Falling in love with my Ex's Alpha Chapter 133

***Katherine***

"Miss Wright?" Dr Smith speaks as he opens the room door.

"Dr Smith!" I say with a whirlwind of emotions. It seems like a lifetime ago that I was with him and Mark, seeing patients, and now I'm here as a patient. "Come in, please!"

He enters the room and approaches my bed, "How are you feeling?" he asks firmly.

"Uhm, much better than when I woke up," I say.

"That's good! You need a lot of rest right now and to take care of yourself! You're carrying the future of the pack," he says with a slight smile on his face, which makes me a little scared because, frankly, he never smiles.

I run my hand over my belly, I still can't believe I'm pregnant!

But if I stop to think about it, it's not that hard to believe. Now, all those mood changes I was feeling, my weight gain, that exacerbated hunger, it all made sense!

"I checked your test results, you're almost eight weeks, which means you're almost halfway there," I widen my eyes.

Oh my Goddess, twelve weeks left! Since the gestation period for werewolves usually lasts five months.

"But, Dr Smith, shouldn't I already be...?" I don't have the courage to finish the question.

"Yes, you should already have a little bump, but..." he says while looking at my flat belly, "with everything you've been through, it's simply a miracle that you didn't lose the baby. That's why now it is very important that you take care of yourself so that the baby can grow healthily as quickly as possible."

I hold my belly a little tighter than before, remembering everything *we* went through in that hell, because my baby was with me, my little baby suffered along with me, "I know... I'll do it."

"I'm here for whatever you need, and as soon as Alpha arrives, you can go home," he says after a while in silence, "also, Mark wanted to see you, but he's at home recovering too, he wishes you the best," he says with a simple smile.

"I'll send him a message; I wish him the best, too; thank you, Dr. Smith," he doesn't need to tell me why Mark is recovering because I already imagine he was probably attacked during the invasion.

Thank Goddess that he is alive!

Dr Smith leaves the room, and it doesn't take long before I hear someone knocking on the door, "Come in!" I respond while trying not to think about how much my baby still needs to grow.

Two familiar and almost identical faces enter the door, both with a friendly smile. But it's Maia who runs towards me and hugs me, "I missed you so much, Katie! I was worried sick!"

I return her tight hug as much as I can, but I'm still not that strong, "I've been missing you two!" I respond as she lets me go.

Ben then comes over to hug me, too, and when I wrap my arms around him, Kaiden opens the room door and storms inside.

"What the hell is going on here?" he shouts at Ben, and we both let go of the hug as if we were on fire.

"Kaiden!" I scold him.

"Can we talk to her for a moment?" Ben says, sounding like he's trying to control his anger.

Kaiden says without even thinking, "No, she needs to rest!"

"Kaiden!" I repeat again with a little more anger, and he approaches me on the side where Ben is, and Ben makes way for him, moving away and going to the other side of the bed where Maia is.

"Just make it quick, okay?" he pleads in my ear, making me chuckle, so impatient! I nod anyway.

He glares at Ben as he leaves the room, and I roll my eyes. When he closes the door, Ben and Maia look at me, and the three of us laugh.

"I know," I say, raising both hands to my face, "I know!"

"He's intense," Maia says while laughing.

"I don't even know how to thank you for everything you've done," I say, looking at their eyes back and forth, "How are you?"

"We'd come to help you in any situation, Katie," Maia says with a friendly smile.

"Yes, definitely! Don't worry about it. I'm fine. Maia was a little hurt, but her fated mate protected her." Ben says confess.

"Are you okay now?" She nods, and before she responds, I widen my eyes, "Wait, did you say *fated mate*? Oh my Goddess, Maia!" I say, excited that she has found her other half.

"Yes," she says with a mirthless smile. I look at her without understanding, and then I look at Ben, asking him with my eyes why she's sad.

"Chad is her fated mate," Ben says and suddenly it feels like I stop breathing.

Is Chad Maia's fated mate?

I feel a tightness in my chest for knowing this after everything we've been through.

But at the same time, I'm happy that they are fated mates; they deserve each other.

Maia is a wonderful person as much as Chad is.

Despite what he did, I don't wish harm on Chad because there's no way I can undo everything I experienced with him, and honestly, I saw regret and sincerity in his eyes in everything he confessed to me.

"How are you feeling about this?" I ask her because she doesn't seem like the happiest person in the world right now. Maybe she knows everything Chad did.

Could it be that she hates me for this? I bite my bottom lip, I like Maia so much, I don't want this to end our friendship.

"Well, it's complicated," she says as she sits in the chair next to me, "I don't want to be marked by him right away, and I don't even know if he wants that, so I decided I'm going to stay here at Diamond Claw for a while," she explains.

My heart breaks again for them both, I wish only happiness for both of them, they deserve so much it. Chad has been waiting for his fated mate for so long, and Maia has always been eager to meet her fated mate.

Now that I know about their mate bond, I feel like I've found closure for my story with Chad.

"That's great, you can stay at my house!" I say, excited to know that I'll have her around for a while longer, I haven't seen her in a long time.

Suddenly I remember Becca, but I try hard not to go there... as there is already a lot going on.

"Actually..." Ben and Maia look at each other with a mischievous smile, "we're already staying at your house," he admits, and I smile.

"Of course! That's great, I'm even happier to know that," I reply, and they smile at me.

"Maia, can you wait outside? I want to say goodbye to Katie alone since you're staying here," Ben tells her, and she nods.

"Okay," she says and leaves the room; when the door opens, I see Kaiden standing outside with his arm crossed, looking at me while leaning against the wall.

I smile at him, but I don't see his reaction because Maia closes the room door before I can see it.

Ben approaches me and holds my hand, "Katie, please take care of my little sister! I don't know exactly what Chad did..." he looks at the closed door as if he is looking at where Chad is, but he's a long way from here. "But I know it wasn't something nice, based on Kaiden's reaction to him during your rescue."

I bite the inside of my cheek. I don't want to remember what happened. I squeeze back his hand, "Don't worry, I'll take good care of her."

I say with a smile that I think I'm reassuring him, but he looks at my body, still a little trembling on the bed, bites his lower lip and lets go with a sigh.

"I know," he says. He turned his eyes to me with an affectionate look; I remember that look well, that was the look he always looked at me when I visited his pack, and his parents said that I should be his chosen mate, "You know that regardless of him being your fated mate," he pauses briefly.

*Please don't say it. Please don't say it!*

Kaiden will freak out if he hears the end of what he has to say, so I interrupt, "I'm fine, Ben, don't worry. My mate takes good care of me," I reassure him with a polite smile.

"Take care so well that you were kidnapped," he says sarcastically, and I take a deep breath, "I'm also in the running to be the next Alpha King, Katie. You just need to rej–"

"That's fucking enough!" Kaiden opens the bedroom door, interrupting Ben.

He comes to where I am, and I immediately let go of Ben's hand, "Don't worry, I'll take care of Maia," Kaiden was about to interrupt me, but I squeeze his hand, so he stays quiet, "Thank you for everything, Ben! You and your warriors were incredible."

He nods and says nothing as he leaves the room and closes the door.

"I can't take my fucking eyes off you for a second—" Kaiden says through his teeth, still looking at the closed door, then he eyes me with his authoritarian look and says firmly. "That's why, from now on, you're going to live with me."