Mate by Fate, Bound by Love

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Lena’s POV

‘I couldn’t believe my ears, black witch; I won’t be giving birth to my child myself; what is she saying?’ I kept on thinking.

The very first time I heard about witches was from Lyla, I hope you all still remember who Lyla is; just a reminder that Lyla is the ancient witch inside me. I still don’t know how and why she’s leaving inside of me.

But I am glad she is, at least now I have someone to chat with when I am very lonely. But lately, Lyla has been quiet; I don’t know what’s wrong.This content © Nôv/elDr(a)m/a.Org.

I have been calling unto her for days now since I have been locked up; for a moment, I even thought I could ask her if she could free me from this place.

But it’s as if she’s been sleeping. I was a wolf, an omega wolf, to be precise, but I was never trained; I don’t even really know how it works.

Growing up with my uncle and my cousin Lauren was hell; I would be at home doing the laundry or doing just anything while Lauren was being trained on how to protect herself and even etiquette on being a Luna.

I secretly watched her train, but the little I knew couldn’t save me in this situation, and even if I wanted to try freeing myself from these chains I was too weak to awaken my wolf to do that.

I wished I could just stand up and strangle Claire right now because she’s the major problem I am having right here. She was the one who painted me as a spy.

Now she’s painting me as a thief, all just because she wants to get rid of me. I couldn’t believe that I left my pack to be treated far worse than I was treated back there.

How dare she try to remove my child, “how is that even possible” I said out loud.

“Oh, my dear, it’s very possible; one thing I have come to learn is that there’s always a solution to everything that happens in this world, especially with magic, my dear; many things can be done and undone. She replied

“I won’t let you do that”, I shouted

“And who said we would need your permission to do that? Adrian already gave his consent. All we need to do now is find a black witch.” Claire said.

I know Adrian is angry with me, but why the hell would he go about deciding what to do with my child without my consent? Yes, he’s the child’s father, but it still doesn’t give him the right to decide for me.

“You can’t agree to this”, Lyla said.

I was so happy to hear her voice after a long while but I was careful not to shout out so I don’t let Claire know that I have someone inside of me.

I was happy that, now that Lyla is here I could probably find a way to escape now with her help.

“I am sorry to disappoint you, but I can’t be of help to you.” She said

Oh, right, I keep forgetting that Lyla is inside of me, so she has access to my thoughts and every single thing about me.

That doesn’t sound fair to me because she knows everything about me, but I do not know anything about her. And she’s been living inside me for as long as I have been existing. I couldn’t even believe it at first.

‘Why didn’t she surface all these years? Why now, was there something that triggered her awakening?’ I thought

“Hey, you don’t have the luxury to worry about that now; you have to think of how to get us out of here; we can’t let that wench do what she’s saying she would do,” Lyla said

I chuckled when I heard the way Lyla called Claire a wench; for a moment, I wished there was a way Lyla could take over my full body and talk to Claire in my stead; I felt she was going to give a better response than I will.

“You are not wrong. I can take over your full body, but right now, I can’t.” She said

“Why” I asked her in my thoughts as she could know my thoughts

“We are weak,” She said.

Yeah, we are weak; I haven’t eaten for days now, afraid that I could be poisoned; I didn’t want anything to happen to my baby.

And now Claire is telling me she’s gonna give birth to my baby, if lyla hadn’t spoken up, I would have considered agreeing to that because I would do anything to make sure my child stays alive, even if it involves me dying in the process.

“I can’t believe you would think about accepting this offer of receiving help from a black witch, not after telling you about black witches Have you forgotten that I said black witches are rebels? Black witches are evil and they practice black magic, they do things that should not be done by anyone” Lyla said

“That sounds powerful to me,” I said

“No that’s not powerful, that’s evil” Lyla said

I wasn’t sure but I think I sensed fear in her voice when she said that. Claire noticed I wasn’t paying attention to whatever gibberish she was saying, she stomped her feet so hard that my holding cell vibrated and then left.

“What is this I sense, Lyla?” I asked

“What do you sense” She asked

“Fear!, you are scared of black witches”

“I am not!” Her voice betrayed her, and I could still tell that she was scared.

“Lyla you are scared” I repeated

She harshly replied to me, saying she wasn’t scared. How she shouted inside of me made my whole body shake. It even caused a sharp pain in my stomach.

“I am sorry, I hurt you Lena” she said

“It’s fine Lyla, but you know you can talk to me, I am very sure that I sense fear from you,” I said

“Black witches are just so dangerous, and that’s why I don’t want you to get involved in anything that has to do with black witches”, she said.

“Why do I feel like there’s more to this than you are letting on”

“There is nothing Lena”

“Lyla, Lyla, Lyla,” I called out to her, she wasn’t answering, and I couldn’t feel her presence anymore.