The Heir to the Alpha
Chapter 8

Scarlett

I opened the front door and unlocked it, I tried to escape through the living room to the stairs when a voice cut me off.

"Scarlett?" It was Brisa's voice. What was she doing here?

"Yes, I'm just here and I need a shower," I said quickly, but another voice appeared.

"Sister, come here now, otherwise I'll break into your room." If I ran away it would be worse, I was grateful that at least wasn't Mom, and went to the kitchen.

Karen and Brisa were having lunch today, they decided to have lunch there and a flash of embarrassment crossed my face when I entered the kitchen.

"Umm someone was at Mathew's last night." She told me laughing, and my face instantly closed, remembering everything I had been through. "What's wrong? Are you serious all of a sudden?"

I sucked in the air, trying to replace the strength to do what I needed to say.

"Not really, I went to Tyler's to replace Mathew and found him cheating on me," I said trying to hold back the tears that wanted to form, and the crying to take over me.

"What do you mean, so you're not together anymore?" Brisa asked, genuinely worried.

"No." I just responded, without getting around anything.

"But you're wearing men's clothes completely after sex. May I know what happened?" Karen asked with a half smile.

"I'd rather not talk about it," I responded by turning around, I really didn't want to explain myself to them, but Brisa was quick and grabbed my arm.

"Come on Scarlett, tell us who it is." She asked me, and my heart raced just thinking that if I really told her, I would still be talking about her ex, things were getting worse and worse.

"Sister, please, I don't have these romantic emotions in my life anymore, I need to be satisfied with your stories..." Karen said, pouting, and I saw Brisa sniff, taking in the air around me, I despaired thinking that she would recognize the smell.

They would figure it out, it was easier for me to talk.

"I didn't mean to say, because it was your ex..." I said with complete compassion, I didn't want to hurt Brisa. "I'm sorry and..."

"The Alpha? You slept with the fucking Alpha?" Karen shouted.

"Brisa, I'm sorry, I didn't look for it, it just happened and..." I tried to apologize, we were friends.

"Relax Scarlett, we haven't had anything for a long time and our story was more of an affair than a relationship itself, I was the one who got emotional..." Brisa started to speak but Karen interrupted again.

"But how did this happen?" She practically jumped out of her chair.

"I went to Tyler's last night, trying to surprise Mathew, but in addition to him lying that he was at home, I caught him kissing someone else, and I lost the floor, fell to my knees in the middle of the dance floor, and the Alpha saw everything and got me out of there, he served me a drink and then it ended up happening." I tried to summarize, I wanted to say that my soul felt complete when I was with him, but I wanted to spare the details.

"Okay, he just picked up a stranger from the floor on the dance floor?" Karen said raising an eyebrow not believing the story.

"I treated him in the emergency room the other day with a silver burn, he knew me from there." I justified and saw Karen's eyes widen.

"Wow, it seems like destiny then, movie story..." She said sighing.

It really seemed like the fairy tale I dreamed of, but since my fairy tale with my mate didn't happen, I was afraid of everything, I knew that the Alpha had tried dating a few times.

And if he was just a flirt? If he was also like Mathew, and just wanted sex?

I took advantage of the fact that he would be out of town, and I decided to try to get him out of my head, after the conversation with Karen and Brisa, I went up to change and went straight to the shift, I changed two shifts, I didn't want to be at home to have I had to tell my parents something, but at least the Mathew part I needed to tell.

I buried myself in work and tried not to think about Christopher, but that same night my cell phone vibrated.

I would sleep better with you here.

I hadn't saved the number, but I didn't even need to ask who it was.

How did you get my number, Alpha?

He responded instantly.

You're an employee at a hospital in my Pack, it wasn't that difficult.

We talked during my appointments, and it became increasingly difficult not to think about him, either because he talked to me all the time, or because my longing only grew and I tried to hide it but I was completely in love with him.

Mathew called me a few times and I ignored him. I just sent a message saying.

I broke up with you, my mate or not, you betrayed me, and I don't want there to be anything more between us.

I finished my double shift and only ended up home the next night and I knew it was inevitable that I would replace my family. I tried to escape as soon as I entered the house, but my father shouted from the kitchen.

"Scarlett! Dinner is served." I forced myself to go to the kitchen, I was starving.

I greeted everyone, there were my father, Bob, and Tif, but the question that came out of my father's mouth haunted me.

"So how was it at Tyler's? You haven't been home since then." I didn't say anything, but they didn't see me arrive that same night.

