Ava focused on the road ahead of her. She was going to a restaurant with Stephen because they had decided to go somewhere where they could talk alone.
PLASHBACK
Ava and Stephen walked in the opposite direction, where lab was sitting
“Is there something serious?” Stephen questioned her as they stood in a corner,
Ava looked at him and asked,
“Did you call my mom today?”
She noticed that Stephen’s brows shot up. However, he quickly changed his expression and shook his head.
“No. Why did you think that?”
“Stephen, please. Don’t lie to me. I’m already confused. Don’t make me more tense. I am very worried about my mom. I have been observing her. I think she is hiding something from me. Today, when I heard you trying to persuade her about something, you mentioned reconsideration.”
Seeing how stressed out Ava was, Stephen held her hand.
“Calm down, girl. Don’t think too much.”
“Please be honest with me,”
Stephen averted his gaze from her. “She told us not to tell you.”
“Us? So, does anyone else know about something I don’t?” Ava asked with a stunned look.
Stephen simply nodded at him. “I wanted to tell you that night, but you didn’t give me a chance to talk about it.”
Ava recalled that when she went to the pack house, Stephen was trying to be friendly, but she did not talk to him much.
Ava remained silent as she waited for Stephen to reveal the truth that they were hiding from her. But she remembered something and asked,
“You were mentioning that someone is seriously ill. Whom were you talking about?”
Suddenly, Ava’s eyes drew to Nova, who rushed to Ian and hugged him. She turned away from them and tried to concentrate on Stephen.
“I was talking about my dad.”
“Your dad? What happened to him?”
“He is not well. Your mother knows about it.”
Ava thought about it and said,
“She once said that some relative of Alpha was sick, and Alpha asked her to go out of this pack.”
Stephen gave her a sad smile and shook his head.
Ava felt her mother had lied to her. “Why did she lie?”
“No, she didn’t lie to you. She just didn’t tell you the whole truth.”
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“That is the truth, Stephen?”
Ava looked at him with hope in his eyes. Stephen sighed and replied,
“This is about our parents.”
*Our parents?”
“Yeah. Your mom and my dad are mates.
When Ava heard that, she felt her head spin around. She took a step back.
Stephen put his arm around her waist to support her. She grasped his arm and asked,
“What are you saying?”
She closed her eyes, trying to calm her shocked mind. However, when she opened her eyes, her eyes fell on lan, who was kissing Nova.
Ava felt like breaking down. She could not get too many things together.
Stephen looked around and said,
“We can’t talk about our parents like this just anywhere. I think we should go to a place where we can talk in private.”
Ava nodded, and they made their way to Stephen’s car. After that, Ian asked many questions, which infuriated Ava.
She was upset because he had kissed Nova a while ago but was now questioning them. He had no right to know anything about her personal life.
She said angrily that it was none of his business where they were going. She was grateful to Stephen, who said it was personal and did not tell him anything
END OF FLASHBACK
Stephen pulled the car close to a restaurant. They got out of the car.
Ava pushed her glasses up to her eyes before entering the restaurant.
They took a private cabin.
“Now tell me what you want to know,” Stephen asked.
“How can your father be my mother’s mate? She was my dad’s…” She paused.
“I understand what you are trying to say. You think your father was your mother’s mate, right?”
“He was not?” Ava asked.
“No, Ava. They were not mates. Your mother got married to your father because her parents wanted that. She had not found her mate at the time. That’s why she agreed to marry your father. They started to live happily after that. You were born into a happy family, but something destroyed your family and took your father away from you two’s lives.”
Ava lowered her head as she recalled past memories that had often haunted her at night in her dreams.
“When your mother came to this pack for help, it was my father, the gamma of this pack found his mate. He helped you and your mother contact Alpha Martin. After that, your mother treated Luna, and they accepted you and your mother as members of this pack.”
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“What about your mother?”
Stephen turned silent for a few seconds, then replied, “She died when she gave me birth.”
“Oh, I am so sorry,” Ava spoke in a low tone.
“It’s okay. I have never seen her, so I have no memories of her. I know you feel the same way. You also don’t have-
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“No. I have my father’s memories.”
“Oh. I don’t know much about your father. I only heard that he had died before your mother came here. How did he die?”
Ava told him everything since he revealed a secret that had been hidden from her for years.
“Honestly, the situation when our parents met was not right. My father was unable to erase my mother’s memories while your mother was traumatized by the loss of her beloved husband. But years later, they start to fall in love. It was their fate. They were mates. They were meant to be together. But your mother decided to devote her life to you.
My father is sick right now. He needs a mate who can heal her. He loves your mother, so he said that if he were to ‘mark someone, it would be only his mate. That night, Alpha and Luna proposed to your mother about it.”
Ava recalled how angry her mother was. She had seen pain too.
“What did Alpha propose to her?”
“A marriage between my father and your mother. Your mother said you are already eighteen. It is your time to find your mate and marry him, not hers. She asked what people would say if she got married now. She feared that this marriage would ruin your life because we might not treat you well. She claimed she had only you in her life. She believed you would never agree to this marriage. But trust me, my father is a good person. He will make you and your mother part of his family.”
Ava thought for a moment. Could she ever picture her mother with another man? She had a few memories of her father. All she could remember clearly was that night.
She could not forget what her father had said to her.
‘Little girl, always take care of your mother.‘
Ava closed her eyes and stood up from her chair.
“I can’t let her destroy her life for me. I agree with it. I will persuade her to get married.”
