CHAPTER 3

After some months in Moonvale….

She didn't know how long she had been sitting down there staring into space still thinking about her life.

It's been a year already, a year of being rejected by her mate, a year when she had taken her only son to Moonvale Pack, hoping and wishing that life would get better and she would have forgotten all about Ian but she couldn't lie that every moment of the day she thought of him.

She gulped down the whole content in the wine glass and set it back on the table with a little force.

Using the back of her hand, she wiped her mouth clean and sat up straight.

"Do you want more drink ?" One of the waiters approached taking the glass, replacing it on a tray he held.

He looked at her, meeting her eyes. He smiled

She shook her head and got up wobbly on her feet.

"Where is the restroom?” She found herself asking.

What did she really need the rest room for anyways? She thought

The waiter pointed at the direction of the restroom.

She didn't know if she actually used the restroom or not but she knew she had flagged a cab down stuttered her address and got in.

In minutes, She was at her apartment, she staggered and rummaged through her bag to get her keys.

Living baby Kevin all alone with the babysitter wasn't her intention but what was she to do?

She was kind of a failure and the most painful part of it all was her mate's rejection towards her.

She cried silently as she moved trying to find her feet, she didn't see him coming, the tall dark and handsome stranger who got down from his car.

"You should watch where you are going." He said kind of pissed off.

"You are the one who ought to watch where you are going.” She bumped into him again.

He looked at her questioningly, her face was familiar, where had he met her before?

Oh yes she was the lady who had a cute little baby boy who was just a year old, his new neighbor. He had been postponing going to welcome them into their apartment for a very long time.

He wondered what kind of mother she was.

Now the opportunity was here but she was quite drunk.

"You shouldn't be rude." she said slurping "Next time watch where you are going and say sorry when you bump into other people."

He wanted to laugh at the turn off event, he thought about her little boy and wondered where he was?

"Where is your son? I think you should go and see him now."

She stared at him, trying to speak, then pointed a shaky finger at him.

"It is none ..." she couldn't complete her sentence as she fell over him.

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She opened her eyes slowly, trying to force them to stay open but it seemed hot like she was fighting a lost battle.

She turned to her side and the sharp rays of the sun hit her fiercely, forcing her to shut her eyes back again.

She waited for a minute or two before she sat up slowly then her eyes began to open, hazy at first before the full view of the most beautiful and magnificent room she had ever seen in her entire life stood before her

She gasped and wondered where she was, looking around her wildly and trying to remember what happened last night but just as she tried to gather all the pieces of last night event back into her head she felt a sharp pain racing past and she held both sides of her head with her hands and she winced in pain.

"You are awake." She heard a voice say she didn't know when the door got open and someone walked in.

She could feel his presence filled with authority towards her.

Lifting her head up slowly she blinked back in confusion.

He stood there like nothing ever happened, holding a white glass tray with some stuff she didn't want to care about on it.

The audacity, the impetus after everything he had done, this wasn't happening.

"You slept for a long time”. He said placing the tray on the bedside table.

"I brought some medications and some food, I presume that you might be hungry."

"Of course I am." She said sarcastically, making him raise his eyes in surprise.

"You have the nerves to bring this to me, do I look like I'm hungry?"

Surprise dance in his eyes has he watched the beautiful woman on his bed acting all crazy.

"I don't understand."

"Oh you don't, after all you did you hurt me and rejected me as your mate and you're so funny, you are standing there and pretending like you don't know what happened. I already birthed our son and when he is all grown I will make sure to let him know he has no father, bet me.”

He opened his mouth to speak but she shut him up once again.

"I don't want to hear any apologies or any excuses, you have done your worst.”

“Why follow me here to Moonvale Pack? I thought you chose her over me because she was better than I am, your new Luna, you even accused me of cheating. You didn’t even bother hearing me out.”

I'm so sorry but I don't think we know each other formally.” He managed to say after sometime allowing her to rant.

"Really you're such a good actor Ian, a devil that is what you are. You rejected me and your son and you have the guts..."

She looked around her widely.

"I swear to the moon goddess you are so dead ...I will never forgive you."

He watched her for a few minutes and began to process everything she had said adding all the pieces of the puzzles then he smiled, he knew what just happened.

"I'm sorry but I'm not the man you think I am. I think this is the case of mistaken identity ."

"Of course it is." She said sarcastically.

"You're such a bloody liar."

"I'm sorry once again.” A smile tugging at his lips "I'm not Ian, my name is Makael and I have lived in this Moonvale Pack since I was 14, I guess you have mistaken me for someone else, your mate I suppose."

It's all dawn on her and she began to understand, she looked closely at him and realized that he was not Ian but bore a striking resemblance to him.

How can two different people look this alike? She felt so ashamed of herself.

She wanted to hide, to run away. She quickly flung the sheet aside and meant to get up, to run out of his house when she stepped on the sheet and found herself falling.

Like rushing wind, he rushed to her side and held her as she he fell to the bed with him falling across her.

Then it happened, that strong connection, that spark, the scent floated into their nostrils and they both blinked back in surprise and confusion.

"MATE." They said the unison.