Anya’s Prayer
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WIPING the sweat off her face with a towel, Solana watched her mother go about in the kitchen.
Despite arriving late last night she woke at five this morning for her daily run. She spent a few minutes speaking with the members of the pack before she goes home.
“Are you just going to watch me, baba?” The older woman asked while flipping the pancakes.
A grin formed on her lips.
She threw the towel over the nearest counter and marched towards her mother. Solana embraced her from the back and lifted off the ground.
“I miss you, Anya. Did you see your package?”
“I did. Thank you very much.”
Tayen Alexander faced her only child after turning off the stove. She stared at her beautiful stormy eyes that resembled her mate’s.
“I miss you, too, kisbaba.”
“Did you speak with apa?’
The older woman pinched her cheeks before shaking her head. “What did your father say?”
“He wanted you back there.”
“He must have missed me.”
“He sure did. He wanted you there by next month.”
“I already told your father that he can have a side girl if he wants.”
“As if he can do that, Anya.”
Her mother smiled widely. “That’s why I told him that.”
Solana chuckled at her mother’s antic. “I wish my mate and I could withstand what you and apa did.”
Tayen’s eyes widen when she heard that.
“You found your mate?”
“I did.”
“Oh, my!”
She found herself enclosed in her mother’s tight embrace. Their cheerful laugh reverberated in the kitchen.
Her mother has been her confidante for the years when she was aching to find her mate. The petite woman in her arms was the sole witness when she cried her heart out because she wanted so bad to meet the person destined for her.
She was jealous of the pack members around her age. They found their mate and already started a family while she was still waiting.
One of the reasons why Calhun wanted her to represent the pack at the assemblies was for her to find her mate. It was already established that her mate was not in Omitaa pack when she was not able to recognize anyone as her fated when she turned seventeen.
The other reason was, the alpha blood runs in her veins. It was her birthright to be an alpha.
Tayen Alexander was groomed to be an alpha when she younger. She was the firstborn of the alpha. However, she declined the position and gave it to her brother, Calhun’s father, when she found her mate at the age of nineteen.
She left Omitaa pack to be with her mate. They started a family in his domain and raised Solana in a foreign land.
Solana was brought to the pack at the age of four. It was the couple’s decision to introduce their daughter to the pack at the expense of their personal life.
Tayen never regrated her decision.
“Where’s your mate, baba? I didn’t hear anyone from your room.”
“She’s in the city.”
“A she?”
Solana nodded. The older woman bowed her head and murmured her thanks to the moon goddess.
“She answered our prayer, Anya.”
“Yes, she did.”
Solana already told her mother that she likes women. It was not easy at first. The old woman tolerated her daughter’s interest in same-s*x individuals. In her mind, it could change when her mate comes along.
On one fateful day, Solana was eighteen, she was caught by her mother in a compromising situation in her own room. She was with another girl.
That incident sealed her fate. Tayen finally accepted that her daughter is indeed swinging on the other team.
Together they prayed to the moon goddess that Solana would be blessed with a female mate.
“Why didn’t you bring her here?”
“She didn’t know it yet. She’s human, Anya.”
“A pure human?”
“Yes.”
“It’s alright. What is she like?”
Solana grinned. “She’s gorgeous! Her lips were sinful.”
Tayen hits her daughter’s arm. “You kissed her?!”
The tall woman laughed. “No. She wore lipstick that was so red. Her lips call out to me.”
“Alright. Tell me more.”
“And she has an attitude, Anya. She accused me of scheming with those men that were trying to kidnap her.”
“What? That’s not funny, Solana Alexander-Petrov.”
In her younger years, if her mother used her full name, she would be shaking on her feet. She either did not follow her orders or one of her playmates bled.
“Kidding aside, mom. I think her life is in danger.” Her face turned serious.
“Why?”
“She’s filthy rich. She owned a big company.”
“What are you planning to do?”
“She actually offered me a job.”
“And?”
Solana met her mother’s eyes. “Her safest place is wherever I’m with her.”
“I understand.”
“Besides, she offered to double my current salary.”
Tayen chuckled. “You’re going to be rich. More shoes for me.”
“You have so many shoes already. I just bought a new pair.”
“Well, your father bought the other color.”
“You and your shoes, woman.”
“I know. Let’s eat. You have to talk to the alpha.”
Solana pulled a chair for her mother before she occupied another. “I planned to do that after breakfast. Someone has to fill in my shoes.”
“I’m sorry that I was not able to give you a sibling. At the moment like this, a sister or a brother is a huge help.”
“Anya, you and apa were good enough to fill the absence of a sibling. Sometimes, both of you act like kids.”
She got another hit in the arms after she said that.
An hour later she was walking towards the pack house of Omitaa pack.
It was a native hut with a huge room that serves as an office shared by the alpha, beta and gamma. It occupies half of the hut. The other half was a storeroom for weapons.
Besides, the pack house was the medical shack. It was mainly for the pups and older members of the pack. Full-grown werewolves were sturdy and healthy that can withstand extreme weather.
Calhun was behind his table when Solana entered the office. She bowed her head at him.
The current alpha of the pack was in his late twenties. He found his Luna at a very early age since they grew up together but he has to leave for a while to study abroad for the betterment of the pack.
In fact, she and Calhun went to the same school. They grew up together as kids that they treated each other as siblings. They became closer when they went to college. For a few years, she and Calhun stayed abroad, at the domain of Solana’s father.
Somehow, through Calhun, Vasil Petrov experienced having more than one child.
“You came in late last night.”
“I did. My flight was delayed for a couple of hours.”
“I’m glad you made it back safe.”
For the next thirty minutes or so, Solana reiterated the main events in the assembly. She also surrendered the flash drive that contained important documents and papers used in the congress.
“One more thing, Alpha,” Solana said when she was done with the reporting.
Calhun raised his eyes from the paper he was reading. It was one of the hard copies she gave him. “I would like to ask for my replacement for a few weeks. Maybe months.”
Her cousin leaned on his chair and stared at her.
“You found her.”
She smiled. “How did you know she was a she?”
The alpha chuckled. “I saw you and Lola kissing behind a tree when you were fifteen. Aunt Tayen told me about you when she saw you and a girl in your bedroom.”
Solana laughed with him.
“Yes, I found my mate. She was a human.”
“I’m happy for you.”
“Thank you.”
“How long are you going to stay in the city? She’s from the city, right?”
She nodded. “I don’t know. She offered me a job.”
“As for what?”
“As a bodyguard.” She answered with a wide grin. “She will double my compensation if I say yes.”
Calhun laughed harder. “Does she know who you are?”
“No.”
“I want to see her face when she learns about you.”
“Me, too. How’s the new member of the pack?”
Her cousin grinned. “He has been keeping us up all night.”
“Good job, little Alexander. Congratulations, Calhun!”
The male alpha stood up. He holds out his hand. “Thank you. Congrats to you, too.”
“Thank you.”
“I’ll tell Keena to stand in your post while you are gone.”
She nods again. Keena was one of their cousins. She was very good, too. Very diligent and great in hand-to-hand combat. She often fill-in whenever Solana left to run some errand that lasted for days or weeks.
Solana was a few steps away from the door when Calhun called her name.
“Tell your women that you’re off the market.”
“Jerk!” She flipped him the finger.
She already has her back on him but she can still hear his laughter.
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