Chosen By An Alpha
Chapter 73

Third Person’s POV

“Mom! Mom! Wake up! D.don’t leave me, Mom! It’s your son, look. O.open your eyes. Mom, please wake up”, Zayden cried in front of his mother who was on the verge of dying.

“Zay..I am sorry! I couldn’t be a good mother.”, Saying this his mother held his hand and squeezed it softly. “Because of me, you had to undergo so much pain.”

“No! Mom”, Zayden sobbed, shaking his head.

“Soon, the moon goddess will appear, after I leave. S.she will ask you to choose something. Please choose LOVE over everything, Zay. You.you have to be a good brother. Take care of your sister and brother. I l.love…”, She tried to complete the sentence, but it was the last breath left along with her life. Zayden still shook his mother, crying waterfalls.

“Mommmmmm”, He wailed as he saw his mother take her last breath. After a few seconds of waiving, he lifted his eyes to see the person who had killed the person he loved the most!

“Why did you kill my mother, Wyatt?”, he shouted in desperation. What else could he do now? He was feeling the pain of losing someone precious. It was as if time had taken everything from him, leaving him bare.

“You killed my father.”, Wyatt pointed out angrily.

“He deserved it.”, He spat in his face.

“She did too.”, Wyatt spoke confidently. It was enough for Zayden to lose all kinds of patience.

“I am going to kill you too.”, he shouted at Wyatt. He wanted revenge. He quickly took out his gun from his waist but Wyatt was quick enough to run away from there. Well, his speed was his strength. Wyatt tried to attack Zayden after a moment but Zayden was not as weak as he had thought. He had been training himself for the last two years to defeat werewolves and vampires while Wyatt was a new vampire who didn’t have knowledge of his power.

“Bro! Look what I got!”, Allison came in jumping and shrieking with happiness. That was the perfect moment when Zayden could have shot him because Wyatt had stopped running after seeing her. But the smile disappeared from Allison’s face when she saw a gun in Zayden’s hand. He didn’t want to kill Wyatt in front of Allison, so he immediately put the gun down.

“Mommmm!!!!”, Allison screamed as soon as she saw her mother lying on the floor, looking lifeless. She would have thought her mother was asleep, but the inevitable color of b***d made it clear.

She ran to her mother but Zayden quickly held her by her arms and picked her upon his shoulder. She cried on her brother’s shoulder.

“Take her inside.”, He ordered Wyatt to which he obliged immediately because even he didn’t want his little sister to witness all this incident. In the lonely room, now, the boy’s eyes fell upon the beautiful face of his mother. He had loved her so much that he didn’t hesitate to pull the trigger when he had killed his father. But now, his only source of smile was dead too. What would he do now?

Then he remembered his mother’s last words.

He bent down and took her hands in his. It still felt warm. Slowly, he laid down beside her, hugging her as he always did while he slept.

“I will take care of Allison, Mom! But I will kill him.”, He promised.

Hugging his mother for the last time, he cried all his heart out. Tears rolled down his cheek, but he couldn’t bother to wipe them off. He immediately felt a bright light in front of his eyes. It made him blind for a while. He was not able to open his eyes for a while until he heard the melodious sound of a lady. And when he did, he found a lady in white attire, her body was glowing like a white light, and was shocked to see that she shared the same face which his mother had.

“Mom?”, he stated in confusion and looked at the body beside him and saw his mother lying him lifeless. ‘She is not my mother or maybe her soul?’

“I am your mother, Zayden but the woman beside you is not me, She is a part of me.”

“What do you mean? And who are you?”

“I am the moon goddess. And to bring you into this world. I had to create my replica and now that her time was over she had to come back to me.”

“If.if you are the moon goddess then why did you write so much pain in my mother’s destiny?”

“She herself asked for those pains to give you what you want which was not written in your destiny. Now, choose carefully my child between LOVE OR REVENGE. If you will choose LOVE, you will be blessed with a loving mate for a life and if you will choose REVENGE then you will be blessed with a powerful wolf and his curse.”

“I will go with the second option.”

“Your future will be the outcome of the present decision, Zayden, So choose carefully.”

“I believe I already made a choice.”

“Then I believe we are going to meet soon and trust me the situation will be no more different. Today is your mother and tomorrow will be someone else.”, Saying she disappeared. The moment she left, Zayden started feeling that he was alone in the house.

He quickly left her mother’s side and walked inside the other room to check Allison and fumed in anger when he saw she was nowhere to be found. He started feeling angry and along with that, he could feel someone else’s anger as well.

“Wyattttt.”, He roared in anger, for taking his sister.

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“I want to go near, Mom! Please take me to her, Wyatt.”, Little Allison sobbed but Wyatt didn’t give a damn about her tears as for now. “Why did we leave without informing Zayden?”, She asked innocently but again didn’t get any answer. Before she would have asked her another question a big black wolf jumped in front of Wyatt making him halt in his way.

He growled at him, scaring both Wyatt and Allison. In the next fraction of a moment, a naked Zayden was standing in the place of that big black wolf.

“Zayden.”, Allison cheered happily that the big bad wolf was not going to eat her as its dinner because he was her brother.

“Hand over Allison to me, Wyatt, if you don’t want to die today.”, He threatened in a serious tone.

“You won’t kill me, I know.”, Wyatt said, trying to look confident.

“Try me after keeping Allison aside.”, Zayden answered back. Wyatt knew that it was Allison who was saving him at that moment. He knew Zayden wouldn’t kill him in front of their innocent little sister. Moreover, he was not sure whether raking Allison with him was a good choice. Everyone might end up killing her. He had to wait, wait until he established himself as some known Vampire in his world. So, Wyatt kissed Allison’s cheek before leaving from there as for then.`

(Author Note: The above paragraphs were Zayden’s imagination, not the conversation which he was doing with Grace before.)

