Melvina stared keenly at the duo in front of her, as they cast furtive glances to each other and scoffed inwardly; they were hiding something. She was very sure that something did happen at the human's place. I guess I have to ask my son then, she thought, determined to get the truth.
Looking away from them to the insides of the hall, she found out that the pack meeting was over. The pack members were trooping out of the hall to their respective homes. Then she heard her husband through their mind link; the mind link that was created when he had marked her during their mating ceremony. They could also feel each other's pains and thoughts.
"Have you seen your son?" Melvina heard Peter ask through the link. The sentence got her sighing wearingly. She knew that tone, she knew the sentence. He uses it whenever he was annoyed with Derek. At that moment, Derek becomes only her son.
"Yeah, I'm with him." She replied through the mind link
"How come he wasn't around for the pack meeting? Is this how he's going to lead the pack?" Peter queried, getting agitated. He couldn't understand his son's lackadaisical approach to important matters; like beating up humans, instead of finding strategies to help them win the upcoming pack war. There's of course no how his pack was moving out of this place that has served as their abode for more than 30 years now. So it's war. The white-sted pack wants war. They will have it then, he thought.
" He came back late from the cleaning job, there was a hitch in movement of some stuff that was needed in the new house." Melvina said, hoping that he wouldn't ask for where the house was, or who was moving in. To her relief, he didn't; rather he grunted.
"Okay then, I want you." Peter said, and tuned off.
Melvina smiled at his statement. Looking to the other far end of the hall, towards the elevated podium, she could see him trudging towards their quarters with Eva, their 5years old daughter. She would always be grateful to the moon goddess for blessing her womb, when she thought she wouldn't give birth. Dr Sam, the doctor of the pack had told her then that she wouldn't be able to give birth because of the damage done to her womb after she fell off a high cliff during the last pack war. It was a miracle she had survived then. But two years later, she had Derek; her handsome special son.
She looked at the quad in front of her, or trio rather. Her son, Derek was standing aloof, resting on a pillar at her 3 o'clock. She would ask him later what the problem was, but now, she needed to attend to her husband. Even through all these years, their bond had only gotten stronger and stronger, their lovemaking sweeter than the honey comb as the years passed by.
Now looking at her son, she hoped that he found the same. Emma came to her thought. She brushed it away, there's no way. She is a human. But then images of Emma's fiery nature and sharp mouth brought a smile to Melvina's lips. If only she was a wolf.. She thought.
"Luna…" Shane's voice cut into her thoughts. He was her favorite among her son's friends.
"Yes Shane." She answered smiling.
"We have to be going now." He said.
"Okay, sure.." She said. "Send my greeting to your parents. I will walk with Derek." She said loudly, so that Derek would hear her, knowing that he might try to go with his friends to escape his father's wrath.
Derek cussed when he heard what his mother said. He had planned to go off with Shane, and stay for sometime at their place before going home. His mother was really something. He knew that she also wanted to talk to him, perhaps about why his mood was grim. He would have to tell her something else then, he can't mention Emma.
"Maybe it's not a bad idea to mention Emma" Maru said.
Derek scoffed, his wolf could be so obtuse sometimes.
"If I tell her, then father will invariably know." He stated.
" Nah, She can keep it to herself. Haven't you known your mother all these while? And she already met our mate already. They flowed along properly." Maru opined.
"She was just trying to be polite to a new face." Derek said.
"Polite? Even to get food for her and for you guys? How did she know that you guys were there? It's obvious that Emma didn't tell her." Maru countered.
Derek had to agree that his wolf was right. Maybe it wasn't a bad idea to let her know. She had always supported him, always had his back, even when he made the most miserable mistakes, unlike his father who was so hard on him. And it wasn't his fault after all; he didn't choose Emma to be his mate. The moon goddess did.
"Derek see you later, perhaps at the pack training tomorrow." Shane said, cutting into his thoughts; before he walked out of the hall with Leo and Clem.
He nodded, then looked up to see his mother staring at him with open curiosity. She walked up to him then took him by the arm. They strolled out from the hall to the lush garden which she had kept by herself all these years. His mother had always been a lover of vegetation, and Eva was fast taking that up. The little girl at her age, could already differentiate the multitude of flowers by their names.
"What happened?" He heard his mother ask, as they stopped in front of a very tree which overlooked the garden.
"A lot mum. A lot." He replied.
"Like what?" She asked, looking at him now.
"Can I ask you a question mom?" Derek inquired, deciding that this was it. It was now or never.
"Yeah, go on." Melvina implored, her curiousity increasing by the minute.
"What would you do mom, if a human was my mate?", He asked, holding his breath.
Melvina was speechless. The far-out-ness of the question could not be over accentuated. A human mate for her son? No, this must be a joke; not when the pack is about go for a war in less than a month time'. She thought.
Seeing his mother's wordless state, Derek was perturbed. Although he had expected the reaction he was seeing now, he wasn't prepared for it. She had been silent for almost five minutes, still staring at him like he had grown horns. He fidgeted under her gaze, and this caused him to wonder what will happen if his father heard about it. It gave him the chills thinking of his reaction.
