BROKEN ALPHA'S WITCH MATE

Chapter 14: Something close to the Truth

Kai

Lynn still had her gaze fixed on me. She was not backing down unless I answered that question. When last was I in love? Telling her the truth was not easy as it sounded in my head but I wanted things to work with her and that would have required me to tell her my true identity.

For the past two decades the humans had lived in peace knowing that werewolves and vampires drove each other to extinction. And if there were a few that existed then they were far from human settlement. My greatest fear at that moment was telling her what I was and have her ran away in shock and refuse to be with me. A bloodthirsty maniac that morphs into a wolf and rips people's hearts and spines out without a flinch.

"Honestly I can't remember the last time I felt loved. Walk with me" I suggested leaving with a glass of wine in my hands.

To my surprise she followed me without demur. The two of us strolling barefoot in the steamy ocean shore sand, in silence. It was the moment of truth, with a few details left out. Key word, few.

***Flashback****

I once belonged to a beautiful family, with a father and a mother who loved and cherished me. I was just twelve by then, getting the best life could offer, attending a high-end private school with the best tutors. Playing with expensive toys and having guards follow me around. I was the prince of the Watsons. The one and only, the heir to the prestigious Watson Empire.

My life would turn topsy turvy on that fateful day. I was in the back seat of the SUV with my mum. Busy playing video games on my apple iPad while she was on call with my dad who was out of town for a business trip.

"He is here with me" mum said smiling and ruffling up my hair, "say hi to your father!"

"Hi dad" I said happily. He was my best friend and having not seen him for a couple of days I had missed him so much.

"Hi buddy, how's school?"

"Great, am on the swimming team"

"You made the cut! That's good buddy, when I jet back we will go fishing"

"Okay dad, bye"

"Bye, take care of your mother for me alright?"

"But am just a kid" I argued.

"Kids take care of their parents"

"Don't worry baby, we will take care of each other. Goodnight!" Mum said and hang up.

The Watson manor was roughly a hundred meters away and five minutes after that call a speeding car came from behind, before we knew it there were SUV's from different directions and we were surrounded by hostiles. They hit us from all angles, my mum held me tight as millions of pieces of glass pierced her body. The door on her side was ripped open and she was dragged outside but she wouldn't leave me. One of the gigantic men wearing scream masks grabbed me away and they forced my mum on her knees, a gun at the nape of her neck.

"Please, spare my son" she begged.

"Silence!" The gang leader shouted, behind him six men standing with guns.

"Mum!" I called out, despite my bleeding head I still remembered what dad asked me to do, protect my mum, "let my mum go!" I screamed kicking, but his hand was choking me dry.

I finally managed to bite his hand and he set me free. I ran as first as I could to save my mum but before I got to her they shot her straight through the skull spilling her brains. I froze and my captor knocked me so hard on the back of my head with the barrel of his gun and I collapsed.

When I came round I was lying in a hospital bed, a bandage around my head. The first person I thought of was my mother.

"Mum!" I screamed rolling off the bed, luckily a nurse was close by and she was quick enough to prevent me from hitting the cold tiled hospital floor.

"Calm down" she said restraining me.

"I want my mum, take me to my mum please!" I begged breaking into tears.

"Am sorry sweetie"

"What do you mean? I want to see mum!"

The door flew open and my dad walked in. His eyes were bloodshot and he looked weaker than I had ever seen him.

"Dad, they won't let me see mum. Why won't they let me see mum?" I said in protest.

"I'll take it from here" He said in a low rumbling voice, the nurse left the room.

My dad sat on the bed and asked me to sit next to him. I had no idea that I had been in a coma for twelve straight hours. And when he told me I wasn't ever going to see my mum again I didn't understand, until he took me to the morgue. She was lying there lifeless with a hole in her head. She was dead. I couldn't protect her, if only I was strong, fast and big enough perhaps I would have.

