Kids from One Alpha
Kids From One Alpha” By Selena Lynch Chapter 49

Kids From One Alpha” By Selena Lynch Chapter 49

Chapter 49: Reminiscing

Viennese masks of the most intricate design were on display in the hotel lobby. They were brightcolors, decorated with glitter and feathers. Logan couldn’t pull his eyes away. The masks wereabsolutely gorgeous! “Look at how beautiful they are,” Logan muttered. Serena was standing besidehim. The moment he’d pointed out the masks, she had gone rigid. He didn’t pretend to understandwhat plagued her. The masks brought him back to the masquerade party he’d attended years ago.He’d been new to his role as Alpha. Getting so dressed up and wearing the mask had been a good wayfor him to pretend he wasn’t Alpha that night. “They are beautiful,” Serena admitted, pulling him fromhis thoughts. “Human world art is incredibly unique and versatile.” “Really?” Logan asked, pulling hiseyes from the masks to look at Serena. She nodded. “Art from all cultures is just so different,” she said.“Are you interested in art?” “I’d consider myself culturally curious,” he said. He looked back at themasks. “Why are masks so fascinating to you?” Serena asked him. Logan shrugged. “There was amasked party several years back for the pack graduates,” he explained. “It was right after I becameAlpha, and I was excited to get to hide myself so no one would know who I was.” Serena giggled.Logan caught the nervous hitch in the sound of her laughter. “Were you there?” he asked. “If memoryserves, it would have been around the time you finished your undergraduate program.” He watchedSerena’s eyes shift back and forth nervously. Between her secret phone calls to the human medical laband her discomfort about the party, Logan felt like he was closing in on the part of her past that shewas so desperate to conceal from him. “I was there,” she said. “It was a fun night, lots of alcohol.” Shechuckled again. Logan smirked. “I remember the alcohol,” he said. “The rest is a bit of a blur.” Hecreased his brow, looking back at the masks. There was a look in Serena’s face that he couldn’tdecipher. It looked like a mixture of relief and also some kind of pain. “I don’t think many in attendanceremember that night,” she said. “There was one thing,” Logan said, eyes roaming over a mask thatreminded him slightly of the female he’d danced with.

“What’s that?” Serena asked. He glanced at her, and she was chewing nervously on her lower lip. :Reminiscing “A woman,” he said. “I never saw her face, but she was fun. We danced, we ran throughthe woods. Despite the alcohol, that was at least memorable.” Serena laughed. “I’m glad you had anight worth remembering,” she said. She didn’t speak to her own experience at the part and Logandidn’t pry. As much as he wanted to know about her secrets and her past, he knew that pushing herwould cause her to clam up. He was the same way. He knew he’d been cold to her since he found outshe’d gone on a date with Carson. He was still too confused about what he was feeling towards it toconfront it. Logan knew he’d be silly to think Serena hadn’t noticed his change in behavior towards her.Fortunately, she hadn’t asked. She hadn’t bombarded him with questions or even called him out on thebehavior change. It was a pleasant change to what he was used to. Being in the city with the kidsagain, he was reminded how much he adored them. Though, he wasn’t completely naïve to Serena’ssubtle comments about what it took to be a parent. That was another issue he had to confront. He wasputting it off until they returned to the pack.

“I’m going to get to bed,” Logan said. “I’m sure the kids have a big day planned for us tomorrow.” Hechuckled and headed to the elevator. “Logan,” Serena called out to him. Her heart thudded in herchest. She had the overwhelming desire to tell him that it was her he’d spent the night with at themasquerade party. “Yea?” Logan asked, turning back to her. Serena sighed. “The party…” she trailedoff. Telling him would raise too many questions. She still didn’t have the DNA results back on whetheror not he was the twins’ father, so she didn’t want to say anything that would lead him to think he wastheir father. “What about it?” he asked, raising an eyebrow. Serena smiled. “I had a really great time,too,” she said. Logan smiled. It was all she could say without giving too much away. She didn’t want toact like the night was forgettable, because when the time came for her to tell him, she didn’t want himto feel insulted. When he had mentioned that the night was a blur, she had felt a small pang of rejectionat the idea that she was so forgettable. He’d followed up with all the right things to let her know shewasn’t – even though he didn’t know he was talking to her about herself – but she didn’t want to set himup for a similar feeling in the future.

“Good,” he said. She went to his side and rode up in the elevator with him. The silence between themwasn’t uncomfortable. She hoped that meant their ride home the day after next wouldn’t be as awkwardas their ride into the city. Again, she wanted to ask him about his change in behavior, but she didn’twant to Reminiscing break the comfort between them. They were supposed to be going out to have anice day with the kids the next day, and if Logan was in a mood, she didn’t want that to interfere withtheir fun time. “Serena, you know you are more than capable of handing the kind of business dealbrokered today,” Logan said, pulling her from her thoughts. “I don’t know, Logan, you said everythingright. I don’t know the business that well,” she said with a shrug. Logan chuckled. “I think youunderestimate your strengths,” he said, angling himself towards her slightly. Serena looked at him andthen back at the elevator doors. “What do you mean?” she asked. “You lived in the human world foryears, away from your pack and family. You’ve been a single mother to twins while also going throughmedical school. Now you’re working as a doctor and still a single mother. You’ve had to put up with thedrama I’ve introduced into your life.” Logan sighed, shaking his head. Serena smiled at his praise. Itwas more than she thought she’d get from him, given the strange way he’d been behaving the past fewdays. “The strength, resilience, and skills you’ve learned through all that, not to mention the emergencymedical situations you’ve worked through, have prepared you for this kind of job,” he went on. “Youwon’t trust that until you have to stand on your own and do it.”

“Is that why you put me in charge of this renovation project?” she asked, turning and raising aneyebrow at him. “One of the reasons,” he admitted with a chuckle. Serena shook her head.

On the fourth floor, Logan went to his room and Serena went to her two-room suite where Dana wasasleep in one room and the twins were asleep in another. She went to where the twins were sleeping,kissing each of them on the forehead. They squirmed in their sleep and then turned towards each otherto hug each other. Serena couldn’t help but think about the things Logan had said to her. She got thefeeling that he remembered more than he was letting on about the party. She hoped that didn’t meanhe suspected that it was her. Nothing he’d said would indicate that, but neither of them had spokenabout the party before. She wondered what it meant that they encountered the masks together in such

a unique set of circumstances, opening the door to talk about the party. Serena laid in bed with thetwins, thinking about the other compliments that Logan had given her. She was certain there was sometruth to it, that she just didn’t trust herself yet. The medical field, in the human world, was primarily maledominated, though, and she knew she‘d always encounter resistance. It seemed like Logan was tellingher not to give in because of resistance, but to push back until she got what she needed,

She wrapped her arms around the twins. She nuzzled her nose into Olivia’s hair. The twins muttered intheir sleep. She liked having the chance to curl up with them. They were getting to the point where theyweren’t coming into her bed when they woke up at night

Serena made a mental note to herself to push back the next time she was met with resistance. Shehad to show her strengths, and Logan reminded her that they were there!