UNTAMED: THE ALPHA

"I am pregnant," Meredith said between her tears when she finally managed to talk to Emmet alone. She covered her face with her hands, as she was powerless to stop the surge of emotions that hit her hard.

"What!?" Emmet was shocked, he didn't expect to hear such news early this morning.

Meredith had been asking to meet him for the past two days, but he didn't feel like he wanted to see her. Something happened to him and this was happening very slowly, but surely. He lost interest in her.

Ever since Emmet marked Zuri, he lost the bond between himself and Meredith. There was nothing left, since the feelings that he had for her were never from love. It was infatuation and it was gone along with the bond between them.

He didn't know how to explain this…

"What should I do?" Meredith cried in her hands, her voice was shaking, she was afraid that someone would find out about this. As a shifter, they would sense her change even without her telling them.

Emmet scratched his head in frustration. He didn't want Meredith anymore, but since he couldn't touch Zuri, he still could use her, yet she was pregnant with his child now, it would be a different story.

"I will think about it," Emmet said and then patted Meredith's shoulder. There was no consolation or even a hug to calm her down, as if he just wanted to touch her only on his terms. "Now, you can go, we don't want anyone to see us here."

Meredith lifted her head and looked at Emmet in disbelief when she heard that, she just told him that she was carrying their child, but he responded to her so coldly.

Seeing Meredith's reaction, Emmet shook his head and then added. "You will be in danger if my father finds out about this, so does our child." He tried to convince him. "Go now, I will come to you with a solution."

For a moment, Meredith didn't budge, but then she wiped her tears and nodded obediently. This was one thing that Emmet liked about her, because she obeyed his every word, it suited well with his ego, as the future Alpha. He wanted control.

After that, Meredith walked away from that room, but little did she know, there was someone else that emerged from behind the cabinet after she was out of sight.

"So, she is pregnant now…" Alpha Xerxes said in a low voice, he sauntered the room leisurely from the spot where he had been listening to the conversation between them.

"Father?!" Emmet's face turned pale when he saw his father, he was aghast. His eyes filled with horror to realize what his father had heard from the conversation between him and Meredith.

"No need to be surprised," he said and tilted his head. "You just need to focus on getting me an heir from your mate. I want a white little pup from her." He chuckled delightfully, as if he just told him the funniest thing in his entire life.

"What?" Emmet was dreadful to learn what his father wanted. "Don't you think it's too fast? Zuri is not easy to handle."

However, Alpha Xerxes simply shrugged his shoulders, his eyes were very calm, like a river. "It's not necessary to handle her, she will beg for you to do it."

At this rate, Emmet didn't know whether they were on the same page or not, because the last time he confronted Zuri, she was about to kill him, just because he didn't want to leave when she needed to change her clothes, let alone touch her naked.

"Father, I don't think you understand this…"

"Tomorrow night is the first waning crescent phase of the moon," he said simply. "This will be the first waning crescent phase of the moon since you marked her."

Emmet tried to discern this information, as he watched his father walk out of the room, while saying something with underlying meaning before he closed the door behind him.

"I am sure you are aware of what that means." He winked at his son and disappeared.

Of course, Emmet knew what that meant.

The first waning crescent moon after a woman had been marked was the time when she would go into her heat…

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"First waning crescent moon will be tonight," Adel, an old woman from Zuri's uncle's former pack, told her when she came to the kitchen. She had been asking to meet her since yesterday by sending her a crumple of paper under the plate of her every meal.

Zuri didn't spend so much time out of her bedroom, nor did she feel the need to go on training, because she still felt exhausted after the mating ceremony and the mark on her neck healed very slowly.

That was what would happen when you were marked without your consent, the mark would heal at a stagnant pace, or maybe it wouldn't heal, so it would look like she had just been attacked by a wild animal.

Zuri didn't really care about how she looked right now.

"You will go into heat, Zuri." The old woman looked very concerned. She was visibly trembling when she let her in on this information.

"I can handle it," Zuri murmured, rather to herself.

But, Adel shook her head and convinced the girl before her eyes. "No, you will not be able to handle this. You have never gone through this. You don't know how it feels."

The heat would only happen once after the woman was marked, therefore it was something that they wouldn't be able to handle, because it would come as an unimaginable urge, with a desire that you couldn't control.

It was purely your beast's instinct that took control over your body.

Adel grimaced when she spoke again, as she held Zuri's hands in hers tightly. "Will you allow him to touch you? Will you?"

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