She did not deserve to die. I was the reason she was in that car that evening. When the guards came to fetch me from school I refused to go with them and eloped with my friends. My mum was forced to come fetch me. As far as I am concerned I killed my mother and the chains of guilt captured my heart forever. That image of her getting shot in the head wouldn't give me peace, let me sleep at night.

***End of flashback***

"But you were just a kid, you couldn't have possibly protected her" Lynn said leaning on my shoulder with an affectionate embrace. The warmth of body made me feel like a chic under a hens wing.

We were seated on the sand facing the ocean. The wind brushing across our faces, staring at the dusky sky with stars slowly sneaking out from a distant, creating a beautiful galaxy.

"I know but it was my fault, since then I haven't seen myself worthy of having another loving woman in my life. Am afraid of losing them the same way I lost my mother"

"You need to walk out of that guilt Kai. There is nothing you would have possibly done. Am sure your mum would want you to be happy wherever she is"

I looked at her and went back go gazing in the sky. The guilt of telling her half the truth was crushing me from inside but for me at that particular moment, the means would justify the end.

"Anyway, after my mother's death my father would employ a maid for me while he buried his head in work, making more money while I suffered the offence of the witches he paid a salary to make my life a leaving hell"

"So you were conditioned to think all women are like that and now you hate them and the entire world for it?"

"Yes, what will you have me believe? He went ahead to remarry and my step mum was even worse. All the women I have interacted with in my life except my mum have disappointed me"

"Ooh..."

"Until I met you" I said looking at her lazily, cupped her face and looked straight in her eyes. I could already see the pity in them, the sympathy. Too bad she was giving it to a wrong person. She was right about me bring a pretender.

"Are you okay?" She asked my frozen self and I quickly kept my hands to myself dropping my gaze, "I understand what you've gone through but..."

"That's not the reason am asking you to be with me. I don't want your sympathy Lynn. I want your love"

"You still haven't told me why you think of all women in the world it's me who can love you!"

It was time for my final pitch. And this one was a true version, no half-truth or something close to it. Honestly, I didn't know what made her so special that her presence alone rid me of all worries and I could sleep peacefully with her around.

"Because for the better part of my life since that incidence I haven't been able to sleep as peaceful as I slept the night we were together" I said and felt relief seep out of my sweat pores. A heavy burden had been lifted from my heart.

"What do you mean by you've never been able to sleep peacefully?"

"I have insomnia, and three months ago it has been worse to an extent I don't catch any sleep no matter how hard I try, alcohol, tranquilizers, anesthetics all of them none has worked. I have even tried therapy nothing"

Lynn went to an awkward silent. My heart started pounding very fast, she didn't believe me. After all I had done she did not believe anything I said. It hurt.

"It looks to me like you're saying s*x with me eases your pain and guilt allowing you to sleep?"

"No, it's..."

"Let's call a spade a spade Kai. Do you know how weird that sounds? Can't you just use another approach?"

"Lynn, am not lying to you about my condition. You wanted to know if you're special and I just told you. It's not about the s*x, your presence, and your touch everything about you is special to me"

How was I going to tell her it was not just about her being the cure to my insanity? I looked at my watch. It was already ten.

"It's late, I should drive you back"

"Does that mean you don't want me for an emotional support girl anymore?"

"It's your choice to make, come on" I said helping her back on her feet. I signaled Arthur to bring the car, "I know you don't believe me. I don't want you as a toy, I want you as a friend, partner, possibly God willing a mother and wife"

"I believe you"

"You do?"

"Yeah, I mean witnessing your mother die can really take a toll on you. Let me think about it, I'll call you" she said and hugged me before getting in the car.

"You don't have my number"

"Are you sure?" She asked showing me my business card.

First she stole my heart and then she stole my business card. I was hopeful. I waved as Arthur drove her away. I couldn't go with her, the wolfs bane in my system was diminished it was time for a celebratory spin. I morphed ripping the suit off my body and ran after the car just to see and smell her one last time before I disappeared in the bush.