“Anna came to our pack one day to tell us the whole legend of the White Wolf,” my mom said as she went back to sit beside my dad. “Her ancestors wrote the books and she knew how to read them. She knew the entire legend.”

“That’s how you met her?” Fia asked.

My mom nodded.

“Anna told us about Alpha Nathan,” my dad continued. “She said that he was your mom’s other mate and that your mom had to be marked for the second time. But if her cursed mate was the one to mark her for the second time, she would die. Unfortunately, the first White Wolf never found out who her Goddess-given mate was and we had no idea how to know for sure.”

My heart raced. My mom went through so much.

“I was fine with your dad being my cursed mate,” my mom said. “I was fine with things staying the way they were. I didn’t want Alpha Nathan, not even if he was my Goddess-given mate.”

“But?” Fia asked quietly.

“But Anna told me that I wouldn't be able to have children unless I was marked by my Goddess-given mate,” my mom said.

I furrowed my eyebrows.

Everything that happened was so fucking insane.

I couldn't believe what my mom went through.

CHAPTER FIVE – Now You Know Everything

Sophia’s POV

“What did you do?” I mumbled quietly.

My mom looked at my dad and sighed.

“Alpha Nathan insisted on getting to know me, so we had dinner together,” my mom said. “I always knew that your dad was my Goddess-given mate. I didn’t need to get to know Alpha Nathan. My heart knew.”

“Why didn’t you mark her for the second time immediately, dad?” Lex asked.

Dad pulled mom into his arms. He hugged her tightly and took a deep breath.

“I was scared,” dad mumbled as he buried his nose into my mom’s hair. “I was so scared that she would die.”

My dad closed his eyes.

He adored my mom. It was hard for me to believe that there was a time when he didn’t want her. I couldn't imagine my dad rejecting my mom. It was surreal.

“Why did you even go to dinner with him, mom?” Lex asked her. “Why didn’t you just throw him out of the pack?”

“We were trying to avoid a war,” my mom sighed. “Back then, Alpha Nathan was under the influence of his crazy father, who was working with rogues. We didn’t want innocent people to get killed. I couldn't let our pack members suffer because of me.”

I understood that. I would do the same thing.

“So what happened?” Lex asked. “How did you find out who the cursed mate was?”

My dad let my mom go. She looked at uncle Andrew.

“Alpha Nathan went crazy,” my mom mumbled. “He wanted to force me to leave the pack with him. He took your aunt Daisy hostage and threatened to kill her. She was pregnant with Mason then.”

My eyes widened. Lex growled loudly.

I looked at my uncle, who had a pissed-off look on his face.

“I am still pissed as fuck about it even though it happened 18 years ago,” my uncle sighed.