Eighteen years later……..

"Dad, let's go!" Ascian looked at his son who had grown up as a matured man. A smile appeared on his face seeing him. Then he got up from the chair and hummed as if walking towards Ahren.


"How's training?" he asked Ahren. Then looking at Ascian with a smile, he nodded his head, he looked simply a high copy of Ascian but the difference was when he smiled, his whole face turned like Mirela's cute and gorgeous face. It was just simply amazing to watch Ahren's face.

"That training is nothing to me with the training you gave me when I was a kid" hearing what Ahren said. Ascian chuckled and patted his shoulder as they walked out of the room. Then they came out of the house and got into the jeep. Ahren was the one who got into the drive seat as he started the jeep and drove.

As he drove, Ascian turned his head and looked at the house. After watching it until it disappeared from his sight, he took a deep breath and lowered his head. Clenching his fists, he looked ahead as the jeep sped away to a certain place. As they arrived, Ahren jumped out of the jeep and came to his side to open the door for him. He couldn't help but chuckle because of how good his son was.


Getting out of the jeep, he walked ahead without Ahren. Ahren came to him after a while and gave him two white roses while he also had two in his arms. Walking towards a beautiful place, both Ascian and Ahren stopped. Lowering his head, he looked at the beautifully designed tombstone as his heart was stabbed brutally again.

"Momma, we came to see you again. It's been eighteen years now but I still love you and haven't forgotten you!" with a small smile on Ahren's face, he placed a rose on the tombstone and said. He still remembers his momma and how gorgeous she was even if he last saw her when he was two and half years old.


His eyes reddened looking at the tombstone, there was a beautiful picture of his momma which made his heart go numb every time he came here. Ascian, turned his face and looked at Ahren as he clenched his jaws helplessly. It's been eighteen years since she left but yet they couldn't forget her even for a second.

"Well, then this for you little princess" he again said as he placed the other rose on the tombstone. Ascian's heart pierced by his words. Looking at the tombstone again, he placed both roses on it without uttering a word. He didn't even have a chance to notice that she was pregnant that day.

Even though they didn't know the gender of the baby was in her stomach, they treated it as a girl because he always wanted to have a daughter. How can he believe that his Mirela had gone for eighteen years and not coming back? He still can't believe it and it was just a nightmare to him. Her smile appeared on his mind as if she smiled at him just now.

He regrets now, he regrets every single action which he did to her. If he didn't reject her that day, she would have still been alive with them. She would! Using her life, she healed him that day, if it was not because of her, he should be the one who's lying here. Maybe this is the punishment for him from the moon goddess for hurting an innocent woman. And especially his mate!

Looking at the smile of hers, in the picture of the tombstone, he remembered twenty one years ago. He remembered the day he took her to his house after seeing her for the first time. She was not afraid at all, she believed him and she was just simply believed in the bond they had. His whole house lit up as she stepped into it. He didn't know but he felt that way. Walking everywhere inside of his house, she looked at him with a smile.

"Of course, Ascian Lucas is so rich" she teased him and jogged towards him as she wrapped her arms around his neck. He couldn't help but smile because of her cuteness. Wrapping his arms around her slim waist, he lowered his head and pressed his lips against hers as she giggled and kissed him back with a pretty smile on her face.

It was the past and she was not here with him anymore. She died that day after healing him. She didn't even get a chance to see Ahren's face because she had let out the last breath of hers inside of the jeep. The thing that happened eighteen years ago was still eating him alive and there was no way for him to forget it until he died. Did he ever think that one mistake from years ago will affect his life and her life like this?

Did he ever think that she would lose her wolf when he rejected her? He never thought, he just never expected such devastation. Maybe if he didn't bring her back with him forcefully that day, she would have still been alive. Everything happened because of him and because of his ignorance. His eyes reddened with the thought, he came here everyday for five years but he was stopped by his beta telling that Ahren is growing up and he needs his father to be with him every time.

So he listened and didn't come here. He just let Mirela stay here alone. He only came with Ahren here on her death anniversary like today. It hurts. It's just so fucking her to think that she's not here and gone a long time ago. It's almost two decades and she was just so young.

"Dad, don't blame yourself for what happened. It must be the lifetime she was gifted by the moon goddess so when the time is over, everyone has to leave, even you and me. So you did nothing wrong and everything that happened was the things that were meant to happen. So don't…"

He looked at Ahren who just spoke to him with a small smile on his face. Even though he was smiling, there was the pain hidden inside of his smile. Letting out a deep sigh, Ascian nodded at Ahren and patted his shoulder. Then he looked at the tombstone again.

"I'll visit you next year, Mirela. I love you" he muttered before turning to leave. With the chilly wind touching his skin without the hint of gentleness, he walked towards the jeep and got into it with tears in his eyes. Then Ahren also came to him and started the jeep as he drove away. Then the only thing Ascian missed was Alex, who was sitting behind a tree far away from Mirela's tombstone. Just like Ascian he was also suffering for her death thinking that it happened because he kidnapped her.

Staring out of the window while Ahren was driving, Ascian thought about every memory he had with Mirela. Those were unforgettable. It hurts when he remembered that he was unable to touch her body and smooth skiing anymore, his heart clenched. His mind was not filled with sex but the warmness her body gave him and how comfortable it was when he hugged her little body.

Eighteen years had passed and he had never laid a finger on another woman. He didn't want to betray Mirela knowing that she didn't like it. Once he betrayed her but it was also because of his ignorance and arrogance. He wanted to do the things she didn't like after rejecting her that day so he did it but the most important reason was that he wanted to seek the warmth and pleasure she gave him that day from another woman but he failed. Only she could give it to him.

So knowing that no woman would be able to satisfy him as Mirela did, he ignored and he just didn't want to have another woman. And he was a father, so he never thought about anything like that. He just simply raised the gift Mirela left for him full of love. And still, his heart and mind is only with her so he will never be able to lay an eye on another woman, and he's just simply an old man now. Not as strong as before and not as young as before.

Everything had changed and now Ahren was the one who's going to continue the path from now on.

"Tomorrow you're becoming the new Alpha, you ready?" he asked Ahren. His sharp emerald eyes fell on Ascian and then soon they covered with a smile as he nodded at him.

"You're no different from me Ahren but just like I killed, you shouldn't kill. Your momma will again kill me once I died and go to her"

He warned Ahren knowing that Ahren was also dangerous and everyone feared him the way he wanted and the way Mirela didn't want. Even though Ahren still acted like a cute little boy in front of him, he was a demon-like man. Simply, just similar to Ascian when he was at age twenty!