Suddenly, he felt wetness on his cheek.

Zayden was snapped out of the memory line as soon as he realized that he was recalling his past as he used to do before. He realized it was Grace who had wiped the tear that had escaped his eyes, again.

He hesitantly looked at her, feeling embarrassed for crying. But Grace didn’t comment on anything.

Zayden wiped his cheek hastily.

“Something fell in my eyes.”, He tried to give a lame excuse.

“You were crying.”, She stated. He looked at her and then sighed. He knew he couldn’t lie about that. “What happened after that?”, She asked.

“Allison was too naive to understand the situation. She still doesn’t believe that Wyatt was the murderer of our mother. She thinks of it as a bad dream; and in her mind, she had made a story of herself about how some rouges and vampires killed our mother. The next day itself, I took Allison with me and went far away from here, to work on the assignment that my boss gave me. I didn’t return back to my pack for the three years as I was busy expanding the mafia business in the human world. Along with that I was preparing an army to attack my previous pack.”

“And, the police never caught you?”, She asked.

“No. My working technique is flawless and I am proud of it. They never get any proof against me.”

“So, now that you are the alpha of your pack. I believe you had attacked your previous pack and won the war?”

“Yes”

“Then why did you come here?”

“A year ago, I found out that, Wyatt wasn’t the only one behind my mother’s murder. The person who made him a vampire was the one who encouraged him to kill my mother, just like I was encouraged to kill my father.”

“So, you are here to replace and kill that head vampire who is behind your mother’s death?”

“Yes. After I replace that vampire, I will kill my brother peacefully.”

“But. But what about Allison?”

“What about her?”

“She will hate you if you would kill Wyatt. After all, she loves you both equally.”

“Allison had promised me that if I would show her proof against Wyatt then she herself would kill him for killing our mother. Of course, I won’t let her get her hands, but, I sure as hell would make him pay.”, He said with so much confidence that a shiver ran through her body.

“So, did you replace out about that vampire, who was the actual mastermind?”

“Not, yet. But I am very close.”

A small silence flew between them.

“Any more questions?”, He asked.

“What if you won’t replace that vampire?”, She asked hesitantly.

“That will not happen. I will replace him no matter what. I will take my revenge.”

Grace felt a pang in her heart. No matter how touching his life was, and she knew he was right about killing his father, but, living in revenge isn’t good. The feeling of revenge kills people and corrodes them from inside. But she remained quiet and didn’t say anything, as she had promised him that she wouldn’t criticize him.

“After all these days, you still call Wyatt’s father as your father. Why?”, Grace asked curiously.

Zayden chuckled but quickly became serious. “That’s because, my mother had made me promise to acknowledge him as my ‘father’ always. And I can’t break her promise.”

“Why did Wyatt kill your mother? I don’t understand this. If she loved you both equally, then there was no reason to do so.”

“That’s because he wanted to avenge his father’s death. He wanted me to go with the same pain that he went through.”

“But she loved him too.”

“But he didn’t. He never. Right from childhood, the only people he cared about were his father and Allison.”

“Does it mean he will try to hurt you?”, She asked, scared of the thought.

“Hurt? Yes! Kill, I don’t think so. He wouldn’t want to steep low in Allison’s heart. But I also know he would do anything to get his sister back.”

“Back?”

“I don’t allow Allison to meet him.”

“What? Why?”

“I can’t risk my sister’s life.”

“But. But it’s inhumane.”, She said, unintentionally judging him.

“It was immune to kill my mother too!”, He snapped back.

Grace suddenly realized her mistake and hugged him. “I am sorry.”, She apologized. Zayden calmed and embraced her back. Her scent made him feel like heaven. All his tension and sadness went away, with that single hug.

She pulled back and looked into his eyes. She wanted to comfort him, in some way.

“You did the right thing by killing your father.”, She said.

Zayden looked at her in disbelief. She was supposed to judge him for killing the man who had provided him food and shelter. But here she was, she was praising the fact that he killed him. She could seriously stun him.

“I know. And I don’t regret it.”, He said. “But aren’t you disgusted by me?”, He asked curiously.

“Why would I be disgusted?”

“I…I thought. It’s uncommon for someone to kill their father and certainly not normal to be plotting their brother’s death.”

“I can’t judge you in any way, Zayden. I didn’t live the life you had. I was never starved or bullied. My father never raised his hand on me…well apart from getting a slap once. Yes, my mother used to beat me sometimes when I used to break some of the things, but that was before my teenage years. And, my brother loves me with his life and so do my sisters. So, since I haven’t lived your life, I am no one to judge you for what you do or did. And I am certainly not disgusted by you.”, She said truthfully.

Zayden couldn’t stop himself from smiling. The woman in front of him was everything he could imagine. At this moment he was so glad that he found her…as his sweetheart.

“Then prove it.”, he joked, trying to change the atmosphere as he always does.

“Prove what?”

“That you are not disgusted by me.”

Grace narrowed her eyes and glared at him. Living with him for so many days had made her expert in guessing what her husband wanted to have. She then smiled and brought herself closer to his body. She kissed him on his lips and withdrew back immediately.

“Proved.”, She said with a smile.

“Not in this way. Let me teach you properly.”, Zayden smiled too and kissed her all he wanted. She didn’t stop or interrupt him. Rather, she found herself responding to his passionate k**s.

Her lips were his addiction. He didn’t even realize when he was on top of her. During breaks, he would let her breathe while he would trail his mouth towards her neck and to the valley of her blossoms. But before he would go any further, she would pull him back up and he would get the signal that she wasn’t ready…yet.