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Chapter 34

The she-wolf heard the bushes move and wagged her tail excitedly as a tall, stark naked man emerged from them.

-My beautiful, my precious alpha,” he bowed to her in a movement of respect and opened his arms for her to enter them.

The she-wolf walked towards him and rubbed herself against his body as she kissed the tip of his muzzle and the place between his eyes.

If only she could change as easily as before. Alisha could hear her moaning. She would be in his arms every day.

Yes, they loved each other, but they were not partners. The girl could feel it. She knew the feeling from the time she had been by Christian’s side and how her body reacted when she was next to him. Those two, they were lovers, but they were not meant to be.

-My love, I have discovered a way for us to be together,” the man sat hugging the animal’s neck, “I have a friend who can make all the arrangements.

The wolf nodded and Alisha flinched. The simple movement caused pain. She realised that the body was already many years old, how many, she could not say, but many.

-I won’t let you die just like that,” the man kept saying, and the human felt a distinctive scent like Serguei’s coming from him, was he an alpha too?

-If I had met you before, we would be the happiest people in the world,” he kissed the fur again, receiving a lick on her cheek. The she-wolf felt both happy and sad.

I only have 250 years left to live. She kept repeating in her mind.

-Come with me,” she said and stood up, beckoning the animal to follow.

They walked to a clearing and hid behind some bushes.

-Look over there,” he pointed to a pregnant woman. She was young and was caressing her huge belly with a smile on her lips, “That’s my friend’s wife. She will soon give birth. She told me she was able to put your b***d and consciousness into the baby and you would be born again.

That sounded totally unreal and even more so in that time. What year was it? Alisha didn’t know, but it wasn’t in modern times, the long wide skirt and the long sleeved blouse with a lot of lace, with a hint of English style used more than 100 years ago told her so, she wasn’t the best in history, but she had a bit of general knowledge. She didn’t believe that at that time there was any technology for that, even modern medicine wasn’t capable of rebirthing someone into another person, although she didn’t know any more, look at her, with another being inside.

He felt the she-wolf stir.

-What should I do,” she said through a mental link.

Alisha didn’t feel comfortable with that, it felt so intimate, and the most intimate she had ever been with anyone was with her ex-partner a few times and Christian.

-He told me that for everything to work perfectly you have to bite the woman to mark her, make sure your fangs have your b***d on them. There will be no change, but it will increase the chances of you and the baby being compatible by contaminating her b***d. Then just pass your b***d to the newborn and that’s it, you will consume her consciousness afterwards and come back to me.

That didn’t sound good, not good at all. It wasn’t as if it were that easy. Serguei had explained to her that you were born a wolf, not made, but she felt the she-wolf nod willingly.

Where the hell had the supposed years gone. She dared to dig a little inside her mind and found it. That feeling that drove her. The despair of not having met her mate, of the loneliness of not feeling complete.

That was why the being inside her struggled so much to unite with Cristián. Because in life she had never known him and she never wanted to feel that feeling again. When it is said that love is blind.

The she-wolf began to walk for a moment.

No. Alisha told him in her mind uselessly. Don’t despair. Your mate will appear. Wait a little while. But she was not able to reach her.

She saw the woman look at her petrified as she dropped the umbrella in her hand. The she-wolf walked slowly, crouched down a little, trying to look smaller than she was aware of her size, and pretended to limp…

The human did not move away, just stood there as the supposedly injured animal approached. Trembling, she reached out her hand.

-She mistook it for a stray dog. “Are you hurt, do you want help?

At that moment the wolf took the opportunity and bit her hand after biting her own tongue, following all the steps that her lover had told her to do.

The woman shrieked and ran backwards holding her bloody hand drawing the attention of a man who ran towards her.

And there, it was Alisha’s world that froze.

It couldn’t be.

This was totally impossible. Unnatural.

The man before her. The man who stood there looking at her with a smile on his side.

Who had popped up in her most recent lost memories.

It was simply.

Her father?