“She is Layla Paine! She is going to be your personal nurse from now on,” Dr. Hannah had come by for my daily checkup and introduced an Omega she-wolf to me. The girl was 20 years old and very attractive. Apart from her beautiful long red hair and blue eyes, her widely presented smile was the feature that grabbed the most of my attention.She seemed very pleasant and happy to help me.“Hi,” she greeted, mending the dark blue dress that she has to wear every day when attending to me. This was the uniform she has to follow just like the other workers at the packhouse mansion.“Nice to meet you, Layla,” I smiled at her but couldn’t get up to greet her. I was in very bad shape now; tired and exhausted all the time. My health has gone down drastically. I would barely leave my room or wander around.The most I would do whenever I felt bored was to wander to the balcony and stay there for a few hours before returning to bed again.“I will see you in a few days. Don’t worry, everything will b

There was an awkward silence that took over the surrounding until Aramis turned his face away from her and watched me in the eye from afar.The way Layla too paused and then nervously rubbed her palms together made me feel weird.My breathing has gone down a little seeing them go silent like that. She was wearing black pj’s nothing too revealing or sexy yet she managed to get a gasp out of him. “You called me here, my lord?” she was the first one to break the awkward silence. Her fingers were nervously fidgeting and her throat led gulps down.Either they were acting strange or I was noticing too many of the details.Instead of yelling at her or scolding her like he had been aiming to do, he stood with his face turned to the other side.“It’s okay Layla, you can go back to your room. It was just a misunderstanding,” I voiced when Aramis didn’t say anything.His sudden silence after seeing her had made me uncomfortable.What was it that left him speechless? Was it because she was gorge

After hearing Layla’s story, I didn’t know how to feel about the whole rejection thing now.“Can I please go and be with the kids for some time?” Layla asked me with enthusiasm. I bet I have never seen anybody so happy to be around the kids. She really wanted kids.“Sure!” I nodded and watched her rush downstairs to play with the kids. The way she played and held them was a sign of a mother who had lost her baby.I couldn’t help but think she will become a good mother, but how?And then it struck me. Everything made sense then. I only felt the mate bond with Aramis when the Moon Goddess knew Tanner was going to die. Is it why Aramis felt the mate bond with Layla? Maybe she knows I am dying.Just the thought of it scared me, hurt me, and punctured my heart. Taking breaths had become a chore for me. I wondered how I was able to not see all these signs and think I will be fine.“I need to do something about it,” I told myself determinedly.That day, I decided to speak to Dr. Hannah and a

“Oh! Will that save her?” Aramis wanted to be certain if it will work or not.“It must,” she answered confidently. It felt like my heart retrieved after hearing her suggest that. I had been worrying for no reason. I wish we had contacted this witch before instead of frittering away time.“So tell us what do we need to do?” Aramis’ entire existence has brightened up after hearing the good news. I was all ears and happily waiting for us to tell what needs to be done in order to save me from dying?“We will have to inject the vampire blood into her body before she dies and when she dies, she will come back to life. Good thing, you will be even more powerful. With your fighting skills merging with Vampire’s quick ability to heal, their power of traveling from one place to another in a minute, and immorality, you will thrive like you always wanted to,” she smiled when informing me how much I can get from being a vampire.But something bothered me so instead of displaying relief or celebrat

“I thought you wanted to talk about how is the progress on the potion,” Aramis frowned a little as he couldn’t gather my motive for asking him to join me on the balcony.As soon as he got out of the shower, I asked him to accompany me. He had planned to work on the potion but my wish changed his plans. He had taken a leave from his office to focus entirely on that potion.However, I felt like he was only running after something that was not going to happen. Tonight is the night when I tell him about my wish to find him a mate and a mother for my children.“I believe you can do anything if you want. But some things are beyond our control,” I repeated myself again and his frown grew wider.“Aramis! When I was little and lost my mother, the world around me changed. I badly craved a mother figure because all the others focused on their lives. Nobody noticed the little Phoenix dealing with many troubles. There were things I couldn’t speak to my father about and my sister was way too occupi