The Delta's Daughter Chapter 120

LAMIA

5 Days after Kellen disappeared

I was the strongest wolf in the realm. One of the most skilled battle strategists known! I was strong!

At least I was physically, Mentally

I exhaled a long slow breath.

Mentally, I wasn’t strong. Not when it came to matters of the heart. I believed in our fate whole heartily and believed in the Moon Goddess’ path for us.

My mother had said to me not that long ago “Your greatest weakness is your love, but it is also your greatest strength.”

We need to find Kellen. I need to find Kellen. I promised him forever. Maybe not the forever we thought we were going to have at one point. Either way, I would always be by his side.

Mathias came into our room with a cold compress, leaned me forward, and pressed it against my back. “How are you doing” His concern for me was evident in his voice and I could feel his worry through the bond.

“I need to get out there; I need to be with Mike,” I stated with a sigh.

“Abso-fucking-lutelyNOT!” Was his reply. “You are in no condition to go anywhere. You will stay here where it is safe.” I heard the command in his voice, but I ignored it, and his steeled gaze glared at me, daring me to argue with him.

I knew he was right, and I knew I had no business traipsing around all over the kingdoms. But I needed to be there with Mike.

Five days ago, I collapsed when I felt like my back was being ripped open. It wasn’t my pain, I was feeling. It was Kellen’s.

Wherever he was, they were torturing him. I couldn’t reach his wolf and I had determined whatever was being done to him, they had suppressed Conri.

Mathias had rushed me to the pack doctor. That’s when we found out that I was carrying triplets and they were all growing at an exceedingly fast rate.

The doctor explained that that was probably the cause of my larger than usual 3-month belly and the pups or cubs or whatever I was carrying were draining me.

Coupled with the stress of Kellen going AWOL and then feeling his pain, I had been put on bed rest.

Of course, Mathias was taking this all a little too seriously and didn’t understand mine and my wolf’s need to find Kellen.

I felt absolutely useless.

I recalled a memory; the night of our eighteenth birthday, after our wolves rejected each other. He came in, right before the party, to give me my present and I gave him his. The watch he never takes off. The inscription on the back of the watch was the reason for the memory.

'Our bond is as timeless as our friendship and love’. L It read.

I knew then that I would always love him, that he would always own a piece of me, a piece of my heart.

When I last saw him, it wasn’t just a goodbye, he was letting me go. And I was thankful. I love him, but I am not in love with him.

Kellen had a mate out there somewhere, and I wanted him to find her. Yet selfishly, a part of me would be jealous, just the thought made me shift uneasily, I wouldn’t be his girl anymore.

What kind of a woman did that make me

I looked down at my rounded belly. I was 3 months pregnant, is what the doctor said, and gave a sarcastic laugh.

A wolf shifter's gestation period is 6 – 7 months, and a bear shifter is anywhere between 7-8 or maybe even 9 months. But who really knew with mine and Mathias' DNA

So you can imagine our surprise when we visited the pack doctor. The surprise being, that I had three little pups growing inside me. The kicker was, that they were fraternal triplets. Three separate eggs were fertilized. And we had no idea if they would be cubs, pups, humans, or something different.

Mathias had been walking around with his chest puffed out, shoulders back and head held high proudly, since the day we found out.

That was three days ago, two days after Kellen went missing. Those two days I had felt his pain.

“Little Wolf, I need to help Travis with the paperwork…” He looked at me sadly, reluctant to leave me alone. “It should only take a couple of hours,” he said, trying to find his own justification for leaving me.

I gave him a small smile and a slight laugh. “Go… and thank you, King, for taking care of our pack. I know you need to go back to the Clan soon as well.” He was helping Travis and Josiah fill out the paperwork for them to transition to Alpha and Beta, papers that needed to be sent to the council.

He and Xander also needed to return to the Kodiak Kingdom, to the Clan Mansion. Abner Brooks and Tobias had been running things so far, but now Tobias was with Mike trying to get a lead on Kellen’s whereabouts.

“I could always come back home with you” I suggested hopefully.

“Maybe we will see. Abner said Finnegan had woken up and was well enough for questioning. We can talk about this later, when I am done, yeah” He said, kissing me sweetly before he headed out the door and left me to my thoughts.

I let the cold compress fall from my back, placed it on the nightstand, and then leaned back against my headboard.

I couldn’t go to Mike, but there had to be a way I could help find Kellen

I sighed and tapped my belly, I couldn’t sit here and do nothing, but there was no way Mathias was letting me go and look for Kellen. We had already had that argument. I lost when Rhett and Travis both took his side. Hunji stayed out of it as usual.

*Hunji, where are you* I opened a mind-link to him and he wasted no time in responding.

*On the training fields, your majesty.*

*Meet me in your office, and don’t tell anyone where you are going or that you are meeting with me.*

*Yes Ma’am.* He replied and I cut the link, getting up from my bed and scurrying out of the room down to his office.