"It was horrible actually," I said, taking a plate and starting to serve myself. "I found Mathew cheating on me, and we are no longer together," I said simply, and my mother received the reaction with surprise, hopefully Karen didn't tell her anything, and I preferred it that way, at least for now.

"I'm sorry, daughter." My dad said, genuinely upset. "I'm going to break this idiot's face." He said now angrily.

"No Dad, now I just want to distance myself from him," I said with all the truth in my heart.

"How many more days will the Alpha stay at the Council?" I almost choked on my mother's question, I stared at her, looking for any indication that she knew something, but it didn't seem suspicious.

"3 more days. But he was strangely in a good mood on this trip, it was absurdly stressful until the day he left, but strangely he is doing great." My father replied.

At least Christopher wasn't a liar, he had told me he would spend another 3 days there. And did I have the reason for his good mood?

The next day I woke up to a photo of Alfa, it was a plate with a croissant.

I remembered you.

The message stole a smile from me, I got up and put on his slippers that were with me, took a photo, and sent it too.

Me too.

I went downstairs but didn't want to have breakfast, I woke up a little sick. I spent the day resting and changed my shift to work at night again, it was an intense night, and in the morning, more nausea. That was simply not normal for me, I even mentioned it to Bertha.

"Wow Bertha, I've never been sick, I haven't been able to eat anything in the morning for two days." Bertha turned to me with a smile.

"You're not pregnant, are you?" Her question made me freeze with fear, I widened my eyes, but it couldn't be true, could it?

I knew that the wolves became fertile on the day of the Full Moon, that is, on the day of the ball, when I had sex with Mathew, with coitus interruptus, which is not an effective contraceptive method, but two days later I had sex twice with Alpha, who didn't bother with any contraceptive method.

But it couldn't be.

"No Bertha, of course not," I replied to her smiling, trying to hide the panic I felt inside.

I went home with this idea in my head, but it couldn't be true, it just couldn't. I tried to forget, I slept all day, and I spent the night thinking about it, Christopher had sent some messages and even called me once, but I ignored him, I didn't have the mind to talk to him.

The next morning my dark circles looked like two black holes, they were so deep, I had been at the clinic all day, and to be honest, working distracted me, again I was sick, but at that moment I didn't know if it was physiological or psychological. But I didn't take any medication, I was afraid I was pregnant.

I immersed myself in calls, I had been doing this lately, I didn't use my days off, I worked overtime on top of overtime and extra shifts on top of my normal shifts, and that day I hoped that my work would distract me, but at the end of the day, before leaving, Bertha entered my room with a small bag.

“Scarlett darling, I’m worried about you.” She told me with wide eyes. “Do yourself a favor and take a test, if it’s negative at least you can go back to sleep.”

She knew from the dark circles under my eyes, and my absence from the breakfast in the morning, that I was in the hospital, it was a croissant day and I simply didn't go, just thinking about it made me want to vomit. Bertha handed me the bag and inside was a pregnancy test.

“Thank you, Bertha,” I responded and decided to do it at home, I didn't want to be vulnerable like that there.

Bertha left, and I picked up my things and went home, I tried to eat something before taking the test, I knew that if it were positive I wouldn't be able to reason, but nothing passed through my throat, my nervousness was so great that I felt like I was going to explode.

How did my life go from being so incredible to a huge disaster, like a fairy tale, and now this big question mark

I went to the bathroom, took the test, took a deep breath, collected the urine, and put the test in, it was the longest 5 minutes of my entire life, and when the second line appeared, I simply went into shock.

I was pregnant.

At the same time that I felt my world collapsing, and the blood coming out of my arms and legs causing me to go into shock, I felt the responsibility of having a life inside me, and I controlled myself so as not to freak out.

But now, who would be the father?

Matthew?

Or the Alpha?

The advantage of being a wolf is that I didn't need to wait to be born to replace out, the pregnant woman exuded the sweet smell of pregnancy with the mixture of the parents' smells, I needed to concentrate, to be able to feel it, I took advantage of being in the bathroom, I put on a finger inside me, and pulled it up to my nose, I was shaking, afraid of the smell being Mathew's.

And when the tip of my fingers reached my nostrils I couldn't believe it...

I know, I'm going to drive you crazy until tomorrow... But we need a little excitement too, right?

Tell me, what do you think of the story? I know from the comments we are all Team Alfa, but now we have the possibility that the baby could be Mathew's... What do you think about that?

Let's do a vote, whoever thinks the baby is Mathew's comments on Mathew's Baby and whoever thinks it's Alfa's comments on Alfa's Baby. We'll replace out tomorrow, hold on to your hearts, there's a lot more emotion out there...