Her Burning Desire
Chapter 46

Theodore

What just happened? One minute, I was waking up with my beautiful pregnant mate, excited about our future, and in the next moment I was informed my first born child was a prophecy and possibly a Lycan at that. A FREAKING LYCAN! I not only have to worry about people wanting to steal my mate and impregnating her, but now I have to worry that someone is going to try and kidnap and possibly k*ll my child?! What more craziness can come to this life? Am I terrified? Yes. Am I shocked? To say the least. Will I still do everything I can to protect my mate and our pup? Absolutely. I love them. I will always love them. While I sit there and try to gather my thoughts, I all of a sudden feel my heart rate pick up and my breathing hitch. I realized quickly that it wasn't me causing this. I turned my attention to my mate.

"Melony, MELONY!" I am practically shaking her now, trying to get her to focus on me while she has another panic attack. "Look at me baby, I need you to focus on me. Deep breaths, In and now out." I watch as she tries to take a very shaky breath. "Good, again now, In and out." After a few moments I felt her calm and relax into me. I let her head rest against my chest as I stroked small circles on her back and kissed the top of her head. I had almost forgotten that Mark was there with us. Almost, was the key word. Mark would never allow anyone to ever forget his presence.

"So you are telling me...we not only have the most badass Luna ever in existence, but now we will also have a Lycan King born into our pack." His face was ridden with emotion with his eyebrows almost in his hair line, then he jumped out of his chair with a pep, "This is so freaking cool!! We are literally the elite of our kind." Now he stood standing in some mock salute pretending to announce his unofficial title, "Mark Groll, Gamma of Bloodmoon, Protector of The White Wolf and Lycan King." Then he smiled at himself. I felt a chuckle come from my chest except it wasn't mine. I look down and Melony is wiping the tears from her eyes, smiling and laughing, looking over at Mark. Then she turned back to me, laughing a little harder, "He called Elder Michael, Mr. Stinky Face to their faces."

I couldn't help it, but now I was laughing right along with them.

After we had all collected ourselves, we decided that we should bring all the important people in our lives into a meeting and give them all the details that we had been informed of. We asked everyone to meet us back in my office in about an hour so we could grab a bite to eat and Melony wanted to change into something more comfortable since she had finally been shopping. Mel and I ate a quick sandwich, not really being able to scarf down a big meal with the unsettling news we had just received. She was now walking out of our closet after changing into a pair of leggings and an over-sized sweatshirt. She spoke first, breaking the tension between us.

"I'm sorry, Theo." She had guilt written all over her face.

"Why would you be sorry, love?" I walked up to her to wrap my arms around her and raised her head to look at me in the face.

"I feel like I have done nothing but cause you and your pack trouble. If we aren't being given bad news about me, fighting off enemies that want me, then we are receiving bad news about our child and the fact that every other pack in existence will want him dead. One way or another, I am causing chaos in your life, and putting the pack at risk." I was now wiping tears away from her face.

"Baby." She was literally breaking my heart. "First of all, OUR pack. You are my mate and their Luna. This is our pack. Secondly, if you think I would ever walk away from you, or I would let you walk away here, you are out of your mind. Sure, things have been crazy and we are having things thrown our way that are unexpected, but I will never regret you or our life, Melony. This baby," I placed my hands on her stomach now, "our baby is perfect. We will love them more than anything and we will make sure that at all costs he or she will always be safe." Then I felt it, I felt a little thud on the palm of my hand. My eyes grew twice their size as I looked up at Melony and she looked back at me with equal shock.

"Did.... di-did you feel that?" she sputtered. I nodded my head yes, at the same time I felt it again. I couldn't help the huge smile that swept across my face. I kneelt down on the floor on my knees and rubbed her belly, again another kick. "He's kicking.... He is kicking!" She began to shout happily at me.

I placed a big kiss on her stomach, "Well, hello there my little one... we can't wait to meet you. We love you so much already." I spoke through her stomach. Melony was looking at me with so much love in her eyes. I grabbed her hand and we started out our door before we were late for our meeting. When we were almost there, something registered in my head. I stopped and looked at my mate. "Wait, you said 'he'? How would you know it was a boy?"

She shrugged her shoulders and turned to keep walking, "It's just a feeling honestly, but I am pretty sure it's a boy." With that we continued on our path to the office.

Once we were in the office, we gathered with Mark, Todd, Olive, my father (Edward), and on video call we had Melony's parents and my in-laws, Fred and Kate. We started at the beginning and gave them all the information that we currently had. Once we were done, everyone seemed surprised, or at the least shocked. It took a few minutes for anyone to speak.

My father spoke first, "So what is our plan of action then, son?"

I looked at Melony and back to my father, "As of right now, nothing. We are going to wait until the baby is born so we can either confirm or deny the prophecy. If our child is born and doesn't have the eyes of a Lycan, then we won't have anything to worry about." Kate spoke up next, "So my first born grandchild might be part of this prophecy and in danger and we are just going to sit back and wait. Do nothing? I don't like it." She started to shake her head and fold her arms sternly while Fred was whispering something to her that we couldn't understand until she said, "NO, Fred, I don't like it. He needs protection. Surely, we can do better!" I see where Melony gets her stubbornness from. As if she can read my mind, she shyly gives me smile. I have been at that end of the attitude multiple times. Fred mumbled something again in his mate's ear, then we heard her say, "Fine." We watched as Fred released a breath. It seemed he was holding it, hoping his mate wouldn't cause too much of a ruckus.

It was Fred's turn to speak this time, "I think waiting is a good idea also, we don't want to cause panic or draw attention if there is no reason not to." I watched as his mate then elbowed him in his ribs, and he shot her a glare, but her scowl was more menacing. "UGH, but I also think we could put a plan into action now for after the baby comes. The last thing we want is to be defenseless if the pup is indeed a Lycan." His words hit me and, as much as I didn't want to worry about things right now, Kate was right.

Todd took his turn. "Okay, so, let's say the pup was born a Lycan. He is then supposed to rule over all werewolves. The main issue is that not all Alphas would want to lose their power and hand their pack over to said Lycan. They plan to revolt and do something with the child before the child even has a chance to come into his power, correct? So we basically need a plan to get all the packs on our side and take the threat away from the child..."

We all sat in silence for a while trying to think of a plan that would do exactly what Todd was speaking of. My fingers were rubbing the bridge of my nose in concentration, Olive had moved next to Melony in comfort, while everyone else was deep in thought. Until Mark spoke up.

"What if the Alphas don't lose their power? What if they don't have to hand over their packs?" Mark asked. He had everyone's attention now. We all solely focused on everything he was saying.

"Are you suggesting that we ignore the prophecy? That could result in worse damage in the end." My father questioned him.

Mark sat up straighter, adjusting himself. "Not at all, actually quite the opposite really. What if the Lycan pup becomes the Elders? All Alphas already have someone that oversees them, people that they have to answer to and enforce werewolf law. These Alphas are concerned that the prophecy means that all packs and werewolves will become one. What if it's not the Alphas that have to give up their titles, but instead it is the Elders?" Mark usually doesn't make a lot of sense. When it comes to brains and beauty, he definitely wasn't the first in line for brains. Right now though, I think he was the smartest person in this room.