Putting his hands into the denim black jeans that wrapped over his legs like a second skin, he looked up from the ground where his eyes had fell to when he couldn't withstand the unblinking gaze of his mother. His mother was still staring at him. He stared back, as if to will her to speak already.
"Derek.." She called, running slender fingers on her forehead as though to ease the crooked lines which had appeared on it.
"Yes Mom." He replied, resting on the big tree which overlooked the garden and created a shade for them, shielding them from any prying eyes.
"What did you say?" She asked, still finding it hard to believe that her gifted son could be mated to a human. What help could a human luna possibly render to the pack during this hard times? Or was he just curious?? She hoped fervently that he was just asking questions. If not, his father will throw a lot of fits; the pack wouldn't be happy either.
"Mom, I know you heard me the first time." Derek replied tiredly, sitting down now at the base of the tree. He was tired and very hungry; he hadn't eaten since morning. He would have eaten at Emma's place, but the little witch had shut them out after she found their laughters insulting. He had lost the appetite to eat the food she had brought for them then, annoyed at himself for making her angry.
" Yeah, I heard you the first time. But were you just asking out of curiosity or did it really happen?" Melvina queried, praying that the former was the case.
"Nothing really mom, just curious." He replied finally. His mother's reaction was giving him the jeeps.
"I told you that this was a bad idea." He mind-said to his wolf.
"Perharps.." Maru said.
"Derek talk to me, I know something happened at the house you cleaned today." Melvina said, interrupting her son's convo with his wolf. Her hunch was never wrong. She knew something happened; she also knew that his earlier question didn't just pop out of the blues. Something must have happened. She knew it; the feeling was there, deep in her guts.
Derek sighed. He would have to tell her the whole truth. It was better that way.
"The house we cleaned today was owned by a teenage human girl.." He stated, looking at his mother; his eyes brimming with conflicting emotions.
"Maru thinks she is my mate. Her name is Emma." He continued, taking note of his mother's eyes shutting willfully at the mention of Emma; like she was expecting it. He knew that she remembered his little witch now.
"Okay." She said, sitting down close to him; and staring ahead.
He knew that she was thinking. She always stared ahead, like she could see the thin air whenever she was in deep thoughts.
"So what do you think?" She asked finally.
"I don't know, but I know that I feel very protective of her, and that I got angry when I saw her laughing with Clem.." He said, pausing for a while to see her reaction. When he got nothing, he continued.
"But I want to wait till I turn 18 in a month time; perhaps it was just an attraction." He concluded.
Melvina shook her head. "You don't have to wait till then. It's all clear. She's your mate" She muttered, turning now to face her son.
"Then I have to reject her.." Derek said to her, his voice laced with sadness. His pack needed a strong luna now, not a weak one; a human was worse.
" You don't have to reject her if you don't want to." Melvina said, caressing his hair. She could now understand why her son was looking grim during the pack meeting. He had to choose between the pack and his soulmate. She hoped he chose the latter; even as she was, she couldn't imagine losing or not staying with Peter.
"But Mom.." Derek tried saying..
"Don't worry about the pack. We will figure something out." She replied.
"What about Dad?" He asked. His father was actually his main fear. Aforetime he had always wanted Claire for him.
"Unless your chosen mate is better and stronger.." He would say. Now, He would see this as a perfect excuse to choose Claire for him.
Derek knew that there was no way his father would agree to him having a human mate.
"Don't worry about that too. I will talk to him." Melvina replied, although she knew that it was almost an impossible task. Peter was too hot-headed. But she had to try, for her son. She thought, resting his head on her shoulders; still caressing his long hair. Her little boy had grown.
"Thanks Mom." He said, hoping that her plan would work. If not, he had to reject Emma.
"But Mom.." He continued. "What do you think of her?"
"Emma.?"
"Yes, Emma." Derek replied, feeling at peace as he inhaled the flowery fragrance of his mother. Her scent had always been his sleeping plug when he was still a child. Whenever he had sleepless nights, he would run up to their room, knocking till she came out and tucked him to bed. His father hadn't found this funny then. He had always complained that he was trying to steal his mate from him.
"I love her. She's a breath of fresh air." Melvina said, in reply to her son's question. Thinking of the human girl now brought a smile to her face. She remembered that she had match-maked her son and the fiery girl earlier today. Was her wish that strong or was it fates. She thought. Whichever one it is, she knew she would be seeing her red head very soon.
Derek smiled as he heard his mother's words. His little witch really had a way in worming her stamp into people's hearts.
"But she reminds me of someone." She continued, a tinge of worry and uncertainty in her voice.
"Who?" He asked, as he raised his head off her shoulder, to look at her squarely. He had heard the tinge of sorrow and worry in her voice; and it didn't do good to his curiousity.
"She reminds me of.."
A sharp long rumble, interrupted Melvina's speech.
"Seems someone is hungry." She said, laughing at the skittish look on her son's face. The rumble had erupted from his stomach.
"Emma didn't give you the food?" She asked, remembering that she had given Emma some side dishes to take home to the guys.
"She did.. but.."
"There you are.." A deep voice sounded at the distance, interrupting their discussion.
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