My son's new daddy is the Alpha Beast

1. 18 & Pregnant

BEAST

BLURB

When single mum Ava Butler receives a call from her baby's father wanting to work things out, she drops everything and moves to the small town of Diamond Falls. However, from the moment she set foot in the town, she senses something was not right and later she learns its because of the darkishly handsome Tristan that has the entire town cowering in fear.

There is a reason why the people in town call him beast and it certainly has nothing to do with the fact that he is the Alpha of the town's most feared pack. Despite his cold heart, he had always had a soft spot for his Beta Josh. That is until Josh's baby mother arrives in town and he is immediately struck by her beauty and not to mention, she just might be his mate.

CHAPTER ONE

I bunched my fingers, fighting not to cry. For a split of a moment, I wondered if I deserved their judgement. Had my step-mother been right about me being like my mother all this while? All those times, she called my mother a w***e for sleeping with her husband and claimed I was just like her; had she been right?

I was eighteen and pregnant.

“Get out of my house,” her cheeks were flaming red with anger. Her twin daughters, Mary and Clarissa, who were two years older than me, wore looks of disdain directed at me. They have prayed for this very moment.

“What? No!” I quickly went down on my knees, tears falling fast down my cheeks, “Please don’t kick me out. I have nowhere to go. You are the only family-“

A resounding slap was the next thing that graced my right cheek and when I looked up startled, she was glaring down at me with eyes filled with utter hatred for me. It was not the first time she’d hit me and most of the other times, were just out of spite and she would be drunk out of her mind. She bended over till her face was just inches away from mine and I could literally feel her breath on my face.

“Get out of my house and never come back. Forget part of your inheritance and anything to do with this family,” she straightened up, opened her purse and retrieved a few dollar notes and threw them on my face, “You only have thirty minutes, Ava,”

She walked away, the sound of her heels clicking against the marble floor of the house, fading as she disappeared up the stairs. I quickly turned to the twins, knowing they were my last hope in staying here, given their influence on their mother but they only snicked at me.

“That should teach you not to mess us with us,” Clarissa smirked, arms crossed. Of the twins, Clarissa had to be the worst. She would never forgive me for stealing her two boyfriends as she termed them. The first one had been Jaden, the hottest boy in the whole of tenth grade. He’d been nice to me and that night, I had been wasted again at some high school party, trying to escape my life. Given his nature and that he was dating my half-sister, he’d chosen to drop me off at home but Clarissa hadn’t been too happy about it and immediately broke it off with him on the grounds that I was sleeping with him. No amount of explaining could make her change her mind and eventually Jaden grew tired of begging her to get back with him.

The second one, Josh-whose second name I didn’t know, had been on road trip with his friends and happened to pass through our town. It was during summer, only a few weeks ago and a week after my eighteenth birthday. They had been three friends, all of them hot as hell with rippling muscles for just nineteen years olds but Josh with his trademark piercing blue eyes and an easy smile, had girls sighing dreamily and I was no exception. They were in town for two days and one them was a distant cousin to Jaden and so they got invited to another famous Jaden Hopkins party.

Clarissa had made it clear she wanted Josh before we even got to the party but then, he’d smiled at me instead over the brim of the red cup party in his hand, all the way from across the room. For the first time, I quit trying to please my sisters so they would accept me. That smile, a couple of drinks, a conversation on the rooftop and bad decisions later, I woke up naked and alone on the bed with nothing but his number and email written on a small white paper. He’d taken my virginity and left but for some reason, I didn’t regret anything that happened that night. I didn’t reach to him in anyway but when I missed my periods last month, the worries began trickling in and today when I did the pregnancy test, which my step-mother somehow found in my room, it turned positive.

“Please, Clarissa,” tears fell fast down my eyes.

“Why are you begging them? They would rather spit on your face than help you,” A newer voice spoke and we all turned our attention to the last of the Butler daughters, who was only two months younger than me.

Palmer was the only one nice to me in this entire house, something that had her in conflicts with her mother quite a number of times. Maybe it had to do with fact that she was not my father’s biological daughter but of course the old man hadn’t known that even on his death bed three years ago. He’d died from diabetes and that was when the open abuse had started. Before that, my step-mother had been smart enough to keep it under water.

She glared at her older sisters, who only shrugged before walking out of the living room, then reached down to help me stand.

“What am I going do, Palmer?” I questioned, my voice breaking.

Her forest green eyes only stared at me before she sighed, “You screwed up big time, Ava. You can’t ask me what you should do when you slept with some boy who was only passing threw town. Now mum has kicked you out, disowned you from the family’s inheritance and your father’s baby is some stranger who knocked you up. This” she paused, “There is no way out of this, Ava,”

“Please don’t say that,” I cried.

Yes, I had the worst life as the result of my father’s cheating but at least I didn’t have to worry about money or working given my late father’s rich status. My mother had died when I was three and I had nobody except for my immediate family. Where was I supposed to go? Who was I supposed to call family now? Why did I let one moment of peace ruin my entire life?

“Alright. Get up,” she suddenly instructed.

“Huh?” My eyes puckered up as I sniffed.

“Pack your bags, we are leaving town now. I’ll call my dad,” She said, already heading up the stairs and when she noticed I wasn’t following, she turned around,” We don’t have time, Ava. New York isn’t some thirty minutes’ drive away, Also, grab that money on the floor,”

That’s when I snapped out of it. She was giving up her lavish life here for me when I’m the one who made a mistake? How was I ever going to repay her?

“What?”

“We are two girls, all alone and I blew out most of my allowances on buying novels. I’m pretty sure you blew out yours to, on whatever you do,” she said.

Against my pride, I bent down, picking up the notes and they totaled to five hundred dollars which was not such a bad amount at the moment. With whatever was left of my savings and this, we could have a good head start. From the few times Palmer had talked about her father, I’d gathered he was a mechanic and didn’t exactly get by very well in life.

As I packed whatever I owned into two huge suitcases, I couldn’t help tears flowing down my face. I’d brought this on myself. I glanced at my room, its graphite gray walls home to some of my drawings. Even though not on the same lavish status as my three sisters’ room, it had been my safe haven. I swallowed down, took a deep breath before stepping out of the house. None of the twins or their mother was out to see me but I was sure they were watching me from the windows.

“Come on,” Palmer hooted her car, gaining my attention.