness of the situation, so she silently went back inside the employee's

there

she convinced him that she's an Alpha blood, and any other wolf that he kidnapped would give worse results than

going through what she was going through" I mumbled in amazement. She really sounded

what she was doing," Luka agreed. "She knew he wouldn't stop until he had what he

Who spends their whole life trying to be a wolf? I

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 a female

male baby 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 he

gave him the baby?"

since the pup would be a

it hurt my heart

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

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

if she was the mate of the man I'm falling for,

the pack doctor, while a group of us went to the location she gave us. When

a little out of town in the woods. It was creepy and had all sorts of things wolf related, then we saw that he grew the poison there

the old messed up place. 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 working with anyone and he hadn't kidnapped the child yet. So, I ripped him

other circumstance I would've cringed, but after what that freak did

I left my men to gather his remains and burn the damn cave from

he did as much as he could, but the poison had already caused damage to her organs. She was content when I told

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 she only said

I never knew I could feel this

me? You did not fail her. You did the one thing she wanted done before she left. You did that for her, and she'll love you forever for it okay?" I ended and he nodded, giving me a

believed it too. She wanted him to stop the asshole and that's exactly what

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

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